TACOMA, Wash. — It's a weekday afternoon, after school, at Scorpio Rising and the kids are digging through the racks for treasures from another time.
Owner Cheree Swain sees them trying on blue jean jackets, plaid flannel skirts and crop tops.
"The '90s they're never gonna go away," she said.
'90s nostalgia has never been bigger, especially among a generation that missed out on that decade.
"I love that it was kind of a mesh of so many different time periods mixed together," said Anela Brown, who likes to take her cues from punk fashion icon Vivian Westwood. Brown is wearing a '60s plaid pleated skirt with a '90s corset over a Bebe shirt and a vintage Tripp bondage jacket.
"That's my favorite part about fashion is that really you get to tell people who you are without having to say anything," Brown said.
"Today, I am wearing an outfit inspired by Kurt Cobain's style through the '90s," said Isaiah Brooks who is wearing vans, patchy distressed jeans and a dark fuzzy mohair cardigan over a faded band tee, all topped off with a trucker hat and loads of jewelry.
"The '90s wasn't very much about formal wear or button up things," Brooks said. "It was more so about being casual and comfortable at that time."
"I think after the '80s people really wanted to start wearing sustainable clothing," Swain said. "So, they started thrifting. And they'd see bands like Nirvana wear clothes that were thrifted and they looked cool so people were like 'I want to look like that!'"
Brooks is back wearing a printed long sleeve BMX style shirt with cargo pants. And Brown is now wearing a hip hop R&B style outfit with a Gap bucket hat, an Animaniacs tee, '90s leather jacket and skater pants.
The '90s have never looked better.
"I feel very cool," laughed Brown.
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