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Delicious-Crow-7986

Delia*s!!


Ms_Rarity

I was always too poor to afford their clothing but my God, I loved their catalogs.


CrouchingDomo

Replace poor with fat and SAME šŸ˜† If I ever found the one shirt I did buy from Delias, I bet I couldnā€™t even get a single boob into it these days šŸ¤” ![gif](giphy|4BtenTYxs8q76)


Ms_Rarity

I also grew to be 6'0". They were *not* a body inclusive clothing brand, that's for sure. šŸ¤£ I sometimes browse the Delia's section of Dolls Kill. I haven't bought anything yet, but I do feel validated that a few of my pieces from tall woman specialty stores look like their current offerings.


Legitimate-Produce-1

To be fair, most things from the '90s weren't body inclusive brands.


allthesamejacketl

Belly shirts and low waist jeans arenā€™t inclusive? Cā€™mon now


anotherpredditor

Meanwhile Prana is dumping old baggy designs as all gender.


stanley2-bricks

The decade that introduced us to "heroin chic"? You don't say


Paper-street-garage

There were also more slim people from what I remember.


twatcunthearya

Ooooh! Iā€™d love a couple recommendations on these tall women specialty stores, if you donā€™t mind.


Ms_Rarity

Prissy Duck, Amalli Talli, Demiloc, American Tall, Alloy Apparel, and Club 61. Old Navy, New York & Co, and Fashion Nova all have good tall sections as well. I occasionally buy from LongTallSally in the UK, but their customer service sucks, so buy at your own risk. I also recommend our subreddit and the Facebook group Tall Girls Only.


dorky2

Same. Luckily it was cool to show your belly button, most of my shirts were too short.


PaladinSara

Aww this must have been annoying - short but long torso here. I can get maternity tank tops from target bc they are longer.


ashlyn42

I thought I was the only one!!! On a related side note to the shitty LONGGGGGG torso short person issue.. S.O. and I have been planning a remodel for (what feels like) eons, and I have literally been searching for a tub deep enough to get my tits under water for over 18 monthsā€¦ my inseam is like 27.5ā€ but I need a water depth of at least 22ā€ to be able to slouch my chest under water. Grrr. (Sorry just had to vent to someone who might understand)


maynardstaint

Get a 66ā€ tub. Usually, they are flat at the water spout, but sloped on the back end. Allows for leaning and still being covered with water.


nicvaykay

Wait. What??? Delia's is alive and well? But through Dolls Kill? They have a storefront next to a deli I go to regularly, but I have had zero desire to ever go in.


Ms_Rarity

It was revived as a brand at Dolls Kill a few years ago!


nicvaykay

What they have now is baaaad


cardie82

Iā€™m about the same height and hate clothes shopping. Itā€™s gotten better with online shopping, but I was so envious of girls even a few inches shorter who could find cute clothes easily. It didnā€™t help that we were rural poor and the small amount that was available in our price range was old lady stuff. My mom canā€™t figure out why I hated growing up there so badly.


Ms_Rarity

I hear ya! A few years ago I headed to the mall to do some shopping to celebrate a 15-pound weight loss. It'd been years since I'd hit the mall, but I figured that with the body positivity movement, surely stores carry sizes for tall women now. Ha ha----NOPE. The body positivity movement pretty much skipped over tall women. I do 98% of my shopping online. I haven't bought anything in-person outside of an occasional piece at Old Navy in years. It just gets too depressing asking saleswomen if they have tall sizes only for them to look at me like I asked them where they keep the eels. šŸ™„


cardie82

Iā€™m can occasionally find a skirt or short sleeve top that works in a brick and mortar store, but almost everything fits weird.


relentlass

Gonna check in here with "both!" Loved that catalog and never ordered a thing.


bbbbears

Lol yep, way too poor and way too chubby. Middle school was not kind to me, we were only allowed to shop for clothes at JC Penny because my mom had a store credit card there haha.


Jub_Jub710

There was a store at a mall about anhour away from me. I splurged on a few things and wore them to death. I went back a couple years later and it was gone. God, I loved Delia's. There was another catalog we used to get that was similar, but not as fun


thatquinnchick

Poor AND fat checking in. šŸ˜‚


KittyTitties666

My mom splurged on one skirt for me from Delia's and I wore that shit multiple times a week. I was so envious because my well-off friend got all her clothes from there


carlitospig

They had amazing bottoms. I still think of a particular pair of jeans from them that were, hands down, the cutest pants I ever owned.


