Ah, 1993. What was slammin’ that year? It wasn’t hard to dress and act like you were all that.

Seriously, 1993 was all about sleek styles and fun. Wide horizontal stripes and spandex were in, and TV shows such as “Beavis and Butthead,” “Blossom,” “Saved by the Bell” and “Beverly Hills 90210” were hitting it big with the young crowd. Vanilla Ice and New Kids on the Block were leaving town, and grunge and hip-hop had emerged in the musical mainstream.

For fashionable young women, long hair and long bangs ruled, as well as fanny packs and little backpack purses.

Those who desired to look like “Blossom” wore baby-doll dresses over black leggings with Mary Jane shoes and scrunched-down socks accompanied by a straw hats with upturned brims and singular large flowers. Women wore straight-lined evening dresses with bare shoulders for formal occasions.

Men could sport ripped jeans with concert T-shirts under their fathers’ favorite flannel shirts. Long, shaggy hair completed the grunge look.

Oversized Reeboks were huge since they could be worn with comfort. Birkenstock sandals epitomized the summer.

Stylish guys wore their hair with lots of gel, closely cropped on the sides and long on top.

Designer labels became even more important than before with Guess jeans and Esprit shirts dominating.

People of either sex wore overalls with one strap fastened, the other left hanging. Many were happy that MC Hammer pants were losing appeal, but pop-rap still was alive with songs from Kriss Kross saturating the radio.

Young people could watch “Wayne’s World” on VHS while licking Push Pops and donning extreme sports gear.

This, my friends, was really what 1993 was all about.