Back to school shopping in 1999

Footage at an Epic Designs store at a mall in New Jersey
Shots of the various clothes at the store, people browsing and such.
The usual.
This video last around 5 minutes or so.
#epicdesigns
#tommyhillfiger
#fubu

[@omenoflaherty1294]

When the clothes were baggy and the internet laggy.

[@Formzy]

🤣🙌🏿

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@Formzy What

[@seangalvin4582]

Real "Baggy" and kind of tight fitting were both around. It was strange. I was 18 and shopping at Structure and Gap then but there were also Fubu kids with huge baggy clothes. The White T-Shirts would continue to grow till about 2005. They got baggier and LONG.

[@KirksCORNER1983]

And I enjoyed it all

[@mrpink3998]

@@omenoflaherty1294 jnco jeans!

[@laescandy3387]

Cash, layaway, cleanliness, and orderly conduct. Long live the 90s

[@nowintroducinghertome]

Layaway 😂😂😂😂

[@Blakbox92]

Orderly conduct? Loudly carrying on in a clothing store?

[@BlankSpace-by3nd]

@laescandy3387 🤣😂🤣 don't forget vandalism as a pastime?!

[@Matt92Machine]

The sound of that printer brings me back to the 90s as a little kid.

[@LeTeizJordan317]

I'm A 2000s Baby

[@CarolynMarquez-k6i]

Me too I remember being little when printers sounded like that

[@liamwatson5125]

It’s uncommon for a printer to have a successor that is a direct homophone of its predecessor. The IBM Model 3 and 4 printers make the same noise because they have the same mechanism.

[@divinecomedian2]

Takes me back to the mall and the library. The library used folded perforated paper that you'd have to break apart after printing.

[@liamwatson5125]

@@divinecomedian2 The libraries would have to have Suremarks at the checkout to print slips.

[@ordinarypete]

Class of 99 here and just wanna say, this brings back memories. Love you all.

[@Cheirosa81]

Same 😊

[@nadecha5326]

Jay Z DMX and Ja Rule era

[@Mal-0-vent]

Same class of 99

[@nadecha5326]

@PatrickRockwell24 I graduated ‘97 so I got to enjoy it to the fullest. And yes 90’s hip hop is a perfect gem that’ll never be recreated.

[@laurasutcliffe723]

Class of 99 here too 😌

[@MisterUrbanWorld]

What I'd give to leave 2024 for the 90s and early 2000s

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@MisterUrbanWorld I'm Born In The Early 2000s

[@cheter2937]

Asi es caballero, tal ves no entienda español, pero tiene razon en todo, era mas simple y divertido, 😮😮😮😮

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@cheter2937 English

[@arasmyspace]

@@LeTeizJordan317he basically said that life back then was simpler and more fun

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@V11rtu3 Yeah It's Hard To See A Different Languages

[@anekcm]

Clothing quality was soooo much better. Love thrifting and finding pieces from the 90s and earlier.

[@retromario6130]

I bought a jacket from Old Navy in 1999 and I still use it today. I still can’t find a jacket with that quality from any store today, and it was Old Navy!

[@Mexicano1768]

Everything was soo much better....Everything...😢

[@thegamingchef3304]

It was. What's crazy is all my undershirts and underwear start to come apart after about a year. Stuff these days is made not to last.

[@jjones9143]

​@@thegamingchef3304facts

[@sebastian3004]

But there wasn't a concept of selling your Used clothes to someone. It was crazy to do that. It's like buying used underwear or socks today lol

[@professional.commentator]

The 90s were so simple and chill. Nothing like today.

[@karinadelma]

@@professional.commentator except crimes are higher in the 90s than today but nothing like today.

[@professional.commentator]

@@karinadelma Yea I've heard a lot of about that. But the older folks say the crimes back then were more targeted/gang-related and not as random as they are these days.

[@BlankSpace-by3nd]

😂😂 okay

[@strengthandbulkMadness]

@@professional.commentatorYes, back then if you tagged over over someone’s graffiti, they were looking for you in the streets.

