Wednesday, 29 April 2009
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The Worst Trends of the 90s
80's fashion revival has monopolized the style world for a few years now. Things we vowed we'd never see again--Ray-Bans, neon, leggings--are suddenly de rigeur on the runways and on the streets. Need proof? Raise your hand if you're wearing a pair of skinny jeans right now.
Since fashion is cyclical and tends to repeat itself every 20 years, the next hot decade is destined to be those Nirvana-blasting, "Friends"-watching 1990's. But while some 90's styles are timelessly chic (Kurt Cobain immortalized flannel), here are some fashion fads that should stay locked in their rooms watching 90210 where they belong.
1. Crop tops
(pictured above)
This picture could be used to illustrate a multitude of things that were wrong with the 90's, but let's focus on the bared Spice midriffs. Britney's granite-hard abs and the popularity of belly button rings convinced us all that shirt lengths should be abbreviated and our navels accentuated. While bared midriffs looked cute on personal trainers and Christina Aguilera, this trend ended up being more than most people could stomach.
2. Pacifiers
In the early to mid-90's, it was inexplicably cool to wear pacifiers as accessories. Starting with the rave scene and then trickling into homeroom, the pacifier craze pervaded as women paired these toddler trademarks with babydoll dresses and called it a super-chic day. But looking back, there's only one thing to say about this trend: it sucked.
3. Skater style
Baggy pants, Vans sneakers, Stussy shirts. Cool 90's kids dressed like they were ready to board; actual skateboarding abilities not required. An outgrowth of grunge, skaterwear took sloppy to new lows as rocker kids sported hoodies and apparently Raged Against the Belt. Fashionable or not, no one wants to see your underwear. Ever.
4. Hair with a million things in it
If you went to prom in 1997 and your updo wasn't bedazzled with a thousand butterfly clips, you were probably the one skulking solo on the sidelines when "End of the Road" came on. Be it tiny braids, stick-on gems or cascades of crimping, hot 90's hair was all about embellishment and excess. Let's jettison the crazy-hair craze and toss out "The Rachel" with it.
5. Goth makeup
In 1997, Marilyn Manson terrified your mom and united sullen teenagers everywhere around Doc Martens, pasty white skin and self-indulgent rebellion against their suburban lifestyles. The Goth look took off, and suddenly everyone had rings in their eyebrows and people like Gwyneth Paltrow were turning up at award shows with vampy lips.
You can leave those chokers stashed in the back of the jewelry box, because hopefully Goth has gone the way of Manson's desperate-for-attention shock rock.
Is there anything I missed? Which of these trends is the worst? Which wouldn't you mind seeing revived?
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haha i remember these things! especially the stuff u put in hair!
hey noww i see some of this stuff all the time still. lol
VANS ARE HOT
Platform runners. THE ugliest thing ever created.
Hahaha good post.
What about grunge?
I remember when I dressed grunge
Remember the whole Nirvana time and everything.
Actually... I liked "the Rachel" style (not that I ever had it), and love goth makeup... I wouldn't mind seeing either of these come back. But the rest... can stay in the 1990s where they belong.
#3, that is still going on today. How many people wear Vans/Etnies/etc. and can't skate.
#5, it still exists but the emo kids are killing it. I went through a goth stage in 2005 and it was still pretty in then. I have classmates that come in decked out like the old Hot Topic. There's still a lot of shops that still things with that style and for concerts people dress up like that. The goth style has become really popular in Japan as the picture that you posted is of a J-Rock artist probably taken after the 90s.
HAHAHA i remember number 4
bedazzled hair lmao
I love the skater style, and still see it today!! Not big on the baggy pants part though. Put on a belt or buy a pair of pants that actually fit you! :X
And I like Goth make-up. :]
The rest...not so much, haha.
haha sooo true
A mixture of most of that is basically what I look like
i remember the hair with a million things in it.
i had tons of little clips in my hair when i was taking the school picture! lol
I hated the pacifier thing. >.<
mom jeans and jean shirts a la rosie 'donnel. those can be buried. oh, and big ass scrunchies as hair accessories or bracelets. EWWWWWW.
wow I still remembered those butterfly clips, annoying as they were!
you people are scaring me. I have 90s amnesia.
combat boots/Doc Marten's with everything. That would be my please don't come back look.
I dont mind the skater style
I like the skater style. I know/see alot of people who still dress that way. But the other four trends shouldn't come back. But who knows.
i dress in skater style now. (minus baggy pants)
I saw a mother holding her baby while sucking her baby's pacifier.
I still see 3 and 5
what may I ask is wrong with goth make up? and it is not a trend, it is a fasion statment. Also it has NOTHING to do with desprate for attension. the person in that pic looks REALLY pretty. it not like spray on tans and beach blond hair is a nice trend.
also I'm pretty sure the skater trend never whent away
I remember having lots of butterflies on my head! That was fun but yes, it certainly should be a thing in the past. I mean, I don't mind if my (imaginary) little girl is wearing some on her head just as long as it's not overdone. However, it should only apply to little girls.
I had no idea about the pacifier trend. I can't believe that was in back then!
I've never seen a single person wear a pacifier.
hahhahahahhaahahah!!
so true!!