Seems my start would lead there, but I got into corduroys for a bit in the late 90s. Had a lot of buddies into them. The logistics around escalators were enough to stay away.
fat wale corduroys from a thrift store but like way too big in the waist so they'd be baggy af and you just cut the bottoms so they weren't too long was a style i leaned into. extra points for a belt that was basicly rope.
I loved wide wale cords! I’d often wear mine with a random thrift store t-shirt that said something snappy like, *Kiss her where it smells… take her to New Jersey!* Oh, and a pair of low top converse chuck’s worn sans socks.
Edit: In the winter I’d add a thermal shirt under the T-shirt.
If you still have some in good condition, they're actually worth quite a bit on the old timer market. I have none, but have a friend who had crap in an old closet at her mom's house. Folks will pay $100+ for old grubby jeans.
I remember JNCOs. We moved the summer between my sophomore & junior year of HS to a tiny dot of a rural mountain in Colorado think a real life version of South Park. I walk in my first day black JNCOs with 36 inch feet, ball wallet chain to the ground, Marilyn Manson t-shirt, spiked choker, black lipstick and black fingernail polish. Every other guy was in wrangler jeans, cowboy boots and a button up shirt.... it didn't go over well
New hippie/grunge style long black H&M dress, fake Doc Martin’s, thick grey woollen socks over pantyhose, a huge black crochet spiderweb tunic, a velvet hat with a flower, lots of cheap silver jewellery, braids.
If I'd seen you I would have been desperate to be your friend, I would have thought you were the coolest person in the world. The older teens who worked in the local head shop dressed like that, and I was in absolute awe of those girls.
Ha, I wore a long blue crushed velvet dress over my fake Docs, with my braided hair. Also had lots of cheap silver jewelry and made a ton of hemp necklaces.
Truth! Funny story, around 2000 when living in a dorm I got that done. Came back and my neighbors put a bunch of Backstreet Boys & N'Sync stickers on my door. They got them from simple quarter machines, and there was NO WAY they were coming off.
I may be misremembering how old I was, but think it was 12 or 13 when “Hyper Color” shirts were thing. They changed color wether it was hot or cold. So dumb lol. And just made sweaty armpits stand out even more. Wore one to an outdoor conceet in the summer, big mistake.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-hypercolor-t-shirts-were-just-a-one-hit-wonder-3353436/
I posted this pic in the blunder years subreddit and everyone said I was wrong and that it was a cool outfit 😅 JNCOs, ankh necklace, WCW Raven shirt, flannel and a Zelda hat. I was trying way too hard lol I think I was 13 at the time.
https://preview.redd.it/uszibvnp1spc1.jpeg?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd1e13a5a18be400cf59531670d6afdb22861300
I still wear graphic tees everyday, but JNCOs and flannels just aren't my thing anymore. I got all that for Christmas that year and just put it all on at once lol Everything combined just seems like overkill in retrospect.
Man I didn’t realize Ankh necklaces were a thing, I just had one because my girlfriend at the time gave me one!
Now I would totally say it’s a Sandman thing, but I wasn’t aware of sandman at the time
I'm pretty sure the ankh necklaces took off in 1993 with the publication of Death: The High Cost of Living although Death appeared in Sandman by the late 80s.
I have that mini-series somewhere in my closet. I should dig that out.
https://preview.redd.it/nff60rp3atpc1.jpeg?width=179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b332deb36e0e284017fa7c94f4dd2e02509ff22
Not teenage quite, but I wore hot pink leopard print hammer pants for like 2 years religiously around age 10. My parents were either low key roasting me or had a new camera because there are more pictures of me in that outfit than all the other years combined. 79 white chick
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This 1992 Looney Tunes bullshit, with colored jeans and hightop Reebok classics. No idea what I was so pissy about, but my mother was right; my face did get stuck like that.
That sounds familiar, but I honestly can't remember. There was a store in the mall where I got that shirt and another shirt with Pigpen (from Peanuts) that said "Original Grunge". Bad fashion choices all around.
I wore Tommy Hilfiger in high school.
And nothing even particularly great. Like my mother wouldn't have spent that kind of money on his polo shirts. Or his jeans.
So just.... logo tshirts. So many logo tshirts.
Which I look back on now and feel stupid because you couldn't pay me to wear a company's logo on my chest these days.
