I'm sorry, is it 1998?

[WilburIsSomePig]

I went shopping for the first time in ages today and these tops were everywhere. Took me right back to the 90's! I had a fine array of vest tops to put over my tee shirts but I think I'll give it a miss this time round - my very pert 34B kahunas are sadly no longer up to the strain. (Nor are they still 34B or pert ). Isn't it funny how fashions seem to roll back round again?

Yes to that River Island carrier bag and god did stuff last. Had a duck egg blue cardigan with collar and pockets that I spent all my wages on one week and it lasted through six form and uni and beyond. I loved a silk shirt with a short Lycra skirt. Nice

For some reason, I have kept the long sleeved, low back body from River Island that I wore c. 1994.

Wtaf were/are they about? What's wrong with a tucked in top?

I remember wearing black jodphurs with black rollneck and mid calf biker boots and huge white cable jumper which came nearly to my knees.

Also often went out in opaques, travel fox trainers, men's red satin boxer shorts and a see thru black t shirt with wonderbra underneath... I thought I looked so cool. I really wish I had photos!

I remember wearing a lot of checked trousers too. I had several pairs in about 1996 or 1997.

I went through a phase of wearing over the knee socks to school (with my short school skirt).

YY Grace, I lovingly saved any nice bags to carry stuff in.

I used to love shopping in River Island when it was all done out in wood like some 19th century paddle-steamer. I'm sure that's where I bought my very best floppy velvet hats from.

I've suddenly realised that I still have a RI t-shirt from 1991. It's still going strong! As I'm about 3 sizes larger than I was at the time, and it still fits, I wonder how massive it was at the time!

I am currently embracing this 90s fashion resurgence was still a child then so I dabbled with what I could afford in Tammy girl but that's about it
No checked trousers or dungarees though , a step to far I think !
Bodies , chokers , band tees YAY

In my experience, if you stand still you are in fashion about once every 10 years. Suits me!

Ha! I think you are right galdos!

I hope naughties fashion doesn't come back in though it was boring and pretty terrible . I also refuse to give up my skinny / straight cute jeans

Cut not cute

Kwackerly I know the shop you mean in 7 dials, I had a top from there that I treasured. I also had a hideous multicolour, glow in the dark cropped string vest, that I wore clubbing with only a bra underneath and my mums old velvet trousers from the 70s, add massive platform boots and I must have looked bloody amazing. Shame there are no photos

• should have added that the vest and boots were from Camden market so obviously had to be cool

burgundy leather jacket, chunky plastic platform sandals - perfect for clubbing all weekend, chinese satin dress, cargo pants, chenille jumpers.

morgan tops with the logo and a plastic 'm' sewn into the fabric... think it was the beginning (or return) of bodycon tops?

colour block french connection t-shirts too (was that the era they rebranded as fcuk? ) which seemed very 'out there' at the time?

yes to the brown make-up. think bobbi brown was in her heyday. i remember ruby and milly make up and those cult nail polishes with the plastic rings attached to them, cannot remember the brand.

uma thurman and THAT bob, white shirt and chanel rouge noir went viral (a new word for the 90s). also kelly macdonald shiny spaghetti strap dress over t-shirt in trainspotting .

I did it all, and I have no regrets! Pass me my plum lip liner and some dewberry body spritz, I want to look like the Topshop fashion pullout from Just Seventeen. Where's Jason Priestley and Evan Dando at?

Botanic you mean hard candy?

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Yes, brown lippy and black/red nail polish

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graphista yes it was hard candy, thank you!

Hang on, it was an 80's revival last week, or possibly the week before, how on earth can we be on a 90's revival?

And yes it was originally just a revival of the 70's anyway, which was the decade that style forgot, so it can be safely ignored.

Oh, BotanicBaby & Graphista, there is a 90s memory! Lusting after Hard Candy nail polishes and trying to save up for them, even though there was no stockist in my tiny town and being pre-internet having no means of finding a stockist or any way of buying them.

Of course now we'd not only be able to buy them online but we'd be able to find decent dupes for about £2.

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I forgot about the hanky tops. I loved them as I was very flat-chested and had a pretty damn gorgeous back if I did say so myself. I still do so I'm hanky-ing for a re-run!

I won't hear a word against 70s fashion. Or early 80s. I just thought we might have moved on.

Still there's one trend I'll be genuinely pleased to see again and that's a man's waistcoat: one of my favourite looks both in the 70s and the 90s. I've still got a couple somewhere but don't worry, I will wear over a Tee this time. I wish I could say I was free thinking enough to wear them when they're not in fashion but I'm afraid I just feel a bit of a knob.

For all of you who remembers wearing a 'trouser skirt'.... Zara are currently sell these...

I had the exact same thought the other day when I was wondering around H&M. Velvet tops, slip dresses over t-shirts,... I felt like I had been transported to my teens.

Kwackerly I remember that top in 7 Dials and I also got a lot of my clubbing gear from there, mini skirts, rubber waistcoats etc!

We also used to go to Camden Market (when it was good) as there were a few clubbing wear stalls there.

And Hyper Hyper in Kensington High Street. I worked at an office on the same high street and must have spent an obscene amount of money on clothes....

One of our favourite clubbing combos was a pvc crop top sort of halter neck with a tiny skirt, a bit later crochet tops and dresses (Karen Millen sales) and we also loved wrap tops and skirts for clubbing in various combos.

The amazing thing was back then although you did get some who did it, there wasn't the abundance of fake tan, baking etc that there is now.

Top - I meant shop!