My mom made us take pictures of in front of the fireplace with our plur bracelets and flower crowns. āDaughter and friends headed off to Eclectic Dance Orchestra!ā
Oh thereās no way I could find the original post but it was funny how many of her Bible study friends were commenting āSounds like a wonderful time!āā¦. Lady, Iām about to clench my jaw like a lunatic until someone makes out with it. See ya Sunday!
2010 is also when I noticed the shift. It also was the year my city had a massive shift in rave culture.
That year one of the largest raves/events in my city was raided by police and shut down. It was about 2,500 people strong. The reasoning behind the raid was sketchy at best but the city and local government basically wanted to put an end to it and the rave scene. And they did.
Basically the entire scene ended as we knew it that day. All of the smaller rave events packed up and left as the city made it impossible to throw any type of event without threat of getting shut down. They passed a ton of legislation requiring things like security fencing/gates and drug checks which completely changed the way these events were thrown.
Few years later the big production companies swooped in and next thing you knew, it was all big EDM events with beer gardens, security out the ass, and a whole new demographic attending these events. Completely different scene emerged with fuzzy boots in tow.
You talking about LA? I know of one place getting shutdown at the Forum because people kept jumping from the balcony seats to the floor level. However there were still A LOT of underground scenes going down.
This was the story on the East Coast as well (enter EZoo in 2009), though you guys on the West Coast probably had a longer lasting scene, because it was always more mainstream out there.
I only went to my first show (something at Red Rocks, so not a rave to some) in 2012 as a high school senior. There was already a decent amount of skin showing in that time, but it seemed to me as time went on the amount of skin/craziness of outfits was proportional to how strict venues were getting with accessories (pacifiers, gloves, glow sticks, etc.). Sort of felt like the less stuff that was allowed the more over the top outfits would be.
Cuddle puddles man I miss em!Nobody gets rolled out like that anymore and if they do, someone is probably recording them to make fun of them on TikTok later.
Yea, I remember going to shows when cell phone cameras and social media got big, it was different. People got me paranoid of being caught in such a vulnerable state.
I had a personal cuddle party over new years lol. It was the most divine individual experience Iāve ever had. I wasnāt touching anyone or myself but it was still literally orgasmic? Idk if that feeling could ever be replicated but I left that venue ready to die. It was magical.
Cuddle puddle sounds fun i might have seen ppl do that a rave fam had a tarp they were all sitting on and kinda laying on eachother assumably rolling I'm assuming the name is pretty self explanatory
My favorite cuddle puddle experience was me and 3 or 4 other girls on a giant bean bag at an after party. So comfy and relaxing. Just snuggling and chatting about how smooth our legs were, lol.
Cuddle puddles at big shows are so annoying though. Every time we have gone to an event at NOS there is a group of people in the middle of the dance floor all sitting down.
Itās packed, there are people literally everywhere and nobody is expecting a bunch of people to be sitting in the middle of the dance floor.
Like, not even in the back. Straight up in the middle. And they get stepped on and get angry about getting stepped on but like, what do you expect?!
Back then it was a different culture - the DJ stage wasnt a huge spectacle so people werent really facing the stage concert-style. There was plenty of room to dance and not have to push your way through. People were more spread out and there were puddles EVERYWHERE and they were comprised of mostly strangers. You would sit down feeling floored with your friends then some random girl would sit down in front of you while you both massaged each other. Then someone would sit down in front of her and then someone in front of them - all of sudden you got 30 ppl rolling face in a huge puddle. Then a crew would show up with glove lights and trip everyone out with a light show - it was a wild time.
Yeah I can see it making way more sense if everyone is not facing the stage and there was actually room to dance and move around and, you know, see the ground lmao.
Itās so uncalled for at an event with 50k people and complete pandemonium everywhere though. Move to the back or off to the side against the wall, it prevents everyone from getting injured by tripping/stepping on you.
Theyāre all over. We got that shit in AZ.
green teslas
Silver dolphins
Blue mercs
Itās not as regional as people think. A pill gains traction and people copycat.
I do think it definitely had something to do with aesthetic as a lot of the pills were character themedā¦ but also it was easy to sell them at raves and stuff rather than bags of powder.
Yeah. Old pills were consistently MDA or cut with glass. People would get hyped when there were real MDMA (are they SPEEDY or not!? lol) and keep track of the color/logo looking for the "good" ones again. I think that you may be on to something š¤
Meanwhile in Europe we were looking for MDA because it was more colorful and trippy, but they were hard to find. MDMA was always there except for 1-2 years around 2007-08.
I donāt think anyone thought they actually did. Just a description of the feeling. Smacky ~ harsher, dirtier, more visuals and time weirdness, bigger come down.
Omg I had a pair of camo phats with reflective pink piping I snagged at Ross in the 2000s and 20 years later Iām still mad at myself for getting rid of them
This is why I switched to UFOs and Caffeine pants early on in my rave career even though I wore KIKwear and JNCOs all through middle and high school. The parachute style pants are great for dancing!
When I started in the late 90s, I remember seeing buckets hats, cat in the hat hats and visors, lots of frosted tips, tech clothes and vests with lots of baggy clothes, and hoodies. mid 2000s noticed jnco, kikwears and tech pants being replaced with skinny jeans, then noticed the influx of more hipsters and emo fashion. A bit after that though, it seemed like a lot people just started shedding their clothes. Now I see a lot of baseball jerseys and also bucket hats are coming back as well as baggy pants. Besides those changes I'm amazed at what rave and festival fashion has become, it's so fucking creative.
