Home  
Love & Marriage Indian Community Centre Chinese Welfare Association Teenage Pregnancy
Entertainment More About the Project
Poleglass
Tullycarnet
Fashion
  Killyleagh Residential
90s fashion
     
 

 

  • Adidas Windpants
    Light windpants. Made noises everytime you moved. Came in a bunch of colors with a white or black stripe down the side. Also had button down ones.

  • Attitude Dude Shirts
    Shirts with line drawn faces that say one word or phrase beneath like. "I don't know"

  • Baby Doll Dresses
    Everyone had one. They were the dresses that were adorable and made you look like a baby.

  • Back-Pack Purses
    Exactly what the name describes; a miniture back-pack used as a purse.

  • Baggy Jeans
    Worn by both girls and boys, the baggier the better

  • Butterfly clips
    These became popular in 1998-1999. Little plastic butterfly clips that girls of all ages wore by the gross in their hair. The typical way of wearing them was to part your hair in several different places and to clip each section of hair so that the butterflies would be all in a row on top of your head.

  • Canvas Shoes
    Worn with very tapered pants, and scrunch socks. Best brand is Keds

  • Caps With The Tag Still On It
    In the early 90's baseball caps that still had the tag on it were in, whether it was the price tag or any type of tag.

  • Cargo Pants
    Somewhat of a wide leg, with large pockets part way down the leg. Usually blue, black, whitish, or beige.

  • Cole-Haan Loafers
    Geniune leather loafers that cost about 90 bucks; were the status symbol of my junior high years, everyone had to have them.

  • Diaper Pants
    They were the pants that had to flaps of material that crossed in the front and buttoned togeter.

  • Doc Martens
    They were boots and sandles that were very popular. They cost around $100 a pair, but almost every teen had a pair in the late 90's.

  • Double Shirt
    Kids in the 90's would wear 2 shirts: one regular long sleeve shirt and one button up shirt. The button up shirt would be un buttoned.

  • Fanny Packs
    Purses that buckle on to the waste. Very popular in the early 1990. Now it's considered to be a fashion faux pas.

  • Fishing Hats
    Floppy cotton hats like the type that have been popular with fishermen for years. Came in an assortment of colors, kaki, tan, cream...The brim nearly covered the wearer's eyes.

  • Flannel shirts
    Grungy, flannel shirts from dad's closet worn over concert T-shirts to complete the whole "grunge" ensemble.

  • Flare Jeans
    Similar to bell bottoms with less of a flare!

  • Flower Pot Skirt
    A skirt over trousers

  • GX jeans
    ALl the teenage girls wore them, started the flair jeans

  • Guess
    Guess jeans comes in a vaiable of colors, even bright colors. They also have Guess shirts. They range in prices from $35.00 for jeans and $25.00 for the shirt.

  • Half-heart
    Very popular in the early 90s, partly because of Laura Palmer's mysterious half-heart necklace on "Twin Peaks".

  • Hawaiian Prints
    Everything from shoes to necklases to shirts and shorts, etc that had hawaiian flowers or sayings on them.

  • JNCO
    Big, Baggy jeans. Popular amongst the teenage crowds. More populatr with skaters.

  • Levi
    Levi brand T-shirt that had "Button Your Fly" written in very large letters. These were very popular in the early 90s.

  • MHENDI
    Not quite a tatoo, but more than the stick on machine ones. You can get cool desings or make it yourself. Fun and lasts for a long time.

  • Mary Janes
    Kind of like loafers 90's way. Everyone had to have them...

  • Mini ball-chain necklaces
    Necklaces with a charm on them, usually a flower or a peace sign or a smiley face, or some didn't have a charm. Most people at my school wore them two or three at a time.

  • Nike
    The Most Popular sports wear for most of the 90s

  • Overalls (coveralls)
    As I remember, over-alls came back into style. In the early 1990's (approx. 1990 -1991 - I think) Teens wore their overalls in two ways: They wore their overalls with a belt, and let the 'front flap' and 'back straps' hang straight down. The other way, was to only hook together one side of the overal straps, and leave the opposite side open. I remember that this was popular when I was in was in the 6th grade. The popular over-all styles were: light blue; or gray stone-washed; overalls, with lots of zippers and metal buttons down the sides.

  • Piercings
    Getting your tounge, belly button, eyebrow, nipple, ect. Just whatever you could get pierced. Everyone has one. It was something cool.

  • Plastic Rubbery Bracelets
    Some glittery, some solid, some clear. Went with everything you wore, dressy or not.

  • Platforms
    Shoes with large thick heels on them very similar to the look of the 60's and 70's. Some were made of plastic and some made of cork, even wood.

  • Polar Fleece
    Everything fleece, vests, jackets, pants, socks, toques. Worn by everyone from little kids to senior citizens.

  • Sam and Libby flats
    These were ballerina like flat dress shoes that came in assorted colors with a funky looking little bow. They were very popular in the 91-92 school year.

  • Spiral Perms
    Long, spiraly curls ala Mariah Carey, were very popular in the early to mid 90s.

  • Stapled hems
    This quick fix became a common style in the early 90's. High school students would staple the hems of their dickies so as not to trip on thier designer bedroom slippers

  • Starter Coats
    Pull over coats that were big and puffy

  • Straw Hats w/ Flipped-up Brim
    Very pretty straw hats that had a flipped-up brim with flowers on them. Inspired by the tv show "Blossom".

  • Tattoos
    Formerly the preserve of gang members, jailbirds and other rebels, tatts are now so common that even the Spice Girls have them. You used to get a tattoo to stand out, now you get one to blend in...

  • Thigh-high Stockings
    Basically over-the-knee stockings that girls wore with very short skirts. Introduced around 1995, the two basic colors were black and white.

  • Tommy
    Tommy clothing is very hip and in style with teens in the 90's

  • Tube Socks
    Calf-high socks that didn't have a little seam where the heel went. We wore them with our sneakers and shorts usually kind of squised down so they'd wrinkle.

  • Union Jack dress
    Inspired by Geri "Ginger Spice" Halliwell in the late 90s,this was a very short dress in the design of a British Union Jack flag.

  • White Hairband
    A narrow, elastic white hairband worn near the front of the hair by teenage girls and young women in the late 1990s