The 1990s

Arsenio Hall and Bill Clinton

"If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

"I want to believe."

Peak western civilization, before 9/11 started our slow decline

Tom Ford singlehandedly pulled us out of '80s fashion hell once and for all.

TLC

R5 thanks for that - I remember that’s when I finally started to enjoy fashion - and all the magazines.

Nothing was ever better than that collection .

Yohji Yamamoto's quirky, imaginative and dreamweaving shows.

Miramax takeover of Hollywood. Having Harvey behind you (pun intended) meant you were already on your way to the A-list. Awfully contrived Oscar campaigns and a legacy of abuse, both sexual and not, that's unrivalled in modern Hollywood.

Last decade in which I could move my face...and my albums.

That Gucci fall '95 runway show was just bonkers, an earthquake.

We don't really experience that anymore; fashion is much flatter in progression and more gradual.

But that year, after more than a decade of ugly shit and reams of fabric in oversized everything, for everyone to lose their shit over mod and disco and sexy, tailored clothes — that was a really cool moment.

As a cool (in my mind) skater dude in middle school, everything came from Gadzooks.

I may be dead. But I'm still pretty.

Obviously...

^Her cheeks were always so doughy! Ewww, Angelina for the win.

Kurt!

Wrong forum sweetheart, we don't have time for that junkie fame whore. Fugazzi was better anyway.

Whilst I love Clueless, the fashion of Cher and Dionne seemed rather odd and out of place. Ty's fashion was very much the 90s.

Best Product Placement by Converse...........

The 90ist thing that ever 90’d

Joan Osborne.............irony, nose rings, and frizzy hair.

i walked uphill in the snow to watch this in a friend’s dorm

Word!

I kind of feel like Kurt Cobain's style was so different to everything else of that era. I know thrift store styling was in, but his look, for a male, was really out there. A lot of the thrift store look was very nostalgia and retro driven, where Kurt took to creating something really playful and other. He's fashion style was very fashion forward. I feel like his 'look' has only really come into its own now.

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R19 The costume designer once said that Dionne's and Cher's clothes were meant to look different to what everyone else was wearing in the 90's, she looked for inspiration in european runway fashion which at the time was dressy but with a flamboyant edge. American teens at that time were very into the careless, thrift store look but she didn't like it nor felt it was correct for the characters,

Empire Records

Can you all believe it's 20 years since the 90s ended?? Scary!

I feel old, r32!

R30 Cool, that makes sense. Cheers.

Tamagotchi

can you believe that no-one gives a shit?

Before Destiny's Child...

Smells Like Teen Spirit: You couldn't get away from this song in late 1991.

The Delia's catalog.

Britney before it all went to hell:

I wanted one of these so badly (in blue):

You've Got Mail!

The Spice Girls in their giant, clunky platforms.

It was about NOTHING.

"Khakis Swing!" from 1998 by GAP!

90210's Luke Perry as GAP model in 1992!

Polka dots everywhere!

International Male!

In every mailbox in the US:

R53 I remember these omg. I was a young teen when my mom would get this in the mail. I still remember when she got 8.0 and up lol.

My mom actually still had AOL up until a few years ago.

Indie movies just starting out.

Speaking of Clueless... there was this version too

^^ LOL! @ R62

And Otherside at 90s' end.

Such fun.

"I'll teach you how to fuck"

a #1 song every year

Brief trend of women having a wrap of some kind with their gowns. Plus PASHMINA.

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White Ford Bronco chase

The beginning of a beautiful friendship...

Icons

I literally love every post on this thread. All the movies, the e pills, Tom Ford for Gucci's epic 95 collection. Is it really that getting older nostalgic or were things just way better in the 90's?

“He’s just a cool.”

[QUOTE]”He’s just a cook*.”

Everybody was terribly worried about Y2K.

The opposite of helicopter parenting..

Speaking of Diana.

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The Camelot sequel that crashed and burned.

Sad when one person feels the need to reply to her own thread like diarrhea.

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Splashy bus!

You can't think 90s and not have one of its biggest sex icons on the list...

