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 .

did anyone else put a crisp packet under the grill till it shrunk and wear it as a badge?

yy carnival although my mum worked and we were home alone and i was specifically told NOT TO.

Yo-yos, skater pants (jeans with enormous legs), tiny shrunken "baby" t-shirts worn with said huge pants.

Remember the long white socks that you rolled down to your ankle?

My school did not allow it and when I was caught for the 2nd time in a day..the teacher rolled my socks down by an inch and then drew around my leg and pulled my socks by up!

Of course for the rest of the day my socks stayed up as it was soooooo embarrassing have great big black pen around my legs

Boarding School 1st - 5th Year:
Body Shop Perfume - Dewberry and White Musk.
Pop Swatch Watches.
Chin-length Bobs (with a shaved bit at the back - undercut I think it was called, but that was only after a really scary girl came to board who had it. She had been expelled from every school in Brighton and had a boyfriend who had left school and lived in his car, she was amazing!)
Strapless ball dresses made out of electric blue raw silk with huge pufball skirts - preferably worn with doc martins.
Friendship bracelets that we made ourselves with knotted thread.
501's with lots of rips in.
Penny Loafers with a penny in the bit at the front.
Velvet Scrunchies.
6th Form:
Doc Martens, holey tights, really short tight skirts and big baggy grey benetton polo neck - usually worn with a bad attitude and a little silver tin of hash concealed about my person. Until I discovered Clubbing - used to go to a place called The Empire that had a night called Sugar Shack. All the big DJ's of the day played there (Tall Paul, Boy George, Sasha, Digweed et al) and then I tended to wear flimsy bits of scarf, those little chain mail tops that came to a point at the belly button or just some underwear - if only I had appreciated my body more!

Ours were the stumpiest fattest ties you could create.

Oh and bearing in mind we are talking the '70s - high waisted flared polyester flares, with patch side pockets halfway down your leg, and tight see-thro' cheesecloth shirts (that were eventually banned)

Was at secondary school up North in late 80's:
putting streaks into your hair using food colouring
mens blazers/tweed jackets worn by girls
skater skirts with DMs
lovebite worn as accessories
pastel coloured pringle jumpers
oversized Tshirts/jumpers
distressed denim
smoking methols
snakebites(cider and lager)
pernod and black(currant)
gin and pep(permint)
cider and black(currant)
The Smiths
The Cure
Joy Division

I think I can age each and everyone of you from your replies...

Using an aerosol on your wrist to create a circular scar

shoelaces in hair, all colours, sparkly ones etc.

Karma beads (circular beaded bracelet, came in all different colours)

Shag bands

Chains on trousers

Roller lipgloss

Dummy on a chain... At the under 18s disco, if you were cool, a LIGHT UP dummmy on a chain, and a whistle too.

Tiny tiny tiny strands coming out of the front of your hair when you had a ponytail.

Those braid things in bright colours (after you had been on holiday).

Year 2000 T-shirts, caps, etc (see how young I am

Jelly sandals (primary school)

Godawful fake blonde highlights

Kappa stuff (if you were a TOWNIE, as they were called before chavs!)

Listening to tapes (Take THat, Spice Girls, Aqua) in class on a walkman held on your lap and threaded underneath your jumper

When we were young teens we all had those awful reversible sweatshirts with things like Pooh on or that eighties paint flecked design.

Later we all just put on Dewberry perfume and had henna in our hair and boys and girls wore trench coats from charity shops and DMs. I remember the shame people would feel at school if their mum had got hold of their DMs and polished the scuff marks off.

Jumpsuits.
Mini kilts.
Spray on hair glitter.
Drop-waisted dresses.
Ra-ra skirts
Legwarmers
Pixie boots
Low stilettos
crew-necked jumpers
Fanzines
The Jam badges
Clackers
Fruit and veg pencil toppers
Hotpants with a dungaree-style bib.
Two-tone everything

Oxford bags (trousers multi-coloured checks.
Bay city roller suits with scarves.
Badges.
Wallpaper covered books.
smelly pens.
pleated skirts (rolled at the waist)
Tramp perfume
pencil skirts.
BIG knots in school ties.
White ankle socks.
beady bags...great for science lessons cos you can pick all the beads off.
macrami string bags.
fluffy pencil cases.

...and Donkey jacket with Elvis Lives on the back (50s revival).

Crazy crazes -

Some hard ball things on a string you banged together (possibly got banned when I was really young - the first craze I remember)
Think conkers were also banned - remember all the kids trying so hard to get the conkers out of the trees, throwing sticks into the branches Ha, ha, ha !
Am constantly amazed to see conkers lying where they fall these days !
Clapping games too from my first school.

At my next school everyone was into "French elastic" hopping games, also skipping rope games.

Then there was the tartan Bay City Roller thing just at the end of primary.

• Didn't get into dewberry perfume from the Body shop til I went to Uni - loved it !

• So yes, these things definitely define your era

Oooh - thought of more! We used to put the knotted threads in our hair (like friendship bracelets but around a thin bit of hair)- the Spanish girls at our school seemed to be particularly proficient at this!
A massive crush on Andre Agassi was also obligatory.
Marlboro Lights were the fag of choice - back then you could buy singles or 10 for 99p.
We also had our locker keys on hideous flourescent spiral phone wire clips too.
And the biro with red/blue/green/black all in one were the height of cool!
Velvet Alice Bands were shortlived but loved...

In vague chronological order;

Clackers
Taking 2 tennis balls to school and sort if juggling them
Off a wall (does anyone remember this, I'm not describing it very well!)
Pannini sticker books
Chelsea girl
Hair lace
Head bags
Jigsaw side zip trousers
Paisley waistcoats
Paisley neckerchiefs worn in a triangle on your
Back and tied round your neck
Poison/dewberry/anaise anaise/lulu perfume
Now that's what I call music tapes
20:20 alcoholic beverage
Naf naf clothing

Lol at dr northerner! I went to see that very stock airmen and waterman roadshow! Everyone fainted at Jason Donovan!
Had forgotten about Constance carrol and velvet chokers too!

Have remembered Just Seventeen ( my mum banned me from reading it!) and pepe key rings in different colours.

Aitken not airmen!

yy one ball or two ball - off the wall juggling.used to love that

Oh how funny, yes, we're all giving away our ages here.. our trends were so much better and more fun of course than the rubbish they're into now..

Benneton duffle bags, jelly bags, jelly sandals
T-shirt dresses
Shoulderpads in pastel coloured crinkle suits
Kickers and Wallabees
Naf Naf
Palm suits, Just Lukes, Sams
Ra-Ra skirts (I had a' Fame' one)
Bat-wing jumpers (black and grey)
A red bedroom
Oversized reversible sweatshirts with cartoon characters on them
High-side-ponytails
Tammy Girl
Grey fake leather pixie boots
Care bears and cabbage patch dolls
Taping the top 40 off the radio, and trying to stop it before the DJ cut in..

Saturday Superstore Search for a Superstar??
Pre-X Factor!!

I loved my teen magazines I read bliss sugar and just seventeen and more, for position of the week and the sex story at the back which would be passed around at lunchtime
I had to top up my coffee shimmer lipstick every break time too about five layers each time and heavy eyeliner at all times .

knackeredmother" - god yes twoball, I'd forgotten that - weeks* of my life spent doing that on the coal shed wall. Could still do it probably.

first message tonight I didn't preview!

I've been teaching dd, it's great! Can't remember any if the songs we sang though , shame.