WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Join "amateur" historians Andrew and Liam (thrice bronze medalists in 'The South Yorkshire Rememberers Chalice') as they travel back in time like Nicholas Lyndhurst in Goodnight Sweetheart and try to remember things from the past.
Do you remember Woolworths? Do you remember when Marathons changed their name to Snickers? Do you remember Del Boy falling through the bar? If so then come and remember with us. If not then stick around and we will probably remember it for you. You literally can't lose so why not hit the play button as hard as Paul Sykes hit that shark?
WHO REMEMBERS? The UK Nostalgia Podcast
Who Remembers........90s Fashion?
Remember when a training top could turn into a cultural artefact? We dive into the messy, joyful sprawl of 90s fashion—baggy jeans from the Madchester scene, the Britpop uniform of parkas and polos, and that Umbro moment Liam Gallagher made immortal without even trying. Along the way we swap stories about shell suits and schoolyard myths, Adidas Poppers that begged to be ripped, and the strange power of logos that moved from football terraces to the high street overnight.
We trace the rise, fall, and revival of brands that defined a decade: Kappa’s bold taping, Fila’s loud colours, Fred Perry’s staying power, Reebok’s street credibility, and LA Gear’s flashing trainers that turned every step into theatre. Some names faded into trivia (Lecoq Sportif’s near‑collapse, Fruit of the Loom’s Mandela‑effect logo), others became evergreen wardrobe anchors like Adidas Sambas and Ben Sherman. We get honest about cheap chic, why certain pieces felt aspirational even when they weren’t expensive, and how subcultures—rave, Britpop, terrace culture—decided the dress code long before magazines did.
Accessories and extras mattered just as much. Casio watches (including the mythical remote‑control model) sat beside head sports bags the size of small tents. Locker rooms smelled of Lynx Java and Tempest, while hypercolor tees betrayed every sweaty dancefloor secret. We touch on women’s 90s looks from All Saints’ minimal utility to platform hedonism and double‑denim cheek, and laugh at hairstyles that became heritage—curtains, mullets, perms—plus one constant reminder that image is identity: Brian May’s hair as brand.
We’re still figuring out what you want from us—deep dives into single moments or big sweeping nostalgia—so we’re inviting you to steer the format. Tell us the 90s piece you still own (or wish you did), the trend you’d resurrect, and the one you’d ban forever. If this trip down the high street of memory made you smile, follow the show, share it with a mate, and leave a quick review so more 90s kids can find us. What would you bring back first?
Because I worked with him for a bit and we used to often get tano tanoi announcements done from uh sort of the kiosk for Thomas. We used to say, but uh he's not of English origin. Please make sure you call him Thomas.
SPEAKER_02:He is of English origin. Um yeah. But thank you for this, Tom, because this was on our list anyway today, wasn't it? Um the fashion.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, in a way, we we did we're still we're still a bit all over the place in terms of what what does the audience want? Do you want what do you want from us? Very specific moments? Do you want much more general remembering? I'm still not quite figured it out yet, but but yeah, we we thought about going a bit more uh niche and a bit more specific, but we're gonna keep it general, we're gonna keep it free and easy, and it's just general fashion from the nineties.
SPEAKER_02:Were you a fashionable kid, Liam, at school? Were you like a style icon? Look at this cool customer coming around the corner. Is that what people used to say about you?
SPEAKER_00:I mean I'd love to say yeah, but uh absolutely not. No, I I don't think I was a a cool 90s kid.
SPEAKER_02:Um No, no, no, no, no. Maybe. Well, do you want to get straight onto it? Because I I don't know about you. What's the first thing you think of when you're thinking 90s fashion?
SPEAKER_00:I think of sort of big jeans, um Adidas Adidas, I don't know how how we say it, we probably decide that early on. Sort of uh the hoodies, I think of Poppers, Adidas Poppers, um I think of I mean obviously you've sent a list out. I don't want to kind of go through everything on the list, but there's certainly some some bits on there that like Kappa um Yeah, Kappa tracksuit, go along. You know, certain things that I don't know if you can still find them, but I certainly remember them being of that era. I remember it sort of being I I quite liked that era. Uh I quite liked the I don't know, like you you kind of you didn't have to be wearing sort of real high-end stuff to look smart. I think you could still you could get budget clothing that was still sort of fashionable, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's interesting. The thing that you've not mentioned, the the first thing I thought of was shell suits.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I remember shell suits being absolute Did they go out of fashion basically because there was all those rumours that everyone were catching fire? I mean, obviously it is uh um a flammable material, but I I think that went out of fashion because everyone there were loads of horror stories, certainly at my high school, like oh, you can't wear your shell suit, you're gonna catch on fire, or or some some people acting a bit hard saying I don't care about setting on fire.
SPEAKER_00:Fire's nothing to me. Um wearing my Lecoq sportif shell suit, and there's nothing you can do about it.
SPEAKER_02:But on Lecoque sportif, fun fact on them you know, they launched the first ever track suit ever in 1929.
SPEAKER_00:Wow, no, I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I I had a and I've still got pictures of it actually, like incredibly unfashionable Lecoque sportif. Even at the moment, I'm not convinced it would have looked great, to be honest. But I I thought that was absolutely brilliant at the time.