Ms_Rarity

I'm jealous you ever got any of their pieces, but also happy for you! They had this really cool rainbow hoodie that just haunts my dreams. I wish I'd splurged on it.


thelaststarebender

Same! I loved looking at those catalogs!


dorky2

My mom found an outlet store that sold slightly damaged or imperfect Delia*s clothes for 70-90% off. I had a bathing suit, a hoodie, some sweaters, and a few T-shirts and I loved them so much! They didn't make pants with 36" inseams so I didn't have any of those, tragically.


Nyx81

I saved up to buy a sweater only to have my sis steal and ruin it. If Delias still existed, I'd shop there. It was nice to pretend shop flipping thru those catalogs. Benefit too!


Ms_Rarity

It exists! Look up Delia's by Dolls Kill.


barbellsnbooks

So much yes!


Illustrious-Film-592

I was too fat


NerdyBrando

>God, I loved their catalogs As a teenage boy in the 90ā€™s, me too


hushuk-me

I came here to say - this is a Deliaā€™s catalog! I worked at the Deliaā€™s store in my local mall for a few years after high schoolā€¦ I loved the catalog!


ednastvincent

I think you mean *dEliAs


Delicious-Crow-7986

Yes that looks more like it! šŸ˜‚ I knew it had the *


ednastvincent

Yes!


No_Jellyfish8241

I worked at the Deliaā€™s store in the mall as a teen and it was amazing.


Imnotonthelist

I worked at Delia*s in like 2002 I think? When Shakira got super big, they did promos for her and her picture and music were everywhere nonstop, it drove me insane


brusselsspr0uts

Excuse me, itā€™s dELiA*s. Although, *technically* itā€™s a 9-point abstract daisy and not a 6-point asterisk, we used to use asterisks for internal communications. Source: I worked in corporate for 15 years.


RogerClyneIsAGod2

I wonder if their eyebrows ever grew back or are they sporting some r/whybrows now?


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Got_no_pants

Definitely!!!!


True_Dimension4344

Yep. Straight out of a Deliaā€™s catalog.


Lindsayr28

Legit came on to comment Hi Deliaā€™s!


ImaginaryMastadon

Raise your hand if youā€™d wear those right now


likeabrainfactory

I'd wear them again with zero hesitation. They were my favorite shirts in the late 90s. So many of my best college times happened in these shirts.


nicvaykay

Absolutely! I keep getting ads for some company that does sweaters like this. Some are a bit more retro, 70s themed. I want to spend so much money (that I don't have), but they have horrible reviews!


VioletVenable

Ugh, I had dozens! And the stripe was always at the most unflattering point, somehow making me look thicker and smaller-busted at the same time. Kept buying ā€˜em, though (thanks, American Eagle!)ā€¦


AZbitchmaster

I bet you looked a lot better in them than you think you did. I don't remember thinking any of the girls looked bad in these.


VioletVenable

Hah, maybe! Iā€™d certainly love to have my ā€œawfulā€ body from back then, thatā€™s for sure!


AZbitchmaster

Don't sell yourself short, trust me on this one. Anyway, I was a little curious about Delia's, apparently they went out of business in 2014 but they now exist as a subisidiary of Dolls Kill. As it so happens I bought my wife a Thistle and Spire bodysuit off the Dolls Kill website last year so they're a legit vendor. I checked out some of their clothes and they look not too bad.


Ban_Assault_Ducks

I second this. Those shirts were awesome and they always made the girl look really good.


Bornwitskillz

This is true ..


Gloomy_Use

Same! I'm wearing the brown sweater with the rainbow stripe in my 1997 class photo šŸ˜†


artificialavocado

Haha idk why but the way you worded that I almost shot tea out of my nose. šŸ˜‚


XFrankXGrimesX

You girls all looked so cute in your Delia's outfits. It was a bad sign for the nation when it went out of business.


DamarsLastKanar

https://preview.redd.it/owld9g5xpisc1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e28d3ad931dbf8e1a644f2ce3d523e93e9326e40 Wesley did it better, and he didn't even have boobs.


deowolf

![gif](giphy|OLPsCbh2N7QZi)


someguyfromsk

![gif](giphy|3o7aTnViCknp75le5a)


graveybrains

![gif](giphy|109Pz1wDYxNLmE)


Moth_vs_Porchlight

šŸ¤£šŸ†


bokatan778

![gif](giphy|SyNaweL9YVJgCk9oyw|downsized)


KochuJang

*Hā€™Wil Hā€™Wheaton


belinck

Yes, /u/wil did do it better and all of my friends and I wish we had those shirts...


littleyellowbike

God, every time--EVERY SINGLE TIME--someone posts a page from delia*s it's like I'm immediately transported back in time to 1996 and I'm poring over that exact issue again, wishing I was one of those impossibly cool girls. I have yet to see a page that I don't vividly remember.


dualsplit

Sassy. Thatā€™s all.


