Party in the style of the 90s: how and where to organize, design, clothes, attributes, competitions

90's Party Wear

How to dress for a party in 90s style? On the one hand, the image should be bright and recognizable, on the other hand, stylish and tasteful.

Perhaps the first associations with clothes of the 90s are yellow leggings and leopard print, but this era brought much more to fashion: miniskirts, lingerie-style dresses, bomber jackets and jeans came from there.

The first look for a party in the style of the 90s is maximum denim! A denim suit or overalls, an oversized T-shirt with a print, and huge bright sneakers will definitely make you the queen or king of style on the dance floor. By the way, the 90s were also the heyday of unisex. So the advice for guys is basically the same: choose voluminous jeans, a stretched cardigan or plaid shirt, a biker jacket, worn-out sneakers - and you will be the personification of grunge!

Do you want something brighter? Idea for girls: a miniskirt and a voluminous bomber jacket or a massive elongated jacket. This image plays with contrasts of styles and volumes and favorably emphasizes the figure of its owner. And don’t be afraid to experiment with colors, the 90s allow and even encourage this!

Guys can dress up in a sporty style: trousers with stripes, a stretched T-shirt and a bomber jacket with inscriptions and badges perfectly match the theme.

There is also an option for romantic types: lingerie-style dresses or baby dolls in combination with rough boots and a hoodie will make you stand out effectively at a party. By the way, Courtney Love loves this style, it even inspired her to create a collection.

You can't just go without a crimson jacket at a 90s party! If you are bold and bright, be sure to include this attribute in your image. You can complement the look with gray trousers and a plain T-shirt or turtleneck.

Suspended and stretch ceilings

Another sign of European-quality renovation is complex ceiling structures on several levels, with lighting and several types of lamps, which greatly ate up space in low standard apartments. The ceiling material is the same convenient and lightweight plasterboard, which allowed for the most daring design experiments. For example, ceilings in the form of waves and curls with mandatory LED lighting.

A sore subject for us is suspended ceilings. Matte, glossy, with prints that imitate the starry and daytime sky - they were in every apartment with European-quality renovation. In particularly difficult cases, suspended ceilings were combined with multi-level structures, a huge multi-arm chandelier in the center and Chinese spotlights around the perimeter of the room.

How to Create a 90's Party Atmosphere

Music will help set the guests in the right mood. With its help you can light up and relax, cause a nostalgic tear or a wild drive - the main thing is to choose and arrange the tracks correctly. You can find inspiration or very specific ideas on the websites of radio stations Retro FM or Radio Record.

Be sure to include songs by Natasha Koroleva, Tatyana Bulanova, Irina Allegrova, Valery Meladze, Mirage, Hands Up, Ivanushki International, Disco Accident in your playlist... oh, well, you know everything yourself, just think about what blows your mind and legs off are eager to dance. Maybe for your company it's Mr. President, Modern Talking or Haddaway. The main thing is that every (or almost every) song goes straight to the heart!

You can choose a platform that has a disco ball to make the disco more atmospheric.

Competitions at a party in the style of the 90s

Have a little rest between dances, but at the same time interesting competitions will help you not get bored. You can, for example, organize a themed “Guess the Tune” and try to recognize songs from the 90s that friends hum. There is also an option to use the projector and guess the TV series of those times by episodes.

Do you remember the game “Hot and Cold”? To style it for the 90s, you can hide your stash! And let your friends have fun trying to find the treasured hundred rubles.

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Musical chairs will help entertain guests. This is an eternal competition: it was popular in the 90s, and now it does not lose relevance. What about forfeits? Also a win-win option that will ensure fun!

Back in the 90s, there was a cult of bubble gum - everyone chewed it everywhere, so at a party you can have a competition to see who can blow the biggest bubble. Tasty and fun!

Party decoration in the style of the 90s

The final touch to our 90s themed party is the decor. It will be cool to hang up as many posters as possible with stars of movies, TV series, music of those times; in addition to the surroundings, this is also an interesting activity - you can look at the photos, recognize, discuss, remember...

Also try to find cassettes and a tape recorder or player - they will also fit perfectly into the holiday style.

The party will be coolly complemented by all sorts of characteristic little things like a vase with lollipops or chewing gum, chips, stickers, badges - everything that the youth of those times were crazy about. Interesting attributes of a party in the style of the 90s will be old toys: from a yo-yo to a dandy or a Nintendo - bring everything you remember, because minimalism is not about the 90s!

The 90s style is a win-win option for a party: it’s fun, bright and interesting. A variety of music, outfit options, competitions and activities will allow everyone to have an unforgettable time. Be inspired by our ideas and let your holiday be perfect!

