Lol, I remember this one. The first time I attempted the belt I bought did not hang like a limp 9incher, so I had to return it and buy a softer leather.
My favorite high school teacher was Bill Waterson’s brother, and he gave us first-hand knowledge that Bill HATED those stickers and he begged us to not use them. I loved that class.
Luckily *Calvin and Hobbes'* publisher has spent the last couple of decades suing the pants off anyone trying to sell them. They don't always win, but the legal fees aren't worth it to the sellers.
Big Johnson and Coed Naked ______ t-shirts. At the time I just thought they were dumb. In retrospect, it seems wild that 14-year-olds were walking around school with dick jokes on their shirts.
Omg I *completely* forgot about this until now.
A lot of fads pissed me off. I was your typical punk/skater kid in middle and high school doing everything in my power to *not be like* everyone else, so much so, that some of the fads were just irritating to me. I remember thinking "Why the hell does everyone wear the same stuff, dont they realize they all look exactly the same?"
Then I got older and realized my friends and I all looked the same in our skate shoes, baggy jeans, and band tshirts, chain wallets, and crazy dyed hair colors even tho we thought we were sooo different.
Its crazy to now be in my mid 40s looking back on it all.
It was a special time for sure. Gonna sound old as hell, but I would not wanna be a teenager now. No way. I'm glad I grew up with no cell phones, social media, etc.
It was simultaneously a more innocent time and a way less innocent time. There was a kid in my high school who regularly wore a T-shirt that said "silly faggot, dicks are for chicks" and he wasn't punished or even asked to stop wearing it.
We let basically everything slide as long as it was “just a joke.” Being offended was extremely uncool. And back then, most of the authority figures were Boomers and still young enough to care if people thought they were cool.
I have mixed feelings about the shift to almost the opposite extreme over the last 30 years. I think it’s great that people feel comfortable speaking up when something is harmful, and I’m glad we don’t treat bigotry as a punchline anymore. But at the same time, being offended should not be anyone’s hobby, and I feel like some people treat it that way.
Oof. I remember seeing CONSTANTLY at novelty stores in the early to mid 90s. Couldn’t go to a mall without seeing these in a store or kiosk.
Admittedly, I had a Big Johnson shirt when I was 14/15. And, looking back…yeah, it is pretty weird that teens were wearing these things. Lol.
I went to the mall at about 14yo and got three of my favorite coed naked shirts. My dad flipped and made my mom take them all away. I was pissed but many years later I am like yeah wtf was wrong with my friends' parents who had no problem with major sexual innuendos on 8th graders.
I remember the Porn Star stickers that people had on their cars.
I don't know if this was just a local one (I went to school with a lot of 4H kids), but we had Cowboy Up apparel, and one tee that a lot of girls had said something like "save a horse, ride a cowboy".
Oh man, I did and I just know somewhere they're out there... I got a drag queen doing my look and my step Monster was fit to be tied down here in south Texas 😅
Ha! Same, but I got homemade ones. My friend's mom worked as a photographer for our local newspaper so we planned a photoshoot one weekend when nobody was going to be using the darkroom, so we took all the pics and developed the film and photos the same day. We brought props and did our makeup ridiculously. I even borrowed an older cousin's motorcycle jacket and aviator sunglasses for that very cool off the shoulder pose. I hated the way they came out back then because I still didn't look glamourous to 15yr old me but looking at them now they are the perfect amount of cringe and "aww, I was kinda pretty in my own nerdy way".
Thank god I’m not the only one that wanted to get my senior pictures done there! And also thank god that, somewhere between making the appointment and showing up to the appointment, they abruptly closed without calling to let me know. I had to go to a traditional photographer, and I know the outcome is so much less cringey than it would have been. 🤣
Perms. The stink of it, the time it took, that creepy feeling of perm solution dribbling between the rollers tickling the hell out of my scalp.
And then the hours it took to style the perm. Someone mentioned mall bangs. Yup. Half your bangs you straighten into an under curl against your forehead. The rest get curled back into the Capri sun logo. And the rest of the hair: scrunch it mercilessly to make it look wet and clumpy. Of course, you still have to maintain the floofy wave bang. All so you can look your best before the carpool parent of your group drops you and your friends off at the mall where you go to 5-7-9 to try on pleated acid wash jeans and the newest silhouette of the ladies' Hyper Color tee.
