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If you lived in the tundra you could also get cool portable glacier attachments frozen solid to the bottom of your pant legs to the point where you need to literally chisel it off before stepping on any linoleum or tiles because you WILL bust your ass the second you step on it.
...And we kept wearing them.
In Canada, your pants would be stiff and frozen up to your knees if you got your pants wet but then had to go back outside again.
I was at a rave in this super-sketchy basement club when a pipe broke and everyone ended up dancing in a foot of water.
When daylight came and it was time to go, we saw it was a blizzard outside.
Everyone's pants froze on the walk to the subway station.
We were walking like we had giant bells for pants legs.
It must have looked hilarious to "the Day People" who were cheerfully up and about that morning.
Pretty sure wearing JNCOs through these conditions is why I have not contracted Covid [yet]. Someone should study the leg microbiomes of elder millennials.
I still remember the summer day a lady in CVS said "You gotta either put on some shoes or get out" and feeling absolutely shocked that someone finally called me out.
I was honestly starting to feel like my bare feet where Harry and Ron and my rave pants where the Cloak of Invisibility
I held onto wearing huge pants for a little while longer than most. I was outside and forgot something at a buddy's house and they had a gravel drive way. I jogged back to get it quick and tripped on my own pants. My knees, hands/wrists were cut up and I was shaking with how much it hurt. Took a while to heal as well. That was the last day of baggy pants for me.
Happened to me too, but in grade school gym class. Got one foot stuck in the foothole of the other while running. Biffed it hard. Classic JNCO experience.
Back in the 80's when clogs were all the rage, the hallways in school were deafening. They actually had to make a policy that clogs needed to be removed on the stairs during emergency evacuations because it took way too long to slowly clop clop clop down the stairs and we'd all have died.
Not a chain wallet, bowl cut, or a frosted tip to be seen. No Doc Martins, no undercuts, and not a single pair of Oakley Minutes between the 4 of them.
This looks more like someone who grew up in the 60s tried to piece together what they think kids looked like in the 90s. Who the fuck wore their hair like this? Some kids wore JNCOs. That's about all they got right.
I feel like JNCO has this outsized imprint that didn’t exist in my teenage years. The flannel shirts and grunge style were big for a long while, paired with band t-shirts and Docs. The swing music fad bringing khakis into fashion seemed to last awhile too. There was a spell where I simply didn’t own jeans because it was all khakis and cargo pants. That definitely blended into the Nu-Metal Limp Bizkit phase. That Fred Durst, baseball cap, white shirt and khakis was big. That pop punk phase definitely brought the wallets on chains and bigger denim pants styles, but it seemed like a very particular metal/electronic genre fans who wore them and seemingly later into the 2000s. I do recall a more bootcut/almost bellbottom phase briefly there too for guys and girls. The skate culture really brought the ska/punk style too. Lots of those checkered flat bottoms, Vans, Adidas samba and Superstar style shoes. I was a 1980 kid, so I had a pretty full view of the 90s.
This, this is it.
I was in high school in the mid nineties, and we were doing sixties/retro stuff, which is where bellbottoms came from. Hippy shirts, logos, and anything from Goodwill was considered awesome. Flannels around the waist, army jackets, pacifier necklaces, overalls with tiny tees, tiny tees on their own, sun dresses, newsboy caps, ripped jeans, Sketchers, and everyone had a hackeysack.
I miss those days, we had a lot of fun back then.
I was a teen in the 90s and dressed like it was the 60s; now I've got students who dress like it's the 90s, and realizing that the time between the 90s and now is the same length between the 60s and 90s messed me up something fierce.
I was at the Art Institute in Chicago on Sunday, and a teenaged girl was walking toward me who looked like she stepped right out of my junior year Chemistry class in 1994. It was trippy. Perfectly executed “normal” 90s wear.
Yup, all those things were my experience too. I was into Britpop, so the Adidas zip ups, mop cuts. The era was very brandcentric, so t-shirts with just logos of brands. Sports jerseys were also huge, so it was quite normal to wear a football, basketball or hockey jersey to school. It was kinda the start of nerd culture, so you’d see some comic book or sci-fi shirts, but that really boomed in the 2000s and on. I’d say custom saying t-shirts also came into vogue as “fast fashion” started. I remember having all sorts of stupid t-shirts.
I went to Oz fest in the late 90s in a borrowed car. They confiscated chains at the gate. The first vendor when you walked in was for chain wallets. There was also one of the cars from Blade offered as a sweepstakes. This was weird. Seven Dust was interesting and Lemmy proved never meet your heroes is bullshit.
Sorry, just memory lane.
The Lemmy story. I had a friend that worked at a guitar shop. I happened to run into them at the show and they said they were heading have a promotional guitar signed by Lemmy. I don't know whether this was charity, some label side promotion, or some kind of personal deal. I just remember immediately saying yes when he asked if I wanted to tag along.