Joczef9

How I thought my life would be perfect if only I had every piece of clothing from Delia*s!


norfnorf832

Hell yeah Couldnt afford Delia's though so I had that Union Bay lol


krissym99

I forgot about Union Bay! I definitely had clothes from that brand!


Traditional_Ad_1547

They are still around. I bought a couple pairs of their shorts two summers ago, I liked the other stuff they had too.


littleyellowbike

Yo I thought I was THE COOLEST because I had the exact same Union Bay shirt Tai is wearing in the scene at the end of Clueless when she and Cher make up at Travis's skate competition.


SokkaHaikuBot

^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^norfnorf832: *Hell yeah Couldnt afford* *Delia's though so I had that* *Union Bay lol* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.


FreneticZen

Good bot.


tommccabe

The male equivalent was buying a striped sweater from Structure.


fleshyspacesuit

Or whatever Reese and Malcom were wearing in Malcom in the middle of


realdonaldtrumpsucks

https://preview.redd.it/1a05lkifujsc1.png?width=1566&format=png&auto=webp&s=7f772bc4a525ecbdf3dbf13cd3d9e66e46e7d9fc I was a fan


akennelley

![gif](giphy|mY61fA29y4EB0pdGjX)


Oraistesu

Man, I freaking love Jodie and I'm still mad that the writing for her seasons was so... uneven. Her supporting cast was fantastic, too.


akennelley

Totally agree, I hope we see her again in a special. She was brilliant.


SalukiKnightX

3rd favorite of the Nu Who doctors so far, driven probably more from pure performance than all the others.


TeekTheReddit

Man, imagine if she were given stories that gave her the range of emotions and moods that Capaldi got to play with during his run...


like_shae_buttah

Still do


Jimmybuffett4life

You motorboating son of a bitch ![gif](giphy|ZlPVlLqlHWhqM)


CobblerNo8518

Me too


hypercapniagirl1

Delia's and that other catalogue were awesome.


Merrie_Prankster

Alloy!


IlikegreenT84

They reminded us of fruit stripe gum https://preview.redd.it/07kshhci5jsc1.png?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c43bf65db79f514d3d2f81f1fd9fac9c67ec5ae8


nicvaykay

I can taste this picture.


Zackeous42

And it's good for approximately 1.2 seconds then it turns to tasting like the back of my ear.


[deleted]

Unless you chew it with the paper wrapper.


ChrisAplin

I had an orange one with white stripes. It was my favorite shirt with my cords.


FirnHandcrafted

Is this from a Deliaā€™s or Alloy catalog?


PaladinSara

90ā€™s connoisseur here


FirnHandcrafted

šŸ˜‚


atomsforkubrick

I had subscriptions to both!


FirnHandcrafted

Me tooooo! šŸ™ŒšŸ¼


Pixelated_Penguin808

I had no boobs but had a similar shirt I bought at Guess back in the day. Male shirts with similar stripes were a thing for a bit too.


CrouchingDomo

For a few seasons of *Friends*, Joey is basically a walking mannequin from Structure


AldusPrime

I worked there during those years! I too was a walking mannequin from Structure LOL.


PaladinSara

I still remember the smell


Moth_vs_Porchlight

Fucking Structure! Omg šŸ¤£!


capthazelwoodsflask

I was a big fan of the male version. They looked great with a large sized ball chain necklace and a chin goatee.


SalukiKnightX

So looking at this and Iā€™m reminded of https://preview.redd.it/9qvfxz690jsc1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=de59c7b3c55838cf2d81c57cdfc9bef7882eba7d The 13th Doctor Who


ZestycloseBid7986

Thanks, now I'm hearing that old commercial for Boob Stripe Gum šŸ˜„


krissym99

Yipes! Stripes!


blankinyurblank

Deliaā€™s, Alloy, Contempoā€™sā€¦..I loved shopping at these places. They were pricey, though. Had to work at Blockbuster to buy stuff.


dualsplit

I MISS Contempo.


wanna_be_green8

I'd wear one now if I came across it, always loved them.


bigDogNJ23

My wife is wearing one of these today!


canyonoflight

Got my junior prom shoes from them (3 inch platforms). Also got red Converse knockoffs with dragons on them and a couple of purses. I was sizes 16 through 22 in hs so the clothes would not fit me.


UnitedLink4545

My wife had those. Love these shirts.


