Popular Nostalgia

Some fashions from our childhood and early days were crazy! Remember them here.

Strike a pose and dance like Madonna. Arms all over the place. You can now even go and dance to 80′s music in a modified nightclub aerobics class. Everyone’s done it and there are a thousand Youtube spin-offs of the complicated mime-style poses which make up the Vogue dance. The difference between Vogue and other [...]

The Peace Sign was really popular in the 90′s in fashion, art and politics. Swampy was cool for stopping roadworks and he had dreadlocks and lived in a tree. Tie-dyed clothing was also cool. Waistcoats and Take That went hand in hand with having a peace sign on your T-shirt, around your neck or on [...]

Crop tops were a fashion accessory of the early nineties and went hand in hand with lime green shirts, jelly shoes and shag bands. There was something on the news about a girl getting a kidney infection because her crop top didn’t keep her warm enough. Dads made comments about needing woolly jumpers and Julia [...]

Teddy Boys’s style was a reaction against the austerity of the post-war years. A new generation attempted to scandalise their parents with wasteful fashions that were far too camp for working class sensibilities. Velvet collars on long jackets harked back to Edwardian style (which was only 40 years previous). Edward was shortened to Ted – [...]

In line with their striking pedigree of hit adverts and soundtracks, Levi’s took TV by storm once more with a montage of twisty dancers throwing their limbs about and doing Exorcist-style tricks with their necks to the wonderful sound of Pepe Deluxe “Woman in Blue” otherwise known as “Before you Leave” – shown below the [...]

Levi’s continued their advertising history with a little yellow puppet that aimed to shift more of their jeans. The music and the furry little fiend took the world by storm – topping the charts and bringing out a popular imitation puppet. The response was so immense that Levi’s broke their one-campaign-only rule and brought Flat [...]

The Mr Bombastic Levi’s advert was hugely popular in the nineties as the cartoon was clever and funny, but mostly as the soundtrack was so incredibly sexy. Everyone wanted to use it for their program features, soundtracks and parties. Apparently this is the Sting remix of Shaggy‘s classic. A great excuse to grind and an [...]

So-called because of the sharp pointy toes of the shoe -similar to the tools used for prising winkles out of their shells. Winkle pickers were worn by “Teddy Boys”, Modernists and Mods. They had Cuban Heels and in the 60′s were best worn with laces down the side and extra-long trousers.

Flower Power was all about peace and the hippy movement. When the Vietnam war was on, hippies protested by burning their draft cards, placing flowers in the barrels of guns and by wearing flowery clothes. Small circular glasses and headbands were also popular amongst hippies. The 1960′s saw the civil rights movement in America and [...]

The events of Mouvember have brought back a funny 70′s style to the public’s awareness. Take a gander at these: Got any of those hilarious long hair and moustache pictures? Let us know in the comments box below.

Platform trainers were very cool indeed during 90′s spice-mania. Sporty yet, ermm, not-so-feminine. Not very practical for cross training or basketball, but excellent for Tom Cruise. Just look at the monstrosities on the right!

An excellent singer and perfect pin-up for teenage girls, Craig David was the poster boy for UK garage. His album sold loads and he became instantly famous for “7 days”, mainly because it was so liable to spoof versions and mockery at the method of seduction. Little goaty things and cornrows became de riguer for [...]

No, you were not original. Every little nineties girl tried this technical feat at some point in her life. The zig zag parting required patience and skill. In order to look really special, you had to space the diagonals just right. I remember spending about 2 hours trying to get it just right before I [...]

Featured on the start of “Could It be Magic?” by Take That in 1992, large plastic dummies were very cool in the early nineties. I had a one made out of sugar -a kind of boiled sweet. Originating in the clubbing scene of large yellow smily faces, the large plastic dummies were worn on string [...]

The most important skill that any 90′s girl could master was not her cooking, cleaning or housewifery -no, it was the number of scrunchies she could fit into her hair. No cheating though, they had to be large colourful velvet contraptions -preferably with a hairband on top to keep back that massive 90′s fringe. For [...]