Listen To Sassy: Life In The 90s

November 1991 Fashion Etc.: Germans, Bras & Park Ave Cologne

It’s nearly the holidays as this issue reaches readers, so a few things are on their minds: how to dress for a festive party; what to wear UNDER those outfits; which frag

November 1991 Pop Culture: Shemp, Jason Priestley & Special Guest Sarah D. Bunting

The time has come to discuss cover boy Jason Priestley, then just a few months into Season 2 of Beverly Hills, 90210. And since we have access to an expert — Sarah D. Bun

November 1991 Teen Life: Divorce, Seafood & The Possibility Of A Female President

The next U.S. presidential election is a year away, so why not start thinking about candidates outside typical power structures — maybe the first female president could b

October 1991 Slumber Party: Relationship Readiness, Sunburn Trauma & Model Privilege

You might think that the October 1991 quiz, "Are You Relationship-Ready?," would be a cinch for your three married co-hosts, two of whom are married to each other. ...Act

October 1991 Fashion Etc.: Model Height, Coat Choice & 99¢ Treasures

The one thing everyone knows about modeling is that they want you to be tall. Nancy Brensson, one of the cover models for December's reader-produced issue, thinks she sho

October 1991 Pop Culture: Escalators, Mudhoney & Bulgarian Wedding Music

After being so excited in the October 1991 Teen Life episode that the Ian Svenonius era was over, HERE HE IS AGAIN in What Now, along with stories on Wig Out, Brad Pitt,

October 1991 Teen Life: Best Friendship, Sweat Glands & The Sassiest Boy They Could Find

Can you maintain a close relationship with your best friends from high school? What's it like to have a port wine birthmark? How many guys say they've been cheated on? An

September 1991 Slumber Party: School Phobia, Soup & Satisfaction

Are you school-phobic? Given that most of our listeners who regularly get near a school are probably students' parents or teachers, we...hope not? But we mentally travele

September 1991 Special: Dirt Preview Issue

From our current place in world history, we know that Dirt -- the Sassy offshoot targeted at Sassy readers' boyfriends, brothers, and friends from the skate park -- had a

September 1991 Fashion Etc.: Beige, Icy Blu & Toilet Breath

The staff of Sassy is probably hoping you already finished your back-to-school shopping, because this month's fashion editorials are not their most inspired. You can wear

September 1991 Pop Culture: Brandon, Brenda & The Women Of The Music Industry

The pop culture Sassy covers in the September issue includes some venerable names: Prince, Duran Duran, Violent Femmes. But there are some thrilling new ones, too. All th

September 1991 Teen Life: Farming, Popularity & Baked Potatoes

Tara needs to thank the scissor-happy Sassy reader who sold her the podcast's original copy of the September 1991 issue, because if not for the missing pages (full and pa

August 1991 Slumber Party: This, This & That

How health-conscious are we, according to Sassy's August 1991 quiz? Quite, as long as you have no follow-up questions! After sharing our results (and complaints) about th

August 1991 Fashion Etc.: Brushes, Jeans & The Clarion Computer

We know this issue landed in mid- to late July, but can it ever be too early to start thinking about your back-to-school wardrobe? Sassy invites you to imagine yourself a

August 1991 Pop Culture: Guns 'N Roses, Bulletboys & Paula Abdrool

The August 1991 issue has a few pop culture topics to go deep on. Guns 'N Roses gets covered with a What Now concert review AND a review of Danny Sugerman's very pretenti

August 1991 Teen Life: Gladiators, Boyfriends & A Whole Bunch Of Wives

August 1991 is the thickest issue we've had in quite a while, but those extra pages were not set aside for Teen Life topics -- in fact, there isn't even a fiction story!

July 1991 Slumber Party: Bratmobile, Chaplin & The Deliberate Stranger

We're just back from a nearly two-month break. We took two VERY confrontational quizzes ("Are You A News Moron?" and "Are You An Annoyance?"). We...barely remember how to

July 1991 Fashion Etc.: Red, White & Blue (And Gray)

The hot dogs are sizzling, the fireworks are firing, and July 1991 cover model Rochelle is telling Sassy George Washington never meant shit to her and that HER Independen

July 1991 Pop Culture: Chapterhouse, Jamie Walters & Summer Recommendations

It's summer, and everyone at Sassy is already too hot to work. Christina admits that What Now is kind of a flop -- she's even a month late mentioning Ian Svenonius's birt

July 1991 Teen Life: Hamburger U, Girls' Self-Esteem & Things You Can Measure In Pints

The editors use an antique slur (sadly surging back to popularity) to describe a contributor's mentally handicapped sister, but let's not focus on that when the piece --