'90s fans: Flashback posts?

[catbus]

Random thought: Would anyone be interested in a "Flashback Friday" post? I am not a packrat, I promise, but for some reason I held onto pretty much all my teen magazines from about '96 to '01 or so--Seventeen, 'Teen, YM--and recently picked them up from my mom's house. I can't bring myself to recycle them yet.

So I was thinking about scanning some of the most awesome covers and pages and sharing one or a few each week as a "Flashback Friday" post. But only if people would enjoy it, LOL. It would be cool if other people had stuff to share, too.

Thoughts?

[mbcdefg]

:Y:

[Deleted]

I have nothing to share, but I'd love to see this.

[stephm0188]

Um, YES.

[Awkward]

I JUST got rid of a stack of Girls Life and YM magazines! Damn.

There was a feature on Buzz Feed a week or so ago that was scans from an old Delia's catalog. That was a blast from the past, lol.

[catbus]

Jan 25, 2013 13:56:49 GMT -5 Awkward said:

I JUST got rid of a stack of Girls Life and YM magazines! Damn.

There was a feature on Buzz Feed a week or so ago that was scans from an old Delia's catalog. That was a blast from the past, lol.

My Christmas list '96 was all Delia's clothes. Oh, and a pair of Levi's 501s.

[mbcdefg]

Jan 25, 2013 13:56:49 GMT -5 Awkward said:

I JUST got rid of a stack of Girls Life and YM magazines! Damn.

There was a feature on Buzz Feed a week or so ago that was scans from an old Delia's catalog. That was a blast from the past, lol.

I wore a Delia's dress to my sophomore semi-formal and I thought I was the shit. lol

AND it was MM, because I bought it at some kind of big outlet sale at the Jersey Gardens Mall complex that I begged my dad to drive me to. I think it was less than $20.

Then I put on way too much foundation and powder (i never wore makeup before that) and I looked like a damn ghost.

[Awkward]

Jan 25, 2013 13:58:17 GMT -5 catbus said:

Jan 25, 2013 13:56:49 GMT -5 Awkward said:

I JUST got rid of a stack of Girls Life and YM magazines! Damn.

There was a feature on Buzz Feed a week or so ago that was scans from an old Delia's catalog. That was a blast from the past, lol.

My Christmas list '96 was all Delia's clothes. Oh, and a pair of Levi's 501s.

Found it. LOL.

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/19-reasons-why-you-miss-getting-the-delias-catalo

[catbus]

Jan 25, 2013 14:01:35 GMT -5 Awkward said:

Jan 25, 2013 13:58:17 GMT -5 catbus said:

My Christmas list '96 was all Delia's clothes. Oh, and a pair of Levi's 501s.

Found it. LOL.

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/19-reasons-why-you-miss-getting-the-delias-catalo

Thank you! I just forwarded it to a friend I know will appreciate it.

[jerseyjaybird]

yes, please!

[Kore]

Jan 25, 2013 14:01:35 GMT -5 Awkward said:

Jan 25, 2013 13:58:17 GMT -5 catbus said:

My Christmas list '96 was all Delia's clothes. Oh, and a pair of Levi's 501s.

Found it. LOL.

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/19-reasons-why-you-miss-getting-the-delias-catalo

God, I was jealous of the girls who dressed like that.

My mall just got a Delia's in the last 5 years. lol.

[catbus]

Jan 25, 2013 14:14:19 GMT -5 Kore said:

Jan 25, 2013 14:01:35 GMT -5 Awkward said:

Found it. LOL.

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/19-reasons-why-you-miss-getting-the-delias-catalo

God, I was jealous of the girls who dressed like that.

My mall just got a Delia's in the last 5 years. lol.

Same here, on both counts. I walked by and everything looked ugly and cheap. Not cute, like our platform flip-flops and drawstring skirts.

[sproutmd]

Absolutely.

[catbus]

Sweet. I hope other people have stuff to contribute, too!

[martygras]

I would love this!

