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?

The worst 90s look was that beachwear as streetwear crap. Sarongs with crop tops and flip flops, in the middle of a busy city street nowhere near a body of water? Just add a bindhi for twat bingo, insulting and appropriating Hinduism for good measure!

I thought I looked the dog's bollocks when in reality I must have looked like a right twat. But so did everyone else!

This is true.

I don't think I'll be dusting off my cropped spaghetti strap vests, mini kilts or nightdress style dresses. If I stitched several of them together, there just might be enough material to cover me decently!

Are wrap skirts which flapped embarrassingly going to reappear next?

Willow et al....

The only thing I do miss is that clothes seemed cheaper then but they also seemed better made and in less man made materials.

I had some lovely nubuck cream/Ivory sandals from Hobbs, nice shoes from Pied a Terre (various styles) and other nice clothes I don't recall exactly now but they tended to last. Unlike now!

And leggings are back in fashion too! The Sundsay Times magazine says so. Yay.

I hate to break it to you Gallivanting but leggings have been back in fashion for at least 6-7 years now!

My ex colleague introduced me to them (I borrowed a pair of her white ones once when I stayed at her house unplanned, bad move - the leggings were very see through!). But now I wear black ones a fair bit, I have some on now as it Goes with a jumper!

But louder printed ones are coming back in vogue, that's what The Sunday Times magazine means.

*Body's were a nightmare, especially when out clubbing and trying to go to the loo after a few drinks

Apparently you could just pull them to one side for a wee. *

Not when you were wearing them over tights 😳

You wore a body over tights Expel? Were you in Fame?

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Patsy's body fail

I used to wear a black body with a gingham skirt. Aren't those two items in vogue now?! 😂

Ooh I was well into vest tops over a bodysuit. Heather shimmer lipstick anyone?

Holister have them too. I saw them when I was going past. I wore it in the 90s. Also the blocky heels on shoes. Fashion is cyclical.

Whenever my almost 18 year old DD brings new items of clothing into the house lately she announces them with and eye roll and the words"I know Mum...you had this in the 90s". There is so much 90s stuff around lately and I've obviously mentioned it a few times!

Perspicacia That in a nutshell is the main worry with a body. No one wants half a random gussett flapping around.

Perspicacia

I was much more of the madonna, cyndi laupa, punk/new wave stylee.
I would have looked at you like this

Sorry

In the 80s I had crushed velvet red/maroon body that I wore over black crushed velvet leggings with black cowboy boots.
I accessorized with MASSIVE faux Chanel earrings.

Luckily not many people had cameras back in the day.

I thought they were hideous back then and I still think so now! The tops are bad enough, but strappy dresses over t-shirts are even worse!

I was in urban outfitters last week and it was exactly like being back in the mid nineties!

My dd has gone out tonight wearing:

Black roll neck sleeveless body

High waist ripped jeans

Brown make up

Platform boots!

Almost identical outfit to what I was wearing when I met her dad 30+ years ago yet I would apparently know NOTHING about today's fashion

Once on a night out a group of friends and I and then boyfriend (dds dad) couldn't get taxi back to share house (early uni years) passing a wooded area one friend urgently needed pee. Was wearing body. She managed to undo and pee AND wipe using dock leaves (nurses are nothing if not resourceful ) but couldn't do it up again? She was trying to find the back bit basically 'chasing her tail' like a bloody puppy! (She was pretty pissed as was I) dds dad (relatively sober he had work next day) had to redress her (tucked body into jeans) I nearly wet myself laughing while dds dad kept shouting 'ffs stand still!!'

Stevie are those reebok freestyles?

Yes I love the stuff in Topshop etc at the moment, very much takes me back to my youth ('90s - this is 2nd time around for me). My younger self would have been delighted that I can now afford it all but my current self won't touch the synthetics.

Makes my heart sing a little bit to see it all back

You wore a body over tights Expel? Were you in Fame?

In my head I was - did I mention the stretchy mini Lycra mini skirt over the top?

I think the stretchy mini skirt over the top rescues the outfit

Just add a bindhi for twat bingo, insulting and appropriating Hinduism for good measure!

Oh yes. My best friend went to India before uni in 1994. Guess what she brought me back I obviously didn't wear them!

I've just bought a crushed velvet dress that is exactly the same as one I had in 1995. Which inexplicably I threw out

I had forgotten all about the bindhi trend!