I found a couple of old pictures of my younger self the other day. In one I’m walking in the middle of a suburban road, wearing a black sleeveless top and Adidas trackie bottoms and making a victory sign. In the other I’m wearing a white polo shirt and winking like Sid James in a Carry On film.
Neither is madly flattering — editing software didn’t exist back then, and I certainly didn’t have a pose ready — but they’re both unmistakably 1990s. The first, I would say, is early in the decade; the second about 1995, 1996. It’s the winking that dates it.
What do you mean, you didn’t know about the saucy eyelid drop of that decade? Elastica’s Justine Frischmann did it all.