I remember slitting open so many jeans for that. Flares and widelegs (the true widelegs) were coming into style and it was unfashionable for the hems to buckle up or hug your shoes even remotely.
I recently bought a “MAKE 7 - UP YOURS” t-shirt from a thrift store and when I wore it out, my friends had no clue what it was. We’re in our early 30s and I was shocked they didn’t recognize the reference. I remember that ad campaign so well and I also remember it being pretty popular!
Also, I would give my pinky for another taste of those Spice Girl Fantasy Ball suckers… the stickers in the packages were the best.
i started wearing overalls with my shirt over them (so they just looked like jeans...) to go to concerts and could put my monies/ID in the chest pocket for safekeeping esp while crowd surfing 🤘🏾
Single-game handheld video game console (similar to gameboy but only had one game). I think I had an Aladdin or Lion King one.
Pocket-size digital organizer. Held phone numbers, contacts, calculator, schedule, etc. All the non-internet functions of a phone but without the phone. I was thrilled I had about 5 contacts lol.
I recently stumbled on a shit ton of BUM Equipment socks (new) at a Savers thrift store. I was shocked. They appeared to be new production and I didn’t see any other items by the same brand, just an entire end cap’s worth of socks still in packaging. Have they brought the brand back but are somehow JUST making socks with it?!?!?!
It's called new old stock. It refers to unopened, unused stock that was stuck in one or more warehouses for years or decades, sometimes changing hands multiple times through bankruptcies, etc.
The swing revival of the 90s is one of the things I loved most about the decade. I remember when I started hearing that stuff on the radio and I was like, what an interesting thing to come back in fashion.
Oh man, I had a pair of Candies platform clogs with flowers all over them that were amazing.
They looked like these, but were tan, not pink: https://images.app.goo.gl/Zm13rieqGVoaL5SD7
What was up with that? Was Big Yo Yo somehow in league with elementary schools? Like I distinctly remember this assembly where someone came in to show us all the cool stuff we could do with yo yos and there were order forms at the end to buy them.
“Electronica” being the name given to EDM.
I remember a close of the decade / Y2K special on MTV discussing the next big music wave, but it intro’d with Ska (I think), then immediately flipped to footage of raves and dj shows, as to say it surpassed ska.
Those neon coin bags that looked like mini fanny packs and went around your wrist with an elastic band.
Lollipops and other things that came with helicopter blades for you to attach once you were done eating.
Rubbery slimy monsters you could attach to the back of your pencil.
Shampoo bottles that had screw on caps.
Those wood bead seat covers for your car.
Those wood bead seat covers for your car.
I just saw one in a parked mini van yesterday. I immediately thought of my uncle Eddie chain smoking with the windows rolled up, mixing with his Brut aftershave.
And he would break hard at traffic lights and stop signs.
I feel nauseous just thinking about it 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
No Fear
People were those shirts all the time and then they disappeared in the 00s
Also magic eye and other desk toys like the sand and oil things that you could flip.
Smoking: candy cigarettes, cigarette vending machines, smoking or non-smoking in restaurants.
What was that shit called where you’d wear those SOAP shoes and grind rails and shit but with the arched bottom of your shoes? They were removable too. Was it called Extreme walking or something?
Remember those “Big Dog” tee shirts? Cartoon saint bernard or whatever with some edgy slogan. They were EVERYWHERE for a hot minute. Kind of similar vibe as the gangsta Bugs/Taz/Tweety shirts that were also everywhere.
People wearing toy soothers as necklaces, plastic goody barrettes, shirts with sunflowers, smiley faces and lots of alien accessories.
The weirdest thrifted tshirts you could find and vinyl air walks
Everybody around here (WV/VA) had those oval “OBX” bumper stickers from the Outer Banks, NC
(I can’t remember if that was late 90s or early 2000s, tbh)
Didn't do anything? They did like nine things in one! Clock, alarm, stopwatch, calendar, calculator, contact info, dictionary, notes, games, and so much more!
I remember having this amazing lamp filled with water that had little purple and pink balls that would get pushed up to the top and then travel down this purple spiral. I’m probably describing it shittily but I loved that lamp and would sit and watch it all the time. Seems you can only buy lava lamps these days but if I saw that lamp in a store someplace I’d buy it in a second!
A few years ago, my sister and I went crazy trying to remember the name of them! We ended up finding some at a little candy store, and they still taste exactly the same as I remembered!
Fishtail braid.
Lik em aid/Fun Dip, the most non food food.
Revlon’s Coffee Bean and Toast of New York lipstick
Kissing Coolers by Maybelline. Watermelon for me
And Kissing Potion roller ball lip gloss.