[@joshuaa1605]

Haha thats cute. Drug use alone is higher today than anything back then. ​@karinadelma

[@felipemanoeldasilva4095]

Seeing these images takes me back to when I was 14 years old in 1999, a good time . ❤

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@felipemanoeldasilva4095 I Was In My Mom's Womb In 1999

[@Formzy]

Same exact age here man hahaha 🙌🏿🙌🏿

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@Formzy I Was In My Mom's Womb In 1999

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@felipemanoeldasilva4095 I Was In My Mom's Womb In 1999

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@felipemanoeldasilva4095 I Was A Unborn Baby Back In 1999

[@MichaelGeorge161]

3:14 we all heard that classic old register noise for the last time and never realised it

[@liamwatson5125]

This is a 4683 with a Model 3 printer. When the 4694s came, we still heard the noise as a Model 4 printer.

[@xOGMETALHEAD206x]

My local library still has those. It's about the only place left where I hear that noise

[@liamwatson5125]

@@xOGMETALHEAD206x Local libraries would have to have Suremarks with their 4694s because Model 4s are too noisy for the setting.

[@mida8261]

2017 for me. That was the year our local Kmart shut down. They were still using the '90s IBM registers.

[@liamwatson5125]

@@mida8261 The ammo for the IBM Model 2-4 printers were discontinued by the end of the 2000s.

[@RED-h2z1l]

Seeing that Phat Farm tag in the first shot is wild lmao.

[@ericcartmansstrengthandpow5960]

Phat Pharm and PHUBU

[@alexrekzu4079]

just need some Pelle Pelle and Enyce to go in the closet haha

[@ReeseChown]

Shoutsout to Rocawear. Dudes were 150 pounds and wearing those joints in 5XL

[@Bearedd]

Echo and Sean John 😂

[@CtrlAltDft]

​@@ericcartmansstrengthandpow5960 For Us By Us - FUBU

[@landmarkcreations1183]

Yes!Time Machine is back!

[@TheBraydenBunch58]

I love looking at relics of the past, This channel is *GOATED*

[@divinecomedian2]

I miss this time when hardly anyone had a cell phone

[@sabrinatscha2554]

And even if they did, it was just a phone.

[@mistahj218]

I had Nextel

[@presley007]

99 I still had the 2 way pager

[@Fernando_616]

The most advanced thing my Nokia could do was play Snake 😂

[@fakereality96]

My high school banned them because anyone with a cell phone had to have been a drug dealer. 🙄

[@IamAnson777]

Ahhhh.... The best days before a digital Internet I-phone prison planet

[@johnnygucci9]

As we watch this video on our iPhone lol

[@thebestchannel5456]

​@johnnygucci9 He's still right, though it is what it is

[@johnnygucci9]

@@thebestchannel5456 he’s def right. I’m just stating the irony. The thing we hate is helping us relive the things we love and miss

[@SmokyOle]

​@johnnygucci9 It could be watched in another manner and not on a smartphone.

[@johnnygucci9]

@@SmokyOle no way 🤯

[@dustin6528]

In hindsight, Y2K really WAS the end.

[@HeihachiMishima48]

That doesn't make sense considering 1998-2007 was one era. I take it you have nostalgia for everything typical 90's so shouldnt you say that "1996 WAS really the end" instead?

[@mstrikesback168]

It really began once the smart phones started gaining popularity around 2010. So, the 2000's was the last good decade.

[@HeihachiMishima48]

@@mstrikesback168 Smartphone was created in 1992. But didn't start to zombify people until 2013/2014. Also the 2010's was the last good decade(not great). Like what's the first good decade? Is it the 1920's? Well I rather live in the 2010's than any of the decades prior the 80's or maybe 70's that's for sure.

[@dustin6528]

@@HeihachiMishima48 I take it as 90’s.

[@thenightporter]

No kidding.

[@matthewbaduria]

Takes you back to the '90s when Tommy Hilfiger was huge.

[@Frosty.Fingers]

Even the quality of the fabric was way better

[@sabrinatscha2554]

@Frosty.Fingers Micro-fiber is a blight on mankind

[@michaeljames4630]

nautica and polo as well

[@AkronKid330]

Crazy hillfiger is still huge.

[@joshuaa1605]

​@@AkronKid330lol no it's not.

[@n.b1434]

No one is getting impatient. No one is yelling. No one is fighting. These videos make you feel so calm and peaceful.

