Teenager in the 90's

[KellyElly]

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

[Kaekae]

Grolsch caps on shoes
Cherry Coke/Lilt
Puffa Jackets
Jelly Bags
Scrunchies
Cycling Shorts
More Magazine
Palladium shoes
Hubba Bubba Gum

[littlebluedog12]

Oooh how could I forget Heartbreak High?! I was obsessed with the one with long greasy hair

Also reading More magazine in the 6th form common room!

[Grumpykins]

I was a teen in the early 90's. I remember;

Kickers
Wallabees
Naf Naf
Oilily
Body shop perfumes
Panache
Zucchi
Benetton bags
White Levi's
Fitted tops
DM's
Hanging out at the shopping centre
Photo stories in J17
More magazine

Late 90's
Heavy make up
Skirt trousers
Knee high boots
Fitted ankle length skirts with hole around stomach
PVC mini dresses
Short hair styles

[MikeTheShite]

oh and bandannas! I still have a very worn one for under my riding hat!

[30SecondsToVenus]

Dream phone

[Greentriangle82]

Thought of some more!
Byker grove
Grange hill
East 17
Why don't you (early nineties?)
Naff naff coats
Lambert and butler cigs
Barcardi breezers

[BertieBottsJustGotMarried]

Oh, I remember those too, didn't know they were called snails though I was nowhere near cool enough to know anything like that.

[Twighlightsparkle]

Tab clear

[mewkins]

TFI Friday, Big Breakfast and those white blonde highlights only at the front of your head?! I remember doing them on several of my friends' hair.

[KellyElly]

Heartbreak High and River Phoenix. God how did I forget them. I was devastated when River Phoenix died!

[VikingLady]

Christian Slater
Take That
Spiral perms, checked shirt, white jeans and block heels - the trendy uniform!

[Weelady77]

Home and away then neighbours then I could go and muck about with my pals

MD 20/20
White lightning
Lambrini
Hooch

These cord necklaces with a plastic dummy on the end

E's
Acid
Speed!!!!

[joydevivre]

Corn row hairstyle
Having yr pierced belly button on show
Giorgio Beverley hills as a coming of age smell. !xclamation for before

[Showy]

I turned 10 in 1990 so the 90s were my teenage years.

Television:

As a young tween/teen, it was Maid Marian and her Merry Men, Byker Grove (ahahahahahaha), Grange Hill, Moondial, Simon and the Witch

As I got older I remember Queer As Folk being a bit of a shock (watched it with my Mum), the gay kiss on Brookside, This Life

Clothes:

I wore what I liked tbh and didn't fit in but there were some very distinctive groups. One wearing polyester tracksuits with poppered legs, the combat trousers/vest brigade, some girls tottering about in baby doll dresses and heels, nasty Sweater Shop jumpers and clumpy Kickers shoes all over the place, Army surplus jackets worn over dresses with massive boots and striped tights.

Everybody reeked of White Musk or some weird concoction from the local herbal store (moss with overtones of mud iirc), people still shopped in C&A or Tammy Girl, lots of big dangly, ethnic type earrings and heather shimmer lipstick.

Magazines had pictures of 16yo 'hunks' with curtained hair, shiny abs and big, baggy jeans with 7 inches of white underwear over the top. People would titter over More mag's Position of the Week and pass round illicit copies of Judy Bloom's Forever.

Weird plastic dummies had a rebirth and everybody was obsessed with flavoured lip balms.

Music was Terrorvision, Nirvana, Oasis, Blur, Reef or awful boy bands with choreographed moves. I remember Four Non Blondes and Ace of Base being massive too. Bryan Adams and Wet Wet Wet at No1 for a gazillion years. Mr fucking Blobby. Whigfield. Um, Going Live and SMTV.

Friday nights you'd try and stay up late to watch The Word but be asleep and drooling by the time Davina McCall's Streetmate had finished. Eurotrash was always on and always weird. Saturday nights was Gladiators and checking The Pools. Pop man came on Sundays and we played on building sites even though the scary public info films warned us not to.

And Burton's Fish and Chips. I miss them. More than is healthy.

[VikingLady]

I remember Tamagotchis! I ran a tamagotchi baby sitting service during GCSEs!

[HuevosRancheros]

Taping your favourite bits off The Charts on a Sunday afternoon, trying to get the whole track before the DJ (Bruno Brookes or Mark Goodier) talked over the end

I had forgotten Heartbreak High and My So Called Life

I still listen to Nirvana and Pearl Jam more than I llisten to 'modern' music

Science oh, the thought of Blastaway..... and Lilt, for that matter, seeing as that is what it tasted of. Too many sick nights :(
Oh, and Mad Dog 20/20

[Showy]

Gawd I feel nostalgic.

You could still get 10 sweets for 10p from the corner shop in the 90s. Now for 10p you can get 3 Haribo or a quarter of a Freddo. I want chocolate tools and weird chocolate in foil cups and strawberry filled white skulls and a strawberry lace. In a crumpled paper bag. And I want to eat them by the river with my mates while a stray porn mag flutters gently under a nearby bush.

[MinimalistMommi]

Impulse spray

[MinimalistMommi]

Belinda Carlisle

[TerrariaMum]

I was a teen in the States but there are some things that seemed to cross oceans.

White musk
Spice Girls
Friends
scrunchies
Clueless
Walkmen

we still had mix tapes too.

[MinimalistMommi]

The x files

[MinimalistMommi]

Romeo and Juliet with Clare Danes in it.