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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I forgot about Vernon. He was so cute and I think we all had a crush.

There were the equal girl models I think we all wanted to look like.

Has anyone mentioned holyoakes. Jambo, Kurt, Ruth etc

@Foxes157, I do remember first Hollyoaks (I loved Tony before he became "dadsy") and I also loved the Australian Heartbreak High and I fancied ALL of them.

Yes to there being so many magazines! I was talking to our teenager last night and she was saying how cool bedrooms looked in the 90’s with all the magazine cuttings and posters stuck to the walls.
She gets everything online these days, so misses out on posters. And free body glitter!

Dewberry/ white musk body shop perfume

Underage drinking

Under 18's night at the nightclubs

Take That or East 17 - Take that!!

Platform shoes

Going about on a night in that one friends car who was old enough to drive, clubbing together a fiver for petrol and driving around all night.

I've just bought some new Buffalos, aged 41. Being vertically challenged, used to wear them with baggy combats or huge black cords and a crop top over my washboard stomach (those were the days). For metal clubs, PVC trousers or a long black skirt, depending which sort of a goth I wanted to be that night.
We'd all meet up at the pub, actually talk to each other and eventually there were enough people with cars (or in one case a painted black van with sofas in the back) and head off to Brighton, where we could park for free along the seafront.
Many long haired men snogged on the sticky dance floor of a fire trap club above a biker pub.
Sometimes we'd head 'up north' to a friend's place for the weekend and go out to Rock City. Saturday spent going round the shops, drinking at pubs, heading back and getting ready, Sunday spent recovering.
Festivals where you could camp by your car AND have fires (Donnington '96).
10 Marlboro for about £1
Lovely crumbled cannabis resin that didn't render you completely incapacitated/brain dead.
Jagermeister (before it was fashionable) or green chartreuse.
I lived rurally, so once I'd passed my test I started repaying the favour and used to drive miles giving everyone lifts - probably drank way less than I do now. Remember getting high as a kite on Red Bull instead.
Heather shimmer for daytime, black 🍒 by night.
Dewberry by day, white musk if I thought I was going to pull that guy I'd been flirting with for weeks.

I was 13 in 1990 so at school. By 2000 I had a 2 year old DS. It was a time of huge change for me and as a PP alluded to it felt like a simpler time somehow. Maybe that's just looking back. The mid 90's were the best years of my life. 1995 I had shaken off the bullying that ruined school, found my crowd at college, developed my hippyish/grungy style and was in love. There was the long holiday between A levels and uni and it was lovely weather. I spent the time hanging around with friends, seeing my boyfriend and just being really. I don't think there was the constant pressure to achieve things and have targets, no one seemed to think that 12 weeks of just hanging out was wrong or lazy. That time to kick back was a time of growth. I wasn't allowed to go to festivals so I missed Glastonbury 95. I guess that was the flip side of not having responsibilities, you got to still be a kid so the dynamic was much more parent to child. I didn't think to disobey and go anyway. Most friends were similar though a few were allowed to do more than me. It all came to a bit of an end when I went to uni. My boyfriend dumped me and I went a bit crazy with the freedom of living away from supervision. I remember drinking a yard of John Smiths in Jabez Cleggs in Manchester to win free drinks 🤮. And a particularly worrisome drink spiking incident. I'm so so glad there were no mobile phones really or social media. What happened in the 90's stays in the 90's! My uni mates were great and I'm still in touch with my closest ones. We had a real sense of being a unit and we went everywhere together. But soon I met DS1's dad and began the descent into an abusive relationship that would last 5 years. I flunked uni and had a baby. Then eventually did my degree as a single mum so all was not lost, just a bit of a different order to the original plan.

@AdoptedBumpkin

I loved my Doc Martens. Was a simpler time.

It was in many ways. This thread is making me a bit nostalgic. Still love and wear Doc Martens in my 40s.

Ceramic dummies
Boy bands
Brit pop
Hooch or two dogs
Getting the night bus home
Pop scene @ LA2
Colourful DMs thick tights short dress/skirt
Short jumpers
Babydoll dresses
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Velvet jackets
Velvet dresses
Writing on your hand
Floppy velvet hats
Mood rings
Necklace made of black string
Toe rings
Tie dye t shirts
Palladiums
FCUK T shirts
Listening to Nirvana in the dark at house parties
... happy days!