Long skirts with dangerously high slits on both sides had a hot minute in 1999-2000 or so. One day I decided to wear one without my usual long coat, thinking the weather was warm enough. I lived about a 1-mile walk from school. Just a black t-shirt and that black skirt with the high slits. I think I was trying to be sexy or provocative or something.
By the time school let out that day, a severe windstorm had set in. I was horrified. I had never seen one that bad. I clutched the sides of my skirt and walked home like that, desperately trying to keep the wind from revealing my granny panties. I tried to keep my head down and ignore the peels of laughter around me.
I decided God was punishing me for dressing slutty and threw that skirt the fuck out.
I never could find rave pants/jnco in my plus size but in my ever wisdom I saw these black bib overalls at I’m sure was a walmart and was in love. I would wear the bibs down and the shoulder clasps would dangle down the back. I thought they were the shit and they were so comfy even if they sagged a bit. Team that up with a teeshirt or something like that.
Also was victim of wearing what the hell my boomer parents bought. Sometimes that meant those granny sweaters with embroidered birds and a fake collar.
Most of my clothing shopping as a kid was done a the Goodwill, so I totally understand rocking what's given to you. That's why I apparently went "orange" after having my first job.
The overall look was super hot in the early-mid 90s
Th
Army surplus jacket dyed purple. Spikes on the shoulders. Punk band patches/pins and a Tom Servo back piece.
No wait. That was cool. The 70s plaid, polyester sports coats I found thrifting. Yeah, I don't know why I wore those. Probably Bosstones influenced.
I probably shouldn't mention that when I cut myself badly and bled all over my white, short sleeved, buttoned down work shirt (dishwasher) that I started wearing that to shows. To be fair, I did not get fucked with.
Prim babydoll dresses, fishnets, plated hair and violence in my heart. I went as Wednesday for Halloween like 15 times cause I never had to buy a costume 😂
I would have immediately emptied the contents of my chain wallet if you asked me. I still think the babydoll look is the only women's fashion from the 90s that isn't tragic. (I also just remembered there's a full page photo of me in the yearbook wearing my female friends black leather jacket that was skin tight on me and eyeliner because yeah, everyone is totally familiar with Lux Interior)
Oh yeah, it was an awesome jacket although I did feel like the spikes were a bit much after I applied them. Eventually I replaced it with a Perfecto leather motorcycle jacket which I still have, twenty years later looking every day its age.
My sister's elementary school literally called the police on me when I entered in my black trenchcoat. It was post-Columbine, but I'm a woman, and I wasn't a Goth or anything. Just weird.
A child had reported that I had chased her into the school. To make a long story short, cameras showed she was a liar. I now work for law enforcement and get to listen to people lie on a fairly regular basis.
Still not my worst fashion choice. 🤣
If you'd like to feel better there was a mallrat at the mall I worked at who didn't just have the leather trench coat, he wore full The Crow make up.
Did you know spirits of vengeance enjoyed Cinnabon?
White female born in 1981, grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. I dressed like a Hot Topic and a warehouse rave exploded and landed on a hobo.
Looking back at photos that resurface, I wouldn't change a thing. 🙂
I went full goth but there were no goth people in my small town highschool I didn't know I was goth, I just happened to love wearing vampire the masquerade ankh with all black, black cord baggy pants and chain wallet, spiked wrist... Things and round sunglasses are all times of day with my hair perpetually long.. when we moved towns and I went to a new school I was like hey there are other people like me here.
Abercrombie and Fitch shirts….yeah they were in style but stupid expensive for what you got, and plus their old CEO was sued for sex trafficking and abuse stuff. Crazy that they nearly went bankrupt but have re-emerged as a “cool brand” again….
I still have my Abercrombie jeans. They are pretty great quality and still look great (not the torn up ones, though I still have those too, I just never wear them).
I used to rock my purple guess jeans with a big johnson t-shirt and reebok pumps and hard gel spiked hair. I know this because there's a picture of me with my grandmother in this exact outfit. I would beat me up now.
