All my friends have one ….. (lighthearted)

[MistressoftheDarkSide]

Inspired by another thread, and being laid up on day 10 of a chesty virus which has put me on my arse, but feeling marginally better so…..

I’m in my 50s so completely out of the parenting / teen trend loop, but the thread about North Face coats took me right back to when I was about 14 and my Holy Grail was a pair of flat black patent ballet pumps with a bow…..

Oh how I begged and pleaded. My DM (rest her soul) was a stickler for rules and sensible footwear, and when we couldn’t get the right sort of sensible shoes one term she even took me to an “old lady” shoe shop for the most hideous pair of clunky T bar shoes I had ever seen…. Obviously very character building….. 🤣🙄

I remember my Step Dad came to pick me up from school when I was pursuing the patent pumps, and he gleefully reported he hadn’t seen anyone else wearing them so I was denied again…..

If memory serves my Nana saved the day in the end, causing minor friction, but I wore those shoes until they fell apart…..

So, back in the day, what was the thing that you absolutely had to have to win street cred among your peers?

Reading this thread and suddenly realising your current. personal style could be almost wholly defined as Things You Weren’t Allowed to Wear Growing Up.

Oh Lord, I must look a complete fright.😯

Ha, to be fair, donkey jackets were supposed to be workmen's jackets! They were cosy, though.

Apart from the puffball and ra-ra skirts mentioned, did anyone else's school have trend for the cha-cha skirt? This was a straight skirt with a pleated part around the bottom. All the rage in my school ~ 81-82!

A vanity case to take your stuff to primary school in. I had a Freeman Hardy and Willis plastic bag but my mum promised me one when I passed the 11+.
However she was of the more is more school of thought and bought me the next size up - a weekend case. This was no use for school and I was massively disappointed, whilst having to appear excited and grateful because…

Never got the Pixie Boots or the Donkey Jacket whilst in Middle School. Was the Donkey jacket trend a tribute to the striking Miners?

The other major trend the older kids had and the middle school kids wanted was the Mod style green parka jacket that you still see Mods wear today. They had become a mainstream trend in the 80's and for some reason some of the boys pretended their coats had real bullet holes in them from the Falklands war.

This is it. If you didn't have the red and green tags you were scum. Also a River Island plastic bag for PE. No other plastic bag would do

Pixie boots! I did get some but not in the suede I wanted. Six or seven years old I think.

At 13 I really wanted a Head bag. My Grandmother got my a bright turquoise sports bag that has lasted 30 years. However it marked me out and used to get hidden and thrown away.

I let my daughter have what she wants in terms of brand stuff to compensate for my outsidering as a child 😀 Luckily she has listened to me enough that she ploughs her own furrow.

I have just realised that I have a pair of Rocket Dog boots that look a bit 80s

I have some Rocket Dog ankle boots - bought in the last 5 years. I love them, and lots of people say "ooh, cool boots"

I'm in my sixties.

I got a scarf from Tammy Girl in about 1984/5 that was so bang on trend it drove my friends demented with jealousy. They took it from me and ran around the playground with it laughing hysterically.

At secondary the Top Shop bag was a very high tier option for the P.E bag.

Culotte trousers and a smock top....mind you this was 40 odd years ago. (Thankfully some fashion never comes back again!) I was tall and very skinny so when I walked I looked like washing flapping on a clothes line. 😁

Does anyone remember Wallabies/Wallabys? They were the precursor to Kickers and were a similar style but suede and really brightly coloured.Does anyone remember Wallabies/Wallabys? They were the precursor to Kickers and were a similar style but suede and really brightly coloured.

Yes and they were usually teamed with dungarees and those multicoloured tops. 😆

A shell suit. When she eventually relented she bought us one from the market. (Us is me and my sister)

We didn't wear them because we were a year too late and she'd bought us hideous ones to boot. They were also probably a fire risk!

So that was ammunition for the whole, I'm not buying you what's trendy because when I do, you don't wear it.

Sad times.

Flat or almost flat kitten heeled winkle picker shoes for school, white or black, ideally with tiny ornamental buckles and definitely with with no socks or tights. I got through a lot of plasters on my heels. We all had big blouson coats, often in bright colours. Very Rita, Sue & Bob Too, right down to walking fast with your arms crossed across your body because you were fucking freezing.

Yorkshire comp around 1985. By 6th form it was more baggy jumpers and long skirts.

Not quite the same but according to my 11yo, none of his friends care about being warm. Apparently, they don't wear coats or hats.

I remember wallabies, didn't have any but I had polyveldts
I had leather pixie boots from Stead & Simpson. I wish I still had them
I had winkle-picker biker boots in my late teens

I now have a Levi's jacket, a donkey jacket, army fatigues...
all stuff I wore as a teenager.

Adidas popper trousers 😂

I was a child of the 60s and 70s. My mother made ALL my clothes. To be fair she was a very talented seamstress. But I was desperate for something, anything, from a shop.
One day I arrived home to see a carrier bag on the end of my bed. Not just any old carrier bag, a bag from the most trendy boutique in town. Inside were a pair of jeans. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
I was also never allowed any shoes with any kind of platform or heel. No amount of sulking worked. When I got a Saturday job the first thing I bought was a pair of high heeled slip on mules. I loved them. My father sighed every time I trotted out in them.

Rockport leather boots. I had larger feet than most of my friends so they could still get away with the kids sizing so were cheaper and naturally they had two pairs one in brown (for outside school) and black ones for school. Mine cost nearly twice theirs. My parents really skimped and saved for me to have some black ones that I could wear to school.

Sweater Shop oversized jumper (cringe!)

😂😂😂

Oh good THESE!!!!!!!

I don't know who made them as I didn't care enough about fashion, but all the girls had long puffer coats with fluffy goods and fluffy balls on string.

Cherry red Dr Marten shoes. ALL the girls were wearing them. Dad bought me some steel toecap black shoes from a trade magazine instead. I point blank refused to wear them. Caused a HUGE row! We still talk about those shoes. Never did get my cherry reds.

York. Cambridge. Windsor. 😅

hardly New York, Paris, Rome was it!!! (I had two)

My school were pretty strict about sensible shoes so choices were limited, but all the cool girls had black leather Kickers with a miniscule heel which they seemed to get away with. Oh how I wanted a pair 😅

Levi 501s with the button fly