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    Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights

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    Image of rednrowdy rednrowdy
    06/01/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    the only time i ever had the day-glo effect in my clothes was when i would wear white underwear under a long skirt that was a lot sheerer than i thought. not. fun.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    I so, so would have bought this 10 years ago, when my fashion style was best described as Back To The Future Part II and my favorite store was 8th Street Lab in NYC (anybody remember them)
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    Image of lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black lucystrawberry: Tier 2 is the new black
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    While we have moved on, Raver culture is ALIVE AND KICKING in jolly old england. My sister's fiancee's sister is a raver and is my friend on facebook and is CONSTANTLY updating about this rave and happy hardcore and putting up rave photos. so funny. it's like a visit to the past.
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    Image of Red-headed bookworm Red-headed bookworm
    05/29/09

    @lucystrawberry has a feeble ladybrain: Isn't that weird? It makes me feel like I'm in a time warp back to just after HS. Gah, 70 in. bottom pants and cartoon shirts.
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    Image of meritxell: an erotic life meritxell: an erotic life
    05/29/09

    @lucystrawberry has a feeble ladybrain: Ugh, I can't deal with happy hardcore... all that 4/4 time just makes me feel like I'm on some neverending evil carnival ride.
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    Image of Shamrockette Shamrockette
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    That butterfly top is calling to me..."Wear me before you get out in the real world!"
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    Image of RisaPlata RisaPlata
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    This dovetails nicely with the bridesmaids dress contest further up on the main page.
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    Image of Tart of Darkness Tart of Darkness
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    Two words: Monster Lighting.
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    Image of sportz.star sportz.star
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    And there's Glow Fur - www.glowfur.com


    I actually met the guy who makes it -- because he was wearing one of his long faux-fur light up coats and he was hard to miss. It's pretty amazing. I mean, a glowing fur purse, what occasion is that NOT good for? (this is not a spam, I'm not marketing for them, just what came to mind . . . )


    I had no idea glowing clothing was so diverse.

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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    Wait, so I've been rubbing nuclear waste on my nipples for nothing?
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    Image of andBegorrah andBegorrah
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    Xanadu was desperately missing a prom scene.
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    Image of little_engine_that_could little_engine_that_could
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    I LOVE this and Im only a little ashamed to admit it - perhaps I have not come so far from my little 1998 yo self as I previously thought ... :)
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    Image of happysquid happysquid
    05/29/09

    @little_engine_that_could: me too! shiny!
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    Image of Pocahaunted Pocahaunted
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    Unfortunately, this shit would make you the most popular clubber ever in semi-rural middle to southern France. I'm there quite a lot over summer months and people really do wear this kind of thing in 'les discoteques'.


    "Oh, Pocahaunted are you going to Le Disco tonight, to listen to banging mid-90s house, nu-metal and strange French disco, whilst experiencing the bad touching by middle aged Algerian men?"

    "Alas, non, my dear cousin, I'd rather stay inside and get bitten to death by mutant bugs because you seem to have forgotten to invent insect screens".

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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    Heathcliff Huxtable already did this in the early 80's with his light-up Father's Day tie.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    05/29/09

    @Skellatrix: Was it a Gordon Gartrelle?
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    Image of happysquid happysquid
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    "the late nineties and early oughts was not a period characterized by a high level of taste." = not a very fair statement.


    Fashion is super-personal and I love 90's style in all its various manifestations.


    Whether it's early 90's style:


    or mid-90s style:



    it's pretty awesome.

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    Image of Cafezinha Cafezinha
    05/29/09

    @happysquid: That last one must be a revival, because I distinctly remembering selling those owl backpacks when I worked at Target 2 years ago.


    And I too still love 90's style. Baby t-shirts and huge jeans are something I still wear on the daily.

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    Image of happysquid happysquid
    05/29/09

    @Cafezinha: :hugs:


    I love you too.


    Oh, and baby ts and huge jeans just happen to look better on my body type (pear shape-y) than modern clothes (tight skinny jeans). Plus they are just boss. and comfortable.