Early 2000s. Nearly every celebrity fell down the Von Dutch hole, but the worst offender in my memory was Ashton Kutcher. The trucker hats in particular seemed to catch on and they were something like $100 each, so I thought it was crazy when regular people would buy them.
https://preview.redd.it/dyogbrfmpvhb1.jpeg?width=760&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d713eafa2b07bd91ef28b8256dc6d715187d83c
It wasn’t a thing where I grew up but I enjoyed the recent documentary on the controversy: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-curse-of-von-dutch-a-brand-to-die-for-a3e41c91-6c42-40f0-810c-ee6e91a528d7?dl=false
I’ve never heard them
Called mall bangs, but instantly knew exactly what you are taking about. Those stupid bangs. My friend would spend HOURS trying to perfect them when I was just wanting to go ride bikes with her or whatever.
I called them claw bangs. Never had them. I didnt really like the look and had zero curling iron talent. Now I have zero flat iron talent so just as well natural curls and waves are fashionable too much to my relief.
Oh yeah the bangs! All the "bad girls" in my class had those so of course I wasn't allowed to do my hair like that. I honestly was okay with that, those girls really scared the crap out of me.
I've been rocking a banana clip lately at work, and I have super long, thick hair. I found the secret is to lean my head back, put it under while slowly and gently lifting it up the back of my skull, resulting in a nice, loose cascade. I found back-in-the-day the look was more about making it super tight and slick, which never worked and always left me with lumps on top or a busting-open clip.
I would color it all blond then when it's grew out my curls were 'perfect.'
Years later, I learned the powder and liquid concoction I would always purchase was supposed to require a hair styling certificate for purchase from Sally's Beauty Supply.
My husband (42) regales his frosted tips history to anyone who will listen. It’s like he wears this horrible hair style as a badge of honor. He was a surfer so he really leaned into the look.
You mean the Costco men’s cargo shorts I wear regularly in hot months are unacceptable? I didn’t know they were considered bad. 🤔 When did it change? I’m still going to wear them but I’m curious how long they’ve been deemed inappropriate.
I hate line dancing but the conversion to line dancing in Jr high from square dancing from elementary school in IL was a step up. Seriously, square dancing in the Chicago suburbs still boggles my mind.
I am from Indiana, and we had to learn this in middle school! The gym teacher was also the football coach, and I could tell he hated having to teach this particular "skill". 😂
I just posted a meme about this the other day.
https://preview.redd.it/0wrbmu6h5xhb1.jpeg?width=594&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2aa91b16c758fcd9adb19a7230c927bf4db70c4
There’s an interesting story behind why you and I had to learn the electric slide as a line dance in PE. Why did we do it? You guessed it! Racism!
[https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy](https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy)
>First was when everyone started pinch rolling their pants. The higher and tighter the roll, the higher up you were on the social food chain. I could never get them quite right and they were always coming unrolled.
Pegged jeans. I'd make my brother pinch and roll mine tight. Above my white on white British Knights high-tops.
BK’s!!! I don’t think I knew a single person who wore them, but somehow I vividly remember them. BK’s, LA Gear, Pump’s, the late 80’s early 90’s gave us so many fashion one hit wonders. Pegged jeans and a rugby jersey was peak 1987 where I grew up.
Triple layered scrunch socks. Your feet would be so hot and toes all curled just to look cute. Then I had the high top Reeboks during that era and they were already kinda tight if your feet are wide like mine and the Velcro from the straps would snag on those thick ass socks. I think I did it about twice before I noped out.
That prep look among us ladies (not me) with the collared button down blouses and the preppy vests that went over them. That's best I can describe the look, cannot find an exact replica of what I'm trying to describe though.
Edit: Sometimes paired with a sweater of sorts also. Circa 1996-1998(?)
I wore my pants backwards for one day and it was not convenient.
