School bags in the 90's

[Lemoncurd]

What sort of school bag did girls have in the 90's?

Daughter is trying to source some for a school project but I honestly can't remember anything in particular.

Can you remember what you had around that time?

I had loads! Morgan and Kookai shopper bags and rucksacks. DKNY, Calvin Klein shoppers and rucksacks. A lot of people had Adidas, Nike etc. Puffer material backpacks were popular at one point too.

Mine was black, big, and covered in tippex graffiti. Rucksacks were sartorial suicide. Had to be one shoulder only (prob why I get so much neck pain now. I envy today's kids with their rucksacks!). We had loads more to carry. Piles of heavy books. Worksheets were not a thing then. We had pencil tins. I had a proper ink pen and it often leaked. We had paper jotters or rough books, and we all had to have paper diaries as we didn't have phones. I sometimes had a Walkman. Ah, I'm ancient!

I had a khaki canvas bag from the Army Surplus shop with Radiohead and Nirvana badges sewn onto it.

United Colours of Benetton duffle bag. Head sports bags.

Primary school in the late 90s I had a neon orange sports rucksack, which went beautifully with my lime green trainers

Possibly Reebok. It was from Argos, that I do remember!

That’s brought up a good point - what part of the 90s and what age group?

I was going by being a young teenager at a private school in the late 90s. Lots of Dr parents who insisted on rucksacks to distribute the weight of our enormous bags evenly across our shoulders. They were bloody heavy. I remember bringing a rucksack on wheels back from a holiday to the US and being referred to as “trolley dolly” from then on .

I had a mint green Head bag which had a zip off trainer bit.

Something like these.

I veered from backpacks (jade) to head bag and then army and navy surplus as outlined before.

I had a baby blue Jansport one. I loved it and replaced it with the same one when it broke. It was very preppy.

Some sort of fabric backpack was the most common at my school, or a canvas satchel in a sludgey colour. My bag was blue tartan! A lot had embroidery. Most were adorned with badges of various bands, etc and a ban the bomb or ying yang symbol.

It was more or less compulsory to carry your PE kit in one of the River Island carrier bags with the vintage-style print on it .

I remember these inflatable back packs being rather popular

I had an RAF blue army surplus knapsack which was covered in graffiti, tippex and badges by the time it finally died (early 90s). I also remember having a big woven basket bag with two long leather straps for a while, and when I was in 6th form (mid-90s) I had a large, black, pleather messenger style bag from Next.

cleanhouse ahhh rough books!!! I forgot about them! Yes to the Walkman too!

Very early 90s - it was fashionable at my school to carry a small doctor-style handbag (often tapestry) for your purse etc. and carry everything else in a carrier bag from a fashionable store (Top Shop, River Island or a Sherratt and Hughes bag with the opening lines of a classic novel if you fancied yourself as an intellectual).

Should add, my recollections are from the early to mid-90s.

Bubble backpacks! Like see through material? Can't really explain 😂

Denim one for my sister, fluorescent green for me
Also a posh one that converted to shoulder bag when I was older

... this kind of bag

I had a link Head tennis/gym bag for a while and then one of those reusable cotton shoulder bags. I also had a khaki shoulder bag from the army surplus store.

I had a Naf Naf ruck sack in the early 90s then graduated to a black record bag in the mid-late 90s (I can't remember what was on it)
Loads of people at secondary school had black Ted Baker or Kookai record bags. (To go with their Kickers)

Yes Creaky ! An army surplus backpack with badges/drawing. I had the CND symbol (no idea what it meant really) and the Yin/Yang symbol. I would say early 90s?

Head bags were the thing in my area too. (You would refer to it as a Head bag.) The holdalls especially, like the ones secretmetoo posted (never saw most of those colours) but a Head rucksack was fine as well.

Head bags like secretmetoo said, but at some point I seem to remember they became really uncool

I also had a tall Benetton drawstring bag.

Later I remember record bags were popular.

Head hold-all. Bags were rectangular so that you could get all your books and folders in, and then balance your casserole dish of H.E spag bol on top without spilling it (hopefully)