[@nikkic4661]

Oh but they were off cam 😂 trust me

[@lelandgaunt9985]

No house shoes, and bonnets.

[@nikkic4661]

@@lelandgaunt9985 oh they wore them believe me

[@karinadelma]

@@nikkic4661Nah you just weren’t alive back then.

[@nikkic4661]

@@karinadelma oh yes I was

[@nerdbamarich2063]

That was the year I graduated. I was 17 years old. I'm now 42. I really do miss those times 🥹🥹

[@nadecha5326]

Back when DMX was running the rap game

[@kmaggie924]

Same. c/o ‘99 ❤

[@michaeljames4630]

You graduated in '99 and you're not 43 yet?

[@nerdbamarich2063]

@@michaeljames4630 yeah I just turned 43 at the end of August.

[@michaeljames4630]

@@nerdbamarich2063 good man

[@robertwatt5382]

Thank you for bringing back the memories.

[@redmoonspider]

There's a reason they call it "the last great decade". It actually was WONDERFUL on so many levels.

[@mrwangchronicles]

Yea, it’s amazing how crap the world has gotten in 25 years with all this technological advancements.

[@toooydoeur]

Lol okay bud

[@CJones-99]

​@@toooydoeuryou obviously didnt live it

[@toooydoeur]

@@CJones-99 I did, I'm a 90's kid. The 2000's were great too, this channel is just full of people completely stuck in the past and they mostly say these things because they were kids then

[@milfordcivic6755]

It's when the music died......

[@travisthree11]

Starting my sophomore year in 1999. What a time to be a teenager.

[@jade9596]

Ima sophomore

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@travisthree11 I Was In My Mom's Womb In 1999

[@LeTeizJordan317]

​@jade9596 I Was A Sophomore Back In 2016

[@MPK112233]

Me too sophmore year

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@MPK112233 My Sophomore Year Was In 2016

[@sleepyz2z2]

Back when every rapper had a clothing line.

[@williamiium]

3:43 You could buy so much with $59 back then.... good old days.

[@txterbug]

All baggy everything 😂

[@elchango6183]

It's coming back! That style... Fyi

[@javiervega1065]

What's wrong with that

[@frankcasarelli9140]

I love these videos. Thank you.

[@miguelacevedo9914]

Wow nothing better to go to the mall and get the fit for school miss the 90s when everything was made to last 💪

[@BekahMarie11]

Nah. My parents were poor. JC penny and Walmart. Except now Walmart has super cute clothes!

[@AkaruiKamandi]

Ahhhh the baggy clothes era 🔥🔥

[@Slowjo1221]

Even that receipt printing sound is basically extinct

[@mhmoran85]

This channel is the closest thing to a time machine.

[@cloroc]

I think it's just archived video

[@mhmoran85]

@@cloroc Yes, I know that.

[@bobloblaw204]

1999 , great Raves back then!

[@Kaseyslade]

Miss the late 90s and early 00s shopping experience

[@karinadelma]

If i only could experience that...

[@SNIPExADDICTION]

I genuinely feel like right around 2007ish, things kinda started falling down the mountain. The world we live in as a whole now just sucks.

[@cameron8529]

people in 2004: "i genuinely feel like right around 1987ish, things kinda started falling down the mountain. the world we live in as a whole now just sucks."

[@LittleCamper1980]

​@cameron8529 ironically, both generations were absolutely correct. Takes time to destroy the greatest society in modern times

[@SNIPExADDICTION]

@LittleCamper1980 I can see what you're saying. But once Smartphones and social media as a whole became accessible to a good chunk of the population, it kinda ruined how people live and interact. Alot more isolation, envy, hate, ect. It's just warped our society as a whole.

[@omarvazquez3355]

Ahh yes. 1999. WWF attitude era in full effect. ❤

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@omarvazquez3355 I Was In My Mom's Womb In 1999

[@mrowch9640]

​@@LeTeizJordan317was she a wrestling fan

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@mrowch9640 Nope

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@mrowch9640 I Was A Wrestling Fan Back In 2020

[@RALF0691]

Yep, i started watching the WWF the night after Royal Rumble 1999. I was casually watching WCW here and there before i started watching the WWF.