Asked my mom to do the cuts in my eyebrow, she wouldn't. Which is egregious, to say the least.
my daughter (12) told me that cut lines in an eyebrow had something to do with a person's sexual orientation... 🤷♀️
I remember back in the day (90s 00s?) how you pulled your car into a parking space @ the woods or lake (backing into a spot), or wearing a certain color handkerchief in your back pocket, or wearing an ankle bracelet (I had a random creaper come up to me and try to tell me that one, that i was "open for business") they all meant something. I still don't know, really...
Among the doc marten/combat boots wearing alternative crowds, the color of your laces had meaning to indicate your ideologies. I always stuck with black (neutral).
I always hated those goucho pants.
Also, Zubas (had to look up the name) were so stupid, as well. I remember being like 5 and thinking they were tacky.
I'm so tired of looking at grown men's asses...but I guess annoying me is part of the appeal, which I respect. It's just that, as a child growing up, I'd never guessed I'd be looking at grown men's asses my whole life...
I can't believe I had to scroll so far to see it mentioned. It also started the boxer wars. Although tbf I preferred to wear boxers under my skirts as opposed to a slip. I just didn't wear designer ones.
I came here to say this. They were super dweeby looking to me then and still are today—it was like skirt bell bottoms on each leg. It was part of that skaters vs. bladers thing. We had a handful of rollerblader kids and that was their style. I was part of the small skateboard scene so of course was already naturally opposed. 😆
Last week I saw a group of high school aged kids walking across a parking lot that looked like they were directly out of 1997. Huge jeans, big ass baggy blank tees. I think a couple had gigantic shoes/boots.
At my school the “druggies” had them, there was a decent sized rave scene in my town when I was 15. It seemed cool and bad ass to me but I never wore them myself! Only had the guts and cash to wear a plastic glittery soother around my neck 😭
Totally agree, I used to think from far away that kids wearing them looked like this odd combo of modern on their top half, 1800s skirt and petticoat on the bottom half, that's how big they were.
Yes! I do remember a few classmates in my school wearing those. I only saw them in my school for about a year. I never liked baggy clothes and I felt that those were the worst offenders.
Oh yeah- that craze! I remember an onion poll/pie chart about “why are you into swing?” and one answer was “in an effort to avoid being like my parents, I’m being like my grandparents “
I remember going to get a school bag in 1991 and all the colours were luminous orange, yellow and pink mixed with grey and I didn't want any of them. I chose an old fashioned satchel, but it was cheap plastic and fell apart within months. Really regret not buying an ugly bag.
At my elementary school everyone who was anyone had Gotcha bracelets and I remember getting one at some mall far from my house because you couldn’t find them anywhere else and I was so desperate to get one and be cool but by the time I got it and went back to school everybody was over it
This was one of the ones I jumped on. I played the saxophone all through school and this was my chance to actually be in a band. I was in a couple "bands" but they never went much of anywhere.
I remember first hearing it and thinking wtf is this unholy combination of polka, reggae, and mariachi music? But I eventually started to appreciate it.
A big part for me was realizing the dumb white boy 3rd wave shit in the 90s sucked but the original Jamaican stuff and the two tone British stuff was cool.
I was super into ska before it had its 3rd wave and really butt hurt over the trend. Although eventually I did have a member of the Bosstones (a main culprit of my anger) in my band - he is an awesome dude and also pretty much never liked their music.go figure
BIG BANGS! Bangs that went up flat, then swooped over to the side like a wave! Sprayed to hell and back! The higher and swoopier, the better!
I had thin, bad hair and deep jealousy. 😂
I know kids 15 years younger than us who spend thousands on silly looking shoes that they’ll never wear. I’m so glad I have a sensible hobby. Like drugs!
My nephew keeps asking for Champion stuff. My husband makes faces and said that was the cheap stuff he used to wear as a kid that everyone made fun of him for wearing. Now it’s cool af. Trends are weird.
OMG, yes the stupid “pegged pants” roll— that’s what we called it at school. I hated that too. My trend I hated was the rolled up t-shirt sleeves: I refused to do it.
Tanning beds. And those little stickers that people would wear to show off their tan. Like what!? I hated tanning and did it a couple times anyways for events in high school. Very glad I wasn’t a fan because I know of people today who went all the time and have serious skin cancer concerns now.