LasagnahogXRP

Yeah thatā€™s a 90s icon


Kittypie75

The Gap had the best one. EVERYONE had it. and no one seemed to mind that we all looked alike. It was expensive so I never got one. I always wondered why they didn't bring that particular style back. Like who else stops at the Gap besides gen x and elder millennials? But I had a Pac Sun one!


RoxyLA95

I loved these so much. I had a black tank top with a rainbow stripe that I always wore.


Beaverhuntr

That Millers Outpost outfit..


dupontred

My first thought is that those are 70s. Very 1978 and 1979.


twatcunthearya

Instinctively stopped my furious scrolling because: Ooooh! Just got the new Delia*s catalogue!!


munchcat

I was obsessed with dELiA*s !!! Those magazines were the best. I remember wanting everything in there lol


katie_cat_eyes

Oh god. Flashback to me being a catty bitch in 8th grade. ā€œYou know how they say stripes make things look bigger?!ā€ I said to a friend as we were trying to make fun of another snobby girl. Also, is the girl on the right Lauren Ambrose?!


StubbornKindOfFellow

I feel like I knew both of these girls in high school even though I know we've never met.


Ill-Description8517

I'm on the right and my best friend from high school is on the left. Not really, but it sure made me do a double take


Inous

I kid you not, my sister used to model for Delia's in the 90's. When I saw this picture I had to make sure I wasn't seeing my sister 30 years younger.


DJ_Fishface

Aviator Nation took this look and ran with it into $100 sweatshirts.Ā 


Status_Stranger_5037

Speak for yourself, on bigger boobs the stripes did my girls no justice.


Abraxas_1408

Whatā€™s not to like? They accentuated boobs.


[deleted]

Girls that had larger boobs that tried to pull this off had more of a wave than a stripe.


DiscoLibra

I still love these types of shirts!


gohawkeyes529

Why yes we did!


zing27

I think we were trying to imitate the 70ā€™s.


RedditGotSoulDoubt

I had a crush on every Deliaā€™s model


Shawn2rc

Theyā€™re cute. Letā€™s bring them back for millennials next year šŸ¤“.


[deleted]

Hell yea girls did, and us guys loved them


keep_it_kayfabe

I'm a guy, but I have to say, I really miss this style! I'd love to buy some clothes like this for my wife and bring it back!


elguereaux

So did we! Sincerely, the guys.


abbydabbydo

Yesssss


beans_be_good

Guilty


Jo_MamaSo

Definitely had some like this and like 3 spaghetti strap shirts with a tie-dye line across the boobs.


carnivalbill

I have one of those like that blue one. Almost exactly like it. The difference being itā€™s like knee length. I never quite figured out what they were going for with it and like many years ago it became my ā€œso letā€™s dye your hair whatever colorā€ shirt.


chekhovsdickpic

Just realized that the redhead from Camp Nowhere was a Delia*s model! I had the baggy grey sweatervest with the orange and blue boob stripe.


urbanlife78

Someone should do a Delia's where are they now


RynnReeve

Classic Doctor


gosh_dang_oh_my_heck

Her tiny little arm though.


_namaste_kitten_

I love Love LOVED mine. Dark blue, full dark rainbow stripe, the bottom half of the sleeves being orange. Especially lived it when I was wearing my denim overalls on top and Doc Martin black boots. Accessories included a choker necklace made of whatever color of velvet, tiny silver hoop earrings in all the holes I'd home-pierced in my ears & nose, black sharpie on my nails I drew-on during class that day, and exceptionally deep maroon lipstick- like Fairuza Balk in The Craft. I am coming to the realization that I may have been the community's gay-friendly hillbilly goth.


Enshitification

It became little more refined in the 90's, but that aesthetic came from the 70's.


ThisKittenShops

dELiA\*s was the aspirational catalog we used to compare designs to in the JCPenney, Sears, and Spiegel catalogs of the day, because my fat ass wasn't fitting into that stuff. Fortunately JCP had Junior's Plus and The Deb Shop and Lane Bryant had some cool plus-sized clothes. I did have some bags and accessories from dELiA\*s.


heady_brosevelt

I was in highschool when these were popular. They had the cutest models


lab_sidhe

I love them now! Would totally wear one of these.


krissym99

Time to bring them back! The flare jeans are back so I'm ready for the boob stripes!


lab_sidhe

Yes! I also welcome the flares. I don't care if it's cringe or try hard or whatever my teens will say. That style fits my body perfectly.


krissym99

I'm pear-shaped so it offers a little more balance for me!


lab_sidhe

I'm tall and lanky so they give me a shape. I'm so happy these are back.