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    Image of Cafezinha Cafezinha
    05/29/09

    @happysquid: Exactly. I don't think there's ever been a less flattering set of styles available for the pear shape than the stuff available now. Leggings and shapelessly-waisted dresses? Weird strappy flats? Ultra-tight skinny jeans?


    'Scuse me while I go look for 'vintage' Jncos on eBay...

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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    05/29/09

    @Cafezinha: Target was selling those backpacks two years ago? Why had I not noticed! Let me guess, they were in the "children's" section.


    90's style FTW, ladies. I loved it when I could go to class wearing a band tee shirt, a coordinating flannel, wide-leg jeans and Vans (or Docs). And my mom was happy because I was well-covered.


    I support bringing back baby tees and JNCOs!

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    Image of Gavagirl Gavagirl
    05/29/09

    @happysquid: If fashion was always about "good taste", it would be no fun!
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    Image of happysquid happysquid
    05/29/09

    @Gavagirl: WORD


    also i have friended all y'all.


    'scuse me while I go buy some JNCOs to replace my much-mourned collection that was given away to GOODWILL by my MOM...


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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    As illuminating (sorry) as this is, If I really have a craving for an item of clothing that lights up, I'll make my own version with an old sweatshirt and battery operated Christmas lights.
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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    05/29/09

    @BabyJane: I HAD a sweatshirt that incorporated little lights--as the noses the on a row of dancing reindeer.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    05/29/09

    @Skellatrix: I love it!
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    05/29/09

    @BabyJane: Oooh! Put me on the list!!
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    Image of Skellatrix Skellatrix
    05/29/09

    @BabyJane: I think I might still own that part of the shirt! It was a patch that was held by Velcro so you could wash the shirt... the wiring broke down like, the day I got it but I thought I was stylin'.
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    Image of BabyJane BabyJane
    05/29/09

    @Skellatrix: That's the sort of thing that I would have wanted to wear year-round and my mother would have had to patiently explain to me that it was a seasonal item and not appropriate for July.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    05/29/09

    In reply to Techno Textiles For Your Enterprise-Dwelling Days, Rave-Going Nights
    Oh God. I am so ashamed to say this, but I will anyway. In my drug-addled clubgoing days, I SO would have bought this shit. As it were, though, I made enough fashion horror shows on my own with crap from my own closet. Including hats- the better, I thought, to disguise my gigantic pupils.


    Sometimes I still miss Ecstasy.

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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    05/29/09

    @..now it's just Aesop's Foibles.: I agree with everything you just said.


    There are pictures of me in the '90's that make me shudder and wonder whether that entire decade was a dream. I wonder what happened to ravers when we grew up.

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    Image of bananaballs bananaballs
    05/29/09

    @Trulymadlyme: We are among the masses now, masqueraded, our UFO's waiting for a Halloween party years from now and our sports bras relegated to spin classes and jogging only.
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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    05/29/09

    @bananaballs: Ha! I told someone I (currently a suit wearing legal drone) am a retired raver and they literally fell out of a chair. I didn't even mention being a candy kid.
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    Image of bananaballs bananaballs
    05/29/09

    @Trulymadlyme: I wonder if he'd even know what a candy kid was. Me, I could always be found in the jungle room, probably wearing camo, or some combination of army green and orange.


    I miss those days.

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    Image of dangerface! dangerface!
    05/29/09

    @bananaballs: I'm hearting you for that! I'm a long time retired-raver and a recently retired jungle/dnb dj.

    I had to stop djing because I would see these young kids dancing like drugged up imbeciles while I played, and I would just want to call their moms to tell on them.


    The jungle room used to be the SPOT!

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    Image of bananaballs bananaballs
    05/29/09

    @dangerface!: You know you've outgrown going to parties when you start to feel like a chaperone.


    That's cool that you're a DJ. Have a house party and appoint yourself to the decks! Problem solved :D

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    Image of Trulymadlyme Trulymadlyme
    05/29/09

    @dangerface!: Yeah. When people were more excited about the drugs and less about the DJ (how can you spend the last night Sasha & Digweed spun together in an e-pile?!?), I turned my glow sticks in and called it quits.
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