80's holdovers
You wouldn't know it by the movies, but there were a lot of 80's holdover fashion in the 90's. If you watch a lot of TV from back then. Up until about 1995 or so.
shareThe further we get from the 90s, the more they look like the 80s. A while back I saw a website breaking down fashion by decade, and their synopsis for the 90s was "the 80s with earth tones."
I made an observation a while back (which I later found out wasn't original to me -- I think Andy Warhol noted it too) that decades take a few years to kick in from a style and aesthetics standpoint, to the point that the transitions almost happen on the halfway point rather than on the zeroes. The early 80s, for instance, look pretty much like the second half of the 70s (moustaches, shaggy hair, etc.), and it's not until 1984 or 85 that you start seeing the cool colors, narrow ties, tapered pants, etc. that you associate with the 80s. And yeah, the 90s, for the first couple of years it just looked like the 80s. The glasses were still big, the music was crappy synth-dance-pop and the last dying gasps of hair metal, and it wasn't until two or three years in that you started seeing grunge and 70s retro and that kind of thing.
But yeah, even halfway through the decade, especially as we get further away from it, you look at the cool colors and mullets on something like Seinfeld, and it's like, damn, are you sure this was a different decade?
END THE WARS. TAX THE RICH.
THIS ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE.
It's 2014 and it still looks like 2008/2009 in some ways just like 1994 still looked like 1988/1989 in some ways.
If you watch some films from 2002 like Austin Powers in Goldemember, it feels like it came out in 1999 instead (the same year The Spy Who Shagged Me Came Out). Also Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle looks more 1998 or 1999 rather than 2004.
The early 2000 (2000-2003) had a late 90s (1996-1999) feel to it. So far 2010-2014 feels like the late 2000s (2006-2009). The only difference is YouTube and Facebook are more popular than they were back in 2006 or 2007. Music still sounds the same like it did back from 2006-2009 which is shocking because back in 1994, music sounded nothing like it did between 1986-1989. Now music from 1990-1992 still had that 1987-1989 feel to it. Grudge music is what brought us from the late 80s leftover dance pop music to the then now more "alternative rock" style of the 90s that remained until like 2000-2001.