https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:03:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-441256 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 22:29:49 +0000 Aida 441256@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>(90s being "vintage" is just people doing the "if it's 20 years old it's vintage" thing. So by that definition, 1990 and 1991 are now vintage.) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-441189 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:58:11 +0000 Dashrashi 441189@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Agh, I can't do 90s. I'm 26 and it makes me feel OLD AS HELL. Like, how can ditsy floral slipdresses be back? That was the stuff I was SO FREAKING EXCITED ABOUT when I was shopping for back to school stuff in 4th and 5th grade, so when it took over half of Urban Outfitters while I was in law school, and all the college girls were like, "Oh, this is so fun and retro!," it just made me feel incredibly old. I think the Chictopia girls are just young enough that this is their first go-round, and at the same time, this is my first experience with trends coming back around on me (so for me, it's off limits).</p> <p>ETA: That said, I still wear plaid because I have always loved and will always love plaid. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-441108 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:39:03 +0000 rae 441108@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I love the 90s, but I understand that there is a difference between resurrecting 90s trends and dressing like you haven't seen a mall since '92. Maybe that is where one might use 90s as derogatory. There is also the fact that not EVERY trend from the 90s is making a comeback... I feel like there is a very particular attitude that is carrying over from the 90s, and if you happen to be channeling something else, it might end up reading as dated. For example, I don't get the sense that the big, sunflower-applique hats from the show Blossom are regaining popularity. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-441102 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:27:29 +0000 Heather 441102@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Denise: the 90s--best decade ever. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-441095 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 19:18:41 +0000 Ali 441095@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Surely our feelings about trends and eras are influenced by our experiences?</p> <p>So to me 40's fashion looks glamorous, whereas my Nana disliked it for it's association to the war and immediate post-war austerity.</p> <p>For the 90's the Donna Karan-esque fashion from that era is aspirational because I couldn't have afforded it at the time, but the grunge is flashback-central to teen angst....</p> <p>Oh and anyone referring to 90's fashion as vintage is pretty young surely? </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439924 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:01:41 +0000 Fruitful 439924@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>CocoLion, I think you are right about the low rise flare jean being more 00s. I think it started right at the end of the nineties then went mainstream in the 00s. Britney broke in 1999-2000 with Baby One More Time and it became quite a signature look for her (and a very handy one for pear-shaped lasses with a pre-pregnancy stomachs! :D) </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439917 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 08:44:33 +0000 Anonymous 439917@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I LOVE 90's looks Right now, I'm really liking plaid, flannel, florals and chunky shoes. I do think they have to be interpreted intelligently to avoid looking dated, but I think that's true of most retro looks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439904 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 07:27:14 +0000 CocoLion 439904@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>What is interesting to me is that everyone defines the 90s slightly differently. That low rise flare jean with a crop top (and a big blingy belt buckle), I think of as Frankie B from the early 00s, not the 90s. I was probably just late to the party.</p> <p>The rise got lower in 1995. I remember this very well because it was Tom Ford for Gucci who had an ad campaign with this silhouette. It was worn with an Equipment style silk shirt.</p> <p>In the 90s I had the money to buy high quality garments, many of them made in Italy. They were beautiful. I chose the minimal suits for work. I had some very funky patterned pants and cool velvet jackets for party wear.</p> <p>Angie's blog post made me laugh -- I had that cream colored power suit. It had a long jacket and long vest.</p> <p>I used to wear those jeans, belted tight at the waist and paper-bag style, along with a crop top. That is one look I probably won't revisit. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439784 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:55:27 +0000 goldenpig 439784@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hahaha, I was just thinking about this because whenever I post some of my old pre-YLF clothes (or anything new but that is vaguely similar) Rita (modgrl) "busts" me for wearing 90's stuff. I think of her as my 90's fashion police! ;)</p> <p>Angie, thanks for that post (and also Fruitful for talking extensively about '90's fashion in an earlier thread). I had no idea what was really in fashion in the 90's so it's hard for me to know what to avoid. But I would love to see more of Fruitful and ironkurtin's old pics from the 90's...I bet those pics still look super-fashionable even now! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439723 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:33:00 +0000 Anonymous 439723@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Mmmmmm that might have been me making a recent derogatory comment about the 90's! I think I just did not have the right body type for a lot of the clean lines and lack of feminine detail in the suiting. </p> <p>I could be wrong, but what comes to my mind are heavy heeled high-vamp loafers, short skirts and long jackets, monochromatic looks (twin sets/matching your shirt to your jacket exactly, dresses with matching long coats).</p> <p>I'm very plain looking without a lot of curves, and I often feel like I need ALGO to look right. This was not my favorite decade for clothing silhouettes, but that shouldn't keep anyone from loving it and working the 90's styles. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439625 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:58:01 +0000 Fruitful 439625@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Very interesting (and fun) blog post, Angie!</p> <p>I've gotta tell ya, I love a nice midriff baring top with a low rise flared jean </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439607 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:41:33 +0000 Angie 439607@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I blogged about this, Denise. As with every fashion era/decade, there is a good and a bad. This is how I feel about the '90s:</p> <p><a href="http://youlookfab.com/2010/01/08/giving-90s-fashion-a-break/" rel="nofollow">http://youlookfab.com/2010/01/.....n-a-break/</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439598 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:36:59 +0000 Fruitful 439598@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>CocoLion, I don't think of nineties as an insult, for the reason you mentioned (the more fashion forward will be plundering a more recent decade, one still deemed dated by the mainstream).</p> <p>But I don't know if I personally would reach for many 90s outfits, because</p> <p>1) I didn't wear many of them at the time (clothes used to be expensive, I didn't have a job for most of the nineties, and a lot of them just didn't suit me)</p> <p>2) The ones I did wear feel enmeshed in that time in my life; I'm not sure if I want to feel like 14-24 year old me.</p> <p>I don't like: grunge style and heroin chic, the "Friends" look, baggy t-shirts tucked into mid-wash jeans, fabrications (there was a lot less stretch in the early 90s, so dresses and pants often didn't fit my pear shape).</p> <p>I do like: dance/club based fashion (colourful trainers, fitted t-shirts and tanks, glow in the dark clothing, phat pants); platform shoes, platform runners; some of the sixties inspired stuff; some of the looks Bjork was doing (which appear to have been inspired by rave culture). I also like some older hip hop looks. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439558 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:01:12 +0000 CocoLion 439558@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Interesting Ironkurtin. I subscribed to Harpers in the 90s, it too influenced my style.</p> <p>I'll look for the other thread, my attendance on this forum isn't as regular as it used to be. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439517 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:06:36 +0000 ironkurtin 439517@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I think there's another thread on this...?</p> <p>I loved Helmut Lang, Donna Karan, and their more monastic, severe, "uniform"- y looks of the 90s. My image of how I want to dress is 100% formed by a spread in Harper's Bazaar in the mid 90s - edited by Liz Tilberis - that was all lean trousers and red-soled heeled ankle boots and spare, effortless, classy, edgy cool. </p> <p>That is what I think of when I think of the 90s. It's still how I want to look, actually. I don't even remember the looks of the rest of the decade! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/very-90s-is-this-good-or-bad#post-439513 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:02:04 +0000 CocoLion 439513@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>When I read a 90s reference on YLF, I often read it as a pejorative, a negative aspect of a garment. (Not really coming from Angie's blog but more from the forum).</p> <p>Yet, I have seen posts on Chictopia with young women referring to 90s garments as "vintage" and incorporating these finds in their outfits. </p> <p>How do you feel about the 90s? There is definitely stuff I like. I like the late 60s thing that was going on mid-decade. (Think Anna Sui.) I also love the Armani power suits. Then there is stuff I disliked. Jumpers/dresses with a t-shirt underneath, worn baggy, midi length and with bobby socks. (Think Meg Ryan.) </p>