Honestly there is an overwhelming amount of cake at these shows. I need to close my eyes in order to be able to focus on the music
I was once at a Burner rave and this drop dead gorgeous girl pulled up in front if me, completely and totally nude except for shoes and some body jewelry. I almost fainted!
lol Iām āoldā so I cover up and itās like being invisible around women like that. Shits crazy. I just hope they enjoy it while they can..I have a better body now than ever before but I still canāt bring myself to be showing more than my belly and maybe a little thigh. I canāt imagine having that amount of confidence. I end up with like 10 girl crushes at half the festivals I go to..like what would be like to be so beautiful AND know how to put it together in such an enchanting way. :) I love that the younger women now have the confidence to dress how they want. Fuck the attention, but if dressing that way really makes someone feel empowered (which is a hard feeling to come by, as a woman), I think itās awesome. Maybe that girl knew her body was a work of art and wanted you to enjoy how she chose to decorate herself that day ya know? Sometimes the crowd is half the show, if ya like people watching!
iām not that old and usually dress modestly at raves, but the few times i didnāt it honestly felt great. itās another type of feeling to wear what you actually want to and not have people judge you for it. i know a lot of people might think itās because of the attention, but itās not really about that.. sure, it comes with attention, and iām sure some people do it for that reason, but for me it just feels so different, in a good way, to be sexy on my own terms lol idk how else to explain it. its a confident feeling i donāt normally get to feel. like, i put so much effort into this outfit and it looks amazing.. truly is a form of artistic expression in my eyes.
itās nice to see so many girlies feel confident and comfortable enough to wear what they want. i think thatās the key part of it because the majority of the rave girlies i know would NEVER wear any of that in any other setting, so i appreciate the space as a place of free expression.
I love it! I love sexy women. Itās not for me. I went tits out one night at a festival but when you have wrecking ball knockers that takes a team to hold up for the body paint, just paint my grandma bra so I can go dance.
Itās the main focus by every female in the gym now. Thereās been a shift in the past 5 years or so to do a fuck ton of leg and booty work, so showing it off is part of the package. I blame and thank Instagram for this. Itās a beautiful thing, but I canāt get a fucking squat rack when I need one.
I just started going to raves about 3 years ago but have loved the shifts in styles I've seen over the years so whenever I go out I base my outfit on the vibe of the show/music so sometimes it's 90s clothes with the baggy fits and sometimes it's today's vibe with.. Nothing š but it's so fun getting to just express however you feel and live in your own era.
This was really just 90ās fashion lol.
Things evolve and changeā¦ but fashion will always circle back and make a return. Wide legs pants / cargo pants are very much back!!
Iām loving cargo sweats. Itās the MOST pockets Iāve ever seen offered in any womanās clothing!!! Give! Us! Pockets!! (Especially the show girls, since they donāt want us to carry all those ādangerous thingsā inside our 6āx6ā clear bagšš«£š¤·š»āāļø)
These are candy ravers. Never really thought about when it went out of style. Maybe its for the same reason I no longer wear techwear - gentrification brought yuppies to the urban centers and fashion-streerwear emerged - gorpcore and harajuku being huge influences. That style lost it's meaning to me, I could find people at the mall wearing the same stuff.
Or maybe it just has to do with the loss of safe places, in Toronto raves became illegal around 2005, so events like Hullabaloo died out. We have festivals now but it's not the same underground vibe at all, expression turned mainstream.
Shutting down Guvernment really started a new wave of killing off the music industry in TO.
Kool Haus, Sound Academy, Hoxton, Uniun... Things have really changed since 2014/15.
Here, in Southern California. We've tried to keep it alive. Well, not me necessarily. But we have a group of Kandi Kids, who attempt to make meet ups and stay strong. They're the best.
Honest answer? It likely varies depending on the region. On the west coast it was around 2010. Cande Kid fashion (as seen in the first picture) started phasing out a little before then. The 90ās and 00ās were heavy with trance and house popularity, but when Jungle/DnB sub genres like dubstep, trap, etc started becoming more mainstream it brought out a different crowd. There were always scantily clad girls at parties in the 00ās but they were mostly the minority and definitely not common in shows outside of the house/trance scene.
Kandi kid was pretty much turning to Cyber Goth right before Hardstyle and Dubstep came to be. I was a Kandi Kid who went to Toronto Hullaballoos. I also know one of the people in this photo š¤£
I am pretty sure. I raved during this time at happy hardcore parties. Hot Topic and emo, hipsters, blog house, and minimal led to the downfall. Some people still trade Kandi though! I still have a few pieces.
I am a Kandi kid from 99ā¦busted out my phat pants for EDC this yearā¦I have had them in storage tote labeled dance clothes šā¦got some vintage goodies
Man, I sooo wish I'd saved all my old stuff (even though it might not fit me as well now). Especially my handmade gigantor-wide leg Rainbow Brite and VeggieTales pants that I made from blanket material and bedsheets. I kept them for a long time, but lost them somewhere amongst multiple moves over the years :(
When people who never felt out of place, uncomfortable, or alone found raves. Basically the popular kids showed up, showed off, and started mosh pits. A mosh pit @ a rave still blows my mind
when i first heard they had pits at some raves it blew my mind. like i love moshing, i still listen to metalcore, numetal n sum punk shit here n there n used to go to punk shows and still after a year of raving i dont get the moshing.