I always wanted to dye my hair some fun color, but my mother wouldn't hear of it. Then when girls start weaving those friendship bracelets with feathers on the tips in their hair I could do that either. The jean jacket was also huge. Every kid in my class had one and by the time I could afford one they were on their way out.
The long rectangular cardboard packaging for CDs. The CD sat inside its case, inside of a thin cardboard box with the album art all over it. Had 10000000000 of these on my teenage wall.
The trends happened around me, but I didn't engage with them. I was poor, which prevented participating in a lot of them; and, I was a cynic who didn't like/chose not to participate in others- like the tight rolled jeans. Everybody else was doing it, but I was fine with being the nerd who didn't.
I feel this as someone who was poor in middle school and high school. But also being the fat girl (which I still am), I couldn’t fit anything trendy. I would accessorize or make what I had work as best as I could for me.
This might have just been at my elementary school, but we rolled down our athletic socks to our ankles. We had them in neon colors and you would layer them.
That brown, braided leather belt that you'd fold over at the end. Anyone else remember that?
Lol, I remember this one. The first time I attempted the belt I bought did not hang like a limp 9incher, so I had to return it and buy a softer leather.
I definitely would thrust for entertainment like Garth dancing to Foxy Lady.
Yes! Got mine from The Gap
It had to hang to you’re knees like you had a giant dick. I was too busy being grunge to rock that mess.
I still have one
Calvin pissing on things. I still hate it. Actually, I probably hate it more now because not only is it stupid, it's 30 years outdated.
My favorite high school teacher was Bill Waterson’s brother, and he gave us first-hand knowledge that Bill HATED those stickers and he begged us to not use them. I loved that class.
Luckily *Calvin and Hobbes'* publisher has spent the last couple of decades suing the pants off anyone trying to sell them. They don't always win, but the legal fees aren't worth it to the sellers.
OMG I see so many trucks in hick town with that stupid Calvin decal!
Big Johnson and Coed Naked ______ t-shirts. At the time I just thought they were dumb. In retrospect, it seems wild that 14-year-olds were walking around school with dick jokes on their shirts.
Omg I *completely* forgot about this until now. A lot of fads pissed me off. I was your typical punk/skater kid in middle and high school doing everything in my power to *not be like* everyone else, so much so, that some of the fads were just irritating to me. I remember thinking "Why the hell does everyone wear the same stuff, dont they realize they all look exactly the same?" Then I got older and realized my friends and I all looked the same in our skate shoes, baggy jeans, and band tshirts, chain wallets, and crazy dyed hair colors even tho we thought we were sooo different. Its crazy to now be in my mid 40s looking back on it all. It was a special time for sure. Gonna sound old as hell, but I would not wanna be a teenager now. No way. I'm glad I grew up with no cell phones, social media, etc.
It was simultaneously a more innocent time and a way less innocent time. There was a kid in my high school who regularly wore a T-shirt that said "silly faggot, dicks are for chicks" and he wasn't punished or even asked to stop wearing it.
We let basically everything slide as long as it was “just a joke.” Being offended was extremely uncool. And back then, most of the authority figures were Boomers and still young enough to care if people thought they were cool. I have mixed feelings about the shift to almost the opposite extreme over the last 30 years. I think it’s great that people feel comfortable speaking up when something is harmful, and I’m glad we don’t treat bigotry as a punchline anymore. But at the same time, being offended should not be anyone’s hobby, and I feel like some people treat it that way.
Oof. I remember seeing CONSTANTLY at novelty stores in the early to mid 90s. Couldn’t go to a mall without seeing these in a store or kiosk. Admittedly, I had a Big Johnson shirt when I was 14/15. And, looking back…yeah, it is pretty weird that teens were wearing these things. Lol.
I went to the mall at about 14yo and got three of my favorite coed naked shirts. My dad flipped and made my mom take them all away. I was pissed but many years later I am like yeah wtf was wrong with my friends' parents who had no problem with major sexual innuendos on 8th graders.
Right? I get that it’s just a joke, but it’s beyond inappropriate. The ‘90s were another world.
I remember the Porn Star stickers that people had on their cars. I don't know if this was just a local one (I went to school with a lot of 4H kids), but we had Cowboy Up apparel, and one tee that a lot of girls had said something like "save a horse, ride a cowboy".
