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.

This is a thing too. That and having a bag at all. My daughter left school two years ago but the last two years a bag was uncool and they stuffed everything in their blazer pockets. For PE it was a handbag style bag or the JD draw sting left in your locker. Could not be seen carrying it.

I have seen more back packs styles coming back recently though.

I remember my head bag for secondary school in 1991 it was unnecessarily big.

Blazers. When I was at school it was considered extremely geeky and deeply uncool to wear the school blazer. Nowadays it's ubiquitous. My 20 year old ds wore his, all through secondary as they all did. It's now an expected part of the uniform.

Oh my god! YES. MULLETS. It's such a bad hairstyle.

Kids are OK with charity shops now, right? At my school you'd have had the piss ripped out of you if you wore CS clothes.

Also... POGS!

Same as my 19 year old. We put together a shared family playlist on Spotify. She was adding songs from queen and ABBA

I had a plain black tracksuit on at work yesterday-I’d taken my work jacket off cuz I’d got too warm. 2 customers asked if I was the manager & my mate I work with came in to swap shift & cheerfully announced-look at you-you look like you’ve just been released from B Wing. 😆😆😆

I was chatting to my daughter about this. She listened in semi horrified silence before announcing- Mom,you were groomed! 😳😳😳

This explains why my DC is always wearing clothes I think are too small!

I know a married couple who met at school in the early 90s - the woman was a sixth form student and the man her teacher. They started going out before she left school, lived together while she was a student, and as time went on, married and had two children. Principal knew about it from the start, and advised the guy to be discreet while telling him 'this is not something we encourage.' I'm just wondering how that would play out today!

I know of two similar stories to this. I think (hope) it wouldn't be tolerated nowadays.

I was part of a story like this. Now I have a daughter, it sickens me to think about her experiencing the things I experienced - adult boyfriends in my mid teens, having a relationship with a teacher etc - it sounds so extreme now but in the early noughties, it wasn't crazy unusual.

Yes! This was so common.
My friend when we were 14 had a boyfriend who was 30. He had a wife and child but was just biding his time until he could leave her and be with my friend... apparently. We thought it was very romantic and exciting.
There was a girl in my class when we were 15 who was seeing our chemistry teacher.

One of my friends was dating and having sex with a 17 year old when she was 13. Her mum took her to the doctor to get started on the Pill. I guess her line of thinking was that kicking off about it and saying they couldn't see each other would only make everything worse and make my friend sneak around, but I cannot imagine now as the parent of a 13 year old being ok with that.

Primark. Back in the 90s is was the same as QS and Peacocks. You never admitted to going in there.

My boyfriend stayed over in my bed when I was 15 and my mum took me to get a tattoo of our entwined initials when I was 16 🤣🤣

I see so many teenage girls doing the white socks over leggings. It's bonkers.

And you'd definitely rather be seen dead in the 90s than be caught double-strapping. You're right!

For me, it's trousers that don't reach the tops of your shoes. You'd be crucified for jack-ups when I was a teenager but ankle-grazers are made on purpose these days. Madness.

My oldest DD (20) has a 'POV your my parents' playlist and it has everything on it from Queen to Greenday to Les Miserables 😂

Dryrobes... Even wearing a coat in the 90s in the chillier temperatures (when dressed up to get noticed) would have been a bit risky to your street cred, and there's nowhere to put it in the pub anyway.

And the trainers/ Doc Martens thing, I remember. I also remember someone using 'White trainers!' as a non-sweary but rather cutting insult.

100% this! I thought it was just me who remembers this. Not only was it cool to have an older boyfriend but teacher/pupil "friendships" weren't seen as questionable as they would be today. I'm shocked when I look back at what went on and the number of people in authority just turning a blind eye.

Mine’s got a mum playlist, which she has shared with all her friends, one of her housemates was playing it when I went to her uni house 😂

I'm flipping mortified that I spelled 'you're' 'your'.

Yep, her's has been shared far and wide too. I'm rather proud 😆

In Glasgow here, I have a ten year old with her spot patches ready, patiently waiting for her first spot so that she can wear a patch over it 🙈🤣.

Sshh, I thought it was your dd’s spelling!

Yes, my daughter says same.

Yep, to fancy or even to date someone your own age was sooooo uncool and boring! Girls were going out with 4-5 yrs older boys and this was considered normal. My grandma was 6 yrs younger than grandpa.
I remember I dated a boy of 19 yrs old, I was 18 and everyone told he is too young for me..

White sports socks
Socks pulled up
Laces on trainers done up
Backpack on both sides
Scrunchies