Edit; I’m not asking what the 90s were like because I was there. I’m thinking what the pastiche of the 90s would be like should it have a revival like the 80s one that is nothing like the real 1980s by young people that presumably only have vague ideas from magazines and music and movies to go by. Like for example if it takes off from grunge but not like it was then but like it is idealised by kids today, what would it be like? What else was a 90s thing? Boy bands and indie pop mixed together on MTV? Hardcore techno and jungle/dnb with it’s own analogue distribution channels by mail, flyers, mixtapes? Last generation of B-movies with practical effects shot on film before that part of the industry degraded into C-tier on digital with terrible CGI in the 00s? Mainstream pop culture, whatever that was? Television and radio, magazines and records before the internet took off? How would any or all of that be reimagined by people that didn’t live it back then? I had no interest then nor do I have today for fashion magazines so if somebody knows I’d love to hear your twist on the topic.

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    Well to start, the 90s didn’t start until 92 when grunge dropped. 90-91 was just boomers afraid of change. And the gulf war.

    Grunge aesthetic…long hair, flannel, jnco jeans, camo coats, no fear shirts. Outside would always be wet from recent rain.

    X games, extreme sports were HUGE with the last of genX. Lots of kids wore motocross/fox gear to school. Rob Zombie, Tool, Primus, Manson, Korn, Chili Peppers. Toyota extended cab trucks with a 3 in lift, motherfuckers would never stop blasting Godsmack. I imagine all of them still listen to Limp Bizkit to this day.

    Socal Skatepunk. Bad religion, NOFX, Descendents, early Offspring, Operation Ivy/Rancid, Bouncing Souls, NUFAN, Sublime, Melincolin, Pennywise. Chinos, Airwalks, Dickies, wallet chains. Skate kids always wore watches. IDK why. Vans. Warped tour.

    Molly got popular mid 90s at concerts and with it the rise of the super ridiculously hot raver girl. Ravergirl aesthetic still does me in.