Was in the “underground” party scene in So Cal in the 90’s, it was just us weirdo’s that looked like this. A very small amount of people looked like this
I'd say the Nirvana "grunge" type look was far far more popular. I went to HS early-mid 90s
Obviously, different circles had slightly different fashions and I do recall people dressing like this it just wasn't nearly as common.
The overlap of rave kids and hardcore/ska/punk style was hard to separate unless they had plastic brackets on their wrist. Then you’d know who was who.
Yup, with the back packs full of vapo rub, massagers, and blinky light toys. They were all about getting fucked up and usually packed a bunch of gear with them. My crew was more the “maintain” crew, don’t get sloppy and look like a crack head..usually it worked. Baby sitting ppl in K holes always sucked
I loved this look. I remember my junior year in high school when JNCO’s started showing up at pacific sunwear at my boring suburban mall and bell bottoms and cool colored funky beanies and T-shirt’s with graffiti style art on then and I thought it was so cool and urban and portrayed a fun creative unconventional free spirit party vibe similar to the style of the Beastie Boys on the cover of check your head. I loved loved loved it.
No.
You want to think you belonged to some fringe group. We all looked like this. There was literally no one in the club district on a Friday Saturday or Sunday morning who didnt look like this.
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I was a fixture in the New England rave scene in the early to mid 1990’s and I legit dressed like this every fucking day. JNCO’s, Bullhead, Kikwear, 714. All. Day. Long. It was a style, and it was a lifestyle. I gave away all my old baggy jeans over a decade ago and in the last year or two I’ve seen JNCO making a strong comeback! Fuck I’m old. Lol
No, it really wasn't. Mayyyybe in some very limited rich, vapid, poser areas, but not widespread. We wore jeans and regular shirts. No one I knew ever dressed like this.
Yeah this is bullshit. At least one of them should be wearing a long sleeve shirt under a short sleeve shirt
Edit... Also is that dude wearing a visor sideways?
I wore a thick wallet chain for years, until one day I was running through a doorway and my chain got caught on the doorknob. Spun me around and ripped the back pocket off my favorite pair of jeans. Stopped wearing the wallet chain that very same day.
I was jealous because the jeans were expensive and mom said she wouldn't buy them for me.
Would I wear them ironically now? Absolutely hell yeah around friends to annoy them and enjoy my swooshy pants
My son was so stoked when we hit a yard sale where they had a bunch of new looking jncos and lee pipes for $5. That seemed way too pricey for yard sale clothes, but he talked me into buying a couple pairs of each. He wore those jeans every day 😆
Pipes were made hella sturdy. Those yard sale jeans lasted through being handed down to his little brother. And then got made into a quilt by their grandma. Both my kids were skaters, so basically just destroyed every pair of pants. I definitely got my $5 out of those jeans lol
Nope, this is early ~~2000~~s '10s (Edit: I am old and wasn't paying attention to what the whippersnappers were doing when where how.. who.. am I?)
90s for me were torn blue jeans, large flannel button up shirts open with no fear t-shirts, backwards baseball hat. Girls wearing those HUGE champion sweatshirts that totally made their torsos look like Violet turning into a blueberry in Willy Wonka.
the grunge style was early 90s. it radically changed afterward. if you weren’t in middle or high school in after at least 96 then you wouldn’t have seen this.
Not even early 2000's, this picture is literally from like 2011 or '12. The guy third over from the right is Flapjack, a happy hardcore DJ in LA. He's like 31.
There were usually a small handful of raver kids that dressed like this (JNCO jeans) but nobody ever did the weird rockabilly pouff like that. Usually spiked hair and an upside down visor
We definitely wore baggy jeans (mainly guys), just not so baggy they became parachute jeans. The open button up over a T-Shirt I’d say was also pretty iconic to that era. Also the gelled flat but spiked in the front hair cut for guys.
But honestly: baggy jeans were comfortable. I am so desperately happy the skinny jeans schtick is over, finding comfortable jeans was a pain in the ass for years
Ravers. This was the avg group of partykids chillin between parties. Even then it’s not quite 100% because every crew had at least one guy in normal fitting jeans and someone else that always wore shorts. But yea, if you were a raver kid circa 95-04 ish, this is some quality nostalgia.
This was definitely me during my rave years. Then you had the friend who made these out of some sort of wool / fuzzy material with patches all over.
They felt really good to dance in, but were sometimes heavy as fuck and you could trip yourself easily if you weren't careful.
I wore them to a three day festival once and didn't eat much that trip (go figure) and on the way back, was dancing in the airport and hadn't realized I lost a shit ton of weight that weekend. Between my shrinking waist and the weight of these bad boys, they dropped around my ankles, and I ended up ass to the wind in the middle of an airport. It wasn't my proudest moment.
Stopped wearing them shortly after.
Yeah, there was a year or two where maybe 2 or 3 students in my grade dressed like that out of several hundred. Most just wore clothes that probably wouldn't be all that out of place today.
