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.

The 90s was very gender fluid. New romantics, david bowie, annie lennox, glam rock etc etc. And much less of this fixed gender ideas of princess stuff for girls and dinasours for boys.

Plassy here (pla-zee) 🤷🏼‍♀️

I see lots of people wearing ‘co-rods’ these days, which looks to me like a tracksuit by another name!

Boys wearing white socks with school uniform. Socks pulled up to calf length.

That was the 70s and 80s!

The 90s were more unisex than gender fluid, with honourable exceptions for the girly girls Betty Boo, Bjork and Courtney Love.

I remember being confused by this phrase when I was about 10 and my mum said it was cos the trousers were at half mast, like a flag. No idea why a budgie though 🤔

I’ve heard cat or dog too(also in the west of scotland). Think it’s just for silliness rather than there being an actual meaning behind what animal it is

So if girls wore long white socks up to their knees for school they were ironically called virgins as if this was a bad thing for 9-13 year olds in middle school. It was very much you pushed your socks down or wore tights. My secondary school pre teens were wearing long socks for school fairly recently and o think some still do - but black rather than white. But yes the teen girls who were black leggings (that are often see through) with their white crew socks pulled up over them is just weird to see and we would have definitely go mocked in the 90s. Leggings weren’t even a thing never mind white socks over them. When we got to high school it was definitely a black sock under trousers and any show of white would have been mocked. The best mini skirts don’t seem to have disappeared - the stretchy Lycra ones. I loved mine as a teen - usually on a weekend with tights and DM boots and a black body suit with an oversized shirt to complete the combo. But they’re still about mostly at school now.

Ywah the crocs with white socks thing!! Wow. With the leggings too. lol. We had trainers with big tongues stood up and laces tied behind. Often hi-tops before converse was a thing.

We used wallpaper in the 70s!

We used to say, his cat must’ve died.

Matching anything - track suits, double denim etc. Big no-no. And speaking of big, the size of current glasses.

The large frames do not suit many people. You just see the glasses, not the face.

Was wearing sweatshirts with no shirt collar exposed a no no in the 90s?

I'm always quietly astonished by the number of hugely overweight, nerdy young men who have girlfriends now. As someone who fitted that description back in the 90s, it very much felt like we were bottom of the pile in dating. I'm not sure what's changed in the intervening years.

I disagree. I was a teen/20s girl in 80s/90s and bought loads in charity shops. Everything from men's jackets (to go with my ripped jeans) to polyester shorts to 50s dresses. Look at Pulp and the whole charity shop aesthetic of the mid-90s indie bands.

I think because so many more people are obese these days all the fit ones are already taken so women have lowered their expectations/gone for "personality".

I am 61 and, on the rare occasion I get a spot, I use see through star patches. I use Starface and they really work!

Spot patches seem to be rather brilliant on midge bites as well, if you get them on early. Not sure about any bigger insects but would be willing to try it.

Oooh. What a good idea.

Is it really that simple, though? I honestly think it's a bit more nuanced than that.

I wonder if they work for bites before they get big, oozy and bruised.

Each holiday I have been on, I get two bites which bruises.

i cannot use insect repellent as it’s more of an insect attractant

Buying cloths from supermarkets. I still remember the little song they used to sing in the changing rooms if they spotted a supermarket brand of clothing - 🎵Let’s all go to tescos, where Sarah buys her best clothes🎵

Now nobody would even notice, let alone give a shit.

Whereas in the 90s, I suddenly became cool when I had my hair cut in a Winona Ryder-esque pixie.

DD has her hair cut very short - she’s 14 now but had it cropped at 11 - and she really stands out as a result, I never see any other young girls with short hair. Everyone assumes she’s a boy, even when she’s dressed in quite a feminine style.

Any type of slim leg trousers (although I know the wide leg have made a bit of a come back recently) and they had to be long enough!
Our school wore jeans and they had to be fitted at the top and wide at the bottom, if when sitting down you couldn’t see your shoes for your jeans then they were about right!
If they didn’t drag on the floor and soak up the rain then they definitely weren’t long enough either!