POCKET MONEY, POSTERS & BODY SPRAY: 100 Things British Girls Grew Up With in the 1990s and 2000s (The Britain You'd Forgotten) - Softcover

Pocket Money, Posters & Body Spray : 100 Things British Girls Grew Up With in the 1990s and 2000s

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For a generation of British girls, the memory of MSN Messenger after school opens straight back onto glittery gel pens, bedrooms glowing with lava lamps and a world before everything lived inside a phone.Pocket Money, Posters & Body Spray is a warm, funny and properly researched journey through 100 objects, shops, crazes and rituals from growing up as a girl in Britain in the 1990s and 2000s.Remember Groovy Chick and Claire's Accessories Teen magazines with free gifts stuck to the cover Impulse and So. , body glitter, GHD straighteners and impossibly sticky lip gloss School discos, CD singles, Blockbuster, Nokia 3310s, pay-as-you-go top-ups, ringtones, dial-up internet, MSN Messenger, Bebo and the first smartphones Each short, highly readable chapter goes beyond simply asking 'remember this ' to uncover where these things came from, why they became part of growing up, what happened to them and what they reveal about friendship, fashion, beauty, music, shopping, school and those first years online.This is 90s nostalgia and noughties nostalgia with substance: an affectionate piece of British social and pop-culture history about the bedrooms, school bags, shopping trips, magazines, music and technology of the last generation to grow up before everything lived inside one phone.Whether you were a 90s girl, a 2000s teenager, love Y2K nostalgia, or are looking for a nostalgic gift for someone who grew up in Britain during those years, there will be something here that stops you in your tracks.Open it anywhere. One name can bring an entire bedroom, Saturday afternoon or friendship back with it. Artikel-Nr. 9798192334768

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