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90’s Fashion: Clothes, Hairstyles, Brand Names & Hip Hop

The 'Rachel' haircut: The 'do' that Jennifer Anniston who played Rachel on TV's Friends wore. Many women saw women like Jennifer

Anniston as cutting edge with choppy hairstyles that angled the faces of the wearers.

Adidas Wind pants: Light wind pants. Made noises every time you moved. Came in a bunch of colors with a white or black stripe down the side. Also had

button down ones. Warm-up wind pants became trendy for both men and women within the country, as they sought to be comfortable during everyday activities.

BackPack Purses: Exactly what the name describes; a miniature backpack used as a purse.

Baggy Jeans: Worn by 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 much 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.

Doc Martens: They were boots and sandals 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.

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

Fishing Hats: Floppy cotton hats like the type that has been popular with fishermen for years. Came in an assortment of colors, kaki, tan, cream...The brim

nearly covered the wearer's eyes.

Fanny Packs: Purses that buckle on to the waste. Very popular in the early 1990's. Now

it's considered to be a fashion faux pas.

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!

Guess: Guess jeans come in various colors, even bright colors. They also have Guess shirts. They range in prices from $35.00 for

jeans and $25.00 for the shirt.

Hawaiian Prints: Everything from shoes to necklaces to shirts and shorts, etc that had Hawaiian flowers or sayings on them.

Nike: The Most Popular sports wear for most of the 90’s.

Overalls: As I remember, over-alls came back into style. In the early 1990's 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 overall straps, and leave

the opposite side open. The popular over-all styles were: light blue; or gray stonewashed; overalls, with lots of

zippers and metal buttons down the sides.

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 fleeces, vests, jackets, pants, socks, and toques. Worn by everyone from little kids to senior citizens. Fleece hit the mainstream during the late ‘90’s, as was the stretchy Lycra

fabric.

Starter Coats: Pull over coats that were big and puffy.

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 squished down so

they'd wrinkle.

White Hair band: A narrow, elastic white hair band worn near the front of the hair by teenage girls and young women in the late 1990s.

Hip Hop Style

-Cross Colored clothing

-bowler hats,[6] double-breasted suits,[6] silk shirts,[6] and alligator-skin shoes ("gators"). - everthing big and baggy -Tommy Hilfiger was the most prominent brand in 1990s sportswear, though Polo, Calvin Klein, Nautica, and DKNY were also popular. -Other brands, including FUBU, Ecko Unlimited, Mecca USA, Lugz, Walker Wear, Boss Jeans by IG Design, and Enyce, arose to capitalize on the market for urban streetwear. They followed in Hilfiger's footsteps by manufacturing all-American styles emblazoned with huge logos.

- Karl Kani and FUBU brought hip hop fashion to the mainstream. - cornrows and Caesar low-cut..

- Women in hip hop had emulated the male tough-guy fashions such as baggy jeans, "Loc" sunglasses, tough looks and heavy workboots

-In the mid- to late 1990s, platinum replaced gold as the metal of choice in hip hop fashion. Artists and fans alike wore platinum (or silver) jewelry, often

embedded with diamonds