Category: Trends

While sitting in a waiting room recently, I glanced at the woman to my left, noticed her knee-torn boyfriend jeans with slightly shredded hems, and thought, “Oh no, it’s happening again.” You might expect me to embrace the return of 90s fashion trends that have been filling the stores these past couple of years.  And… Continue reading Too Tall for Delia*s

This ad is not the first thing that pops into my head when I think of Van Halen, but it’s pretty close: You can imagine what we all thought back in 1993 when we saw this Super Bowl commercial:  “What?!”  But then:  “Wait, why?”  That about sums up the 90s experience with Crystal Pepsi.[1]  But… Continue reading A Pepsi Kind of Decade

In 1994, Calvin Klein came out with a fragrance called CK One.  I still remember the commercial for it:  a camera panned over a colorless scene of scantily clad, waif-like models in casual garb.  The models chatted loudly, flirted, and made out with each other.  The group was fairly diverse, ostensibly to demonstrate how universal… Continue reading If You Know Who You Are: My CK One Saga