[@monicapyle]

Class of 1999. Best time of my life❤

[@CharlesWilliams-vd5ek]

Those 90s and early 2000's trends are absolutely brilliant and timeless..I miss this type of fashion ❤💯

[@svsugvcarter]

Class of 91. Everything here still feels like what the young folks are into wearing. Still.

[@sabrinatscha2554]

It’s so bad. This was my era, and I still can’t stand it, lol.

[@arasmyspace]

Such a perfect time to post this in the back to school season

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@arasmyspace My Back To School Shopping Was Back In 2006 In 1st Grade And Kindergarten

[@arasmyspace]

@@LeTeizJordan317do you remember what it was like

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@arasmyspace I Like It I Was 6 Years Old Back In 2006

[@AVEXentSUCKS]

I can’t believe this was 25 years ago. It’s all still so fresh in my mind I was going to my junior year in HS.

[@300IQPUG]

as a former and recovering "wigga" wow.... this looks like heavan

[@blaida7074]

Fellow former wegroes assemble 😎🔥

[@DR.DisInfect]

I regret my wigga days

[@Fabisgreat]

What a freaking timeee,,, i missss these times take me back to the 90s 2000s pleaseeeeeeee

[@luckyluchhi7414]

Them Dolce and Gabbana jeans look like somebody stitch tagged some wraglers 😂😂😂

[@timmytube12]

That's funny 😮😮

[@Drftmatters]

Hands down one of the best decades in our countries history, parallel to roaring 20's. We were safe, spending and looking fresh. Everything was fire, I can smell the Tommy cologne just by seeing the label.

[@johnnie99]

The Fubu hoodie @ 0:35 is fkn beautiful.

[@Haerinx87]

Beautiful 😂 Looks ridiculous

[@johnnie99]

​@Paul-sl9zm you wouldn't understand, paul

[@Haerinx87]

@johnnie99 I understand horrible fashion style when I see it, bro

[@cancel.lgbtq.6892]

Damn 25 years already !?! Wish we can go back with all these crazy shits going on.

[@juststop022]

As ironic as it is the internet made everyone crazy

[@cancel.lgbtq.6892]

@Raw.milk1 thanks bro

[@tyrelspencer6786]

The sound of that printer bring me back to the 90's as a little kid

[@Thisisbananas2]

Blast from the past! Phat farm all the middle school boys be wearing that brand lol the memories

[@abelyoumadethisbeats]

Na this one of the most nostalgic videos I seen , I love this channel!! I’m still wearing this clothes I don’t care what nobody tell me ! Ima real 90s baby!!!💯

[@MLaker221]

This is not what we would buy for school, LOL. We went to kohls and each got to choose 2 shirts and a pair of pants and that was pushing it.

[@Soldierboy39]

Yep! Had to earn money for myself to get the stuff that I wanted back then...

[@divinecomedian2]

We wore uniforms so never experienced this 😅

[@ggrij2004]

Damn your parents where probably chilling!! My parents and I came to San Francisco in 1992, by 2001 already bought 2 houses, first one in 1998, i was 15 in 1999 and i was rocking sean john velour fits and and phat farm jean fits.

[@kennethnero2011]

25 years ago 😢

[@BigWiltonWilt]

Great times

[@sturmgewehr70]

Take me back to the best decade …the 80s!

[@danielcraig9406]

The Chicago night club scene mid to late 90’s was amazing. Shelter, Warehouse, Playground, Kaboom. Best times!

[@Prodby_Sean]

Crazy to think all this stuff is just scattered around the world right now--either thrown away, in peoples closets, or at thrift stores

[@Tr0nzoid]

This is practically yesterday to me, stylistically.

[@vampirerobot]

Have always

[@AussieTVMusic]

Black denim was big in 1999

[@Galidorquest]

It was popular in the hoods throughout the entire 2000's. Ed Hardy and Coogi made a lot of black denim with embroidery.

[@Frankieefootballmundial]

It still is today just more causal

[@allanya74]

Will always loved the 90’s era. Especially in fashion.

[@YardBrah]

We were flexing hard with our moms by our sides weren't we 😂

[@dawicked2k8]

Diddy was having a blast in 1999, people buying his clothes, and doing all his evil things without anyone noticing, we aint the only ones missing this time

[@sabrinatscha2554]

1997-2007… the golden age of the Whig r. What a decade.

