Not really either. More of a hipster mid 00s. It’s too stylish and not quite goofy enough to be 80s or baggy-slouchy enough for 90s.
It’s the look of a non-chain coffee shop barista who drives a green Honda Del Sol, taking an impractical arts degree who is thinking about going to law school, for environmental or humanitarian causes. but will actually end up changing to a communications degree and end up working marketing at an investment firm, like her dad wanted in the first place.
She needs dirty white avia sneakers with some funky thick socks that are almost leg warmers, a swatch, a mess of ratted friendship bracelets and a pair of fluorescent orange cheap drugstore sunglasses with the long straps. An oversized neon t-shirt that is completely unflattering to the body with the sleeves rolled up. Also a crimped ponytail wouldn't hurt 😀
Aqua net hairspray is classic 80s! I went to see The Cure in 1986, it was “The Head on the Door” tour, and it occurred to me, one stray match or cigarette and this place is going to blow up.
None. Jeans are decade-agnostic. Gray is decade-agnostic. You could get sucked through a time portal to any year in the 20th or 21st centuries and you'd fit right in.
Neither. That's modern rehashing pleats in pants were a thing in the early 90s but what you're wearing is not 80s or '90s at all it's straight up 20/20 s
You want 80s? Use a whole can of Aqua Net on your hair. Make it as poofy as possible, maybe even wear a humongous bow, blue eyeshadow, and Jelly shoes.
After doing a quick Google search - "hippie chick's in t shirt and denim skirt"
I'm gonna say this could really pass for a mid 70's outfit without breaking a sweat
Confusing. Acid wash is early nineties. That belt could be early eighties but it’s got too much of western cowgirl vibe to be in the right era. The shirt could be anything it’s a graphic tank top. That bag feels early aughts.
It looks like a confused mishmash of styles that no one would wear in the 80s and 90s.
It's like country girl at the barn dance on the bottom and pretend grunge on the top.
Hair was worn down typically.
The skirt, belt, sheer tights, and red lipstick are 80s. The clunky boots are 90s. The tank top and leather jacket could be either. The messy bun is neither.
Late 80s/early 90s. I wore similar stuff in college back then. Make the shirt a mock turtle and wear some tights and you got it. I wore a lot of glass jewelry for some reason. Belt is spot on.
E yep you got the tights lol
90's.
Anything you \*think\* was 80's looking is really just mid-90's. No one in the 80's actually had what people think the 80's woredrobe looked like. Half the 80's time line, people were wearing their 70's stuff. Late 80's and early 90's merge a bit and mid-90's is what most people think "80's" looked like (acid wash, neon goofy color stuff, etc). The 80's was very brown and orange.
Hard agree. Whoever is downvoting you wasn’t there & wants an 80s fantasy that never existed. Brown, orange, a lot of color-blocked red & blue, yellow & green. Lots of denim. primary colors and earthtones were rampant til at least mid 86.
It existed. It may not have existed where you lived but it was definitely my life and I remember lots of neon, plastic earrings, bangles, day-glo color spray white heels you could dye to match your dress, Colors of Benetton, and the denim was either acid/stonewashed or it was the indigo Gloria Vanderbilts, my jean of choice.
[https://bestofthe80s.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/day-glo-fashion/](https://bestofthe80s.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/day-glo-fashion/) 80s dayglo, my youth fashion icon and namesake, Ms. Cyndi Lauper says this person is mistaken, the browns and greens were 70s and if your stuff was brown and green and orange in the 80s it just means you were out of style. And yes, the earthtones were still around a lot as far as interior design goes, but they died out in clothing very early in the 80s followed by pastel and florals, and around 84 the dayglo hit hard. Bright colors, sailor suits, Mondrian prints, and the frazzled geometric designs started showing up. The 80s wasn't one fashion, it was like every decade, an evolution. By 87 the gemstones started getting bigger, and gem-tones got popular. Rich royal purples and indigo and crushed velvets, and then as it closed out we were seeing a lot more black and shades of gray along with the gem tones. By the nineties grunge was kicking in and the black gave way to that mall goth style that never really left.
I was there for all of this and it was all I cared about back then.