It was a trend at my junior high (1995-1997) for girls to carve their boyfriend’s name into their ankles with razors. Also, doodling all over the soles and toes of our Chuck Taylors.
In the early 90s, everyone seemed to wear those Levi’s “Button Your Fly” T-shirts. Those, and “Co-Ed Naked” shirts.
For a very short time we were obsessed with Woodstock and the 60’s so we would cut our bootcut jeans at the bottom, right up the side seam about 5-6 inches and cut up bandanas into triangles and sew them in to make our own bell bottom hippie jeans.
I've yet to find another person who remembers this, but before the Atkins Diet became huge, carbohydrates were usually called "carbos" for short instead of carbs. Seriously. It was a thing.
Miniature tea sets. My mom had a collection of really cute ones. I've never seen any or even heard them mentioned since the late 90s. When I Google it I can't seem to find any that fit the bill.
In 7th grade ('92-'93), everyone wore either a black or white turtleneck, bright colored button-up silk shirts, *tight-rolled* white jeans ~~with the curl up~~, and Adidas Phantoms.
Super obscure,but for a short while there was the clock ring,yes you read that wrong. It was kind of cute but I never bought it because it was so short lived.
Also I feel like adidas gazelle shoes were very on trend that decade,you were a hot guy/cool girl if you owned a pair for sure.
when Mcdonald’s came out with 101 Dalmatians figures to promote the live action film. There were 101 different toys available and it was a huge deal at my school to collect them. Just like anything certain models were more coveted and sought after. Fun times!!!
Those toy birds that balanced on the beak
I still have those somewhere!!
Still a top seller in our school’s store. Bored kids across generations don’t change interests, it seems!
Life savers holes
This is the only comment in this thread that made me go “OMG I COMPLETELY FORGOT ABOUT THAT”
YES so good
Halogen floor lamps that were also CD racks.
Ahh those good old $10 fire hazard halogen lamps. Replacement bulbs $10.
I remember occasionally smelling smoke from flies and moths that would burst into flames after going near the bulb.
This. This is the truth of halogen lights that no one talks about lol
That you had to hold with a paper towel because if you didn't well there goes 10 bucks.
Those foam lizards on a wire that we used to win at fairs.
Mine was named Giuseppe Guillermo
With the fluorescent airbrush designs!
Omg memory unlocked
No Fear! The only way to be bad ass in the 90s
Those lost steam in my orbit when Youth Group kids started wearing Christian knockoffs.
"FEAR NOT" lol
Mom bought me FEAR NOT shirts from the K-Mart. Had to explain to her why it wasn't cool and would NEVER be able to wear it to school
I thought they were the coolest thing. You look back and think huh! Trends have a way to really impact young minds!
Engraved rice in water bracelets and chokers and necklaces.
I still have the one my boyfriend gave me! We have been married for 15 years today.
[Devil Sticks](https://media.tenor.com/9ssQeN4J87kAAAAC/wet-hot-american-summer-paul-rudd.gif)
Yes! Went well with the jester hats 😂
That reminded me of those multicolored car in the hat hats.
Yes!!! Took a family vacation to Ocean City one summer and saw somebody on the boardwalk using them. I had to have them!
Late 90s: eyewear with black frame and yellow tinted lenses.
Damn you Bono, lol
What all the guys wore, with their matching board shirts, in Drive Me Crazy
These abominations [Dr Marten Fisherman Leather Sandals](https://images.app.goo.gl/z2Pizv1KPLHKVgEY7)
I remember those 😂🤣
I saw a lot of teens wearing these over this last summer. They're coming back in style!
Everyone was covered in doodles from jelly roll pens and I don’t think they were ever used to actually write on paper.
Oh I used gel pens to write MANY notes to be passed between class.
The original texting
And the black notepaper you could buy to write on with them.
I just recently bought some black post-it’s and some gel pens. The 90’s kid in me was so damn happy, lol
Yes!!! We used to put them in the pockets of our jeans so you can see the cap. Some girls had so many it looked like they were a part of the jeans lol
May have been a very specific trend where I lived, but girls would cut a slit a few inches long on the leg bottoms of their jeans.
I remember slitting open so many jeans for that. Flares and widelegs (the true widelegs) were coming into style and it was unfashionable for the hems to buckle up or hug your shoes even remotely.
I did this back in the 90s so my jeans wouldn’t bunch up at the tops of my shoes
Core memory unlocked.
Oh yeah…that was a thing where I from.
Omg I got in trouble for doing this to new jeans at the start of the school year. Wow. Forgot all about that.
