Pre-teen DS has a gola bag on his list...happy to buy but will it shortly be uncool??

[spiker]

Reason is, I've noticed kids toting gola bags round here (yorkshire) for quite a few years now, and if fashion-blind me has actually noticed this then surely the fashion must be nearly over and some other brand must be coming up. Now I have no idea what's cool (for any age group), so I won't know unless somebody on here tells me....

c'mon, what do hep pre-teens tote??

Gola bags are quite popular at ds's school. He noticed that they get ditched at secondary school though, so when he went into year 5 he asked for a Superdry backpack as that is what the older kids have.
I would say 50% of the kids at ds's school have Gola bags though. ds and his Superdry are definitely the exception.
No idea if the trend is on its way out though!

If your DS is anything like mine the bag won't last long enough to go out of fashion.

They were cool in the 70s too, so if he hangs on to it he can trot it out again in 40 years and look awesome

All the dc in my dd year have some sort of shoulder bag. Either gola, Adidas, superdry, Paul frank. Nobody had a rucksack type bag.

Gola messender bags all the rage here too

I'm surpised gola made a come back, when I was at school Gola got the piss ripped out of it. In fact it was a running joke that 'scruffs' wore gola because its el cheapo brand?! Weird how trends all do a cycle.

I'd buy it. Even if it only gets used for a year it'll be a happy year! I think I went through about 1000 bags at school. The joys of hormonal teens always changing their fricking minds.

I have similar memories of Gola bondigidum, funny how fashions change :)

DS2 has a gola bag (not used anymore). His current bag broke and he asked for a Fred Perry one. I said he could have it as an Xmas present (they are £45 and in the meantime to go bag to using his Gola bag). He won't use it, said he will get teased. Actually DH said he doesn't blame him for not using it . He is currently using an old bag of DS1's.

I like this one.

I used to get the piss taken out of me for having Gola at school (and Aldi carrier bags!)

My ds1 is 10 and is going through an army camaflarge stage, including coat, hat, gloves, bag etc. He wants more for Christmas but I don't want him to stand out, especially as he will be at senior school next year. I know logically he should be an individual he reminds me of the boy from 'about a boy' but I still haven't gotten over the time I was at senior school and was so fed up of having unnamed trainers that I drew a Nike tick on them and was then ripped to bits over it when we went to play rounders in the damp field and the felt tip drawings started to run....

My two had Adidas messenger bags. No-one uses them any more round here really, most of them have gone back to ruck sacks. DS2 had this but it ripped, so now has this. Even the girls round here have pleather ruck sacks.

Many thanks for the replies. Seems Gola does indeed rule - in Y4 at any rate - and I can buy with confidence. (I didn't even have a bag until I was 12, being joyously free of primary school homework back in the 70s).

To those who remember Gola bags being decidedly UNcool at school - that's exactly what DH said and what made me think twice. I have no memory of this at all but then I did live in the stix, maybe gola never made it there. I think DH was slightly miffed because DS has been using an old vinyl bag of his for last 18 months and DH thinks this is way cooler than any bag could ever be, plus much more individual. (it will have to get stuffed back in the cupboard with the rest of 'em for now). Had decided to indulge the gola-thang but now DS1 is now lusting after gola-style bag which has old-school star wars print on it instead, so I think we have a winner:

starwarsbag

(I feel your trauma Dinosaurs...and rejoice that DS1 (who obviously takes after me in his fashion-blindness) still favours Clarks trainers...