What did the popular kids all have at your school?

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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.

Kickers (never had any!), Sweater Shop or Benetton jumper, Levi jeans, those basket bags with leather straps.

I'm the same age I remember them they were so ugly i never understood why someone would deliberately wear them.

Pashmina scarves (usually baby pink or baby blue)

Morgan et toi / Kookai / Jane Norman shopping bags or tote bags

Ballerina Flats in black

Nude nail polish and no cuticles

High heels from Ravels

Private secondary mid 90s- early 2000

In the 90s, school shoes that you had a key for and something turned on the bottom with a little picture or something! I never had them!

Oh my lord this thread is making me so bloody nostalgic and by reading I can tell whether you were my older/younger sisters era or my own.

Sweater shop jumper and a head bag with a little zip bag on the side.... I was v jealous my little brother got both, I didn't as it was more important for him to have labels as the boy apparently!

Baby G watch
Sky TV

Late 80s/early 90s
The popular girls all had much older boyfriends 😩

Gucci shoes

In the 00s

A video machine at home.
An actual talent for something. Could be sport, music, academic, or being the sort of person who participated in school activities. Often all of these.

Feathered haircut
Dark side of the moon vinyl album
Loons

A lady Di haircut and a Sony Walkman

Benetton duffel bag
River Island carrier for PE kit
Kickers
Ellesse trainers (that looked like Reebok Classics)
Velvet chokers
Adidas trousers

'80s Teen

Perms
Bamboo bags like the one in the photo
Jelly shoes
Jumpsuits

Girls:
Wearing trousers with the uniform instead of a skirt
Jane Norman PE bags
Troll dolls
Pods shoes with a block heel or Rangers loafers

Boys:
Short spiked up hair
Swapping Panini football stickers
Rockports
Adidas

Both:
Owning a Nokia
Skinny ties

Secondary School in the North West 82 - 89

• Permed Hair laced with hard gel
• Jelly Bags
• Tucker Boots (v loose fitting suede Chelsea boots)
• Clothes from Snob (part of Etam), Miss Selfridge & Chelsea Girl (all of which I had a Saturday job in in the 80’s)!
• Shoulder pads
• Acid wash denim
• Sun In (which basically frazzled your permed hair)
• Cover Girl Make Up
• Bendy hair curlers
• Roller ball lip gloss
• Body Shop perfume oils incl Dewberry

Thank god there were no cameras around as we must of looked a right state!

90s.
Benetton drawstring bag, later replaced by bright pink body shop tote bag with "if it fills good do it" on it.
PE kits carried in a River Island carrier bag.

I wasn’t popular but had

Blue suede tucker boots
Oddball jeans
Jelly bags
Country Born hair gel
Twilight teaser lipstick
Aqua Manda perfume
Anais Anais perfume
L’Air Du Temps perfume (not sure if that’s that correct spelling)

Edited to add loads of body shop stuff,

Friends
Confidence
Boyfriends
Phones (early 00s)

I was about to say the reverse! Though probably most accurate to say that the popular girls had ASBOs. One of the most popular was in jail for GBH later on.

Jane Norman handbag
iPhone
Ugg boots
Madeline dream matte mousse

Parents who were both permissive & well off.

Yes that was a thing , unfortunately.

Yes the popular girls were often the ones who had older boyfriends with cars.
Popular boys? There weren't any in my year, we girls were too busy lusting after older boys with cars

Clackers