What do you miss about the 90s

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Watching the x files just now got me thinking about the 90s

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Getting ready to go out trying on every single thing casting it all over the floor and ending up going out in Levi's, a crop top and a checked shirt tied around the waist - every weekend without fail.

Newcastle Brown.
Snakebite and black.
Dive bars with great music.
Undercuts.

Smoking and having a titchy waist (but couldn't fit into a topshop size 10)

No social media or mobile phones
British music
No brexit
Feelng I had a policial party to vote for

Hated it at the time though. Oh how I wish we could be like that again.

Love this !
Partying with friends and no photos
Cheap holidays to Ibiza and Tenerife and no bank cards - counting out the pesetas and making them last the full fortnight - had to do a daily count 🤣
Spaghetti strap dresses and tops and no bra and it was fine
Glitter - glitter tubes to rub on eyes / face
Loved twisting hair into little butterfly clips
Trance !the late 90’s was trance central !
Early 90’s I miss the kappa jackets and MD 20/20

Travelling & no responsibilities
Cheap rent
Raving 🙌😁
Leeds Warehouse
Pretty men with pigtails
No smart phones
Travel Fox trainers!
Affordable everything
Less anxiety about the World

Our local club done 50p vodka n mixers in 1997
you could go out with a fiver and have a great night… it sounds unbelievable doesn’t it

Also, friends on a Fri night. Clueless. The Combats. All the music. Eternal and all that denim and plaid shirts.

By the by, does anyone remember shout and bliss magazines? bliss selling for £15-20 on eBay I’m aghast I threw all mine away now (before recycling!!)

I remember shout and bliss
Bliss always was a bit too perfect wasn’t it - like in the days before photo shop they just made everything a bit fake looking

Mix tapes and listening to whole albums as they were meant to be played

How long have you got?!

short answer - London as it was then, and the club scene. God is a DJ.

1999 / Moloko - bring it back - Ibiza
Manumission Ibiza - naked sex shows

The hope and optimism. A sense that everything was getting better. I miss that so so much.

This too ❤️ I was so young and in love and felt untouchable

Doves

🤣 and Mitsubishi

Yes!

Oh the optimism! The certain knowledge that everything was OK and was always going to be OK. Along with grunge, britpop, Euro 96, Moscow Mules and all night partying.
I don't miss the sexism and casual misogyny, mind you.

Being a teenager again!

And Britpop!

And my flat tummy wearing those low slung trousers and bearing some midriff trying to be like All Saints!

Ahh no mobile phones, no Facebook/social media

I'm SO grateful none of my teenage antics/shame ever got posted online! These all stayed in the 90s!

And Euro '96 and World Cup '98!

Sunshine beer & football watching! 🍺🍺🍺

Spectacular Nail Varnish
Cadburys medium sized bars (Top Deck, Double Dream, Old Jamaica)
Body shop perfumes
Britpop and Dance music
Friday night comedies on BBC2 and channel 4 from 9pm - 11pm
Political optimism
Cheap holidays

squat/rave culture free party scene.

Decent magazines (Minx, Select etc)

Original tv shows and movies. Can't stand these awful remakes and reboots

Only Fools and Horses Christmas specials.
Tammy Girl.
Mum's Body Shop bath pearls (they were fun to squish!).

Netscape, Altavista, the sound of the dial-up modem
Zooropa, Scatman, Zombie, Binary Finary, When Do I Get to Sing My Way
My ignorance about the war in Yugoslavia because I was so in love
Me and mum watching World Cup 1994, she recovering after a stroke
The promises of a future united Europe with a single currency
Full holidays in the mountains without being texted by boss or coworkers
Lack of any memorable hangovers after a binge