Gettin’ jiggy in the 90’s

In contrast to previous decades, the 90’s lacked the color and flair of its flamboyant predecessors. What can you expect from an era known as the grunge decade…

Trends

✤ Generation X
✤ boob jobs
✤ Viagra
✤ Hummers
✤ digital cameras
✤ flip phones, cordless phones
✤ pagers, email, you’ve got mail
✤ boom and bust of dot.com bubble
✤ Buns of Steel, Tae-Bo, step aerobics
✤ insatiable thirst for celebrity gossip
✤ OJ Simpson/unprecedented media coverage
✤ Beanie Babies, Furbies, Troll dolls, Tamagotchi
✤ 90’s lingo: Wassup, Whatever, As If, Word, Biotch
✤ PlayStation 1, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis
✤ smoking banned on airplanes
✤ looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking
✤ dial-up modems, World Wide Web, Internet
✤ get off the Internet, I need to use the phone
✤ coffee house popularity explodes
✤ Starbucks or Victoria’s Secret…who charges more per cup?
✤ Y2K fears unfounded so tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999

Fashion

✿ tattoos
✿ body piercing
✿ pierced belly buttons
✿ grunge/heroin chic
✿ thrift store shopping
✿ Banana Republic/Gap
✿ khaki/black/white combo
✿ cargo pants
✿ ripped jeans/low slung jeans
✿ overalls with one strap undone
✿ pants worn backwards
✿ crop tops
✿ flannel shirts
✿ bike shorts
✿ plaid schoolgirl skirts
✿ floral baby doll dresses
✿ Skechers
✿ Doc Martens
✿ Birkenstocks
✿ slap bracelets
✿ studded chokers
✿ wallet chains
✿ backward ball caps
✿ metrosexual men

Celebrity Crush

♥ Brad Pitt
♥ Hugh Grant
♥ John Stamos
♥ Richard Gere
♥ Johnny Depp
♥ Kevin Costner
♥ George Clooney
♥ Rob Lowe still
♥ Antonio Banderas
♥ Denzel Washington
♥ Matthew McConaughey
♥ Julia Roberts
♥ Michelle Pfeiffer

Movies

✪ Ghost
✪ Titanic
✪ Toy Story
✪ The Matrix
✪ Pulp Fiction
✪ Jurassic Park
✪ Forest Gump
✪ Austin Powers
✪ The Lion King
✪ Jerry Maguire
✪ Pretty Woman
✪ The Full Monty
✪ The Sixth Sense
✪ Schindler’s List
✪ The Crying Game
✪ Thelma and Louise
✪ Legends of the Fall
✪ Good Will Hunting
✪ Dead Man Walking
✪ Mission Impossible
✪ Silence of the Lambs
✪ Saving Private Ryan
✪ Shawshank Redemption

TV

✰ ER
✰ Friends
✰ Seinfeld
✰ Frasier
✰ Baywatch
✰ Full House
✰ Ally McBeal
✰ The Simpsons
✰ Will and Grace
✰ Melrose Place
✰ Sex and the City
✰ The West Wing
✰ Mad About You
✰ Murphy Brown
✰ The Wonder Years
✰ Beverly Hills 90210
✰ Home Improvement
✰ Fresh Prince of Bel Air
✰ Dinosaurs not the mama

 Music

♪ Discman, CD’s
♪ grunge, raves, hip-hop, rap, Ice Ice Baby
♪ divas:  Whitney, Mariah, Celine
♪ boy bands: NSync, Backstreet Boys, 98°
♪ country music: Garth Brooks, Shania Twain, Billy Ray Cyrus
♪ dance moves: vogueing, macarena, mosh pits, slam dancing, line dancing
♪ artists:  Britney Spears, Nirvana, No Doubt, Green Day, Alanis Morissette, Spice Girls, Matchbox 20, Destiny’s Child, Pearl Jam

 Hair

✦ The Rachel
✦ spiky hair
✦ bandana headbands
✦ unnatural red-coloured hair
✦ cornrow twists with butterfly clips
✦ Brazilian bikini wax goes mainstream
✦ goatees
✦ frosted tips
✦ long thick sideburns 90210’s Dylan McKay/Brandon Walsh

Women in the 90’s

✸ Hillary Clinton
✸ Anita Hill
✸ Princess Diana’s untimely death
✸ Lorena Bobbitt for “chopping”
✸ Monica Lewinsky for “sucking”
✸ Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding for “clubbing”
✸ record number of women become top CEO’s
✸ in 1990 women narrow the gap earning 28% less than men (40% in 1980)

What the 90’s meant to us

✣ settling down, getting married
✣ I promise to eat a sandwich before I yell at you
✣ making adorable babies in our 30’s
✣ who are these kids and why are they calling me Mom?
✣ establishing new friendships through our children
✣ juggling work and motherhood
✣ mourning the loss of JFK Jr.