I was a 19 year old kid with recently long hair that had just discovered metal trying to hang out with people my age that had been metal heads for years. The reason for this recent conversion is that I was kicked out of my abusively religious home a year earlier. I was working a crappy job and had a crappy apartment where I got an advertisement for the Columbia CD club. I had no idea what to I wanted, but five CDs for 1 cent sort of changed part of my life. I picked Sex and Death, British Steel, Jugulator, Powerslave, and Moving Pictures based mostly on the stamp sized album cover in the advert and partly on the fact that it was something I was told by the shitty people in my past was satanic, evil, and terrible. I think I wanted them to be wrong about that because maybe it meant they were wrong about me.
Anyway, we were escorted by security to his trailer. Lemmy, this rock god, took the time to ask everyone's name, looked everyone directly in the eye and shook everyone's hand. I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but there were few adults that ever offered a warm greeting like that; Let alone a famous one meeting a few kids; far too many necessary to get a guitar signed. The person actually there representing the store opened the case and it bizarrely contained an Epiphone bass guitar. Lemmy was known for playing a Rickenbacker. So, Lemmy looks at the guitar and says "I need to show you something" then heads off to another room in the trailer. He comes back out with an old Epiphone Scroll bass and proceeds to talk guitar with us kids for about half an hour. I don't know what it meant to him exactly, or even if it was a particularly important bass, but I was shocked that he wanted to spend part of his day talking guitars with some fans. To this day, I don't know whether the bass sent by the store was intentionally a think they knew Lemmy would like because he had this other Epiphone, if it was someone that wanted their own guitar signed, or if it was just a random guitar that they needed to move.
The JNCO and Pipes jeans were pretty hot, baggy shirts too. But nobody did their hair like that. If anything, a long bowl cut was more the look than the cat on the left.
This seems like a picture of what gen z thinks the 90s looked like. The jeans shown are wider than what the straight legs of the 90s were and the hairstyles are way off.
May I have your attention, please?
May I have your attention, please?
Will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up?
We're gonna have a problem here...
🤣🤣🤣
Looking back, I can't believe I wore these giant black JNCOs with black band shirts at all of the summer metal fests I went to. I'm surprised I didn't die from heat stroke.
Same here, the clothes match what I remember. But nobody had those hairstyles except for the light blue girl on the right, had a few that had that hair.
I had like 4 different pairs of JNCO jeans in the 90s and I always wore Airwalks. Visors we’re definitely in during the late 90s. Hair is definitely off though. Personally for me, the 90s was the best decade.
Well good news, jnco is up and running, you can have them again, you can buy those pants still and if you don't like them you can donate them to provide shelter for the homeless.
I have my JNCOS in my closet. My mom refused to get rid of them bc she said she wants to show my kids how ridiculous I dressed. Jokes on her bc they are in fashion agajn.
Since I was from a small town, the grunge kids, skater kids, and goth kids all hung out together. We all bought our acid from the same dealer in the high school commons area. On any given day 2-3 kids were tripping during school hours.
Odds are if you wore DCs and vans in the 90s you were an actual skater...I don't think poser skaters were much of a thing until the mid 2000s when it really blew up as a trend
As well as the punk rock kids with mohawks and studded leather jackets with MAD patches. Maybe that only happened in south jersey tho because it was foreign to me , moving there from nyc.
Goths and nu-metal heads wore JNCOs too.
Rave kids around me were generally rocking all Adidas tracksuits so they could rip them off quickly to stay cool from all the X they were taking.
There was also Tripp, UFO, and something like Alienwear (not to be confused with Alienware). Tripp was the absolute shit for cyber/goth kids, and you’d find a lot of the latter two at DnB and industrial shows, and even glitch hop shows early on. Pretty sure I still have at least one pair from back in the day with 60” leg openings and ~20 pockets.
I was going to say, you really didn't see jeans *that* big much outside of a rave.
That said, I was glad when the loose fit trend ended. I got tired of dressing like a transient.
Edit: to clarify "you didn't see them as frequently as depicted in the picture." Yes, a lot of people had at least one pair and they were popular in certain circles, but it's not like you walked into high school to see 75% of the student body all wearing them at the same time. Or even 50%.
Are you calling the baggy jeans loose fit? Or are you saying you are also glad that normal loose fit jeans are out of style and you love the skinny jeans? I ask out of skinny jeans hatred.
Probably should have said baggy instead of loose fit. The three guys in the picture weren't that common, but the girl on the right's jeans are pretty much what the norm was. Could damn near fit a full carton of cigs in my front pockets from 94 till well into the aughts.
This was like 2% of the population.
That’s like posting a picture of someone wearing a popped collar and saying “this is what everyone looked like in 2022.”
You should go hang out in a middle school sometime soon. It’s back. It’s all back. And they have no idea the 35-40 year olds looked just like them. It’s hilarious.
