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easyJet magazine has changed a lot since its first issue ten years ago, but what about you? If your fashion memory is a little hazy (well, you are getting on a bit) here’s a flashback to what you were wearing back in 1995.
Text by Hero Brown
Best haircut— the Rachel
A big year for Friends, a bad year for hairdressers. Snippers across the land despaired of being asked to perform 'The Rachel’ on pasty Brits desperate to look like American poppet Jennifer Aniston. The only hairstyle to ever win a Golden Globe (best actress in a comedy show), the Rachel was a unique cutesy, choppy look, with the sexiest hint of a side-fringe and high-and-low-lighted to within an inch of its life. A perfect haircut.
Worst haircut— Howard in Take That
Gary Barlow’s school boy comb- forward would have won the worst haircut hands down in 1993. However by ’95 Howard Donald, Take That’s resident breakdance expert and third best looking boy in the band (you work it out) lost the follicular plot. Out went the short back and sides of the glory days. In came some manky looking dreds and a lopsided goaty. Suddenly Howard had even less sex appeal than Gary. The dreds truly were that bad.
Worst shoes—Doc Martens
As flattering as calipers, Doc Martens were inflicted upon the fashion scene yet again in 1995. Wasn’t it enough that skinheads, punks, goths and grunge kids had all had their moment with DMs? Alas no. Alright, so Doc Martens looked passable as part of the camouflage trend (see below) or on androgenous girl rockers like Elastica. But where were the limits? Girls in particular insisted on wearing their DMS with everything—even shorts, mini skirts and baby doll dresses. Enter a generation of butch Lolitas.
Best shoes— the Air Max ’95 Nikes
The iconic trainer of the ’90s. The design of ’95s’ (any mention of 'Air Max’ and you were outed as a total nerd), were serious running shoes, intended to mimic the body. So the outsole looked like a spine x-ray, the loopholes and straps were the ribs, the upper of the shoe were the sinews, the mesh on the top was the… Oh who are we kidding? These trainers were bought because they were cool. After years of retro trainers, these futuristic shoes looked madly conceptual, and the hippest DJ crewsMetalheadz, Mo Wax,
Blue Note—clambered to wear them.
Best male accessory— nerdy glasses
1995 was the year it became trendy to bring out your inner geography teacher. Jarvis Cocker went supermarket shopping with the 'common people’ in his favourite cord jacket and black- rimmed glasses. Meanwhile, down on the South coast, Damien Hirst was showing himself to be a total weirdo, winning prizes for pickling sharks, while wearing the type of eyewear last seen on accountants in the ’60s. Ten years on, Jay Jopling and friends are still at it.
Best female accessory— naval ring
We know, we know, boys were into piercings too (especially those divine nipple rings), but the girly naval ring was the piercing to have—sexy without being kinky, easy to display 'accidentally’
(reach right up in that tight T-shirt). On the celeb circuit, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Christy
Turlington and Naomi Campbell quickly decided naval rings were worth the infection.
Worst trousers— loungewear
This was the year when 'loungewear’ started taking off thanks to girl-next-door-in-stripy- pajama stars like Meg Ryan. This trend was all about boyish, slobby, elasticated, wide leg trousers and plain cotton T-shirts. Now you could go to the gym, on for a coffee, back home for a TV dinner supper, and finally off to bed without changing once…
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Best trousers— baggies
Two years before All Saints brought hipster combats to our attention, baggies had their moment—urban, functional trousers from the likes of Carhart. They were a cooler, more streetwise twist on the scally baggy wear of 1989, when The Stone Roses were dressing like they’d raided their dads’ wardrobes. Worn with Vans shoes and long-sleeved T-shirts the look was nicked straight off the skateboard park. Optional accessory: 'rad’ skater phrases.
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Best male look— parka chic
It was battle of the parka jackets in 1995, with Blur and Oasis knocking furry hoods for the number one band in the country. Liam and Damon looked like a pair of Mod-mad schoolboys, posturing away in their old jeans and dirty trainers. But the trend caught on and for the next year die-hard fans sweated it out in the army’s most famous surplus jacket.
Worst male look— army boy
Every man’s dream—to pretend to be a tough soldier with all the clothes and everything! The trend for army combat wear meant that men who should have known better started dressing up like SAS officers on active duty. Camouflage pants and flak jackets, vest tops, dog collars and DMs all made their appearance. Quite a sexy look, in moderation. Unfortunately, that fashion command fell on deaf ears and head-to-toe Sandhurst style was born.
Worst female look—the baby doll dress
Sophistication isn’t the word that comes to mind when discussing baby doll dresses.
These brazen little numbers, usually accessorized by thigh-high stripy stockings and bovver boots, were once very grungy and sexy. This was the forerunner to Geri Halliwell’s Union Jack dress and DMs in 1997. For this we should be grateful?
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Best female look— the Wonderbra
Millions of British women, desperate to hoick up their cleavages, rushed to buy the Wonderbra when it was introduced in the UK, in 1995. Supermodel Eva Herzigova’s breasts nestled in this miracle worker, which famously stopped traffic, and normal women realized that even the flattest pancakes could reach new heights.
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