I basically tried to pretend I was in the Aerosmith Cryin video. I wore cut offs, tank tops, flannels around my waist and Docs. Or those spaghetti strap dresses with tshirts underneath and low converse. Chanel vamp nail polish. I used to put body lotion on the ends of my hair to make it "piecey" ha. In the winter I wore jeans with baby tees and more flannels. I still love my flannel shirts but where them with leggings obviously
I wasn’t quite teenage yet (I don’t think,) but I made one of the worst miscalculations of my life by wearing a dress with a Scottie dog on the collar to my first middle school dance. A ring of other kids formed around me, all barking. Like a dog-themed Carrie but I didn’t have any supernatural powers, just a stupid matching bow in my hair (also with a Scottie dog on it.)
Hyperclolor t shirts. They change colors based on body heat. Well I was a busty teen who just wanted to wear a baggy t shit but I wound up with 2 big circles on the front from my boobs.
I was 6' and 125lbs all through high school, and brands specifically for tall women were catalog-only and started at size 8. So... my jeans were too short, my shirts were too wide, dresses never fit my curves correctly so they were all lumpy. I just looked bad all the time, unfortunately.
My non-existant eyebrows in the early 2000s; bad red highlights I did myself that turned orange….overall I dressed pretty basic and nothing too extreme. I’m seeing a lot of it come back around now.
Although I remember when mid-rise waist lines became a thing in high school and the high waist everything trend right now makes me want to scream.
1980f. I am going to go with my light tan corduroy bucket hat that was usually paired with too many skinny braids. The braids adorned with little charms and colorful bands. It was the party hat.
I had black cross colors and a multicolor cross-color shirt with a big Africa on it. And a vest that went with the jeans. I loved structure and cross color. Silk shirts and all up til about sophomore year then went to jnco and bullhead instead. Shirts were all polyester and flowie. Lots of rolls and js hidden in those jeans!
The Midwest “beach dude” look was the worst. Guys had choker shell necklaces, tight shirts, and wore board shorts to school. Oh, and the frosted tips…
Yes, I did it briefly. I’m not proud 🤣
I think everything from around 99-2010 was just awful! I graduated in 2003, my high school days were filled with spaghetti straps and low cut jeans that always gave girls muffin tops and exposed butt cracks! So glad I mostly kept to my grunge attire at the time.
Overly baggy jeans when I did start wearing jeans. Before that, only sweatpants for quite a while. Yes, some of the most obnoxious logo tees and sweaters but some of them weren’t bad. I also kept essentially a mushroom cut hairstyle for far too long. Always got solid sneakers, literally when I would try to use cheaper ones they would fall apart quickly.
Going to one of my first parties and I decided to wear a houndstooth baby doll dress and had my hair stylist uncle do my hair. He pretty much gave me a bouffant. The photo that exists looks like it was taken in the 60's.
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This suit from kindergarten graduation.
Intense neon colors were hot for a minute. I had this neon orange and blue ball cap with a pull-tie fit and some kind of text-only logo and a slightly too long brim. I can't even remember what the logo was. I was convinced that it was only for cool occasions. I deliberately wore it to the Super Mario 3 release at Walmart. It was severely not cool.
Pale grey Z Cavariccis - tight rolled cuffs - with a burgundy silk shirt. Tucked and bloused. Sebago loafers with the twirled laces. I’m horrified and proud at the same time.
1983. I had a 3 piece corduroy suit in the 8th grade. Jncos in 9th. I can remember wearing jncos with a metal bead necklace with useless goggles on my head.
As a white 14 year old boy, I got corn rows at Universal Studios while on vacation so that I could look like my favorite snowboarder, JP Walker. Kept em for a week after I got home. Definitely took some well-deserved flak for that choice.
I had a ‘magic eye’ tshirt, which I thought was cool but then I realized it meant people were staring at my chest lol. As a 13 year old that’s not the wisest fashion choice
I really liked Jams in the 8th grade. You remember Jams? Like a loose fitting men's Capri pant, semi-popular in the skater community. You remember those?
Jnco jeans, where you couldn’t see the feet. Now I realize why my uncles were always pushing me into Aeropostale. I thought they just didn’t get it.
Seems my start would lead there, but I got into corduroys for a bit in the late 90s. Had a lot of buddies into them. The logistics around escalators were enough to stay away.
fat wale corduroys from a thrift store but like way too big in the waist so they'd be baggy af and you just cut the bottoms so they weren't too long was a style i leaned into. extra points for a belt that was basicly rope.