[@Mag00777]

good to see you back up n runnin.

[@scottvanhille5688]

Dang, the year I graduated high school.

[@GhostWhisperer.]

Take me back there 😢

[@shiruotakuno28]

I'm a simple lad. I see a Vampire Robot video with "1999" in the title, I click.

[@Nicefoolkilla]

I'm glad i was 19 in 1999.

[@kimmykimko]

I was too poor to afford that. But i did get a starter jacket in the mid 1990s that cost 130$$ . i only got it cause it was the cool thing at the time. I couldnt have cared or known less about the Miami Hurricanes.

[@infasis]

Me too. This stuff was really expensive. I did get this nice Fila sweatshirt that was like $60 around this time at Boston Store though. It was the only thing I was allowed to get at a store like that, but I loved that sweatshirt. I wore it for so many years, but I'm not sure what happened to it. (I actually have periodically looked on ebay hoping to find another one, but can never find any)

[@Vlfkfnejisjejrjtjrie]

Its sad to know that the dollar has lost so much spending power. 60 buck in 1999 is equivalent to 114 dollars today.

[@divinecomedian2]

​@PatrickRockwell24would you say somewhere around, hmmm, 1913?

[@stefincanada]

Back to school 1999 was my last back to school!!! I still have some of the clothes saved. a tommy hilfiger pullover (it lasted so long super good quality) and a baby g shock watch - white with a pearl pink trim

[@OS1540]

Hearing that old cash register ring up does something to me

[@mistressmochi2195]

Whoa, you can really tell the quality in those jeans. I would have been 5 at the time in this video, about to enter kindergarten.

[@80s-Retro-Alien]

The 80's and 90's were a great fashion decade. I miss it so much! 😔♥️

[@2H2521]

Back when the US wasn’t a joke.

[@Jacob-nu4nd]

U hate America?

[@2H2521]

@@Jacob-nu4nd I hate the current status of it, we are the laughing stock of the world.

[@Jacob-nu4nd]

@@2H2521 in what way the rest of the world dreams of living here. Our population continues to grow.

[@AVEXentSUCKS]

Yet there are millions of people who want to seek refuge in the US. When Myanmar was heading back into military regime the people there are crying USA help us…

[@brandonsclips7741]

Mfs like you will watch a 5 minute video of people shopping for clothes and say "we used to be a real and proper country" and not give any definitions as to WHY you think we're not a proper country anymore. We're still one of the greatest countries on earth. People WANT to come here still. Other countries WISH they could have it as good as us. Go back to watching some guy shop at penny's and say "the west has fallen"

[@Boardonthekeyboard]

So glad you’re back VR! Hope you upload more soon! ❤

[@kassanmblock5034]

This just brought back some memories lol... back in '99 we had a kid in our neighborhood named "Tony the Klepto" . You could pay him $50 and he would steal anything you wanted from any store. All of us poor kids would hire him to go school clothes shopping with us every year lmao.

[@jdunbar2995]

Class of 2000 and this brings back so many good memories

[@RALF0691]

1999, my favorite year of my life. I was going into the 3rd grade in 1999.

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@RALF0691 I Was In My Mom's Womb In 1999

[@LeTeizJordan317]

@@RALF0691 I Was In 3rd Grade In 2011

[@antoniox2040]

Those were all Diddy’s clothing brands 🥴😂

[@cameronbecause8294]

90s was so dusty looking back

[@charlesswitzer8378]

no HD.