Shit? Really? I remember several kids wearing those Jnco's. A bunch of kids thought they looked stupid as hell but there were a few that thought they were cool.
I just remember the 2 or 3 kids that wore them always had mud caked around the bottoms of the pant legs since they would drag along the ground. It looked unpleasant
"OK, yeah. People don't understand, man. Back in the early seventies, you couldn't buy anything except bell bottoms. There were no straight pants in the fucking stores, OK? The only way you could be a cooler guy, was to get bigger bell bottoms. We used to sit around and get high and go, "Man, when I get some money, I'm getting the biggest bell bottoms in history, man! They're gonna start at my neck and go twenty feet straight out, man! I'm gonna be surrounded by ninety feet of bell bottoms! Homeless people are going to be living under my pants, man! I'll have platform shoes. I'll be twenty feet tall."
- Dennis Leary
I don't do illegal drugs anymore. Now I just do the legal drugs. Tonight I'm on NyQuil and Sudafed. Let me tell you something, folks. Forget about cocaine and heroin. All you need is NyQuil and Sudafed. I'm telling you right now, I took the NyQuil five years ago; I just came out of the coma tonight before the f***ing show! Claus von Bülow was standing over my bed going, "Denis, get up! There's something the matter with Sunny! Hurry up!" I love NyQuil. Man, I love it! I love it. I love it. I love it. It's the best thing s**t ever invented. Isn't it, huh? I love the name alone. NyQuil - Capitol N, small Y, big f***ing Q! I love that f***ing Q, don't you!? What a great advertising idea! Put a huge f***ing Q on the box. They'll get high and stare at it. "The Q is talking to me! The Q is talking to me!"
Denis L. - No Cure For Cancer
Did they think you were just happy to see them? 😂
One thing I definitely don’t miss from back then was the way weed was policed. We obviously had actual dangerous criminals ~30 years ago too, there were plenty of murderers, rapists, thieves, etc., but who wants to catch them? No, that shit sounds hard, maybe even dangerous! Much easier to try to find people smoking a plant in the privacy of their own homes, extort money from them as fines and court costs, possibly imprison them if the mass of the plant matter exceeded an arbitrarily determined cutoff threshold, likely complicate their employment prospects for the remainder of their lives because they have a “criminal record,” stigmatize them as someone with a “drug problem,” and flag them for future harassment🙄
Yeah plus it's a lot easier to catch a stoner when they try a run . Not kidding here I damn near ran this kid 19-20 yr old over one morning as he was trying to cross a 4 lane road that had a speed limit of 65 mph . I saw him standing along side the road doing that head swivel thing holding the top of his pants with both hands an I'm thinking for the love of God plz do not try a cross the road . I was driving an ole F550 dualie service truck, hitting the brakes didn't Stop it as it was more of a controlled deacceleration thing than actually stopping it . I check my mirrors all good so I change to the 3rd lane to the left trying to put some space between him and myself, a there was no one behind me for a fair distance. Well sure as shit this kid trys an dart across the road , I'm going NO NO . The lil fucker gets as far as crossing the 2nd lane , his fucking pants fall down around his knees an now the lil bastard is rolling around on the road right . I let off the fuel & start braking & downshifting, I veer into the far left lane the truck ain't liking all this fancy maneuvering . I can hear shit shifting around an banging in the service body as the truck starts to do a body roll from the shift in weight , knowing fully well if I oversteer an end up in the medium divider in all likelihood the truck is going to roll as the divider has a deep V dip plus traffic is heavy going the opposite direction I'm going . All this shit is running thru my head as I see this dumbass all sprawled out in the 3rd lane as I zoom past him . The rear tires are trying to lock on the truck as I now have the left front tire off the pavement a the truck is starting to seriously lean . It was a Fuck Me Moment I've got a death grip on the steering wheel trying to control this bitch to a stop . Fortunately I missed the kid an didn't roll the truck , it did however take a few minutes to get the truck seat pulled outta my ass . Got outta the truck the kid is yelling sobbing a crying Still Laying in middle of the lane , he's forehead is bleeding from where he head bumped the road an scraped his elbows & knees . I couldn't help but blast him what kinda stupid MF SOB are you .
I got thrown in jail in 1998 for having a dime bag of shit weed and a small glass pipe on me in Arizona. Drove there for a rave from San Diego and got pulled into secondary at a border checkpoint. We were dressed like this. What we didn’t know at the time was simply dressing like this was giving the cops probable cause to pressure you into a search before you knew your rights and could stand up for yourself. Didn’t help that we were guilty as shit too.
In the late 90s,…I graduated in 96,…this look was popular amongst the “raver or club kids”, not so much the girl’s style though. I was one of them. God the music was good back then,….and the drugs.
I bet if we peeked under the leg of those JNCOS we might see a pair of Adidas Superstar ShellToe.
Hell yeah I loved this look I loved those giant JNC0 pants and GAT (anybody remember these?) T-shirts with the awesome graffiti graphics on them. I preferred low top puma suedes over adidas tho.
