’90s Revival

I was all set with my trump card of ‘position of the fortnight’ but I’m glad to see it’s already been mentioned. Why did my parents let me read that magazine? I think I would have been about 13, but I was faaaaaaaar too grown up for Sugar.

Can I also throw into the mix ‘Groovy Chick’ bedding, stationary, t shirts…if it stood still, there was a Groovy Chick version.

Also skirts over trousers, denim pedal pushers, pleated tartan mini skirts and tops with many, many zips. Combined with lilac sparkly eyeshadow, hair mascara, a good dollop of body glitter and a heavy spritz of Impulse body spray (my favourite?It had to be O2 or Zen!) I was all ready for a banging night out, drinking pilfered Smirnoff Ice.

Whilst I’m sat in the doctors waiting room… off the top of my head….Keenan and Kel (who loves orange soda??!), Brandy and Monica, Tia and Tamara , MTV (waaaay too much American tv!!) East 17 and Brian Harvey’s hats worn way too high on his head, Tumbawumba (I get knocked down, but I get up again 😂), Hooch, coffee shimmer lipstick, Kangol hats, doc martens (now very much back in fashion), Adidas popper trousers and shell toe trainers, larva lamps, yellow smiley faces (I was too young to know the link to drugs!)….

Trying not to laugh out loud at all the posts above!!! This is an ace game, well done ladies you’ve brightened up my morning xx

I was in the older years of primary in the nineties so don’t have any teenage memories but still remember it quite vividly. I specifically remember polyester bootleg trousers with a skirt over the top in the same material, all sewn together. Popper trousers, cargo trousers with strips of material just hanging off them. Glitter body spray and hair mascara. That weird letter S everybody used to draw on scrap paper. What did that even mean? Does anybody else remember the spice girls photographs collection? That was a huge craze in our school playground. And pogs. I also remember the computers we had in school – one in each year 6 classroom which took floppy discs and the arrow turned into a bee when it was loading to show that it was busy. And the sound of dial up Internet, especially if you unknowingly picked up the phone while somebody was on the Internet. My kids find it hilarious that I had to go and plug the Internet in and listen to a load of screeching sounds. We also used to wait for a page to load and then disconnect from the Internet so we could read it offline without being charged. Perhaps that was getting more into 2000s though.

We also used to have ‘the mang’. Kind of like cooties in America. One kid would run around trying to infect everyone else with the mang but you would say “mang injected for life” and pretend to give yourself a vaccination in the arm with your fingers crossed over, like you’re wishing for good luck. Was all fun until you got stuck with the mang for too long and became a social leper! My husband remembers this from the nineties but lots of people don’t so maybe it was a local thing.

Absolutely loved playing that dream phone game and mouse trap. So jealous of kids who had them.

This is totally making me miss the 90s!!! My orange inflatable chair and Bewitched poster were the stuff interior dreams were made of. Also bloody loved my Tammy Girl dolphin “mood necklace”!
Anyone remember Samantha Mumba?!

Love all of these! Some great memories! What about organised dance routines at school discos?! Macarena and Saturday Night by Whigfield I’m looking at you