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Name a clothing brand you wore during high school?

141 replies

OneUmberJoker · 05/11/2025 19:41

Reebok

OP posts:
CoffeeAndCakeBringMeJoy · 05/11/2025 20:29

Tammy Girl
Snob
Top Shop
Miss Selfridge
Morgan and Kookai when in the Sixth Form, although never at school owing to a strict Sixth Form dress code.

Rookie93 · 05/11/2025 20:30

Miss Selfridge
C&A
Ladybird (from Woolworths)
Dolcis

BauhausOfEliott · 05/11/2025 20:32

Levi’s
Lee Cooper
Converse
Doctor Marten
Benetton
Top Shop
Miss Selfridge
River Island
FCUK
Palladium

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TroysMammy · 05/11/2025 20:43

Tammy Girl. I was short and skinny and would wear age 11-12 clothes at 16.

bongobango · 05/11/2025 20:43

Miss selfridge
Makro
Tammy girl
c and a
mark one
Select
Dolces shoes
Bay
River island
top shop
New look

As for brands it was
Rip curl
Adidas
Nike
Puma
Animal
quick silver
Reef
Ellesse
Fila
Diadora
Reebok
georgio
Kangol
kappa
umbro
mizuno
o’neil
kickers
Levi

PeonyBulb · 05/11/2025 20:45

I wore a uniform at school obviously but outside of school in the 80’s

Chelsea Girl
Top Shop
Benetton
Pepe Jeans
Pringle jumpers
Tacchini
Gabichi ?!?
Miss Selfridge
A brand of velour tracksuit years before Juicy but similar
Dash

There’s more but I can’t remember

Doggielovecharlotte · 05/11/2025 20:46

Lyle and Scott

AgentPidge · 05/11/2025 20:46

Chelsea Girl
Top Shop
Miss Selfridge
Biba

AgentPidge · 05/11/2025 20:47

Anyone else remember Biba?

PeonyBulb · 05/11/2025 20:48

OneUmberJoker · 05/11/2025 19:41

Reebok

No one in the UK was ever wearing Reebok during Secondary School in any decade

Bournetilly · 05/11/2025 20:48

McKenzie

IBorAlevels · 05/11/2025 20:50

Oh and NaffNaff was a thing

IBorAlevels · 05/11/2025 20:50

Oh and Naf Naf was a thing

bongobango · 05/11/2025 20:51

I’m not sure of the brand but I had a nice pink and purple shell suit in the 80s

Tammygirl12 · 05/11/2025 20:51

quiksilver
billabong
animal
roxy

topshop
Dorothy Perkins
bench
Jane Norman
jack wills

Terrytheweasel · 05/11/2025 20:51

Spliffy

hardstareglare · 05/11/2025 20:52

Sterling Cooper
Jane Norman
Morgan
Kookai

ActYourAge · 05/11/2025 20:53

Levi's Stay Prest
Crombie coat
Ben Sherman
(1970s)

QueenStevie · 05/11/2025 20:55

Kappa, Reebok, Kickers, Levis, Jane Norman for going out (just to get the bag for my PE kit).

Holdonforsummer · 05/11/2025 20:55

Sweater Shop

QueenStevie · 05/11/2025 20:56

At one point, Aldi were selling Levis in the middle aisle. I got a couple of pairs from there.

TheChicDreamer · 05/11/2025 20:56

Next and Laura Ashley were really trendy at my school when I was in my mid teens, early nineties 🥴
Also: Gap, Benetton, Naff Naff, River Island, Bay Trading.

QueenStevie · 05/11/2025 20:57

PeonyBulb · 05/11/2025 20:48

No one in the UK was ever wearing Reebok during Secondary School in any decade

I have photographic evidence that will prove otherwise!

BlueEyedBogWitch · 05/11/2025 20:59

PeonyBulb · 05/11/2025 20:48

No one in the UK was ever wearing Reebok during Secondary School in any decade

Apart from three quarters of my school.

VikaOlson · 05/11/2025 21:00

Adidas tracksuit with poppers up the legs
Kickers or Pod shoes for school, Skechers with a platform sole on the weekends 😂
Goldigga hoodies and wide leg Bench jeans
A Kangol hat and a Baby G watch!