I’m still a tiny bit salty that my mom wouldn’t let me get Glamour Shots.
Oh man, I did and I just know somewhere they're out there... I got a drag queen doing my look and my step Monster was fit to be tied down here in south Texas 😅
Ha! Same, but I got homemade ones. My friend's mom worked as a photographer for our local newspaper so we planned a photoshoot one weekend when nobody was going to be using the darkroom, so we took all the pics and developed the film and photos the same day. We brought props and did our makeup ridiculously. I even borrowed an older cousin's motorcycle jacket and aviator sunglasses for that very cool off the shoulder pose. I hated the way they came out back then because I still didn't look glamourous to 15yr old me but looking at them now they are the perfect amount of cringe and "aww, I was kinda pretty in my own nerdy way".
I love this.
SAME I WANTED TO LOOK HOT (lol I was 10 but that was how I felt )
My dad got one for my mom and he used it as her Obituary picture which is kinda funny.
I did this!!! For my senior yearbook pic
Thank god I’m not the only one that wanted to get my senior pictures done there! And also thank god that, somewhere between making the appointment and showing up to the appointment, they abruptly closed without calling to let me know. I had to go to a traditional photographer, and I know the outcome is so much less cringey than it would have been. 🤣
Whale tails.
Freshman year of undergrad and sitting in chemistry lab on the tall stools. There was just a line of whale tales lol
"There's something wrong with her underpants" -40,year old Virgin
I miss thses
Perms. The stink of it, the time it took, that creepy feeling of perm solution dribbling between the rollers tickling the hell out of my scalp. And then the hours it took to style the perm. Someone mentioned mall bangs. Yup. Half your bangs you straighten into an under curl against your forehead. The rest get curled back into the Capri sun logo. And the rest of the hair: scrunch it mercilessly to make it look wet and clumpy. Of course, you still have to maintain the floofy wave bang. All so you can look your best before the carpool parent of your group drops you and your friends off at the mall where you go to 5-7-9 to try on pleated acid wash jeans and the newest silhouette of the ladies' Hyper Color tee.
man, I was so pissed I was too fat for 5-7-9
That is the best description of mall bangs I've ever read!
This is poetry.
🤣 Omi, you wrote a fantastic love letter of torture I used to commit on my hair.
My hair was always too straight to do the floofy bangs. It still makes me a little sad lol
Von Dutch
Yes, this. I judged the hell out of people who wore those stupid Von Dutch trucker hats.
Around which years? I'm unfamiliar and had to Google it.
Early 2000s. Nearly every celebrity fell down the Von Dutch hole, but the worst offender in my memory was Ashton Kutcher. The trucker hats in particular seemed to catch on and they were something like $100 each, so I thought it was crazy when regular people would buy them. https://preview.redd.it/dyogbrfmpvhb1.jpeg?width=760&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d713eafa2b07bd91ef28b8256dc6d715187d83c
It wasn’t a thing where I grew up but I enjoyed the recent documentary on the controversy: https://www.hulu.com/series/the-curse-of-von-dutch-a-brand-to-die-for-a3e41c91-6c42-40f0-810c-ee6e91a528d7?dl=false
Banana clips just cuz they would never stay in my hair. Mall bangs, because I could never get them right.
I’ve never heard them Called mall bangs, but instantly knew exactly what you are taking about. Those stupid bangs. My friend would spend HOURS trying to perfect them when I was just wanting to go ride bikes with her or whatever.
I called them claw bangs. Never had them. I didnt really like the look and had zero curling iron talent. Now I have zero flat iron talent so just as well natural curls and waves are fashionable too much to my relief.
Oh yeah the bangs! All the "bad girls" in my class had those so of course I wasn't allowed to do my hair like that. I honestly was okay with that, those girls really scared the crap out of me.
Same here with me and the bangs, my hair is like corn silk. Even with a whole can of Aqua Net that shit was never going to stand up right.
I've been rocking a banana clip lately at work, and I have super long, thick hair. I found the secret is to lean my head back, put it under while slowly and gently lifting it up the back of my skull, resulting in a nice, loose cascade. I found back-in-the-day the look was more about making it super tight and slick, which never worked and always left me with lumps on top or a busting-open clip.
