Does anyone remember this style?

[Pheasantlysurprised]

I used to wear this stuff when I was 16-21, (which would have been 1990 onwards) we also bought army surplus rucksacks and embroidered into them, usually peace symbols and ban the bomb.. The skirts often had little mirrors on and were very long and swishy!

We wore patchouli oil or sandalwood and due to being in the north we shopped mostly at Afflecks Palace in Manchester. We loved the Stone Roses, The Doors, The Smiths, Velvet Underground, etc. Glastonbury was very different then, no paps or celebs in Hunter wellies all over it.

I also wore those very long tiny necklaces made up of thousands of multicoloured beads. When one snapped, as they invariably would, you could still find random beads near the skirting boards 20 yrs later
We wore the dyed tights and woven bracelets.

Anyway I saw these items on ebay and it was such a blast from the past. It is amazing how the sensorial element of a particular time can crash back in.

And not forgetting the Docs. I still wear those. I still wear long skirts but don't reek of patchouli (prefer Guerlain) and prefer more minimal designs/fabrics and colours nowadays.
We didnt call it 'hippy' but it was classed as alternative, to a point. I mean, we used to hold burning joysticks in nightclubs whilst swaying around dreamily when The Sunday's were playing......

Wella Colour Mousse!! That was the hair dye we tried - and failed - so o get the Miki look with!! I was always gutted as my natural hair colour was so dark that only the damn 'plum' worked!
Can't believe how long ago it was... 40 now. Feel 80 reading this thread!! The necklaces of tiny beads would snap when you tried to get them into a bracelet a mile wide... always too long or not long enough for a perfect fit at 5-6x wrapped. Good times!! 😊

@StorminaBcup Oh my goodness Heather Shimmer!!! Flippin' 'eck. Coffee Shimmer looked better on me but I stuck with the 'cooler' option regardless 😂

Dewberry body spray from Body Shop anyone?!

Bloody hell, Wella colour mousse! That takes me back!

I went to Camden in the summer - the first time in years and thought how you could probably still find a decent 90s outfit there - velvet blazer (only a tenner if secondhand but carried the risk of being ridden with fleas).

These skirts used to come with directions on how to twist and knot them to ensure the creases didn't fall out . Worn with dodgy baggy tshirt and DMs.

I liked the smell of the 90s.

Omg this is the best thread ever! Tasselled skirts, German army jackets (why??!!), canvas bags, John Lennon style sunglasses...and everything with a faint whiff of incense.

It's funny because I was thinking that a lot of the teens I see around seem to be dressing in a late 80s-early 90s way, but this particular strand isn't making a comeback. Then again, it was already a comeback in itself with its 70s feel.

I had coffee shimmer too

And dyed my hair with Harmony wash-in-wash-out dye.

@RaisinFlapjack

Did anyone else have a new agey shop that sold individual beads you could use to create your own earrings?

Oh God yes. In Dublin it was a shop called Crown Jewels, on Crown Alley. Next door to a really cool shoe shop called DV8 and just along from the Rock Garden music venue. Spent many Saturday afternoons in there selecting beads for my next set of earrings.

Aztec-y style stuff was very big in interior design. People has loads of South American masks and carvings.

It's funny because I was thinking that a lot of the teens I see around seem to be dressing in a late 80s-early 90s way, but this particular strand isn't making a comeback. Then again, it was already a comeback in itself with its 70s feel

I noticed this too, it really was it's own peculiar strand. I do see some women (and men sometimes) of our generation still wearing it, so they must be buying it somewhere, but not so many teens, no..

When most people recall 90's fashions they usually mean the pop inspired mainstream, spice girls, Blossom, etc - not this

Love this thread! I am a bit younger than most of you by the sounds of it but as a tween this was the look I envied and aspired to! Still had the velvet jacket from Camden, DMs and beady jewellery in the mid-late 90s. I used to love a hippie shop. My parents had curtains with elephants on that looked very similar to some of the designs here. I longed for masks to decorate my bedroom walls with

@Classica

Aztec-y style stuff was very big in interior design. People has loads of South American masks and carvings.

There was also a thing with using red or mustard emulsion, and occasionally dark purple. It really enhanced the incense-y vibes and long plush drapes with tassels. I also had a set of three wooden elephants and some Russian dolls which were hand carved locally (that would NOT happen now!!).

Shared a house with a friend for a while, we had an extremely large and terrifying poster at the foot of the stairs of jack Nicholson in The Shining, the crazy eyes one. That was fairly disconcerting for most visitors (we were arts/film students).