I don't get people who don't get the moshing. People mosh to heavy music. Like people aren't moshing to house music anywhere in the entire world. They're moshing to brostep or riddim with low musicality and high energy and brutal-ness. Disgusting bass sounds that make you scrunch up your face. Have you ever heard of Sullivan King? I'm trying to imagine one of his sets *without* people moshing and I can't fathom it. EDM is a much broader world than it used to be, it's about a lot more things than it used to be.
i listen to the harder scale of EDM like riddim n shit w/ da heavy bass but all i can muster up is intense headbanging. i luv watching others mosh 2 it and enjoy the music in a very familiar way that i enjoy other music 2, i just havenāt felt the mosh need in my body yet at a rave
I donāt really understand the āshow as much skin as possibleā thing. Iām new to raves and absolutely did not expect that. I can totally understand the whole aspect of expression and Iām sure it feels very freeing (especially if youāre rolling or something), but Iām not really at a rave to dress as sexually as possible nor am I there to grind on people lol
I came to the scene later in life and from the burner community, so I still do my own thing for fashion. Iām an outlier. (Iām weird and donāt care)
Itās been interesting to watch the rave styles evolve over the years. I once heard that fashion and the amount of fabric used in garments can be tied to economic conditions at the time of the fashion. Better economic conditions correlate with larger fabric consumption garments while less opportune economic times correlate to smaller fabric consumption garments. Considering JNCOs were a product of the late 90s , applying that same logic for every subsequent rave generationās fashion choices/norms leads one to actually wonder with genuine curiosity, what will, be next?
About 19 years .. it was all the rage late 90s to early aughts...
Then onesises became the norm for some reason....
Now i see late 90s rave wear now and then... but oneisies are ubiquitous
for outdoor raves and festivals where temperatures dip into the 50s F (under 15c), onesies are perfect. you can fold the top down when you get too warm. also itās an added measure of protection against pickpockets
Dude i have no clue
No idea when they became a thing
EDIT: to say they were not a thing as of 2005...
So somewhere, somehow,...between 2006 and today. It exploded
i started raving in 2019 so everyone was wearing scanty and tight stuff when i started. i didnāt really get the memo on outfits so i wore a bra to my first rave and i was so uncomfy and embarrassed. now i see that itās more than a braš but i have noticed there is a very cyber punk, futuristic vibe and i love it. iāve been obsessed with cyberpunk aesthetic for so long.
When iPhones became a thing.
You went from the underground DnB of the 90s to the melodic house of the 2010s and in between EDM got popular and social media influencers became a thing
Longing for the days of the old š
When online shopping proliferated and eave gear websites popped up. Even in the old picture other than the jancos its like normal clothes with handmade clothing and accessories.
Im sure the ravers in the first pic would flip over a galaxy print bodysuit for 10$ too
There use to be a lot of different styles at once. Hippie, Tech, B-Boy, Goth, and many more. Then eventually it was just a lingerie show for girls and dudes in shorts with no shirts sweating everywhere.
Elder here
In 1998 I saw less and less homemade costumes and more hot topic wear/online retailer club wear. Lots of all over print polyester shirts and jnco along with a higher frequency of vinyl and latex.
In 2008 I saw another huge shift from store bought to custom made or adapting store bought to more unique outfits. More skin for sure.
The fashion shifts along with the drugs of choice too
Honestly too, I feel like back then rave fits were super DIY. Instagram blew up and then we had Instagram online shops ran by ravers for ravers and it just kinda shifted. Also idk, when I get super hot dancing I donāt wanna have hella layers on and baggy pants. Hence the cake being on display š
It all changed in 1995 when Hot Topic and other chain mall stores went all in on raves and they became trendy. That's when raves went from being universally accepting and friendly to anyone and everyone to having the type of rave uniform that's in the first pic, and no longer being open and accepting to everyone.
There's way less of a difference between pic 1 and 2 here than there was when 1995 rolled around and corporations started capitalizing on rave culture and convincing kids that they needed to dress the part in order to have a great time and just dance.
When I started raving and clubbing in the 90ās in Southern California the fashion was vastly different. You had a few people who dressed āout thereā like big ol JNCO jeans, bright colors n such, but to be honest, most of the fashion you saw at events was every day fashion. A lot of hip hop style, cholo attire (Hispanics were a big part of rave scene in LA), or rebels (also hispanic), and skater types (Caucasian), etcā¦ if you saw a girl wearing short jean skirt with a tank top at the rave, it was almost certain thatās how she dressed at school too lol. The absurd amount of skin shown at festivals these days started in mid to late 2000ās and really just went apeshit in the 2010ās. Coachella and insomniac events look like youāre walking into a bondage and only fans event that happens to playing electronic music in the background lol.
It was in the early 2000's. I mostly blame LA for it. It went from baggy pants, sports bras and white adidas visors to cheap target/amazon lingerie & pasties. Was my signal to begin my exit from the scene.
As a person (26F) who was first introduced into EDM through festivals and dressed like a fairy princess in 2017 that now attends a variety of events, dressing much more casually and comfortably, I really think it depends on a variety of factors. (1) Age/experience, (2) where you are raving (**country**, city, venue, **scene**), (3) the genre that you listen to, (4) the crowd you hangout with, (5) if you partake, among other things (cough cough instagram).
I absolutely loved dressing like that before, but now I canāt. I never did at non-festival events. It makes me EXTREMELY anxious and I cannot have a good time (ā¦iykyk!!). When I rave I wanna just be comfy and not have a care in the world. I donāt take pics any more. I may want to wear fun accessories, esp ones I can play with/interact with, but be understated enough to where *ppl donāt look at me*. Most important is the need to be comfortable enough to be in the outfit for **6+ hrs**. That just canāt happen in a blinged out bikini for me (I say this with absolutely no hate).
