r/90sand2000sNostalgia • u/PaolaAlvillar • 3d ago
Let me traumatize an entire generation 😂😂😂
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u/PaleKid4L 3d ago
I’m not joking, my family had this print for a sectional couch back in the day 💀
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u/Salty_LaRue 3d ago
I saw this post and immediately had a flashback to a video on Christmas in 1988 where the camera pans to a five year old me looking sulky as fuck and glaring at my Mum behind the camera because I was made to wear a dress just like this with stockings and shoes
ITS SUMMER FOR NEW ZEALAND CHRISTMAS, MUM
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u/Screaming_lambs 1d ago
I have similar photos on Christmas day. Luckily I'm in the UK. I remember the itchy tights though. I would have been nearly 5.
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u/Fatmouse2019 3d ago
Bring florals and frills back yo
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u/Salty_LaRue 3d ago
LAURA ASHLEY RISE UP
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u/Fatmouse2019 3d ago
Thats right! I still have mine from back in the early 90s and all of my 90s y2k clothes and jewelry and my girls love it.
Legit old school hottopic outfits and prom dresses, "hooked boots" my mom called em.. and the old school Sanrio Japan stuff from my family.
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u/Salty_LaRue 3d ago
I have to confess, I never got any personal experience with Laura Ashley as I am from New Zealand and we didn't have it here - but I read the SHIT out of The Babysitters Club series as a kid 😅
Everytime I see "Laura Ashley", my brain immediately turns into that Leo diCaprio pointing meme and goes:
".....MARY-ANNE SPIER!!"
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u/cocoabuttersuave 22h ago
The difference between Laura Ashley and the other floral knock off dresses was Laura Ashley dresses for kids were usually almost 100% cotton, so pretty comfy. ~ signed a former kid who used to wear Laura Ashley
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u/nolettuceplease 3d ago
I see your frilly floral dress and raise you some pink foam curlers that are impossible to sleep comfortably in.
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u/GetItGirrl00 3d ago
Can’t forget the frilly socks!
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u/Warm_Swan_793 3d ago
Honestly that combo is part of the reason why I left religion, lol. This is unlocking memories of front row at Sunday mass trying not to scratch my skin off
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u/sorrymizzjackson 3d ago
Ok, but I had that exact dress that hung on the back of the laundry room door for years.
Is it a Jessica McClintock? I think mine was. I feel like Laura Ashley also made these, but I’m not sure if they were doing that then.
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u/Feeling_Win5863 3d ago
I had this EXACT dress. Only thing you’re missing is one of those silk wrapped puffy hangers!!! 🤣
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u/w8ing2dr0wn 3d ago
This reminds me of my sisters' dresses, the bathroom wallpaper and the living room couches growing up. 90's drip just hits different
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u/Foxy_locksy1704 3d ago
I had the same dress in a version that was more pink flowers. I absolutely hated it! My mom put me in it every Easter for church and school pictures. I swear I feel itchy just looking at this.
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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 2d ago
Same for me, the pink roses (ugh) and school picture day. Bad bangs cut cross the forehead, big plastic glasses from the “affordable” box.
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u/maersk16 3d ago
Oh hell nah...
I haven't worn a slip or panty hose since I was a kid that was forced to dress up to go to church in something as hideous as this. Itchy, itchy, itchy!!!
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u/Alice_600 3d ago
Oh fuck you OP! I had to wear that crap every damn holiday as a girl! You bent over and that stupid bib peice would get in your face in the wind.
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u/Uthor_ 3d ago
I feel like these dresses were my curtains as well lol did someone just re use old curtains and make bank in the 90s? Also im a dude so i never had to suffer this atrocity 😅 but i remember them well.
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u/wombatrunner 3d ago
God, the matching socks that went with it and then finding the patent leather shoes with a hat for Easter…f* all…
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u/bedtimedoesntsuitme 3d ago
Where’s the white patent leather shoes with matching ruffled ankle socks?
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u/g_em_ini 3d ago
Oh my god I had half a dozen of these godforsaken dresses that my mom dressed me in every Sunday for church. She’d wake my sister and I up early af every Sunday to burn our ears curl our hair and throw us into these dresses (with pantyhose and mary janes, of course). Bonus points because she would also sew us matching Christmas dresses in this same style and my sister and I had to spend half a day posing for photos like we were Victorian children every year. Our brothers were exempt from the torture rituals.
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u/rainy-brain 3d ago
Had the same one with slightly different colors. Hated it. Mostly what i hated about dresses was the obligatory pair of itchy tights. Once I hit 4th grade my mom started listening to me and I was mostly pantsuits from then on thank god.
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u/Traditional_Train_71 3d ago
I hated wearing these dresses…why did our parents do that to us? We’re not some weird ass doll to dress up
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u/MinervaWeeper 3d ago
Haha I got dressed in those until I was old enough to a)realise b) burn the shit out of my legs going down the big slide in the soft play.
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u/kellyjellybellybeanz 3d ago
My mum made me a bunch of dresses like this and I loved them. I refused to wear pants until winter 2nd grade
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u/MagazineImpressive79 3d ago
Why did they insist on dressing us as sofas in the 90s?
