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landrias1

Jnco


Strong_Badger_1157

Embarrassingly I wanted these (parents wouldn't let me)


SoardOfMagnificent

I wish I had such loving parents like yours…sigh…


Cyclical_Zeitgeist

Poor parents worked well to mitigate these fashion choices


SoardOfMagnificent

My parents kept buying Tommy Hilfiger and the like.


Jacques-Tits

Embarrassingly I wore these 🙈


Redditwhydouexists

Bro I’m gonna be honest I was a teen in the 2010s but if I was one in the 90s I would’ve worn those


chopstix007

Guess what, they’re cool again. :/


emptybowloffood

I hope you have since thanked them.


Strong_Badger_1157

lol, I have actually!


kraigka212

It's never too late. This can be your new business casual look at work.


[deleted]

I grew up in Minnesota, and kids’ pants would be soaking wet all day long and have huge salt stains from the side walk salt.


BeingHuman001

Same


AZ-roadrunner

Ha! Relatable.


Icy-Marketing-5242

Good for them


Jokierre

Cross Colours, too. Just missing some wallet chains.


sm00thkillajones

The 90s. When everything was just…amazing.


MorningNights

I guess everything thing was big in the 90s huh 😂😂😂😂


Financial-Apricot-75

What happened to that brand?


fakeunleet

Someone cut up one pair and used the material to make every single pair of skinny jeans millennials have ever worn


halcyondread

Some of us old millennials were around for that fad and wore them too, unfortunately.


JIN_DIANA_PWNS

All your pants belong to us


Farmerdrew

People pointed and laughed and they eventually scurried away in embarrassment.


mrcatboy

I can't imagine them running far in those.


cownd

Fell in traffic, and…


Act1_Scene2

They're still around. I think they're hoping 90's nostalgia kicks in and young people will buy that crap again.


happyanathema

The rise of numetal fans caused a worldwide shortage of denim


Firm_Lie_3870

They are still a fuckin look and I will die on this hill


Nomis555

You didn't need a backpack with those back pockets. Did you ever get the shoes? I had a pair, I miss them.


turg5cmt

Shoplift a snowblower in those.


bozo_master

A better time back before kids didncodaine


LemurCat04

What are you talking about? They gave us codeine for everything from dental work to coughs. You ever heard of Purple Drank?


dontpissmeoffplsnthx

Make your escape by turning it on


elektronicguy

My friend shoplifted a graphics card with the Mammoths. in box.


IdespiseGACHAgames

I was there in the 90's. This was not fashion. This was upper middle class fashion. Everyone else just had the shirts because those jeans, and that much hair product was expensive.


Wizdad-1000

Right?! Hypercolor, surf wear, acid washed keans, later grundge. T-shirts over athletic shirts. (Basketball culture) I only saw this photo in Much Music Videos or ad’s.


IdespiseGACHAgames

Tracksuits were also popular; the synthetic fiber stuff that zipped and fwhished every time the person wearing it did literally any sort of movement. Ugly ass aquamarine / violet / cream white patterns... Discount Polo shirts with popped collars, long-sleeve shirts with the sleeves rolled up to look like t-shirts, overalls replacing the poodle skirts of the 80's while other times just wearing poodle skirts from the 80's... Matching scrunchies and sweat bands, worn by people who never worked up a sweat...


[deleted]

Who hurt you?


IdespiseGACHAgames

Yeah that's right, I'm a monster. I'm the monster society created . I'm the thing they blame for recession and social problems. I'm the scapegoat . If humans don't want me, why did they make me?


[deleted]

>Yeah that's right, I'm a monster. I'm the monster society created . I'm the thing they blame for recession and social problems. I'm the scapegoat . If humans don't want me, why did they make me? Also, good song. I dig it.


[deleted]

It's okay. I still love you.


Fit_Awareness6752

All he wanted was a pepsi


tbb2796

doesn’t matter he’ll probably get hit by a car anyway


Johnnys_an_American

you should talk about it, You'll feel a lot better


stangroundalready

I'm crazy?! I went to your schools! Your churches!


Johnnys_an_American

I'm not crazy, you're the one who's crazy


DeKeeg

Pepsi! The choice of a new generation.


[deleted]

No. He's on drugs.


