As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the movies and TV use certain hair styles and clothing to establish the time period in which a video is set. Ya know, the big hair and the Material Girl look for the 80’s, plaid for the 70’s, etc. And, of course, we usually can tell when a movie was made by what people are wearing.
So what’s going to be the look for the 90’s? Is there a defining fashion craze from the past decade that is ripe to be exaggerated/mocked for our future amusement?
Sua
You usually have to wait ten years to really see, and it surprises you (take this from someone who has seen way too many decades come and go!). It’s only been in the past five years that we can really pin “the Eighties Look” down.
For guys, I would hazrd a guess and go for the baggy hip-hop look, undies peekinmg out. But that’s only for young guys; older ones? Baseball cap turned backwards and ponytail, maybe.
Women? Too-short skirts with platforms, and long Seventies-style stringy hair?
Future teenagers will laugh at the quaint high school yearbook pictures of their goth parents with the bottle-black hair, multiple piercings, and consumptive make-up.
I think heavy tattooing and multiple piercings will be up there with the baggy crotch-to-the-knees pants as a defining look to point fun at. Maybe the collagen lip look will get some more well-deserved ridicule.
Grunge style for early 90s.
Baggy ‘gangsta’ wear for mid 90s
Abercrombie khakis and Gap sweaters ‘preppy’ look for late 90s
–Tim
I think it’ll be a combination of the grunge look from the early 90s and the kind of relaxed look of later (baggy pants…not pulled down, fine plaid collared shirts untucked, etc).
Jman
Let us not overlook the fasion craze of the (very) early 90s. Brought about by Daddy Mac and Mac Daddy of Kris Kross, the backwards look.
“All our clothes are
To the back
With a little slack
'Cause inside out is
Wicita, wicita, wicita, WHACK!”
Let’s not forget the spiky buzz cut for guys and the multiple clips (butterflies, actual paper clamps) in girls hair.
Also shelf breast. Wonderbras and implants give the impression that women are serving up their breasts on a platter.
What about the grunge look?
For “normal” men, it’ll probably be be the neo-preppy/outdoorsy look – J Crew/Gap/Abercrombie clothes, maybe the flannel shirt with a t-shirt underneath, khakis and a cloth baseball cap. Can’t forget the goatee!
For women … I really don’t know, since fashion changes more on that side. The little black dress, definitely.
You know that everyone will be carrying a cell phone and PDA, and driving an SUV, just like everyone represented as being from the 1970s drives a wood-paneled station wagon.
The “extreme sports” look will be a dated relic of the 90’s.
Aside from clothing fashion, the 90’s will be earmarked in film by the presence of SUVs. SUVs everywhere!!!.
I really think SUVs are going to fade out of style as gasoline prices continue to rise, and as anti-pollution measures are implemented. We take SUVs for granted today, but twenty years from now, an SUV in a film will fairly scream “90’s.”
Okies, I’ll take the buzz cut for guys (and how 'bout for black men cornrows? I don’t think that fashion will last long - too time consuming.) But I think you need to go deeper concerning women’s hair. My best guess would be the “Aniston” - her 'do from the first few seasons of “Friends”.
Sua
Goatees!
I missed 'em when they went out of style. I really like a guy with a nice Satanic goatee.
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Dopey freeze the guy in the air and turn the set, as in Matrix**
Kickboxing in every scene, as in Mission Impossible 2**
Oh yeah, the shaved-head Michael Jordan look for black guys.
(Eve wrote re: goatees)
: I missed 'em when they went out of style. I really like a
: guy with a nice Satanic goatee.
Come to Denver … there’s no shortage of goatees here! You don’t really see goatees among the “alternative” crowd, but among the mild outdoorsy types, it’s still the vogue. The scene of a goateed male stepping from his Ford Expedition, wearing hiking boots, a cloth baseball cap with a tighly curled brim that bears a microbrewery logo, and a flannel shirt with white t-shirt underneath; with a cell phone in one hand, and a leash with a Labrador Retriever at the end in the other, literaly pulls down its pants, taunts you and screams DENVER! DENVER!
The female equivalent is … well, the same thing, except a dirty blonde ponytail is pulled through the back of the hat.
Including the goatee?! Ewwww.
Sua
Another fad from the early 90s that will be big again is the cutting of notches in eyebrows a la Vanilla Ice. I think that shaving words into the hair will be big for our black bretheren.
[hijack] I had a friend who, in '92 or so shaved “Mackadocious” into his hair. His head really wasn’t big enough to take such a long word so, after looking at it for a while, he’d probably have to tell you. [/hijack]