Observations about growing up in the 90s

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At house parties there was always that one person in the long black coat who refused to take it off.
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Going to indie night at my local club and getting served whilst underage.
Getting picked up my my friends mum whilst trying to act sober.
Hair mascara, bright multi coloured bracelets all up my arms. Were they called shag bands?
Massive flares that used to soak up the water coupled with an extensive range of various band t shirts.
Loved the 90s!

@CuckooCuckooClock

And one called James that everyone loved too.. I think he was called James Marsden. I googled him to try and confirm this and ended up in a google hole trying to work out whether he’s the same James Marsden as the American actor. Google was no help, but I’d be surprised if the actor James Marsden started his career in mizz magazine- stranger things have happened though!

I've never heard of these shag bands

@Witchofzog

Boys with curtains were hot. Now I think they looked ridiculous

Think k pop boy bands 🤪

The word.

Big breakfast

Mr blobby

Sending an email for the first time in 1996. My flat are at uni and I used to go the computer room and pen long blackadder style missives about our uni friends then watch the other person crack up laughing on receiving it.

Zig and zag.

The muppets.

Sultans Of ping.

Hanging around Camden market.

Tye die jeans!

Madonna’s sex book
Jackie magazine

Salt’n’pepa, queen latifah, neneh cherry
Chris du motherfucking burgh!!!

I was 18 in 1994
Girls holiday to magaluf when school finished
I loved bands like suede
Big club nights
At uni you partied thurs fri sat
Poppers gold rush 🤦🏻‍♀️
Purple DMs
Loved second hand clothes stores
Great times until 1998 when we had to grow up and get my life together

i wasn't a teen in the 90s but a child, we were the last generation where kids really played out! and roamed!.... i remember id gone to the corner shop x2 in a day without permission about 7yrs old with my 8 yr old neighbour. he was sat on the doorstep on my return, told me to go and brush my teeth as i had a lot of sweets and was annoyed.Not you wandered off the street x2 without an adult or my permission

*he was my dad

Mr blobby
Yes it wasn't all good. He was the start of gimmicky pop bands which moved through flat Eric and gang ham style and most recently brought us baby shark do do de do de do

David off cool water

Bomber jackets. Mine had ‘heartbreaker’ embossed in the back in multicoloured velvet. Ffs.

90s teendom was great. I'm 41 so I grew up in that decade.

Early 90s was bottle tops on your laces, Benetton, NafNaf, shell suits and Reebok Pump trainers. Quiffs in your sun-inned fringe. Smelling if Dewberry. I observed slightly horrified. This was not my scene.

Mid 90s I was all about the grunge. Docs, 8 hole minimum, with bonus points for hand painting yours and having interesting laces. Or the tight t shirt with straply crushed velvet dress over the top. Added choker and always with boots. If not it was jeans, band t shirt and Adidas Gazelkes. Reading More magazine for position of the week with oasis or blur or pulp on the 6th form stereo.

By the late 90s CLUBBING. Oh yes. Body glitter. Never enough of that. Smother that shit EVERYWHERE. Going to Cream or Ministry themed nights out in a bikini top, shorts and furry boots that were rancid after 3 wears. Or a ridiculously tiny dress with the newly launched. Wonderbra. Red Bull and Coke, Carolina Herrera 212 perfume or Impulse O2 for the day.

I'm the same age as GuyFawkes

Heather Shimmer Lipstick
Dewberry and White Musk Perfume
Ankle length cotton skirts either red, blue or black with little white flowers on them
Doc Martins
Nirvana
Global Hypercolour T-shirt's
Stiltskin's Inside (very early 00's I think)
Boiling hot summers

Amazing decade.

Pogs
Adidas poppers
Those raspberry drinks in a cheap plastic pink coloured bottle that you had to twist the very end off to drink.

Tangerine or pink grapefruit Seltzer drink in the see through can.

Dove shower cream/Olay Shower cream that came with the scrubby puff thing. The Dove Light Blue one smelled amazing.

Marlborough Lights being £2.45 for 20

Reef - the still orange alcopop

The Essential Mix

Driving round the countryside in a car full of wasted people trying to find the rave

Stopping at the petrol station the morning after and seeing your fellow partygoers, everyone drinking Lucozade or Mars Milk and looking like shit

Body suits with long sleeves and poppers on the crotch bits that you had to hold out of the way when you undid them for a wee

Bodyshop Barbara Daly lipstick and Roma perfume oil

Cult Clothing stores, mounds of dyed jeans, green, black, red, brown etc

Having Kookai folders for 6th form

Dubble Bubble t shirts and suede converse, Air Max 90s

Scrunchies

Cheongsam dresses

Changing Rooms on telly!

People painting their rooms purple or purplish blue, having those sun moon stars duvets/curtains/wall hangings

Buffalo platform trainers

Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus.
White musk from Body Shop.
I had a green lumberjack shirt over which I wore a green pair of corduroy dungarees and DM boots on my feet. I also had a fleece winter coat of lurid colours.
Big excitement in the town I grew up in when New Look and Dorothy Perkins opened.
Making my own scrunchies.
Permed hair, omg.
Euro 96.
Getting drunk on Hooch at 17. There wasn't much else to do. Apart from the new shops, there wasn't a cinema, or club, or anything.

Just Seventeen advice page!

This is brilliant! Yes, yes and yes. I was 9 to 18 in the 90s. Seems weird now I met now DH in 99! It seems like ages ago but yesterday all at once.

Friends
Frasier
Sunny d
Old el paso nacho kit

Hair glitter gel, hair clips, hair mascara, scrunchies, The Craft, scented candles, bath pearls, oil burners, Garbage, Nirvana, dance music, freebies with magazines (so many magazines!).

And shoplifting. I moved schools four times and every school I went to it was the same. The girls all shoplifted as an activity of a Saturday afternoon. Even the wealthier ones. We used to absolutely raid Superdrug. So weird looking back. Apologies to all of those shops

Aussie shampoo/styling stuff. The smell in my teen years
Bath pearls
That weird one wash colour mousse you put into your hair. Got it all over the carpet 😂
Sun and moon duvets YES
Watching friends and TFI Friday or Don't forget your toothbrush before nights out.
Revolution Vodka bars, the height of late 90s sophistication.

Bath pearls

Oh yes!! The skin never used to melt and would just stick to the bottom of the bath. I used to get bollocked for not cleaning them up.

The Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street/Tottenham Court Road. That's where we used to meet people. If you arrived early you'd go and look at CDs. It's turned into Primark now.

@GuyFawkesDay

We're the same age and i could have written your posts :). 90's was a second of 3 distinct parts.

Fun times

*decade