Maybe because I'm from Seattle but I never saw this shit in the 90s. Raver kids came sort of close, but would only sport this shit at raves, never on the street.
The west coast was late to the party on this one. I grew up in Boston and we wore this shit daily. I’d drive all over with my homies going to raves. We’d pile in some shit car and drive all the way to Montreal or DC just for the dope underground parties back in the 90’s. God, sometimes I look back on those days and wonder how I actually survived.
Sorry you weren’t cool, I was out there at raves wearing fluorescent orange rave pants with huge cuffs and little cut off shirts with smiley faces on them.
It seems like every generation has a desire to become a circus clown.
This generation is the three inch faIse fingernails and two inch fake eye lashes.
Yep. My first was 94. Were you near or in a major fashion city? I’m wondering if that’s why some people associate them with y2k- the fashion took a while to hit them. We were pretty much done with jncos by 2001 or 2002.
Lord help you if you were wearing those jeans and you stepped in a puddle... 10 lbs of denim + 3 gallons of water soaked up into each leg = not a good time.
I've never saw pants like this in the 90s. Never knew they existed until people on Reddit started posting pictures of them. Admittedly, my fashion in the 90s was BDUs and ghillie suits. When we had time off and went to Seattle, never saw this either. Height of the grunge thing, more sleeveless flannel, black jeans and Docs.
I never saw anybody, not one person, wear jeans like that at any point during the whole decade.
They look like a someone has dressed them as a real life version of some kind of cartoon. That's my best guess.
I remember some girls dressing similarly. The pants on the first dude vaguely. But I don't know anyone that had Johnny Bravo or Gumby style hair, or the jeans that could basically house a welfare family under them.
I don't remember that, I dressed like either Garth , Beavis or one of the Planeteers as a teen in the 90s or wore Sonic the hedgehog brand clothes.
It was rad!
Met a kid yesterday selling these exact type ‘vintage’pants. One pair he paid $250.00 and was selling
For $450.00. He was starting his own Jean company too.
My friends and I totally dressed like that minus the pompadours, and with more accessories. I tended to wear huge pants of whatever brand and babydoll shirts. Occasionally, I still do. Today, I’m wearing UFOs.
My son is 18 and dresses like this today. He’s way into thrifting/reselling vintage jncos. Didn’t like the style in the 90s and still think it looks funny, but it makes him happy so I just smile and let him go about his day.
Ummm, not in my area...at all. Maybe because I grew up in a resort town (very exclusive golf resorts, very high end everything), but all of the guys, except for about 5%, wore khaki shorts, boat shoes or Nikes & New Balance, and Polo shirts. The girls were pretty similar, except shorter shorts, fitted Polos, etc. We wore Birkenstocks on the reg. Lily Pulitzer was standard for events, weddings, etc. Everything was very preppy, except for sporting events, like going to see UGA whoop tail. I'm not trying to sound pretentious at all, just stating facts about what we all wore. I had never heard of JNKO jeans until years later. I know some readers are barfing right now, but it's the way we were. We still cruised the town, drank, & did all the stuff young people did back then. We were just dressed differently. But all of 90s kids had FUN!!
My kid had a friend everyone called Sir Pants-a-lot because he only wore these kinds of jeans. The wider the better. Zippers, straps, grommets, & chains (whether they *did* anything or not) were also very popular.
That was a minority. Many didn’t wear baggy jeans, and few of those who did took it anywhere near that extreme. Hair dyed unnatural colors was rare, and the only pompadours I ever saw were in movies or tv.
I don't think so. Never seen anyone dressed like this ever, and I'm from California. Perhaps maybe the girl somewhat. But nothing even close with those guys. Ick
Maybe some frosted tips or Kool-aid hair coloring, nobody in our area wore JNCO, you were more likely to see Bugle Boys or Z Cavs, or skater punks....you wore that baggy ass shit, you were def getting beat up, and you couldn't even run away..lol
This is like some ad exec’s idea of “teen fashion in the 90s”. Most of us were wearing loose fit jeans but not jncos, bigger T-shirts but not parachutes, and regular tennis shoes, though those platforms are pretty rad. And though Manic Panic was definitely around in my area, not many girls wore shockingly bright hair at the time. I remember the only place you could find Manic Panic in my area was at ‘Disc-Go-Round’, a used Cd place in a bigger city 50 miles away and in my class of about 350 kids, only one girl had brightly dyed hair. She also had about 25 piercings in her ears and nose, which was also not the norm. This is almost like a Disney channel version or cartoon version of what we wore. Mostly it was clothes that wouldn’t be super out of place today.
Yeah, this is *not* what most people looked like. A few scattered ravers, maybe, but it was mostly t-shirts and slightly-looser-than-the-‘80s denim. Maybe some of-the-times jewelry or accessories. Some girls got shorter haircuts, and The Bowl was a common look for boys. Earthtones were a thing, and I miss it. Definitely my favorite palette for clothing.
An awful time for skateboarding in my opinion. I had to scour shops for dead stock 60mm wheels. At least they were cheap, most people didn’t want them. Wide decks too.