SPEAKER_02:I think it's a Lacoque sportive bag. Uh bag for school.
SPEAKER_00:Do you know like the sort of the other kind of tracksuit, the sort of shiny material that the Peter K remembers you sliding on your knees in? Isn't that shell suits? No, so shell suits was like a double layer. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was like your sort of nylon plasticky shell suit.
SPEAKER_02:Um that's what I sort of remember. Is that not Kappa you're talking about before? I don't know, I don't see Kappa in that. Kappa started that I don't know what happened to Kappa really, because they sponsored like Barcelona, Montana, and Juve or something.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but but they were huge at one bit. They they were ever rare now, and it's very, very rare now. You see, and actually, obviously, we went to uh we were at the football on Saturday and Kate showed us some pictures of her. I think that was a very sort of Kappa crowd, wasn't it?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Did we get caught in all the chav stuff when all the chav sort of things started like that that were if you remember like Vicky Pollard, is she in a kappa tracksuit? That's how I imagine it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, perhaps was the start of the sort of chav trend, wasn't it? Yeah. I remember it fondly though.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, the Coxportif. Um really bizarre. Uh this I read a little bit into this. In 1999, the company was taken over by the entrepreneur Oliver Jacques, so he's a French company, um, who would then be imprisoned, imprisoned after charges involving counterfeit Adidas and Night products who were selling counterfeit Adidas stuff in his stores. It was the most popular French branding in the 70s, um, but it's gone massively downhill, and as late as last year, they had to take out two emergency loans just to keep going. So I think this is a brand that's very much on its last line.
SPEAKER_00:I never knew was it cool because it was a sort of foreign imported brand.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, no, because there were a lot of like that that have come back, which we'll get to later. Like Sergio, is it Sergio Tarcino or whatever? The Italian brand.
SPEAKER_00:Uh Tarcini, is it?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah, but another one, another like two ones that are American, uh, that were massive brands, were Fruit of the Loom and United colours of Bennington.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but I remember Benetton as an F1 Spencer sponsor, Spencer, sponsor at the time. Um Fruit of the Loom, I remember that being in Metal, and I I never got that. I know like people thought it was quite trendy. I I always in my mind it was cheap tacky, yeah, cheap and tacky.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I thought you'd get like 25 t-shirts for about three pence. That's what I remember like Fruit of the Loom. Is it you know it's the subject of a Mandela effect? Can you think of the Fruit of the Loom?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, there's something about that.
SPEAKER_00:There's a is it is it a corny con or cornichon or something that people remember it's there or not there or something.
SPEAKER_02:Mistaken belief is that the logo once features like a horn-shaped basket behind the fruit. Um but the clothing brand brought I can't speak. The clothing brand itself states that this is a widely held misconception. It never included it in its logo. Uh it's just a cluster of fruit, but there's so many people who obviously we might do a a Mandela effect episode at one point, but I I I would have said they were a horn behind it, definitely.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think so. I'm not that bothered. I never never really it wasn't for me. Fruit of the loom was not for me. I don't think it's uh it's not a cool name for a brand, is it? Fruit of the loom. Fruit of the Loom.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I know what you mean. Um Fat Willies, that were another brand. Fat Willys, what so we were like surfer gear, like it's all massive informal. I thought you might have seen some of these.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, I think I've actually got a couple of bits from there, yeah. Um Fat Willie's. Yeah, there's uh there's certain I think there's one in New K, I think there's one in St Ives, but yeah, I think I might have got a couple of hoodies or jumpers or something from there. Yeah, no, I was mixing that up with when you said it, I was thinking of the when we said we were going to do this episode, I mentioned it and I can't remember the actual brand, but what was the the guy smoking the spliff on the jeans that uh spliffy jeans? Spliffy jeans, so so they were sort of for the bad boys I was never allowed to wear them. That that was sort of for the bad boys though.
SPEAKER_02:No, my cousin wore them, so he thought they were like a bit of a um bit of well, it was a bit of a rebel. They got arrested a couple of times, so he was a rebel, literally, was allowed to wear them because of that.
SPEAKER_03:Have you been arrested?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, you've been arrested, right? Yeah, just fluffy jeans. I don't think I had a pair of these. I don't think I but if anyone can't remember what they are, it was literally just the guy on a pair of jeans. They were really cheap by the way, as well. Um and he had like spiky hair and he was smoking a spliff. That were it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and if you had that, you were sort of you were sort of rebel enough that your parents would let you wear that. But I that that wasn't me. It wasn't me. But you're like so far. It wasn't me.
SPEAKER_02:It wasn't me. It was spluffy. Um yeah, but uh baggy jeans were massive, as you said. That I think that came from I think they were Joe Block jeans that came from the Madchester scene, you know, whenever at that the baggy scene, as it were called. So you look at all the like the old sort of Happy Mondays videos and stuff like that. They all got these m really baggy clothes on all the same one. And I I think that sort of came into our we're a bit after that, but that was like late 80s, but that was still sort of in fashion when we were yeah, yeah, and I remember that.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know if this is this is proper who remembers this, but like I don't know if it still might be a thing, but obviously me and you you know we're not we're not giants amongst men, we're not we're not tall characters. No I remember your jeans sort of always being getting caught under your shoes at the back and being absolutely soaked at the back and getting it. He saw huge baggy jeans that were just wet through and sort of worn out at the back.