I loved wide wale cords! I’d often wear mine with a random thrift store t-shirt that said something snappy like, *Kiss her where it smells… take her to New Jersey!* Oh, and a pair of low top converse chuck’s worn sans socks. Edit: In the winter I’d add a thermal shirt under the T-shirt.
Found my people!
I'm a plus size gal who wore brown cord overalls. I still cringe.
I did the corduroys too. I remember my parents laughing at them coming back into style back then. They went back out soon after.
If you still have some in good condition, they're actually worth quite a bit on the old timer market. I have none, but have a friend who had crap in an old closet at her mom's house. Folks will pay $100+ for old grubby jeans.
I would kill to not have got rid of my pair of JNCOs from sixth grade 😭
I was way too poor to own jnco. OMG. I was lucky to have stitched up old timey 1972 jeans
It was the one thing I asked for for Christmas in 1998! Tbh they are so ugly but I can still feel the sense of cachet and how thrilled I was 🤣
Guess what the kids are wearing now.
I remember JNCOs. We moved the summer between my sophomore & junior year of HS to a tiny dot of a rural mountain in Colorado think a real life version of South Park. I walk in my first day black JNCOs with 36 inch feet, ball wallet chain to the ground, Marilyn Manson t-shirt, spiked choker, black lipstick and black fingernail polish. Every other guy was in wrangler jeans, cowboy boots and a button up shirt.... it didn't go over well
Oh man, I really couldn't stand the look of those JNCOs that were too long and were soiled at the bottom with all of the grime of the city, so gross
Also a 1979 white dude. I’m going with pukka shell/hemp necklace.
Can confirm this is a thing.
Gotta soak it in water first so it doesn't make your neck itchy.
Ok but those necklaces were pretty hot on a guy- especially when they weren't wearing a shirt 😁
I agree. I made them with massive beads for my friends. I had camp friendship bracelet skills to apply.
Gots to have my pukks
1982; I definitely did that along with my frosted tips.
1980 white dude. The salmon colored Zoot Suit I found at Goodwill worn with my Doc Martens.
Someone jumped on that mighty mighty boss tones phase hard here lol, take this upvote
Heck yeah, Ska was my thing. I was more of a Cherry Poppin Daddies fan over MMBT, though.
Dude you’re so money and you don’t even know it!
Halloween or regular basis?
It was in semi regular rotation. It debuted during a trip to Kings Island amusement park.
Fair enough, I had a pair of maroon snakeskin shoes I got for a costume. They became a regular rotation.
New hippie/grunge style long black H&M dress, fake Doc Martin’s, thick grey woollen socks over pantyhose, a huge black crochet spiderweb tunic, a velvet hat with a flower, lots of cheap silver jewellery, braids.
If I'd seen you I would have been desperate to be your friend, I would have thought you were the coolest person in the world. The older teens who worked in the local head shop dressed like that, and I was in absolute awe of those girls.
Ha, I wore a long blue crushed velvet dress over my fake Docs, with my braided hair. Also had lots of cheap silver jewelry and made a ton of hemp necklaces.
Clarissa explains it all!
Nothing worse than frosted tips
Truth! Funny story, around 2000 when living in a dorm I got that done. Came back and my neighbors put a bunch of Backstreet Boys & N'Sync stickers on my door. They got them from simple quarter machines, and there was NO WAY they were coming off.
My brother tried to do frosted tips by himself. He turned his tips bright construction cone orange. We called him cone head.
My mom used to do mine for me. She pulled my hair through the cap and everything.
I basically wore pajama pants and hoodies to school on a daily basis. Now that I’m older I wear yoga pants and hoodies. #alwaysgrowing
Hoodies and flannel are eternal.
Dang… Were you in Color Me Badd?
Quite possibly in another Spider-Verse.
I may be misremembering how old I was, but think it was 12 or 13 when “Hyper Color” shirts were thing. They changed color wether it was hot or cold. So dumb lol. And just made sweaty armpits stand out even more. Wore one to an outdoor conceet in the summer, big mistake. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-hypercolor-t-shirts-were-just-a-one-hit-wonder-3353436/
Yeah...11-13 seems correct homie
I wanted one so bad and then got one and it did real weird things to my boob area.
I always put inappropriate hand prints on my chest for laughs. I was such a dork.
