Fashion + Music: The 90s Are All That!

Dress: Buffalo Exchange/Thrift. Necklace: Forever 21. Boots: Dr. Martens.

Lately, I have been on a complete nostalgia trip. I wanted to convey the whole grunge look on Friday. A flouncy, floral dress and Doc Martens are basically the essentials for 90s style. 

My obsession with the 90s might just spring from a made up perception that the present sucks and the past is better. I mean, come on. Who wouldn't want to go back to the time when one could watch good original Disney Channel movies? When Rugrats, Hey Arnold!, All That, and Doug were always on television? When Aaliyah, Kurt Cobain, Left Eye, Selena, Tupac, and Biggie were still alive? When people cherished music more because it wasn't on the internet? When concert tickets weren't as high--oh MAN if I saw Red Hot Chili Peppers back then it would be so cheeeeap--and some of the best alternative music was openly appreciated to at least some mainstream extent? What happened to those glorious days, man?

But fear not. I am skilled at being a music dork and digging through my countless MP3s to find the cream of the crop. This in NO WAY encompasses the best of 90s, just what's the best to me. Knowing me, since nothing I listen to is current these days, I'll find more 90s bands to appreciate in no time. But here is a playlist of some good music from the decade that used to be. 

The 90s Are All That! Mixtape

Bills, Bills, Bills//Destiny's Child

Boyz N the Hood//Eazy-E

Criminal//Fiona Apple

On & On//Erykah Badu

Give it Away//Red Hot Chili Peppers

Hard Knock Life//Jay-Z

Intergalactic//Beastie Boys

Into the Void//Nine Inch Nails

John the Fisherman//Primus

Killin' Me Softly//The Fugees

Loomer//My Bloody Valentine

My Lovin' (Never Gonna Get It)//En Vogue

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea//Neutral Milk Hotel

No Diggity//Blackstreet

Right Here (Human Nature Mix)//SWV

Sexy Boy//Air

Stinkfist//Tool

Teachers//Daft Punk

The New Pollution//Beck

The Rain//Missy Elliott

Too Much//Spice Girls

Undone (The Sweater Song)//Weezer

Venus as a Boy//Bjork

You Make Me Wanna//Usher

Download Mixtape

Fashion: 3 Looks

Per how hectic my weeks have been lately--school, work, and trying to hang out with my friends in between--I try to be as fashionable as possible without losing my mind in the process. So my looks usually tend to go from random adjectives. Like, for example: Electric Hippie Mexican. Sexy Lumberjack. Nineties Floral Enthusiast. You get the idea. Here are some of the looks I've done this past week.

Outfit 1

Poncho: Urban Outfitters

Necklace: Forever 21

Boots: Dr. Martens

A little backstory on the poncho (and a reason why you should always wait until shit goes on sale!). I was derping around at Urban Outfitters, thinking I'm balling because I got my student refund check, and everyone knows student refund = go buy a bunch of random shit because the government reimbursed you. Most of my money goes toward clothes. I spent at least $50 on this damn psychedelic, fashion-hippie looking, wearable blanket, only to discover a few months later that the Urban Outfitters outlet had the same damn ponchos for TEN. DOLLARS. I'm done.

Outfit 2

Jacket: Forever 21

Shirt: Urban Outfitters

Skirt: H&M

Socks: PayHalf

Boots: Bongo for KMart

So when you wear a plaid shirt, you automatically feel like a lumberjack, right? Add a leather jacket with a bunch of buttons--which you can't see...sorry!--and this makes a perfect concert outfit. I was expecting some guy who looks like Justin Vernon to walk next to me so people could think we were a couple. Wearing this outfit, I got soooo many looks. I don't know if it was the skirt or the hair. But whatever it was, some dude at least a block ahead of me kept looking back, and then tapped his friend to make him turn around. Also, word to the wise, when you wear a short skirt and you have a huge ass, you will be continuously pull it down over and over again. This process will make you feel like a whore. End of the story? If you have a big ass and you wear a short skirt, you are a whore. And creepy guys in trucks will honk at you.

Outfit 3

Vest: Thrift (But technically it's my mom's.)

Shirt: Urban Outfitters

Leggings: American Apparel

Boots: Dr. Martens

And here we have my ode to the nineties-ish look. Soon as you pair florals and Docs, you're gunning for a nineties-inspired look. If I could, I'd add florals, flannels, and Docs to every look I possibly can. There's just something about the 90s that was so...right. The fashion, the music, the television. Ugh. Do not get me started. Where the fuck is this generation headed...okay, I'm digressing.