whast was the cool carrier bag to have at school

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when you were a youngun
atm ehre is seemst o be Jane norman

Chelsea Girl

it was bloomingdales. and bizarrely it seems to have come back among the commuting women of essex.

Jane Norman

Erm, I thik it was prob River Island. The one with all the oldfashionedy pictures on it and green handles

It wasn't carrier bags - I'm so old taht it was brightly coloured Adidas holdall things

the look at our school was plastic carrier (any) inside a plastic jelly basket bag

oh eys hwne river island was like a missisipi paddle steamer[wtf]

top hsop very naff where the sharosn all got hteir clothes from

int he 6ht from it was probalby a bag fo some gloomy goth shop

Chelsea Girl. And Miss Selfridge.

where i grew up, posh liverpool , it was

girls, chelsea girl then a shop called 'flip' (vintage place in l'pool)

boys, had to be probe records

Don't remember any carrier bags but we did have those PVC-coated cloth type bags with adverts on for Cinzano, Pernod, Colmans Mustard, Lea and Perrins etc,

Anyone else remember them?

Head tennis bags, in an array of colourways were the trendy proper bags.

Benetton or Stefanel

lolol

Ooh yes... I had a colemans mustard one!!

OMG yes BENETTON that was it
they wer good quility too
last you a term of a4 lever arch

that's the one fishy

my mum lawys proffered the least cool bags from the carrier bag drawer

e.g. fresh produce bag from the market (just pics of fruit andveg) - didn't cut the cool bag mustard

why was river island liek that?
it was ll woodne floors nad negro spirituals

A River Island one with lots of things all over it. It was sort of brown and old fashioned looking.

oh god the shame of a naff acrrier
i started this thread as i loev the kew bags
am about to bin one and cant quite do it

had to be Benetton - with drawstring handles

launching of river island too recent an event to have played a part in my plastic bag carrying time

it was chelsea girl back then

oh yes
liekt he gap onesa re now

adn if you went on holiday a duty free one was good

American classics bags - the place where you could get old levis.

RI must have rebranded when iw as ay univ
so maybe.. 1990?

oh eys american calssics was onyl ffor the girls who went to london all the time and had poointy shoes fomr camden l market