Things now, that 90's kid would have mocked?

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This is light hearted. Working in a school it is interesting to see how trends change. Sure some of this is regional, but what things do kids do now that just wasn't the done thing in the nineties?
I have noticed

1. Double strappers. This was so uncool at the time. I am sure I still get shoulder pain now from carrying mountains of books on one shoulder. Single strap now is a bad thing. ( Good!)

2. The star spot patches. Some kids wear about 6. Not seen any adults do this yet.

3. Boys with massive brushes in their pockets which they whip out and swish their fringe. They even borrow each others and swish each others fringe. It is actually quite cute. My mind chuckles when I think of the 90s boys spiking their hair with pointy hair gel. But absolutely no to carrying a brush about.

4. Water bottles. I once got in trouble for taking a drink from my water in 1998 in a lecture. In 1991 it just wouldn't have been a thing to have a watsr bottle.

I am sure there is more. AIBU to think most new trends are probably better but to miss the 90s nostalgia.

Kids of today would rip us for backing our books in wrapping paper.

God yes. I remember the discomfort, in the days of landlines and no mobiles, of ringing someone and 'getting their mum or dad'. No reason for it, it was just awkward. People were scared of my dad too as he sounded like a sergeant major on the phone.

Would have been uncool
in my Northern market town. You were ahead of the curve.

Northern here, just outside of Manchester, def not uncool at clubs in the mid 90’s :)

Also, unique to MY generation... no girl would have been seen dead in a skirt at school.

One girl tried it once and got so harassed by the boys no one ever did it again. We all wore tight boot cut trousers (baggies or straight leg would have been really uncool). It was not just my school though my DH school was the same and all my friends that are my age where the same too.

Older generations wore skirts and the youngsters now do (I never see girls round here in trousers for school uniform anymore) so it seems just to have been us millennial kids.

We wouldn't dream of going to school with our arse out though. If you accidentally could flash the boys when bending to pick your bag off the floor or something that would have been a 'die of embarrassment' level faux par.

I see older kids hoiking their skirts up as the come out of school so making it as small as possible seems fashion now but flashing cheek in a micro skirt wouldn't have been deemed 'cool' or 'flirty' but rather 'outright' and would have got you a reputation 'in my day'. If you wanted to attract boys attention (but who did, boys in my school where awful lol) by being 'flirty' then the hint of a thong strap poking out of your trouser waist band was the 'hot' fashion move. Then that became the mocked thing although I have heard 'the whale tale' as kids are calling it now might be coming back into fashion.

Even as an adult I can't get use to wearing short skirts, it just feels wrong.

Further North here. We weren't very cool. Still aren't.

No idea here either! Must be an English thing 😆

This is so true. My dd is 17 and I called her friend the other day as I was trying to find her and the phone went straight to answerphone. He picked up, told me she was with him and it was just such an easy conversation. A couple of dd’s friends, one in particular, often asks for advice. There aren’t the barriers there like there used to be when we were kids because as friend’s parents, we give and expect respect and treat one another as equals.

My DH is a bassist and has been playing gigs in little indie venues forever. In the last 10 years or so, it's quite common for mums and dads of the bands in their twenties and thirties to come to these little gigs. It would have been utterly unthinkable for startup indie bands to have their parents in the audience in the 80s and 90s!

How is it strange? If I think all boys and men are ugly, that's my perception and it's equally valid to everyone else's perception. That's why I cringe whenever I see boys or men who think they are attractive.

If you disagree with me, what % of men would you think are attractive?

Socks with sandals, white socks, parents giving you a lift anywhere lol

ALL boys and men are ugly??

I offer you Jude law in The holiday?
Brad Pitt in Fight club??

Not wearing ridiculously long false eyelashes.

Handwriting essays at college.

No Internet or mobile phones.

To comprehend many didn't have a house phone or car.

Walking to school EVERY DAY IN ALL WEATHER.

Meeting up and hanging around your school as it was familiar and felt safe.

Beards, mustaches, mullets and the big NHS specs the young one wear shock me every time.

Depends on the job. I used to wear crocs to work. They fixed my plantar fasciitis.

Most of these glasses on young people do not suit them. You just see their glasses. I wear glasses but modest wire framed ones as I don't suit those Thunderbirds Brains type.

You've given 2 men out of 4 billion or so.

Why won't you offer a % of how many men are attractive?

Because that’s v tricky? But you’re saying ALL boys and men are ugly

But wasn’t your school familiar and felt safe?

That's not my experience at all, supportive parents have a huge impact on the band longevity in the early years.

The bands I know from my youth that are still going strong are all the ones that had parents help... no one ever mocked it, the parents where respected and part of the scene in their own right. They put in time and money to help the bands get going so of course they deserved to be their.

The bands would not have been able to exist without the money and support parents poured into them from tuition, buying instruments and equipment (amp stacks, PA, lighting rigs, smoke machines, peddle boards etc...), helping sell merch, ferrying cars full of equipment to gigs (it still takes 4 full car loads now and most equipment is 1/3rd the size now) etc... The parents where respected and part of the scene in their own right.

The only people who didn't want their parents their where the edge lord rebellious kids who where only doing to offend their mainstream parents and most of them did not last very long.

I'm glad the single strap trend is over. It was so stupid.

Socks over leggings

Long white socks pulled up 😱 and no, the Nike Swoosh would not have saved the wearer from widespread ridicule

Thick eye brows

High-waisted jeans (high-waisted anything, really)

So many things. Being a teen in the 90s was exhausting!
Socks had to be exactly right. Usually rolled down in a certain way. I cringe when I see people with sliders and white socks in any form. That is social suicide to me 🤣

Yeah wearing a bag on two straps - I used to walk 1.5 miles with my back killing and one strap.
Shoes - school schools, the ones kids wear now would never have been ‘in’ and the trainers people wear now like huge ones, would have attracted the absolute piss taking!

Glasses - the cool big ones now would have been seen as super nerdy back then!

Even one of the TAs at my kids school said don’t worry - ‘it’s not like when we were at school’ when my friend was worried about something her daughter was doing might be seen as childish - its a relief! .

No % given, so I will disregard what you have said.

You might have been teased for having a bright pink bedroom, or anything very childish.

Otherwise, I agree. No one could have cared less about your bedroom furniture.

Crocs, sliders, massive tote style handbags, thick eyebrows, curly hair, glass skin, bubble tea, all the mullets ….so many things.

My husband always says this! He said they were dad shoes back in the day! I’m only 5 years younger than him and don’t remember them at all 😂