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.

Budgie smugglers. Smuggling a budgie in your pants.🤣

Yes! It was decoupage and has a drawstring. The GAP one had a drawstring too. Both were top notch carrier bags 😆

Buying clothes on Vinted. Second-hand clothes were for poor people. DM used to buy me clothes from charity shops and I was bullied for it.

Socks and sliders (flip-flops in my day)

Skinny jeans on men. Still gives me the ick if I’m honest.

Yes, completely agree!!!

Mad to think about now, isn't it? Life was so much more simpler. If you didn't know something, you didn't know something.
You'd have to walk to the library or something for a flick through some encyclopedias!
Or if you didn't know what a song was called or who sung it, you'd just have to have it bug you all day long.
Nowadays you can just point your phone at it and "Shazam" it 😳😁

Also in Scotland and we used to ask if someone's cat was deid. It was because your trousers were at half mast and therefore in mourning 😂

Second hand clothes! I'm assuming this is not just around here but all these pre-loved clothes shops, depop, vinted, charity shops. Teens don't bat an eye at used clothes whereas in the 80's & 90's it was an insult to even suggest someone had stepped foot in a charity shop

Again not my 90s! Vintage clothes (ideally from Camden market) were all the rage.

We did buy clothes in charity shops, but probably more when I was at sixth form, in the mid 90s, and Brit pop was at its height.

Sorry but I just cannot agree that her generation are not as interested in ‘how they look’ they’re obsessed with it!!!

Thanks for this OP, it is really interesting! I don’t have children of my own so always find it interesting and useful to get this sort of intel on what young people are doing/thinking. Keeps me ‘down with the kids’. I didn’t know about the strap thing, for example. Definitely single strap only in the 90s 😆

Or did anyone else have take that bags?

From memory, they were drawstring bags and had a T with an upside down T on top of it I think?

We did also go through a spell of Morgan handbags? Where did they disappear to!
Ah the good ol’ days

Yes and no. I know what she means though. Like everything is accepted, anything goes. You can be one style one day and one the next and it’s fine. You can go out in sweats or whatever and no one says anything.

Early 00s here, but coats! We were all so averse to ever wearing a coat, least of all a practically one.... If it was really Baltic you might have got us to wear a cropped fabric coat with no hood over our school jumpers (and then probably refused to take it off when we went inside!) but all the 'cool' coats now seem to be much more practical!

Having grey hair under 50

Yes id say there's a much more "acceptable" variety of styles, looks etc than there were 30 years ago. Back then trainers were Nike or Adidas, jumpers etc had to be branded, and so on

Using Online dating sites

I was mid-00s and can remember Jane Norman shopping bags being top tier. Can’t remember if it was for normal use or PE but I can remember absolutely begging to get some shorts from Jane Norman, mostly for the carrier bag.

99% of school girls here wear those Vivienne Westwood Melissa shoe things. Full troops of school girls wearing the exact same shoes and the exact same style of bag, looks crazy to me. We could have some things the same when I was at school, but you couldn’t be too similar to others or that would be a stick to beat you with.

I also see boys with white socks and short trousers and didn’t realise it was a thing. It looks awful to my eyes, which makes me feel about 100 😂.

We had one computer for my primary school and it was wheeled about on a trolley. I can’t recall how that worked for the couple of classrooms we had upstairs!

I do a fair bit of hillwalking now and if I’m honest, I still feel a bit of a nerd for having both straps on and my backpack not swinging down to the back of my knees. My back and shoulders thank me though.

The trend for big hair bows. That would have made you a laughing stock at my secondary school.

My daughter tells me to 'search it up' all the time if I don't know something. Its not mocking but I can't imagine there would have been much fun or tolerance in going and getting out a dictionary or encyclopedia every single time I didn't know something in the 90s... sometimes you just had to accept you didn't know something. So going and looking something up automatically yet so casually wasn't really a thing and still not for me now even with Google to hand, whereas for my daughter she grew up with all these answers at her fingertips.

Also definitely as pp said cheap clothes. Nobody really cares about wearing something from Asda or Primark or Shein and Vinted and are more bothered about ethical considerations than embarrassment whereas when I was in the 90s you would never, ever admit your clothes came from What Everyone Wants.

Apparently if you wear it single strap. You get 'seatbelted' which means the strap is pulled so your shoulder is tugged down to the floor. 🥴

I had a kangol hat and record bag in 1997 at college. I thought I looked well mint.

Crying, shaking and feeling anxious all the time - it was ‘cool’ to be quite tough and hold your own

My daughter had the Vivienne's. Have you seen those with the hole in the top? I thought a girl had a hole in her shoe until I realised it was the design

I actually think it’s the opposite: tribes are much more fixed because of social media