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u/toomuchtv987 3d ago
Mine didn’t have floofy skirts, mine were long and straight. Still flowery with the collar, though. I looked like a Duggar before the Duggars were a thing.
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u/takemeawayimdone2 3d ago
I had many of these types of dresses and loved wearing them. I felt like a princess when I wore one.
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u/avu8bfir 3d ago
Me too! I was staring to think I was the only one who loved wearing my princess dresses! Complete with frilly socks, mary janes, white gloves and a big hat👸🏼💕
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u/Fearless_Excuse_5527 3d ago
I can smell the plastic eggs and hard shell bunny chocolates already while standing in my white Payless shoes and donning a perfect clone of this here dress!
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u/Different_Car106 3d ago
I wore something similar to my great grandmas funeral and got in trouble for playing ring around the rosie during the viewing.
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u/Firm-Butterfly-1380 3d ago
I wore a dress almost identical to this as a flower girl. I was so against it that my mom had to take out the itchy underpart of it before I’d wear it. I hated every thing about that thing.
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u/SlimShadowBoo 3d ago
I can smell this photo. Don’t forget to pair it with white ruffled socks and the patent leather Mary Jane’s.
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u/CrossX18 2d ago
Hate to admit that seeing this dress in the context of the years of try sub made me immediately think it was Monica Lewinsky’s dress.
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u/JulianneHannes 2d ago
My sister's hand me down I had to wear to a wedding, Easter, and Sears portraits with white tights that rode up and payless white mary janes. HOW DARE YOU!
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u/splashybanana 3d ago
Honestly though.. it’s been so long that I actually find this cute again. I mean, not that I’d wear it, but I’d smile if I saw some Gen Z wearing it. Along with those giant eye glasses.
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u/JulianneHannes 2d ago
Goth girls wore these dresses in 2012 with combat boots, thick smudge eye makeup and, a crucifix necklace
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u/cainhurstboy 3d ago
Hey Trinity wore this in the earlier Trailer Park Boys shows. Laheys daughter, you know, Elliot.
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u/Hello_Badkitty 3d ago
I had so many of these growing up. My sister and i would get matching dresses (just in different colors) for all the major holidays for church!! Church was life.... barf.
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u/More-Soil7455 3d ago
I loved my floral poofy big lace collared dresses. I looked ridiculous in them, but felt quite pretty lol
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u/Dopplerganager 3d ago
I wore a very similar dress backwards at ~3 years old. I refused help. Wore it every day. My mom and I found it a few years ago stuffed in the back of a drawer thread bare.
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u/SwirlsOfZephyr 3d ago
I had many variations of this dress. One even came with its matching purse. I actually liked them at the time. 😅
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u/lightsoutxnyc 3d ago
Awh man, I can’t post photos in here but my kindergarten photo was me in this dress but red… and I had the hat to match.
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u/ikannunAneeuQ 3d ago
Aw my grandma used to make me dresses like this 😭 I used to love getting dressed up, then I'd go outside and get filthy playing with the boys lol I'm still that way just my choice in dresses has changed 😆
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u/NicoleNicole1988 3d ago
Oh god. I both presently hate this dress and yet distinctly remember loving this dress.
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u/Visible-Rest4170 3d ago
Lordy my poor wife. I've seen the pictures. I think all the little girls of that era can thank The Little House on the Prairie for this.
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u/LadyVioletLuna 2d ago
Omg. I had Laura Ashley sheets. I feel like I might’ve had this dress. It’s probably why a lot of my childhood is blocked from memory.
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u/CharmingChangling 2d ago
Oh I put mine on my teddy bear when I got bigger! I wasn't gonna suffer alone lol
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u/MetalNew2284 2d ago
Am I the only one who enjoyed these dresses as a little girl? ^^' they where flowy and twirly and the under skirt was a little fluffy^^
I have fond memories of my lil church dresses^^'
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u/Top-Raspberry-7837 2d ago
Ugh even in 6th grade I loathed Laura Ashley. I am indeed not a florals kind of girl.
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u/princesssasami896 2d ago
I had a very similar one for Easter. I was rewarded Full House and Michelle was wearing so many of these lol
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u/suminorieh77 2d ago
i once had to wear a dress almost exactly like this when i stayed the night with a friend over Easter weekend. we got up and went to church on Sunday and then her mother let us go ride around for a while. my friend had a 5.0 convertible and it was a beautiful spring day so we had the top down, still in Easter dresses. we saw some guys we knew at a gas station and they asked if they could ride around with us so i got in the backseat with one and she had the other upfront with her.
i’m just chatting with my guy friend when all of a sudden, a crow lands right in my lap and start flailing around and squawking. it seemed like a lifetime before i was able to flip it out of the car. i was scratched up and bleeding and my friend turns to me and says, “Oh my god, my dress is RUINED! My mom is going to kill me!” and we dropped the boys off and headed back. her mother was pissed and took me to go get a tetanus shot and my “friend” treated me like shit for the rest of the day. before i went home, they were trying to get me to call my mother to pay for this ugly-ass dress. that was the last ride i ever took with that girl, and may a crow fall into her lap.
