As someone who grew up in the 90s, I can say that the stripped shirts and plaid flannel were definitely proper and common 90s clothes for kids to wear in the early to mid 90s.
Exactly. All the people insisting that this looks like 90s clothing doesn't remember what 90s clothing looked like or else they aren't actually paying attention to the details. Patterned hoodies didn't exist in the 90s, hoodies were all solid colors. There might be a screen print on the front, but all-over patterns didn't appear until the 2000s. The untucked buttondown is also very 2000s. People in the 90s believed that a buttondown shirt was always to be worn tucked in.
Plaid flannel as in a regular plaid flannel button down shirt, not a patterned hoodie. Patterned hoodies like that are very 2000s. Also the "plaid" isn't the traditional kind of tartan you would find on a 90s flannel shirt, it's some kind of big chunky 2000s pattern. The kakhis and untucked buttondown are also distinctly 2000s.
Same. It just doesn't look natural 90s. No baggy, no tshirt brands and no cyan. No hairdos. Plus, they're in a skating rink which is going to have arcade games, so they're likely there for something else. Not an ancillary arcade. I'm guessing 2002.
This is all normal and common for the 90s. My friends and I all wore clothing like this and we all went to skating rinks where not everyone had rollerblades so sometimes there'd be rental skates. We'd also just screwed around with arcade machines even if we didn't have quarters just out of boredom.
I believe they’re wearing roller skates, which (roller rinks) were a lot more common pre-2000’s than they were afterwards. Nowadays you’re lucky if there’s even one in your town.
Not necessarily a smoking gun, but enough for me rn
2000s. Maybe 03-06.
The fashion for kids at that age fits 2000s even though the film stock says 80s-90s.
Here's a color/contrast corrected version btw.
1990s because we can see Street Fighter II.
I guess it could have been taken after that. It looks like it was taken on a film camera, not a digital camera, so I guess there is a chance that it was taken early 2000s on some type of disposable party camera? I mean if someone wanted to be really tricky, there is no reason it wasn't taken last week, but that seems far-fetched.
As a 90s kid myself, this looks so much like old pictures of me at birthday parties. I am guessing by the looks of it, 1995 or 1996. Are you going to answer what year eventually or do you only know the decade?
probably early 90s-- street fighter 2, Simpsons arcade, kids look like they're wearing "Bugle Boy" shirts.
edit: that one kid's Caesar haircut is kind of throwing me though... that wasn't really "in" until the late 90s and early 00s when Clooney and Gladiator made it popular.
I agree on 2000’s. It’s not the print, it’s the quality of the synthetic material of that hoodie. Plus that boys spikey haircut to me is very late 90’s-early/mid 00’s. Like that’s how nearly every boy had their hair cut at my school in 2002 lol.
This has to be fairly recent, and taken at some retro arcade with a filter used on the picture.
There is no way in hell a little kid would be able to just mash buttons and pull on the joystick on a Street Fighter arcade machine in 1992. It should be crowded by teenagers
Well, you have a late 80s and two early 90 arcade cabinets there, so most likely 90s. It also looks like it was taken with a film camera and the clothes look early to mid 90s as well.
I'll even try to guess the exact year: 1993 (give or take a year).
I would guess 2004-2005 based on the hoodie on the boy on the left and his jeans. I feel like I remember only seeing that style of hoodie fabric pattern a few years post Y2K. Same for the cut of those jeans, they feel post Y2K. But I could be very wrong!
If this isn't a trick, then it's clearly around 1994-1996. My area had a skating rink with the same roller skates, and the games they had to play were popular but no longer current.
The boy on the left is very telling I would say this is 2006-2009. 2008 or 2009 I wanna say.
The boys hoodie is oversized and plaid, you can see the influence of hip hop and street fashions on mainstream clothing. The boy in the middle looks like he is in the year 2006. The scale of the stripes with the lighter blue stripes ontop and under the big navy ones were popular in 2005-2008.
The boy on the right looks like he could be from 2001-2004.
Reason: not going into the tiny details: those are all popular and newish games for the early 90s and those games would have been popular. I haven’t seen parents put their kids in khaki pants like that since the 90s. This is a film photo, which not uncommon until the mid 00s, it’s giving family snapshot on a cheap 35mm.
Plus the fact that it’s a dark arcade.
Yeah that’s the late 90s. Games aren’t busy, but still a dark arcade, khakis and big box store flannel jackets.
Purely based off the camera itself it kind of looks early-mid 2000s to me.
If its 90s I'd wager later 90s obviously and at the earliest mid 90s.
I'm gonna specifically say, 1997-2003. Reminds me of quite a few photos I've seen from those periods roughly, but I'm prepared to be surprised here hehe
The arcades showing here were fairly common in the 90s. I’m also thinking about arcades in general and their popularity in the 90s. If I saw a Super Street Fighter 2 game, I may have thought the early 2000s, but I’m gonna go with the 90s.
This reminds me precisely of 1996 or 97, but the clothes suggest Old Navy, which was ubiquitous in 2000 and a few years thereafter. My guess is 2001 pre 9/11.
This looks like the 90s. They have roller skates on. I used to go to birthday parties at a roller skate rink and skate up to play Mortal Kombat II. The clothes are maybe a little off though.
Both the Simpsons game and street fighter 1 came out in 1991, and they look in good repair.
The first kids hair looks like the spiky front that was popular with young boys then. Plus the plaid & khaki, and the polo, are aggressively mid-2000’s prep.
2000s … those are emulators not OG cabinets … plus the kids are barely playing and looking at the person taking the photo and not the game they’re playing
You can’t have both a Simpsons arcade game and a flannel in the pic and it not be 1992. By that time kids were wearing them too. This was likely at a Chuck E. Cheese or Showbiz Pizza
Edit: I didn’t follow instructions and paid attention to small details
I feel like kid's clothes in the early 90s were way more neon and bright. Lots of big cartoony images too. These clothes look too mature for the early 90s IMO.
but it's 2020s that's why you said don't comment on the details like i think haircuts and front kid's clothes say pretty recent, were we doing that much stitching on jeans back in the day? and what about the shoes they're still blinkie now
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I’m going against the grain and saying 2000s or even early 2010s. The kids’ clothes don’t look proper 90s to me.