ETA: I went to the flickr gallery linked here: www.flickr.com/photos/2to1/sets/72157628121954996/with/6342491824/ and saw a couple of outfits I had in HS.  Whoa.

[cjeanette]

Jan 25, 2013 14:01:35 GMT -5 Awkward said:

Jan 25, 2013 13:58:17 GMT -5 catbus said:

My Christmas list '96 was all Delia's clothes. Oh, and a pair of Levi's 501s.

Found it. LOL.

www.buzzfeed.com/peggy/19-reasons-why-you-miss-getting-the-delias-catalo

I had a sick amount of clothes from them.  Never got into the blow up furniture though.  I thought I was too cool for that.

[nickyd2006]

I don't remember Delia's but I do remember being a regular at Express/Gap/A&F. I think my clothes were all brand name and now I could care less! As for flashback Fridays that would be fun.

[mbcdefg]

I rarely wore name-brand clothes growing up, and never the "cool" stuff.

I saved my camp counselor money one year when I was in high school, and bought myself an Aeropostale t-shirt. It was a men's shirt with their bulldog logo on front. I wore it several times a week and thought I was hot shit, lol.

I also saved that clear drawstring shopping bag that the shirt came in, and used it to carry my gym uniform and sneakers. Because my classmates would also pick on me for carrying my stuff in a Shop Rite bag.

[Nonny]

Ah man, just the other day I recycled a Health magazine from 1997. (I didn't save this, my sister gave me a random stack of magazines last summer and I just now went through them, and it was tucked in there between summer 2012 issues of Vanity Fair.)

It had a Got Milk ad featuring Sherry Stringfield (Susan on E.R.).

[cosmowife]

I need to see old copies of the Delia's catalog, circa 1996-1997. I had these hideous "clown" shoes (as I like to call them now). They were patterned like saddle shoes but had a huge toe that popped up in the front. I tried to describe them to DH but just couldn't. God, I ordered so much stuff from those catalogs!

[KaraOrNot]

I loved Delia's. Our mall also recently got a store and I had a flash of jealousy that it wasn't there 15 years ago.

I think a flashback Friday would be awesome!

[MadamePresident]

This is such a fun idea.

[UMaineTeach]

my mom wouldn't let me order from Delia*s, she said that it didn't look reputable. I felt a little sad when I saw that they had come to my mall in the last year, thinking that if it had been a store back then I could have gotten somethings.

[shakeitout]

Jan 25, 2013 20:53:13 GMT -5 cosmowife said:

I need to see old copies of the Delia's catalog, circa 1996-1997. I had these hideous "clown" shoes (as I like to call them now). They were patterned like saddle shoes but had a huge toe that popped up in the front. I tried to describe them to DH but just couldn't. God, I ordered so much stuff from those catalogs!

My BFF in 8th grade had these shoes and I was so jealous. Still am.

[blueberry10]

Jan 25, 2013 15:42:22 GMT -5 martygras said:

I would love this!

ETA: I went to the flickr gallery linked here: www.flickr.com/photos/2to1/sets/72157628121954996/with/6342491824/ and saw a couple of outfits I had in HS.  Whoa.

Oh wow, I remember that exact catalog! I must have looked through it a thousand times. What a blast from the past. Wow, life before internet shopping!

[flatlan]

I had a couple of things from Delia's. My sister and I would always get so excited when the catalog came in the mail.

[fromage]

Jan 25, 2013 14:01:35 GMT -5 Awkward said:

I had a sick amount of clothes from them.  Never got into the blow up furniture though.  I thought I was too cool for that.

Oh I had blow up furniture. An orange armchair. I thought it was pretty cool at the time, too.

I wonder if my YM magazines are still at my parents' house. Not likely but I should check.

[Raggedeannie]

Conclusion: Delias models don't wear bras? what?

[gibbinator]

Remember these bracelets?

[biscoffcookies]

Speaking of 90s flashback: theweek.com/article/index/239283/watch-microsofts-cloyingly-nostalgic-internet-explorer-ad-targets-90s-kids