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Gen X Assemble !!!

161 replies

Hanovercrosse · 26/06/2025 17:51

I’m off out, I’ve got a carton of Um bongo and some opal fruits. I’ve got a wham tape in my Walkman and I’m wearing leg warmers and my best ra ra skirt.
Who’s coming and what are you bringing ?

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Almahart · 26/06/2025 22:30

WilfredsPies · 26/06/2025 18:32

Oh my God I’d forgotten about that! It tasted like nail varnish remover.

Who’s wearing White Musk or Dewberry?

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The very thought of Thunderbird makes me heave even now. I'll be in my vintage 501s with my enormous hoop earrings. I'll bring 20 Marlborough lights, my Zippo and red wine so cheap it will turn your mouth black.

I loved white musk and also another body shop perfume called something like ananya?

pinkpony88 · 26/06/2025 22:47

Hanovercrosse · 26/06/2025 19:47

I’ll be on roller boots

OMG me too! 😍

BumpyaDaisyevna · 26/06/2025 22:54

I’ve got 20 consulate and some of my dads vodka in a clear bottle 🙌

Shenmen · 26/06/2025 23:04

Pebbles16 · 26/06/2025 20:37

And to keep it current. Going to Glastonbury (not Glasto back then, because we could handle more than two syllables).
Buying the NME
Cutting out the form
Filling it out IN BLACK BIRO
Sending it with a cheque or postal order and a stamped addressed envelope
Getting tickets
Getting a train to Castle Cary
Walking FOREVER
Doors opened on Friday and closed on Sunday lunchtime
Making arrangements to meet "by the tree" at 6pm
Actually meeting by the tree at 6pm
Your mate proclaiming that she wanted to marry Robert Smith but... he was already married so that was a hindrance
Not hydrating every 2.6 minutes

I was at the front for The Cure in about 1989? I was 15 and definitely in Heaven.
Spent the next 5 years going when. In a range of DMs, wellies and Adidas.
I can bring the shrooms and rollies if someone else brings the LSD and Es.
Happy days.
All the fun of free raves around Wiltshire and Oxfordshire, heads out of windows to listen for the music.
Dancing til dawn. Usually in combats and crop tops (and jumpers as I was a bit nesh and a size 6!). Random traveller sites to score or party. Lots of fun times. No official records of it thank the lord.

ariel333 · 26/06/2025 23:17

Pencil skirt I made but couldn’t walk in, coloured tights with fishnets over them, flat shoes with ribbon I’d sewn on, suede coat and the biggest hoop earrings I could find. Meet you in that pub for a port and lemon.

Turmerictolly · 26/06/2025 23:33

I remember going to Glastonbury in 1985/86 and o had to get a coach to London and then tube to Angel. The Greenpeace shop was around the corner and I bought my ticket, proper one, in cash. The Cure were headlining but I was there for the Waterboys.
Would have been in dungarees, doc martins, stripy t-shirt underneath. Drinking anything I could get my hands on or afford. Trying the odd Gitane to look cool (but really not liking it).

Echobelly · 26/06/2025 23:36

Threadbare second-hand velvet jacket from Camden! A Bis single on vinyl! A bottle of Hooch alcoholic lemonade 😅

Mistyglade · 26/06/2025 23:44

Drenched in Body Shop Mulberry perfume sporting pale pink lipstick thinking I’m Wendy James’ bestie listening to Transvision Vamp on my brothers hand me down Alba record stack.

ZenNudist · 26/06/2025 23:49

Baby X here... sticking The Shamen on my tape plater. It's got 2 tapes so I can do you a copy later.

SandrenaIsMyBloodType · 26/06/2025 23:50

Twilight Teaser lipstick. Lace fingerless gloves because I want to be Madonna when I grow up.
And shitty clip on earrings that keep falling off but my mum won’t let me have my ears pierced

SandrenaIsMyBloodType · 26/06/2025 23:52

Also I will not be painting a stripe of Adam Ant white across my face with Tippex because that makes your spots worse

Brenda34 · 27/06/2025 08:25

I'll call in on my way here but I can't stay long because I'm hitching. I'll go to the big notice board when I get there and use that to meet the others. It'll be fine - we'll just find each other. We don't need location sharing.

Gen X Assemble !!!
ExquisiteSocialSkills · 27/06/2025 08:48

Barry M nail varnish. An ungodly amount of Boots hair gel and ‘extra hold’ hairspray.

Hanovercrosse · 27/06/2025 11:14

Ananya perfume ! Sigh, I’d wear that now if they still did it

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Almahart · 27/06/2025 12:03

That perfume bar in the Body Shop was bloody brilliant wasn't it.

SantasLargerHelper · 27/06/2025 13:06

Just sprayed sun-in on my hair, covered myself in baby oil and I'm off to lie in the garden reading Smash Hits.

MMMMMBacon · 27/06/2025 13:16

I'll swing by just as soon as I have watched the latest episode of Beverly Hills 90210 and sighed over Luke Perry and the Brenda/Dylan Ship.

JJMama · 27/06/2025 18:02

I’ll be there in all goth get up; black fishnet tights, mini skirt, cherry red Doc Martens and black top. Hair may or may not be crimped, and I’ll bring some diamond white.

Oh and I’ve got a kohl pencil, Heather Shimmer lipstick, tonnes of mascara and some Dewberry spray or Charlie Red if you need to borrow some.

Jeevesnotwooster · 27/06/2025 18:08

Black tassle skirt, batwing jumper and black suede winklepickers from High Street Ken market. Laying on the eyeliner and mascara too.

Chubbymummyof2 · 27/06/2025 18:14

Deely boppers and the little purse with the beads stuck on (that it was impossible to resist biting off!)

marshmallowpuff · 27/06/2025 18:24

Ey up, anybody fancy a Pyramint?

tobee · 27/06/2025 18:26

I'll be wearing my electric purple tube skirt, my electric purple and grey lumberjack shirt (Big Country style) my electric purple cardigan and my pixie boots. My hair is black combed with tiny Adam Ant plaits in the fringe. I'll be bringing my 2litre bottle of Woodpecker Cider but I'm hoping to trade.

HarryGrotter · 27/06/2025 18:48

Got my Frankie say relax t shirt on with fluorescent green leg warmers and fingerless gloves, black leggings with cherry dms, hair back combed to within an inch of its life, liberally sprayed with poison and carrying 20 lambert and butler and a bottle of K cider

Mochudubh · 27/06/2025 18:50

I'll be wearing my skin tight Wrangler jeans (with the reinforced seam on the outside leg), that I spent till 1am this morning taking in even tighter with a needle & thread and a towel across the bottom of my bedroom door so my mum can't see the light's on and I'm not in bed.

Heaven forfend there be a millimetre of loose denim, lest they be mistaken for.....................flares .😱😱😱.

If the meet up's scheduled for tomorrow, I won't be out till after Robin of Sherwood, cos Michael Praed 😍

WorkerBee123 · 27/06/2025 18:54

I’m sending off for something 😂

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