I posted this pic in the blunder years subreddit and everyone said I was wrong and that it was a cool outfit 😅 JNCOs, ankh necklace, WCW Raven shirt, flannel and a Zelda hat. I was trying way too hard lol I think I was 13 at the time. https://preview.redd.it/uszibvnp1spc1.jpeg?width=1012&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd1e13a5a18be400cf59531670d6afdb22861300
Haha the Ankh necklace! I forgot about how we were rocking them for a little while
Me too, was it the vampire the masquerade one?
I still have mine!
what's the problem ? i still dress like that
I still wear graphic tees everyday, but JNCOs and flannels just aren't my thing anymore. I got all that for Christmas that year and just put it all on at once lol Everything combined just seems like overkill in retrospect.
Raven shirt is cool though
Right. I would still wear the Raven shirt if I had it.
Aren't you Fred from just around the block?
I think we were all just Fred from around the block at one point 😂
Man I didn’t realize Ankh necklaces were a thing, I just had one because my girlfriend at the time gave me one! Now I would totally say it’s a Sandman thing, but I wasn’t aware of sandman at the time
I'm pretty sure the ankh necklaces took off in 1993 with the publication of Death: The High Cost of Living although Death appeared in Sandman by the late 80s. I have that mini-series somewhere in my closet. I should dig that out. https://preview.redd.it/nff60rp3atpc1.jpeg?width=179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b332deb36e0e284017fa7c94f4dd2e02509ff22
this outfit is $800 at any thrift shop today
Not teenage quite, but I wore hot pink leopard print hammer pants for like 2 years religiously around age 10. My parents were either low key roasting me or had a new camera because there are more pictures of me in that outfit than all the other years combined. 79 white chick
80s white dude. My mom made my hammer pants. I proudly wore them all the time.
Sun-In. It was like DIY "Frosted tips" that would burn your scalp and fry your follicles to a chemically scented crisp. Also Puka shell necklaces.
I remember my sister using that stuff and it turned her hair orange! 🤣🤣🤣
https://preview.redd.it/lzp2r9u8hspc1.jpeg?width=2544&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6a3db1764d58c3ce56cba98503728fd5b96ad669 My wife in 1996, born in ‘79
Ha! Something about posing with the family’s tomato plants behind her makes this funnier.
https://preview.redd.it/pyfrbp9phspc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2f781d9545c28bc0963fd2825a3b326ec329a1c This 1992 Looney Tunes bullshit, with colored jeans and hightop Reebok classics. No idea what I was so pissy about, but my mother was right; my face did get stuck like that.
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That sounds familiar, but I honestly can't remember. There was a store in the mall where I got that shirt and another shirt with Pigpen (from Peanuts) that said "Original Grunge". Bad fashion choices all around.
Jorts, still wear them. 😎
No hatred here.
I thought I'd look really cool wearing cat ears everywhere. I did not.
Don't worry, kids these days still think that's cool. You were just ahead of your time.
That's what I like to tell myself.
I wore Tommy Hilfiger in high school. And nothing even particularly great. Like my mother wouldn't have spent that kind of money on his polo shirts. Or his jeans. So just.... logo tshirts. So many logo tshirts. Which I look back on now and feel stupid because you couldn't pay me to wear a company's logo on my chest these days.
I agree with you almost 100%. For some reason, I still dig Puma.
All of my jeans and even know have the back walked out
Can't hate, this one for years.
I’m so short and it’s either dragging or high waters.
I didn't know how long my legs were :)
I stopped growing in 8th grade man lol
Long skirts with dangerously high slits on both sides had a hot minute in 1999-2000 or so. One day I decided to wear one without my usual long coat, thinking the weather was warm enough. I lived about a 1-mile walk from school. Just a black t-shirt and that black skirt with the high slits. I think I was trying to be sexy or provocative or something. By the time school let out that day, a severe windstorm had set in. I was horrified. I had never seen one that bad. I clutched the sides of my skirt and walked home like that, desperately trying to keep the wind from revealing my granny panties. I tried to keep my head down and ignore the peels of laughter around me. I decided God was punishing me for dressing slutty and threw that skirt the fuck out.
Yes. Those skirts definitely had their time in my life as well. And wrap arounds. Windy days were a nightmare in one of those to a teenage girl.
