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 .

Boots worn unzipped and turned out in the style of Madonna in DSS.

How cool were we?

[wunk]

Lace in our hair,fingerless gloves and little russian doll things fastened anywhere ......benetton bags and pod shoes.

trolls on the top of your pencil

clackers (which got banned)

hula hoop things which went around your ankle and had a ball on the end. (banned)

massive badges the size of a saucer with either Donny Osmond or Michael Jackson.

Those weird plastic bags - kind of like a curly wurly. I think you bought them flat and then popped the sides together. Then, because they were full of holes, you had to put your stuff inside a normal plastic bag to stop it falling through the holes. So the 'fashion' bit was finding the trendiest shopping bag to put inside your holey bag - IIRC Next and Benneton were popular.

Wow! I can't believe you all had so much freedom with your uniforms!
Our school was really strict on what you could and couldn't wear. We had to wear [http://www.arnotts.ie/Product/Mount-Anville-montessori-smock/302323/200500100320100 smocks]] over our uniform until we were 12!
So the trends I remember were neon elastics on your train tracks, covering your books in benetton ads pictures, and pencil cases that had little compartments. Also swapping "fancy paper" and stickers.
I sound like I went to school in 1900!

Sorry, that should be smock.

No.7 lilac sparkly lipstick.

Body Shop White Musk perfume.

Legwarmers.

Boys with 'bird-shit' hair (i.e. dotted with loads of bleached spots).

This is so weird, I don't remember any of these

Let me think...err..

• Game Boys
• Friendship bracelets

• pretending to be anorexic/self-harming...
• having a 'crush' on an older girl
• rolling up your school skirt to show off your legs and making it look like you're wearing a nappy/colostomy bag

(Girls' public school, early 90s, hideous)

Ahh, pip you have just reminded me... Fuzzy Peach (bluergh!)

Just spotted the fluorescent socks - I'd forgotten those, but they had to be worn odd.

crazycat, if you had Game Boys, I suspect you are simply too young... we played a lot of card games at my school and fainted with excitement over Rubiks cubes.

bags that were like minature suitcases on a long strap, awful see through hard plastic bags, casuals, big hair, legwarmers

Southeast, I remember the bags. It was called a Gear Box, In fact i still had mine up until a few years ago...think i got rid when we moved.

Lace in our hair,fingerless gloves and little russian doll things fastened anywhere ......benetton bags and pod shoes. yep

Fluroescent socks yep

• rolling up your school skirt to show off your legs and making it look like you're wearing a nappy/colostomy bag yep but I never clocked the colostomy bag thing

Fake tanned legs with vaseline to make them greasy shine.

Pixie boots
Legwarmers
Lace and bows
Rara skirts
Puffball skirts
Scrunch dried 'big' hair
Sun-In
Tiny pigtail plait at the nape of my neck
Tippex sniffing
Smelly rubbers

I also started a trend for wearing bloomers under the school skirt. They stuck out about 4 inches from the bottom. I was not popular with the Staff. Heh. They were banned after a couple of weeks when they realised it was spreading to the Lower School :(

God I must have looked a sight

I remember loads of these mentioned another one is, See Through plastic rain macs that came in white/clear, pink and blue and the see through umbrellas, they would always rip at the pockets.
Also plastic see through umbrellas.

rain macs....and Umbrellas!!

Sorry Got my morning brain on.....keep repeating myself but you know what i mean!!

Shag bands
Those charity bands
Being bi-sexual
Piercings
Goths/sk8ers/emos
Various colours of gel pen - had to switch colour everytime you flipped a page in your jotter
Smoking
Nokia phones with Snae :o

A mixture from Primary and Secondary

White Musk and Dewberry "perfume" from Body Shop, Bennetton bags, snap on friendship bracelet things, trolls, Naff Co 54 coats, Kickers, Puffa jackets (not a good look on me - looked like the Michelin man), black shoes or boots with wooden block heels, Global hypercolour t-shirts, making friendship bracelets out of random bits of string and a safety pin, the dummy on a string thing, black velvety floppy hats with a huge black velvety "rose" on the front

Am sure will think of more

Oh yes and the legendary shag bands lol

*Nokia phones with SNAKE rather...

Um Sweater shop jumpers/ Global hypercolour t-shirts

Rockports & sprayways

haha Body Shop perfumes

Great thread - trip down memory lane! Sorry if repeating but at my secondary school we had:

White Musk/Dewberry
River Island plaggy bags
Bennetton duffle bags
Naff Co jackets
Hooded tops and ridiculous baggy trews
PONY trainer boots with the tongues sticking out
Grolsch bottle tops on your DM shoes (for the Bros fans)
Long thick school socks pushed down to ankle length, would take hours to perfect the look
Gel spray on your fringe

Also green suede lace up shoes with I think , a floral trim. Wallabees or something?

FRom Primary school I remember Fergie bows and banana clips!