Random things that were big in the '90s.

[StanleyTheCrane]

I'm trying to make up a quiz for a friend's birthday based on things that were popular in the '90s, plus I was just having fun reminiscing with another friend. So I wondered, what random and lesser known things do you remember being popular back then?

Riverdance is one I remember. That was so huge back then and I was obsessed with it and Michael Flatley. I remember watching Eurovision live when they had Michael Flatley and Jean Butler perform and being blown away by it.

So much nostalgia! I remember loving trolls and Forever Friends, both bought in Clinton Cards I think. Also, I still have one of those River Island carrier bags!!

Ahhh what a blast doen memory lane this thread is.

Trolls
Cool water perfume
Umbro schoolbags
Satchel bags for school (from Bay Trading)

Oooh and jelly shoes! So painful but we thought they were good enough to warrant the blisters

Smelly gel pens

The sweets Nerds and Dweebs!

Disposable cameras, 24 pictures and waiting a week from a good night out to find out if you got any decent photos!

I seem to also remember little velvety toy dogs which came with a bottle you had to feed them?

Raves/All Nighters in Northern nightclubs
Underage drinking/clubbing
Trainspotting
Oasis/Blur/Pulp
Combats and vest tops/crop tops

Buffalo boots/big shoes generally
The Beach film/soundtrack
Smoking being cool as seen on Kate Moss etc
Climbing/squeezing through the fence at Glastonbury for a fiver

I LOVED the 90s 🤩

Enya, loved her music and still do!
Alanis Morrisette 'Jagged Little Pill' album
Watching Home and Away and Neighbours straight after school
Dieter Brummer

Groovy Chick bedroom stuff!

Bang on the Door and Groovy Chick and Bubblegum Club!

Those double ended pens that erased fountain pen ink with one end and had a pen on the other to write over - then the ink would bleed into the page and you'd have a big mess

Apologies if some of these are early 2000's I was born in the 90's:

Bright blue mascara
Doing your eye shadow half white and half a bright colour
Those baggy combats with bits hanging off
Nokia 3210
Snake (game)
Sunny Delight
Pop tarts
Tamagotchi
Polyphonic ringtones
Pokémon?
Tooth gem
Belly bars
Groovy chick
Playboy
Hair braids
Those bracelets you'd make by plaiting and threading the rubber flexi strings
The gold clown/rag doll necklace
The gold spanner bangle
Gold sovereign rings
Big hoops
Pogo stick
Graffiti "--- was here"
Graffiti "Sarah 4 Dan 4eva"
Drawing the big S with 6 little lines then joining them up
Plastic dinner trays at school
Chalkboards at school
Dial up internet
Bluetoothing photos to each other
Msn messenger? (This may be 2000's)
Playing kerbie in the street
Man hunt / bulldog

Stars in their eyes
Tonight Matthew I'm going to be...

Imagination perfume
90s RNB (TLC etc)
Buffalo platforms
Bay Trading
Tammy Girl
Long skirts with slits either side
Brown suede leather blazer

Love this thread.
Bath pearls/ beads, I didn't think you could still get them but a quick Google tells me you can.
All the boys with their curtain hairstyles!
I remember trolls toys being big in the 90s.

Take that
Boyzone
Spice girls
Blur
Oasis
Poker straight hair or tight pony tails with those little “antennas” at the front.
Just 17 magazine
Or if you were a bit naughty there was one (what was it called?) featuring “position of the week”
Euro 96 football
Mini skirts and crop tops
Ellese sweatshirts
Kickers shoes

Slip dresses and very shinny tights that made your legs look plastic! Clubbing and drinking wkd blue. Sure that damaged the enamel on my teeth!

Tommy girl perfume, shout magazine are two that really remind me of the 90’s

Sinbad trousers, paisley jumpers, wallabees shoes.

Roseanne Barr

Friends, obviously!

@godmum56

shoulder pads

I think we were out of shoulder pads by then, and into bias cut slip dresses. With or without a white T shirt underneath.

And B*Witched.

*I cant say the war criminal made the 90’s for me.

^
He was huge in the '90s though, whether or not you liked him.*^

Yeah. A huge war criminal.