SPEAKER_02:Like well the guy who uh the guy who um recommended this episode to us, uh obviously he's a friend of the show, he used to have the biggest turn-ups going, didn't he? Remember?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, he used to have like sort of I mean obviously this is this is hugely exaggerated, but in my mind there was sort of like there was the fold-ups was that was so big they were kind of they'd meet in the middle when he was walking, like sort of bashing each other.
SPEAKER_02:I I like a turn-up, but I've if I remember rightly I had baggy jeans on like big turn. I'm sure you once said he used to store like chicken in there.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, well, uh it was like your running thing. I used to sort of say, have you got have you got your phone in your pocket or in your turn-ups? And he'd like to say, Yeah, very funny, very funny.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, big big turn-ups. Um, but yeah, like I say, but another thing obviously in terms of trout, the the the holes in jeans were a big thing as well. I remember that like that were a bit rebellious, wording that like grunge inspired, I think.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, and I don't know if we're gonna get to this or not, but so I I watched something briefly today on about 90s fashion and just sort of saying the the Brit Pop influence, which obviously we've done Oasis for you blur already, was huge, and part of that was in in kind of removing that grunge influence that that now we're British, we're we're we're street smart, you know, coming well.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's weird that because obviously uh I'd spoke to our mate Eggie before we did this, and um he was talking because you mentioned the Liam Gallagher Umbro talk, which is such a like a and I I think that's a proper icon of that era, and it's just a it's just an Umbro top. You don't really get Umbro's still going, but it's not like a in the way that Alessia and stuff like that sort of come back. I don't think Umbro's quite come back, has it, in the same way.
SPEAKER_00:So I used to get like sort of training gear from my uncle, he played football and rugby, and I used to get sort of some like pass downs from him that and I had some quite sort of retro, not at the time it would be now, but those sort of quite iconic Umbro Tops. Yeah, I had a few of those. And well I I mean again, we sort of debated, didn't we, before the show would we're gonna name it quite generically. We did we did wonder whether we should call it who remembers Liam Gallagher's Umbro Top because I think that's so of a moment, isn't it?
SPEAKER_02:He's obviously did bigger gigs, he did it at main road, he wore it at main road, he obviously did bigger gigs and stuff, but he's still reissuing that pretty green reissue it with like pretty green, but Umbro brought it back, and it's like 80 pounds, but it's just a sports jumper, it's just obviously that day. I don't think Liam Gallagher sort of thought, oh this this looks amazing. I thought I imagine he just thought, oh yeah, what about to put this on? It's just a sports top, and he's wandering around, massive, and obviously the brick pop thing certainly for us, we were right in the the right age for it. It obviously that brought back all the Adidas and Fred Perry's and all that sort of thing that are still they've sort of lasted the test of time, I think, a lot of those.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, there's there's still a there's a huge sort of what's what's the word? There's a huge sort of Renaissance Yeah, but I don't think it ever went away. I think Renaissance kind of implies that it kind of came back. I know people who have dressed like Liam Gallagher for the past sort of 30 years that it it's kind of remained cool in some people. It's not like certain things that go away and come back. I feel like a lot of that mid-90s britt pop fashion kind of hasn't really gone away.
SPEAKER_02:No, that's a good point. Because obviously it sort of originates from like Hooligan gear, which and that a lot of that's come back. Feeler, that that went massive in the 90s, went away, that has come back. Unless it, like I say, another one. But like you say, you stuff like Fred Perry and Adidas and I don't know, even to like maybe a lesser extent, Stone Island and Ben Sherman and Lacosse, they were all big before we were like going out, and and they're still, you know, you can still you still wear them now, you still get them, you can still get them.
SPEAKER_00:Well my dad sometimes still wears when I was talking 20 years ago, maybe a bit more, bought a nice thick feeler jumper for sort of winter time. So they're quite bold colours, it were like a yellow and a blue. Um I still sometimes see my dad sort of pop up in that now and again. Like I'll see him and I'll think, oh, he's got the old feeler, the old feeler jumper on. So he's he's been cool for the past 25 years, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Well he went out, he were cool for he were uncool for about 15 years. But yeah, he stood his ground, hasn't he? Yeah, he stood his ground.
SPEAKER_00:If you wear it long enough, you will be cool again, won't you?
SPEAKER_02:That's a good one that actually. Is there anything that you can think of that I'll tell you one thing that's not come back, and I doubt it will. And it's one of the big ones as well, is Adidas Poppers. That is something that I can't imagine ever coming back.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I really like them, and I had a couple of pairs. I remember sort of you could wear them for PE, I think. You couldn't necessarily wear them just for normal school, but I remember like people just constantly pulling them open all the time, and it were proper, like, yeah, okay, brilliant.