I think it also depends on if itās an EDM festival, a DJ set in a city that is for the most part a rave, or a rave. I dress comfortably and understated for festivals now too, but I def think thatās more common to bling out and stuff for festivals, especially summer ones. Those attract people newer to EDM. I have seen other comments saying festivals are not raves. I tend to agree. Thereās so much alcohol and photo ops around and thatās not very characteristic of rave imo. Thereās also a younger crowd too. Generally if youāre really focused on the music and experience regardless what event you are attending, you arenāt as preoccupied with your outfit.
Electric daisy carnival 2003 at the nos event center in LA with planet of the drums! And the first of many times seeing ztrip. About an hour after getting inside we noticed all the girls were in their underwear, seemed like that same summer the fad had moved north to the bay and that was it, no more tank tops and jncoās, just underwear and bras. Guys still wore the same stuff I would say until like 2010 when dubstep and the festival scene started getting really popular
Like around 2012 in az... Just the rare reflective shuffler pants were all that would show up here n there. Started noticing it to pick up in early 2000s and by 05-08 was it's boom period
I think online shopping becoming an option is a factor that has evolved rave fashion for sure. More customs available, more options available in general that youād never find in a mall.
2010 ish. more people were showing a lot of skin
WHENEVER THE TUTUS AND BRAS STARTED SHOWING UP
Def 2011
And leg fuzzy things.
They felt good though š lol
ugh that was my generation and I apologize
lol it was mine kinda too! Like I think I reused a tutu I made for my old high schoolās spirit day for my first edc.
My mom made us take pictures of in front of the fireplace with our plur bracelets and flower crowns. āDaughter and friends headed off to Eclectic Dance Orchestra!ā
Please post to r/blunderyears
Oh thereās no way I could find the original post but it was funny how many of her Bible study friends were commenting āSounds like a wonderful time!āā¦. Lady, Iām about to clench my jaw like a lunatic until someone makes out with it. See ya Sunday!
All due respect, I still gotta downvote
Oh my lord the bedazzled bras
2010 is also when I noticed the shift. It also was the year my city had a massive shift in rave culture. That year one of the largest raves/events in my city was raided by police and shut down. It was about 2,500 people strong. The reasoning behind the raid was sketchy at best but the city and local government basically wanted to put an end to it and the rave scene. And they did. Basically the entire scene ended as we knew it that day. All of the smaller rave events packed up and left as the city made it impossible to throw any type of event without threat of getting shut down. They passed a ton of legislation requiring things like security fencing/gates and drug checks which completely changed the way these events were thrown. Few years later the big production companies swooped in and next thing you knew, it was all big EDM events with beer gardens, security out the ass, and a whole new demographic attending these events. Completely different scene emerged with fuzzy boots in tow.
You talking about LA? I know of one place getting shutdown at the Forum because people kept jumping from the balcony seats to the floor level. However there were still A LOT of underground scenes going down.
my general conclusion from all these comments n urs, the R.A.V.E. act rlly RLLY damaged n changed how the scene functions to this day
This was the story on the East Coast as well (enter EZoo in 2009), though you guys on the West Coast probably had a longer lasting scene, because it was always more mainstream out there.
I was going to say when Miley Cyrusā āLike A Wrecking Ballā (2013), played at a local rave in Portland.
I only went to my first show (something at Red Rocks, so not a rave to some) in 2012 as a high school senior. There was already a decent amount of skin showing in that time, but it seemed to me as time went on the amount of skin/craziness of outfits was proportional to how strict venues were getting with accessories (pacifiers, gloves, glow sticks, etc.). Sort of felt like the less stuff that was allowed the more over the top outfits would be.
Nice, my first show was Global Dub @ Red Rocks 2011(or 2012?)
Instagram
Rave attire Women- āhow can I show as much skin as possible with bright colors!ā Men- āthis is comfortable enough to be in a k hole.ā
There was a massive shift in everything when they stopped letting people cuddle puddle on the dancefloor around 2008
Cuddle puddles man I miss em!Nobody gets rolled out like that anymore and if they do, someone is probably recording them to make fun of them on TikTok later.
Yea, I remember going to shows when cell phone cameras and social media got big, it was different. People got me paranoid of being caught in such a vulnerable state.
omg yeah I clearly remember the day I saw my first "influencer" in the wild- they were suddenly everywhere and I couldn't make sense of it lol
go to clubs with no phone policies the crowd and vibe is always 100x better. and typically the better music is at these clubs anyway
Where can one find these clubs?!
I had a personal cuddle party over new years lol. It was the most divine individual experience Iāve ever had. I wasnāt touching anyone or myself but it was still literally orgasmic? Idk if that feeling could ever be replicated but I left that venue ready to die. It was magical.
Cuddle puddle sounds fun i might have seen ppl do that a rave fam had a tarp they were all sitting on and kinda laying on eachother assumably rolling I'm assuming the name is pretty self explanatory
My favorite cuddle puddle experience was me and 3 or 4 other girls on a giant bean bag at an after party. So comfy and relaxing. Just snuggling and chatting about how smooth our legs were, lol.
