to Ask your terrible advice from the 1990’s - early 2000s

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Aibu to ask you to cast your mind back and give the advice you would have in the late 90’s

Here’s mine...

Want to lose weight? Eat what you want during the week and take recreational drugs at the weekend, it’s like the 5:2

Have frizzy hair! Not to worry, some John Frieda, and iron, and a brown paper bag will sort it.

Worried your dp has been faffing you around and cheating? If he says @you were on a break” all is ok

TeachesOfPeaches I remember Wirlygig in Shorditch, never went there but used to drive by it a lot on route to other clubs!

Other memorable London hangouts, The Cross, The Astoria, Busbys, Bagleys, Carwash (in fancy dress), Labrynth, Rocket and finished clubbing days at The End. No one cared how old you were! No ID needed.

I also had high heeled plimsolls in white, nice.

And if you couldn’t afford Boots photo development prices or didn’t mind waiting a few weeks to receive your photos you could send films to Bonusprint.

DH has enjoyed reminding me of my Criminal Damage skater jeans when we met.
Baker boy hats as well
I thought he was well posh cos he wore Valentino jeans and Armani shirts. He also had the first pair of Diesel jeans I'd ever seen. On first meeting him, I stayed over at his bedsit (terrible slut clearly, his landlady hated me) and had to go straight to work, with no time to change. He learnt me a Red or Dead short sleeve shirt that was designed to look like a bowling shirt. He never got it back either. He also had some mad Moschino suit covered in clouds, and a shirt with an iron mark in the back with "sorry I'm single" next to it.
Seems a lot of it is back, my DD has asked for some black knee high socks recently. If she asks for a German Army shirt I will be so pleased. She's on to the goth stage at 12 cos of Billie Eillish

@MissClementinei wonder if you knew my DH, he went to all of those back then. I'm so jealous I lived in the sticks

BiBiBirdieI remember those Moschino suits with crazy stuff on them!! I used to fit into the kids Moschino tops at a shadow of the price!

Blastaways! Bottle of doom and white and bottle of castaway in a pint with loads of ice

smelly Army surplus jackets for £5 from the stables in Camden market

Ermagurd this shit was awful.

Equinox at Leicester square was the coveted entry for us. Once we could get in, we only ever went once. There used to be a club at the top of the building next to it though, capital or something. We used to go there. Most of the time though we went to Warehouse in Edmonton. We actually first started to go there when it was called Aquarium but no one remembers that, everyone thinks of Aquarium at Old St.

Newcastle in 1990/91 - The Studio on Mondays, Rockshots Tues and Thursdays, Walkers Wednesdays and down the Quayside Friday. I can't actually recall going out much on a weekend.

For a brief period there was also Speakeasy, which had drag queens and strippers. For a naive 18 year old northern lass, that was an eye opener...

Equinox at Leicester square was the coveted entry for us. Once we could get in, we only ever went once. There used to be a club at the top of the building next to it though, capital or something

Yep, I used to go to both of these!

I had short cropped hair for a short while and experimented with a "zigzag parting"

Also hair mascara

Lip gloss that came in a rollerball and made your lips look like glass until your hair stuck to them then you looked like a yeti

Going out? Black trousers and a nice top. Halter neck, handkerchief or strapless.

Oh yes, handkerchief tops that went down in a point 😁

LAs in Hull anyone? The 70s night called Car Wash and then Bus Stop? Tony Loveshaft the DJ and all the dancers.

Bloody brilliant night club - it was huge!!

Keep coming back to this thread and it just keeps giving on the nostalgia

This is more late 90's as I'm a mid 80's baby.

I miss my cords, or at least miss going out in them. I loved them so much I can't bear to throw them away, even though the hems are shredded. I'd happily still wear them but I think people would laugh

We also had a lot of punkyfish trousers, lots of black eyeliner on both sexes, ragtime for clothes, lots of incense and stompy boots.

I went to a village school despite living in a town so lots of parties that were generally unsupervised as we couldn't all get into town, loads of alcohol, sleeping in hedges, so much weed and then either everyone stayed over (and couples generally attempted to have sex in sleeping bags, although I didn't) or your parents came to pick you up off the floor and cart you home. It was also while my dm was collecting me that 16 year old me drunkenly explained to her that my 19 year old boyfriend should be allowed to stay at mine as he would have a long wait for the train otherwise. She agreed and just let him!

My brother recently sent a photo of me from the late 90s posing in my camo print strappy dress and platform trainers. I'm sure the Spice Girls had just done something in camo outfits at the time (in the movie, maybe?) so I thought I was the bees knees

I had some brown cord flares which I wore all the time with adidas trainers, even after my record bag had worn a hole in the hip.

Have loved this!!

We used to have drawstring backpacks and would cover them in tiny badges and key rings.

My favourite T-shirt said "barbie is a slut" I bought it from forever changes in York! I also had a T-shirt that said "smile if you think I'm sexy". I was about 14

Corset tops were my go-to when going out out!

Used to drink Malibu and Diet Coke (no ice as it waters it down )

Anyone else remember getting the bus to Icon and Diva in York?

This is more 2000s but mine would be. ..

Never bother learning to use a lighter there'll always be a handy boy ready to help

Hiding the fag behind your back will definitely trick the head of year when you're caught behind the trees

Of course mini denim skirts go with crop tops and wedges

Ballet pumps are the only acceptable footwear for school. Who cares if your feet get wet or you go through a pair twice a term?

Backpacks are for losers. Over the shoulder bags are the only accepted bag. Filled with books and five ton of make up, who cares if your shoulder hurts

Wkd is sophisticated. Mixing it with vodka is definitely frown up

Frosty jack's is exactly the same as strongbow so you wont get drunk

Walking two miles on rural roads aged 13 with two friends, to meet your friends boyfriend who is a drug dealer, and his mates, and sit in his front room filled with cannabis smoke and people popping e's is not at all dangerous or risky.

Witnessing a drug deal is completely fine and not at all scary (those last two give me shivers thinking back!)

Matte mouse, blue sparkly eyeshadow and lipglossed lips are gorgeous

Size 10 is definitely fat. You want to be the size of all the (skinny, unwell looking) women in magazines like Lindsay lohan. The way to achieve this is exist on special k cereal and coffee

@Mammyloveswine I had the Barbie top.
It did not pass the Dad Doorstep Challenge (So was worn under a Nirvana hoodie until I got down the road).
Does anyone remember that before the rubber chicken fillets for the bosomly challenged, La Senza used to sell foam ones? And then they brought out blow up bras and water bras? I vividly remember getting a puncture in my blow up bra and trying to cadge some sticky tape. I had lopsided boobs all day

@BiBiBirdie haha I loved my water bra from la senza! In fact I loved la senza Bras! Still got a few old faithfuls

@bibibirdie i had an inflatable bra which came complete with its own mini pump.

@Mammyloveswine i also really loved la senza bras, was gutted when they went