Popular Nostalgia

Some fashions from our childhood and early days were crazy! Remember them here.

I bought some red spray-on hair mascara when I was about ten years old. My next-door neighbour and I sprayed a smily face on my little brother’s head and proceeded to spray what we thought were very alluring, Geri Halliwell-style red streaks in our hair. The dye duly came off on our pillows that very [...]

The names alone are enough to put you off. When I head the American name for these monstrosities I nearly fell off my chair. Never has fashion been under such assault. Bum bags have never been cool for British 90′s kids. They conjure up images of the Pet Shop Boys and MC Hammer trousers. A [...]

The whole reason we have 999 -the circular dial telephone took aaaaages to return to start before you could turn the next number in. People didn’t make so many phone calls because it was actually less effort to run round to your mate’s house or write a letter to your granny. I’m not quite of [...]

The curtain hair-style. The bane of any 90′s male’s memory. Along with small circular sunglasses they were cool for a while but basin haircuts will not be missed. No matter how shiny and flowing your locks were.

Shag bands came in the form of jelly bracelets or nylon strips in varying colours. They were the must-have accessory of any 90′s child. They were cheap, they formed a currency in the playground and you could fit around 50 on one arm if you tried. Everyone wore them at school. Those daring enough would [...]

Lime Green Shirts were extremely cool in the nineties. Coupled with circular sunglasses, white jeans, a curtain hairdo for the boys and Kickers for all, Lime Green Shirts shouted Blur vs Oasis and no more Berlin Wall. For added kudos, one could purchase a Ben Sherman version or even opt for the rival to the [...]

Together with long hair, roller-skates and Bruce Lee, flared trousers epitomised the 1970′s. I heard a rumour that my next door neighbour once owned a pair of bright orange bell-bottoms and a purple velvet cape. Yeah baby! Groovy to say the least, these fashion assets weren’t complete without a waistcoat, granny glasses and a disco [...]

Pretty girl, great jeans and an intergalactic advert with the best soundtrack anyone had ever heard. We all rushed out to buy the CD and were sorely disappointed when, a minute into the track it all slows down and goes goth with some weirdo roaring into the microphone. What a let down. Worse still, no-one [...]

Every female born after 1983 has done a Sporty Spice kick. There was Sporty Spice (Mel C), Scary Spice (Mel B), Baby Spice (Emma B), Posh Spice (Victoria) and Ginger Spice (Geri Halliwell). Nobody ever wanted to be Baby Spice. Girl Power infused the nineties with high-kicks, shouted lyrics and tasteless costumes. Where would we [...]

No, not the down-market drugs, but the stripper style buttoned up tracksuit bottoms that adorned many a wardrobe in the 1990′s. Sporty Spice acted as ambassador for this ground-breaking attire which saw parents throughout the country forking out for Adidas trackies or worse, skimping on the poppers and buying the socially inferior “Abidas” or “Addidas” [...]

Jelly Shoes were a hit in the late 80′s and early 90′s. A must have for any school disco, the glitter and jelly rubber combo were chic additions for any 9 year old girl. The see-through variety could be matched to any outfit. For many girls, jelly shoes would signal their first foray into wearing [...]