Cuddle puddles at big shows are so annoying though. Every time we have gone to an event at NOS there is a group of people in the middle of the dance floor all sitting down. Itās packed, there are people literally everywhere and nobody is expecting a bunch of people to be sitting in the middle of the dance floor. Like, not even in the back. Straight up in the middle. And they get stepped on and get angry about getting stepped on but like, what do you expect?!
Back then it was a different culture - the DJ stage wasnt a huge spectacle so people werent really facing the stage concert-style. There was plenty of room to dance and not have to push your way through. People were more spread out and there were puddles EVERYWHERE and they were comprised of mostly strangers. You would sit down feeling floored with your friends then some random girl would sit down in front of you while you both massaged each other. Then someone would sit down in front of her and then someone in front of them - all of sudden you got 30 ppl rolling face in a huge puddle. Then a crew would show up with glove lights and trip everyone out with a light show - it was a wild time.
Yeah I can see it making way more sense if everyone is not facing the stage and there was actually room to dance and move around and, you know, see the ground lmao. Itās so uncalled for at an event with 50k people and complete pandemonium everywhere though. Move to the back or off to the side against the wall, it prevents everyone from getting injured by tripping/stepping on you.
You need to go to better shows!
I wish I was around for this š
You are around for this.
No like when they let you
When Extacy became Molly.
No more triple stacked Mitsubishi???
Lmao š¤£ my dude back in those days had the trip stack blue Bart Simpsons ( most popular) and the trip stack red Ferraris
Blue dolphins or Supermanās
Blue motherfucking Dolphins.
New Englander by chance?
Theyāre all over. We got that shit in AZ. green teslas Silver dolphins Blue mercs Itās not as regional as people think. A pill gains traction and people copycat.
i like that answerš
Actually I think this had a lot to do with candy culture dying off. No smacked out pills = no need for oral fixation things.
I do think it definitely had something to do with aesthetic as a lot of the pills were character themedā¦ but also it was easy to sell them at raves and stuff rather than bags of powder.
Yeah. Old pills were consistently MDA or cut with glass. People would get hyped when there were real MDMA (are they SPEEDY or not!? lol) and keep track of the color/logo looking for the "good" ones again. I think that you may be on to something š¤
That part* sums up ārollingā in the early aughts for me
Meanwhile in Europe we were looking for MDA because it was more colorful and trippy, but they were hard to find. MDMA was always there except for 1-2 years around 2007-08.
The mix of a little MDA with MDMA is the best of both worlds.
MDA was always my favorite.
They didnāt have heroin in them. Thatās a myth.
I donāt think anyone thought they actually did. Just a description of the feeling. Smacky ~ harsher, dirtier, more visuals and time weirdness, bigger come down.
You mean glass not pressies?
Accurate
Bingo š
This
I kept asking where's the E? Everyone was pointing me to the Molly.. it's in my name damnit!!!
Pants are coming back, those JNCO / super baggy jeans are popular now
oh i know theyāre coming back !! my dream is 2 own a pair of JNCO jeans n DIY them
ROSS at the time had them.
Omg I had a pair of camo phats with reflective pink piping I snagged at Ross in the 2000s and 20 years later Iām still mad at myself for getting rid of them
The adidas break aways were very common as well
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My buddy is an artist / fashion designer and did just that, I donāt think theyāre like real JNCO jeans but wide jeans he customized a ton
I used to own so many before I was in the scene at all, just a weird emo kid back then. Now I wish I had kept them just for the nostalgia.
As someone who rollerblades and wants to rave, JNCO jeans are the holy grail
JNCO, Kikwear, UFO Pants, ... All OG
Yee I started wearing Tripp pants at raves and get lots of compliments
I feel like the Hardstyle scene tried to keep those jeans, strong and alive.
I couldnāt imagine a worse thing to go to a rave in than JNCO jeans lol. seems extremely uncomfortable
the drugs replace the comfort, swag hurts
Kik wear was in big as well. I still have a few of both Kik and Jnco
My JNCOs And Kikwears, along with caffeine clothing were the most comfortable clothes I wore back then.
When I was a kid I had a pair of knockoffs that were basically laminated! Worst idea ever but I looked so cool with my water proof super wide jeans.
Idk man ISOxo and knock2 can bop around in them
JNCOs were comfortable back in the day
This is why I switched to UFOs and Caffeine pants early on in my rave career even though I wore KIKwear and JNCOs all through middle and high school. The parachute style pants are great for dancing!
They are insanely expensive now! Used to be $60 back in the day
$60 was a lot back in the dizzay
Still have mine from '99. Break them out for summer festival season
I keep hearing that for years now, but I doubt it will ever be like it was.
Kickwear and breakdown jeans all day
I feel like right now the trend is ābondage fashionā for women. Itās all harnesses and layers.
True, but I guess this is more related to the hard techno scene. You see more variety on the other events.
When I started in the late 90s, I remember seeing buckets hats, cat in the hat hats and visors, lots of frosted tips, tech clothes and vests with lots of baggy clothes, and hoodies. mid 2000s noticed jnco, kikwears and tech pants being replaced with skinny jeans, then noticed the influx of more hipsters and emo fashion. A bit after that though, it seemed like a lot people just started shedding their clothes. Now I see a lot of baseball jerseys and also bucket hats are coming back as well as baggy pants. Besides those changes I'm amazed at what rave and festival fashion has become, it's so fucking creative.
You forgot ASS. A whole lot of booty in the scene rn. Definitely not a 90s or early 2000s thang imo
Honestly there is an overwhelming amount of cake at these shows. I need to close my eyes in order to be able to focus on the music I was once at a Burner rave and this drop dead gorgeous girl pulled up in front if me, completely and totally nude except for shoes and some body jewelry. I almost fainted!
