Anyone else struggling with the 90s revival?!

[PlumBear]

I’m 5ft nothing, quite curvy and the current 90s look just doesn’t suit me - and it didn’t suit me the first time around either! 😂

I know I don’t need to follow fashion and can wear what I like and mostly I do. But I’m really struggling with jeans. I bought a pair of wide leg ones and thought they looked nice until I saw myself in a photo wearing them 🤪

Have any shorties found jeans recently that are flattering and not too dated? Or should I just give up and stick to dresses and boots until this trend ends?

thanks in advance!

Oh, flares also had a very brief revival in the late 90s IIRC. Haven’t seen those this time around thankfully

Flares never worked well in Scotland....far too rainy!

Thanks everyone! Lots of good advice, thank you. Final straw was doing the school run in the pouring rain this week and coming home with soaking wet jeans!

I think I’m going to try some petite straight leg or boyfriend jeans. Just need to hunt some down now!

Gap girlfriend jeans are perfect for petites. I don't even need to shorten them 🙂

I remember the very wide Stone Roses type jeans from the very end of the 80s into early 90s but they were flared - and some were so wide flares that they even covered your whole shoe. We called those people and the music ‘baggy’, didn’t we?

I agree that the style wasn’t like today’s wide leg jeans.

Please dear God they've not brought back low waist/ hipster jeans? Muffin tops ahoy!

I do believe the happy Mondays song 'loose fit' was inspired by this.

Do you completely replace your wardrobe frequently? What were you wearing before the "current look"? Do you not already have clothes/jeans you like? What have you been wearing? Can't you just carry on wearing that if you don't like what's in the shops at the moment?

I’d forgotten about stirrup leggings! Loved mine. I wore them with either a cobwebby, gossamer thin grey jumper or a black mesh one. I miss those jumpers!

Wide legged jeans in the rain are a disaster. I must admit that I’m reaching for jeans much less at the moment and favouring tube skirts with DMs. It still feels quite 90s, but obviously an entirely different vibe to the baggy one.

I had forgotten tube skirts. I had a couple of those.

I didn't know 90's stuff was back in fashion. I thought it was the decade fashion forgot. The only style I was aware of at the time was a grunge, Cobain kind of sloppyness. I'm partial to an oversized cardigan and striped tee that's nods to the 70s, but what else was going on? I'm off to Google.

Tartan mini-kilts and pinafore dresses worn with over the knee socks were very big in the mid-90s thanks to Clueless. I won't be doing the socks but the dresses look good with opaque tights and boots. There were also a lot of satin bias-cut slip dresses. PPs are right that wide leg wasn't really a thing but baggy jeans were - slightly different somehow. The nearest I've seen to the proper 90s style is the Replay Jaylie, which comes in short leg lengths if anyone's interested!

I was thinking about this the other day when I realised I was wearing pants so large they were at the waistband of my relatively high waist jeans! The aim in 99/00 ish was to wear jeans so low a bit of hip bone could be seen. And yes, rain water soaked up to the knee.

The 90s revival has definitely cherry-picked fashions: grunge for example. Look for straight or slim leg, OP. More up to date than skinnies but practical and more flattering.

Wide-legged jeans aren’t a 90s thing - I was in my 20s in the 90s and we never wore them.
Very low slung bootcut jeans were the main style.

Or just 501s. But never wide legged.

My thoughts too. Also “What 90s revival?” You don’t have to buy in to all the latest fashion trends you know. What a complete
waste of head space.

Baggy, very wide pale denim jeans were absolutely a nineties thing, linked to the Madchester scene.

My skinnies still come out in the bad weather!! Only thing to go in my boots

Thinking about grunge has also made me really want a red plaid shirt, to be worn as a mini dress.

There absolutely was a denim trend that people clung to more than skinnies! Bootcut jeans. We had honestly about 10 years of people posting and bemoaning that these were gone from shops.

I'm still wearing skinnies as nothing else goes with my Docs and my Sorel snow boots which I wear for rugby, but I have been wearing barrel leg with stripy tops and trainers all year. Yes, I look a bit like Smee off Peter Pan but I like it.

If you've watched the latest Monster series, featuring Charlie Hunnam as Ed Gein, you might be staying clear of red plaid......

There are loads of flares around right now! I’m tall and slim and have been loving their return.

I'm also reasonably tall and reasonably slim, but flares don't work in rainy weather.

I’m late 60’s and have found any wide leg or loose fitting jeans very unflattering on my 5’2” short legged frame….. until this week. I decided to try again and found some dark denim barrelled jeans in Sainsbury’s and some wide leg ones in M&S in a paler denim. They are both short fitting and look very good, I could not be more surprised. I’m wondering if now these styles have been around a while the manufacturers have worked out how to make them suit more people. Although is is a counter intuitive look for a shortie as you wear them with a cropped or shorter top they do make my legs look longer.

I’ve only found that to be an issue if I pair them with converse. And wide legs are no different if you’re worried about wet trousers.

Basically, skinnies were just tights you could wear without a skirt.