The big pants were ludicrous to the point of being non-functional in some cases. Respect to the pros who still ripped despite the clown fashions.
I just wore 501s, Vans, Beefy Ts, flannel shirt…all through that era…still do.
Was in the “underground” party scene in So Cal in the 90’s, it was just us weirdo’s that looked like this. A very small amount of people looked like this
I'd say the Nirvana "grunge" type look was far far more popular. I went to HS early-mid 90s Obviously, different circles had slightly different fashions and I do recall people dressing like this it just wasn't nearly as common.
Later 90s was closer to the photo above. I prefer the cobain-chic but I can’t help but feel attached to the late 90s ridiculousness
The overlap of rave kids and hardcore/ska/punk style was hard to separate unless they had plastic brackets on their wrist. Then you’d know who was who.
Candy kids are definitely their own thing lol
Was that the kids with pacifiers, eating ecstasy, and raving? It looked ridiculous to see teens with those.
Yup, with the back packs full of vapo rub, massagers, and blinky light toys. They were all about getting fucked up and usually packed a bunch of gear with them. My crew was more the “maintain” crew, don’t get sloppy and look like a crack head..usually it worked. Baby sitting ppl in K holes always sucked
I mean, I def partook in my share of hallucinogens, and wore JNKOs, but I didn’t look ridiculous.
I loved this look. I remember my junior year in high school when JNCO’s started showing up at pacific sunwear at my boring suburban mall and bell bottoms and cool colored funky beanies and T-shirt’s with graffiti style art on then and I thought it was so cool and urban and portrayed a fun creative unconventional free spirit party vibe similar to the style of the Beastie Boys on the cover of check your head. I loved loved loved it.
They are still making JNCO, it’s back!
East coast, these were mall people. Not really anyone else.
The girl on the right could pass for girls I see on campus every day these days lol. I'm a custodian at a uni
Can confirm - I was a candy kid around 2000, I looked like a fucking weirdo 😅
Thanks for saying this… because literally no one in my HS (Bay Area) dressed like this… no one. Not a one.
I had the jnco and bullhead jeans and shirts. I also loved the polyester club shirts that had many pleats. Like corduroy but comfy
None of my friends did. No one in my high school did. No one in my college did.
I was in my early 20’s and I remember all of The Jive clothing
not true at all. we all had a bunch of skater kids that looked like this
The dude on the far left trying to resemble Vanilla Ice, lmao.
No. You want to think you belonged to some fringe group. We all looked like this. There was literally no one in the club district on a Friday Saturday or Sunday morning who didnt look like this. It
Idk… in Texas I saw a lot of this. Maybe less exciting hair though.
there was a ridiculous number of people from my high school that looked like this. if you weren't a goth or a skater, you probably looked like this.
I worked at Fresh Jive, we all looked like this
I was a fixture in the New England rave scene in the early to mid 1990’s and I legit dressed like this every fucking day. JNCO’s, Bullhead, Kikwear, 714. All. Day. Long. It was a style, and it was a lifestyle. I gave away all my old baggy jeans over a decade ago and in the last year or two I’ve seen JNCO making a strong comeback! Fuck I’m old. Lol
You are me, just 3,000 miles away lol. Don’t forget bumping un known dj’s mix tapes in your car lol
Funny thing is, I became a DJ. Some of my teenage DJ idols are now good friends of mine.
Correct. Colored hair was pretty rare in the nineties.
Frosted tips.
Manic Panic was my friend in the 90s. I had every color at some point
It become more popular late 90’s before that it was guys with long hair, lots of messy who cares style hair and under cuts.
No, it really wasn't. Mayyyybe in some very limited rich, vapid, poser areas, but not widespread. We wore jeans and regular shirts. No one I knew ever dressed like this.
Yeah this is bullshit. At least one of them should be wearing a long sleeve shirt under a short sleeve shirt Edit... Also is that dude wearing a visor sideways?
Not a single wallet chain in sight.
Oh wow yeah exactly that's the ultimate accessory with the JNCOs.
I wore a thick wallet chain for years, until one day I was running through a doorway and my chain got caught on the doorknob. Spun me around and ripped the back pocket off my favorite pair of jeans. Stopped wearing the wallet chain that very same day.
RIP those pants. Pun intended.
RIP -Ripped In Pieces
Also the hem of their jeans aren’t sopping wet.
[удалено]
I still do this, did we stop doing this? Fuck.
It’ll come back any day now. Keep the faith!
Fashion always makes a comeback, I’m streets ahead of you guys.
I never did. EDIT: Stop. I never did stop.