"Those raspberry drinks in a cheap plastic pink coloured bottle that you had to twist the very end off to drink."
Ah yes, sold at the local newsagent/sweet shop. There was an orange one too.
I'm feeling sad now. So many great things gone, so many more to go. My children are about the same age as I was in 1990 and I don't think they're going to have as good teenage years as I did :(

just 17, sugar, mizz, shout magazines..little butterfly hair clips for the front of your hair!

I had the lacy short white dress too. But it didn't come with anything so i bought a white slip to wear under it.

Talking to people sat in the same ICT suite as me on Hotel Chat.

Reebok classics,pedal pushers,those jogging bottoms that had buttons all the way all the legs,lots of denim,hair rolled into rows and secured with those little butterfly clips,camo trousers in various colours,girls going out in high heels,Jogging bottoms and vest tops (wtf).

Favorite outfits were either a cropped Little Miss Naughty t-shirt, worn with tartan trousers and DM's, or black see through t-shirt, wonderbra, black a-line mini skirt, black opaques and DM boots. I miss the 90s

Oh lord the memories- can get over it was over 20 years ago. Washing your hair when you got in or you woke up with what smelt like ash tray next to you. I think it was the no phone thing that sets it apart. The last generation of teenagers without one or least my soco economic group.

My first girlfriend had those popper joggers - they were handy

Everything on this thread is amazing and has fully transported me back to my wonderful youth!

I was 15-16 in 1995 and I still remember that summer of love. The sun came out in July straight after I got back from a holiday in Tenerife, and the heatwave lasted for about 6 weeks.

I spent the 90s listening to Stone Temple Pilot, Silverchair, Metallica, Faith No More, Nirvana, Sound Garden and Pearl Jam.

My sister and I threw an epic house party for my 15 and her 17 birthday and I remember wearing my black shiny baby doll dress with trusty DM boots and little white T-shirt.

Coming home from guides on Friday night and watching Friends in C4 followed by Jackie Chan movie.

Watching the Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaughn and Denise Van Outen in the morning and hearing Wake Up Boo by the Boo Radleys all summer....

The 90s was the best decade to be a teenager and that's a hill I'm willing to die on!

High heeled/wedge platform everything- trainers, flip flops. Who wants flat shoes when you can add essential inches to your height.

Inflatable armchairs and sofas. And aliens. Me and my friends collected everything with aliens on. Ones in gooey eggs that apparently could have babies, alien shaped pens and of course inflatable aliens

Guys in white jeans and caterpillar boots. Usually wearing Cool Water. Hot stuff

@augustyellow bath pearls from the body shop, yes! Thank you for that memory.

Oh wow Stroke, the boo radleys. Reminds me of an epic house party in the glorious summer of 1995. That I was allowed to because my family and my friend's family knew each other. Also I remember late night tv from uni days. Typically watched after a night out. Pyjama party and carnal knowledge were the two main ones. The first was pretty much a night time big breakfast. The second was a weird sex themed quiz show.

• Versace jeans perfume range - I loved blue and baby blue. My cousin always wore white.

• yin and yang jewellery

• moon, sun and stars print

• toe rings

• arm cuffs (worn at the top part on the arm rather than the wrist)

• baby G watches

• the excitement of finding the cd you wanted in a ‘Japanese import’ version

• inflatable furniture and backpacks

• alien stuff and being obsessed with the x files.

• tv shows like Daria and my so called life

• the launch of channel 5

• the launch of mtv2 that was dedicated to alternative and metal

@Witchofzog

Ananya and White Musk perfume from the Body Shop were go to perfumes along with Exclamation. We used to spray our hair with Sun In and ended up with orange streaks. Most people had slightly frizzy hair. We looked our age - no contouring, false lashes and expensive eye shadow palettes for us. Nuno from Extreme was gorgeous. A good day out would involve going to the nearest big town with your best mate to look at Mood Rings and buy incense sticks n posters from Athena. We had to turn up to meet people on time as there were no mobile phones. And if we wanted to talk to people we had to call their landlines after 6pm and could only speak to them if their mums said yes and they weren't in their piano lesson or eating their tea

I miss the 90's so much. Things were so much simpler.

I literally could have written this.

Miss Selfridge had the best clothes and make up, hanging around back of houses smoking and drinking white lighting cider. Sharing a bag of chips between 5. Under 18 discos, wearing bunches, shortest skirts and T-shirt’s with v- necks and collars and jelly shoes with the heel from Schuh! Good times

Double denim.

Channel 5 Opening night and family affairs.