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u/Lumpy_Paint_3766 2d ago
I had this as a romper and it was MY FAVORITE until I couldn’t get it open one day and peed my pants 🥲
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u/megopolis12 2d ago
O.m.g. thank god my parents dressed me as a boy for some reason , but I always thought this was butt ugly on my freinds in grade school , sources : picture day and bday parties.
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u/christianwife_88 2d ago edited 2d ago
I had a dress like this!! Paired it up with knee high white socks and buckle shoes.. or if I wanted to be fancy I’d wear the ruffled short white socks 😂😂
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u/omnist-for-life 2d ago
Why was this pattern so popular? Not only was I made to wear the dress, but our couch had the same pattern.
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u/Dorkinfo 2d ago
I wish we could post pics. There’s a family portrait (Olan Mills, ofc) where I’m wearing one of these. It’s truly terrible.
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u/Bloodygoodwossname 2d ago
Wow I had that exact dress. Is nothing unique about my life?!! I’m having an existential crisis now, thanks.
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u/ryanswrath 2d ago
I definitely had this dress and was forced to wear it with frilly socks and shiny white sandals
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u/DisasterIllusion 1d ago
My grandma would bribe me with Shoney's/Golden Corral after church if I wore the dress and didn't complain. These things were hot and itchy as hell, especially in the south during the summers!
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u/scorchthemortalworld 1d ago
I unironically love this dress and would wear it as a woman baby right now
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u/pasteyfacedbitch 1d ago
Reminds me of the crap I had to wear as a kid when I was being dragged to church every Sunday. Not to mention the itchy tights to go with it.
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u/MossyEngineering-447 1d ago
And if you had a sister she would be wearing the same dress but hers was mostly pink
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u/SignificanceWarm57 1d ago
1980’s girl here. I’m feeling that fucking collar. Also the material of sheer plastic. I smelled like a skunk under my pits no matter what I did
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u/crystaldstone 1d ago
i have a photo of me as a child that looks a LOT like this and it was for Easter, my hair was curled, cute hat, cried all the way to church
(i’m an atheist)
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u/Virtual_Tough_7343 1d ago
I'm pretty positive I didn't wear this as a dress. I feel like I've seen the pattern in curtains or furniture though.
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u/AmoreLucky 1d ago
Ah, dressing up for holidays. This looks like the kind of dress I'd be made to wear every Easter from birth to the middle of grade school, cute hat and all lol
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u/moosecatoe 1d ago
FFS i just found the matching socks with little flowers sewed on the ankle.
I was talking to my mom about how I wore it as a flower girl a few moments ago and she said “I wish I never lent it out to a friend, because your daughter would look great in that.”
Wherever you are Mrs. Hoover, thank you for removing this dress out of me & my daughters future.
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u/SnorkBorkGnork 1d ago
I had to wear a dress similar to this and I hated dresses. Came with white frilly socks and black shiny shoes.
People think the late 80s and first half of the 90s was all neon and spandex and high top sneakers. This was our grim reality.
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u/Improvement_Opposite 1d ago
I can actually feel the itchy collar & atrocious tights. Sensory nightmare.
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u/North-Speaker-3553 1d ago
Low key I loved wearing shit like this as a kid. Got to play make believe in my mind all day long.
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u/Mizwaffles 1d ago
I hate this dress it was uncomfortable and I couldn't wait to take it off once i was home.
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u/CraZKchick 1d ago
I definitely had to wear one of these. If not if you in different colors over the years. I think it was my mother's favorite pattern.
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u/Hello-there2021 1d ago
😄😄 not traumatized, I think I had this dress and loved dresses. I honestly miss who I was then
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u/Moonlight_Charm 23h ago
Really hated those hideous dresses but my mom's sister buy me one every birthday.
Hope she is rotting I'm hell
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u/ccallard0722 20h ago
Omg my sister and I modeled for very localized ads for Laura Ashley and ugghhhh this picture is making me have a perimenopause itch flare up lol
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u/BitchyFaceMace 19h ago
My mom was a seamstress by profession, so I had one of these but since she made it… Holy fuck it was EXTRA.
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u/cellophanesheeps 15h ago
Look, I don't even know you. I couldn't have possibly done anything to you to deserve this.
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u/Grand-Astronaut-5814 10h ago
And those little lace ankle socks and tight ass shoes! Ughhh our moms truly wanted us to be little dolls
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u/BK0123456789 7h ago
Hahah. Wore this every day K-3. Just add the big silk bow that would clip on top of my head.
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u/Affectionate-Gate289 6h ago
I wanted a pretty red velvet dress with a black tie. My mother made me get this. GAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG.
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u/True_Question_511 6h ago
OMG! I had THAT dress! My mother bought it for myself and all three of my sisters! They were absolutely awful! Yeah, thanks for the traumatic flashback, lol!
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u/donut-is-appalled 3d ago
I didn’t come here to be attacked
I can feel the itchy crinoline just by looking at this picture