It was acceptable in the 90's

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Inspired by our reminiscenses about block heeled court shoes on another thread and my misty recollections about working in Next, what did you used to wear? To work, especially

Lots o' Navy

Lots of gilt buttons, and BURGUNDY. Mucho burgundy. And bodies! ARGGH bodies. I had a peach one IIRC. Pale 10 denier tights

I remember this underwear too

I wore suits with shorts skirts and big shoulder pads.

Doc martens, tie dye, hair in pigtails and sprayed green, vast amounts of black Kohl on the eyes with matching nails and lips...

Floppy velvet hats, palazzo pants with cropped tshirt...

Very very very short tight booby tube dresses with strappy high heeled sandals.

I was a teenager

Black watch tartan skirts! Almost every female in the department had one

There was lotso double breasting going on

What shops were there apart from Next? I honestly cant remember shopping anywhere else

Definitely bodies! And I had a couple of flowery dresses I wore over the top, with fat heeled canvas lace up things. Also Levi 501 which sat right up on my natural waist.

combats with dangly octopus legs hanging off them
skirts with trousers attached (a la Steps)

I shopped in pilot, miss selfridge, river island. Bits of m and s.

A gal at my work still wears those trousers! haha

I think I may have worn a swimming costume hoping to pass it off as a body , under a red blazer and with (high waister) jeans.

I was caught out within 30 seconds of entering the pub when some clown said 'Why are you wearing a swimming costume?

i invented a uniform (i was a v young retail manager) and got away with it! We were all girls and had - the company's logo on a white polo shirt, but this was teamed with....black stretchy flares from Miss Selfridge, and black DMs! (btw this was my 'request' from the other girls) We thought we looked the biz. I found the photos the other day. We didn't. Some of us put ribbons and beads through the lace holes too.

Everyone loved Morgan but it was no good for booby, lanky girls, which we all were

I'm tall. You couldn't get tall bodies. I would wear one with a long hippie skirt and several times a day there'd be an un poppering noise as my gusset came apart

I was horrified in ALL SAINTS the other day, to see some trousers with the skirt bit over them!

Bodies yes!! And Hunza (is that how you spell it?). Stretchy slightly bubbly material forming all sorts of clothing items - tops, bodies, bikinis, dresses. I had a pink Hunza bikini which I LOVED. Oh that I still had the body to wear something like that now!

ah the bubbly stuff! i manage a charity shop and that stuff still comes in. Like little tops that look child size but they stretch to the moon and back. Weirdly, they sell.

I had a long floaty skirt phase in my teens.

My uni years were spent in short black dresses/skirts, thick black tights, ankle socks and kickers.

I look back at the photos and think, WHY??! did i cover up a perfectly good figure. I was an 8 but still curvy. and 5ft 9. Yet....i lived in floaty skirts and granny jumpers or boho tunic tops a lot of the time out of work. NEVER EVER wore heels. They were anti fashion. In the photos i look a shapeless lump. but i wasn't! sigh........

and now..i don't cover up so much and probably should!!

And weirdly, some 17+ years on, they are still selling nearly exactly the same bikini on Amazon. For 140 quid

I went through a Neneh Cherry phase

Wore gold ghetto earrings, suit jacket, ripped jeans, Run DMC fat trainers OMG

all the trips to bead shops..to decorate our 'dummers' (DM's) to wear with little floral dresses. thank you Courtney Love..actually, that was a fun time.

Kickers for school with black tights and white ankle socks- that might have just been my school.

Heather shimmer lip stick.

Skirts over trousers.

Polo neck tops with sweatshirt over the top.

Floppy velvet hats.

Canvas shoes with chunky heels from the market.

Satin shirt dresses from new look.

Long flowery skirts with a cropped top.

Thinking back i think the 90s wasn't a great style decade to be a teen!

yes I vaguely remember trying to wear a dress over full widelegged trousers

What the hell was I thinking

Short dresses with doc martens.

A stretchy, stripy dress from the market.

Polo neck jumper under my school shirt (which was baggy and pale denim because, for soem reason, as our school shirts were blue, we were able to get away with it.)

Combat pants - from army surplus.

Crop tops.

Lycra mini skirt

Heather shimmer lipstick.

I had a home spiral perm in 1993. One side was always curlier than the other. Thanks mum.

Big glasses.