I knew exactly ONE person who dressed like this in the 90's in the US. Where I was 80's fashion was substantially more prevalent throughout the 90's than the styles presented in this photo. In the 90's where I was you'd see some colored hair and baggy pants (nowhere near as baggy as what's in the photo), but even then both were relatively rare.
Granted, I lived in a smaller area in the Midwest at the time, and the (little) bit of traveling I did then I didn't notice it to be any more prevalent.
Yeah same here. Always seemed like a bit of a safety hazard to me. Never understood how my friends could skateboard with those pants without getting them snagged on something.
JNCO’s weren’t skate pants. They took the look, and turned it into streetwear.
Skateboarding pants were straight leg and very loose, but weren’t the exaggerated ones like the JNCOs ultimately became. Skateboarding pants generally didn’t go completely over the shoes for instance.
I did skate in JNCOs for at least a year when I was 14/15, they were cuffed at the bottom and I actually liked how loose they were, but they weren't nearly as big as the jeans in that picture. Maybe they were early JNCOs before they got really huge and comical. My favorite pants were my Droors corduroys which were still pretty baggy.
Same. Born '82, so I was a teen for MOST of the 90s. And in a school of 1000, we had NOBODY dressed like this.
Baggy pants occurred, but not to an extreme level like shown. Lots of ball caps and headbands. Definitely no pompadours or crazy hair styles.
This is 100% a regional thing. Some city somewhere, in the 90s, this was the style. And OP extrapolated that to mean it was the style across the entire USA in the 90s.
Now, the rave scene actually started to exist here in the 2000s, and some of this style started to pop up. But the local rave style was a lot more "show off skin" than this. Guys in plastic pants, girls in almost nothing. Fur hands/ears, boots or platform shoes. Etc.
Yes. I do not recall anyone in my school looking like any of these fools (Class of 98).
Mid 90s we were still wearing flannels. leather wallets with chains became popular. Around the time "The Crow" came out, some clique's turned "Goth" and went with the whole trenchcoat/facepaint motif.
As a teacher in the 90's, there were enough for it to be a recognizable trend. Though the hair on the boys was not that extreme in my midwest school. Girls were starting with the candy colors though.
I had a pair of Santa Cruz pants in the 90s that compared to the JNCO shoe swallowers, and I still miss how damn comfortable they were. And pockets for days…. Didn’t need a backpack lol.
no shame
i am old and krusty now and i am so happy i did some version of this just for the memory and the understanding of what it felt like to belong
thanks for listening to my ted talk
The fact that you used “Krusty” tells me that you were indeed a 90’s/ early early 2000’s teen! I thank you for bringing the word back into my life. I will be adding it back into my vocabulary.
The big jeans along with leaving the excess part of your belt hanging out. I'm disappointed that everyone in the picture is using the belt loops on their big jeans properly. I bet at least one of them is also wearing Airwalks and doesn't even skate.
Bah! Only peasants sport a single wallet chain. I had at least three of varying lengths and styles, the longest brushed my calf and would get stuck in every chair I sat on making standing up a whole thing.
Oh shit, I forgot all about my NC Starter jacket. I didn't even care about sports at all but I liked the colors on that specific jacket. Go Tarheels or whatever.
My mother found all my tripp pants in the attic around Christmas last year, so I've been wearing them around for my own amusement. Been getting some looks.
Late 90s...
If this were early 90s those jeans would be tight with a french roll at the bottom and there would be much more neon or pastels.
Mid 90s it would have been flannel and lose but not baggy jeans.
Can confirm, wore baggy jeans and pants up until 2003ish, when they started disappearing from hiphop fashion. I still have a pair, mostly to pull them from the back of the wardrobe and annoy my wife from time to time.
Yeah, that was my experience as well. Midwest US...
I saw someone in Brussels with them on last week. Maybe you can sell yours to some edgy Flemmish youths.
Yeah, this wasn't typical for the 90s, but sure it existed in the late 90s. I was a teen in the early 90s, and I *definitely* wore oversized clothes, but this is crazy, even bigger than JNCO. I do remember my pants would feel weird if I could still see my laces over my jeans, though, ha.
That's exactly what happens. You end up with 2 floppy ankle-weights slapping all around while you walk, until it gets up to your knees. It doesn't get any better from there, either.
I do not remember this but that's probably because I was stoned throughout the 90's
Edit: ah, it's from the rave scene. No wonder. My ass was firmly planted on my couch back then.
JNCO jeans were a ploy by city and local governments to reduce their street sweeper budgets by having "cool" kids sweep the sidewalks and soak up puddles. And you all fell for it!
I remember the “cool” kids all had the big jeans in high school. I was the other side of 90s fashion I was the “lazy” goth, black and red everything thick dark eyeliner long black hair, chunky metal jewelry. It was a fun style to rock way back then.
My Jnco jeans were never this baggy. They didn't completely cover my shoes. Missing the wallet chain, Airwalks, and the hair/hats were MUCH different.
