For fun which trends did you have at school

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I was thinking last night about all the different trends we had at school and how they are nothing compared to today's (iPhones pandora bracelets etc). To start off a few that I can remeber from my school days , naf co 54 coats ( nasty and cheap looking but cost a fortune) every other person in the school que had one.
Plastic dummies worn as necklaces (weird one that)
bleached fringes so ugly but we thought we looked great.
Light up trainers
all of which got banned after a while .

Army surplus bags with the names of fave band written on in marker pen
Wicker picnic cases as hand bags

Jelly shoes anD bags
Converse boots

Army surplus bags with the names of fave band written on in marker pen
Wicker picnic cases as hand bags

Jelly shoes anD bags
Converse boots

This thread is great! I have literally chuckled all the way through it!

I still have an old bottle of Exclamation perfume somewhere and as soon as I sniff it it brings back all the memories of early teen angst and waiting eagerly for my copy of Just 17 whilst wearing my jelly shoes and listening to my Stock Aitken & Waterman compilation tape

Can I just say DrNorthener I am v.jealous you went to see Big Fun and Sonia :)

black and white addidas kick trainers.
swatch watches
wham bars
day glo fingerless fishnet gloves
leg warmers
snoods
whisps (rats tails of hair at the back, often dyed blonde)

Rolling down white knee socks
Pod shoes
Matching hat scarf and berret
Tons of hairspray tons and tons
Green eyeliner on bottom eyelash line

Wella Shockwaves Hard Rock Hairspray
Tootal scarves
Chelsea boots
Boxer boots
Duster coats (I'm not sure if that's the correct name, but that's what they were called in my school - flimsy material long coats)
Odd fluorescent socks
Boots 17 make up - I had a lovely (!) purple iridescent lipstick and eye shadow that I adored

Primary school:-
Shell suits
Wallabees in coloured suede with the tags on the side
Bermuda shorts
White flared jeans
Yoyo's (coca cola, sprite etc) and learning all the tricks
Platforms
Salt and pepper/nena cherry type music
Naf Naf
Benetton
Sportswear
Baggy clothes
Perms
Cats cradle

Secondary school

Dummies - take that fan style
Doc martins
Ripped jeans
Stripy tights
Tie dye
Mood rings
Hair straightening - badly!
Grunge and metal music
Gigs and moshing

Lothar's down jackets
Skin-tight Levi's (jeans or cords)
Kickers ankle boots
Stan Smiths
Burlington socks

Just remembered another couple from primary school - collecting scraps (you used to buy sheets of them, small pictures with different themes, like animals, religious pictures etc ) and put them between the pages of a book and then swap with your friends.

Also something we called French knitting, with an old thread bobbin, four nails hammered into it and you wound wool round and 'knitted' a big long piece of...nothing, really!

(really showing my age now!) :)

Sweetest thing, DD has one of those, I actually bought it in a shop. She was bored as soon as it was out of the box
A boy coming out of the toilets at our youth club and sticking his finger in a few drinks. A lovely kind offer to let everyone taste his girlfriend [vom]

Pod sandals with tags on for our indoor shoes
Twilight teaser lipstick from Boots 17
Swatch watches
Wearing men's aftershave like Kouros
Body shop white musk
Benetton sweatshirts
Canvas bags with names written on them in marker pen
Long school skirts down to our ankles (the nins were well pleased)
Denim shirts

Constance Carroll was a market stall brand, as Collection 2000 was then. I felt really cool when I actually started buying make0up from Boots...

although our town was about the size of Kingston, we never had Topshop or anythign like that, but people queue at 4am for the Next sales (I think they sold one item of clothing per month in between seasons...)

Kouros!! My friend and I used to go into town specially to spray ourselves with gallons of the stuff from the aftershave counter at Debenhams, and then hang around outside HMV in our ripped jeans, tie-dyed band t-shirts and denim jackets with band names and autographs all over them. Also those fake suede boots with tassles and feathers hanging off the sides.

What was the name of those t-shirts that changed colour as they warmed up?

Global Hypercolour!!

We didn't get a HMV until '99. I did lust after a Global Hypercolour T-shirt in C+A. I thought I was well cool when my mum bought me some cut off Levi shorts from there.

Ha, those Global Hypercolour t-shirts just used to show up people's sweat patches!

Pepe "Betty" jeans (think of the most unflattering tapered leg jeans possible......that's what we wore!)
Benetton rugby shirts
Benetton plastic duffel bag
Crinkle "silk" (ie polyester!) shirts with really long shirt tails, worn buttoned up to the collar with a gawjus diamante brooch!!

OMG, we really did have the best and worst fashions in the early 80s!

Thinkofanumber - we wore duster coats as well. Particularly in 6th Form when they would be coupled with standard issue:

The Cure/The Smiths t-shirt
M&S grandad style cardi (now called "boyfriend" cardis)
Levis - rolled up at the ankle to show off Burlington socks and Doc Martens (boots or shoes......or if you were really cool then you wore the vegan version )

Oooh tulpe I dressed like that. You have brought it all flooding back -
I had oxblood coloured Doc Marten shoes and black Doc Marten boots.
2nd hand blazers worn with rolled up levis and Burlington socks
Always had to read latest NME and ID magazine
Spent weekends hanging around indie record shops and a vintage clothes shop called Flip in Glasgow

Grolsch bottle tops on shoes? Blame Bros
Pods
Fred Perry t-shirts with tiny school ties
Skinhead with bleached fringe, girls only
Skin tight jeans with red or white stripe
Choppers/Grifters (3 ton version of a BMX)
Blue mascara
Misty magazine
Ribena shoes, bowling shoes and pointed heels!
Harrington Jackets
Lonsdale T-shirts
Big earrings
Recording the top 40 off the radio onto your 80's cassette recorder
Hubba Bubba chewing gum

I'm of the 80's can you tell

Crimped and hair mascara'd hair for discos
Clip on hair beads
Knowing all the words to venga boys songs
Platform trainers
Spice girls impulse spray
Smoking one cigarette to about 5 girls
Sniffing poppers
Really short school ties
Wearing 600 homemade beaded bracelets ( beads from wooly's naturally) on each wrist
Turning fishnets into a top and wearing under tshirts.
I hate 14 year old me...!

Thanks Sixtyfootdoll I'd forgotten the army surplus bags. I think I do still have one somewhere.

Pixie boots

Pinafore dresses

Short school ties - so the long bit was in danger of showing beneath your skirt.

Some Hush Puppy shoes that had small holes all over them - came in grey and burgundy (the two on trend colours). I had grey. The shoe version of those mesh vests Kajagoogoo wore?

Hacking jackets - mine was navy - classy (and I did actually ride most people didn't)

long skirts with a long, probably vintage, petticoat underneath, stripey tights (green and black so that they sort of were school uniform) and 8 hole Doc Martins.

Harrington Jackets
skinny jeans with red or white piping up the side
Pixie boots
Blue mascara and eyeliner

A lot of the boys grew 'Riks' aka Riks hairstyle in the Young Ones
:)