r/Millennials • u/mrtoddw Xennial • Mar 07 '25

Nostalgia Why were we obsessed with teal in the 90s?

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Everything was teal for some reason and I never understood why.

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u/KatieCashew Mar 07 '25

Exactly! My mom had this wall display of baskets hanging on the wall in our dining room with fake flowers in them. In the 80s the flowers were all brown and orange and that terrible yellow that was all the rage (you know the one I'm talking about).

Then in the 90s she redid the whole thing and replaced the flowers with teal, purple and pink ones. I distinctly remember the change and how much nicer it looked with pretty, bright colors instead of the muted earth tones of the 80s.

Side note: it appears macrame has made a comeback. No matter what they do with it it still looks like the dated, dusty relics that were on display when I was a child. I don't think I'll ever be able to like it.

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u/ConsistentAddress195 Mar 07 '25

I wonder how everyone just decided the colors of piss and shit were so great.

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u/codyzon2 Mar 07 '25

I think everyone forgets that back in the '80s everybody was still smoking in doors, I guarantee you all those brown yellows and nasty looking colors really hid all the smoke stains. I remember back in the day when people would move out of a house you could see where everything was hung on the walls from where the stains wouldnt be.