A Little Trip Back to 90's

In this week’s assignment we were asked to log in to Pinterest, choose a theme, and then pin some interesting pictures to our board. After that we needed to analyse pictures we had chosen. We picked 90’s fashion to be our theme. We chose this theme mostly because some of our group members thought that fashion and styles from 90’s are coming back again.

90’s fashion – million miles away or just behind the corner?

In 90’s people used a lot of pastel colors. Particularly pastel-colored jackets and shoes were popular. Pastel-colored shoes might not be very popular anymore, but jackets are still at least a little part of today’s street scene. Flannel shirts and Nike Air-shoes were preferred already in the 90’s but they are also very popular nowadays.

Pic 2, Example of pastel-colored jacket

Pic 1, Example of pastel-colored shoes

Grunge was one the most popular genres in 90’s. Kurt Cobain and Johnny Depp are good examples of celebrities taking part to a grunge-scene. Rock music was perhaps the most important part of grunge but there were also some fashion features which were linked to grunge-style. Ripped jeans, old-fashioned leather jackets, military boots and Converse All Star-shoes are great examples. Lots of men were using a long hairstyle and a little beard and women preferred short and shaggy hair. Many of these features are still very popular nowadays.

Pic 3, Brad Pitt also used a long hairstyle in 90's

Pic 4, Flannel shirts are very popular nowadays

We all know how popular rap music and hip-hop style are nowadays. However, it was already in the 90’s when people started to get excited about rap and hip-hop. There are also some features in the fashion of 90’s that you don’t see too often anymore. Great examples are overalls and certain type of necklaces used by women, which are better known as “chokers”.

Pic 5, Rap-genre started its rise in 90's

Pic 6, Example of "chokers"

Pic 8, Overalls played a big part in fashion of 90's

Pic 7, examples of Nike Air - shoes from 90's

All of the pictures are from Pinterest. We mainly used words like 90’s, grunge, 90’s hairstyle and 90’s fashion as our headwords. We found a lot of interesting pictures but we only chose couple. The main similarity of these pictures is that they all relate somehow to 90’s and its fashion. Originally pictures were taken from other blogs, online shops and news articles. Our name in Pinterest is Internet Explorers and you can find our board by using headwords viikko 6 ryhmätehtävä, if you are interested more about where to find original pictures.

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