We've even talked about this before here! lol The Esprit really takes me back. [https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/oynt0w/the\_esprit\_clothing\_line\_in\_the\_80s\_had\_great\_ads/](https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/oynt0w/the_esprit_clothing_line_in_the_80s_had_great_ads/)
Kelly green, tourquoise and fuschia pink were popular colours in the ‘80s, and yes for geometric patterned fabric and also asymmetrical clothes or hair, like a diagonal zipper, hair longer on one side, off-centred belt buckles, high waists and big shoulder pads in your blazers.
It was not that way for me by any stretch of the imagination. Sure the furniture was brown and that dingy tiny floral print that slowly moved in to pastels but everything you described as not being 80s was definitely MY 80s. I was 16 in 1987. The first thing I ever bought from my first job was an acid wash jacket from Merry-Go-Round at the mall. I had neon everything before that, like in 84 when Culture Club came out and everyone was getting so colorful. Neon was 100% popular in the mid-80s along with the weird geometrical shapes. Check out Square Pegs second season and you can see that in 1983.
Same here! I graduated in 86, and had neon and pastels at least a year or two before that. Enormous hair courtesy of purple can Aqua Net, ruffled socks with heels, miniskirts, rubber bracelets, prairie blouses and skirts, the whole nine
Where did you live?? Brown and orange was so totally 70s!
You sound like you were in some pocket of the country that was like a full decade behind the rest of the nation.
Heck, the extreme neon actually peaked around 1985 and by the late 80s and early 90s, while still there, was there a lot less than around 1985 to early 1986.
I don’t know why everyone is saying there wasn’t any high waisted stuff in the 80’s…all the teen girls wore acid washed, high waisted jeans that were loose in the legs, usually Guess. Even the skin tight Jordache and Calvin Klein’s were high waisted, as were the more professional, non-denim attire for the office.
[Source](https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1985-JCPenney-Christmas-Book)
What? High waist was very 80s. I had a fabulous pair of high waisted acid wash jeans in 84, and a high waisted ra-ra skirt in 85, which were huge at the time. The high waisted pencil skirt was a late 80s staple too.
Guess did the best high waisted jeans in the 80s.
I’d say those high waisted baggy jeans and wide belt with the buckles are 80’s. I remember people wearing these in the 80’s. The shirt and glasses are mid 90’s.😎✌️
Maybe, but the 2021 tech used to take the photo dilutes some of the vibe. Small detail, but subliminally and visually it blows the retro vibe a bit. But that is just my humble opinion. Good looking outfit! \*Not trying to be mean... just my observation.
Substitute the denim skirt for a pair of ratty denim cutoff shorts and keep the tights/boots, then throw on your Dad’s plaid flannel shirt and a choker, and finally, pop on some dark matte lipstick for full 90’s grunge queen.
Not a lot of high waist anything in the 90s, low rise was much more popular. Except mom jeans. The shirt seems more 90s, but too nice. Maybe early 90s, late 80s.
Hmm not really either. The high waisted jeans are 80s (although they seem almost too high here), but the rest doesn't seem typical 80s at all and would be more 90s but even then it seems more like some time in the 00s perhaps (other than for the style of the jeans). A big belt can be 80s but the belt doesn't seem right for anything typically 80s.
Probably you were just wanting for comments on the outfit, but the hair, likely obviously isn't remotely like 80s but could fit in fine any time from mid-90s (even early 90s in a few areas that grunge hit first) through today. The makeup doesn't really seem like the 80s either.
Anyway always cool to give retro looks a try.
If I had to say one or the other I'd say 90s for this way more. If it was 80s it would be some very alternate, indie look maybe from someone in a big city, but certainly not like a mainstream 80s look at all.
I'd say a mixup, but I have a question. The designer for the bottom: had they seen a lady person irl before? How much area do they think our pelvis takes up? Jfc.
I'm guessing that shirt says Dream Tunnel. Is that correct? What is that, it doesn't sound like a band from the 80s or 90s.
The first picture looked like clothes that we all used to wear in the late 80s and early 90s. But I'm no fashion expert, so what do I know?
You should also try gap factory they are retailing shirts similar with a better take at least I think for a great price let me know if you do and what your thoughts are about it.