[@DSPsWifesBF]

It’s true. We were all covered in soot

[@JAPARICAN50-50]

Watching this video got me a little teary I ain’t gonna lie I’m a 90s kid and miss blockbuster nights, rocawear, ecko clothing and Saturday morning cartoons. Life was so much better. One job can pay your rent, bills and still have money left over everything now is ridiculous expensive also everyone looked more happy and were actually going out and really socializing and nobody had a phone in their hand. The advancements of social media and tech destroyed civilization. I’ll do anything to go back to these times

[@antonnewalker6488]

sometimes i wished that we could stay in the 90s era forever like time would stop in the 90s for eternality

[@ragejinraver]

I had such a physical reaction watching us I was shaking from emotion . Even the little things like seeing the epic bag when the girl at the register handed the customer

[@abelinaportillo1783]

Everyone’s inner Malibu’s most wanted as on full display in this era 😁

[@natechrisman5333]

Yes, the time machine is back thank you for posting

[@juststop022]

Back when JNCO was popular Lol

[@socialmedia5805]

naw jnco was like 92-96 they were played out by 99

[@lelandgaunt9985]

I’ve still got 3 pairs of Girbauds

[@Galidorquest]

@@socialmedia5805 Nah bro, maybe in your town, but FUBU, Girbaud and JNCO jeans were still popular in NY and Chicago hoods up until 2012. I was in school back then and the gangster kids would wear anything baggy regardless of the brand name. People were still sizing-up their clothes up until 2012. They were trying to dress like Soulja Boy at the peak of his career. He was like the new MC Hammer for the Millennial generation.

[@Martinezm0500]

My Dad didn't buy us those for shit it was Levi's I had to wear at least they weren't rustlers I guess

[@caliboy1984mp]

Seeing FUBU again definitely makes me want a time machine to take me back to the late 90's/early 2000's again

[@Mattnova_116]

Like I'm getting ready to go to high school all over again.

[@Slowjo1221]

What a time, thank you to whoever recorded this

[@hgallegos915]

Back then no way i could afford any of that.

[@PatchworkAndNuance]

Love this channel!

[@biancamatthews2385]

I was 7 years old in 1999. Back to school was a different type of feeling then…. It felt like I was away from my classmates a long time

[@19righteously]

92 baby like me?

[@8lifeisamovie8]

After this I will watch your Going to school in 1977 video!😁

[@PANZERFAUST90]

I see a lot of these video from the nineties and even eighties, of people in stores just shopping, and it's funny how people thiught to do record them, especially when you consider that video cameras weren't as prevelant.

[@MarioHunt-mc5zj]

Yes the good days no internet just magazines

[@liamwatson5125]

More please.

[@continuallyblessed44]

Graduated in 98 so at this time I was about to turn 19. Man I miss those days.

[@zpushy633sora]

I was Born in 98 so I was a Year 1/2 Old when this Video was Recorded

[@pacificrules]

1999 was The Best Year of my Life!!!

[@BigWiltonWilt]

And the greatest year of all time

[@pacificrules]

@@BigWiltonWilt PREACH 🖐🏽🖐🏽

[@SunGodSe]

A bunch of temporary brands; I stopped wearing temporary brands a long time ago

[@guillermochavez4026]

Can’t believe I’m as old as this video. 1999 kid here ❤

[@tegridyfarms6851]

I grew up in Germany in the suburbs. Me and the homies all wore FUBU jerseys and G Unit Reeboks.

[@Blakbox92]

Am I the only person watching these videos that isn't like "wow this is so much better than today" but just finds it cool and interesting to see how much things have changed (and how much they've stayed the same)? People in the comments acting like nobody goes shopping with their friends in 2024. It's so weird.

[@jeremywashington7699]

Man fubu was very popular back then. I was 10 in '99 and remember i got a fubu jersey for christmas that year

[@billybassman21]

I was living in northside Houston back then. It was all about Polo and Tommy Hilfiger. Ralph Lauren Polo boots were very popular, more so than Jordan's. Even kids were wearing polo shirts, jeans and Polo Boots. I miss the days when people dressed to the nines to go out!

[@PoohBear7747]

That's when good quality clothes existed, and atmosphere is so calm too, and the cash registers are so nostalgic looking. Even the layout of the store is nostalgic. And nobody was walking around half naked. I love it!! I miss these days!!❤

[@back2the80s]

USA made clothes with jeans that aren’t paper thin

[@branflakee4257]

Ummm look again most women were braless 😂

[@scottnelson7506]

The FUBU said 05 on so that wasn’t 99

[@HereForTheComments]

The New Millennium is upon us, and with it a new me. I'm eager, anxious even, to develop a concept of myself so I can express it to people. I'm thinkin'... skater is my aesthetic. Long t-shirt over sweatshirts, that's gonna be my thing as I start 6th grade.