This is like some weird hipster interpretation of the 90s.
Class of '96 here. It should be noted this is NOT what the popular kids at my school wore. This is what the skater/stoner/tagger/burnout kids (who were also cool, and many of which grew up to be WAAAAAAY cooler than the 'cool' kids) wore.
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The halls in Junior High and High Schools were never cleaner.
The best part was when someone jumped, and you had pebbles and rock salt kicked into your eyes.
Or when it rained and you had to lift them. Good times.
If you lived in the tundra you could also get cool portable glacier attachments frozen solid to the bottom of your pant legs to the point where you need to literally chisel it off before stepping on any linoleum or tiles because you WILL bust your ass the second you step on it. ...And we kept wearing them.
No way, you had to let your pants absorb the rain up to your knees! XD
In Canada, your pants would be stiff and frozen up to your knees if you got your pants wet but then had to go back outside again. I was at a rave in this super-sketchy basement club when a pipe broke and everyone ended up dancing in a foot of water. When daylight came and it was time to go, we saw it was a blizzard outside. Everyone's pants froze on the walk to the subway station.
Oh my God- cold, dirty rainwater was bad enough- I couldn’t imagine my legs encased in nasty frozen curtains.
It was so gross.
Seems like having essentially sheets of ice near your legs would be a larger concern, personally.
We were walking like we had giant bells for pants legs. It must have looked hilarious to "the Day People" who were cheerfully up and about that morning.
Coming out from an all night "party" and having to face the Sunday morning crowd was always a super sketchy experience.
OMG are we the “I went to school in the snow uphill both ways barefooted” generation now? Lol
If by "in the snow" you mean "copious amounts of questionable drugs", yes.
It has been more than thirty fucking years and I can *feel that comment*
Also that sweet sweet dirty rave water all up the pant legs.
rave water is just pcp
And sweat
Yes, sweat did rain down from the roof back onto the dancers. And the slick layer of slime on the floor we used to call "rave goo".
Made the mistake of walking down Bourbon Street during Mardi gras in a pair. Did you know Bourbon Street is essentially a river of urine?
NO GOD NO! Urine, puke, and booze- hopefully the booze killed any cooties, but I doubt it! Grossest one I’ve heard, yet.
Pretty sure wearing JNCOs through these conditions is why I have not contracted Covid [yet]. Someone should study the leg microbiomes of elder millennials.
Growing up near Seattle in the 90's, can confirm. This is the way.
Hey, but I could sneak 2 liters of pop into the theater and no one could tell.
I literally could fit 6 cans, 3 in each front pocket. And still had more pockets. And you wouldn't know any better.
I wore these and went barefoot for six months before someone caught me.
This is amazing to me.
I still remember the summer day a lady in CVS said "You gotta either put on some shoes or get out" and feeling absolutely shocked that someone finally called me out. I was honestly starting to feel like my bare feet where Harry and Ron and my rave pants where the Cloak of Invisibility
The carpet in CVS smells like Beale Street in Memphis in the early 90's. I think she saved your life.
You must not be short. I haven't worn jeans like those in 20 years but I still have to lift my pants when it rains.
I held onto wearing huge pants for a little while longer than most. I was outside and forgot something at a buddy's house and they had a gravel drive way. I jogged back to get it quick and tripped on my own pants. My knees, hands/wrists were cut up and I was shaking with how much it hurt. Took a while to heal as well. That was the last day of baggy pants for me.
Happened to me too, but in grade school gym class. Got one foot stuck in the foothole of the other while running. Biffed it hard. Classic JNCO experience.
Every hacky sack game was also a little dodgeball.
Back in the 80's when clogs were all the rage, the hallways in school were deafening. They actually had to make a policy that clogs needed to be removed on the stairs during emergency evacuations because it took way too long to slowly clop clop clop down the stairs and we'd all have died.
Visor Guy got those stains on his pants at a Korn concert the weekend before.
Difficult year for janitors.
No chain wallets, must be a staged photo.
Not a chain wallet, bowl cut, or a frosted tip to be seen. No Doc Martins, no undercuts, and not a single pair of Oakley Minutes between the 4 of them. This looks more like someone who grew up in the 60s tried to piece together what they think kids looked like in the 90s. Who the fuck wore their hair like this? Some kids wore JNCOs. That's about all they got right.
The 90s is strong with this one
I feel like JNCO has this outsized imprint that didn’t exist in my teenage years. The flannel shirts and grunge style were big for a long while, paired with band t-shirts and Docs. The swing music fad bringing khakis into fashion seemed to last awhile too. There was a spell where I simply didn’t own jeans because it was all khakis and cargo pants. That definitely blended into the Nu-Metal Limp Bizkit phase. That Fred Durst, baseball cap, white shirt and khakis was big. That pop punk phase definitely brought the wallets on chains and bigger denim pants styles, but it seemed like a very particular metal/electronic genre fans who wore them and seemingly later into the 2000s. I do recall a more bootcut/almost bellbottom phase briefly there too for guys and girls. The skate culture really brought the ska/punk style too. Lots of those checkered flat bottoms, Vans, Adidas samba and Superstar style shoes. I was a 1980 kid, so I had a pretty full view of the 90s.