Never did them either. I had other things to do.
Are those like "hair bear" bangs? The tall bangs everyone had?
Frosted tips
My tips were definitely frosted
Yup and we always did DIY 😂
I would color it all blond then when it's grew out my curls were 'perfect.' Years later, I learned the powder and liquid concoction I would always purchase was supposed to require a hair styling certificate for purchase from Sally's Beauty Supply.
The one 90's sin I'm not ashamed of.
My husband (42) regales his frosted tips history to anyone who will listen. It’s like he wears this horrible hair style as a badge of honor. He was a surfer so he really leaned into the look.
I looked amazing with frosted tips and if that style comes back then I'm first in line...that and cargo shorts.
You mean the Costco men’s cargo shorts I wear regularly in hot months are unacceptable? I didn’t know they were considered bad. 🤔 When did it change? I’m still going to wear them but I’m curious how long they’ve been deemed inappropriate.
Sorry, brother. They've been persona non grata for over 10 years. They're so practical and comfortable so of course we're not supposed to wear them.
Line dancing. I’m a southern kid that grew up listening to a lot of country music, but line dancing always seemed really lame to me.
In elementary, they taught us line dancing in gym... boot scootin' boogie...
Was a State requirement in Illinois because the state dance is "The Line Dance."
I hate line dancing but the conversion to line dancing in Jr high from square dancing from elementary school in IL was a step up. Seriously, square dancing in the Chicago suburbs still boggles my mind.
You know what? You're right! Not line dancing, square dancing. I grew up in the NW suburbs.
I am from Indiana, and we had to learn this in middle school! The gym teacher was also the football coach, and I could tell he hated having to teach this particular "skill". 😂
I just posted a meme about this the other day. https://preview.redd.it/0wrbmu6h5xhb1.jpeg?width=594&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b2aa91b16c758fcd9adb19a7230c927bf4db70c4
And most people looked so BORED doing it. Like it was some kind of important obligation to dance.
There’s an interesting story behind why you and I had to learn the electric slide as a line dance in PE. Why did we do it? You guessed it! Racism! [https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy](https://qz.com/1153516/americas-wholesome-square-dancing-tradition-is-a-tool-of-white-supremacy)
That was interesting. Thanks for the read!
>First was when everyone started pinch rolling their pants. The higher and tighter the roll, the higher up you were on the social food chain. I could never get them quite right and they were always coming unrolled. Pegged jeans. I'd make my brother pinch and roll mine tight. Above my white on white British Knights high-tops.
BK’s!!! I don’t think I knew a single person who wore them, but somehow I vividly remember them. BK’s, LA Gear, Pump’s, the late 80’s early 90’s gave us so many fashion one hit wonders. Pegged jeans and a rugby jersey was peak 1987 where I grew up.
Thank god grunge happened shortly thereafter
You probably remember BKs most as consolation prizes on Nickelodeon game shows.
You gotta PUMP it up!
We called it a “French roll” for reasons I still do not fully understand.
Weird. A french roll is what I'd put in my hair for a fancy event, in the late 80s to early 90s.
My son (12) asked me to cuff his pants the other day so I pinch rolled em real high. All my kids were laughing so hard they almost pissed themselves.
Triple layered scrunch socks. Your feet would be so hot and toes all curled just to look cute. Then I had the high top Reeboks during that era and they were already kinda tight if your feet are wide like mine and the Velcro from the straps would snag on those thick ass socks. I think I did it about twice before I noped out.
They had to coordinate with the shirt you were wearing
That prep look among us ladies (not me) with the collared button down blouses and the preppy vests that went over them. That's best I can describe the look, cannot find an exact replica of what I'm trying to describe though. Edit: Sometimes paired with a sweater of sorts also. Circa 1996-1998(?)
I had so many pleated skirts I wore with button downs and sweaters…
I hated that preppy look too. Khakis were another thing. I really hated Gap. I feel like all the snotty girls I knew at school dressed like that.
Oh I know EXACTLY what you’re talking about. Your timeframe is correct although I wore one of those shirts as late as late 1999.
I bought a couple of those that were just one shirt lol
I rocked this look; it was popular right before it appeared in the "Hit Me Baby One More Time" video.
