Did people look older in the 90s?

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Not really AIBU - More so a what do you think

I'm watching a 90s movie right now and I think people that are supposed to be early 30s (my age now) look older than me. When I look at pictures of my family from the 90s they all look older, even though my mum was in her 20s most of the 90s.

Is it the style maybe? Do I associate the clothes with 'older people' because when I saw those clothes IRL I was just a small child. I think a lot of people my age still dress sort of young, trainers/ jeans/ hoodies/ casual. Where as people in their 20s/30s back then dressed more grown up.

YABU - People in the 90s did not look older
YANBU - People in the 90s did look older

Have a look at any 90's TOTP and the audience look so young and well unadulterated... Today it would be very different

This guy is 50 in 1917 😱

I've not rtft but I completely disagree! The late 80s/90s was my heyday: Smiley, acid-culture tshirts and pretty much what the young ones are wearing now: combat trousers (Maharishis), cropped tops (wash-board stomach), trainers & loads and loads of clubbing.

I was at uni early 90s & it was all Dr Marten's and baggy Jeans and no make-up.

Definitely. I think of One Foot In The Grave, Margaret was in her 50s during the first few years, but she dressed like someone in their late 70s would now. A house coat/tabard, "sensible" shoes, old fashioned dress sense and old lady nighty. My mum wouldn't be seen dead dressed like that now and she's early 70s!

Lorraine Kelly looks younger now than she did in the 90s.

It’s just different fashions!

It's because the make up, hair and clothes look old fashioned you think the people look older. No, people didn't actually look older than they do now.

Exactly! I was a teenager in Leeds in the 80s (used to get the train over to Manchester a lot too) then went to college in London in 89 and this is precisely what it was like! There were ‘townie’ clubs but they were exclusively for creepy trainee estate agents and the like.

Is it something to do with having their children in late teens early twenty's and that being ordinary? By the time my Mother was my age she had three adult children, a teen and a pre teen. Stress is aging and they didn't spend any time really being young and thinking of their appearance after the kids were born.

Smoking was very fashionable too.

l was at uni early 90s & it was all Dr Marten's and baggy Jeans and no make-up

l was 30 in 1993, and this is what l wore. This thread is unbelievable. I’ve never worn a polyester skirt, floral blouse and nylon tights in my life. Neither did l have big hair.

Everyone looked young in their heyday, that's a part of what makes it your heyday.

80s fashion? 70s fashion? 60s fashion? You can’t be serious, surely?

@PickoftheMix we were watching One Foot in the Grave last week and I said exactly that about Margaret. She’s got an amazing figure and face but hair/clothes of a much older woman by today’s standards.
I’m in my early 50s and still dress as a version of my younger self, but the pinny with a pocket, sensible hair with a nice dress was how my mum and all Grown Up Ladies dressed when I was younger.

I think it’s true of the 80s - a lot of teen girls had short hair cuts, no make up and the clothes (unless heavily into a specific look or scene) were a bit brown and conservative. DH remarked that his gran was the same age as his mum is now (70), she seemed so much older, sitting in a chair with a blanket over her legs and a short perm. By comparison his mum has shoulder length hair, mainly wears jeans and nice tops and has a hectic social life.

But there’s a difference between what the famous and style icons wore, and the average person on the street. Yes Debbie Harry might have looked youthful and edgy, but most women at that time looked nothing like her or wore what she did.

I was doing a degree in fashion in the mid 80’s.

Brown was not an 80’s colour. It disappeared with the 70’s. I did so many shop reports and there was no brown in the shops. Black was the 80’s colour.

YABU. I certainly look much older now than in the 90s.

Hrtft so apologies if it's been mentioned but check out what the Golden Girls would look like with modern hair - mind blowing. I had no idea it was purely down to makeup and hair.

I went to uni in 1994, and we all look so very young in the pictures from then. We were all grungey/alternative, so both sexes had long, natural hair.

Watch a couple of episodes of Bullseye on the repeat channel for evidence of how 'aged' bog standard people in their 30s managed to look in the mid 80s!

Chuckling at one posters club being all bar one or yates type place and another fabric or peach. Both clubbing I suppose.

So does Carol Vorderman

Someone shared this in a Facebook group I’m on - Guide leader fashions 1991.

This is style I remember my mum who would have been early 40s wearing so perm, long frumpy skirt and blouse look.

Yes k think you have hit jail on head here with everything you have said.