SPEAKER_02:Like that's Well, there were all these other school rumours. I spoke to Ben before this who uh former Blaze Pods uh host. Um I said, like, uh you can remember you're about Adidas Poppers, and he said that there were a rumour at his school, and there were a rumour at my I don't know if this ever happened, that you could rip someone's entire trousers off by unpopping them all. They would just be wandering around in the pants and back around at your school.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I I wore them and I had all the the buttons ripped open a couple of times. Um loser, aren't I? Um I I I did my share of of unpopping it like uh before or after you got your head, your head flushed out toilet. Um well before and after normally, but yeah, no, uh they didn't. You could you could undo them all the way to the top and they would remain on. They just you could sort of see your your your box or your pants at the top. So that no, you could you could not it's not like uh I'm I'm thinking of uh Cheryl Bake, you know, making your mind up. You could sort of just whip them off in one motion.
SPEAKER_02:I think uh with with those poppers, but the idea was obviously you you you unpop the bottom bit to get a bit of air in in the summer days, weren't it? I think that also it were nonsense, it was absolutely nonsense.
SPEAKER_00:It was very, very sort of just it were just a gimmick. There was no benefit to having any portion of it unbuttoned at all. Yeah. But yeah, it was pure quite quite cool. I I certainly at the time thought, oh, these are these are really smart, these, but yeah, that there was no sports-based functional purpose of those poppers.
SPEAKER_02:I've got a lot of pictures, um, well, I've seen a lot of pictures of me when I were about four, something like that. So that'll be like mid to late eighties or whatever. I'm in a lot of I don't know if you ever got pictures of these, in d in dungarees, you know. Yeah, I don't know if anyone who wears dungarees. Does anyone wear dungarees anymore?
SPEAKER_00:Um Jody's my my missus have got a couple, but they're not Yeah. They're not the sort of like do you know the the denim with the sort of buckle over the top of your shoulder? They're not like that.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Yeah, dungarees. I think they were really big in the acid house. If you look at old Acid House videos, there's a lot of people in those smiley t-shirts, I see t-shirts, and then they've got dungarees like sort of over top of it. I don't know why my mum were dressing me up as like a some sort of like 90s raver. It's a great word, that though, isn't it? Dungarees. Dungarees is a fantastic absolutely brilliant, brilliant word. And bring them back.
SPEAKER_00:They're another thing that I I They made me think of like uh a toddler. Like I could I think both the girls that have my daughters both probably wore them when they were toddlers, they make me think of it it seems quite funny to think of a grown-up walking around in dungarees.
SPEAKER_02:In dungarees. If you if you still wear dungarees like us now, another thing that were aimed at kids is uh the global hypercolour t-shirts, you know, the hand print t-shirts.
SPEAKER_00:So with the like the tie-dye things.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so they I think they were either pink or purple, I can't remember which way, and then when they got heated or water or whatever, they turned a different colour or you could put hand prints on them and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. I've not thought about that for a long, long time. Yeah, I I think I had a couple of them, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:I think they were a novel idea, but uh you know this, mate. I uh when I were about 17, 18, not that we were wearing these then. Um I used to be absolutely obsessed with because I I unlike Prince Andrew, I sweat a lot. And I used to have really sweaty armpits. Remember when I used to touch used to show you and say, Oh, look, look, I'm gonna do it.
SPEAKER_00:I didn't know what you wanted me to do about it, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it used to ruin a night. Um that's why I I wear a lot of dark clothes now, because I do sweat a lot on their armpits. And I do remember uh wearing one of these when I was really young, and it was just awful. Because it it it was so obvious because obviously with your armpits, it'd just be a completely different colour to the rest of the shirt.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I mean it might as well like a siren, like saying this guy is sweating too much, like yeah, like flashes.
SPEAKER_02:Obviously, talking of flashes, by the way, flashing trainers.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it's quite meandering this so far, but we'll stick with it. Yeah, I mean, again, you can still get trainers that flash, but I the first time I ever saw them, I thought, oh my god, what is this? This is incredible. Your trainers flash when you step, when you take a step. I mean, a complete sort of sidestep from that. Um put intender, but it but it works. Do you remember the adverts for the I I was really jealous of these. So they did girls' shoes that were like a princess shoe, and they had they had like a key underneath them.
SPEAKER_02:This is not your this is not your best episode, this mate, to be honest. You were getting bullied at school, getting your pants like everyone stripping you down to your pants, and now you're getting what in princess shoes.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, but do you know what I mean? They had a key underneath them.
SPEAKER_02:I think I do sort of vaguely, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:It was like you have a a girl went into a forest or something, and like there's some sort of magical key underneath the shoes or something like that I I remember thinking, I wish they sort of did a boys' version of that. I mean, this is this is probably pre-90s, to be quite honest with you.
SPEAKER_02:That's do you remember the the Flashing Traders? Do you remember uh the brand? Because I always usually think about high-tech, but it wasn't when I looked into it. Um no, go on. LA Gear.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, correct.