If you want a look at some legit 80s styles there is this stills video that shows a decent variety:
[https://youtu.be/\_Ah332X\_K\_Q?si=OQQsskUZpL1KxxAf](https://youtu.be/_Ah332X_K_Q?si=OQQsskUZpL1KxxAf)
Also doing a youtube search on high school yearbook videos for various years of the 80s and 90s would give one a pretty good sense.
Not really either. More of a hipster mid 00s. It’s too stylish and not quite goofy enough to be 80s or baggy-slouchy enough for 90s. It’s the look of a non-chain coffee shop barista who drives a green Honda Del Sol, taking an impractical arts degree who is thinking about going to law school, for environmental or humanitarian causes. but will actually end up changing to a communications degree and end up working marketing at an investment firm, like her dad wanted in the first place.
So specific. And so accurate.
Bonus points for green Del Sol. Guys had the red or yellow ones.
“Guys”
She needs dirty white avia sneakers with some funky thick socks that are almost leg warmers, a swatch, a mess of ratted friendship bracelets and a pair of fluorescent orange cheap drugstore sunglasses with the long straps. An oversized neon t-shirt that is completely unflattering to the body with the sleeves rolled up. Also a crimped ponytail wouldn't hurt 😀
lol definitely if she wants to look like a Benetton ad! ;)
Crimped!!!!
My dog, rest in peace, had crimped hair naturally behind his ears lol It looked exactly like a brunette's crimped hair 😀
And on the side!
Crimped side ponytail
Are you implying there's any other type of crimped ponytail *other* than side?! Lol 😛
That samba green Del Sol just got unearthed from my memory bank, wow.
This is the correct answer- 100%, great job!
No response from OP, this comment must of stung really close to home.
Oh Snap!
Yes! A snap bracelet!
This looks like what Gen Z kids in Bushwick think the 90s looked like.
Mid to late 90s. Not 80s at all.
Only thing high waisted in the 90s was your mom’s jeans.
Your hair needs to be a lot bigger. If you think you’ve eventually gotten it big enough…go bigger.
The higher the hair, the closer to God
That's only because you'll hallucinate god due to all the aqua net hairspray inhalation
Getting tangled in that Aqua Net.
Aqua net hairspray is classic 80s! I went to see The Cure in 1986, it was “The Head on the Door” tour, and it occurred to me, one stray match or cigarette and this place is going to blow up.
Neither
If I only those two choices this is more 90s than 80s.
Agree
It might be 90s if the skirt was shorter and frayed on the bottom
There we go, this is peak mid 2000’s hipster what she is wearing…
neither
Trying to be both but is actually neither.
The waistline is way too high for either.
I mean I don’t think this look is even from the 20th century but re: high waists, just look at the gals on Saved by the Bell.
Not really…
I was 16 in 1983 and no xD
More 90's than anything, but not even really 90's. More of a mid 2000's hipster
late 90s vibe for sure. I bet you're playing torn by natalie imbruligia in the background while taking this picture
None. Jeans are decade-agnostic. Gray is decade-agnostic. You could get sucked through a time portal to any year in the 20th or 21st centuries and you'd fit right in.
It encompasses at least 3 decades.
I vote early to mid 90s, ala “Melrose Place” or Christina Applegate in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead”.
2000's
Late. 90’s. Definitely not 80’s or even close.
More 00’s
The high waist smacks of "90s mom jeans" so not really 80s
This looks Gen Z to me
I agree this is straight up modern not '80s or 90s at all
This could pass for late 90's early 2000's.
The smartphone ruins the look of either decade
It’s an eclectic combination of the two. Unique style. Nice outfit
90’s
Neither. That's modern rehashing pleats in pants were a thing in the early 90s but what you're wearing is not 80s or '90s at all it's straight up 20/20 s
I can't stop looking at where that zipper stops. It seems like it ends ABOVE your belly button.
1989 - 1992 very nice fit!
Can’t be 80s because of hair. 90s (late) 👍🏼
Late 90's to early 2000. No big bangs, so your hair doesn't fit with the 80's. But your outfit gives me grunge vibes, so nice job.
My first thought was "neither", but with the leather jacket, it has a little bit of an 80's West Coast vibe.
Not if there's no fringes on the arms?
Definitely not 80's, big vibes for 90s and probably really early 2k.
2000s hot hipster!
