Heading out in the Nineties in a pair of blue jeans and a matching blue denim jacket was cool. Subjectively cool, yes, (you really had to be a B*Witched fan, or a Britney fan, to see it), but cool all the same.
Why anyone thought adding additional denim to denim to create double-denim was a good idea, we might never know for sure. But there it was, a fashion trend everyone followed. Of course, someone had to take it too far (Justin Timberlake, we’re looking at you with the triple denim move there with that hat), and we were left wondering who started it.
With that in mind, join us as we take a look back at the trendsetters of really weird fashion choices…we’ll be sticking to the real fashion designers, such as Citizens of Humanity in future, for fashion tips in the future, thanks Madonna…
Inside-out
Flip it on its head, turn it inside out, think outside the box — that’s it! Outside! Let’s wear underwear on the outside of our outfits! It was Madonna who made underwear as outerwear famous in the nineties with her cone-shaped corset designed by Jean Paul Gaultier (thankfully, this garment never met the high street). Lindsay Lohan was also once seen on the catwalk with a black corset top layered over a white shirt — paired with a bootcut jean of course.
In 2018, we’ve seen the Kardashians bring the trend back with a ‘mini corset’ worn around the waist to show off curves over a loose shirt dress. Other celebrity influencers have also taken on the trend, although they’re not as big as some of the trends we’ve seen.
A slightly more comfortable option for a fashion trend in this era was denim overalls. A low-maintenance look made famous by the Fresh Prince and other nineties celebs. If you wanted to look uber cool, you’d wear it with one strap undone.
Cropped pants
The noughties and nineties loved its cropped trousers. For a jean — pedal pushers were definitely in and they were either denim or a pale pastel shade. This denim trend was rocked by fashionistas at the time including the Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera.
It seems this one is coming back around too, with many celebrities sporting their designer cropped jeans – Jennifer Lawrence wore them with heels and a sheer top for Dior’s SS17 Paris show and Selena Gomez has been spotted in a pair, teamed with patent loafers and a casual white shirt. Cropped combat trousers were also big. British girl band, All Saints, was a fan of this fad and rocked cargo pants, crop tops (having your midriff on show in the 90s was compulsory too, apparently) and trainers with the tongue out of the trouser leg.
If you weren’t a fan of cropped trousers, another trend was two-piece tracksuits. It was Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez and Paris Hilton who started this trend off. Britney even had her bridal party dressed in two-piece tracksuits ahead of her wedding to Kevin Federline. Then, they became slightly over-worn by more Z-list celebs and fell off the radar…
Fashionable feet
Platform shoes were every nineties girl’s dream. Whether they were white tennis shoes, lace-up boots or sandals, they had to have a huge platform to allow you to stomp around. We’ve seen this trend return with Rihanna’s range of Puma platformed trainers and (for something more alternative) Gucci’s rainbow platform metallic sneakers that are currently on sale.
Then there was the ‘crocs’ shoes of the nineties — the jelly shoe. It is thought that they were invented due to a leather shortage during World War II, leading to a French shoemaker creating shoes from plastic. This is one of the trends that has come and gone throughout the years, with a surge of the shoes in 2002 and another rise to popularity in 2009.
Fashion trends tend to come and go, and then come back around again. We may well be peeling our feet out of jelly shoes and shrugging on denim jackets for our denim jeans again soon. And, there’s bound to be many more fads to come that we’ll cringe at before buying into.
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