What ohmigod clothes did you wear as a teenager?

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Spray on green canvas jeans from Chelsea Girl, anyone one remember this shop?

Bright green eyeliner and blue mascara and Mary Quant green nail varnish.

I started the trend for white leather boots with two layers of fringing at my school and this was the first time round...

School b/f wore bollock clenching green and black vertical striped trousers and smoked Menthol more cigarettes until someone told him he would become sterile! At which point converted to non Menthol Gitaines and parachute trousers in turquoise.

Happy days!

Denim cut off hotpants with black opaque tights underneath.
DMs with tiedye laces.
Love beads.
Tie dyed t-shirts.
Jim Morrison t-shirt (why?)
Brown trousers with man's shirt, tie and cardigan. Why the f* was I dressing like my grandad?

I could go on, but it's too humiliating.

I can't tell you, I've blocked it out.

I spent quite a while wearing all black clothes until I found a really cool tie-dye dungaree dress, for which I spent about 2 years wearing. I replaced this phase with anything that had mark owens face on it or that rediculous take that symbol thing.
(problem child me )

Kickers boots with red and green blobs on the soles.

Dungarees, tank tops over puffed sleeved blouses, denim waistcoats, jeans with huge flares, platform boots, smocks, long dresses with dungaree type pinafore front.... I could go on...

DM's
Denim hots pants with ripped stripey tights and fishnets
Basque tops
Very small tops
Very short skirts
Very long hippy skirts
Tight jeans
Tied dyed anything

Depending on what night it was at the clubs I would be grunge/indie, biker chick or a goth
For school - bottle green ankle length skirt or arse length skirt as we werent allowed long or short skirts, also a trench coat (wtf??)

Shell suit .

Clompy shoes with bottle tops attached.

Black braces with skirts.

Brightly coloured leggings.

High waisted coral cloured jeans.

Jeans with elastic at the ankles and lots of zips.

As I got older I went for a more hippy/ethnic look. Long tie-dye skirts, canvas pumps, lots of crocheted tops, beads and loads of layering of vests.

yuck at shell suit!

pmsl @ shell suit. Used to take piss out of the townies for wearing them (and the bottle top shoes), although I looked a right state and thought i was 'original' lol.

I went though a phase of wearing a very tight, short velvet dress with thick hold ups and dm's!! I went babysitting once in that and the dads eyes came out on stalks!!!

Everything I wore seems horrendous when I look back at photos.

Early teens: badly permed hair, dungarees with vile patterned shirts

Mid-teens: scraped back (with gel) hair, multiple hooped earrings, baggy clothes, white trainers (I was a chav before they were invented)

Late teens: Jodphurs ! (Have never been near a horse in my life)

Leggings (with my legs - ewwwwww)
Another cut off jeans with opaque tights victim here
Flowery DM's - I still have them - I still love them but haven't worn them for years
Aged about 10 I wore odd fluorescent towelling socks, stolen from my brother

I was into the hippy/grungy look. If I were completely honest I would have to tell you that I wish I could still get away with it

i wore shellsuits in the 80 - early 90's with perm hair that was backcombed too much!!

and also wore big pants with loofah shoes

Skinny jeans (we called them stretch jeans)

Footless tights (we called them leggings)

Ballet Pumps (we called them flatties)

Basically, everything currently in Top Shop, New Look and Hennes, but it was 1983.

Super! Well done everyone!
Also when a student felt impelled to wear tatty charity shop clothes, but also dye them all black in ma's washing machine! How she didn't laugh!

I'm afraid I had a poo-brown fringed Poncho.

A jumpsuit - blue - accessorised with red earrings, beads, belt and slouchy boots! I thought I looked very fetching singing along to "like a virgin..." And at Christmas I wore the same jumpsuit but accessorised it with baubles hung on my ears and a necklace made out of tinsel

In my early teens I had a pink see through mac which became known as a "rubber johnnie mac", to my dismay.

About 17 I went through a phase on making my own clothes and worse some fairly startling combinations including a tight emerald green pencil skirt worn with a bright pink silk top and bright pink stockings and suspenders. Had a great shag at my boyfriend's that night, I can tell you. I think it was the stockings what did it.

Later in my teens I was into the hippy look, fringy skirts etc. I used to dye my hair red with henna and put talc on my face to make me look pale. I am already pale paula's paler sister without the talc so must have looked like a cadaver.

Nowadays I just wear the mummy uniform of jeans and boots! Very boring.

I had a very very short black and white checked skirt. I teamed this up with Doc Martens!

I went through a phase of wearing really short skirts and dresses. When dh started going out with me he did complain that some of my things were just a little too short.

But whilst at Uni in Aberdeen I used to wear my brother's oversized woolly jumpers that would have looked ridiculous on me.

Oh and what were those awful vest type things that buttoned at the crotch? Babyvests for women? I had a couple of those. Hideous.

My mates and I went through a phase at about 17 of trawling through rails or second hand 50's ballgowns in Brixton market. We'd wear them to pubs , we thought we looked so amazing, what prats we were .

We also liked to dress like 'the cure' and went round looking even more sullen and disheveled than normal.

In my early teens I had an enormous array of pedal-pushers, knickerbockers and frilly shirts, plus the obligatory fairisle knitted dress.

Still at least we dressed up, what fun we had. I dn't think teenagers have that sort of fun today. Shame.

My teens spanned the late 70s to the early 80s so I went through a number of styles - punk, two-tone, late 70s Bowie etc

For example

Man's dinner jacket
White socks and loafers
Spikey hair
Non-matching earrings
Tartan mini skirt over black drainpipes (the orignal skinny jeans and dresses with trousers look)
Harrington jacket

I had a pair of red cords.

Lord only knows why.

He also is the only one who knows why I thought they looked good.

Red cords eh? Lovely.

Did you wear them with white sports socks and black shoes too?

No, just my trainers.

As if that's any justification.

Kittywitch - we used to go to Camden Market (before it got really trendy) and that other one in Kensington - what was it called?

Ha ha! White trainers?

I thought I'd purged the red cords from my memory.

Used to go to Camden market when i was older. What a load of cheap shite I bought there.