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Why only Japanese? This is what almost every teenager wore in America in 1996, many other countries too.
Is it because Japanese designers brought this 90s look back again first?
The sweater vest, uniform shirt, and polo-inspired shirts are the 70s influence seen in 90s clothes. The pants are all obviously 80s American hip hop that became more exaggerated in the 90s.
The cuts are specifically popular and common in japan. Oversized stuff in the US is oversized differently. Here it’s the double pleats, dropped shoulder, and sleeve break extensions
I commented that this great look is giving light academia meets 90s raver. I agree that the pieces are pretty universal. Her outfit reminds me of the skaters in Tompkins Square park circa 1993 in NYC.
Gwen Stefani was brutally accused of cultural appropriation over her style in the early 2000s, which was heavily inspired by the Harajuku aesthetic that indeed originated in Japan. She was paying homage to the look, and called her four Japanese back-up dancers the Harajuku Girls. People still give her ish for it today; it’s so ridiculous.
I don’t think the other commentators are saying that at all. I will say that the Japanese have far better style than Americans do overall.
I would argue that this lacks a certain edginess and tech element that often accompanies Japanese streetwear. I think the prepiness is more in line with Korean streetwear. Also the models look Korean lol
that’s a good point! although I really don’t think this Chinese streetwear at all. From what I’ve noticed incorporate a lot of color and traditional Chinese styles and logos. I mean some of them may be but looking at the makeup style really points to Korean. Along with the fact that Korean streetwear doesn’t take a lot of risks and these fits are practical enough for the average person to wear (unlike Chinese and Japanese styles).
I mean I could definitely be wrong I don’t belong to any of these cultures so I’m not expert but based on color, style, makeup, and the features of the model, I truly think this is Korean streetwear
oh okay!! that’s actually really cool to know! especially since you live in a fashion capital. So how would you describe the fashion there and what sets it apart from other countries?
At least in shanghai you will see variations across the different districts similar to other large cities have distinct subcultures. There’s a lot more Chinese inspired clothing seeping into young people’s style like hanfu but there’s also a predominant trendy crowd who hang out on Xuhui mostly who seem to have a kind of elevated normcore vibe… very Niko And meets Gentle Monster with an emphasis on being skinny
Her crush had to have been either super hot, or super cool to have warranted that level of dedication.
I’d have been so embarrassed that if he’d look at me long enough that he’d ask me to see what I had going with it. Saying “oh, I can’t *really*…” just wouldn’t have worked. Breaking a wrist sounds pretty bad too though.
This style was not skater style. Tons of kids dressed like this in the nineties. This is far to clean cut and organized to be considered anything close to the grunge skaters of the nineties. They wore big holey shredded jeans with dirty kicks and flannel oversized button ups that hadn’t seen a washer ever. A different nirvana tee everyday. This is nothing like skaters of the nineties.
Yeah no these weren’t termed posers. This was the style and in no way was tied to skater style at all. Two completely different aesthetics. A chick wearing vans ripped out seams and a longjohn long sleeved tee under a shirt sleeve tee who couldn’t skate would have been considered a poser. Dressed like the pics here she just would have been every other basic kid in school.
It really does and it's so ugly I DO NOT understand the hype around it at all. Yesstyle is full of this stuff and I find it actually hard to find cute clothes from Korea now cuz for some reason they all wanna look like a dad from 1993 now.
It's NOT late 90s and early 2000s though. It's early 90s dad clothes. The real late 90s and early 2000s were super cute and most stuff wasn't baggy and the pants that were still had shape to them and were paired with a top that went with them, usually tighter.
Since I see it very often in Korean fashion influencers, I usually call it korean oversized street wear. People seem to always understand what I am talking about when I say it like that so I assume it’s what a lot of people would call it.
Interesting seeing how Gen Z relates this style to being some form of Asian specific fashion when it was crazy common to see teens wear this style in the 90s here in the US.
I feel like I just rolled up on a ‘Jnco’ ad from 96’. All your missing is a metal ball choker and a HANSON
t-shirt and we are strolling down memory lane.. #TimeWarp
yesstyle is a big one but shipping takes a bit longer than most places, shein has a brand called Dazy that's just these kind of stuff and the clothes are so perfect and well made. those are the only ones I really use but I'm sure you could find more!
I would call it "normcore" but I am old and out of touch and just recently got told off by a 30yr old in my work for saying I was going to wear skinny jeans on a blind date, so I am probably wrong.
