What 'looks' define the 90s and 'noughties'?

[N_igma]

Trainers with flashing red lights on the bottom off them.

 

[DotCommunist]

Anyone wearing LA lights needs to kill themselves

 

[boohoo]

Noughties is all about volume for the ladies - whether it's puff ball, bat wings, tulip skirts, kimono sleeve, baby doll dresses, empire line with much volume under bust, giant t-shirts/cardigans/jumpers, big volume skirts, leg of mutton sleeves, puffy sleeves, swing coats -with references to 80s/50s/90s style or wahtever from the past as long as it's big. Plus colour has been important - not colour with taste but lime green, yellow, orange, red - it's primary all the way.

For the men, it's the golf club look.... skinny jeans, tee and cardigan and plimsols and floppy hair.

 

[sim667]

those fucking nylon baggy trousers with lots of shitty strips of cloth hanging of them.....

 

[Ms T]

In the early nineties I wore jeans with bodies, cut off denim shorts/hotpants with thick tights and stompy shoes. Oh, and leggings, which have made a major comeback in the latter half of this decade.

 

[May Kasahara]

Uggs and their knitted cousins must surely become a recognised late-00s look

 

[dodgepot]

Oh, and leggings, which have made a major comeback in the latter half of this decade.

leggings are ace.

 

[kyser_soze]

In the early nineties I wore jeans with bodies, cut off denim shorts/hotpants with thick tights and stompy shoes. Oh, and leggings, which have made a major comeback in the latter half of this decade.

AHH, the Body!! I remember those - my ex had loads of them. My fave feature was the fact they buttoned up at the gussett

Major fashion wrongs of the 00s:

Crocs.

 

[whoha]

Visible underwear. Thongs for women and pants for men ,hanging out the back of peoples trousers. urgh.

 

[killer b]

I'd have thought it would be the most prominent. Which was Britpop.

i think that's somewhat revisionist - loads more people were into house & related musics (and the looks that go with it), although it didn't get the same media attention.

still, history seems to be written by white boys with guitars...

 

[kyser_soze]

i think that's somewhat revisionist - loads more people were into house & related musics (and the looks that go with it), although it didn't get the same media attention.

still, history seems to be written by white boys with guitars...

Agreed - the Britpop period was when dance music had it's first big peak in the UK - I was 2/3rd yr uni when stuff like Parklife and Cigarettes & Alcohol were released.

 

[DotCommunist]

Let's not forget how huge hip-hop was becoming at that time as well. Death Row records was still in full dodgy swing

 

[killer b]

it annoys me that the popular conception is that oasis and similar bollocks is 'the sound of the 90s' when it was house, techno, hardcore and jungle for far more...

 

[kyser_soze]

still, history seems to be written by white boys with guitars...

Nah, white boy journos who wish they could play guitars.

 

[Refused as fuck]

it annoys me that the popular conception is that oasis and similar bollocks is 'the sound of the 90s' when it was house, techno, hardcore and jungle for far more...

Either way, you're saying shit music was the sound of the 90s.

 

[STFC]

Agreed - the Britpop period was when dance music had it's first big peak in the UK - I was 2/3rd yr uni when stuff like Parklife and Cigarettes & Alcohol were released.

There was a crossover though - I used to go raving in Adidas/Puma/Reebok trainers, Levi 501s, Ralph Lauren shirts, Adidas tracksuit tops zipped all the way up etc.

 

[Fedayn]

Burberry house check.

 

[killer b]

Either way, you're saying shit music was the sound of the 90s.

bless.

 

[bluestreak]

i was a crusty throughout most of the 90s.

 

[Refused as fuck]

i was a crusty throughout most of the 90s.

So you also have extensive experience of shit taste in music?

Put it on your CV.

 

[tarannau]

Can I just point out that not one fucking kid around me went for the Britpop look. I only noticed the thing because I went out of borough to a posher school, where the laughable sight of Southerners putting on accents and scally limps made it one of the most pathetic and short lived fashions ever.

 

[such and such]

Sleeveless puffer vest thingos. Stupid tiny plastic butterfly clips. Glitter smeared on every single part of the body.

 

[Refused as fuck]

... I went out of borough to a posher school...

You'd never tell.

 

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[Cloo]

Sleeveless puffer vest thingos. Stupid tiny plastic butterfly clips. Glitter smeared on every single part of the body.

Oh jesus, the glitter. It got to the point where I referred to it as 'fairy acne'.

Not that I didn't use the odd bit myself, but never to the point where it looked like I had a sparkly skin condition.

 

[Onket]

I'm looking forward to 2020.

 

[kyser_soze]

I don't remember a wave of sexy academic/scottish widow-burd look-alikes sashaying down the street anytime in the last couple of decades...shame really...ahhh, 2010 fashions...bring it on!!

 

[rhod]

2030

(well, you never know..)