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To ask for help for a 90s outfit?

42 replies

Kinut · 23/03/2025 21:05

I’ve got a hen do on Saturday and it’s 90s themed, so everyone’s dressing up suitably. It’s drinks locally then into a nearby city.

I thought I had loads of time but now it’s on Saturday and I’ve got nothing. The Spice Girls are already taken.

Any help please?

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LighthouseTeaCup · 23/03/2025 21:10

Spaghetti strappy dress with ditsy flower print over white tshirt. Floppy velvet hat

Tight fitting going out top, low rise flare jeans with a sarong tied round your waist

Matching tartan mini skirt and jacket in pink or yellow with knee high black boots and a black patent mini backpack

Low rise khaki combats, g string showing. Tight white cropped vest top

InfoSecInTheCity · 23/03/2025 21:12

Take a trip to primark, went the other day and it was like stepping back in time. All the cropped blazers and mini tartans like in Clueless or low slung cargos and strapping tops.

TwentyTwentyFive · 23/03/2025 21:12

Britney spears
Scooby do gang
Lots of Disney films from the 90s (toy story, mighty ducks, beauty and the beast, hocus pocus etc)
(Wo)Men in black
A beanie baby (tag on headband)

ExtraOnions · 23/03/2025 21:14

I went to a 90s thing last year … went Grunge. Plaid shirt, Nirvana T Shirt, Jeans, plenty of beads .. and messy hair.

TheDandyKhakiDuck · 23/03/2025 21:14

Just watched 10 Things I Hate About You - it was literally everything @LighthouseTeaCup recommended!

Hair pulled back tight in a bun or ponytail too.

Darkclothes · 23/03/2025 21:15

Were you thinking of a character from the 90's or generic, clothing from the era? A singer?

I was a teen, and recall tied dyed and thermal tops where it would imprint the heat from your hand. Shell suits.

-Baywatch character
-Someone from Absolutely Fabulous

CaptainFuture · 23/03/2025 21:17

Wear this and be a total Betty!

To ask for help for a 90s outfit?
HappyHappyy · 23/03/2025 21:23

We had Adidas shell suits, Sweater Shop jumpers, with a bit of Kookai & Tammy Girl. A lot of the high street stuff in the shops now has those 90s vibes. Vinted a good place to start 😀

Kinut · 23/03/2025 21:26

ExtraOnions · 23/03/2025 21:14

I went to a 90s thing last year … went Grunge. Plaid shirt, Nirvana T Shirt, Jeans, plenty of beads .. and messy hair.

Love this!

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Kinut · 23/03/2025 21:27

CaptainFuture · 23/03/2025 21:17

Wear this and be a total Betty!

I saw that but I can’t get it delivered on time now!

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TaranFollt · 23/03/2025 21:27

DM boots were popular - dressed with jeans or pretty dresses.
Any outfit by Kate moss from the 90s.
Choker necklaces.
The supermodels were very popular around this time.
I echo pp's on their recommendations of grunge and Ab Fab. Friends was huge.
Cargo pants, vest and baseball caps were popular with Nike Air Max!!!
(Ah the memories...)

Matildahoney · 23/03/2025 21:28

Everything that's in the shops now I wore as a 90s teenager

OudAndRose · 23/03/2025 21:29

LighthouseTeaCup · 23/03/2025 21:10

Spaghetti strappy dress with ditsy flower print over white tshirt. Floppy velvet hat

Tight fitting going out top, low rise flare jeans with a sarong tied round your waist

Matching tartan mini skirt and jacket in pink or yellow with knee high black boots and a black patent mini backpack

Low rise khaki combats, g string showing. Tight white cropped vest top

Any of the above and your hair in a spiky bun.

x2boys · 23/03/2025 21:29

In the 90,s i waa wearing long skirts and long tops or.dresses teamed with my beloved DM,boots white musk perfume and patcholi oil were firm favourites and floppy hats as a pp has already mentioned and stripey tights

HeBeaverandSheBeaver · 23/03/2025 21:30

Also friends characters

Oh my god!!!!!!!

HotWoodValerie · 23/03/2025 22:02

My SIL went to a 90’s party as Whigfield. She wore her hair in plaits and just a black vest strap dress, someone else was also Whigfield in a hair towel and a wrap towel!

Benshawsberries · 23/03/2025 22:07

Early 90’s raver - chunky boots, black leggings & top, leather bucket hat & and bum bag, that was my favourite outfit back then, you could always add some white gloves & a whistle for a bit extra lol

Kinut · 24/03/2025 00:06

Benshawsberries · 23/03/2025 22:07

Early 90’s raver - chunky boots, black leggings & top, leather bucket hat & and bum bag, that was my favourite outfit back then, you could always add some white gloves & a whistle for a bit extra lol

I think this might be the winner!

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Selttan · 24/03/2025 00:58

I watched BH90120 to get ideas for a 90s night.
Ended up with white tshirt and denim shorts with neon bike pants under and scrunchy neon socks.
I looked hot 😆

BassesAreBest · 24/03/2025 01:36

Selttan · 24/03/2025 00:58

I watched BH90120 to get ideas for a 90s night.
Ended up with white tshirt and denim shorts with neon bike pants under and scrunchy neon socks.
I looked hot 😆

I don’t remember anyone wearing that kind of thing on nights out in the 90s!

Selttan · 24/03/2025 02:09

BassesAreBest · 24/03/2025 01:36

I don’t remember anyone wearing that kind of thing on nights out in the 90s!

There was definitely more of black bike pants under denim shorts on the show than fluoro but I did see Kelly wearing it so went with it.

TaranFollt · 24/03/2025 19:09

Excellent suggestion by a pp for the 90s rave scene. For true authenticity you will need to be sweating buckets and drink water all night. Tell casual acquaintances how much you really love them.
Google Tara Palmer-Tomkinson wearing a sheepskin coat and snorkel, if you want to know what a high society version of being off yer bonce looked like.
Rave safe kids.

NooNakedJacuzziness · 24/03/2025 19:26

Get your double denim on and go as one of B*witched

Wildflowers99 · 24/03/2025 19:28

Low rise stonewash jeans with those inbuilt wide denim belts (anyone remember them?). With some kind of silk bustier and plenty of shimmery make up.

Kinut · 24/03/2025 19:48

NooNakedJacuzziness · 24/03/2025 19:26

Get your double denim on and go as one of B*witched

Ooo yes, this might be it.

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