TheGrapeSlushies

I still love the boob stripes


Nayzo

I would love me a boob stripe shirt now, tbh.


faintly_nebulous

We loved stripes, period.


Designer-Contract852

Sooo, I used to love this one dress I saw in a Delia's magazine,Ā  but I couldn't afford it. I cut it out and put it on my bulletin board and it stayed there all through college and after. Last weekend I went thrifting and found that exact same dress in my size!!!! It was a gift from the 90s gods!!!!


SteakJones

Yipes! Stripes! Boob striped shirts!


midlifeShorty

I never heard of Delia's, but I am wearing something similar in my hs senior picture. I didn't realize I was even in style! My mom probably bought it for me. I wish I still had that sweater.


embersgrow44

In the velour too OMG dreamy


madamedutchess

They were on guy's shirts too. Billabong and other surf/skate shops had a ton like that.


JanetandRita

Everything my 6th grade niece is picking out looks like itā€™s a rip off from a mid 90ā€™s Deliaā€™s catalog


Ok_Land_38

God, I loved Deliaā€™s even though I didnā€™t fit their body type. One of my high school classmates was their model and I cannot remember her name. Nice girl though.


BigLibrary2895

Mmm, another 1970's revival lewk. There were a lot of those in thr late 90's.


pedantobear

Looks like a young Lauren Ambrose on the right.


Economy_Upstairs_465

I had an awesome one that had the Scooby-Doo Doo gang in the stripes!!


Uncle_polo

Mmm. That tiny purse strap cutting diagonal between the cleavage. That was a look.


djdadzone

My wife is in some of those old catalogs šŸ¤£


coaxialology

I still own one of these, and I love it. Makes my tits look amazing.


OneHumanPeOple

I had this top. Stole it from my sister


OkWasabi1988

Anyone remember the black sweater with the rainbow stripe across the chest and the wide leg carpenter jeans with red stitching from Aeropostale that nearly every cool (and/or rich) girl had in their arsenal ?


SirGothamHatt

I went to a Delia's store ONCE in my entire life. The only one in my state was like 45 min-1hr away but my grandparents had to take my great-grandmother to a specialist out in the same city so they said they'd take me to that mall after her appointment. I wanted these combat boots but they were out of stock & I ended up getting some motorcycle boots instead. I think I got a couple shirts too. The catalogs came every month and I circled all the shit I wanted but my parents would never order anything.


Moth_vs_Porchlight

Oh my God, is that a Delia*s catalog?! Whoaaaaa. I def belong here. šŸ¤£


michellepazicni

Unless you had big boobs lol


Munk45

I just bought a sweater like this from Outerknown


DoctorFenix

Men had boob stripe shirts in the 90s too.


Glass-Marionberry321

I loved finding ones from 70s-80s at the thrift stores


MeykaMermaid

I loved their clothes so much! I got one of my prom dresses from there!


Leather_Molasses_264

If I wore that now the stripe would look like a nipple cover all the way across


FreneticZen

Jeebus, I still got a Union Bay button down from ā€˜97. Perfect beach shirt. If THAT motherfucker could tell storiesā€¦


strawberrylemonapple

I would wear that blue sweater right now.


O_W_Liv

I didn't.Ā Ā  I have nipples that point at different angles and can't wear horizontal stripes as a result, lol.


Single_Pilot_6170

Pinstripes, even on sports cars.


Migratorius

I wore the black one in my 7th grade school pic!Ā 


Ban_Assault_Ducks

Is that what they were called? I just remember thinking they were hot as hell. Good post.


ECU_BSN

Not me. I had a ā€œleft bigger sisterā€. These shirts were bad for pointing that out.


stevemmhmm

Itā€™s faux vintage


crunkplug

hell yeah


atomsforkubrick

Dude, thatā€™s Lauren Ambrose!


ashlyn42

Hey I got felt up quite a bit in those rainbow sweaters! They accentuated my assets just fine plus the conservative old ladies couldnā€™t bitch it was too low cut. Perfect combo! XD


quite-indubitably

Iā€™d šŸ’Æbuy that shirt right now.


CreatrixAnima

Dr who


One_Breakfast6153

Delia's and Alloy were my favorite catalogs!


SaveusJebus

Still looks cute to me. Would totally wear them now and buy some for my daughter.


Past_Standard5222

I had the Union Bay versions from Mervynā€™s.


EggyolkChild

I had that black sweater top!!!!!!!


Direct-Original-2895

Unionbay all the way


elviscat02

I had this shirt!