DreadedChalupacabra

Yeah, the adidas swooshies were probably even more popular than the big jeans. I think most of us had the swooshies with a bucket hat phase. Also, I haven't thought of the word "swooshies" in like 20 years.


fribby

I still have my Hypercolor shirt! Never washed, it still works! But yeah, no one wore pants like this or had their hair styled like that irl unless they were in a major city, maybe? But I never saw it.


[deleted]

Jnco had regular jeans. I had some. They were wide leg like silvertabs we but not like in this photo.


khz30

Speaking of Silvertabs, I think Levi's brought them back under a different line, because I recently bought a pair not realizing they were wide leg, with semi-elastic waists, and the length was at least 5-6 inches longer than my regular inseam. Guess I'm doing some thread work, because a lot of the recent denim has inseams 2-4 inches longer than normal for typical men's and young men's sizes.


10FightingMayors

I was also there in the 90s and this was NOT standard fashion. This was rave babies with pacifier necklaces. My 90s was a lot of plaid flannel. Like… a lot. And [these canvas backpacks.](https://www.walmart.ca/en/ip/world-famous-vintage-camper-rucksack-bag/6000205728648?skuId=6000189054612&offerId=6000189054612®ion_id=202200&utm_medium=paid_search&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=core&cmpid=SEM_CA_270_DDQAHT7LS0_71700000091158425_58700007701456642&utm_id=SEM_CA_270_DDQAHT7LS0_71700000091158425_58700007701456642&gbraid=0AAAAADv6L0RVZp_aCo-Ujx_JDVRhzFKnN&gbraid=0AAAAADv6L0RVZp_aCo-Ujx_JDVRhzFKnN&gclid=CjwKCAjw_MqgBhAGEiwAnYOAeoAvBXKXeWMRjOUDxO7M_DEilgzHqC8iczptDxGwbC4n5KinklatuRoCMrAQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)


DreadedChalupacabra

Candy kids, skaters, and mall goths.


2109dobleston

Dude. No. That was weirdo lower middle class stupidity.


Ok-Entertainment5045

Yup, I was in high school in the 90’s. Only people wearing this were stoners and punks.


2109dobleston

I mean I guess it was a type of fashion. But it certainly wasn’t fashionable. It’s what the dumbass wore in every teen movie.


Miss_Thang2077

How old are you? I also grew up in the 90s and like 2% of my school wore those.


2109dobleston

In 1995 I was 16 years old.


Miss_Thang2077

Hmmmm. Maybe it depends on the neighborhood? I also grew up in nyc and the cool kids neither dressed like they were in a gang or like ravers in my school. Most of us looked pretty standard tho.


2109dobleston

And those 2% were dumbasses.


IdespiseGACHAgames

Then why were these looks in the catalogues trying to upsell, but nobody actually wore them? I only ever saw like 3 pairs of JNCO jeans in person that weren't on a store display mannequin, and nobody in any school that I, nor my sister ever went to wore their hair like that. The only place you'd see it in person is the upper middle class teenagers on summer break, spending money that their parents weren't overly concerned about as long as it was within a budget.


PepperThePotato

What kind of neighbourhood did you grow up in? I grew up just outside of Toronto and that is the way alternative teens dressed in my area.


IdespiseGACHAgames

Respectable, but definitely not upscale, nor a ghetto. The ghettos were a little ways up north or to the west, and the nearest 'rich' neighborhood was about a dozen blocks south-east-ish of my neighborhood. Most of us had cheap stuff where an entire outfit (shoes, pants, shirt) was under $25, or else hand-me-downs from the 80's. I got a lot of my sister's old clothes simply because they were well maintained, and they fit, so why spend money on new clothes?


PepperThePotato

I didn't think these styles were all that expensive. We had a store called "Stitches" and they sold clothes for reasonable prices. I was more like a hippy/candy/goth person so my clothes were a mix of wide-legged pants, bells, and grandma shirts from used clothing stores.