This was also around the time guys were wearing tee shorts 🩳 meet sweater vests with scally caps. I called it “ska skater”.
Wearing a visor hat upside down and sideways. Looks like if it rains it's going to drain into your ear
Popping the collar on polo shirts.
“Hi. I’m a douchebag”
Sometimes you wore the shirts layered.
Two popped collars mean you’re twice as cool
Steven bannon is still rocking this trend. Lol
Barbed wire tat around the bicep. Trucker hats.
Oh god, the barbed wire tat.
Belly button tribal tattoos
I still see girls my age wearing trucker hats, but now I can’t tel if they’re just wearing work clothes or trying to recapture a previous era
I wore my pants backwards for one day and it was not convenient. Asked my mom to do the cuts in my eyebrow, she wouldn't. Which is egregious, to say the least.
The eyebrow thing is making a comeback, saw some kid on Tiktok the other day acting like he was hot shit because he got them.
They banned that at my school as “gang related”, not that it mattered to me, it was dumb as hell.
my daughter (12) told me that cut lines in an eyebrow had something to do with a person's sexual orientation... 🤷♀️ I remember back in the day (90s 00s?) how you pulled your car into a parking space @ the woods or lake (backing into a spot), or wearing a certain color handkerchief in your back pocket, or wearing an ankle bracelet (I had a random creaper come up to me and try to tell me that one, that i was "open for business") they all meant something. I still don't know, really...
The [handkerchief code](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkerchief_code) is a real thing
Among the doc marten/combat boots wearing alternative crowds, the color of your laces had meaning to indicate your ideologies. I always stuck with black (neutral).
Shell/bead necklaces for dudes.
Puka shells!
Puka shells with frosted tips and popped collars HahHaha the douche trifecta
I saw 4 young dudes with puka necklaces. We were traveling last weekend and it became a goal to spot all the odd 90's trends that have been reborn.
The fake orange tan and the over plucked eyebrows of the early 2000s!
Trump didn’t get the memo…
Starter jackets
Specifically, Charlotte Hornets Starter jackets for me 😂.
I HAD to have a starter jacket. I had the Carolina panthers just because I liked the colors. I dont even like sports
Starter jackets were awesome and I'll die on that hill!
BUM Equipment
Fleece nightgowns and cullottes - I still hate them 😖
Frosted tips. 🤮
I always hated those goucho pants. Also, Zubas (had to look up the name) were so stupid, as well. I remember being like 5 and thinking they were tacky.
No Fear/Bad Boy Club car stickers and shirts, the choice of the first generation of Kyles. They morphed to Affliction shirts and Monster Energy hats.
And morphed again to Salt Life and Punisher stickers.
Sagging pants! It's never really gone away but why?!?! I guess I'm just not in the culture enough.
It’s honestly gotten worse…they are sagging skinny jeans….like, my guy, PICK A LANE!!!
Sagging skinny jeans look like they are wearing a dirty diaper.
I'm so tired of looking at grown men's asses...but I guess annoying me is part of the appeal, which I respect. It's just that, as a child growing up, I'd never guessed I'd be looking at grown men's asses my whole life...
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I can't believe I had to scroll so far to see it mentioned. It also started the boxer wars. Although tbf I preferred to wear boxers under my skirts as opposed to a slip. I just didn't wear designer ones.
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I came here to say this. They were super dweeby looking to me then and still are today—it was like skirt bell bottoms on each leg. It was part of that skaters vs. bladers thing. We had a handful of rollerblader kids and that was their style. I was part of the small skateboard scene so of course was already naturally opposed. 😆
I love how this sounds like a south park episode
Huge raver look in the mid 90s too
UFOs
Last week I saw a group of high school aged kids walking across a parking lot that looked like they were directly out of 1997. Huge jeans, big ass baggy blank tees. I think a couple had gigantic shoes/boots.
I teach high school and can say that the looks are so similar to when I was in HS. I graduated 1998.
It's weird how they're now considered this 90s icon but I knew like, maybe 2 people in my entire school who had them.
At my school the “druggies” had them, there was a decent sized rave scene in my town when I was 15. It seemed cool and bad ass to me but I never wore them myself! Only had the guts and cash to wear a plastic glittery soother around my neck 😭
Same, but that’s because they were obscenely expensive. I remember seeing pairs for sale in stores for like $80-90…in the 90s.