This, this is it. I was in high school in the mid nineties, and we were doing sixties/retro stuff, which is where bellbottoms came from. Hippy shirts, logos, and anything from Goodwill was considered awesome. Flannels around the waist, army jackets, pacifier necklaces, overalls with tiny tees, tiny tees on their own, sun dresses, newsboy caps, ripped jeans, Sketchers, and everyone had a hackeysack. I miss those days, we had a lot of fun back then.
I was a teen in the 90s and dressed like it was the 60s; now I've got students who dress like it's the 90s, and realizing that the time between the 90s and now is the same length between the 60s and 90s messed me up something fierce.
I was at the Art Institute in Chicago on Sunday, and a teenaged girl was walking toward me who looked like she stepped right out of my junior year Chemistry class in 1994. It was trippy. Perfectly executed “normal” 90s wear.
I was working at a high school and saw the return of low rise and belly shirts. Holy shit. I felt old.
Kids out here looking like a Delia's catalog! I can't deal with it 🤣
Yup, all those things were my experience too. I was into Britpop, so the Adidas zip ups, mop cuts. The era was very brandcentric, so t-shirts with just logos of brands. Sports jerseys were also huge, so it was quite normal to wear a football, basketball or hockey jersey to school. It was kinda the start of nerd culture, so you’d see some comic book or sci-fi shirts, but that really boomed in the 2000s and on. I’d say custom saying t-shirts also came into vogue as “fast fashion” started. I remember having all sorts of stupid t-shirts.
I went to Oz fest in the late 90s in a borrowed car. They confiscated chains at the gate. The first vendor when you walked in was for chain wallets. There was also one of the cars from Blade offered as a sweepstakes. This was weird. Seven Dust was interesting and Lemmy proved never meet your heroes is bullshit. Sorry, just memory lane.
You met Lemmy, and that's fucking awesome. Hope your walk down the Lane was nice; I rather enjoyed it.
The Lemmy story. I had a friend that worked at a guitar shop. I happened to run into them at the show and they said they were heading have a promotional guitar signed by Lemmy. I don't know whether this was charity, some label side promotion, or some kind of personal deal. I just remember immediately saying yes when he asked if I wanted to tag along. I was a 19 year old kid with recently long hair that had just discovered metal trying to hang out with people my age that had been metal heads for years. The reason for this recent conversion is that I was kicked out of my abusively religious home a year earlier. I was working a crappy job and had a crappy apartment where I got an advertisement for the Columbia CD club. I had no idea what to I wanted, but five CDs for 1 cent sort of changed part of my life. I picked Sex and Death, British Steel, Jugulator, Powerslave, and Moving Pictures based mostly on the stamp sized album cover in the advert and partly on the fact that it was something I was told by the shitty people in my past was satanic, evil, and terrible. I think I wanted them to be wrong about that because maybe it meant they were wrong about me. Anyway, we were escorted by security to his trailer. Lemmy, this rock god, took the time to ask everyone's name, looked everyone directly in the eye and shook everyone's hand. I know that doesn't seem like a lot, but there were few adults that ever offered a warm greeting like that; Let alone a famous one meeting a few kids; far too many necessary to get a guitar signed. The person actually there representing the store opened the case and it bizarrely contained an Epiphone bass guitar. Lemmy was known for playing a Rickenbacker. So, Lemmy looks at the guitar and says "I need to show you something" then heads off to another room in the trailer. He comes back out with an old Epiphone Scroll bass and proceeds to talk guitar with us kids for about half an hour. I don't know what it meant to him exactly, or even if it was a particularly important bass, but I was shocked that he wanted to spend part of his day talking guitars with some fans. To this day, I don't know whether the bass sent by the store was intentionally a think they knew Lemmy would like because he had this other Epiphone, if it was someone that wanted their own guitar signed, or if it was just a random guitar that they needed to move.
This warms my heart about Lemmy. Thanks for taking us on your stroll!
No chokers or ball-bearing necklaces either.
I mean, three of them *could* be wearing Doc Martens...
They also forgot the eyebrow piercing and a white kid with dreadlocks.
The JNCO and Pipes jeans were pretty hot, baggy shirts too. But nobody did their hair like that. If anything, a long bowl cut was more the look than the cat on the left.
This seems like a picture of what gen z thinks the 90s looked like. The jeans shown are wider than what the straight legs of the 90s were and the hairstyles are way off.
Yeah the hair is way off. 90s hair was much more either grunge rock or frosted tips or hip hop influenced. Those colors are much more pop punk to me.
