Two different yearbooks, both from the same year. First four photos are from a school in Glendale, AZ. Last four photos are from a school in Martinsville, IN. I know this might lean more toward older millennials but still fun.
Ha! I was gauging off of the shoes too. I also think 96. I was leaning a few years earlier at first because of the monitor size, but then I remembered it's a school and they'll hold onto older equipment until it breaks.
Yeah, my guess is 96, thats the 7xxx series of the Power Macintosh, which came out in 1995, schools would have had it that year and the following year for sure, Apple was still heavily discounting computers back then.
That, and those denim shorts are too faded to be late 90s, by the late 90s stone wash was pretty rare.
Yeah and the striped shirts w/ the thicker baseball collar stopped being as popular, regular ol' baseball shirts and "faker grunge" (t-shirts that looked like you were wearing two shirts, but were actually just one shirt) tees kinda replaced them.
Jumping on the 96 band wagon based on jeans. I feel like it was around 1997-1998 that bell bottoms really jumped back into fashion for the ladies. I was in seventh/eigth grade that year and remember coveting this one pair of bell bottoms hard. I'm not seeing any bell bottoms in any of these photos. Otherwise I was totally leaning towards later 90s
This was also my guess. 1999 at the latest. 2000 style started to lean way more into Abercrombie and urban streetwear. Bucket hats, crew socks and ankle booties, and straight leg jeans with those very specific black high top sneakers are all very late 90s coded. And hair gel. My god the hair gel on everyone from 2000-2010. Very distinct from the 90s.
Wild! Yea she had me I think somewhere between ages 19-21, I was born in 96, and I think 93 was either her junior senior year. Things looked so different then. Even though I'm on the cusp of being a millennial I was definitely raised as a 90s kid and fondly remember how it all looked. Things are so different now! Thanks for the reply
I landed on 98. The first picture is difficult because the ladies on top left scream early 90s, but the guys scream late 90.
The sandals and the gym gave it away as late 90s.
In my opinion.
I am shocked that there are so many 2000+ guesses with the amount of lingering 80s hair shown. Not even in the Deep South would any teen have been caught dead with that hair by that point.
I grew up in a podunk town in Washington state and remember being super jealous of my classmate’s big fluffy bangs in 1996. My mom could never get my mall bangs that fluffy :( To be fair though I was 8 so not really on the bleeding edge of fashion lol
dude i went to high school in north idaho in 2011-2014 and ladies in town had 80s hair. One dude dressed like young bill gates, those big 80s glasses with button ups and jeans. He was probably wearing his dad’s clothes. He was like a walking time capsule
I see no butt-cut hair. But not a lot of spike or faux hawks. So, I could go 1998. Right before Carson Daly hair takes off. But well after the early 90s grunge
96-97 is my guess. The blue and white shoes that say AIR on the side are the Nike Air More Uptempos worn by Scottie Pippen. They were released in ‘96 so depending what semester the photo was taken, I’m betting 96-97.
The Lollapalooza shirt came out in 1996. The Macs in the computer lab are Power Macintosh's 7500 which is 1995 - 1996. The G3 macs were absolutely everywhere by 1998-1999.
So funny how we go back and watch shows and films from late 90s and 00s and think how on earth did we believe these people were teenagers but then I see this and realise we actually did look like that
My gut reaction was '95, but looking at some of the later pictures I think maybe '96/'97 school year based on nothing but that one of them looks so exactly like *my* class in '97 that I did a doubletake.
Im sure computer labs were becoming more common by that stage. Admittedly, I was born in ‘92 so just a wild guess based on their fashion more than anything. My second guess would be ‘95 :). We’ll find out if I’m wrong soon 😊!
it’s gotta be between 1996-1998 - look at the shoes, especially the sneakers and the ones with the flower on them, the flannels everywhere, the baggy shirts, striped t shirts, the makeup, the hair (at least on the glendale, az kids lol) - hell, even the cheer uniform and the computer lab
For real, I lived on the West Coast and no one was dressing like this in the late 90s. I'm shocked by all the late 90s answers. The girls were already wearing low-rise flairs in the late 90s where I lived, and we had straight hair, no 80s hair. I would guess 1995 at the latest.
I had the same experience in high school in the late 90s the girls were wearing the low rise flares and body hugging tops. The hair was starting to get straighter and a lot of layered haircuts like the Rachel from friends. There were some goth Marilyn Manson people too and guys were mostly prep or skater
I wouldn't consider these folks millennials. This has gotta be between 94-97ish. If they are seniors, that meant they were born between 77-80. Not millennials
I took Yearbook my senior and got to pick the senior panoramic picture to go in the book. I picked the one with me giving the finger ever so subtly. He also said he was going to edit out the anime pose another kid did, but he forgot.
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