New wave queer cinema

Some of the looks with clothes really have not changed much. As a matter of fact its only the surroundings and a bit of the hair thats changed. The clothes look almost the same, no major differences. Not like looking at stuff from the 70s vs 60s vs the 80s for example. What, nobody has new ideas. We need to go back to dressing like the 1920s.

Cut to look like movie stars.

No Julia Roberts?

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My heart will go on

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90's chick flicks

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Bel Ami arrives.

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Alanis

Vogue

Op needs a hobby.

Hypercolors

So does R113

I had this phone in high school

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Well done R14 - I completely forgot about those shirts. I wanted one but my mom wouldn't buy it - bitch!

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Pinnacle of 90s sarcasm and humor. Also the pinnacle of MTV post-music videos programming...

r116 Why did you have a phone in high school in the 90's?

omggg

Monica

Monica

Cinematic genius

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Spielberg

R121 why did I have a phone? Are you insane?

Oasis and other awesome British music

The 90ies - back when Kevin Spacey was into women.

r41 I got one of the "She's a Rainbow" iMacs (in turquoise). When I turned it on, it offgassed so fiercely, I would pass out with a migraine. Apparently it had no fan. Apple let me return it.

Mitsubishis! Doves! Shamrocks! CK! Apple! Playboys!

yes I know it's been posted but you really can't get any more 90s than this.

What are those, r132, fancy Necco wafers?

The birth of the tribal tramp stamp.

Yes the old iMacs etc. always had that strong gas smell.

Supergrass

yes, r133, maybe you remember granny giving you Werther's Original in the 90s.

The best television show of all time. Original opening. Jake Gyllenhaal's acting debut (or close to it):

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r136 Umm OP meant the American 90's

R140 Britpop influence WAS The American 90's in a major way.

Body Piercing becomes the thing to do.

JFK in rollerblades. Oh, the pain to look at photos of him then and to know his fate.

The drug rug.

R143 JFK [Jr.]

This was the hot summer ticket.

My home state was considered cool.

Blaine Edwards and Antoine Merriweather

Men on Books

These were EVERYWHERE...

Mens on Fitness

RENT

R159 that thing crashed and burned.

You can still buy one on Ebay

1995

R162 I don't remember that...

R160, yes I know, But it was very much a 90s thing.

R163, it's a mini disc player.

Fun Fact: The first album released on MiniDisc was Gescom's MiniDisc

These were all over my college town in the '90s.

Napster v2.0.

Couples...

Man, Johnny and Winona would have had great-looking kids. Batshit crazy with rampant substance abuse problems, but gorgeous.

Mrs. Puff debuts with SpongeBob.

Perot.

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classical

light

Ralph

magazine ads

NIN, Woodstock 94, mud pit

Weezer

It was so much easier to find a simple, classic women's wool blazer. I had this one.

ck One

Fruitopia was better than Snapple

R193 100% idk why they ended it

Brad and Juliette

United Colors of Benetton

The Secret History

Douglas Coupland

Janeane Garofalo

Orbitz soda ended in 1998

Fight Club

For reference:

Who had a cool pager?

OMG I used to love my pager

Movieline magazine

The Food Court at The Mall.

DreamWorks SKG.

My So-Called Life

I ate Sbarro on W. 34th in the early '70s.

I always hated Sbarro

The wonderful abundance of Shakespeare on film, 90's style.

I actually love Baz version of Romeo and Juliet and loved Clare Danes

This show

R215 So do I, it has a vibe that's entirely its own. It has its stylized quirks but that's the major part of R+J's appeal. I haven't watched it in a while but it's always an engrossing view. Would be a great backdrop to a Summer night. Rent a drive-in, throw a party. Visual, atmospheric candy.

Liquid Television on MTV

R217 Tres 90's :

The Blair Witch Project

WMAC Masters

XY Magazine. It must have driven the DL pedo troll brigade insane.

Reality Bites

Single White Female

Sharon

I used to be obsessed with Single White Female and watch my moms VHS of it all the time without her knowing so I can see the Steven Weber sex scenes and him naked after Jennifer Jason Leigh blows him lmaooo.

Hated that he died.

I was like 7 btw lmao

Who doesn’t love a beautiful pair of Shues?

Adventures in Babysitting is amazing

The show that launched a lot of ugly shirts at my school.

