What were you wearing in 1994?

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I've long had a theory that fashion follows a 20-year pattern and that has been well and truly proven seeing all the new collections just appearing. Some of the photos from the PFW are uncannily similar to things I owned back then!

In 1994, I was a postgrad student in Paris. I'd recently outgrown my grunge/raver phase and wore mostly midi-length flaired/pleated/tube skirts or culottes with soft sweaters and/or waistcoats. I still have (and have started to wear again) the brown high-heeled brogue ankle boots I bought that spring!

I also had a very lovely black and white kilt-style mini-skirt, which I wore loads with a black cropped jacket and a black bowler hat! I regret not having kept that skirt. It was lovely and would be perfect in 2014!

Another favourite outfit I seem to remember owning and wearing during that period (94-96) was a baby pink angora sweater with navy trousers and loafers and a pink patent doctor-style handbag. I still have the scarves I wore with that outfit, but not the other pieces, although some of the stuff in the shops right now looks almost identical!

So, where were you in 1994 and what were you wearing? Are you thinking of revisiting that look now? Maybe we can inspire each other and stay ahead of the curve with our inside knowledge

Derek - I'd forgotten about pirate shirts! Mine had billowy sleeves with lace cuffs and I wore it with my black suede waistcoat. I thought I looked gorge.

Slapamythigh!

Like Bonsoir I was working in a very straight but high profile City environment. I had three double breasted gold buttoned M&S blazers, worn with silk shirts and pencil skirts. And I wasn't a lone style-free freak - we all had them. Three women on my floor at work had the same navy and lime green tartan M&S suit. Worn with utterly frumptastic mid-rise navy court shoes, natch.

Whenever anyone says "it's a timeless classic - it'll never go out of style" I think of those gilt buttoned double breasted blazers.

Oh yeah,palazzo pants!!!Although we used to call them 'parallels'.

And long straight wrap skirts.I had a truely hideous one in black and white gingham.I loved it at the time!

Patent peep toe clog style platforms were my fave shoes.Bet I looked awesome in them with my white hipsters and crop top with loose chain belt thingy and shag bands!!!!

I was 18 in 1994. I was on the cusp of grunge / goth but never fully embraced it. My favourite outfit was a long flowery skirt, black shirt, denim jacket and cherry red DMs. I had a raffia bag with incredibly long straps for folders and text books, tiny patent leather rucksack for going out.

I still wear DMs, still dress a bit grunge and still dying my hair unnatural colours.

omg i had a pirate shirt too, flappy bit at the front, and a second hand suede waistcoat.

lol

purple hair
black crushed velvet leggings
dinosaur jr tshirt
purple indian style waiscoat
converse boots
or baggy stripey trousers and grandad shirts from head in the clouds.

that year I got a proper job and had ditch the purple hair

and yes I too had a short chenille jumper from internatinale

A size 8, goddammit!!

Satin shirt
Leopard print shirt
Dark Boot cut jeans
Ankle length black boots
Smart knits
Denim jacket
V neck tops

Lots of Kookai/Benetton/Morgan with a bit of Topshop/Oasis thrown in.

We stil have kookai shops here in France. And Morgan. I loved Morgan in the 90s then didn't buy a thing there for around 15 years and just in the past year have starting finding stuff there I like once again!

I was thinking the exact same thing about my c 1995/96 collection of air max and new balance trainers - they have done a full cycle and I wish I still had them.

In 1994 I had block heeled loafers, black Lycra tube skirts, Vans (lace up ones), flippy floral skirts, band t shirts stolen from my brothers, checked shirts and a long dungaree style dress - so all a bit grunge. Then in the summer I bought a teeny tiny children's t-shirt and my clothes were a bit more influenced by dance music, and I got a bit braver and a bit less covered up. In fact I have distinct memories of one outfit that was utterly miniscule. I still have a silver spaghetti strap halter neck from those days and wear it occasionally. - sadly not without a bra any more. I only wish that I had discovered that I looked okay a bit sooner - I was such a shy teenager.

Thankfully I never succumbed to chenille, but I did have a sky blue (faulty) Joseph angora cardigan that left itchy fibres all over you if you wore it in a sweaty club.

Lived in Spain for uni then summer of Oasis ....
Jeans , band tshirts, little flowery dresses, Puma states, Adidas gazelles.
I would give anything to have the figure I did then !

Oh, and hair in Bjornk buns for a night out, and perhaps a bindi too....

I was 16 and went out a lot. One truly heinous outfit stands out - duck egg sleeveless body suit, under a cropped denim jacket, with black pelmet skirt, black opaques and heeled lace up suede ankle boots. Remember wearing that the night I accidentally set my hair on fire lighting a faaaag.

You're right OP, I can see that outfit on a 16 year Old coming out of Top Shop today.

i had a pair of green jeans from mark one, my first ever pairof dms, a see-thru plasic school bag with a plastic fish floating in glitter, various tight t-shirts with hearts on, couple of checked shirts, some levi 501s i was so proud of & lots of school uniform. oh, & a pair of kickers.

Cropped tops - to show off my 6 pack
Clunky heels
Big denim jacket
Benetton jeans in various colours
Benetton t-shirts in various colours
Several Jigsaw tops (how did I ever afford those?)
Tartan skirts
Cardigans

School uniform.

That was the year before DS1 was born so I don't have much recollection. I do know I still wasn't good at going into trendy shops - left over from memories of being sniggered at as a teenager .
I had one of those M&S double breasted suits with gold buttons! Mine was navy with a long frumpy pencil skirt and low-heeled court shoes - why??!!
Also had a Prince of Wales check version with a slightly shorter, more flattering skirt. Think I wore them with thin polo necks.

Wore Levi 501s at weekends, with hideous tartan shirts from Racing Green and Timberland deck shoes (cost £130 afair - frumptastic).
I do remember a tweed short skirt from Next which I wore with a single breasted burgundy blazer and riding boots, and a tie-die indigo and white maxi dress from Warehouse which got me upgraded to first class on a flight to Australia!

1994. GCSE year for me. Leggings, black clogs and denim shirt. Checked shirts. Mohair short sleeved jumpers. Short shiny black satin skirts. Tactel tops. Not a great year.

Benetton sweatshirt. I had two - dark green and maroon. Benetton spelled out in capitals, evenly spaced across the chest, each in a different colour. Worn with 501s. And DMs.

Ooh Black Watch tartan. I never had any myself but every other woman in EC1 did. And crop tops - I had a teeny waist even by the standards of my age group and wore a lot of crop tops.

Well I was an unfashionable student and wore lots of loose-fitting things and leggings. What I can say is 94/5 was the year I realised that my 'same old stuff I'd been wearing for the previous two years' was no longer vaguely the same as what other people were wearing, they'd moved on.

Leggings were out. Denim shirts were in.

Was it summer 95 or 96 when there was an epidemic of translucent blouses, often black, worn over wonderbras? Usually with long skirts, just this odd 'I'm not actually wearing a top, look at my bra' tops, worn by everyone!