By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

THE VALLEY Girl look of the 80s (think mini skirt over leggings, headbands, doll shoes) is slowly dying a natural death, and if the fashion cycle is chronological, then the 90s is due for a comeback right about now.

And while some people are excited to see what fashion icons and designers plan to do with the mixture of grunge, hip-hop and Britpop style of that decade, most people seem to cringe at the thought of 90s fashion. Why don’t we look back at the key trends of that decade, and see which ones are worth bringing back and which trends are better off forgotten.

Remember baggy pants? The 90s was all about hip-hop, and jeans had to be three sizes too big — the baggier, the better. It gave a whole new definition to low-rise jeans; guys would wear them so low that their underwear would show. Yes, this gave birth to fancy printed boxers that guys would intentionally show.

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By Candice Montenegro, Contributor
INQUIRER.net

PARDON the bias, but I think kids who grew up in the 90s (myself included) were pretty lucky with toys. It was sort of a transition year, and we had the best of both worlds — dolls and robots were still in, while video game consoles were introduced. And because computer games were slowly becoming popular, toymakers had to be innovative with their traditional plastic toys.

Here are five toys that were pretty big in the 90s. I’m not going to include the remote-controlled cars and the Barbie dolls because these weren’t really introduced then (much earlier, I believe) and, well, they’ll ruin the title. Here are some toys I remember enjoying when I was growing up:

1. Pogs. Remember those colorful cardboard discs that you stack? Pog is actually an old Hawaiian game that was first introduced in Canada in 1991. Here in the Philippines, it came free with bottled softfdrink crowns, and you claimed your free “pog pack” from your neighborhood sari-sari store. You needed a slammer to hit the stack of pogs, and all the discs that flip will automatically be your playmate’s property — or at least that’s how we played it. I don’t think anybody knows exactly how to play them. They don’t come with instructions, so the rules vary per barangay, I guess.

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HEY, there It’s been so long since I last updated this blog that you might already be waxing nostalgic over Nostalgic Trip — sorry about that.

Here’s a video clip taken by our online videographer Janie Christine Octia, who visited the Old School store in Cubao.