Speaking of ugly shirts, this god damn thing.

Pogs

The celestial motif, and cobalt glass.

Sweet Valley High

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JERRY JERRY JERRY!!!

Dualstar

No Doubt

I had an autograph book lol

Sheryl Crows video for A Change epitomizes 1997 for me.

Chili pepper Christmas lights. What was the appeal?

Inflatable furniture

r243 I first saw those chili lights at the Austin Grill on Wisconsin Avenue above Georgetown in 1988 or so. I thought they were pretty cool. If I liked red, I might have bought some. The food was so good there at first, as it was an Ann Cashion restaurant. Then she sold it, and it was never as good again. I liked the Austin-style music more than the food by the end.

R243, I remember Archie McPhee selling those in their early 90s mail order catalog. Ben & Jerry introduced their Wavy Gravy flavor at McPhee's Seattle store in '93.

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Slap bands

it just wasn't the nineties without jeff stryker

Swatch explosion...

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MTV House Of Style

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Singles!

Dell and other clone PCs overtook IBMs and began the slow motion fall of IBM, Whigham had revolutionized personal computing.

Whigham = which

What an amazing autocorrect choice — Whigham? Lol

R257:

Not the mama!

sitcom history

Towards the end of the decade, this kicked off the prime-time game show trend.

MTV ushers in reality TV in 1994.

Do you want to tell your significant other that you're sleeping with his father? Then you can be a guest!

Donavan Freberg, early 90's hotness meets Encyclopedia Britannica. He had hippie parents and a weird, Gen Xr upbringing, too:

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Parker Posey: Indie Queen

In 1996, people were buying up all the Tickle Me Elmo dolls and then selling them for hundreds of dollars on the Internet.

The biggest child star to come along in a while...

Three of them still work regularly.

This arrived in 1998.

Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game"

Sasha Mitchell ads

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Lilith Fair, featuring:

Sarah McLachlan (In one of their first encounters, Monica Lewinski struck up a conversation with Bill Clinton about the "Surfacing" album she saw in his office.

Jewel: She was inescapable with those two songs of hers, and her constant talking about how she used to live in her car.

Natalie Merchant: overexposed with 3 or 4 songs that all sounded the same. She'd spend the second half of the decade bearding for Michael Stipe

^^^^And don't forget about Paula Cole, Sheryl Crow, and Lisa Loeb. (Alanis and Joan Osborne were already mentioned above.)

Speaking of Paul Cole, she wrote the theme song for this show starring Tom Cruise's future wife.

This guy was the biggest movie star of the decade.

River and Martha.

R284 River and Martha were both born the same year, 1970. OMFG. He'd be old now.

This happened towards the end of the 90s.

This Vanity Fair cover blew my mind as a teenager in south London. It was an amazing summer

Beck — Loser

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OP, you'd love this site..................

Esquivel was repackaged for a new generation

R280 Stipe and Merchant broke up the late 80s. He came out in 94.

R294, you're off about 10 years on both accounts.

R295 I'm not. He came out in a 1994 edition of Rolling Stone. Merchant and he we're together till the end of the Green tour.

DL catchphrase

The beginning of so many things.

This group

Op has returned for another day of diarrhea posts.

Hootie

Salt N Pepa. Notice the kente cloth hats.

Op - diarrhea

This guy.

Baby, Baby, Baby

Boyz II Men

Singles!

Kente cloth

R302 was an 80s single.

R308 Kente cloth was a thing in the 90s???

This happened

When this was British twink rock.

Elastica was the coolest, wittiest band since Blondie.

Unfortunately they couldn't handle their heroin as well.

After that Elastica album came out in '95, I hunted high and low for a black button-up shirt.

It was impossible to find one. They simply weren't made. Didn't start popping up in stores 'til the following year.

Gaz Coombes was a sexy dude with terrible hair.

Shirley Manson was a sensation.

De-gorgeous.

Ewan McGregor revealed the biggest mainstream cinematic penis of the decade in The Pillow Book.

R313, I was living in the Notting Hill Gate area at the time and I bumped into Justine Frischman at my local charity shop buying tshirts. I asked for her autograph, she looked nonplussed and too ordinary.

I just wanted to put it out there. It was a brilliant time in my life.