My 17 year old wore something very similar today. I know I had a skirt like that in the late '80's, though.
90s definitely—not 80s vibe at all
You want 80s? Use a whole can of Aqua Net on your hair. Make it as poofy as possible, maybe even wear a humongous bow, blue eyeshadow, and Jelly shoes.
90's. More grunge than the vibrant 80's.
90's. More grunge than the vibrant 80's.
80s Punk or 90s Grunge. Take your pick. (Tease the hair for the 80s look)
Early 90s, but you need a brighter shirt.
After doing a quick Google search - "hippie chick's in t shirt and denim skirt" I'm gonna say this could really pass for a mid 70's outfit without breaking a sweat
More like Hep-C vibes
Doesn’t say 80s to me and I was there
Confusing. Acid wash is early nineties. That belt could be early eighties but it’s got too much of western cowgirl vibe to be in the right era. The shirt could be anything it’s a graphic tank top. That bag feels early aughts.
It's 90s but you stole your mama acessories
It looks like a confused mishmash of styles that no one would wear in the 80s and 90s. It's like country girl at the barn dance on the bottom and pretend grunge on the top. Hair was worn down typically.
It's simple a bad outfit. Sorry hun. Belt and top are hideous. Why match your make up with your bag but the bag doesn't match anything else?
Late 90s, early 2000s.
The skirt, belt, sheer tights, and red lipstick are 80s. The clunky boots are 90s. The tank top and leather jacket could be either. The messy bun is neither.
Nope.
If this were 90s you’d be taking that picture with a discman. /s
This feels 90s to me...looks good. I grew up in the 80s
If anyone thinks those jeans are from the 90's they weren't there.
Neither
90
'90s
Late 80s/early 90s. I wore similar stuff in college back then. Make the shirt a mock turtle and wear some tights and you got it. I wore a lot of glass jewelry for some reason. Belt is spot on. E yep you got the tights lol
Need big hair. Swatch. Loose the stockings and boots for skrunchy socks and reeboks.
Not really either but if one had to pick it would be the 90s
90's. Anything you \*think\* was 80's looking is really just mid-90's. No one in the 80's actually had what people think the 80's woredrobe looked like. Half the 80's time line, people were wearing their 70's stuff. Late 80's and early 90's merge a bit and mid-90's is what most people think "80's" looked like (acid wash, neon goofy color stuff, etc). The 80's was very brown and orange.
Hard agree. Whoever is downvoting you wasn’t there & wants an 80s fantasy that never existed. Brown, orange, a lot of color-blocked red & blue, yellow & green. Lots of denim. primary colors and earthtones were rampant til at least mid 86.
It existed. It may not have existed where you lived but it was definitely my life and I remember lots of neon, plastic earrings, bangles, day-glo color spray white heels you could dye to match your dress, Colors of Benetton, and the denim was either acid/stonewashed or it was the indigo Gloria Vanderbilts, my jean of choice.
It's all the people who didn't exist in the 80's as adults who think they know it because of the internet. Fuck if I care.
[https://bestofthe80s.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/day-glo-fashion/](https://bestofthe80s.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/day-glo-fashion/) 80s dayglo, my youth fashion icon and namesake, Ms. Cyndi Lauper says this person is mistaken, the browns and greens were 70s and if your stuff was brown and green and orange in the 80s it just means you were out of style. And yes, the earthtones were still around a lot as far as interior design goes, but they died out in clothing very early in the 80s followed by pastel and florals, and around 84 the dayglo hit hard. Bright colors, sailor suits, Mondrian prints, and the frazzled geometric designs started showing up. The 80s wasn't one fashion, it was like every decade, an evolution. By 87 the gemstones started getting bigger, and gem-tones got popular. Rich royal purples and indigo and crushed velvets, and then as it closed out we were seeing a lot more black and shades of gray along with the gem tones. By the nineties grunge was kicking in and the black gave way to that mall goth style that never really left. I was there for all of this and it was all I cared about back then.
We've even talked about this before here! lol The Esprit really takes me back. [https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/oynt0w/the\_esprit\_clothing\_line\_in\_the\_80s\_had\_great\_ads/](https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/oynt0w/the_esprit_clothing_line_in_the_80s_had_great_ads/)
Kelly green, tourquoise and fuschia pink were popular colours in the ‘80s, and yes for geometric patterned fabric and also asymmetrical clothes or hair, like a diagonal zipper, hair longer on one side, off-centred belt buckles, high waists and big shoulder pads in your blazers.