SPEAKER_02:LA gear, yeah. But obviously in terms of trainers, high tech is it right to say goal and high tech were sort of considered I I had both goal and high-tech. Were it considered were they like low low budget trainers?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but I there's a bit of a sort of misconception with some of them, weren't there? Because like some that people thought were a bit tacky weren't necessarily always yep. I mean, certainly high-tech. I I had some high-tech, but I did think they were quite a cheap brand of trainers. Umro, reebok, uh Rebok were at the time. Obviously, Adidas. Like Samba's.
SPEAKER_02:Wasn't that Rebock cool? That were like the cool boys trained. I'm sure Rebot were cool.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they did uh I mean, I don't know if I made this up, if this was uh common, common, but they did they did like a they call them a moon shoe, I called them. A massive white bit on the bottom and a black trainer, and they were I I once bought some of them. Um my mum gave me like a budget for school shoes, and I I put paper round money to to it to get them. They were supposed to be all black and they had a massive white sole. She was so angry and disappointed that I'd bought these shoes. Like because they're supposed to be all black. But I was saying, yeah, but people are wearing these, and she's saying, Yeah, but your school shoes have got to be black, that's what it says on your stuff. And I've seen, yeah, but there are people wearing these, and it's fine.
SPEAKER_02:But you're wearing your this is where you're trying to turn the corner, isn't it? You're trying to be cool right now, because like obviously you've overcome getting getting tripped down to your pants, and now you're coming with your moon boots on and you and you're splitting jeans.
SPEAKER_00:And I I said, chill out, Ma. I'm just gonna put my leather jacket on and my uh my gold chain.
SPEAKER_02:Uh Reebok got bought out by Adidas in 2005. Uh you're still going the brand. Uh I didn't know that.
SPEAKER_00:Is that is that still part of the uh sorry, so which one? Adidas bought out Reebok?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so you can still get Reebok shoes now, but uh Adidas is yeah, it's been bought out by Adobe brand name.
SPEAKER_00:Are you kind of allowed to? I I'm I'm gonna again I'm I'm making a complete loser out of myself in this episode, but I'm gonna be honest. Were you ever jealous of the Puma King brand that Wednesday had that? We we couldn't have Puma King because it was only associated with Wednesday products.
SPEAKER_02:Uh I were never a massive Puma fan. Uh our old Lizards. I think that because probably stemmed from the Brit Pop stuff.
SPEAKER_00:I used to there was a couple of Sephora Wednesday coats that I thought, I'd love a United version of that. Like the Puma King badge on my throat.
SPEAKER_02:United was supposed to buy United were supposed to buy the Cock Sport Eve when we were in school.
SPEAKER_00:I think that's when I realised though that the Cox Sport Eve weren't the sort of cool brand that I thought they were when they made our quite sort of cheap tacky shirts.
SPEAKER_02:Meah, me are kits, yeah. That is an episode, by the way. We should do uh football, our favourite football kits of the nighties and stuff like that.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, definitely. Uh Diodora, that were another obviously shoes. Apparently, it's still the fourth biggest running shoe brand today, Diodora. But I think I'll be able to.
SPEAKER_00:I've got some Diodora running shoes. I uh they're one that I misunder. I always thought at the time they were quite uncool, and then as I got a bit older, I remember I was getting some shin splints when I was jogging, and I went there was a running place in Med Hall that filmed you jogging, and they they sort of recommended certain trainers based on on the cr how to correct your style a little bit. And I I remember probably the best pair of running shoes I've ever bought was a pair of Diodora. They were absolutely fantastic.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think most people were football boots. No, no, no, no. Think like football boots that people used to wear. Most people's first pair would have been Diodora, definitely.
SPEAKER_00:I think I think Roy Keane got a Diodora sponsorship, and that's probably what swayed me towards them. I thought, oh, maybe they're quite good then.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Patrick, that were another obviously shoe brand. One of the biggest shoe brands though were uh kickers. Remember kickers?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, do yeah. Is that not still a thing? Kickers.
SPEAKER_02:Well, yeah, they're still going, but in the 80s, they were that successful in Britain that children apparently used to queue up till ten o'clock at night just waiting for deliveries. And when the delivery did arrive, the stock could just be gone in a flash. And children do you remember the flower shape tags on them?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they had the flowers, and yeah, and that were again massive in the acid house seed of the Manchester scene. All members of the Storm Roses wear kicker shoes in the uh Fool's Goals video. But it's weird how that's not really stayed in the way that Adidas has.
SPEAKER_00:No. And I w I in my mind they were they weren't that. They they were quite a chunky, like awkward shoe. I I I like to be minimal, I like to be quick on my feet. I thought they were quite blocky.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, d another blocky shoe, Doc Martins. Um more more 70s and 80s with the two-toned scene, but with Yeah, I've I've never really got the Doc Martins thing.
SPEAKER_00:I I d I don't know. I I think they do look smart, but but it's not ever something I've really got into.
SPEAKER_02:In terms of uh accessories, I've got a few things written down. Cas Casio watches. Did everyone have a Casio watch?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, everyone had a calculator watch at one bit. And then I remember the the sort of the the coolest thing in a in a certain moment in time, and I think a guy called Dave. I won't mention his second name. I don't I don't know why he'd be bothered, but it he won't be listening. But uh a guy called Dave had one of those watches where you could come control the TV and video recorder from it.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, you've talked about this before.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I've done it on this video.