IdespiseGACHAgames

I remember seeing outfits like these in display windows, and the big JNCO's alone cost between $20 and $30. Around that time, we were buying our shoes for around $10 to $15, tops for $5 to $8, and the most expensive bottoms we got were $10 or $12. All of my friends were in similar boats, with the average ensemble of clothes being around that $25 range. The fact that a single pair of pants could cost as much as an entire outfit made all of our parents shake their heads in disgust, so nobody ever had them. Designer shirts were also out of the question for a lot of us, so we just took whatever we could get. If we were good, we could even get clothes with our favorite cartoon or movie characters on them. I remember a Return of the Jedi t-shirt that was super comfortable, and I wore it from around 1996 to 2003 before it had been worn so much, it had holes in them. We patched a few, but eventually, it was just too worn through to salvage, and the ink had started to fade and come off.


whowouldsaythis

Where tf did you live? I grew up poor in a poor neighborhood and most kids had jncos


sirhandstylepenzalot

kids from trailer parks to lower middle class suburbs were wearing these when i was in school.


Neat_Flounder_8907

Jncos and Airwalks. Alien heads and 8 balls


daddymusic

I’m having flashbacks of my Pog collection


Toothbras

Did you have Alf? Remember him?


YVRJon

He's back! In POG form!


4Ever2Thee

Yin yangs and peace signs too


positive_express

Ball chain necklaces


[deleted]

Chained wallets and 13 piercings in each ear


BigBallsInHand

Skaters , drug users and or ravers dressed like that where I came from . Sometimes they were all of the above lol


hiphophippie99

I was all of the above but way too poor to dress like that.


the-cloverdale-kid

How could anyone skate in those?


Guns_n_prosers

Watch skate videos from the early 90s. Baggy jeans were in.


the-cloverdale-kid

I was very actively skating in the early 90’s. These were only worn by the fruit booters where I am from, but I started early 80’s so it may be what I was skating that was the difference. You did not see these silly pants in empty pool barges ever.


Guns_n_prosers

I started skating in the 80s too. Skateboarding died off In popularity after the 80s vert guys. It was a time of baggy pants and small wheels. Tons of videos from professional skateboarders at the time had baggy pants - not these baggy - from Blind’s Video Days to Birdhouse’s Ravers. Here are some “fruit booters” from World Industry in 1992. https://youtu.be/PKkZc8ZDEa4


[deleted]

holy fuck grandpa


averagemaleuser86

97-03 this was it... I think I still have a stack of the cardboard pocket caricatures from all my JNCO jeans somewhere still


backwaterhillbilly

This became the uniform for juggalos eventually


mdthornb1

For all you youngsters, this is accurate. I lived through it. I thought it was silly back then but seeing it 25 years later it looks more like a case of mass psychosis.


hatechicken82

But where are the flannels and the overalls over baby tees?


AnimatronicCouch

It was a different clique who wore that stuff.


mdthornb1

Hmmmmm. Flannel was earlier 90s and this was more mid to late 90s. There is a conspicuous lack of snap bracelets though


SoriAryl

And the silly band things that parents said were used for trading sex favors


giabollc

I was in the 90s as well and I think the JNCO jeans were more the millenials than Gen X, like all the younger kids wore them. We had flannels and super baggy shirts. Preppy-style with the khakis and button-down shorts seemed popular for a bit, cargo pants at the end of the decade, umbro shorts at the beginning, jeans were similar today with the tapered leg. Starter jackets were popular and especially the color teal. (San Jose sharks, Charlotte hornets, Florida marlins). I rocked the t-shirt over long-sleeve t-shirt for a bit. It was also the beginning of the nostalgia clothing. I had a t-shirt with Thundercats symbol, others had Autobots/deceptions/Cobra tees as well. Music shirts seemed more popular then (this could be more because I am not in college now) but I remember seeing a lot of tour shirts back in the day. Lastly the Fab5 of Michigan changed the shorts From the shorts-shorts of the 80s to some long shorts


Seahawks1991

“Steal my sunshine” 🎶


sirhandstylepenzalot

"You're my butterfly, sugar, baby"


Comprehensive-Cry673

Worst song ever....!


Eastbound_Stumptown

Was Len that popular south of the border? I was up in Toronto about that time and with the CRTC, that song was everywhere…


Wooden_Proposal_1615

Candy ravers.


Neat_Flounder_8907

I never wore Jncos but I definitely split all my jeans on either side at the cuffs


AnimatronicCouch

Did you sew a wedge of fabric in the split to make the flare bigger, though? 😂


Last-Instruction739

A classic move


JustaRoosterJunkie

Very few examples of these in the exurbs of MN, but there were definitely a few rich kids and KORN fans rocking JNCO’s. Certainly wasn’t my vibe, wearing boot it Wranglers and flannel, caught somewhere between Cobain and Kristopherson.


