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

[ephemeralfairy]

Heartbreak High!! LOVED it. My fave was Drazic.
I spent an hour watching YouTube clips of it the other night...found this gem.

[DownstairsMixUp]

Oh i loved drazic and anita! Wish you could get the DVD's of it, I'd still watch it now.

[RhondaJean]

Oh this has reminded me of so many things!

Our price record shops, I used to read nme and melody maker every week and order the top recommendations, it was when you had to just do it in trust you would like them.

Being obsessed with vinyl.

Making mix tapes for friends.

Britpop, Madchester, grunge, riot grrrl, brilliant guitar music.

Cherry red docs, I wish so much I had kept them.

Pizza hut and Macdonalds opening round here.

What everyone wants (west of Scotland chain of cheap cheap shops)

Back combing and hairs praying your fringe as high as it would go.

Meeting DH and dd1 arriving with four days of the 90s to go. Getting married. Doesn't seem possible it was all in Thr same decade that I started out in second year at school.

And black cherry Rimmel lipstick, it was the closest you could get to black in those days, and for green blue etc nail varnish you had to mail order from cosmetics to go

[woozlebear]

Aaaah, I miss the 90s more the older I get. I was 10 in 1991, so it WAS my teens:

I remember:
White Musk and dewberry
Lip gloss in as many flavours as possible - I kept two for years that had the power to transport me back soooo vividly to particular places and times...
Glittery make up and nail varnish - esp glittery electric blue nail varnish!

I remember wearing flared cords and velvet jackets and DMs.
Later lots of crushed velvet and droopy ankle length grey skirts
Chokers
Mood rings!!
Record bags with things painted on them in nail varnish.
Shopping in Carnaby street and Kenny market
Kickers in winter, paladiums in summer - with your socks folded down inside so they wouldnt show!
clumpy platform boots and sandals
Wraparound skirts, crop tops, bunches,
Those horrible pull-on black pinstripe trousers!
Bay Trading, River Island, Shelleys, Faith
Wearing your hair up bit with a central parting and two stringy bits of hair hanging down at the front!!
Heather Shimmer!!
Superlash mascara
Check shirts over Tshirts
Strappy vests and dresses that looked like nighties

Smileys, cannabis leaves, yin and yang and sun moon and stars over everything.
Everyone having loads of studs in their ears.
Trolls (or were they earlier?)
Beanie babies
Athena posters
Those 'balls' in the Hammersmith Palais etc
'Getting off' with boys with curtains!
Magic eye!!

Had forgotten Point Horror!!!
Sweet Valley High (smuggling my best friend's copies in the house as my mum disapproved!)
Judy Bloom's Foreever
Mizz, Bliss, Just Seventeen

The Big Breakfast
Mel & Sue
Heartbreak High
SUNSET BEACH! (The turkey baster, anyone???)
Dawsons Creek....aaaaaah. Pacey
Brookside lesbian kiss
Rikki Lake, Ellen, Roseanne
Saved by the bell
Bewitched
Genie in a bottle
Fresh Prince
TFI Friday
90210 - the proper version!

Mix tapes
Placebo
Pulp
Oasis
James
Savage Garden
Lightening Seeds
The Verve
the Shine albums
Wet wet wet!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Backstreet boys, Five
Oh my god...Girl from Mars, yesss, and Size of a Cow!
Supergrass
Blur
Suede, Shed Seven, The Charlatans... too many to name!


Being on the phone to my mates pretty much all my waking hours, even if I'd just seen them, or was just about to see them

Having an obsessive intense crush on someone or other every single day from about 1995 onwards!

Ohhhh, I want to go back RIGHT NOW!

[CheerfulYank]

Passing notes to friends in school and drawing a peace sign, a heart, a smiley face, and a yin yang at the bottom of every one, which of course stood for peace, love, happiness, and harmony. 4-eva, naturally :o

Had forgotten about the two stringy hair bits in front! I had those, shimmer lipstick, and a ridiculously tight lycra green striped shirt with a turtleneck. Fetching! Then I tried to be grunge with ripped jeans, my dad's flannel shirt overa Cranberries tee, and bangs in my face. And angsty poetry. Still later I wore huge pants and tiny Hang Ten tshirts and lusted after the skater boys with their yo yos and hacky sacks and curtain hair. :o

[BigOrange]

I LOVE this thread! I have literally nodded at every single post and Google is going to get a bashing once I've finished typing this!

I can't believe thought that no one has mentioned Late Night Love with Graham Torrington! I believe it's still on now but the sound of GT's voice takes me right back to being 15 sat in my room surrounded by my posters of Paul Nicholls.

[scully81]

My So Called Life - I still love Jared Leto now!!
X Files (I was obsessed....you can tell from my username!)
Heather shimmer lipstick
dewberry spray from body shop
fruit of the loom jumpers
kickers shoes
checked shirts
shopping at tammy girl!
wella colour mousse
diffusing my curls
boybands
dawsons creek - pacey, sigh!
CK one - or the cheap knock off we used to buy from the market!
satin shirts - I had a shiny blue one and I thought I looked the bees knees. I recently found out that my elderly gran had the same shirt lol!!
radio one roadshows
those wedge trainers that the spice girls used to wear
all the boys having curtains
penpals
snogging boys down the local park!

