I accidentally went into a trendy shop today...

[Mrsemcgregor]

.... and it was so trendy I didn’t even recognise it as trendy. I got confused and assumed I had temporarily time travelled 25 years in the past when the site of this particular Urban Outfitters was in fact a Banardos.

I was brought back to present time by the helpful 17 yr old who could clearly see I was lost in time and asked me if he could help (escort me to the nearest M&S where I clearly belong).

I hope the photos work.

There are 6th form pupils at my DGD's school wearing the same dresses her Gran wore when I first went out with her. If only I'd kept my loons.

Will double denim be making a comeback? I loved it in the 80s.

We have a Sweater Shop sweatshirt in the loft which DH refused to chuck out as he thought it would become a collectors item. He might have been right.

I would like crushed velvet dresses and Doc Martens to come back please. Preferably with a floppy velvet hat with a velvet rose on the front.

Waistcoats?

Already seeing DMs in school (the shoe version) and we've got sleeveless pullovers back in the shops.

Maybe the velvet trend will jump from pale grey sofas and curtains to clothing soon?

If it does, cat and dog fur remover tool companies will be delighted.

@Mrsemcgregor I had one of those velvet floppy hats with a velvet flower on, my mum made it for me, back in the days of my youth when I still thought it was nice that my mum made me clothes.

Used to wear it with long cycling shorts a baggy T-shirt and a bum bag. Oh the style!

I’m sooooo old, when I wore DMs I had to buy the smallest men’s pair I could find because I couldn’t find women’s anywhere. I had to buy them mail order from a men’s working clothes catalogue.

velvet doesnt ever really go away does it? Though some years its more popular than others.

I have velvet skirts and shirts which are my normal winter clothes, with some posher stuff for going out

What I want to know is where these vintage shops get their clothes from ?? the mark up is extortionate, do they get them from house clearances?

Probably, yes - also ebay and the type of charity shops who have a "vintage rail"
As you say, with a mark up like that it's worth their while to ferret around for other peoples' rubbish

@Ted27 I’m thinkI got specifically of a calf length dress that buttons all the way down, preferably in the crushed type pattern. I had one in burgundy and one in bottle green, I bloody loved those dresses!!

It is fun to see the 90s again, I hope that someone makes a show like Stranger Things that celebrates 90s teens.

*thinking - not sure what happened there!

These are recycled clothes. Unique. Not rows of the same old thing shipped across the world by chemical spewing Factories in Asia.

Well done , young people. You have an artistic eye, a conscience and know you look good in anything anyway.

Ahh Dash. Benetton was too trendy for me. I rocked peach and white with panache. Wore it when watching Cher fitness videos.

Makes me glad I am old and relatively poor. Give me a nice Primark any day

I am fully appreciating everything on this thread! And my husband asked why I am laughing So I told him shell suits were back!

I wouldn’t like those clothes in a charity shop but like them in Urban Outfitters. Am such a sucker!

I’m late to the thread but definitely thought it was a charity shop
In actual fact, thinking about it, they would probably be better displayed in a charity shop

We cannot 'unsee' these now, can we???!!

Oh god @Mrsemcgregor I think you are me! I literally had the same conversation with dd today. We went into urban outfitters in Birmingham and I felt practically geriatric. Aside from looking like a rather crappy charity shop, it was bloody expensive!!

I felt especially old when I was telling dd how we really did dress like this in the 90's, not because it was 'an aesthetic' but because we were poor and if we needed a sweatshirt to wear over our patchwork jeans then we would borrow dad's.

“Now this is a story all about how my life got flip turned upside down. I’d like to take a minute just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air”

Omg!!!! I think I can see shell suits! 😯

@Mollscroll from what I understand normcore is just wearing plain clothes, like a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with no design on it.

I only just heard about it recently whilst browsing TikTok and came across ‘cottagecore’ and had to Google what the hell it was. Apparently there are a load of ‘-core’ things now that represent different fashion lifestyle trends. Normalcore was one of the ones that jumped out at me. (Along with clowncore! )

Im very late to this his thread, but really made me laugh...

I got the wake up call that I’m geriatric at a recent hipster run car boot sale. I couldn’t believe the shit the under 25s were buying...one picked up an old scabby rag and said she was wearing it on a night out!

Made me realise I’ve turned into my mother who thought my doc martens looked like orthopaedic shoes!

Ok I'm confused ...,urban outfitters isn't real vintage though, right? It's just designed to look vintage-y (if 90's even is vintage when it was like 5 minute ago?!) but it's new?

The irony of this is that when we dressed like this in the 90's, we wore vintage stolen from our parents...so now they pay a fortune for new stuff to look like the jumper my old man wore to mow the lawn in 1992?

I need a lie down

Jesus.

Reminds me of the black red and yellow colour block jumper and black ski pants I used to wear in 1991. Absolutely tragic.

I had a black and orange shell suit too.

I’m so glad cameras were a rarity back then!