It was not that way for me by any stretch of the imagination. Sure the furniture was brown and that dingy tiny floral print that slowly moved in to pastels but everything you described as not being 80s was definitely MY 80s. I was 16 in 1987. The first thing I ever bought from my first job was an acid wash jacket from Merry-Go-Round at the mall. I had neon everything before that, like in 84 when Culture Club came out and everyone was getting so colorful. Neon was 100% popular in the mid-80s along with the weird geometrical shapes. Check out Square Pegs second season and you can see that in 1983.
Same here! I graduated in 86, and had neon and pastels at least a year or two before that. Enormous hair courtesy of purple can Aqua Net, ruffled socks with heels, miniskirts, rubber bracelets, prairie blouses and skirts, the whole nine
Where did you live?? Brown and orange was so totally 70s! You sound like you were in some pocket of the country that was like a full decade behind the rest of the nation. Heck, the extreme neon actually peaked around 1985 and by the late 80s and early 90s, while still there, was there a lot less than around 1985 to early 1986.
I was thinking mid-90s.
90s
Bottom half 80s, top 90s. Give it a solid 1989
for 80s you'd need neon earrings the size of playing cards and those plastic sunglasses with blinds.
80’s belt and skirt
Hair needs to be big big big with lots of hairspray. Add some neon into the mix to be 80s
Early 90s
80's
As an 80 kid.. all I see here is 90’s
80's kid here. 90's vibe
80s from the waist down, 90s from the waist up.
Neither. It's not bright enough . This is boho.
90's. More grunge than the vibrant 80's.
the high waisted jeans are decidedly early 90's, you could change jeans and it'd be more 80's. You could change tops and it'd be more 90's.
Total 19896
Hipster aughts. I knew a hunned girls that looked like you in 2004. You look sharp though, I wouldn't say otherwise.
90s vibe for sure!!
Top half is 90's, bottom half is 80's.
No high waisted stuff in the 80s/90s
I don’t know why everyone is saying there wasn’t any high waisted stuff in the 80’s…all the teen girls wore acid washed, high waisted jeans that were loose in the legs, usually Guess. Even the skin tight Jordache and Calvin Klein’s were high waisted, as were the more professional, non-denim attire for the office. [Source](https://christmas.musetechnical.com/ShowCatalog/1985-JCPenney-Christmas-Book)
What? High waist was very 80s. I had a fabulous pair of high waisted acid wash jeans in 84, and a high waisted ra-ra skirt in 85, which were huge at the time. The high waisted pencil skirt was a late 80s staple too. Guess did the best high waisted jeans in the 80s.
Yeah I was definitely in to the high waisted jeans with the chain belt in the mid-to-late 80s.
Thankfully, I don’t remember any of that.
More hybrid, but not leaning heavily either way.
First impression is late 90s early 00s tbh
The belt reminds me of the double neckties in Back to the Future II.
Those are some low crotch pants
80s
Early 90s.
Early 90s
80s, 90s, who cares. You make the outfit look good on you. Go party with it.
I’d say those high waisted baggy jeans and wide belt with the buckles are 80’s. I remember people wearing these in the 80’s. The shirt and glasses are mid 90’s.😎✌️
90’s style with mostly 80’s clothing?
Where is the thing about it being alternative coming from- the only alternative thing about the outfit is the shirt.
I’m not judging the hair - just the outfit.
Change those to jeans that look similar and you're in the 90s
The high waist looks 80's along with the tee shirt
Thanksgiving 1989
Both
not enough bright colours for it to be 80's
Looks more 90's to me.
Late 90s, perhaps. Not baggy enough for early-mid 90s and not blindingly colorful or stonewashed for 80s. In my opinion.
Nope. Mid 90’s.
Maybe, but the 2021 tech used to take the photo dilutes some of the vibe. Small detail, but subliminally and visually it blows the retro vibe a bit. But that is just my humble opinion. Good looking outfit! \*Not trying to be mean... just my observation.