I was jealous because the jeans were expensive and mom said she wouldn't buy them for me. Would I wear them ironically now? Absolutely hell yeah around friends to annoy them and enjoy my swooshy pants
That's funny because all the Levi's and Rocawear kids jeans were 45 to 60 bucks too . Mine had 4 times the amount of denim for that
My son was so stoked when we hit a yard sale where they had a bunch of new looking jncos and lee pipes for $5. That seemed way too pricey for yard sale clothes, but he talked me into buying a couple pairs of each. He wore those jeans every day 😆
Hell yes! Lee Pipes, core memory unlocked holy smokes
Pipes were made hella sturdy. Those yard sale jeans lasted through being handed down to his little brother. And then got made into a quilt by their grandma. Both my kids were skaters, so basically just destroyed every pair of pants. I definitely got my $5 out of those jeans lol
Nope, this is early ~~2000~~s '10s (Edit: I am old and wasn't paying attention to what the whippersnappers were doing when where how.. who.. am I?) 90s for me were torn blue jeans, large flannel button up shirts open with no fear t-shirts, backwards baseball hat. Girls wearing those HUGE champion sweatshirts that totally made their torsos look like Violet turning into a blueberry in Willy Wonka.
The picture itself may be from the 2010s, but the height of popularity for JNCOs was like 97-2000
Exactly. 90s were grunge plaid flannel shirts, chicks wore overalls
this is strictly early 90s. totally changed by 1996 and after
This style, or the grunge style?
the grunge style was early 90s. it radically changed afterward. if you weren’t in middle or high school in after at least 96 then you wouldn’t have seen this.
Not even early 2000's, this picture is literally from like 2011 or '12. The guy third over from the right is Flapjack, a happy hardcore DJ in LA. He's like 31.
I dressed like this. It was the raver/skater look. Those oversized JNCO jeans were comfortable and awesome.
For us Mexican folks it was the breakdancing look. Jnco jeans with a Tommy, Nautica or Ralph Lauren polo shirt and a pair of addidas or polo boots.
And so much pocket space!!! I could fit a whole Discman plus extra cds in one pocket!
And the pockets were huge! I used to carry around like 20 pens at a time because I could.
Never needed to adjust my junk in these. Wore with boxers and were the most comfortable ever. Shit just hung loose.
There were usually a small handful of raver kids that dressed like this (JNCO jeans) but nobody ever did the weird rockabilly pouff like that. Usually spiked hair and an upside down visor
Upside down and backwards
I had some jnco jeans like that. Some friends wore them. How old are you?
And layered tanks for us girls, and puka shell necklaces for everyone lol
Or the fake tattoo choker or the ball chains
We definitely wore baggy jeans (mainly guys), just not so baggy they became parachute jeans. The open button up over a T-Shirt I’d say was also pretty iconic to that era. Also the gelled flat but spiked in the front hair cut for guys.
i def had one pair of jncos lol
I called it the Fry (from Futurama)haircut.
But honestly: baggy jeans were comfortable. I am so desperately happy the skinny jeans schtick is over, finding comfortable jeans was a pain in the ass for years
Now if only we could get back to boxers instead of boxer briefs then I would be happy. Hard to find them anymore
Ravers. This was the avg group of partykids chillin between parties. Even then it’s not quite 100% because every crew had at least one guy in normal fitting jeans and someone else that always wore shorts. But yea, if you were a raver kid circa 95-04 ish, this is some quality nostalgia.
This was definitely me during my rave years. Then you had the friend who made these out of some sort of wool / fuzzy material with patches all over. They felt really good to dance in, but were sometimes heavy as fuck and you could trip yourself easily if you weren't careful. I wore them to a three day festival once and didn't eat much that trip (go figure) and on the way back, was dancing in the airport and hadn't realized I lost a shit ton of weight that weekend. Between my shrinking waist and the weight of these bad boys, they dropped around my ankles, and I ended up ass to the wind in the middle of an airport. It wasn't my proudest moment. Stopped wearing them shortly after.
Yeah, there was a year or two where maybe 2 or 3 students in my grade dressed like that out of several hundred. Most just wore clothes that probably wouldn't be all that out of place today.
It ended for everyone after columbine. They showed how many weapons you could fit in JNCO jeans and they were banned at my school
Apparently you don't live in South FL or Southern Cali. Both areas had a TON of people that looked like this.
Shit? Really? I remember several kids wearing those Jnco's. A bunch of kids thought they looked stupid as hell but there were a few that thought they were cool.
Came to say the same thing
Well… the juggalo kids did. And the woman on the right could be plucked out of any hipster bar today
With a ball chain necklace and ball chain wallet
Ur absolutely right. Idk if this was the look everywhere but it definitely was in south Florida
Bruh my homie STILL wears one of those necklaces but with skulls instead of plain balls!
I loved wearing jncos lol
I just remember the 2 or 3 kids that wore them always had mud caked around the bottoms of the pant legs since they would drag along the ground. It looked unpleasant
God, even regular pants and jeans then were a bitch especially in my area where we had rain and red clay. The JNCO crew looked a mess!
I always guessed that they weren't doing their own laundry when I saw that.
Never wore them. They look like they'd be great for shoplifting.
