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What did the popular kids all have at your school?

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ExhaustedCoffeedrinker · 23/07/2024 16:46

I was in secondary school late 90s early 00s All the popular kids at my school carried their books around in Jane Norman carrier bags in Alevels they started to get cars.
I remember being so jealous of this Playboy choker necklace one of the girls had.

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BobbyBiscuits · 23/07/2024 18:46

I didn't really hang around with them. But they all seemed to have loads of friends, be good at every subject, be effortlessly thin, and of course be wearing a pastel YSL shirt, 501s, white classics and gold hoops. This was the early/mid 90s.

BoeJiden · 23/07/2024 18:48

Coldbeerneverbrokemyheart · 23/07/2024 18:28

The ridiculously wide skate shoes and jeans, backpack slung ridiculously low. I didn’t have any of this and was so envious! Skate/grungy culture was the very in thing at my school.

One own clothes day a girl in my class brought in a full set of jeans, skate shoes and a skate T-shirt and said I could have them “as they didn’t fit her anymore” but clearly looking back it was I lived with my gran and she couldn’t afford to keep me in the trends. Her mum and her clearly decided to gift me them and it was absolutely lovely.

That sounds very lovely 🥰

Riapia · 23/07/2024 18:49

Love bites and grass stains.
😉😁😁

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JackJarvisEsq · 23/07/2024 18:49

Shelley shoes and bag with a berghaus jacket

Justrolledmyeyesoutloud · 23/07/2024 18:51

Ascot boot trainers

UltramarineViolet · 23/07/2024 18:54

The popular girls mostly had perms with lots of gel/mouse in, short skirts, hushpuppy shoes with long cream socks pushed down, pale pink Head bag to finish the look

The popular boys had Farrah trousers, Campri ski coats and lots of hair gel

Late 1980s comprehensive school

Illpickthatup · 23/07/2024 18:57

Autumnpleases · 23/07/2024 18:29

Oh yes Baby G watches and shag bands 😂

My auntie got me a baby G watch from America. It was a colour you couldn't get in the UK so I was the only one in school with that exact watch. Still definitely wasn't a cool kid.

Illpickthatup · 23/07/2024 18:59

I had a Fred Perry drawstring bag that wasn't big enough to fit all my school books in and ended up ripping at the seams.

potplantsinparadise · 23/07/2024 19:03

Permed bleached hair, same appearance/texture as supernoodles
'Head' backpack
Kickers shoes
Drenched in GAP Dream or Impulse Free Spirit

Lovethatforyouhun · 23/07/2024 19:05

Money

Brexile · 23/07/2024 19:09

Benetton bag, massive branded trainers (Reebok?) and a perm lacquered with wet-look gel or spray. Every now and again I see a middle-aged woman who somehow still has that hairstyle, and think that she must have been part of a very bitchy clique when she was 14! Also: spray deodorant ("BO basher") not roll on, and tampons rather than towels, in case people thought you were a virgin (social death). Shapeless jeans of a certain brand (Levis?) to change into the very second you got home, in case people saw you in uniform after school and thought you were a "gyppo", i.e. poor, which was even worse social death than being thought to be a virgin.

What they didn't have was books. You really didn't want to be seen in possession of one of those, other than the compulsory school kind. Obviously, the library was both officially and unofficially off limits.

I didn't have any of this, and was particularly traumatized by having to wear unbranded trainers with "growing room". It was like trying to run in skis!

Then I changed to a girls' grammar for 6th form. What did the popular girls have? Whatever they wanted, I suppose. (Cars and much older boyfriends were perceived as a status symbol by those who had them, but kind of side-eyed by everyone else.) Grunge was in, which was wonderfully face-saving if your prarents didn't pay for your clothes and you had to manage with elderly relatives' castoffs. Who were the popular girls? I don't even know. It was bliss.

Dymaxion · 23/07/2024 19:23

Benetton jumpers and those long soft scarves they did, plus the drawstring bag for PE. Never could afford one, but used to go in and mess up the piles of jumpers occasionally Wink
The boys had massive Head bags that they would carry at shoulder height, taking up half the corridor !