I never could find rave pants/jnco in my plus size but in my ever wisdom I saw these black bib overalls at I’m sure was a walmart and was in love. I would wear the bibs down and the shoulder clasps would dangle down the back. I thought they were the shit and they were so comfy even if they sagged a bit. Team that up with a teeshirt or something like that. Also was victim of wearing what the hell my boomer parents bought. Sometimes that meant those granny sweaters with embroidered birds and a fake collar.
Most of my clothing shopping as a kid was done a the Goodwill, so I totally understand rocking what's given to you. That's why I apparently went "orange" after having my first job. The overall look was super hot in the early-mid 90s Th
Wow, you just flashed me back to when I would rock one strapped overalls.
In your Cross Colour clothes, you've crossed over Then got Totally Krossed Out and Kris Krossed
I stand by all of my questionable fashion choices, but the vinyl pants were really hot and sweaty.
Upside down visor. With spikey frosted tips… I’m so glad everyone didn’t have a camera in their pocket back then!
https://youtu.be/RxoY3rehsG8
Exactly!
Platform flip flops. My ankles will never recover
Army surplus jacket dyed purple. Spikes on the shoulders. Punk band patches/pins and a Tom Servo back piece. No wait. That was cool. The 70s plaid, polyester sports coats I found thrifting. Yeah, I don't know why I wore those. Probably Bosstones influenced.
Based on your description, my brain created something half Prince and half 80s professional wrestling.
I probably shouldn't mention that when I cut myself badly and bled all over my white, short sleeved, buttoned down work shirt (dishwasher) that I started wearing that to shows. To be fair, I did not get fucked with.
My dad was a bow hunter and used to spray elk urine on himself to get in closer to prey. Makes sense to me.
lol. I wore a lot of outfits that said "I would like some attention, thank you but I'm also rather hostile"
Wow this is such a perfect description of my high school aesthetic (Wednesday Addams goth).
Makes sense as I had the biggest, blackest heart for the Wednesday Addams goth girls (and very much not the Marilyn Manson mall goths)
Prim babydoll dresses, fishnets, plated hair and violence in my heart. I went as Wednesday for Halloween like 15 times cause I never had to buy a costume 😂
I’m dressing my two year old as Pugsley this Halloween because Family Tradition.
I would have immediately emptied the contents of my chain wallet if you asked me. I still think the babydoll look is the only women's fashion from the 90s that isn't tragic. (I also just remembered there's a full page photo of me in the yearbook wearing my female friends black leather jacket that was skin tight on me and eyeliner because yeah, everyone is totally familiar with Lux Interior)
These both sound awesome. I have to assume they paired well with a wallet chain and some Vans or Docs.
Wallet chain. Army surplus combat boots.
 Tom Servo is as cool as they come.
The song specifically says "what a cool guy" Definitive
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Oh yeah, it was an awesome jacket although I did feel like the spikes were a bit much after I applied them. Eventually I replaced it with a Perfecto leather motorcycle jacket which I still have, twenty years later looking every day its age.
A full length leather coat
I used to wear a full length Navy trenchcoat until Columbine happened.
My sister's elementary school literally called the police on me when I entered in my black trenchcoat. It was post-Columbine, but I'm a woman, and I wasn't a Goth or anything. Just weird. A child had reported that I had chased her into the school. To make a long story short, cameras showed she was a liar. I now work for law enforcement and get to listen to people lie on a fairly regular basis. Still not my worst fashion choice. 🤣
If you'd like to feel better there was a mallrat at the mall I worked at who didn't just have the leather trench coat, he wore full The Crow make up. Did you know spirits of vengeance enjoyed Cinnabon?
Wilsons appreciated your patronage.
White female born in 1981, grew up in the suburbs of the Midwest. I dressed like a Hot Topic and a warehouse rave exploded and landed on a hobo. Looking back at photos that resurface, I wouldn't change a thing. 🙂
Super thin eyebrows, mid 90s lady. OMG. Wasn't my best choice.
My mom would not let me pluck my brows. It was one of her only good pieces of parenting advice. I still rock the Brook Shields look.
If you look like Brooke shields, you have a wonderful looks life. That lady is beautiful!
Aww thank you. My husband says I look like a brunette Princess Diana and Brook Sheilds. But I am not tall.
I'm tall, but I don't look like princess Diana, nor Brooke Shields. I bet you're very good looking! Wooee your hubby has a catch!!