[scully81]

omg I remember late night love with GT!!! We used to sit in my friends bedroom with the lights off warbing along to power ballads!!

[PenguinsEatSpinach]

Richey Edwards of the Manics going missing

[EllaMenOhPea]

Oh yes so many of these - NafNaf is something that had entirely slipped from my consciousness!

Arranging to meet someone at a specific time and place before mobile phones

BT chargecards for us uni students in the 90s so we could phone home from the halls pay phone & it would charge the home phone bill

[FifiLeBoo]

Remember pretty much all of the above.

I was 16 in 1992 and went to work for the company who made global hyper colour tshirts

[MimsyBorogroves]

Ananya body spray from the body shop. I have to wonder what it smelt like now.

Tommy Girl perfume. I still have some.

[mammatoaboy]

jelly bean sandals

[WithRedWine]

in no particular chronolgical order:

Nafnaf jackets
bennetton duffle bags
enormous plastic dummies on ribbons
trolls (before the internet variety even existed!)
"eez' are good e's are good...etc"
blur n oasis, suede, lush, echobelly, pulp
bloody boyzone, takethat, boyz2men, gabrielle & kavanagh! (had forgotten about that last one until i caught a really crap documentary the other night)
kurt cobain dying
massive puffa jackets
dms
mood rings
camden market
east 17 (didn't like 'em but they were local boys dun good & their songs have aged surprisingly well
face glitter
platform trainers like ginger spice

[WithRedWine]

forgot lulu, white musk & charlie perfume. & dewberry. & impulse vanilla.
roseanne on the telly
fresh prince of bel air
more, just 17, smash hits song lyrics

[AliMumsnet]

Obsession perfume
Spliffy Jeans
Blossom
My Two Dads
Judy Blume
Prank calling
Over the knee socks

[Portlypenguin]

The x-files mania.

Pedal pushers. My mum complained about them constantly. Not to mention the attractive kickers shoes.

I remember a geography teacher trying to look up what the latin name for 'supergrass' was during a lesson about habitats. She overheard someone talking about it...

[spongebob5]

Oooh I've loved this thread! Forgotten how much I enjoyed being a teenager in the 90's. Anyone remember popswatch watches? I had 2. I looked on eBay a few years ago to see if I could buy one but they were ridiculous prices I also remember 10 Regal king size being £1.09

[tiredvommachine]

This thread is fab!
Can anyone remember Castaway? Came in a green bottle with a yellow label and treated like alcoholic lilt. Loved that!
My clubbing outfit consisted of black dolly shoes, knee high Black socks, kilt and a shiny satin shirt (my favourite was my baby pink one). Bliss!

[tiredvommachine]

Tasted like*

[SomeLikeItChilliHot]

I loved the 90's:

Happy hardcore
Drum and bass
Trance and techno
Illegal warehouse raves
Ecstasy
Clubs where I went dressed as a fairy and handed out homemade cupcakes


I turned out just fine

[folieadeux29]

Hi everyone.. first MN post

I also had navy coloured skirt/pants

Tv Shows - Not sure if all are 90's.. maybe earlier

Blossom
Mork & Mindy
Finders Keepers
Fun House
Crystal maze

Sweets

Push pops
Dummy rings
Dweebs
Nerds
Runts

Fashion

String necklaces with dolphins/crosses/star signs on etc
Combat pants
Vest type t shirts cut in like a diamond at the bottom

Toys

TY Beanies
Slinky
Furby
Trolls
Polly pocket
Stretch armstrong
Sky dancers
And a giant yellow teapot that everybody had but this may have been late 80s as not a teenage type toy

[Pramula]

Music telly was amazing back then. What was that BBC2 weekday evening 'yoof' TV slot called? I bloody loved it. With the Fresh Prince, that music clips show I can't remember name of...

That Saturday morning music show on ITV with the graphics of 'play', 'pause' etc (the Vault?)

The word on a Friday night

Dance energy with Normski

TOTP on a Thursday every week

The Brits with all the various shit presenters

YY to smash hits poll winners party and Jarvis Cocker still love him

And the charts every Sunday on radio while doing homework

[IAmNotAMindReader]

Ankle length gypsy skirts both floaty and their closer fitting high waisted bretheren which involved a lot of buttons.

Babydoll dresses.

Velour dresses.

That weird fabric which had a black base and then a metallic colour running through it. Always sheer, usually black and red or black and blue or gold.

Blouses with a tie waist.

Brown make up with a distinct orange hint (not just foundation). everything had it, eyeshadow, lipstick, blusher.

Tartan mini skirts.

Chunky heels.

Butterfly clips in all shapes and sizes. A seemingly natural progression from the closely related banana clip.

Back combing.

Wet look mousse.

Hair scrunched to within an inch of its life.

Dewberry and white musk.

Patchwork leather jackets.

Patchwork dresses.

Resurgence of paisley.

Body suits.

Cat suits.

Buttons. There was a real attention to buttons in the 90's. either chunky and out there or just sheer numbers. Everything had to have the buttons be some kind of feature.

Explosion in coloured jeans.

Huge jumpers.

DM's and all their various spin offs.

Really thick opaque black tights with everything.