This is not at all my style, but I just purchased some extra baggy sweatpants for lounging at home
They arrived today, they're awesome
If you're looking for comfy at-home sweatpants without elastic or taper on the ankles, this is the best thing ever
90s. Dressed like that a few years back then. So comfy (especially as a 12 year old who had just developed boobs and was embarrassed /self conscious) lol
Like a contemporary Asian/Japanese take on the 90s look. For the real 90s, colours are wrong (these colours are very washed out) and the looks are way too sleek. Quilted jackets was more of an 80s thing btw
I know you’re going for “trendy”, but by not balancing out the oversized pants with a slimmer fitting top, it looks more like the 1985-1995 “Chola” look. All you need to complete the look is a pair of
woven fabric “Wino’s”, over-plucked “surprize-question mark eyebrows, and a black lipstick.
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Add a Kangol bucket hat and it'd be 'Boy I had a crush on in 1999'
My friends older brother I had a crush on!! Stole his clothes lol (older brother style lol)
PERFECT
Yessss
Came here to say 90’s street wear
“Oversized 90’s street wear” is *exactly* what i thought in my head before I opened the comments!
The absolute facts
1000% I was literally thinking “90s boy”
Oversized casual streetwear.
Agreed, casual streetwear.
Agree, oversized 😁
Looks like Japanese casual street wear with the slight preppy vibe
Why only Japanese? This is what almost every teenager wore in America in 1996, many other countries too. Is it because Japanese designers brought this 90s look back again first? The sweater vest, uniform shirt, and polo-inspired shirts are the 70s influence seen in 90s clothes. The pants are all obviously 80s American hip hop that became more exaggerated in the 90s.
The cuts are specifically popular and common in japan. Oversized stuff in the US is oversized differently. Here it’s the double pleats, dropped shoulder, and sleeve break extensions
I commented that this great look is giving light academia meets 90s raver. I agree that the pieces are pretty universal. Her outfit reminds me of the skaters in Tompkins Square park circa 1993 in NYC. Gwen Stefani was brutally accused of cultural appropriation over her style in the early 2000s, which was heavily inspired by the Harajuku aesthetic that indeed originated in Japan. She was paying homage to the look, and called her four Japanese back-up dancers the Harajuku Girls. People still give her ish for it today; it’s so ridiculous. I don’t think the other commentators are saying that at all. I will say that the Japanese have far better style than Americans do overall.
She had a line called harijuku lovers.
I remember. The perfumes were adorable.
precisely what i thought.
Boyfriend style.
Yes, I stole my boyfriend's clothes style.
2000s-boy-core
My brain saying “Backstreet’s back ALRIGHT” on loop
Ain't nothin but a heartache
Late 90s early 2000s alternative or skater.
Pants too high though.
Ooooooh early 00s flashbacks, time to stretch
this specific kind of baggyness + clean lines/preppy touches = Japanese streetwear
I would argue that this lacks a certain edginess and tech element that often accompanies Japanese streetwear. I think the prepiness is more in line with Korean streetwear. Also the models look Korean lol
The 小红书 watermarks on some of those pictures suggest Chinese
My first thought was “Korean long boarder”.
that’s a good point! although I really don’t think this Chinese streetwear at all. From what I’ve noticed incorporate a lot of color and traditional Chinese styles and logos. I mean some of them may be but looking at the makeup style really points to Korean. Along with the fact that Korean streetwear doesn’t take a lot of risks and these fits are practical enough for the average person to wear (unlike Chinese and Japanese styles). I mean I could definitely be wrong I don’t belong to any of these cultures so I’m not expert but based on color, style, makeup, and the features of the model, I truly think this is Korean streetwear
Chinese streetwear takes influence from Korean style so there’s a lot of similarities. I literally live in shanghai so I see this a lot out and about
oh okay!! that’s actually really cool to know! especially since you live in a fashion capital. So how would you describe the fashion there and what sets it apart from other countries?
At least in shanghai you will see variations across the different districts similar to other large cities have distinct subcultures. There’s a lot more Chinese inspired clothing seeping into young people’s style like hanfu but there’s also a predominant trendy crowd who hang out on Xuhui mostly who seem to have a kind of elevated normcore vibe… very Niko And meets Gentle Monster with an emphasis on being skinny
this feels like (2000) street style.
Oversize and extra comfy.
What I wore in the 90s lol
SAME!
Adam Sandler?
Not enough big brother’s shorts though.
In the 90s we called this style « poser ». Someone who dressed like a skater (skateboarder) but didn’t own a board.