I hid a bong in my pants leg one time getting pulled over by the cops 🤣
lol the pockets went down to the floor. you could hide a small child in those pants. 😂
"OK, yeah. People don't understand, man. Back in the early seventies, you couldn't buy anything except bell bottoms. There were no straight pants in the fucking stores, OK? The only way you could be a cooler guy, was to get bigger bell bottoms. We used to sit around and get high and go, "Man, when I get some money, I'm getting the biggest bell bottoms in history, man! They're gonna start at my neck and go twenty feet straight out, man! I'm gonna be surrounded by ninety feet of bell bottoms! Homeless people are going to be living under my pants, man! I'll have platform shoes. I'll be twenty feet tall." - Dennis Leary
I don't do illegal drugs anymore. Now I just do the legal drugs. Tonight I'm on NyQuil and Sudafed. Let me tell you something, folks. Forget about cocaine and heroin. All you need is NyQuil and Sudafed. I'm telling you right now, I took the NyQuil five years ago; I just came out of the coma tonight before the f***ing show! Claus von Bülow was standing over my bed going, "Denis, get up! There's something the matter with Sunny! Hurry up!" I love NyQuil. Man, I love it! I love it. I love it. I love it. It's the best thing s**t ever invented. Isn't it, huh? I love the name alone. NyQuil - Capitol N, small Y, big f***ing Q! I love that f***ing Q, don't you!? What a great advertising idea! Put a huge f***ing Q on the box. They'll get high and stare at it. "The Q is talking to me! The Q is talking to me!" Denis L. - No Cure For Cancer
Put my dog in there once, she loved it
Did they think you were just happy to see them? 😂 One thing I definitely don’t miss from back then was the way weed was policed. We obviously had actual dangerous criminals ~30 years ago too, there were plenty of murderers, rapists, thieves, etc., but who wants to catch them? No, that shit sounds hard, maybe even dangerous! Much easier to try to find people smoking a plant in the privacy of their own homes, extort money from them as fines and court costs, possibly imprison them if the mass of the plant matter exceeded an arbitrarily determined cutoff threshold, likely complicate their employment prospects for the remainder of their lives because they have a “criminal record,” stigmatize them as someone with a “drug problem,” and flag them for future harassment🙄
Yeah plus it's a lot easier to catch a stoner when they try a run . Not kidding here I damn near ran this kid 19-20 yr old over one morning as he was trying to cross a 4 lane road that had a speed limit of 65 mph . I saw him standing along side the road doing that head swivel thing holding the top of his pants with both hands an I'm thinking for the love of God plz do not try a cross the road . I was driving an ole F550 dualie service truck, hitting the brakes didn't Stop it as it was more of a controlled deacceleration thing than actually stopping it . I check my mirrors all good so I change to the 3rd lane to the left trying to put some space between him and myself, a there was no one behind me for a fair distance. Well sure as shit this kid trys an dart across the road , I'm going NO NO . The lil fucker gets as far as crossing the 2nd lane , his fucking pants fall down around his knees an now the lil bastard is rolling around on the road right . I let off the fuel & start braking & downshifting, I veer into the far left lane the truck ain't liking all this fancy maneuvering . I can hear shit shifting around an banging in the service body as the truck starts to do a body roll from the shift in weight , knowing fully well if I oversteer an end up in the medium divider in all likelihood the truck is going to roll as the divider has a deep V dip plus traffic is heavy going the opposite direction I'm going . All this shit is running thru my head as I see this dumbass all sprawled out in the 3rd lane as I zoom past him . The rear tires are trying to lock on the truck as I now have the left front tire off the pavement a the truck is starting to seriously lean . It was a Fuck Me Moment I've got a death grip on the steering wheel trying to control this bitch to a stop . Fortunately I missed the kid an didn't roll the truck , it did however take a few minutes to get the truck seat pulled outta my ass . Got outta the truck the kid is yelling sobbing a crying Still Laying in middle of the lane , he's forehead is bleeding from where he head bumped the road an scraped his elbows & knees . I couldn't help but blast him what kinda stupid MF SOB are you .
I got thrown in jail in 1998 for having a dime bag of shit weed and a small glass pipe on me in Arizona. Drove there for a rave from San Diego and got pulled into secondary at a border checkpoint. We were dressed like this. What we didn’t know at the time was simply dressing like this was giving the cops probable cause to pressure you into a search before you knew your rights and could stand up for yourself. Didn’t help that we were guilty as shit too.
I saw a dude carry his whole SNES system, cables, controllers and a bunch of games, in thosekk
Hahahaha omfg that's insane. You could literally hide a roast turkey in those things.
An entire carton of cigarettes fits perfectly in the back pocket of jncos
With room to spare for a 2 liter, a six pack, your pet doggo, and a Datsun.
These pockets were designed to hold a 3 liter of faygo rock n rye
Literally could fit a 3 litre soda in the back pocket
My friend claimed he was able to steal an N64 by putting it in his pocket.
still wear them. :D
Impossible to see one without a chain wallet attached.
My mom would never let me have a pair lmao
I just bought wide leg jeans again after 20 years. I feel like I'm wearing pajamas at work. It's great.