Bathroom and toilet

European-quality renovation in the bathroom includes tiles, an acrylic Jacuzzi bathtub or shower stall, gold-plated taps and other plumbing fixtures, and a self-leveling floor with a three-dimensional pattern. Naturally, all plumbing fixtures are strictly imported, ideally Finnish or German, but most often Turkish or Chinese.

It is especially worth talking about the decoration of walls in bathrooms and toilets. Stores offered tiles that imitated any material. There were even wood-look tiles.

In some cases, on the walls of one small bathroom there could be three or four types of multi-colored tiles (not counting borders), mosaics, natural stone and a couple of mirrors. Special thematic sets of tiles were very popular, by laying them out they created panels, most often on a marine theme.

Photo wallpaper

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The most stable trend of the early 90s, which stayed in the arena for almost 10 years. We've seen so many of them: with animals, forests, raging waterfalls.

Lyubov Selezneva, 68 years old:

“In the early 90s there was an incredible shortage. The girls from work and I stood in line at the end of the hardware store and each bought a roll of the wallpaper we got. I had a mountain river with autumn birch trees. We pasted them in the only room behind the sofa, and this landscape was the pride of the house for a long time.”

Stucco molding

In small apartments, intricate decor for walls and ceilings, as well as foam columns, looked inappropriate and even vulgar. Instead of the Baroque style, most people only achieved a parody of it, since few could afford the plaster stucco that usually decorated spacious houses with high ceilings.

The previously unknown abundance of building materials that poured into Russian markets prompted the use of many incompatible elements in the interior and forget that beauty lies in simplicity.

Beige shades

If you look at the color scheme of interiors with European-quality renovation, it is easy to notice the colors that unite them: peach, orange-brown, less often red and black. Almost everything was decorated in warm colors, ignoring design rules. Red laminate flooring, decorative plaster in pale yellow and sand shades, doors with imitation wood. It was beige that became the basis of the palette in the nineties: perhaps products in pastel colors were easier to find, or maybe they were considered the most noble.

Self-leveling floors

Another symbol of European-quality renovation is floors with a 3D effect. Simple technology made it possible to print any image and protect it with a polymer composition, and flower meadows, grass and the bottom of the ocean came into fashion. Expensive floors did not always justify the investment in them: they are not easy to care for, the picture quickly becomes boring, and dismantling is difficult.

Accessories.

A telephone is the ultimate dream of all families. Those who were lucky enough to use the treasured device kept it like the apple of their eye. Dial dial, bulky handset. To get through you had to scroll through the desired number more than once. There was no variety of colors, black, white and gray. Now this type of telephone decorates many apartments. Probably due to nostalgia than for other reasons.

A table lamp with a massive leg fits well into a modern room. They were made of metal and natural stone. Floor lamps with fabric lampshades are coming back into fashion. These could be motifs from Russian paintings - Gzhel, Palekh, Pavlo-Posadskaya. Kitchens are illuminated by chandeliers such as shades.

If you have low ceilings, it is better to hang sconces on the walls.

Wall clocks with strikes and cuckoo clocks are relevant today. All this was extremely popular in the nineties.

Multi-tiered ceilings

For some, multi-level ceilings have become a symbol of style and wealth: in an effort to create an unusual structure with built-in lighting, apartment owners lost not only money, but also a normal ceiling height. Pressure “patterns” look out of place in small spaces, and they are also difficult to care for. Today, the trend is to have the most simple, no-frills ceiling possible, and it will never go out of style.

Carpets

It was considered great luxury to have a carpet in the apartment. Now this is called the ethnic direction in design. In every house, in the most prominent place, such a work hung. Putting a carpet on the floor was considered almost crazy. They cost a lot of money back then. To this day, wall tapestries with images of deer, bears, etc. are kept in some closets.

Curtains with lambrequins

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Vera Isaeva, 67 years old:

“The fashion for these curtains came after the first foreign TV series. Back then, they were all made to order, even the fabrics were transported from somewhere or ordered. I have always been a skilled needlewoman and I sewed three-tier curtains with an airy lambrequin in beige and red tones for the living room myself. No one had anything like that. I still have them - it was a great job.”

Furniture

The nineties, a time of widespread shortages. It was simply impossible for an ordinary person to buy a wall or a set. In people's apartments there were identical sideboards, tables, Viennese chairs, and stools. Someone has a sideboard with carvings, inherited from their grandmother. Domestic designers are increasingly turning to the period of the 90s. They are attracted by discreet tones, modesty of lines and outlines.

Today's oversaturation of the market goes back to the days of the birth of the new country. As then, a person wants rest, not only physical, but also visual. For example, a wooden bed with polished headboards is placed in the bedroom. Coffee tables with wheels and metal inserts are fashionable again. Chipboard cabinets with characteristic finishes and fittings.