What odd fads did you have at school?

[oneskip]

As a teenager a popular girl got a short haircut but had a lock of longer hair at the nape of her neck. Everyone started to copy it and it was a crazy fad for a while.

I've googled to add a picture but couldn't find anything close to it.

We also had a fad for wearing one blue sock. God knows why.

Anyone remember any fads?

Imagine this photo but with a longer tail at the nape, about two inches

Not one single reply

Some of the lads used to shave a line through their eyebrows.

Dummy necklacs

And also chicken scratches were cool. Where people would friction burn themselves. Weird.

Shrinking crisp packets under the grill and making badges and keyrings out of them.

Oh yea we actually did this.

Metal pencil tins that we scratched names of boy bands and actual boys that we fancied into them with a compass.

Massive knots in your school tie so there was hardly any hanging down bit.

At my school and 6th form when Happy Hour Again by House martins was played at a disco everyone lay on their backs and did the dying fly. When I got to Uni and hit the floor when House martins started I discovered it was an extremely localised trend.

The crisp packets 😆😆

those T-shirts that changed colour because of sweat

dummy necklaces

I remember that! I think it was on Blue Peter as well

Doing the shuffle, running man, etc was standard at school discos.

Pulling threads out of your school tie to make dark lines run across it.

Yes to shrinking crisp packets. I could never get it to work though.

Wearing loads of those rubber/silicone bracelets (did anyone else's school call them shag bands?!)

Never allowing your socks or shoelaces to show. Resulting in hardly any room for your foot in your shoes once you'd crammed them full of sock and shoelace tails. Everyone had blisters.

@oneskip I remember the haircut you mean 😂

I remember that, I'm sure they were called rat's tails.

Was this mid 90s? I fear I had one of these.

If you didn’t wear ankle socks over your tights at my secondary school it was literally social death. Mostly sock shop ones. Looking back it was so weird.

Was this what we called a rat tail hair cut?!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattail_(hairstyle)

Op was it this? My cousin had it in the 80s and I was fascinated

That is rank

It was called a rats tail. Popular circa 1983.

@Frith2013 wow, you've unlocked a memory there!!
Sometimes we would also tie our ties with the thin end out and the thicker end tucked into our shirts!

Oh haha no I didn't have one of those.

Yes! 🤣

Smoking cinnamon sticks. I don't think I ever tried it but it was very popular at the Friday Night Disco circa 1980!