SPEAKER_02:No, I don't think you did it on May before, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I think I thought at the time that was the funniest thing in the world when he was just changing channels and stopping the DVD uh video recorder at the time, and the teacher just could not figure out what was going on. I thought this is absolutely brilliant. This is the future.
SPEAKER_02:Everyone had a Casio watch or and a Casio keyboard, obviously that's not a fashion thing, but I I don't know if there's anybody our age who's not at least once had a Casio keyboard.
SPEAKER_00:Everyone watched it. Probably multiple times, yeah. Like, yeah, I've I've certainly had a couple through the years. Yeah, definitely Casio watches. I think the the sort of bigger, chunkier ones are still fairly fashionable. I think that the is it the G Shock? Do you know like the quite sort of chunky sports?
SPEAKER_02:I don't know anything about watches. I really I that's one thing that I never I don't know anything about watches.
SPEAKER_00:Let's move on from watches then.
SPEAKER_02:I've got more watch uh what can uh head sports bags yeah every everybody had that didn't they? Why did everyone have heads? Why were we why why head?
SPEAKER_00:I don't know, there's it there's a certain thing in there where somebody gets something and then everybody does it. I mean I I noticed my daughter's at secondary school now and as a I had to take her down the other day. I can't remember why one of the friends wasn't walking or something, but she's got like a Nike bag. It's quite a plain black Nike bag just with a Nike logo on the back, and I noticed tons and tons of kids with the same bag. That that's obviously the equivalent of the the oversized headbag at the time. Were it like a tennis or a squash bag or something? It was massive, weren't it?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, massive, absolutely massive. And I'd yeah, I'd everyone had one of them.
SPEAKER_00:Everybody had one of those, a headbag with uh I don't know, like if you were doing um, there were like a compartment on the end that you could it's like a separate zipped up section, I think.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, and you could put like Link's Java, that were the the the deodorant of the day, weren't it? Like that'd be in your your pocket after in your in your head bag.
SPEAKER_00:If we stri yeah, if we're straying into Lynx territory, uh I was a Tempest man.
SPEAKER_02:Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I like Jarva. Don't get me wrong, like Java, but Tempest was uh was my spray of choice.
SPEAKER_02:What were your uh I want to perfume, what'd you call it? Aftershave when you were first going out. I were a jupe man.
SPEAKER_00:I still see you as a jupe man, actually. Do you not wear a jupe anymore?
SPEAKER_02:I don't I don't wear aftershave at all anymore, to be honest.
SPEAKER_00:Uh but now I still imagine you as a good old splash of jupe before you go out.
SPEAKER_02:Um is that proper 90s eighties, jupe? People are like, I don't know. Do people still wear aftershave?
SPEAKER_00:Who remembers aftershave? I don't know. I think people wear like a toilet now, don't they? So it's not quite the same, it's just a spray. Um I was uh like really early days, used to borrow my dad's Aramis. Um I thought that was quite grown up. And then I started using CK1 when I was going out. I thought that was a really nice smell. And then after that, I moved on to oh god, moved on to quite an expensive one when I first started seeing Jody, but then when she was pregnant, the smell of it she found really like horrible, so I had to stop wearing it. But and and these days, uh yeah, I tend to be free and easy. I think I've got a Ted too. Yeah, free and easy that I sometimes use.
SPEAKER_02:I yeah, I've never I didn't ever really I mean I was into the aftershave scene when I first started knowing how the aftershave scene when I first started buying out of it.
SPEAKER_00:I can imagine you with a splash of old spice to the chest.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think I think that's what I'd be more into. Yeah, that's what I'd be more into, definitely. Uh did you ever I mean this would obviously no one I don't I and I'm gonna ask you actually because you've been admitting all sorts on this one. Do you ever wear a friendship bracelet?
SPEAKER_00:I I don't know whether it's kind of sadder to to have worn one or not, because at least you've got some friends if you've worn one. Um no, I did I I did not have a friendship bracelet. No, I I just don't think nobody's ever bought me a friendship bracelet, I don't think. I I don't maybe they haven't, I just couldn't wear it. I don't think you can have one if you're a I remember though when there's a bit like you saw a kid on a council estate, could you? Surfer chic though, weren't there? Like I remember a time when like the people would come back from UK and they'd have like friendship bracelets on their own.
SPEAKER_02:Apparently there's a massive surge in popularity after Taylor Swift. Uh I think she gave I don't know what she did, she gave out friendship bracelets or whatever at gigs or whatever and it's like come back now is a little bit of a thing.
SPEAKER_00:So you know my my kids buy them sometimes for their mates when we go away they say can they buy sort of so many. I I always it never sits right in me though, because I think obviously you're not going to buy one for a full class. And I think like you know let's say they want three or they want four it means there's a couple of people in the sort of friendship group who aren't getting one and I always think that seems really like really harsh that but then where do you stop unless you just buy one for the whole school?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah yeah again it feels like you're a mate in the someone came into school one day and gave them all out apart from you. Did you ever wear a back to front baseball cap I think probably only ever ironically I don't think I've ever done that in a sort of this look screen because obviously the uh the hip-hop scene you're like Snoopy dog and Kupac and probably beastie boys in backwards caps. Yeah I think Ron DMC used to wear Kangol hats but yeah back to front like you you can't do that nowadays without people doing a knowing nod.