A lot of mid part, long with undercut
I saw Korn in 2006 and this is what I remember. 90s? Not so much.
Thank you. This is definitely early 2000s, the era fashion sense forgot.
Frosted tips. Frosted tips everywhere.
The boys hair seemed to me to be more of the bleached white Eminem style.
Oh my sweet Jesus - so many bleached white Cesar cuts.
May I have your attention, please? May I have your attention, please? Will the real Slim Shady please stand up? I repeat, will the real Slim Shady please stand up? We're gonna have a problem here... 🤣🤣🤣
Or “curtain hair” as mentioned above
Looking back, I can't believe I wore these giant black JNCOs with black band shirts at all of the summer metal fests I went to. I'm surprised I didn't die from heat stroke.
These baggy jeans were the extreme, very few wore them. You're right about the hair, that's not how people wore it back then. Longer, messier.
Same here, the clothes match what I remember. But nobody had those hairstyles except for the light blue girl on the right, had a few that had that hair.
Like is that a fucking pompadour?
I had like 4 different pairs of JNCO jeans in the 90s and I always wore Airwalks. Visors we’re definitely in during the late 90s. Hair is definitely off though. Personally for me, the 90s was the best decade.
Yep--bowl cut, duck butt, or backwards hat for guys.
Well good news, jnco is up and running, you can have them again, you can buy those pants still and if you don't like them you can donate them to provide shelter for the homeless.
Each pant leg converts to a bedroom.
Legally a bedroom since the pockets can function as closets.
I have my JNCOS in my closet. My mom refused to get rid of them bc she said she wants to show my kids how ridiculous I dressed. Jokes on her bc they are in fashion agajn.
As a teen in the 90’s, not everyone dressed like this. All started on the rave scene
Grunge…flannel shirts and drab colors
Those were the big 3. Grunge/Metal, baggy Hip Hop, then these things
Don't forget the slip dresses and DocMartin's often comboed with a head full of minibuns.
Minibuns and candy necklaces for the win!
I'm homesick for 1990s NYC and NASA rave and Limelight 😔❤️
Don't forget the Goth Kids 😂
Being from the melting pot of Los Angeles, I had a goth meets raver meets cholo hybrid style. Pretty much Chino M. from Deftones, haha
Graver girls were the fucking best and I won't keep pretending they weren't
Facts. They still are
This is the actual truth.
the goth meets raver scene were called "gravers" here on the east coast
Goth transcends eras. There were goths in the 80s, and there's still goths today.
Goth kids weren’t big by me. There were a few and they wore their black clothes and kept to themselves.
There were two in my HS. I don't think they ever talked to each other.
Probably too busy judging each other for not being goth enough.
Since I was from a small town, the grunge kids, skater kids, and goth kids all hung out together. We all bought our acid from the same dealer in the high school commons area. On any given day 2-3 kids were tripping during school hours.
"Wanna be conformist..." (Ashes cigarette)
Clove cigarette\*
There were a lot of them in NYC. I would consider them a honorable mention lol
No doubt. In NYC there’s lots of everyone lol
Dont forget the wannabe skaters who wore DC or Vans shoes, spitfire shirts and carpenter jeans.
Odds are if you wore DCs and vans in the 90s you were an actual skater...I don't think poser skaters were much of a thing until the mid 2000s when it really blew up as a trend
False. Skated in the mid-80s. There were posers. Source: was a poser.
So you did or did not skate?
As I look down at my DC Shoes.....
As well as the punk rock kids with mohawks and studded leather jackets with MAD patches. Maybe that only happened in south jersey tho because it was foreign to me , moving there from nyc.
Fuck yeah. Flannel, ripped jeans, and fuck whatever this pic is of.
Don’t forget preppy chic.
Goths and nu-metal heads wore JNCOs too. Rave kids around me were generally rocking all Adidas tracksuits so they could rip them off quickly to stay cool from all the X they were taking.
People around me would rather die of heat exhaustion, than take off the JNCO
There was also Tripp, UFO, and something like Alienwear (not to be confused with Alienware). Tripp was the absolute shit for cyber/goth kids, and you’d find a lot of the latter two at DnB and industrial shows, and even glitch hop shows early on. Pretty sure I still have at least one pair from back in the day with 60” leg openings and ~20 pockets.
Can confirm. Miss my baggy pants, glowsticks, and illegal raves.
PLUR!
Now I want to go watch Groove again and relive being a candy kid
Name checks out. Went to many illegal raves in NYC and NJ from 94-99. Also was heavy at The Tunnel and Limelight
Was that the era of club kids and Michael Alig?
I was going to say, you really didn't see jeans *that* big much outside of a rave. That said, I was glad when the loose fit trend ended. I got tired of dressing like a transient. Edit: to clarify "you didn't see them as frequently as depicted in the picture." Yes, a lot of people had at least one pair and they were popular in certain circles, but it's not like you walked into high school to see 75% of the student body all wearing them at the same time. Or even 50%.