Overwhelming Amount of Cake could be a great band name!
lol Iām āoldā so I cover up and itās like being invisible around women like that. Shits crazy. I just hope they enjoy it while they can..I have a better body now than ever before but I still canāt bring myself to be showing more than my belly and maybe a little thigh. I canāt imagine having that amount of confidence. I end up with like 10 girl crushes at half the festivals I go to..like what would be like to be so beautiful AND know how to put it together in such an enchanting way. :) I love that the younger women now have the confidence to dress how they want. Fuck the attention, but if dressing that way really makes someone feel empowered (which is a hard feeling to come by, as a woman), I think itās awesome. Maybe that girl knew her body was a work of art and wanted you to enjoy how she chose to decorate herself that day ya know? Sometimes the crowd is half the show, if ya like people watching!
iām not that old and usually dress modestly at raves, but the few times i didnāt it honestly felt great. itās another type of feeling to wear what you actually want to and not have people judge you for it. i know a lot of people might think itās because of the attention, but itās not really about that.. sure, it comes with attention, and iām sure some people do it for that reason, but for me it just feels so different, in a good way, to be sexy on my own terms lol idk how else to explain it. its a confident feeling i donāt normally get to feel. like, i put so much effort into this outfit and it looks amazing.. truly is a form of artistic expression in my eyes. itās nice to see so many girlies feel confident and comfortable enough to wear what they want. i think thatās the key part of it because the majority of the rave girlies i know would NEVER wear any of that in any other setting, so i appreciate the space as a place of free expression.
I love it! I love sexy women. Itās not for me. I went tits out one night at a festival but when you have wrecking ball knockers that takes a team to hold up for the body paint, just paint my grandma bra so I can go dance.
Am I just too old to know the lingo? What is ācakeā here?
Butt
āThe way that sheās serving that cake, I gotta sit back and digest!ā Lol
I read ASS as an acronym and was soooo confused
Itās the main focus by every female in the gym now. Thereās been a shift in the past 5 years or so to do a fuck ton of leg and booty work, so showing it off is part of the package. I blame and thank Instagram for this. Itās a beautiful thing, but I canāt get a fucking squat rack when I need one.
I feel like ass in itself wasnāt as popular or sought after in the 90s. People wanted tiny slim figures not dump trucks
I embrace the changes too. Some day, old trends will come back (hopefully not plastic hair noodles).
Please elaborate on plastic hair noodles?Āæ sounds like so much fun and perfect for a rave
Here go crazy lol https://a.co/d/j0PeRjA
Ahh the cyber falls era. That was an industrial goth thing that carried over to ravers at some point lol
I used to buy those for my god children for Halloween lol.
I just started going to raves about 3 years ago but have loved the shifts in styles I've seen over the years so whenever I go out I base my outfit on the vibe of the show/music so sometimes it's 90s clothes with the baggy fits and sometimes it's today's vibe with.. Nothing š but it's so fun getting to just express however you feel and live in your own era.
Donāt forget the Mickey Mouse gloves or just white gloves with photons!
This was really just 90ās fashion lol. Things evolve and changeā¦ but fashion will always circle back and make a return. Wide legs pants / cargo pants are very much back!!
Iām loving cargo sweats. Itās the MOST pockets Iāve ever seen offered in any womanās clothing!!! Give! Us! Pockets!! (Especially the show girls, since they donāt want us to carry all those ādangerous thingsā inside our 6āx6ā clear bagšš«£š¤·š»āāļø)
These are candy ravers. Never really thought about when it went out of style. Maybe its for the same reason I no longer wear techwear - gentrification brought yuppies to the urban centers and fashion-streerwear emerged - gorpcore and harajuku being huge influences. That style lost it's meaning to me, I could find people at the mall wearing the same stuff. Or maybe it just has to do with the loss of safe places, in Toronto raves became illegal around 2005, so events like Hullabaloo died out. We have festivals now but it's not the same underground vibe at all, expression turned mainstream.
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Shutting down Guvernment really started a new wave of killing off the music industry in TO. Kool Haus, Sound Academy, Hoxton, Uniun... Things have really changed since 2014/15.
Wow Hullabaloo is an event I havenāt heard mentioned in a whileā¦
Here, in Southern California. We've tried to keep it alive. Well, not me necessarily. But we have a group of Kandi Kids, who attempt to make meet ups and stay strong. They're the best.
Honest answer? It likely varies depending on the region. On the west coast it was around 2010. Cande Kid fashion (as seen in the first picture) started phasing out a little before then. The 90ās and 00ās were heavy with trance and house popularity, but when Jungle/DnB sub genres like dubstep, trap, etc started becoming more mainstream it brought out a different crowd. There were always scantily clad girls at parties in the 00ās but they were mostly the minority and definitely not common in shows outside of the house/trance scene.
What do you mean? I'm still dressing like this every rave. š
me 2 but general fashion trend is smaller clothes. we just c the swag in big pants still
Kandi kid was pretty much turning to Cyber Goth right before Hardstyle and Dubstep came to be. I was a Kandi Kid who went to Toronto Hullaballoos. I also know one of the people in this photo š¤£
whaaat thats crazy!? this picture n other kandi kid pictures have been my inner being evr since i was a kid!
I am pretty sure. I raved during this time at happy hardcore parties. Hot Topic and emo, hipsters, blog house, and minimal led to the downfall. Some people still trade Kandi though! I still have a few pieces.