SPEAKER_00:These if I were wearing a back to front cap people would be doing a knowing nod like look yeah I see what you're doing mate you're trying to be you know that's what I mean I think you you can wear it ironically to say like I know this looks shy I'm just doing it because I don't really care.
SPEAKER_02:I don't think I've ever done it I I'm not a cap wearer I'm not someone who's ever really worn a lot of caps but no you're not because you've always had a good head of hair though that's the difference like when I started losing my hair I'm trying to hide it I'm more of a flat cap man but then you get into baseball cap it's difficult to pull off a baseball cap or a flat cap.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah I agree I it's not something I've ever really gone for I I mean maybe as a young kid I've worn a backwards cap. I still can't even think of doing it as a young kid to be honest. I've I've so rarely worn a baseball cap and if I've ever worn it backwards it's for a photo where I'm going to do like a massively exaggerated gangster rap pose.
SPEAKER_02:Did you ever um wait obviously because you've had hair for a while do you do you get bored of your own hairstyle born what I'm gonna ask you is have you ever tried to do it in like a mullet or a perm? Because they they sort of got out of fashion in the 90s but if this is true as well innit that they weren't big in England but they seem to be still massively popular attachers mullets and perms in Germany every like World Cup you'd see just like Rudy Volley's big perm or Quinsman where he's like why did they or Andrus Muller even in 1996 had a mul why did they carry on with the mullet and perm looks like up until like the mid-90s yeah I don't know yes this is still cool we were still mullet and moustache the the tashes are like like they all had like I don't know proper pawn tashes and stuff and that it's like it went out of fashion ages ago although I think it's sort of coming back in now a little bit the tashes and the uh I'll maybe go for it at some stage.
SPEAKER_00:I think I think you I think you suit a mullet definitely it annoy it annoys Jody a lot that I don't really do anything with my hair.
SPEAKER_02:Like I've It annoys me. I ain't got any hair and you're just you just fucking turn up as if I trim it a bit short I don't I don't style it and I haven't really used to have curtains back in back in the 90s so they used to the central parting but no I've not really that yeah that's a very nigh haircut that curtains it always reminds me of what's his name off uh East Enders Jack no not Joe Wicks but I know yeah same sort of man yeah I mean yeah it was called Jack yeah no there was a guy it was uh was it Billy's son and did yeah yeah yeah that's right yeah Jack Mitchell yeah and uh Deck of and Deck also used to have curtains didn't I uh when it when they first curtains are massive what happened to curtains yeah I wonder if they'll come back again maybe that's what I'm waiting for maybe that's I only style my hair when it's uh curtains are in season. So we've not really touched on much that women wore because we were we're not women or we weren't women. We're not women and we weren't women then um I if you were telling me like the name like I don't know a a 90s dress sense for a woman I'd have big buff on hair like uh Brian Megan you're going 80s there aren't you? Maybe yeah or and big hooped earlings like er I don't know yeah but I think that the is the eighties I can't really think of a nineties girl double denim maybe yeah denim I mean I'm I'm thinking clueless woman but that now you now you've said that I'm thinking bewitched but I'm thinking more All Saints that that to me was sort of the 90s look yeah I suppose a little bit of spice girls but I'm thinking more sort of massive platform shoes big big platform uh shoes and uh I don't know knee eye boots was that like a bit of a a big thing in the 90s not not that I was aware of I think you like sort of quite slicked back hair like sort of for for the girls like flat to the head like sort of yeah but but I don't know if that we want is that like my by the way Brian May um is one of those people who very much like your dad with the uh feel of thing who's not let fashion get to him at all has it he's just kept that hairstyle through thick and thin and I up throughout every single day.
SPEAKER_00:He's like a clock in it he's like he's right once every 20 years it just comes round again and he he sticks with it and it's alright again every now and again and for the for the rest of the time he looks slightly ridiculous but every now and again he's on it.
SPEAKER_02:I what I don't what I find amazing by Brian May is every other like rock star everyone's got an image of some sort but it changes a bit like we just mentioned Lynn Gallagher earlier I've seen photos where he's had his head shaved and you know what I mean had it a bit shorter. Brian May has just got the same air but he now he's just grey like it's my it has he's not he's not even attempted to like make it a slight he's got his look and he's like that I will never look as good as never look better than this.
SPEAKER_00:Until the day that I die that is that is me that hair might grow whiter and I might get older and frail but but that is just me now.
SPEAKER_02:I found that incredible that you could keep an a that warm hairstyle for that long like because it if it's just like a short back and sides I get that because it's easy just to you know manage. That must be so difficult to manage is mad hair.