Horsesontheloose · 23/07/2024 19:25

British Knight trainers with the tongue sticking out. Very jealous.

Rainbowsponge · 23/07/2024 19:26

Jane Norman or Warehouse bags
Bellybutton piercings
UGG boots
GHD straighteners & highlights

I was at secondary 2003-2010

8misskitty8 · 23/07/2024 19:29

Early to mid 90’s.

School bag was a Head hold-all that was worn with one handle over the shoulder.
Giant plastic dummy necklaces.
Spiral perm covered in mousse and gel so it was hard.
Tiny thin fringe with some hair at the front in a clasp pushed forward.
A watch with a big face, can’t remember the brand.
Later belly button rings.
Knee high boots.
Over the knee socks, different colour on each leg.
Shell suits.
Naff naff coats. (Non popular kids would get naff co 54 ones from the Sunday market)
Popular boys had curtains slicked with gel and later slicked back with masses of gel.

SossijRoll · 23/07/2024 19:41

Babies.

HMTheQueenMuffin · 23/07/2024 19:43

Bubble skirts and ponies.

SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter · 23/07/2024 19:49

FeckOffNowLads · 23/07/2024 17:02

A fuck load of confidence

I was going to say this! The only thing I noticed them having, specially, in fact!!

LividSummer · 23/07/2024 20:07

Sprayway jackets
Helly Hanson jackets
Kickers
Rockports
Hair gelled back in a bump

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 23/07/2024 20:29

In the mid 80s :

In the hockey team -after school , weekends , very competitive
Had their own horses
Pierrot decorated bedrooms or black./red angular lines decor
Miss Selfridge Kiss&Make Up make-up
Miss Se;fridge clothes
Heated crimping irons (the rest if us did teeny plaits and unravelled them)
Ciggies
Boyfriends with cars who picked you up from school
Tucker Boots (soft suede chelsea boots)
Lady Diana Shoes ( slim Mary Jane shoes)
Went to Peter Gabriel concert
Had Jackie/Blue Jeans/Just 17 delivered and got the free gifts
Donkey Jacket
Skinny jeans with 5% lycra

MyOtherCarisAVauxhallZafira · 23/07/2024 20:33

Jane norman/Morgan bags, perms, kicker school shoes, mini skirts and Ben Sherman men's shirts (bonus points if they were the boyfriend's who obviously also wore Jean Paul gaultier aftershave by the bucket) a boyfriend who had a car and a job. Coffee shimmer/heather shimmer lipstick, fags and polo mints in the inside blazer pocket

Circa 1995-2000

Grazianoscubanheel · 23/07/2024 20:33

8misskitty8 · 23/07/2024 19:29

Early to mid 90’s.

School bag was a Head hold-all that was worn with one handle over the shoulder.
Giant plastic dummy necklaces.
Spiral perm covered in mousse and gel so it was hard.
Tiny thin fringe with some hair at the front in a clasp pushed forward.
A watch with a big face, can’t remember the brand.
Later belly button rings.
Knee high boots.
Over the knee socks, different colour on each leg.
Shell suits.
Naff naff coats. (Non popular kids would get naff co 54 ones from the Sunday market)
Popular boys had curtains slicked with gel and later slicked back with masses of gel.

Bloody loved this era. The rave generation!

mitogoshi · 23/07/2024 20:33

Back packs in bright colours - they were brand new as fashion accessories. Also went on annual school ski trip

YouJustDoYou · 23/07/2024 20:35

Mopeds as soon as they were old enough. Gold soverign rings/creole earrings. Beauty, parents who loved them. Money.

Fudgetheparrot · 23/07/2024 20:37

Links of London bracelet
Massive black handbag (usually River Island) instead of a backpack
Blackberry
Jack Wills hoody
Tiffany heart necklace/bracelet/earrings
Massive scarf
Packet of Marlborough's

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