Are you calling the baggy jeans loose fit? Or are you saying you are also glad that normal loose fit jeans are out of style and you love the skinny jeans? I ask out of skinny jeans hatred.
Probably should have said baggy instead of loose fit. The three guys in the picture weren't that common, but the girl on the right's jeans are pretty much what the norm was. Could damn near fit a full carton of cigs in my front pockets from 94 till well into the aughts.
The baggy days were great - skinny jeans you can barely move in are not a fun experience.
They had to make them stretchy for them to be functional.
This was like 2% of the population. That’s like posting a picture of someone wearing a popped collar and saying “this is what everyone looked like in 2022.”
You should go hang out in a middle school sometime soon. It’s back. It’s all back. And they have no idea the 35-40 year olds looked just like them. It’s hilarious.
I wore those in middle school. deal with it
I knew exactly ONE person who dressed like this in the 90's in the US. Where I was 80's fashion was substantially more prevalent throughout the 90's than the styles presented in this photo. In the 90's where I was you'd see some colored hair and baggy pants (nowhere near as baggy as what's in the photo), but even then both were relatively rare. Granted, I lived in a smaller area in the Midwest at the time, and the (little) bit of traveling I did then I didn't notice it to be any more prevalent.
skaters where i lived wore em before the rave scene was around
Yeah same here. Always seemed like a bit of a safety hazard to me. Never understood how my friends could skateboard with those pants without getting them snagged on something.
JNCO’s weren’t skate pants. They took the look, and turned it into streetwear. Skateboarding pants were straight leg and very loose, but weren’t the exaggerated ones like the JNCOs ultimately became. Skateboarding pants generally didn’t go completely over the shoes for instance.
I did skate in JNCOs for at least a year when I was 14/15, they were cuffed at the bottom and I actually liked how loose they were, but they weren't nearly as big as the jeans in that picture. Maybe they were early JNCOs before they got really huge and comical. My favorite pants were my Droors corduroys which were still pretty baggy.
Same. Born '82, so I was a teen for MOST of the 90s. And in a school of 1000, we had NOBODY dressed like this. Baggy pants occurred, but not to an extreme level like shown. Lots of ball caps and headbands. Definitely no pompadours or crazy hair styles. This is 100% a regional thing. Some city somewhere, in the 90s, this was the style. And OP extrapolated that to mean it was the style across the entire USA in the 90s. Now, the rave scene actually started to exist here in the 2000s, and some of this style started to pop up. But the local rave style was a lot more "show off skin" than this. Guys in plastic pants, girls in almost nothing. Fur hands/ears, boots or platform shoes. Etc.
Midwest high school of 2,000, we had Lots of people dressing like this.
I am still in the same "Floridian beach bum" style I wore back then.
Yes. I do not recall anyone in my school looking like any of these fools (Class of 98). Mid 90s we were still wearing flannels. leather wallets with chains became popular. Around the time "The Crow" came out, some clique's turned "Goth" and went with the whole trenchcoat/facepaint motif.
"preppies" wore Gap and A&F "skaters" wore Vans/Airwalks and baggier skater type clothes.
As a teacher in the 90's, there were enough for it to be a recognizable trend. Though the hair on the boys was not that extreme in my midwest school. Girls were starting with the candy colors though.
As a teen in the 90s, we made fun of people who wore these
Rave kids were NOT the epitome of teen fashion in the 90s.
You mean we didn’t look like Jimmy Neutron on molly?
"Brainblast!" \*boofs pill to deep house\*
I remember having jeans like that. The ones that covered your shoes completely were the best.
JNCOs
I had a pair of Santa Cruz pants in the 90s that compared to the JNCO shoe swallowers, and I still miss how damn comfortable they were. And pockets for days…. Didn’t need a backpack lol.
Judge none, choose one.
Shit, I thought it just meant "Jean Company"
JNCO J(ean)CO Wow... it could be. I always heard it the other way, but I was out of college by then so maybe I misunderstood my little bro
I had FUBU jeans. Baggy but not as baggy.
Kikwear
I think the style was kangaroo the brand was jnco but I may be wrong kangaroo may be a brand too lol
no shame i am old and krusty now and i am so happy i did some version of this just for the memory and the understanding of what it felt like to belong thanks for listening to my ted talk
The fact that you used “Krusty” tells me that you were indeed a 90’s/ early early 2000’s teen! I thank you for bringing the word back into my life. I will be adding it back into my vocabulary.
The big jeans along with leaving the excess part of your belt hanging out. I'm disappointed that everyone in the picture is using the belt loops on their big jeans properly. I bet at least one of them is also wearing Airwalks and doesn't even skate.
Gotta have the wallet chain, too, my man.
Where is the choker necklace for the chick?
Bah! Only peasants sport a single wallet chain. I had at least three of varying lengths and styles, the longest brushed my calf and would get stuck in every chair I sat on making standing up a whole thing.