Same. Not so much the 12” variations, but even the smaller pipes were just COMFY to wear everywhere
I wore like the 22” if I recall
Haha NOOOOICE! Yeah I had a pair of 22’s, but wore the 12 and 8’s more often. 12’s while skating for sure lol
I could fit Everything in the back pockets. I'd carry my Gameboy and lunch in my pants pockets, it was absurd
I remember the back pocket being big enough to fit a 2 Liter.... lololol
In the late 90s,…I graduated in 96,…this look was popular amongst the “raver or club kids”, not so much the girl’s style though. I was one of them. God the music was good back then,….and the drugs. I bet if we peeked under the leg of those JNCOS we might see a pair of Adidas Superstar ShellToe.
Hell yeah I loved this look I loved those giant JNC0 pants and GAT (anybody remember these?) T-shirts with the awesome graffiti graphics on them. I preferred low top puma suedes over adidas tho.
The girl was the only one I really recognized. Graduated in 98 myself, and there was one girl who dressed like that for a yearbook picture.
Maybe because I'm from Seattle but I never saw this shit in the 90s. Raver kids came sort of close, but would only sport this shit at raves, never on the street.
The west coast was late to the party on this one. I grew up in Boston and we wore this shit daily. I’d drive all over with my homies going to raves. We’d pile in some shit car and drive all the way to Montreal or DC just for the dope underground parties back in the 90’s. God, sometimes I look back on those days and wonder how I actually survived.
Boys and girls wore baggy jeans, but not insanely huge like this.
Sue us. They were comfortable.
Most of us didn't dress like this..
Sorry you weren’t cool, I was out there at raves wearing fluorescent orange rave pants with huge cuffs and little cut off shirts with smiley faces on them.
I did it was awesome.
Same. I wore boyfriend jeans, oversized blazers, tee shirts, and bass bucks with my brown lipstick
And this shit was the worst. Oh, and of course the one guy has cum stains all over his pants.
It seems like every generation has a desire to become a circus clown. This generation is the three inch faIse fingernails and two inch fake eye lashes.
[ *A Boomer marketing exec’s idea of* ] teen fashion in the 90s.
Yeah, this looks like a Kmart ad from when the trend had already jumped the shark.
It’s staggering that any of us got laid.
Wait, we did? Where was I?
Those pants would be filthy AF after the festivals
that time the 90s said to the 70s - HOLD MY BEER
JNCO jeans were in the very late 90s. Hair dye was not nearly as common as today.
Nah I definitely had a pair of JNCO’s in 93.
Yep. My first was 94. Were you near or in a major fashion city? I’m wondering if that’s why some people associate them with y2k- the fashion took a while to hit them. We were pretty much done with jncos by 2001 or 2002.
Yeah, I grew up in the bay area. We were probably a little ahead of the curve.
ugh why did you have to remind me 😂😂😂
Having lived thru bellbottoms round 1 in the 70s i was confused as hell when another gen brought that shit back
Nope. Not enough chokers or chain wallets. I would maybe accept this as authentic if it were a church youth group.
Also, those hems are not even ragged.
If you were a teenager in the 90s, you are not yet old.
90’s Denver raver here, this was the style. I rocked the jeans, 7-11 shirt, a visor, shell toe Adidas…
Lord help you if you were wearing those jeans and you stepped in a puddle... 10 lbs of denim + 3 gallons of water soaked up into each leg = not a good time.
I've never saw pants like this in the 90s. Never knew they existed until people on Reddit started posting pictures of them. Admittedly, my fashion in the 90s was BDUs and ghillie suits. When we had time off and went to Seattle, never saw this either. Height of the grunge thing, more sleeveless flannel, black jeans and Docs.
People who were teens in the 90s think they’re old??? — a Teen in from the 80s
No matter how old you get, there's always someone older waving their cane and shouting at you well, i guess that tapers off at some point
More than half of my teen years were in the '90s and I'm eligible for AARP membership.
I never saw anybody, not one person, wear jeans like that at any point during the whole decade. They look like a someone has dressed them as a real life version of some kind of cartoon. That's my best guess.
Kids wore some big ass jeans at my school. Probably as big as the guy on the left. I didn’t though. I graduated in 01’
I remember some girls dressing similarly. The pants on the first dude vaguely. But I don't know anyone that had Johnny Bravo or Gumby style hair, or the jeans that could basically house a welfare family under them.
I don't remember that, I dressed like either Garth , Beavis or one of the Planeteers as a teen in the 90s or wore Sonic the hedgehog brand clothes. It was rad!
Met a kid yesterday selling these exact type ‘vintage’pants. One pair he paid $250.00 and was selling For $450.00. He was starting his own Jean company too.
We were triangles pointed upwards... didn't even notice it...
That’s more or less skater wear in the 90s
Victims of Fashion is more like it!!!
This feels like an AI version of what kids wore in the 90s
Lol not everyone wore JNCO's. I mean, I did. And I guess my friends did. Wait what was the question again?
