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gingerlee
12-25-2007, 12:02 AM
I graduated in 2002, but I remember being in high school and speeding home in my car every afternoon to watch TRL. (This was 99). I would sing Backstreet Boys and 'NSynch all the time, but I'd listen to NIN and Korn too. Yeah, I was a strange kid.

Oooooh, and Abercrombie was *the* thing to wear. If you didn't you weren't cool. I only had a pair of capri pants and a t-shirt, so I wasn't all that cool in the clothing department.

mina loy
12-25-2007, 12:13 AM
I graduated in 2002, but I remember being in high school and speeding home in my car every afternoon to watch TRL. (This was 99). I would sing Backstreet Boys and 'NSynch all the time, but I'd listen to NIN and Korn too. Yeah, I was a strange kid.

Oooooh, and Abercrombie was *the* thing to wear. If you didn't you weren't cool. I only had a pair of capri pants and a t-shirt, so I wasn't all that cool in the clothing department.

i don't think diverse tastes in music makes anyone weird. i'm the same way. along with deftones i have...plumb and andain on my playlists!

i refused to wear abercrombie, though.

PhillyDancer1982
12-28-2007, 10:28 AM
I used to watch My So-Called Life and the movie Clueless. And why hasn't anyone remembered Beavis and Butthead or (better yet) Daria???!! Daria was the shit! :)

Hmmm favorite bands back then...Everclear, Third Eye Blind, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, No Doubt, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Fiona Apple, and I cannot forget Sublime.

I was rather geeky for a good bit of the 90s until about 1996, when I started dressing more in style. I wore mostly 70s clothes, such as bell-bottoms and plaid pants and velvet flare pants and chunky heeled shoes. I also remember the velvet or satin baby T's...they were also favorites of mine. The Delia*s catalog was big. I also remember shopping at now-defunct Kinney Shoes, Bakers Shoes, 5-7-9, and Strawbridge's. I actually thought the Gap was somewhat cool back then(hasn't it gotten more expensive and plainer these days?). I remember spring 1997 when tank tops became big, and I wanted to wear them more for the sake of being "trendy" than "sexy"...but my mom banned me from wearing them(lame and strict, right?). So I used to sneak tank tops underneath a sleeveless T-shirt and then take off the T-shirt when I got to school...no way was I going to let my mom's stupid rules interfere with fashion lol!(and sure enough as always, my mom bent the rules for my sisters soon after >:() My mom also didn't like belly tops(my dad called them "sleaze tops" lol), but she sometimes let me wear them if it meant that I wouldn't wear a tank top.

Does anyone remember the Jerome Russell glitter make-up? It came in all kinds of pretty pastel colors. I had a little tub of the purple glitter, and later I got the big ultimate glitter tub with like 4 different colors!(blue, pink, purple, silver) Or the cream eye shadows that were so hard to find in mainstream make-up stores? Or the metallic lipsticks? When I was 14, I would wear this copper-brown colored lipstick and I thought I was so cool haha.

I remember swearing to myself that I would NOT enter the 21st century as a virgin...and luckily I made my goal with a few months to spare. ;D

kaiarose
12-28-2007, 10:35 AM
I remember I used to wear Jnco's. Those baggy ass gangsta pants with boxer shorts hanging out the top of them. (Yea, bad, I know!) Then I cleaned up and the bell bottoms came back into style with the belly shirts and high heel sneakers. I graduated in '01 so some of this stuff maybe be too young for some people. (Not saying anyone is old, okay??)

PhillyDancer1982
12-28-2007, 10:36 AM
Oooooh, and Abercrombie was *the* thing to wear. If you didn't you weren't cool. I only had a pair of capri pants and a t-shirt, so I wasn't all that cool in the clothing department.

Ugh fuck Abercrombie. A lot of the sheltered rich kids at my high school were all about that shit in the late 90s. My close friends and I were self-proclaimed "Anticrombie" haha. The clothes were way too plain and conservative for my taste, and way too conformist looking. We used to sneer and mock all the losers who actually paid $45 for a plain-looking, ill-fitting mustard T-shirt with the "Abercrombie" logo stitched in the corner. We also used to go to the mall and think up creative ways to annoy the Abercrombie employees and get kicked out of the store, just so we could boast that we were kicked out of Abercrombie LOL(I got kicked out twice in one month!). By this point, it was 1999 and I thought I was Hot Shit for having recently lost my virginity, so I was overconfident and therefore a little too free with my foul opinions and mockeries of all the Abercrombie wearing peoples who'd previously mocked me for being a "dateless loser" only a few years earlier. ::)

kaiarose
12-28-2007, 10:38 AM
I remember hearing that A&F clothes were pre -worn . I wonder if there was any truth to that??

PhillyDancer1982
12-28-2007, 10:42 AM
I remember I used to wear Jnco's. Those baggy ass gangsta pants with boxer shorts hanging out the top of them. (Yea, bad, I know!) Then I cleaned up and the bell bottoms came back into style with the belly shirts and high heel sneakers. I graduated in '01 so some of this stuff maybe be too young for some people. (Not saying anyone is old, okay??)

I remember the platform sneakers. Does anyone also remember the shiny puffy metallic sneakes? Some of those came with platforms, too. The shiny sneakers were all the rage in the mid-90s, right before I was able to get the money to start buying all kinds of "cool" clothes(i.e., when I started working an after school job...ohhh min wage felt like such great money back then! :P ) I always wanted a pair of the shiny burgundy-and-white saddle shoe style Airwalks, but I missed them the season they came out, and I was never able to find them afterwards. :( If I could find them today, I'd wear them now!!

Haha I also remember that stupid trend involving boxer shorts hanging out of baggy pants. When I was in 6th grade, these 3 boys got in trouble at recess because their pants were so baggy that their boxers were showing! Hahahahaha! The recess aide made them stand against a wall for 10 minutes. Us girls all pointed and laughed with them...it was hilarious.

PhillyDancer1982
12-28-2007, 10:44 AM
I remember hearing that A&F clothes were pre -worn . I wonder if there was any truth to that??

Hmmm I don't think so, I think they just made their clothes look really ugly and worn-out like preworn clothes. I can't understand why anyone would ever want to wear clothes that looked like they were worn out. When I was a teenager, I used to wash my pants inside out on the washing machine's gentle cycle, or I would wear my clothes a few times between washings, to AVOID my clothes looking anything less than brand-spanking-new. I was wearing the dark denim jeans back when the dark denim trend first started in 1996, back before it really caught on with the mainstream.

Tara_SW
12-28-2007, 11:36 AM
I remember the platform sneakers.LOL, I still have a pair of those! Mine are Volitile brand with skulls on the side and a black and white striped platform.

scarlett_vancouver
12-28-2007, 12:52 PM
Does anyone also remember the shiny puffy metallic sneakes? Some of those came with platforms, too. The shiny sneakers were all the rage in the mid-90s,

My best friend in high school had a mighty collection of those. My favourite of hers were airwalks made out of tennis ball material.

PhillyDancer1982
12-28-2007, 03:09 PM
My best friend in high school had a mighty collection of those. My favourite of hers were airwalks made out of tennis ball material.

Nice! I wish Airwalk still made those, but unfortunately they don't. Since the 90s, the Airwalk brand dismally went out of style and now they sell cheaper quality versions at Payless(my friend bought a pair a few years ago, and they started ripping apart within a month!). I wish I could find some "dead stock" puffy Airwalk sneakers.