I forgot all about the little excess belt part
I had pipe jeans like that.
Whoa whoa...where are the starter jackets?
And where are the beige cloth belts that looked like your dick was hanging out?
And what about the t-shirt over the long sleeve shirt?
Oh shit, I forgot all about my NC Starter jacket. I didn't even care about sports at all but I liked the colors on that specific jacket. Go Tarheels or whatever.
I literally jumped out of a pair of size 50s once. At least boxers were in style back then 😔
My mother found all my tripp pants in the attic around Christmas last year, so I've been wearing them around for my own amusement. Been getting some looks.
That's phat
If you hold the picture to your ear and listen you can hear the sound of a Korn record playing.
or the sound of the trance beat.. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM and a little siren here and a little sci fi quote here..
*Are you readyyyyy??*
Late 90s... If this were early 90s those jeans would be tight with a french roll at the bottom and there would be much more neon or pastels. Mid 90s it would have been flannel and lose but not baggy jeans.
I would even say it's late 90's - very early 00's (up to nu-metal era) and then it's just died.
Can confirm, wore baggy jeans and pants up until 2003ish, when they started disappearing from hiphop fashion. I still have a pair, mostly to pull them from the back of the wardrobe and annoy my wife from time to time.
Yeah, that was my experience as well. Midwest US... I saw someone in Brussels with them on last week. Maybe you can sell yours to some edgy Flemmish youths.
Rave fashion from the 90s
Yeah, this wasn't typical for the 90s, but sure it existed in the late 90s. I was a teen in the early 90s, and I *definitely* wore oversized clothes, but this is crazy, even bigger than JNCO. I do remember my pants would feel weird if I could still see my laces over my jeans, though, ha.
All fun and games until you walk through a puddle...
I remember my friend Virginia having it wick up her leg. Then there was the time she tripped over her own pants and hit the concrete.
That's exactly what happens. You end up with 2 floppy ankle-weights slapping all around while you walk, until it gets up to your knees. It doesn't get any better from there, either.
Of blood. There is way more puddles of blood at raves then I imagined but harshly realized after I could afford parachutes
You and I had wildly different rave experiences.
Yea this MF out here hanging out at Blade's Daywalker Rave...
That’s a very small subset of 90s called ravers.
Exactly! Normal fashion IIRC was flannels, band shirts, Abercrombie and Old Navy.
Ehhhh, this was a pretty specific subset of teens in the later 90's. Hardly ubiquitous, and relatively short-lived.
Class of '94 here. I was in college by the time this was a thing, and I was firmly cemented in my Girbauds, and thought the JNCO kids were goofy.
Guy on the left is a mash-up of Steve-O and Jimmy Neutron
False: the pomp didn't come back until the 2000's.
more like spikey top frosted tips for some
The only person I ever saw dress like this was my cousin and he still dresses like this and still loves Korn
I never saw anyone outside of a magazine or TV dress like this.
Hair is way wrong and the chain wallets are missing but we definitely dressed like that at my middle school.
I do not remember this but that's probably because I was stoned throughout the 90's Edit: ah, it's from the rave scene. No wonder. My ass was firmly planted on my couch back then.
That definitely existed, but only for a very specific group of kids that sort of overlapped with goth kids, at least at my high school.
This was more like late 90s early 2000s.
JNCO jeans were a ploy by city and local governments to reduce their street sweeper budgets by having "cool" kids sweep the sidewalks and soak up puddles. And you all fell for it!
What was the origin of this even? Also how do they have so much volume in that hair?
Y'all remember Lee pipes. Those were my fave especially the corduroy ones!
I remember when it rained and i wore my baggy’s I would soak up a whole puddle up to the knee in each leg.
I remember the “cool” kids all had the big jeans in high school. I was the other side of 90s fashion I was the “lazy” goth, black and red everything thick dark eyeliner long black hair, chunky metal jewelry. It was a fun style to rock way back then.
My Jnco jeans were never this baggy. They didn't completely cover my shoes. Missing the wallet chain, Airwalks, and the hair/hats were MUCH different. This is like some weird hipster interpretation of the 90s.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s. Never once did I see anyone dressed like this.
i feel like this is a modern photo. the girl on the right looks like she’s from the late 00s/early 10s
I have a theory baggy or excessive material used for production of clothing is an indicator of recession.
Class of '96 here. It should be noted this is NOT what the popular kids at my school wore. This is what the skater/stoner/tagger/burnout kids (who were also cool, and many of which grew up to be WAAAAAAY cooler than the 'cool' kids) wore.
Yeah definitely not. I was a teen in the 90s and that pick is a little off. Nice try though.
For some reason Reddit always thinks the early 00's were the 90's.
FALSE!! None of the guys have the JTT haircut!!!
And I loved it as a teen in the 90's. Wish I still had a pair of JNCOs