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A STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE
JULY/AUGUST 2012 | www.footwearbiz.com
Fastest yodeller - 22
tones in 1 sec by
Thomas Scholl of
Germany recorded
World's seven wealthiest
nations agree $24bn aid
for former USSR
After 151 years Britain's
“
Punch
magazine” closes
Euro-Disney opens near
Paris
Airline e-tickets arrive
Pentium processor
invented
European single market
created
EU established
Amazon.com launched
Channel Tunnel
opened between
Britain and France
50th anniversary of
D-Day
First Harry Potter book
DVDs
Debit Cards
eBay starts
Toy Story – new
animation in film
Dolly the Sheep cloned
Ban on exports of
British beef and BSE
crisis
First Mission Impossible
film
Film and music
90s
Film The Bodyguard with Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. • Michael Jackson Dangerous Tour • Baggy T shirts worn with
leggings • Stirrup pants leggings, drainpipe jeans and baggy sweaters. • Fall down socks and sneakers. • Birkenstock
sandals are part of the grunge movement. • A trend, nicknamed “Slackers” by Hollywood, for young people who liked to hang around
not doing much.
Sport
Grunge fashion starts the thrift
store trend where second hand
clothes are acceptable in
mainstream.
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1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
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The “Preppy Look” filtered through from the
USA to Europe where boat shoes and
Converse All Stars became popular outside
the USA, as did American work boots such as
yellow Timberland boots.
1995 saw the introduction of Camper
Pelotas - leather comfort fashion
shoes made in Spain.
© Converse Inc.
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mberland/VF Corporation
Strictly Ballroom
lets
the boys dance and
still get the girls.
Fashion
Summer Olympics in Barcelona –
Spanish artist Miro decorated Air
Jordan.
Start of tattoos and body
piercings
.
The first adidas Predator football designed by Simon
Skirrow and Liverpool player Craig Johnston, who stuck
rubber on the toes of his boots.
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