90s NEON.  See Raspberry Revolution for the rest.

If Lululemon wanted to be creative, they’d make 90s-style yoga pants with neon stripes going down the side. To replicate those biking shorts that were so popular in the 90s. Neon has tried so many times to make a comeback, especially in the summer. Now, we’re inching towards it because of all the “brights” that are so popular. They’re not neon, but they’re close. Well, here are a pair of lulus that are inching towards hot pink.

Blossom is the epitome of early 90s style. Biker shorts, socks with sneakers and a skirt, a lot of different hats! I’m not sure if she ever sported Docs but and flannel shirts, but maybe that only came in the mid 90s.

Joey Lawrence visited Fairview mall in the early 90s. I remember I wasn’t allowed to go because my mother said that there were going to be wayyy too many people (which was later confirmed by my best friend who went and said that everyone was piled on top of the tables at the food court to be able to see him and she didn’t even get an autograph). Besides, I never found him cute (even now on Dancing with the Stars), although I always thought David Lascher (Blossom’s boyfriend) was a cutie. What ever happened to him?

When I think of the 90s, Wayne’s World comes to mind. I would say that Wayne’s World and Wayne’s World II were the movies that really represented our mindset in the 90s. Sure, Borat was quoted a lot in the past year (but notice how that’s died down?), but I don’t think any movie has been quoted as much as Wayne’s World. People still quote cheesy and funny lines from that movie. Other movies include the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies and Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (and later, Bogus Journey).

Headbands worn at the front of the head. Overalls with one buckle unlatched. Fanny packs worn diagonally over the shoulder. Crimped hair. Over-the-knee socks. School-girl plaid skirts and jumpers. Baby-doll dresses (well, we owe it to Courtney Love for making those a must-have) paired with mary-janes. I loved mary-janes. I won’t even put up a picture of a baby-doll dress because they’re so imminent that you can’t avoid them - even last summer they were all over the place. If you don’t look good in a baby-doll then forget dress shopping altogether. There are not too many alternatives (OK, well there’s the tent dress this summer and the sheath dress, but not too many others things).

Tupac definitely represents a good chunk of the 90s. His songs were anthem-like and represented the youth of a certain era. Salt n’ Peppa, TLC, Boyz II Men, and some nonsense bands like Color Me Badd came out around that time too. Ok, Color Me Badd’s I Adore Mi Amor was the cheese of that era, but there was also I Wanna Sex You Up which was less cheesy but too upfront. Bobby Brown came out with “Humpin’ Around” and Salt ‘n Peppa came out with “Let’s Talk About Sex” - it was like a liberation from the 80s innuendos, with the exception of George Michael and Marvin Gaye, and it came out a bit too directly, in my opinionation.

Then there was the whole grunge period where bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Soundgarden came out of Seattle. And with grunge came the flannel shirts I mentioned, with the docs, the converse one stars, converse all-stars (which every hip kid has on these days) and army boots. Not quite the rock of the late 80s that came about with Guns ‘n Roses and Bon Jovi, but rock with a different edge. There was also a lot of grrrl bands that came out around the same time, bands like L7, Hole, Veruca Salt, etc. And of course, other musicians like Sloan (Canadians, yay!), Lisa Loeb, and later Weezer, who brought back the geek chic of the 60s. These were followed by a slew of “alternative” bands. There were so many, that represented so many different uncategorized genres, that it was hard to keep track of what “alternative” really meant. During this alternative era is when body-surfing and mosh pits came to be (OK, I’m probably wrong, it was probably during grunge, but who’s really keeping track?). In the late nineties alternative became passé and was replaced by “ska” - a mixture of reggae and punk rock.

Veruca Salt, Seether.

Sloan, Everything You’ve Done Wrong.

Scary to think about, but what do we stand for in this decade? It’s 2008, and we still haven’t decided what this decade represents. 2000-2010 seems like a lost time. The world is in travail incomparable to before. Myanmar. The Tsunami. The war between Israel and Lebanon. The war against Iraq, against Afghanistan. 9-11. Too many horrific happenings to go over. Global warming. Genocide. The list goes on. It’s like the problems that were present in the 90s have now quadrupled. And what are we going to do about it?

At least in the 90s we tore down the Berlin wall. Shifts happened. The Soviet Union fell apart. Advances were made. And what do we have to say for ourselves now? So, Europe has a currency. Technology has advanced. The world is united by the Internet… And so on. But what really defines this decade?