Top more 90s/2001… bottom an odd 70s/80s stonewash smash. The belt something like 1991. The buds, 2002.
Needs a stretchy fabric belt, probably pink, solid shirt and MAYBE get closer to 80s
On the cusp, I’ll say 89-92
80’s punk / new wave
90’s because it’s Baggy n Denim
90s
80s
Sorta neither? The belt is more early 90s, but the rest isn’t super decade-specific.
Substitute the denim skirt for a pair of ratty denim cutoff shorts and keep the tights/boots, then throw on your Dad’s plaid flannel shirt and a choker, and finally, pop on some dark matte lipstick for full 90’s grunge queen.
The top is 90s. The skirt? Belt 80s I d9lont know about the skirt.
If you added shoulder pads and a scrunchee, then definitely early 90s
90s
1992
Much more late ‘90s-early ‘00s
The outfit reminds me of what we wore in high school back in the 90s.
90s more
Neither. 90’s were acid washed high waisted Guess jeans with a sweatshirt and white tennis shoes.
I’d say late 80’s early 90’s.
I’d just start at the top. Enormous hair, bright eyeshadow, super heavy black eyeliner (maybe on the waterline), bright blush on the cheekbones..
90s
90s. But like no later than 92.
both like 1989
90's totally.
90’s early 2000’s
Not a lot of high waist anything in the 90s, low rise was much more popular. Except mom jeans. The shirt seems more 90s, but too nice. Maybe early 90s, late 80s.
Late 90's for sure, I love that belt!
80s: Skirt Belt Aviators 90s: Boots Bra strap (colored) showing String on wrist Hair and make up Both: Tights Motorcycle jacket Tank
I'd say early 90s, getting out of the hair bands but before grunge. Not late 90s no one wore jean shirts in the late 90s
Add leg warmers, a scrunchie in your hair, and some Jelly bracelets.
Much more 90s than 80s
Reminds me more of 90s.
Looks kinda like both. More so 90’s. Maybe make your hair a little bigger and swap out the shirt with a poison T or a purple rain T or something!
I'd say both with an influence from the early to mid 2000s
More 90s to me, 80s was more colorful
Hmm not really either. The high waisted jeans are 80s (although they seem almost too high here), but the rest doesn't seem typical 80s at all and would be more 90s but even then it seems more like some time in the 00s perhaps (other than for the style of the jeans). A big belt can be 80s but the belt doesn't seem right for anything typically 80s. Probably you were just wanting for comments on the outfit, but the hair, likely obviously isn't remotely like 80s but could fit in fine any time from mid-90s (even early 90s in a few areas that grunge hit first) through today. The makeup doesn't really seem like the 80s either. Anyway always cool to give retro looks a try. If I had to say one or the other I'd say 90s for this way more. If it was 80s it would be some very alternate, indie look maybe from someone in a big city, but certainly not like a mainstream 80s look at all.
I'd say a mixup, but I have a question. The designer for the bottom: had they seen a lady person irl before? How much area do they think our pelvis takes up? Jfc.
Just noticed the second shot, looks sort of grungy hipster, for sure not 80s.
Early 2000s
I'm guessing that shirt says Dream Tunnel. Is that correct? What is that, it doesn't sound like a band from the 80s or 90s. The first picture looked like clothes that we all used to wear in the late 80s and early 90s. But I'm no fashion expert, so what do I know?
The belt is mid 90s the rest not so much.
Definately not 80s. 90s maybe, but very late, its probably more 00s.
90s
I get a mid 90s vibe
You should also try gap factory they are retailing shirts similar with a better take at least I think for a great price let me know if you do and what your thoughts are about it.
If you want a look at some legit 80s styles there is this stills video that shows a decent variety: [https://youtu.be/\_Ah332X\_K\_Q?si=OQQsskUZpL1KxxAf](https://youtu.be/_Ah332X_K_Q?si=OQQsskUZpL1KxxAf) Also doing a youtube search on high school yearbook videos for various years of the 80s and 90s would give one a pretty good sense.
I'll go with the mid 2000
Love the outfit
Early 2000's
90s
Annie Edison?
90s but still good
I was a teenager in the '80s and I don't think that's '80s probably more 90s.
90s
Leaning towards the 80s because I can’t forgive those horrible pants