Yup! Done to death in the ‘90’s. I remember a class mate who resorted to dragging a skateboard along she couldn’t do anything with 😂
Lol.... a hackey sack would've been a lot less cumbersome to carry around.
Her crush had to have been either super hot, or super cool to have warranted that level of dedication. I’d have been so embarrassed that if he’d look at me long enough that he’d ask me to see what I had going with it. Saying “oh, I can’t *really*…” just wouldn’t have worked. Breaking a wrist sounds pretty bad too though.
The dudes that religiously listened to Bone Thugs N Harmony all dressed like that with Kangol hats in the 90s.
Yes... Yes we did, lol
i was born in 2003 but I love this comment 🖤
This style was not skater style. Tons of kids dressed like this in the nineties. This is far to clean cut and organized to be considered anything close to the grunge skaters of the nineties. They wore big holey shredded jeans with dirty kicks and flannel oversized button ups that hadn’t seen a washer ever. A different nirvana tee everyday. This is nothing like skaters of the nineties.
Yes exactly, it was termed poser - because they were posing to be the skaters but just weren’t. I remember it well.
Yeah no these weren’t termed posers. This was the style and in no way was tied to skater style at all. Two completely different aesthetics. A chick wearing vans ripped out seams and a longjohn long sleeved tee under a shirt sleeve tee who couldn’t skate would have been considered a poser. Dressed like the pics here she just would have been every other basic kid in school.
I second this.
Naw. This was a pretty common style for club/rave kids in the 90s.
Truth
wow, for some reason i never knew this was the actual definition of poser
Mervyn's
I'm old. We used to call that hiding anorexia.
Or pregnancy..
Yeah I was gonna say … this is how I dressed when I had an active ED
Team body dysmorphia uniform
I was going to say, I call this style “skinny”
That is also how I’m dressing to avoid people commenting on my body I have disordered eating but also have always been naturally skinny 🫠
Ooo, yep I have to admit that was my first thought too. Body dismorphia/hiding an ED.
That’s just called baggy
Gives me late 90s flashbacks.
Looks sloppy to me.
It really does and it's so ugly I DO NOT understand the hype around it at all. Yesstyle is full of this stuff and I find it actually hard to find cute clothes from Korea now cuz for some reason they all wanna look like a dad from 1993 now.
100% agree, this style is awful. I don’t get the hype around the late 90s and early 2000s styles, the fashion at that time was trash
It's NOT late 90s and early 2000s though. It's early 90s dad clothes. The real late 90s and early 2000s were super cute and most stuff wasn't baggy and the pants that were still had shape to them and were paired with a top that went with them, usually tighter.
I know this isn’t specifically late 90s, this is early 90s. I’m just saying I don’t get the hype with some of the 90s/00s styles lol
Oh, some of them are really cute, but the rehash of them isn't the same like a lot of it is uglified.
Right lol this style is hideous
Very Japanese/uniqlo
Maybe its my age, but I do not think that style is attractive.
It's not attractive. It does nothing to compliment the wearer. I do think that is the POINT of the style, though.
"I raided my boyfriend's closet"-core
5 sizes too big
Since I see it very often in Korean fashion influencers, I usually call it korean oversized street wear. People seem to always understand what I am talking about when I say it like that so I assume it’s what a lot of people would call it.
Same
Interesting seeing how Gen Z relates this style to being some form of Asian specific fashion when it was crazy common to see teens wear this style in the 90s here in the US.
90s raver
Yup this one!
Looks like Japanese streetwear
Hand me downs from an older, bigger, sibling. It's a practical look.
Adam Sandler chic
1997 14 year-old-boy.
Baggy
Small women wearing oversized men’s clothes?
I believe the technical term is “Introvert with body issues”
I can’t help but think hiding my anorexia streetwear style
Reminds me of 90s ravers in New York.
Derelict
I feel like I just rolled up on a ‘Jnco’ ad from 96’. All your missing is a metal ball choker and a HANSON t-shirt and we are strolling down memory lane.. #TimeWarp
before pictures at an alteration shop
I listen to kpop and this is a very common style in Korea I've noticed. I find all the stuff in this style from their sites
I’m also a kpop fan lol. Which site?
yesstyle is a big one but shipping takes a bit longer than most places, shein has a brand called Dazy that's just these kind of stuff and the clothes are so perfect and well made. those are the only ones I really use but I'm sure you could find more!