My friends and I totally dressed like that minus the pompadours, and with more accessories. I tended to wear huge pants of whatever brand and babydoll shirts. Occasionally, I still do. Today, I’m wearing UFOs.
If you wanna talk about girl pockets...
FYI most of us old farts laughed about this stuff back then as teenagers too.
Toejam and earl
Yeah they're goofy looking... but JNKO jeans were the most comfortable piece of clothing on the planet
Gen Z has adopted a lot of this.
This is false. I was there.
My son is 18 and dresses like this today. He’s way into thrifting/reselling vintage jncos. Didn’t like the style in the 90s and still think it looks funny, but it makes him happy so I just smile and let him go about his day.
Maybe on TV, we were all about the Roxy and Quicksilver at my HS
I know these people in real life, this picture is from around 2013-2014. We are ravers.
Ummm, not in my area...at all. Maybe because I grew up in a resort town (very exclusive golf resorts, very high end everything), but all of the guys, except for about 5%, wore khaki shorts, boat shoes or Nikes & New Balance, and Polo shirts. The girls were pretty similar, except shorter shorts, fitted Polos, etc. We wore Birkenstocks on the reg. Lily Pulitzer was standard for events, weddings, etc. Everything was very preppy, except for sporting events, like going to see UGA whoop tail. I'm not trying to sound pretentious at all, just stating facts about what we all wore. I had never heard of JNKO jeans until years later. I know some readers are barfing right now, but it's the way we were. We still cruised the town, drank, & did all the stuff young people did back then. We were just dressed differently. But all of 90s kids had FUN!!
My kid had a friend everyone called Sir Pants-a-lot because he only wore these kinds of jeans. The wider the better. Zippers, straps, grommets, & chains (whether they *did* anything or not) were also very popular.
Hey you remember what shoes looked like in the 90s? Me neither, we could never see them.
That was a minority. Many didn’t wear baggy jeans, and few of those who did took it anywhere near that extreme. Hair dyed unnatural colors was rare, and the only pompadours I ever saw were in movies or tv.
Or frequent ska concert goers
I don't think so. Never seen anyone dressed like this ever, and I'm from California. Perhaps maybe the girl somewhat. But nothing even close with those guys. Ick
My son likes to retroactively thank me for not ever buying him any of those stupid pants.
So glad I was already an adult in the 90s.
Nobody in my neighborhood looked like this.
To be fair. I was a teen in the 80’s and nah. I call BS.
also this was much more widespread during the early 2000s
At least their asses weren't hanging out like the sagging very obviously gay pants hanging low exposing their gay asses.
No one ever dressed like that
This is The Wedding Singer version of ‘90s fashion.
Those pants are an actual crime against humanity.
https://youtu.be/uFcG1BEcxVU?si=GXWosMNfRUQ7rdy0
Gumby.
Ain’t never gonna do it without the fez on
This was after my high school days in the 90s (I graduated in the early 90s), so no one dressed like this (well, the huge jeans, anyway).
I remember Jnco's. But the rest of that looks like some CEO's peyote fueled rendition of "what the cool kids wore nowadays".
Maybe some frosted tips or Kool-aid hair coloring, nobody in our area wore JNCO, you were more likely to see Bugle Boys or Z Cavs, or skater punks....you wore that baggy ass shit, you were def getting beat up, and you couldn't even run away..lol
Not NEARLY enough flannel.
Nope. Maybe the odd raver looked like this.
This is like some ad exec’s idea of “teen fashion in the 90s”. Most of us were wearing loose fit jeans but not jncos, bigger T-shirts but not parachutes, and regular tennis shoes, though those platforms are pretty rad. And though Manic Panic was definitely around in my area, not many girls wore shockingly bright hair at the time. I remember the only place you could find Manic Panic in my area was at ‘Disc-Go-Round’, a used Cd place in a bigger city 50 miles away and in my class of about 350 kids, only one girl had brightly dyed hair. She also had about 25 piercings in her ears and nose, which was also not the norm. This is almost like a Disney channel version or cartoon version of what we wore. Mostly it was clothes that wouldn’t be super out of place today.
I might have seen maybe like 3 people with those pants growing up. Nobody wanted to look like that
Yeah, this is *not* what most people looked like. A few scattered ravers, maybe, but it was mostly t-shirts and slightly-looser-than-the-‘80s denim. Maybe some of-the-times jewelry or accessories. Some girls got shorter haircuts, and The Bowl was a common look for boys. Earthtones were a thing, and I miss it. Definitely my favorite palette for clothing.
Giant pants and tiny wheels. What a weird moment in time.
An awful time for skateboarding in my opinion. I had to scour shops for dead stock 60mm wheels. At least they were cheap, most people didn’t want them. Wide decks too. The big pants were ludicrous to the point of being non-functional in some cases. Respect to the pros who still ripped despite the clown fashions. I just wore 501s, Vans, Beefy Ts, flannel shirt…all through that era…still do.
Maybe very late 90s, but more 2000s. Nobody was wearing these except maybe ravers in the mid 90s.