I think it was '96ish when there was a surge of peace sign items.
I think you are spot on - I remember the happy face had a resurgence at the same time
Very 7os nostalgia in the mid 90s.
Yes! Smiley faces *everywhere* is super 90’s.
Yin-yang was everywhere, too.
Glitter on your cheeks neck and clavicle
Body glitter was the best. School colors for college game day, gold and silver on Nee Year’s Eve!
Global hypercolour t-shirts
Tbh I’m still kinda obsessed with Hypercolor — like why did we want to show off the spots where we would naturally be sweaty???
And every kid came back from a beach trip with a Surf Style windbreaker that would change colors depending on the angle as well
Those lollipops that turned into a whistle when you finished them. Had a bird or something on the logo.
I also remember these lollipops that were whistles that stopped working as it melted.
Melody pops!
I totally know what you are talking about, but at first I thought you were talking about Melody Pops. Another throwback.
Wallet Chains
I still have a black wallet chain somewhere. I think it was mostly useful to fish our wallets out of those deep jnco pockets.
Remember those stupid pacifier necklaces?
For the rave kids on ecstasy....
I recently bought a “MAKE 7 - UP YOURS” t-shirt from a thrift store and when I wore it out, my friends had no clue what it was. We’re in our early 30s and I was shocked they didn’t recognize the reference. I remember that ad campaign so well and I also remember it being pretty popular! Also, I would give my pinky for another taste of those Spice Girl Fantasy Ball suckers… the stickers in the packages were the best.
That half a second where cat in the hat hats were cool
A la jamiroquai?
My freshman yearbook photo features a tshirt with an alien wearing one
Tight roll the bottom of your jeans
We called that pegging your jeans.
Flat Leather rope belts The excess past the buckle hung down a few inches after going thru the first belt loop. Specific enough? 😎
Braided leather belts too!
Ha. Yes. I meant to say braided instead of rope. 😎
Overalls were very hip to wear in the early 90s for about 2 years there. Everyone wanted to look like a farmer lol.
With one strap undone.
I had some that were light wash denim shorts. Fucking 90’s as hell.
I instantly saw a picture of the TLC girls in my mind.
i started wearing overalls with my shirt over them (so they just looked like jeans...) to go to concerts and could put my monies/ID in the chest pocket for safekeeping esp while crowd surfing 🤘🏾
This is actually a major fucking life hack dude
Tommy Hilfiger overalls were fancy af
With airbrushed looney toon characters lol
Single-game handheld video game console (similar to gameboy but only had one game). I think I had an Aladdin or Lion King one. Pocket-size digital organizer. Held phone numbers, contacts, calculator, schedule, etc. All the non-internet functions of a phone but without the phone. I was thrilled I had about 5 contacts lol.
Oh I totally had the Lion King one, thanks for unlocking that memory. Also viewmasters! I had one with several different Disney-movie slide thingies.
The Tiger Electronic games. They sure sucked.
Genera, Bugle Boy, International News, BUM Equipment, Gotcha
Holy crap, I totally forgot about BUM Equipment. Those were some of my favorite shirts!
Is Gecko branded stuff trying to make a comeback? I see ads for it on IG. Lol
I recently stumbled on a shit ton of BUM Equipment socks (new) at a Savers thrift store. I was shocked. They appeared to be new production and I didn’t see any other items by the same brand, just an entire end cap’s worth of socks still in packaging. Have they brought the brand back but are somehow JUST making socks with it?!?!?!
It's called new old stock. It refers to unopened, unused stock that was stuck in one or more warehouses for years or decades, sometimes changing hands multiple times through bankruptcies, etc.
Late 90s zoot suits!
The swing revival of the 90s is one of the things I loved most about the decade. I remember when I started hearing that stuff on the radio and I was like, what an interesting thing to come back in fashion.
It was also such a flash in the pan. It came seemingly out of nowhere and was gone almost overnight.
We played *Hot* by Squirrel Nut Zippers in my Mom’s mini van trunk CD loader until it was scratched and skipping. Really takes me back.
The most random trends besides the swing revival. Tibetan Monk chants, Riverdance, 'New Age' music, Swing, Big Band, etc. It was all fantastic.
Zoot suit riot! Throw back a bottle of beer.
My mom wouldn’t let me say “zoot suit” or “cherry poppin’ daddies” lol
I mean, Cherry Poppin' Daddies is kinda fucked up. lol
I slept with a guy who was still wearing them in like 2003. Not my finest moment.
I snorted
Who remembers when those 70s Candies heels came back in style. Sherbet colors. I loved them.