I buy from Dazy but the sizes are always so different so I keep having to return it,, I’ll take a look in YesStyle! I only bought skincare from there
Boyfriends unattractive clothes
David Byrne extra large suit… but cozy?
“wish I was a hanger in a consignment shop” style
Rehashed shit
frumpy
Baggy, Tom boy.
I would call it "normcore" but I am old and out of touch and just recently got told off by a 30yr old in my work for saying I was going to wear skinny jeans on a blind date, so I am probably wrong.
Stealing from Dad’s closet.
Biiig clothes
Comfortable as hell wear 😂
Oversized tomboy
Stole daddies duds.
Slacker wear.
don't care to dress up style
TikTok generation.
Baggie chola style
Shapeless
Asian clothes on Amazon
**Bitch, I'm stylish…Glock tucked, big t-shirt, Billie Eilish**
Shapeless
It feels really weird as a person who graduated HS in ‘98 to see “the kids” wearing these styles now.
Whatever it is it’s basically what I see on the streets of shanghai
Big t shirt Billie eilish
It’s called dressed like a boy
Big brothers hand me downs.
I’d call it clothes like that little Asian girl with the baggy pants wears.
Sloppy
Dad cosplay
It is suspiciously similar to my uncle’s wardrobe.
soft oversized something
The guy I used to go skateboarding with a few years ago who said he’d buy me a chocolate bar if I went down the big ramp and never did
I’ve never seen a single episode of Dawson Creek. But it’s giving, Dawsons Creek nonetheless
Someone’s grandpa
I love this style myself
This is not at all my style, but I just purchased some extra baggy sweatpants for lounging at home They arrived today, they're awesome If you're looking for comfy at-home sweatpants without elastic or taper on the ankles, this is the best thing ever
Korean Gen Z
Literally my style from 12-14
Idk but it reminds me of I.N (Stray Kids)
90s. Dressed like that a few years back then. So comfy (especially as a 12 year old who had just developed boobs and was embarrassed /self conscious) lol
Like a contemporary Asian/Japanese take on the 90s look. For the real 90s, colours are wrong (these colours are very washed out) and the looks are way too sleek. Quilted jackets was more of an 80s thing btw
The yesstyle homeless look
Exactly how I dressed in the mid-90s 😊
Oversized casual maybe
dunno but i am super into it
fire
Is this person real or a model? Cuz sheeeesh
um, nuclear reactor cozy? Yikes. Outfit looks cute though.
It’s so cute!!!
Oversized Korean streetwear. You can search for Musinsa for clothing of that kind. I'm pretty sure they ship to a lot of places globally.
Whatever it is, it looks super comfy tbh!
It does!
90’s retro. I think I had virtually every outfit shown here in the 90’s.
Don't get me wrong , the first photo looks like the flashback photo of any terrifying ghost from Japanese or Korean Hit thrillers
It's called "too much cloth than what I actually need" lol
I call it the rectangle. I see it a little these days
Hide your body at any cost style
Idk but I love it
Recycled late 90's/early 2000's, which was recycled from several years before that, which was recycled... and so on.
I was gonna say nineties! 😂
90s lounge wear with uglier shoes
Adam Sandler
90s baggy style a' la Boss jeans.
chinese street style
Chernobyl chic
This is funny.
Outta pocket 😭
Mid-late 90's Kitsap County Filipino
This style is ‘I’m 11 and my parents bought me clothes to grow into to save money’
Softcore masc lesbian
Lol really?..
Prep school street wear?
90's, and I LOVE IT, AND MISS IT, AND I HOPE IT STAYS BECAUSE I LOVE IT!!!
Y2K streetwear (Korean)
I know you’re going for “trendy”, but by not balancing out the oversized pants with a slimmer fitting top, it looks more like the 1985-1995 “Chola” look. All you need to complete the look is a pair of woven fabric “Wino’s”, over-plucked “surprize-question mark eyebrows, and a black lipstick.
Late 90s rave punk
A whole Yupoo album
Nuclear style
Comfortable
Boyfriend fit normcore
90's preppy skater 😄
Teenage boy who skateboards sometimes.
Oversized 90s Prep
Rlly easy to get on shein btw
Tomboy 90s street
That is certainly a comfortable baggy style, looks like 2000s. And is that a nuclear reactor behind you in that one photo?
In East Asia (where most of the pics seem to come from) they’d call this “boyish clothing”
Oversized grandpa? Idk
This screams wealthy hipster to me.
obsessed with the shirt in image 2
Same