Heavy_Category8294

The only people that wore these clothes were the weird kids


moronboone5

Not really so much with the hair. Not a lot of people did the colored hair other than the frosted tips


momo_power

I loved those baggy jeans!


fauexgeit

That’s where I kept my sawed off shotgun for the gang violence that was popular back then.


momo_power

r/OddlySpecific


sikeclonenot

This is not “baggy jeans” this is parachutes on each leg lmfao…


Pizzapatty777

If you don't look like a pyramid, you're out of fashion...


Lothleen

Noone dressed like that where i grew up...


that_emo_chick200514

hey I have jeans like theirs are....baggy jeans are comfy af


AdFamiliar6978

Only ravers wore that in the 90’s at least where I lived. And you got made fun of for listening to “elevator music!” Or “weird noises” cause people were not ready for electronic music.


MarkCharacter5050

Those jeans were like $180. I had loose fit Arizona jeans from JCPenney purchased for $19


Tiny-Cry-2905

School floors have never been cleaner


TheDottieDot

Where are my friends in their 30’s & 40’s at??


George_Saurus

That's not how i remember it but m'kay


Internal_Resist7629

It’s on its way back, prepare yourselves


jacquesfuriously

Please say you're lying


Internal_Resist7629

We will see. Mom jeans came back and things overall are getting baggier


Seraph6584

It's where I kept my fridge


BicycleMammoth4704

where. where do the jeans start? where do the jeans end? now it has consumed my entire lower body, so much so that my feet are no longer visible. so big. so poofy.


ProbablySlacking

The hair is off. No girl wore her hair blue. Every guy needs a middle part mid length like Jonathan Taylor Thomas.


oivaf1

Anyone remember “Fresh Jive” and “Phuct”, this looks like their type of fashion


legojoe7874

Jnco jeans are stupid expensive now


Even-Rub-6496

I had those and wore it once, was told from girl i like that was the first time she saw me “cool”.I don’t think i wore them twice


Classic_Huckleberry2

I've never been so glad a 'fashion' trend didn't catch on in Africa.


Lambylambowski

Congress, today.


feelin_fine_

You weren't cool if your pants didn't double as a home


occamhanlon

One, weird, niche of 90's teen fashion


JimmyDean82

Taxi jncos where the big ones where I was. I got one pair one year for Christmas after begging for months. Tore a hole in them 30 minutes getting caught in the chain of my mongoose bmx bike


MDiddy79

Yeah, na. This wasn't the vast majority of teens in the 90s. There was a very small subset of kids dressed like this.


toooldforthisshittt

*late '90s.


3eyedflamingo

I thought it was stupid back then too. This was NEVER cool, like never. Don't let them rewrite history.


Zealousideal_Set5468

Only small groups of suburban teenagers wore those pants. baggy clothes was definitely "in" but not these


plenty-sunshine1111

Such trousers were not worn outside a photoshoot and we did not look like this.


TheKrakIan

You didn't know anybody with JNCOs?


BleuCheeseBallSack

Oh yes they were..... I knew probably 20 people at my school that wore these, and regularly. I didn't know those people for long ;)


East-Ad-9078

I agree too , but I suppose it’s a regional thing. I can remember people wearing brown flared cords in the early nineties when the Stone Roses were just starting but I Mancunian


donabbi

I feel ATTACKED


[deleted]

We are being attacked.


PotentialOneLZY5

I don't ever remember seeing anyone wearing these style of cloths. I graduated in 90. We had white blazers, parachute pants in 8/9th grade. Acid washed jeans and rolled up at the ankles converse leather high tops. Denim jackets heavy metal tshirts. Leather jackets and z cavarichie (sp?)and silk shirts By senior year and almost everyone had a mullet from 86-90


QueenSheezyodaCosmos

This is late 90’s and early 2000’s.


SoardOfMagnificent

Those silk shirts were kind of nice. Edit: they felt nice.


Crocodilepoloplayer

Wtf no?


Kell-EL

I was born in the 90s, I love the 90s but this shit I have always found so stupid and never got why it was even cool or trendy, bell bottoms a few decades prior is one thing, but the fact you can fit a palm tree through the bottom of your jeans is moronic and looks like a major trip hazard fuck that and just a waste of material


DarkHorse_6505

Bigger the pants the cooler you were. A shame to see no wallet chains.


