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.

Another thing but this os probably bigger but the insta bedrooms especially for girls. My daughter had a bedroom refit two years ago. She wanted that Hollywood mirroe and all the white furniture that keeps popping up on reels and instagram etc.
In the 90s can't really remember anyone asking for a cool piece of furniture for Christmas. Nobody cared what your bedroom was like.

Definitely agree with socks over leggings and the back pack thing!

When I was at school you could have a plastic bag for your PE kit as long as it was the right shop, McQueens was the top but you had to roll the top and then hold it by the rolled part, so weird you would have been mocked holding it by the proper handles.

Ds wears his skinny jeans with a big gap between the bottoms and his trainers. That would have been a no no in my day. Dh says "you need to spread some jam on your shoes invite your trousers down for tea!"

My 2 elder Gdcs (10 and 9) know all the words to several Queen numbers and will sing along to them very loudly and exuberantly when we have e.g. Bohemian Rhapsody or We Are The Champions playing in the car.

Was that the autumnal colour busy looking one? I remember that bag.

A good thing- kids being proud of being a geek! And liking geeky things

For girls specifically, short haircuts.

I see pixies, blunt short bobs and bixies have made a comeback over the last couple of years.

if I’d been in school in the mid 2000’s with a pixie cut I’d have been called names, and if I had a bob I would have been called a mushroom 🤣

20 something year old men having 80s dad mustaches

Having braces was cool in my school, everyone wanted them in funky colour's.

Gola or New Balance trainers that look like the kind Dad’s used to wear playing squash…I can’t get past it.

Now you can have a mullet, a basin haircut or a slaphead (tefal) and not be mocked!

Where I live it was very cool to find a charity shop/vintage bargain in the 90s! Although I think this might have been a bit split across the 90s tribes, certainly the indie kids were into it, I loved my mum's old 70s stuff too.

They’re literally so old school - the 16th/17th century Mouche

Ive not seen the star spot patches. What are they used for?

Definitely the white socks over leggings.
Not having cool trainers (usually Nike air max).
Wearing makeup - i dont know if it was just my school but it was definitely uncool to be seen to be wearing makeup !

We would have mocked people like me who spend too much time on MN. When the idea of internet ‘chat rooms’ was first introduced we said they would be full of sad sacks with no friends who need to get a life.

We would also have mocked people chasing followers on any type of social media, because friends were for going out drinking with, not for collecting on a screen.

Definitely, we would have got the piss ripped right out of us for white socks back in the 90s!

Sliders with socks

I was wondering about the 'boy brush' thing but reading these posts it appears to be the done thing now. My son of 15 asked for a brush, I got him one, from Primark, and he snapped the handle off it and keeps it in his blazer pocket. I was annoyed with him for wrecking a good hairbrush. Even more so when I ended up sucking up the discarded handle in the hoover and blocked the hose!

I'm slightly out of the time era, being in high school in the early 2000s but we had colour EVERYWHERE! Weirdly girls had all sorts of different hair cuts/lengths and colours (Even when we weren't supposed to!)
Boys all had about 3 different hair styles and the blonde tips if they had short spiky hair.

We had different styles of coats/shoes etc. bags covered in badges too.

Now high school kids all just blend? All in black, black bags, black coats, all as plain as possible.
It confuses me.

I remember telling my school friends that we used to wear flip flops round the house instead of slippers. It’s not unusual in Nigeria where my parents originate. One friend in particular thought this was hilarious! 🤷🏿‍♀️

@Caerulea I was going to say the same thing.

Oh dear! The handle is still cool here. Maybe that will be the next thing.

Choruses of Jack Up Jimmy!

My first thought was definitely socks. Pulled up socks, socks over trousers, socks with any kind of open toe footwear - would have been social death.

The boys with hairbrushes one was interesting as our son age 20 (who has long Tarzan hair) ALWAYS has a hairbrush in his pocket and foppishly brushes his hair multiple times a day. Couple of years ago we were in Disney World and he lost his precious brush somewhere on Tom Sawyer's Island and was apoplectic. We take the piss out of him and i had no idea it was a trend.

My husband has chimed in that all sorts of male grooming were mocked and considered effeminate. Even bodybuilding was considered a bit odd and conceited. But now young men are putting on moisturiser and getting their teeth whitened. I don't think that's necessarily bad thing though.

Wearing the school tie the wrong way around with only the "thin" side showing. It does look weird now looking back.

We explained the concept of Blockbuster video to our kids a while back and they were astounded. I don't think they believed us.

Pen friends.

Only being able to take 24 or 36 photos at a time and then waiting for the prints to come back at Boots before you saw them.

Back in the 90s and here in the west of Scotland we used to ask someone wearing too-short trousers if their "budgie was deid". Still not sure where that phrase originated from...

I was a teen in the 90s, and have two kids at secondary so this is definitely a thread for me.

I agree with all of the above OP. Plus, wearing brown, ‘half mast’ trousers and socks pulled up fully. Also, I think there is one girl in my daughter’s year (year 11) with hair above her shoulders. Literally. Her year group photo came home the other day and I was totally bemused by that!