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naughty nineties

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naughty nineties
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(Historical Terms) the. (in Britain) the 1890s, considered to be a period of fun loving and laxity, esp in sexual morals


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In the naughty Nineties, plastic picnic containers gave way to saucy knickers and sex toys - Ann Summers had arrived.
Byline: Deborah Vernon RETRO FAN Lee Breckon has a collection of memorabilia dating from the feelgood 50s to the naughty nineties and beyond.
The last is the focus of the Barbican show, and with works by Burne-Jones and Beardsley, Sargent and Toulouse-Lautrec, Rodin and Epstein, it promises a generous visual sampling of the aesthetic climate of Wilde's Naughty Nineties milieu.
 
 
 
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