So What Are You Saving From the 90s?

I had also several pairs also 1 plain black, the other with the words SUN TOUR written down the side of the leg. & wool/acrtic pair in my teens.

Yes my crazy Boss ! The other thing he decided that would be a great fashion hit was:-
A little like a tank top made in white the same material as the shorts but was printed all over with kisses. I can only describe it like this:-
If you imaging wearing pillar box red lipstick then kissing a sheet of glass the impression left behind on the glass was the style of this printing which was done all over the top.
It was again for the teens market sold at the same shops on sale or return, I had to unpack the returns and boy was their so many.
On a positive note if you ever see one for sale the it might be a good investment as it could be a collector item of the future.

A slightly different note we use to buy in a very famous brand of trainers at around £15 a pair sold them to shop for £30 them Joe public paid £60
 
What was i doing in 1992? graduated from high school and starting college so i was probably in the same shop as that girl.

But do you guys remember bodysuits?? Snapped at the crotch and mostly longsleeved but with different necklines. I remember mock turtleneck ones the most. and then the wrap front. I ever in my hand me down faux pax went right to "the source" so to speak and wore a leotard (without the tights) that had been my mothers in some year in the 60s/70s. It was black and short sleeved. she wore it for dance. I wore it with jeans that were ripped at the knees (naturally from falling frfequently, not by design, ) combat boots and some mod belt.. And my hair was parted down the midle and long. I would put on a vintage blazer or a flannel shirt depending on where i was headed. But i bathed frequently. And although misguided, my 18/19 year old self thought i looked cool.

How could i have forgotten vests?

I esp remember tapestery vests with tapestry on the front and satin or rayon in the back. and then ones with deelybobs on them. and then they started to be made really cheap where it was just "printed". And some wore men;s vests but instead of altering them, just wore them big boxey and loose. ones with no buttons came around too. i did have a vest or two but mine were fitted and i wore them with pencil skirts. (no tapestry though, just more solid i think)

And the pencil skirt was back with the banded waist and the small hem circumference that looked a lot more like the 40s versions.
 
Yes...bodysuits, I had so many! Some superb lace ones, which were quite expensive and a gorgeous velvet one with its own fitted bra...a very sexy wench look about it, I still have that one, found it the other day, wish it still fit!!!

I also remember the long satin shirts and I remember buying a whole bunch of beaded vests which I really loved to wear with those wool lycra mix long pencil skirts and of course fabulous boots. Loved wearing different boots in the 90s. Wish I still had them, silly me I let them go!
 
To answer the original question, I'm really not saving anything from the 90s. My personal collection pretty much stops at 1977, the year I stopped following fashion and turned to wearing vintage. I honestly have no recollection of fashion trends from the 80s and early 90s.
I sort of rejoined the fashion world in the mid 90s when Calvin Klein brought back the sheath, and black became so popular.

For the past few years I have been saving 80s and 90s designer clothing, but this spring I went through those boxes and was ruthless in editing out the crap. I only kept stuff that was top of the line (black label Armani made the cut, Armani Exchange did not) or that was highly representative of the time. I kept several great dresses, one by Scaai, one is Carolina Herrera, another is Ghost, several suits, including a fantastic Lagerfeld one that I ought to go ahead and sell, and a few separates - skirts, jackets, pants. But almost everything had a designer label, because as Jonathan said, this is a lot of what the 90s were about.
Lizzie
 
I also remembered a fashion accessory that was super popular in the 90s that I know I had mass quantities of and those were the large dangling earrings....I used to wear them all the time...felt naked leaving home without them!

All kinds of interesting large earrings...mainly the danglers but even some large ones that just sat on the ears.
 
Part of the problem too is that the early 90s looked like what most people think of as being 80s in style -- power suits with padded shoulders and stiletto heeled shoes. I recall that late 1992/1993 is when that whole 70s boho/hippie thing came in and shoulder pads disappeared, but women continued wearing shoulder pads until 1998. I remember that part because I got a huge estate of high end 80s clothes in 1997 and had a sale that Fall and was surprised how well the power suits sold to women who bought them for work. I thought they were a little dated already but they sold.

The 1990s were a bit like the 1950s -- most of the 1950s was a continuation of the New Look from the 1940s and only about 1957 did styles unique to the 1950s show up and those styles continued into the 1960s.
 
Ooooh, 90's clothes are so much fun.
I'm saving all my Club/Rave, street wear & Grunge type outfits from the early/mid 1990s
I should post some pics, I've got some crazy stuff

:smug:
 
Jonathan mentioned the power of the label...was the blocky prints with logo names 90s? When were the RL bear and ski jackets out?

I started college in 91 and wore a lot of flannel shirts, lots of paint stained jeans and tshirts, jump boots and the assorted industrial early goth stuff.

I have a mint cond pair of Docs still in the box that my friend didn't want any more. I took them out yesterday tempted to wear them. Couldn't do it. I wore mine bought at the same time, but I'll be taking good care of them!
 
In the ninties. Hot pants were in with platform shoes. Crochet dresses and tops and 1940's style hostess dresses.... Cropped sweater.... Gaultier was king then....

Shoulder pads were there but not cool at all....

The minute doc martins became mass produced I dumped mine...

-Chris
 
I remember wearing my Doc Martens (and ripped jeans) a lot. Actually, Doc Martens were really great for Chicago winters. Much better than the stiletto heeled boots that came in fashion next.

The style I remember most from the 90's is the high-waisted, babydoll dress. I had (or should I say, still have) a black flower-print one. Quite short, it hit around mid thigh. The fabric was sheer and I wore it with only a black bra and black bicycle shorts underneath. Yowza! Then again, I was dating a guy in a rock band and that outfit got my hand kissed from a rock star so I guess it was good for something. ;)

Connie
 
The 90s had so many looks, it is really hard to choose! Most of the things I remember have been named here are a few more.

I remember early in the decade they did the funkiest textured pantyhose. Lace and leopard print, checks and stripes even plaid. Then their were the sheers with back seams and ankle designs, rhinestones etc. Some were nice but others were really horrid, but I think they are so bad they are worth saving! Sometimes I find them still in the packages and you know they sell. The kids get a kick out of them

There was great lingerie in the 90s. Garter belts, teddies, bustiers... The bustiers were sometimes gorgeous. Lace and beading embroidery etc. You can't go wrong with bustiers!

I loved the goth and punk looks from the 90s. My oldest son was in his teens and part of that scene. They LOOKED intimidating but were actually very sweet kids. The girls were so scary/cute in their Doc Martens, stainless steel jewelry and short black painted fingernails. One girl wore this army trench coat that dragged the ground with baggy plaid pants and a ribbed torn cotton tank top (black of course) They used to make hand printed or magic marker patches with band names and logos and sew them on their back packs. I bet those will be collectible some day.
 
I'm obsessed with watching 90210 - it's back on the air here. Brenda and Kelly wear the cutting edge mid-90's styles that make me hate the 90's as much as everyone in the 90's hated the 80's LOL
 
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