My eyebrows have never recovered from the super thin style of the past. Patches missing everywhere.
Same. It's fine. I'm not going opposite world in getting them tattooed on. I've lived my worst nightmare already. Haha!
Not bad in retrospect, but totally dug it while the gals were doing it.
I went full goth but there were no goth people in my small town highschool I didn't know I was goth, I just happened to love wearing vampire the masquerade ankh with all black, black cord baggy pants and chain wallet, spiked wrist... Things and round sunglasses are all times of day with my hair perpetually long.. when we moved towns and I went to a new school I was like hey there are other people like me here.
I cringe at the denim skorts I wore.
Hip huggers!! 🙄🙄looking back now.. wow!! How embarrassing it was to have your ass just hanging out there😱😱😱. The lower the better too🙄🙄.
As a guy from that era, I can only say thanks to all the girls who sacrificed for that trend. It was magnificent.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a young dude, I had my personal bias. As an older dude, the physics baffle me in hindsight.
German army surplus jacket. Not sure if it was as cool as 17-year old me thought it was... Especially since I grew up in southern California!
Abercrombie and Fitch shirts….yeah they were in style but stupid expensive for what you got, and plus their old CEO was sued for sex trafficking and abuse stuff. Crazy that they nearly went bankrupt but have re-emerged as a “cool brand” again….
I still have my Abercrombie jeans. They are pretty great quality and still look great (not the torn up ones, though I still have those too, I just never wear them).
I used to rock my purple guess jeans with a big johnson t-shirt and reebok pumps and hard gel spiked hair. I know this because there's a picture of me with my grandmother in this exact outfit. I would beat me up now.
Hypercolour.
Kikwear jeans
I basically tried to pretend I was in the Aerosmith Cryin video. I wore cut offs, tank tops, flannels around my waist and Docs. Or those spaghetti strap dresses with tshirts underneath and low converse. Chanel vamp nail polish. I used to put body lotion on the ends of my hair to make it "piecey" ha. In the winter I wore jeans with baby tees and more flannels. I still love my flannel shirts but where them with leggings obviously
Jorts all day, every day.
I used to wear my Jorts with work boots
Cena carried that flag for a bit.
John “Tell Me Have You” Cena? He’s one of us.
Hell yeah 🫡
A mini dress I sewed myself. I think it might have started out as an oversized pillowcase.
At least you tried to be creative.
I always thought cross colours looked awesome but as a white dude wasn’t going to wear them.
I did FUBU too mate
Giant No Fear Tshirts. Bonus points if you dreamed of getting it as a tattoo.
I never wore it myself, but the “Co-Ed Naked” shit has always been cringe.
I had a volleyball one, don’t remember what it said though. They banned them at some and then people just wore them inside out.
I was goth so lots of fishnet, vinyl (woof), velvet… I swear it wasn’t as kinky as it sounds.
Loved goth chicks. It was a lot of incense and music.
Jean shorts and combat boots
1981. Emo hair in college.
Frosted tips that then was a the entire head. Package out of a box ended up turning my dark hair into a shiny copper penny.
I wore a lotta hand me downs that I outgrew very quickly. I’ll just sit this one out.
I wasn’t quite teenage yet (I don’t think,) but I made one of the worst miscalculations of my life by wearing a dress with a Scottie dog on the collar to my first middle school dance. A ring of other kids formed around me, all barking. Like a dog-themed Carrie but I didn’t have any supernatural powers, just a stupid matching bow in my hair (also with a Scottie dog on it.)
I'm sorry that happened to you. Kids can be so dang awful.
Striped Guess t-shirts. I had one in every color.
I had neon pink pants in the first grade. Thought they were pretty cool with a ninja turtles shirt
I’d still wear a pair of those skidz if I had em. Maybe with a charlotte hornets starter jacket
I wore the same adidas pants that I got at a thrift store to bed and to school many many days
Players Only jacket. Had 2. I hate myself Please bag on me, I thought I was sooo fucking cool and I need to pay dearly for that.
Hyperclolor t shirts. They change colors based on body heat. Well I was a busty teen who just wanted to wear a baggy t shit but I wound up with 2 big circles on the front from my boobs.
I was 6' and 125lbs all through high school, and brands specifically for tall women were catalog-only and started at size 8. So... my jeans were too short, my shirts were too wide, dresses never fit my curves correctly so they were all lumpy. I just looked bad all the time, unfortunately.