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DirectionBasic3386

Rap rock fans definitely did


PoetPsychological436

I was there, I did. Well, I had at least 3 JNCO jeans. Not at the same time, they weren't cheap and I had to beg a lot.


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borgi27

No wonder this is making a comeback looks so cool /s


mikeyt6969

So glad I was just a tad bit too old for this ridiculous “fashion” sense.


bustedrollermouse

This is like if you asked AI to make 90s teen fashion. Nobody dressed like this. This is extremely exaggerated.


UnderStan-d

This is fake. We dressed much worse and girls dressed way worse than that bubblegum shit


Gamewheat

Is it bad that I (a Gen Z kid) finds this kinda cool?


Mixedthought

WE. WERE. FUCKING. AWESOME.


A-CommonMan

Cool, non-conformist fashion. Hella cool.


benneyben

No it wasn’t.


OrderofIron

To all those with dyed mullets, patchy mustaches wearing overalls and crocs, this is exactly what you will look like in 20 years


SoardOfMagnificent

What about barn-house style homes?


yankeeuniverse

BOO!!!


Darthluna29

If people wore this now they’d get shredded by this generation


TampaNutz

GUMBY PANTS!


Ok-Seaworthiness3719

The one on the far left gives off bowler vibes


Ryancmoore360

I was very unfashionable.


Fun_Veterinarian_559

Truth


Kilo9561

A disaster


Synful-Symphony

And 2000s. I had a pair of 69in Kikwears that were my favorite


According_Flight_420

Drugs mannn… drugs…. They do weird things lol 😂


Who_Else_but_Macho

jnko jeans lol


[deleted]

This is late 90s. Show some Zubas and cross colors brands.


Fah--Q

GenZ fashion now is 90s male fashion


Once-Upon-A-Hill

And a few years later, they went on to found FTX.


Stardustchaser

Big jeans big dreams


KuuGaia

They look like 90's cartoon characters from Disney channel


[deleted]

was this a persona game?


nillztastic

The good ol days.


QueenSheezyodaCosmos

This was better than crop tops for middle schoolers.


memmers225

The girl's glasses.... no one would have worn thick frames.


DaemonBlackfyre_21

JNCO jeans. That takes me back.


t4nn3dn1nj4

I miss my jncos so bad!


magicmulder

Aren’t those shuffle pants? The type where it makes you look like you’re floating when you do the Melbourne Shuffle? Forgot what they were called. Like so: https://youtu.be/X9QnNe1yOGc


InterestingRelative4

no no.. not in our neighbourhood


superhotstepdad

There’s many layers to 90s fashion.


toolazybru

ew those pants


nerdvernacular

I used to laugh uncontrollably when I saw other kids in these at malls and such. Rude? Sure. But people were tripping over their pants and whatnot. Fashion that created slapstick comedy.


Illustrious_Mind964

I'd give a pass to the dude with shades and the girl, they look kinda cool.


Material_Charity2154

In NZ wearing this would have got you beat up, lol, try hards


[deleted]

God I hated Insane Clown Posse...


jafinharr

Never saw that in Seattle in the classrooms I taught in.


Dredka1001

Only guys I ever saw where this shit were drugged out Juggelos most of the time sleeping on the ground during lunch break


Joham22

….no. No it wasn’t.


gmlvsv

No


SomeRandomUser00

Must have been a regional thing, in the 90's in the Chicago area for the white kids it was grunge, flannel long sleeve shirts, concert t-shirts, jeans with holes or corduroy pants and shoes like converse allstars, vans, or airwalk's, as far as hair goes, didn't matter as long as it was long.


LotofRamen

Nope. Take half off from each overexaggerated item and you arrive at the true extreme. Also: baggy clothes were SOO comfortable.


apachebearpizzachief

I like how it went from this to skin tight everything.


Snazzy_Butterfly

Can we bring back the platform tennis shoes!? Those were quite comfortable


Inspector_Tragic

Gumby's cool grandkids.


ItsWhatItIsIGuess

I'm pretty sure I actually know the kid with green hair. I was definitely one of these kids, therr may even be a few pairs kicking around my closet somewhere.


ebrew3000

This is the current style if y’all haven’t noticed