In the mid-1990s the grunge style resulted in a decline in bright colors from 1995 until the late 2000s, and was dominated by tartanflannel shirts, stonewashed blue jeans, and dark colors like maroon, forest green, indigo, brown, white and black.
womanofkleenex said:
They must have missed the trendyness of lime green/orange/hot pink in the late-90s, as well as the trend toward candy-colored things around the same time.