Anne-Marie Tomchak: Worst trend of the 1990s is back and has settled in to new home on social media

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Anne-Marie Tomchak

There comes a point in life when you’ve been around long enough to remember a trend the first time it was popular. As someone who was a tween in the mid-1990s, the sight of slip dresses over T-shirts, bomber jackets and scrunchies on fashion runways takes me back to a time when we smelled like CK One and our hair had a brassy tinge after naively putting our faith in the hair-lightening product Sun-In and the Irish weather.

Over the last few years, these 90s favourites have made hugely successful comebacks, with CK One being remarketed as CK Everyone and the new and improved Sun-In taking Gen Z by storm on TikTok. But there are some 90s trends that deserve to stay well and truly in the past.