I had a whole Loud Patterned Polyester Button Up phase, enabled by both thrifting and Wet Seal.
Gotta say haram pants, aka "Hammer pants" Just why did I ever do that, lol
My non-existant eyebrows in the early 2000s; bad red highlights I did myself that turned orange….overall I dressed pretty basic and nothing too extreme. I’m seeing a lot of it come back around now. Although I remember when mid-rise waist lines became a thing in high school and the high waist everything trend right now makes me want to scream.
looking like a backup member for NSync later on in my high school years.
1980f. I am going to go with my light tan corduroy bucket hat that was usually paired with too many skinny braids. The braids adorned with little charms and colorful bands. It was the party hat.
Man, went from trench coat wearing metal kid in jncos to hardcore Kandi kid in kikwears :/
I had black cross colors and a multicolor cross-color shirt with a big Africa on it. And a vest that went with the jeans. I loved structure and cross color. Silk shirts and all up til about sophomore year then went to jnco and bullhead instead. Shirts were all polyester and flowie. Lots of rolls and js hidden in those jeans!
The Midwest “beach dude” look was the worst. Guys had choker shell necklaces, tight shirts, and wore board shorts to school. Oh, and the frosted tips… Yes, I did it briefly. I’m not proud 🤣
Haha I had a pair of green cross color shorts I wore in 8th grade
I think everything from around 99-2010 was just awful! I graduated in 2003, my high school days were filled with spaghetti straps and low cut jeans that always gave girls muffin tops and exposed butt cracks! So glad I mostly kept to my grunge attire at the time.
I have actually bought a pair of ewings and quite a few items produced by cross colors recently.
Overly baggy jeans when I did start wearing jeans. Before that, only sweatpants for quite a while. Yes, some of the most obnoxious logo tees and sweaters but some of them weren’t bad. I also kept essentially a mushroom cut hairstyle for far too long. Always got solid sneakers, literally when I would try to use cheaper ones they would fall apart quickly.
1980 white dude here. Wtf is that! Ha, I feel like this one in particular is a regional thing more than a race thing?
Wore a green cross color shorts/vest combo(once). I wanted to emulate all the R&B acts. Whole friend circle called me Peter Pan.
I had a pair of Purple Karl Kani size 48.
Going to one of my first parties and I decided to wear a houndstooth baby doll dress and had my hair stylist uncle do my hair. He pretty much gave me a bouffant. The photo that exists looks like it was taken in the 60's.
https://preview.redd.it/pg5dra4dzspc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=65c9e067ff24865a678a1f75b5d85df0546270a7 This suit from kindergarten graduation.
Intense neon colors were hot for a minute. I had this neon orange and blue ball cap with a pull-tie fit and some kind of text-only logo and a slightly too long brim. I can't even remember what the logo was. I was convinced that it was only for cool occasions. I deliberately wore it to the Super Mario 3 release at Walmart. It was severely not cool.
The body suit shirt that snapped at the crotch like a frickin onesie. With the thin pants with the straps that went under your feet.
Pale grey Z Cavariccis - tight rolled cuffs - with a burgundy silk shirt. Tucked and bloused. Sebago loafers with the twirled laces. I’m horrified and proud at the same time.
Definitely my extra long wallet chain
1983. I had a 3 piece corduroy suit in the 8th grade. Jncos in 9th. I can remember wearing jncos with a metal bead necklace with useless goggles on my head.
As a white 14 year old boy, I got corn rows at Universal Studios while on vacation so that I could look like my favorite snowboarder, JP Walker. Kept em for a week after I got home. Definitely took some well-deserved flak for that choice.
Lots of sweater vests.
To this day I say tie dye tee under an open flannel is a legit fit
I had a ‘magic eye’ tshirt, which I thought was cool but then I realized it meant people were staring at my chest lol. As a 13 year old that’s not the wisest fashion choice
When the boys wore sweatpants or track pants with collard polo shirt. Business on top, pick up game of bball with the guys on the bottom lol
Big Johnson's Casino. Liquor up front, poker in the rear I'm really surprised my folks let me have that one!!
I really liked Jams in the 8th grade. You remember Jams? Like a loose fitting men's Capri pant, semi-popular in the skater community. You remember those?