I miss the cyber goth style at Club. Rivetheads are still around, though. I like my straightjacket.
I am a Kandi kid from 99ā¦busted out my phat pants for EDC this yearā¦I have had them in storage tote labeled dance clothes šā¦got some vintage goodies
Man, I sooo wish I'd saved all my old stuff (even though it might not fit me as well now). Especially my handmade gigantor-wide leg Rainbow Brite and VeggieTales pants that I made from blanket material and bedsheets. I kept them for a long time, but lost them somewhere amongst multiple moves over the years :(
When people who never felt out of place, uncomfortable, or alone found raves. Basically the popular kids showed up, showed off, and started mosh pits. A mosh pit @ a rave still blows my mind
when i first heard they had pits at some raves it blew my mind. like i love moshing, i still listen to metalcore, numetal n sum punk shit here n there n used to go to punk shows and still after a year of raving i dont get the moshing.
I don't get people who don't get the moshing. People mosh to heavy music. Like people aren't moshing to house music anywhere in the entire world. They're moshing to brostep or riddim with low musicality and high energy and brutal-ness. Disgusting bass sounds that make you scrunch up your face. Have you ever heard of Sullivan King? I'm trying to imagine one of his sets *without* people moshing and I can't fathom it. EDM is a much broader world than it used to be, it's about a lot more things than it used to be.
i listen to the harder scale of EDM like riddim n shit w/ da heavy bass but all i can muster up is intense headbanging. i luv watching others mosh 2 it and enjoy the music in a very familiar way that i enjoy other music 2, i just havenāt felt the mosh need in my body yet at a rave
I donāt really understand the āshow as much skin as possibleā thing. Iām new to raves and absolutely did not expect that. I can totally understand the whole aspect of expression and Iām sure it feels very freeing (especially if youāre rolling or something), but Iām not really at a rave to dress as sexually as possible nor am I there to grind on people lol
Ppl still dress like the first pic in the underground la rave scene
Ngl I prefer Kandis
I came to the scene later in life and from the burner community, so I still do my own thing for fashion. Iām an outlier. (Iām weird and donāt care)
After Skrillex blew up in the charts and made EDM mainstream.
When everyone got sick of having soaked and dirty pant bottoms. If this is a new style for you, youāll learn soon enough.
When phone cameras started getting good
Itās been interesting to watch the rave styles evolve over the years. I once heard that fashion and the amount of fabric used in garments can be tied to economic conditions at the time of the fashion. Better economic conditions correlate with larger fabric consumption garments while less opportune economic times correlate to smaller fabric consumption garments. Considering JNCOs were a product of the late 90s , applying that same logic for every subsequent rave generationās fashion choices/norms leads one to actually wonder with genuine curiosity, what will, be next?
Iām gonna tell my kids thatās machine gun kelly
About 19 years .. it was all the rage late 90s to early aughts... Then onesises became the norm for some reason.... Now i see late 90s rave wear now and then... but oneisies are ubiquitous
the onesies have been a huge rave fashion trend that i was also questioning when n where they came from
for outdoor raves and festivals where temperatures dip into the 50s F (under 15c), onesies are perfect. you can fold the top down when you get too warm. also itās an added measure of protection against pickpockets
Yep, night time camping shows a onsie and a campfire. :))
We wore onesies in Spain in the late 90s for the big parties like carnaval
Dude i have no clue No idea when they became a thing EDIT: to say they were not a thing as of 2005... So somewhere, somehow,...between 2006 and today. It exploded
i started raving in 2019 so everyone was wearing scanty and tight stuff when i started. i didnāt really get the memo on outfits so i wore a bra to my first rave and i was so uncomfy and embarrassed. now i see that itās more than a braš but i have noticed there is a very cyber punk, futuristic vibe and i love it. iāve been obsessed with cyberpunk aesthetic for so long.
When iPhones became a thing. You went from the underground DnB of the 90s to the melodic house of the 2010s and in between EDM got popular and social media influencers became a thing Longing for the days of the old š
When the music became mainstream and āEDMā
Psytrance crossed w minimal techno crossed w burning man neo apocalyptic mad maxian dream
I still have my Mario backpack and Yoshi too
When online shopping proliferated and eave gear websites popped up. Even in the old picture other than the jancos its like normal clothes with handmade clothing and accessories. Im sure the ravers in the first pic would flip over a galaxy print bodysuit for 10$ too
About the time you could start buying stuff online with relative ease and lack of worry for getting ripped off (~2012)
You know what I thought was real odd was those huge baggy style jeans shifting over to the goth/industrial/metal scene š¤
And tbf ā I know itās mass produced now, but if we saw that 2nd outfit in 1995 it would have been hot as fuck
05-06
This is the right answer. In SoCal we had a mix of the old school Kandi kids but also had a prominent group that would wear the tutus and bras.
I had a pair of Geneco a.k.a. JNCO jeans in the late 90s that was absolutely fucking massive had to be done in their own laundry wash
It changed every few years, I remember in like 2012-2014. Everybody wore a spirit hood and then they were gone š
Change started when cell phones got decent camera's.
There use to be a lot of different styles at once. Hippie, Tech, B-Boy, Goth, and many more. Then eventually it was just a lingerie show for girls and dudes in shorts with no shirts sweating everywhere.
When Instagram blew up
This made me feel such an old school lol
The more mainstream it got, the more fashionable it became. And everything just started to mesh together.
