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.

Has anyone mentioned Swatch yet? Loved those. And those massive Matchstick trainers- I was very envious of my friend that had those. Oh, and those Reeboks with a little basketball ‘pump’ on the tongue that you could use to inflate parts of the shoe.

@WowIlikereallyhateyou 😆😆 how did you know??

The Stone Roses/ Happy Mondays/
Madchester etc....

DMs
Flared jeans in pastel
Colours
Bomber jackets
Silver jewellery
Fisherman beach hats
Dark red lippy / nude lippy
Smokey eye makeup
Wonder bras
Silky slip like dresses/ camis
Large trainers
Palladiums
Kickers
Converse
Wallabies
High tops

Mood rings

Green - you're feeling sensual
Brown - you're feeling contemplative
greeny browny - you've got trapped wind

Bugger! I forgot!!!

Coloured hair mascara. I also remember getting some UV pens and stencils and drawing with them all over myself before going out clubbing...

Mr Frosty

Baby g watches

Just remembered Tab Clear.

TOTP 1992 is on BBC4 at 8.00. Could get some "fashion" tips lol

Everyone smelling of Dewberry body spray.

Diamond White and if you were feeling a bit fancy Diamond Blush
Hooch
Castaway
Mixing Diamond White and Castaway to make a Blastaway
(I might have discovered alcohol in the early 90s)

Ooh thought of more!

Groovy chick cards, wrapping paper etc

VHS tapes! And cassette tapes. Needing a pencil to wind it back

Blockbusters video. We rented Clueless and were so bloody excited

Pop tarts (was never allowed them but the advertising was everywhere)

A denim jacket with everything

I cannot begin to tell you how happy this thread is making me it's like a big warm fuzzy feeling.

Taz's as well as Pogs.
Sunny D turning kids around the world yellow.
Push Pops!
Round the Twist
Asymmetric hemlines, cargo pants, fringing on clothes
Portable cd players
Heavy lip liner
Bang on the Door
Ground Force & Changing Rooms
TOTP
Stirrup leggings

@FartNRoses

Chokers… I used to wear them with bodysuits and red high waisted baggy jeans. Oh the shame!

I remember going out with my best friend she wore black jeans, a red bodysuit and a black choker, I wore red jeans, black bodysuit and a red choker 😬

Millennium baby

I remember the lads in my class inexplicably started wearing 'spliffy' coats, with cartoon boys holding a joint. School eventually banned that.
Staying with the boys - they all bleached their hair and wore it in curtains style. Absolutely horrendous! Think is was an attempt to be Nick Carter.
I remember banana bubbles (and many other sugar based cereals), gladiators, space buns, fluffy tops, bowling shirts, AOL chat, and playing Kirby. Also, 25p cans of coca cola. Sea monkeys. Paper trees you popped into water and they flowered.

Those slap wrist bands, don't remember what we called them though

Saw someone else has said Sunny Delight, how about turkey twizzlers to go with it 🤢?

The Hip Hop!!

De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
The Parcyde
Snoop dog
Biggie Smalls
Mary J Blige
Missy Elliot
The Fugees
Wu Tang Clan

These terrible jackets from the local market.

@SpringHasSprungYay

The Hip Hop!!

De La Soul
A Tribe Called Quest
The Parcyde
Snoop dog
Biggie Smalls
Mary J Blige
Missy Elliot
The Fugees
Wu Tang Clan

Happy days 😁

Heather shimmer lippy

Oh. Can’t see the photo I posted. Trying again…

Going back to my early teens!
Spice Girls
Take That
Blur, Oasis, etc etc.
Christmas Number Ones (nobody cares about it nowadays)
Eastenders storylines- You Aint My Muvva! (although, thinking about it, that could have been later, into the 00s)
the first Pop Idol/Big brother
Saturday Night TV- Noels House Party, Blind Date etc
Tamigotchi
Euro '96
Those coloured bands that were called shag bands but must have had a different name!
Pogs
Princess Diana
Inflatables
Alice bands for hair
Popper trousers- poppers all the way up, trend was to "snap" someone and undo them!
Bomber Jackets, orange was the trend in my area
Graphic warnings about putting your head out of train windows! We had a book by Roald Dahl. Ditto playing in electric stations, graphic adverts shown in schools.
Pokemon
Sonic and Alex Kidd
Early internet sites- neopets, AOL, MSN messenger, dial up internet.

The perfume called Exclamation! Sorry if already mentioned.

Fav 90s adverts: