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Okay now we all know about the 80s stuff like: Leg warmers, friendship bracelets, puffy shirts, swatches, those tennis shoes that you could velcro different colors on the side (drawn a blank on the name), big hair, and so on.....

What were some of the 90's trends that you can remember, liked em or hated em????

I remember the big hair of the 80s definately extended on into the early part of the decade. Rolling up the bottoms of your pants and wearing colored socks that matched your outfit. Sounds strangely enough 80s to me still it did take place in the 90s.

What about the popularity of rap music??

What are some trends that you can think of?? [Smile]

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Hated the band aids on the clothes. Anyone remember that one?
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Return of the hip-huggers that slowly get lower and lower? Men wearing pants that don't fit them.

Hm . . . Return of boybands? Blonde teen pop princesses?

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-T-Shirts with classic cartoon characters dressed in gangsta rap gear. I always associated Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck with anvils and mallets, not Glocks and Gats.

-The Macarena. Couldn't stand it then, can't stand it now. I've always hated dance crazes, but this one I loathed especially. My hatred of it was so high that at a school dance where I promised the song wouldn't be played, the DJ stabbed me in the back. I went ape and started punching all the students, boys and girls alike. I was 11 years old, it was 1996, and I was walking the razor's edge. It wasn't just the song...I felt that my world was crashing down around me that year and even the slightest things drove me crazy. I'm not like that anymore, but every time I think back to my young and raw days, I shudder in fear and ask myself "Was I REALLY like that?".

Sorry...Just took a detour there.

Back on-topic:

-They started using the word "hottie" in the 90s. That word drives me up the wall, too. I feel that whenever you use a word like that, you sound incredibly stupid. It doesn't matter if you're young or old...You just sound dumb. We're still using it to this day.

It's just so unisex and P.C...Whatever happened to calling women "babes" and men "hunks"? Even the final episode of VH1's "Retrosexual: The 80s" was called "Hotties". I don't think anybody was using that word in the 80s. I was only 7 when the decade ended, though, so perhaps some of our older members could enlighten me as to whether they did or not.

-Blatant sampling in rap music. I know that the Sugarhill Gang and Afrika Bambaata used samples, but they were more subtle. When you got into the 90s, it became much more obvious. I think Sean Combs is to blame for all this...The man doesn't have an original bone in his body.

-People who grew up in the 80s dancing to this samplejacked B.S. For Christs' sake, why couldn't Generation X stick with the original tunes? Why did and do they dance to songs about raping h**s and splacking n***as set to the backbeat of songs by the Doobie Brothers and Duran Duran?

Rap is so much different now. Back then, it was creative and innovative. Now it's just a bunch of shuck-and-jive crap.

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John Kilduff

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Ooh! Just remembered one of my favorite pieces of 90's fashion horror: Knee-high boots. Buffy wore them with panache, and I even have a pair of my own.
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Girls walking around in platform everything (boots/trainers/shoes). Horrible horrible horrible - and ugly.
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I hated everything about the 90's fashion...because there was none. There weren't any cool things memoribilia wise either...the thing I hated most about the 90's was Pokemon.

I also hated Tickle Me Elmo...I never get those stupid trends like that.

I have always hated Nascar racing too...and it seemed to make it bigger in the 90's. Bluck...that is about the most boring thing on the planet to sit and watch a car go around and around and around...and around....ick.

The coolest thing I liked was the Sega Genesis game system...with Sonic the Hedgehog...and I loved the Earthworm Jim games and Columns.

The other thing that I think became huge in the 90's was scented candles...everyone was having candle parties...and buying tart burners.

That's about all I can remember too...there wasn't one TV show I remember watching...and the only music I actually did like was the boy bands...like N'Sync and The Backstreet Boys and 98 Degrees...I didn't LOVE them, but they were better than the other crap out there.

Was the band-aid thing something TLC was doing?

I absolutely hate those low rider jeans...I think they are the most unflattering thing to put on a woman's butt...they make their butts look twice as wide, and flat, and dumpy looking.

I also hate thongs...I think they are the nastiest things...bikini underwear...are 10 times more sexy...and they aren't nasty and gross.

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isis, i remember TLC having condoms taped on their clothes.

90s trends were around i am sure, but i don't think there was anything i actually liked about the 90s. i was still wearing vans and rock band shirts, which wasn't the style at all, at least not with girls. girls were into colored socks (as jessie said), along with teased/hairsprayed hair. speaking of hair, didn't the "rachel" hair-do, become 'thee haircut' for girls all over the place in the 90s?? i didn't like that haircut, sorry.
i remember a lot of guys that were into rap, wearing the wu-wear clothes.
i also remmeber being in highschool, when tagging crews started up. stooo-pid.

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What about condoms taped to clothes????? I must have missed out on that one.

Yeah the boy bands. Oh ISIS I am totally with you on the Pokemon on thing. I never never understood that fad.

Yeah the extremely low pants things too. Why would you want to walk around and keep pulling them up or rather not pulling them up?

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90's music seemed to go through some faddish phases. Of course there was grunge early on, but from 1992 to 1994, reggae was very popular on the charts here. Then from 1997 to 1999 there was a country phase here too.

Also -

Tamagotchi

Pokemon

Floppy hair

Cartoon ties

Waistcoats

Cargo pants

Unplugged

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You guys are gonna hate me for this but I actually liked the baby doll dress paired with patent leather Mary Janes look.
(I guess cuz I was in my early 20s and that was the last time I would ever be able to pull off an outfit like that............EVER!)

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Well I loved the school girl socks up to the knees, paired with maryjanes and a cute skirt. MOst of that fashion can be found in the movies Clueless(which I loved) The grunge look was boring, I mean flannels and jeans, every decade had that look.

Pokemon wasnt for us to understand. That was for the children folks. Just like they wouldn't understand our fascination with Pac-Man or Pong.

AS for Nascar getting popular, Good! I happen to love cars, fast cars! I enjoy watching the races on tv and in person. To each his own.

The boybands and bubble gum music got to be a little much for me. Glad rock music finished out strong, well that was until the late ninties. Then the rock rap stuff came out. Didn't like that stuff at all.

Chokers were really instyle as well. All the girls were waring chokers. I had a couple of velvet ones. I thought they were cool inexpensive jewelery.

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The baggy pants like those mc hammer wore.
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Heh heh, good times. [Big Grin]
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I hated the 90's. Well, I hated '92-99'. All the music and style I loved from the 80's was made fun of and was replaced by music and styles I really disliked. I liked hair bands and mainstream music like Phil Collins. Instead of that, I was force fed rap, country, and alternative music through radio and tv. The fashions were awful. I never understood why one would wear pants that were way too big. It was like the world became a planet of Vanilla Ice's.

Don't get me wrong. I know styles change and you don't want to look like you are dated. Although my year book from the late 80's had hundreds of mullets, I would not grow a mullet now. But I never liked the 90's. There was something dark and dull about it IMO.

PS
I never had a mullet. I did have long hair though back then [Wink]

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the 90's had it's fair share of crap didn't it? behold - SOUTHPARK, POKEMON, THE SPICE GIRLS, TAMAGOTCHI, TELETUBBIES, HUGH GRANT Romantic Comedies, BATMAN & ROBIN... urgh! it makes my flesh crawl!
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Two parts of ISIS post:
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...I have always hated NASCAR racing too...and it seemed to make it bigger in the 90's. Bluck...that is about the most boring thing on the planet to sit and watch a car go around and around and around...and around....ick.
I'm not a car racing fan either, but I have to agree with ISIS on this one. If I were a fan of auto racing, I would be more interested in the Formula One races; their cars go around in a variety of obstacle courses.

NASCAR racers just go around in a counter-clockwise direction in a circular track. Boring!

Several years ago, I stumbled upon a funny anti-NASCAR website, that poked fun about racers who just go around and around in a circular track. But, unfortunately, the website is probably no more.


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...I also hate thongs...I think they are the nastiest things...
They look good on me, though! [Big Grin]
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NASCAR's road courses have plenty of obstacles and go in different directions. Formula One cars arent even cars, they're like little buggies with motors.

I like NASCAR because there are alot of rules and most drivers win because of pure luck. I mean yor car has to be a certain length and weight, both which are measured before and after the race to assure that you haven't cheated.

The wrecks can be awesome and abit scary at times. If you wreck a formula 1 car, you can say bye bye to the rest of the race. At least in NASCAR you can tape something up and get back out there.

I think it's pretty fun.

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I couldn't stand the early 90's, circa 90-91 when a bunch of the dance music all sounded the same, stuff like Snap's I got the Power, Technotronic's Pump up the Jam, C+C Music Factory's Everybody Dance now and the group that sang call him mr. radar, call him mr. wrong.
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Rip you are right about everything for music, especially dance music sounding the same. Remembering any kind of dance groups is definately not a forte of mine so I couldn't specifically name names of any. One group that I did like though was Real McCoy. They had an awesome CD that I used to listen to over and over again. I loved Automatic Lover!!
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"BEEN THERE, DONE THAT!"

I HATED THAT SAYING AND ANYONE WHO USED IT.

I have to say the 90's were not the best decade, but I do have to appreciate that Barenaked Ladies formed in the 90's, so that was positive, and at least we had a Democrat in the WH for most of the 90's, so there's that too.

Horrible trends were:
1. Any form of group/line/preprogrammed dance. I am not even a dancer, but this sucks.

2. "Quotation Fingers" this was total BS. "kill me now"

3. Will Smith............period.

4. Rap changing from Run DMC to P Diddy and the all gangster crap.

5. Anything related to the word "Thug"

6. Annoying girl rap groups

7. The death of comedy on TV. Replaced by millions of hour long dramas and schlock like "Everybody tolerates Raymond" (yes I know the Simpsons and Seinfeld were on in the 90's but still.)

8. Japanamation/Power Rangers. THE most idiotic shows that kids could watch (tamagochi, pokemon, all that crap)

9. TELETUBBIES! Oh My God. If this is what we want our children to learn, I say we start Euthanizing now before it is too late.

10. ELMO. Sesame Street used to be about lots of characters learning from each other. Now its the babytalk show with this red demigod in charge.

I could go on for about 200 years, but I'll stop now.

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I totally agree with everything here! I would also like to add my top ten:

1. Smilie faces on everything from clothes to Bandannas.

2. Bandannas

3. Bomber jackets - especially the quilted type.

4. Anything clothing in the shade of 'mustard'

5. Wearing clothes backwards - what the hell was that?

6. Bike pants

7. Chunky Peace symbol necklaces

8. Patterned stockings

9. Tent dresses (again)

10. Whatever those ugly shoes were called that were really chunky and had a huge buckle and looked like you had feet problems.

Okay they were mostly fashion but those are the things that make the most impression. I would also totally like to agree with rocksteadyflamethrower and wonder why we are still doing it:

People who grew up in the 80s dancing to this samplejacked B.S. For Christs' sake, why couldn't Generation X stick with the original tunes? Why did and do they dance to songs about raping h**s and splacking n***as set to the backbeat of songs by the Doobie Brothers and Duran Duran?

As for chokers, baby doll dresses and platform shoes - they are UGLY and do not EVER look good on anyone. You could be Giselle Bundchen and you would still look frumpy!

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I disagree. I think it'll be a matter of time and when all those 90s fashions back, we'll all be wearing them!
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NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Heh heh. Kat, that was such a Darth Vader moment. [Big Grin]
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