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Teenager in the 90's

354 replies

KellyElly · 04/02/2014 15:10

On the back of the 70's and 80's threads, what do you remember as a teen in the 90's. For me it's

Nirvana
Grunge
Friends
Twin Peaks - The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
Axl Rose
Christian Slater
Saved by the Bell
Bill and Ted
Fresh Prince
Snoop
House Music
Drum & Bass
Ibiza holidays
Fruit of the Loom jumpers
Nerds
My So Called Life
Friendship bands
TFI Friday
The Big Breakfast
Take That
Tekkan 2
Blur v Oasis
Gameboys
Nike Air Max
Mad Cow Disease
Euro 96
Andre Agassi
Cycling shorts

OP posts:
caz1010 · 04/02/2014 16:40

White musk - body shop
The Sweater shop/ bennetton jumpers
Insette hair spray
Fresh prince of bel air

DownstairsMixUp · 04/02/2014 16:46

There's been a thread like this before where I mentioned them trouser things with the skirt attached to them and no one else remembered them and I feel like I must of made some bad fashion item up in my head but I remember them vividly! Hideous they were.

KellyElly · 04/02/2014 16:48

I remember then downstairs!

OP posts:
Sparklingbrook · 04/02/2014 16:49

Envy Stealth boasters or what? Grin

yolothankgod · 04/02/2014 16:49

Downstairs i remember them
I actually bought one from River Island last year Blush

FizzyMakeFeelNice · 04/02/2014 16:49

Skirt trousers! I remember them too! I had a light blue pair from New look that I loved.

DownstairsMixUp · 04/02/2014 16:51

Woohoo I'm not going mad! Maybe it is there turn again yolo!

Them popper adidas tracksuit bottoms. Have a photo of me somewhere a pair. Wish my dad would burn them photos. Think I thought i was sporty spice. Hmm

ThursdayLast · 04/02/2014 16:51

Dewberry from the Body Shop
Rimmel Heather Shimmer lipstick
O2 Impulse spray

ThursdayLast · 04/02/2014 16:52

And I REALLY loved My So Called Life

DuPainDuVinDuFromage · 04/02/2014 16:52

Hooch
4 non blondes
we only fancied boys with curtains (their hairstyle, that is)
Noel's House Party

ThursdayLast · 04/02/2014 16:52

Corduroy Quilksilver rucksacks

DuPainDuVinDuFromage · 04/02/2014 16:53

Ooh another one: Party of Five!

And definitely White Musk from Body Shop, that was the defining smell of the 90s Grin

ThursdayLast · 04/02/2014 16:53

Oh yes, lovely lovely Hooch!
Sun In sometimes it seemed like it took the whole secondary school time to grow the sun in out of their curtains

DownstairsMixUp · 04/02/2014 16:55

EVERYTHING in the mid to late nineties was Spice Girls. Lollypops, cans of fizzy drink, magazines, top of the pops, the cinema. It was spice everything!

yolothankgod · 04/02/2014 16:56

Oh god yes Curtains , whatever possessed every male in the world to have that hairstyle it was horrific

Cycle Shorts were fashionable as well Confused

BrennanHasAMangina · 04/02/2014 16:57

Tretorn trainers.
Sperry topsiders.
Bass Weejuns.
Vuarnet t-shirts.
Chip and pepper t-shirts.
Exclamation! Perfume and Drakaar Noir for men.
Ralph Lauren button-downs.
Jeans made 'skinny' by rows of safety pins (ridiculous).
Button-fly jeans.

JazzAnnNonMouse · 04/02/2014 16:58

I was a child in the 90s but remember these things well Smile

Skirts over trousers, bright trainers, flares came back, spice girls, because you're gorgeous, so...kiss me? ,Keenan and kel Grin

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 04/02/2014 16:59

downstairs I remember those! they had a weird name too but can't remember what. that might have just been where I lived though.

JazzAnnNonMouse · 04/02/2014 16:59

Mr blobby

StrawberryMoose · 04/02/2014 16:59

I loved Party of Five. I was going to marry Bailey.

Also those bomber jackets with the orange lining (I never had owned one) and all the boys getting banned from wearing Spliffy jeans to school on non uniform days.

StrawberryMoose · 04/02/2014 17:00

*never owned one

DownstairsMixUp · 04/02/2014 17:01

Bootcut jeans were big weren't they? I remember them always dragging along the floor under flat shoes. Much prefer skinnies.

startwig1982 · 04/02/2014 17:01

Oh yes white musk and cool water was a thing too. Christian slater seems to have disappeared of late!
It was all about bands, boy or girl.
Spice girls
Boyzone
Take that
Five
Blue
Hanson
3T
Eternal...
The list goes on!

OddBoots · 04/02/2014 17:03

'Global Hypercolor' colour change t-shirts - ugh.

Spottybra · 04/02/2014 17:03

Gladiators and bay watch
Ck one
Grunge
Kurt Cobain and river pheonix's shock deaths
The era of the first supermodels