What odd fads did you have at school?

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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?

We must be from the same era I just realised I still do the pony tail thing 🤦‍♀️

We had a school disco (early nineties) if love shack came on we would stand in a circle and put one arm into the circle and bring it out (like a group high five) repeatedly for the whole song.

We used to make ourselves hyperventilate and pass out (someone would hold your throat). I can't believe how stupid we were!

I was never cool enough to be able to drink from those cups upside down.

Please tell me that you're currently married to Kevin from year 11?? 😉

We had the chicken scratches at my school except we called them a 99 because you had to run your fingernail back and forth 99 times for it to work (scar) properly.

Girls only wore trousers and you were coolest if you went to a certain shop in town and got kickflare trousers and then wore kickers shoes with them.
I wasn't the coolest sadly

Fuzzy peach or dewberry body spray from the body shop.

Sherbet straws, those bracelets we would make with plastic strings (that smelt like weed), dummy necklaces, bright coloured shoelaces on black shoes, hair was completely sleeked back and gelled rock solid, very short ties, ponytails to the side, the up-do with two thin plaits hanging out at the bottom…

I have to add those awful black very elastic very tight trousers that frayed at the seems and looked like you had a hairy bum 😂

@Summerspritzer123 I still have my ragdoll pendant and it is worth a lot more now

I remember so many of these.

In terms of hair I remember a phase of people dying the front bits blonde a la Geri Halliwell (is it called a moneypiece) when I was in year 7. Also wearing lots and lots of little butterfly clips!

Jelly shoes - I believe I actually found the things comfortable! Or maybe I just told myself that…

Tamagotchis

Adidas tracksuits especially those bottoms with poppers. My German teacher said she didn't know why we bothered with a uniform since on non uniform day we all turned up looking much the same in various colours of these anyway.

Tattoo necklaces or a necklace you brought back from holiday with a little shell on it.

Baggy jeans that trail on the floor so you got rising damp half way up your legs and chains attached to your belt loops.

Donkey jackets so you looked like a bin man rather than a Dexy's midnight runner! They went out to be followed by a leather jacket, my parents couldn't afford one but my older brothers girlfriend gave me her old one, I never took it off!

Black court shoes with a small heel, my mum refused to buy me a pair so I bought some shoe paint which dried to a thin layer of rubber & bits peeled off daily showing the original bright red shoe.

Boys had to have Farrah trousers & wear Lynx deodorant

Chicken scratches (just why???)

The phrase Dig me up man.... no idea what it meant but we all used it?

Princess Di swept fringe with half a can of hairspray to hold it in place...sorry ozone layer. Crimped and permed bleached hair, most of us used Sun in.

Pink & blue eyeshadow not blended and the darkest foundation again not blended into the neck.

Chicken scratches
lighter smilies
adidas 3 stripe trousers
Wella shaders and toner sachets, everyone used the red ones!
2 bleached strips at the front of your hair, the rest scraped into a tight pony tail.
sun in!

I never wore them but remember the trend, I'm 50
I also remember grolsch bottle tops on shoes because of Bros.

I never understood this ,they looked awful
We had to.have a very serious talk from our headmistress in junior 4 about them and how they might cause blood poisoning

The quiff was very popular at our school too, where it was called the Parksy bump after the girl with the most giant one.

@ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews Anyone could do it 😅

This was human league style. The girls in human league both had short hair with the plait at the back. Think the guy did too. I had my hair cut just like it as did a few of my friends. If you watch don’t want me video you just about see it when one of the girls turns her head quickly.

Speaking of Human league. We all also grew a massive fringe out a la Phil Oakley style. Completely covering one eye

Socks had to be those long tube type socks pushed down (I think we called them slouchy socks?) heaven forbid you wore ankle socks!
Boot cut trousers.. definitely no sock / ankle showing.. they got soo wet when it rained.
Ellesse sportswear.
Poker straight hair, and the smoothest ponytails with the two bits hanging out at the front.
Record bags as school bags.
Dummy necklaces were a brief thing.

Dummy necklaces, and those toys with balls on that clicked.

Yes to shag bands!

I was desperate for one of those. My mum wouldn't let me have one, as she said I was too accident prone. She sort of had a point, I did fracture my ankle just holding a skipping rope. And I'm totally not bitter about not being allowed a lolo ball. Not at all.

Hair mascara, trousers skirts (they were banned in school eventually) and adidas popper trousers

Knee socks pulled up were “virgin socks” and social suicide. Makes me
laugh how we were all horrified at the idea of being called a virgin at the age of 11!