And to a pp, Dark Arches sounds like a great name for a school for young witches

I still look a bit like this now!
Happy days, Manchester late 80s early 90s, nights out at the Ritz or 42nd St, yes Afflecks or the Underground Market for clothes.
I wore my mums original 60s emerald green suede jacket to death!

@StepawayfromtheBiscuittin

Mood rings. Loved the skirts, the army surplus bags We wore slouchy boots or DMs. Wish I had kept my Docs, they were super. Grew up in Belfast. Shopped in Fresh Garbage. I remember going to Afflecks Palace with a friend who went to Manchester for Uni. Heaven.

I was thinking of those skirts the other week and wondering if I could get one now to hide the multitude of sins I committed during the pandemic and the 30 years prior to it.

I loved Fresh Garbage! I went in about three years ago for the first time since 1996 and it was exactly the same right down to the smell.

We had various bead shops in my yoof and I wonder what happened to all that as a concept? Surely people still make jewellery? Or do they buy literally everything on line now?

And you will see many many faithful adherents to this aesthetic if you visit Hebden Bridge, Stroud or Totnes.

I have friends in Hebden, it's definitely a thing, along with overpriced air&b's and £2500 per month studio flats

The shops that were a bead shop type local chain called Trudy's survived a long time in the West Country... Complete with all essentials such as brass inlay boxes and elephants everywhere, sold a million types of piercings and joss sticks and of course the fab long tiny bead necklaces. They only closed them in around 2010.. Sad times. There was still one called Kaba Kabu in the tiny town of Brixham (of Fish Town fame!) until the lock downs. I would have had an extra 10 jabs to keep that open 😢 I used to go in just for a sniff and a stroke of the velvet whenever I was there.
Went last week and it had gone. Gutted.

@Colleen92

The shops that were a bead shop type local chain called Trudy's survived a long time in the West Country... Complete with all essentials such as brass inlay boxes and elephants everywhere, sold a million types of piercings and joss sticks and of course the fab long tiny bead necklaces. They only closed them in around 2010.. Sad times. There was still one called Kaba Kabu in the tiny town of Brixham (of Fish Town fame!) until the lock downs. I would have had an extra 10 jabs to keep that open 😢 I used to go in just for a sniff and a stroke of the velvet whenever I was there. Went last week and it had gone. Gutted.

Is there a Trudy's in Exmouth? I think I vaguely remember going there to get cheap earrings, accessories etc!

@Kind0fABigDeal Yes I think there was, ooh wonder if it's still there?! The young ones don't know what they are missing! They used to sell those bags as well... I would definitely buy one if I saw it!

I wanted to be Star and date men who looked like this

Not Jason Patric?

I think I had the exact skirt - I loved it so much. I remember you were meant to twist it all up before you washed it

@Classica here you go 🥰

That was the late 70s/early 80s revival

I feel the need to print this thread out frame it and put it on my wall so I can remember what it felt like to be alive. What happened to me? Maybe living like a 90's hippie can be my project for next year!

I had pillar box red hair. Can't remember the hair dye brand but it was called Cherry. Skirts pretty much like the one in the picture. Played Lush, Ladykillers, on repeat when it came out. Loved The Cranberries too, not sure that was 90's though. Coffee Shimmer lipstick by Rimmel. Making mix tapes with my friends by taping the songs off the Sunday chart show and learning the lyrics by playing them over and over and listening really hard. Music was life back then.

I've found some elephant print fabric hanging around, with tassels. I'm going to make it into curtains.

This has cheered me up no end. And made me a bit wistful for my simpler teenage/early twenties self.
We were called greebo’s up here. Occasional trips on the Settle line to the corn exchange in Leeds, or up to Cockburn street in Edinburgh.

Docs/para’s, army coat, canvas bag with black marker band names. Leggings with baggy crochet jumper, or mini with stripy tights, or long swirly patchwork skirts with mirrors and bells. Rose joss sticks, elephants everywhere, moon and star dangly earrings. Red hair. Nose piercing. MASSIVE posters - levellers, cure, sisters of mercy, rage against the machine… gigs galore. Dads 60’s Levi’s jacket for gigs when the army coat was just TOO big. Pints of snakebite and black. Waistcoats were a thing too. Used to buy them in the charity shop, then customise them :)
I guess I’m still the same inside. The docs are still attached. Supplemented by converse for town or buckly fly boots for board meetings. Skinny black jeans and white stuff tops for work … I need me a black mini and some stripy tights! And gigs. I need gigs. And a job that doesn’t eat the rest of my life!