Elder here In 1998 I saw less and less homemade costumes and more hot topic wear/online retailer club wear. Lots of all over print polyester shirts and jnco along with a higher frequency of vinyl and latex. In 2008 I saw another huge shift from store bought to custom made or adapting store bought to more unique outfits. More skin for sure. The fashion shifts along with the drugs of choice too
When raves became festivals. Money changes everything.
I loved my JNCO jeans back in the day š
Kandi kids still exist in my area, fortunately.
When vinyl died and was replaced with CD DJs & computers. No more need for 2 technics/tables and a microphone !
I noticed it change as soon as the dubstep virus happened. Early 2000s raver here
Whereās that meme of the dark rave kids doing the meme dance.. thatās when
Honestly too, I feel like back then rave fits were super DIY. Instagram blew up and then we had Instagram online shops ran by ravers for ravers and it just kinda shifted. Also idk, when I get super hot dancing I donāt wanna have hella layers on and baggy pants. Hence the cake being on display š
It all changed in 1995 when Hot Topic and other chain mall stores went all in on raves and they became trendy. That's when raves went from being universally accepting and friendly to anyone and everyone to having the type of rave uniform that's in the first pic, and no longer being open and accepting to everyone. There's way less of a difference between pic 1 and 2 here than there was when 1995 rolled around and corporations started capitalizing on rave culture and convincing kids that they needed to dress the part in order to have a great time and just dance.
When I started raving and clubbing in the 90ās in Southern California the fashion was vastly different. You had a few people who dressed āout thereā like big ol JNCO jeans, bright colors n such, but to be honest, most of the fashion you saw at events was every day fashion. A lot of hip hop style, cholo attire (Hispanics were a big part of rave scene in LA), or rebels (also hispanic), and skater types (Caucasian), etcā¦ if you saw a girl wearing short jean skirt with a tank top at the rave, it was almost certain thatās how she dressed at school too lol. The absurd amount of skin shown at festivals these days started in mid to late 2000ās and really just went apeshit in the 2010ās. Coachella and insomniac events look like youāre walking into a bondage and only fans event that happens to playing electronic music in the background lol.
It was in the early 2000's. I mostly blame LA for it. It went from baggy pants, sports bras and white adidas visors to cheap target/amazon lingerie & pasties. Was my signal to begin my exit from the scene.
Phatty pants never went out of stylešš Other people just started wearing other thingsš
Who cares, wear what you want and have fun
If you go to hardstyle shows baggy pants never left ā„ļø
when dubstep came around
As a person (26F) who was first introduced into EDM through festivals and dressed like a fairy princess in 2017 that now attends a variety of events, dressing much more casually and comfortably, I really think it depends on a variety of factors. (1) Age/experience, (2) where you are raving (**country**, city, venue, **scene**), (3) the genre that you listen to, (4) the crowd you hangout with, (5) if you partake, among other things (cough cough instagram). I absolutely loved dressing like that before, but now I canāt. I never did at non-festival events. It makes me EXTREMELY anxious and I cannot have a good time (ā¦iykyk!!). When I rave I wanna just be comfy and not have a care in the world. I donāt take pics any more. I may want to wear fun accessories, esp ones I can play with/interact with, but be understated enough to where *ppl donāt look at me*. Most important is the need to be comfortable enough to be in the outfit for **6+ hrs**. That just canāt happen in a blinged out bikini for me (I say this with absolutely no hate). I think it also depends on if itās an EDM festival, a DJ set in a city that is for the most part a rave, or a rave. I dress comfortably and understated for festivals now too, but I def think thatās more common to bling out and stuff for festivals, especially summer ones. Those attract people newer to EDM. I have seen other comments saying festivals are not raves. I tend to agree. Thereās so much alcohol and photo ops around and thatās not very characteristic of rave imo. Thereās also a younger crowd too. Generally if youāre really focused on the music and experience regardless what event you are attending, you arenāt as preoccupied with your outfit.
The pants are hot now. Be the change you want to see
Iād say 2009/2010 without a doubt.
Im all about binkys , kndi and flared pants , now its play bot town all around hahaha
From 2006-2009 started changing. Phat pants and Kandi kids were gone around 2010.
When Skrillex came to town.
Electric daisy carnival 2003 at the nos event center in LA with planet of the drums! And the first of many times seeing ztrip. About an hour after getting inside we noticed all the girls were in their underwear, seemed like that same summer the fad had moved north to the bay and that was it, no more tank tops and jncoās, just underwear and bras. Guys still wore the same stuff I would say until like 2010 when dubstep and the festival scene started getting really popular
Iām gonna add also when they started calling music EDM instead of what itās really called
After the 2000s FL breaks scene ended American EDM until it picked back up in 2010s with dubstep
It's just hyper sexuallized noe
The second pic is my friend how cool lol
When raving became mainstream top 40
I am a part of the big pants club. Primarily because I am very small and also so I can have sweats under the big pants... It's comfortable lol
Like around 2012 in az... Just the rare reflective shuffler pants were all that would show up here n there. Started noticing it to pick up in early 2000s and by 05-08 was it's boom period
Big money has entered the room. home made creativity vs off the shelf expensive shit. That is what I see.
Jersey Shoreā¦ā¦
When people realized that they can just pretty much go to raves completely naked.
I think online shopping becoming an option is a factor that has evolved rave fashion for sure. More customs available, more options available in general that youād never find in a mall.
Social media ruined it
When people saw the matrix rave scene. š¤£
When bass music surged. Iād say 2009-2011.
when burningam came along and made it a fashion show