SPEAKER_00:Do you think though like this is going to be quite insulting to Brian May I think so I hope he's not listening but but do you think is that to try and stay relevant in a sense that if he cut his hair would anyone know he's Brian May from Queen like would good good question. Er I don't know surely sort of burst onto the scene with that hair like in like ninety is kind of him isn't it that the hair is him like if you took that away from him I and don't get me wrong he's great guitarist I I mean not loads of charisma but if you said name five things like Five Fortunes if we asked five people to name something about Brian May his hair would be in the top five and this is a guy oh yeah well it'd be I reckon it'd be the only one there would only be one answer or maybe guitar. It might be like hair twice and guitar like the the top answer is hair then it's guitar and then it's hair.
SPEAKER_02:If you hate the fact that he made his own guitar isn't it I don't know if we've mentioned this on a previous pod or if you've mentioned it privately you do not like he calls it the red special doesn't I you don't like that I find him slightly the most sort of pretentious ridiculous man in the world at times.
SPEAKER_00:Leave him alone leave Brian May alone I start I just reckon like obviously you work at a we won't mention a particular name but you work at a a a store I reckon if somebody was came in to work with you and you had to train him up for a full day and it was Brian May but I'd shaved his head I don't think you would know it was Brian May and if I at the end of the day I said that is Brian May you would say no way.
SPEAKER_02:I It's quite softly spoken isn't I it's quite yes I think uh it's it was a great you know quite a posh guy he's he's he's a physical he's a proper scientist isn't he I've made my own guitar um obviously from recycled material um I don't need to hear about what you're telling me in in the show have you ever heard the Half Man Half Biscuit song called Hair like Brian May he says woke up about eleven with hair like Brian May I'm supposed to be the hardest man on the estate would you would you take so you can either have what you've got now which is like a shaved head oh god or you can have the full Brian May grey hair as it is but you can't do anything with it it has to be that I'd rather have the bald head I can't wander around in the like I'm a gangster I would say in the social circles that I that I walk around in I can't walk around with Brian May hair that'd be outrageous. I don't think there's many who can that that's that's not this is why this is it you know it's a bit car two character innit it's like it's it it's so it's so crazy like to just have that huge big mat of hair on his head in the 70s or the 80s or whatever for a bit you say oh yeah that with all the rage then well it's obviously like Osborne had long hair he somehow weren't as mad as Brian May's I would I think when it rains he doubles in weight I think that the amount of weight his neck muscles must be so strong to support that wet head of hair when it rains who remembers Brian May's hair I think it's like Freddy he had like long hair and he just he had a cut didn't he and got attached and stuff I wonder if any of them at one point said you ever thought about getting yours cut some point Bri's like no no I'm fine I'm absolutely fine busy making my own guitar can you picture his face really clearly though like you can just a band but not really I can picture his his hair and it's got like a bit of a bit of hair isn't it like when you picture him yes maybe he's AI maybe they could be stumbled on another AI man and it's just yeah he's not we get away with just that the actual man is interchangeable the hair as long as the hair remains people like it's a bit more than it might be Queen might have just been Freddie Mercury with different wigs on Roger Taylor were a good looking man though weren't he especially in the uh I want to break free video do you know when he's yeah when he was uh doing his hoovering yeah doing his no that was bloody didn't look good that was Freddie and what were he doing in that he were a schoolgirl weren't he uh Roger Taylor I'd have to rewatch it obvious it it's fine obviously to say that because he's not actually he was he was a he was a 40 year old man so it's it's it's fine to say it.
SPEAKER_00:Justify it's and by the way it is fine to say that before you think that you're outrageous.
SPEAKER_02:Before you think I'm being outrageous he was it was a 45 year old man dressed as a as a school girl it's not me who's wrong. Anyway somehow that's fashion done I I look really I we it's something we're on the list and a massive thanks Tom to getting it us into doing it. I'm not sure we've done it justice because I think it might be just too big of a subject to do properly but we've given it a shot and that's all we can do in it Liam Yeah that you know this that's all we can ask yeah um I yeah I'm not sure how how much we've done of that I mean obviously send us in your your sort of fashion memories from the 90s I'm sure there's yeah sons we've forgotten there but yeah and and also I suppose you know let us know if if you like the sort of quite vague remembering ones or if you prefer the the the specific moments or items like I don't know we'll we'll we'll still early doors aren't we we're still uh we're early doors and we're not sure which way we're gonna take this we don't know whether to do moments or do more you know sort of blind remembering if you like like that um or or to do you know heavily researched specific events but keep keep keep up the uh keep up the suggestions and we'll we'll uh yeah we'll we'll get round to doing them also and for those who listened last week there were two episodes out we find that we get a we get a growth in uh overall numbers for the week but that the week before by the way not yeah last week's yeah sorry the so this Ricky Hatton and uh gone what were the other one that's how good it were uh oh singing sports stars who remembers our own episodes um yeah they they went live that that man it remember he can't remember his own episodes on the same day uh two weeks ago and yeah like you say we we're not sure that we tend to get a slight we get more overall but a dip per episode so if if you didn't know we had two out that week there was two out that particular week. Or if you thought these looked like shit episodes that's absolutely fine as well that's absolutely fine as well more honestly more correct yeah right thank you very much Leroy Jenkins and I will uh see you next time.
SPEAKER_01:You certainly will remember if you're gonna remember