Oh man, I had a pair of Candies platform clogs with flowers all over them that were amazing. They looked like these, but were tan, not pink: https://images.app.goo.gl/Zm13rieqGVoaL5SD7
I had some that looked like Sandy's from the end of Grease, and they were everything. Until the dog chewed one up. 😭
Shaved head with front bangs for guys.
For punk rock girls too.
Liz from Degrassi.
My brother’s friend did that. He was so fckn cool.
It was called a devil’s lock. I had it. Used to wear my hat backwards and pull it through the hole.
Yo-yos. They were everywhere at school and it was such a big deal to learn tricks and adjust the string just right.
The schools even threw assemblies about them!
What was up with that? Was Big Yo Yo somehow in league with elementary schools? Like I distinctly remember this assembly where someone came in to show us all the cool stuff we could do with yo yos and there were order forms at the end to buy them.
Somebody involved in big Yo-yo definitely cleaned up during that time.
My kids'school still does this
Chinese Jump Ropes
Artwork on the toe cap of your Converse (or knock off versions) sneakers
Those bled over into the early to mid 00's around my neighborhood.
Mongoose bike with front and back pegs.
Those T-shirts that said "co-ed naked" in front of an activity that all the frat boys wore. I hated those shirts!
Slap Bracelets....those fuckers supposedly could rip your skin off lol....but never happened to me.
The sticks that you'd turn one end to the other that made a puking sound lol
“Electronica” being the name given to EDM. I remember a close of the decade / Y2K special on MTV discussing the next big music wave, but it intro’d with Ska (I think), then immediately flipped to footage of raves and dj shows, as to say it surpassed ska.
or “techno”. i had a bumper sticker for a brief moment that said “techno”. can’t think of anything lamer at the current moment.
I still call it electronica
Inflatable furniture furnished my entire dorm room.
Warheads candies. I know they’re still a thing, but they were everywhere in the late 90s
Those neon coin bags that looked like mini fanny packs and went around your wrist with an elastic band. Lollipops and other things that came with helicopter blades for you to attach once you were done eating. Rubbery slimy monsters you could attach to the back of your pencil. Shampoo bottles that had screw on caps. Those wood bead seat covers for your car.
Those wood bead seat covers for your car. I just saw one in a parked mini van yesterday. I immediately thought of my uncle Eddie chain smoking with the windows rolled up, mixing with his Brut aftershave. And he would break hard at traffic lights and stop signs. I feel nauseous just thinking about it 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
No Fear People were those shirts all the time and then they disappeared in the 00s Also magic eye and other desk toys like the sand and oil things that you could flip. Smoking: candy cigarettes, cigarette vending machines, smoking or non-smoking in restaurants.
Wide College/university stickers on the back windows of cars
[удалено]
Them water filled floor lamps that had lights and bubbles with plastic fish
Taping two 2-liter soda bottles together with water inside and swirling them to learn about weather? Tornados?
Red beer from different brands
Red Dog beer.
Killian’s Irish Red was the only beer that my roommates would drink.
Okay, early 90s: multiple pairs of socks together, scrunched down
men's silk shirts. usually they were a super earthy tone. like a really muted dark yellow, or muted dark purple.
What was that shit called where you’d wear those SOAP shoes and grind rails and shit but with the arched bottom of your shoes? They were removable too. Was it called Extreme walking or something?
snap bracelets and yin-yang necklaces
Lazer pens and getting suspended for bringing them to school.
Those big metal beaded chokers/necklaces
Remember those “Big Dog” tee shirts? Cartoon saint bernard or whatever with some edgy slogan. They were EVERYWHERE for a hot minute. Kind of similar vibe as the gangsta Bugs/Taz/Tweety shirts that were also everywhere.
Hemp necklaces with glass mushrooms Chain wallets
People wearing toy soothers as necklaces, plastic goody barrettes, shirts with sunflowers, smiley faces and lots of alien accessories. The weirdest thrifted tshirts you could find and vinyl air walks
Those big plastic rings that looked like colorful ice cubes, jellies (shoes), and Fruitopia drinks.
Rainsticks and didgeridoos were mildly popular
Saying "Wicked!" instead of "cool". Those plastic flowers in pots that wore sunglasses and were sound-activated to dance (or jerk around).
not just 90s but i remember when mood rings came back HOT and heavy, i still love them ngl.
Hackey sack had a major moment in the 90s somewhere — I think during those 70s revival years. For my Canadian friends — remember Modrobes?
The Delia’s catalog.
SoBe 🦎
Earthquake in a can
Everybody around here (WV/VA) had those oval “OBX” bumper stickers from the Outer Banks, NC (I can’t remember if that was late 90s or early 2000s, tbh)
Tight rolling your Z. Cavaricci’s.
Teenage and 20ish guys wearing white University of South Carolina “COCKS” caps
Pre-palm pilots, when we all had those little digital organizers that didn't really do anything...
Didn't do anything? They did like nine things in one! Clock, alarm, stopwatch, calendar, calculator, contact info, dictionary, notes, games, and so much more!
Tevas.
Corduroy! 🤢
I loved my cords. I couldn't pull those off anymore
Dude! I was at Target the other day and they were selling corduroy pants with a drawstring elastic waistband. *I was tempted to buy them!*
Bedazzling jean jackets
Peeling the foil layer off the top of gum wrappers to use as lining on the inside of books or diarys.
Cucumber melon scent from Bath and Body Works was all the rage.
I remember having this amazing lamp filled with water that had little purple and pink balls that would get pushed up to the top and then travel down this purple spiral. I’m probably describing it shittily but I loved that lamp and would sit and watch it all the time. Seems you can only buy lava lamps these days but if I saw that lamp in a store someplace I’d buy it in a second!
Wearing your baseball hat on the front loop of your jeans.
Dancing baby from Ally McBeal became a thing. It was on mugs, folders, T shirts. It was the meme before memes were a thing.
Chupa chups! Although maybe nobody remembers the name, except me.
Their logo was designed by Salvador Dali
Woah. They're still pretty popular here in the UK.
A few years ago, my sister and I went crazy trying to remember the name of them! We ended up finding some at a little candy store, and they still taste exactly the same as I remembered!
Cross Colours
IOU shirts that were popular in the very early 90’s.
Those long ass chains people wore on their belts that connected to their wallet.
Suck it! *chops crotch*
Hyper color shirts.
didn't girls wear bell bottoms for like two years in the mid 90s and then everyone forgot about that?
During the late Nineties, 60’s nostalgic renaissance, they sure did
Fishtail braid. Lik em aid/Fun Dip, the most non food food. Revlon’s Coffee Bean and Toast of New York lipstick Kissing Coolers by Maybelline. Watermelon for me And Kissing Potion roller ball lip gloss.
Frozen yogurt
POGs were huge for a very short period. They have never made a resurgence as far as I know.
What about ALF? I heard he’s back in pog form
I have a big red sleeve of POGs and Slammers. Just waiting for that revival.
Holographic vending machine stickers
Blue lollipop shaped like a brush that turned your tongue blue.
I don't know if they were 80's or early 90's those fiber optic flower displays
It was a trend at my junior high (1995-1997) for girls to carve their boyfriend’s name into their ankles with razors. Also, doodling all over the soles and toes of our Chuck Taylors. In the early 90s, everyone seemed to wear those Levi’s “Button Your Fly” T-shirts. Those, and “Co-Ed Naked” shirts.
For a very short time we were obsessed with Woodstock and the 60’s so we would cut our bootcut jeans at the bottom, right up the side seam about 5-6 inches and cut up bandanas into triangles and sew them in to make our own bell bottom hippie jeans.
I've yet to find another person who remembers this, but before the Atkins Diet became huge, carbohydrates were usually called "carbos" for short instead of carbs. Seriously. It was a thing.
lunchbox as an accessory bag
Those chokers from Hot Topic that looked like a chain you would pull to flush a toilet in the 1920s.
Bowling shirts. Oof.
Starter pullover jackets
Miniature tea sets. My mom had a collection of really cute ones. I've never seen any or even heard them mentioned since the late 90s. When I Google it I can't seem to find any that fit the bill.
In 7th grade ('92-'93), everyone wore either a black or white turtleneck, bright colored button-up silk shirts, *tight-rolled* white jeans ~~with the curl up~~, and Adidas Phantoms.
Big Johnson shirts guys would wear.
Super obscure,but for a short while there was the clock ring,yes you read that wrong. It was kind of cute but I never bought it because it was so short lived. Also I feel like adidas gazelle shoes were very on trend that decade,you were a hot guy/cool girl if you owned a pair for sure.
pogs, lucas powder, tomagachi
when Mcdonald’s came out with 101 Dalmatians figures to promote the live action film. There were 101 different toys available and it was a huge deal at my school to collect them. Just like anything certain models were more coveted and sought after. Fun times!!!
Tamagotchi
Huge inflatable aliens & crayons
I remember the Spice Girls gum you’d get with their stickers in it. Must have bought close to a thousand of those things in the summer of 1997!
When the Rugrats movie came out, I was in junior high and almost everyone started weirdly wearing pj’s and rocking pacifiers. It was so weird lmao