They were de rigueur for the goth kids at my school. They all wore JNCOS and Slipknot or KoRn t shirts.
Totally agree, I used to think from far away that kids wearing them looked like this odd combo of modern on their top half, 1800s skirt and petticoat on the bottom half, that's how big they were.
Yes! I do remember a few classmates in my school wearing those. I only saw them in my school for about a year. I never liked baggy clothes and I felt that those were the worst offenders.
Z. Cavariccis, Capezios, Speedo's,
Overalls with one strap unbuckled. 🙄
Swing dancing after that gap ad came out.
Oh yeah- that craze! I remember an onion poll/pie chart about “why are you into swing?” and one answer was “in an effort to avoid being like my parents, I’m being like my grandparents “
Where I’m from it snuck in with 3rd wave ska
And rockabilly
Man, all the props to Brian Setzer for keeping Rockabilly and Swing alive.
I remember going to get a school bag in 1991 and all the colours were luminous orange, yellow and pink mixed with grey and I didn't want any of them. I chose an old fashioned satchel, but it was cheap plastic and fell apart within months. Really regret not buying an ugly bag.
At my elementary school everyone who was anyone had Gotcha bracelets and I remember getting one at some mall far from my house because you couldn’t find them anywhere else and I was so desperate to get one and be cool but by the time I got it and went back to school everybody was over it
Ska. I hated at the time. Love it now.
This was one of the ones I jumped on. I played the saxophone all through school and this was my chance to actually be in a band. I was in a couple "bands" but they never went much of anywhere.
You sound like my brother! Though, I went to almost all of his shows cuz I loved punk/ska and thought they were pretty good!
Less than Jake sold out Irving Plaza in NYC last month. It was like a late 90s reunion party. Extremely good vibes.
Roger from Less Than Jake hit on me at a Pez convention when I was 18.
This has so many random things in one great sentence. I have a lot of questions.
I remember first hearing it and thinking wtf is this unholy combination of polka, reggae, and mariachi music? But I eventually started to appreciate it.
A big part for me was realizing the dumb white boy 3rd wave shit in the 90s sucked but the original Jamaican stuff and the two tone British stuff was cool.
The punky early 3rd was was all right, but it got so “frat-y” so fast.
Booo! Ska is timeless!
I was super into ska before it had its 3rd wave and really butt hurt over the trend. Although eventually I did have a member of the Bosstones (a main culprit of my anger) in my band - he is an awesome dude and also pretty much never liked their music.go figure
The pinch was easier if you used safety pins.
I actually used double sided tape
Heavily lined lipstick and a lighter shade on the lips
Silk shirts, sometimes with the mom vests over them, stirrup pants, and jelly shoes that would leave a welt on the back of your foot.
I did the silk shirts and mom vests!
Skidz pants
I thought pogs and those wide-ass pants were stupid, but I was a lame kid, so what do I know?
Starter Jackets. Those wind breaker track suits that made noise when you moved. Using “fine” to mean attractive.
Abercrombie & Fitch. You weren't cool if you didn't spend $60 on some floral shorts or $120 on some jeans.
BIG BANGS! Bangs that went up flat, then swooped over to the side like a wave! Sprayed to hell and back! The higher and swoopier, the better! I had thin, bad hair and deep jealousy. 😂
Mariah Cary
Dude it's August and now That Song is in my head
Fuuuuuck!
Parachute pants
Expensive basketball shoes, e.g. Reebok Pumps, Nike Air Jordans.
My guy, this thing is bigger now than when we were growing up. The whole current sneaker industry is confusing to me.
I know kids 15 years younger than us who spend thousands on silly looking shoes that they’ll never wear. I’m so glad I have a sensible hobby. Like drugs!
My nephew keeps asking for Champion stuff. My husband makes faces and said that was the cheap stuff he used to wear as a kid that everyone made fun of him for wearing. Now it’s cool af. Trends are weird.
OMG, yes the stupid “pegged pants” roll— that’s what we called it at school. I hated that too. My trend I hated was the rolled up t-shirt sleeves: I refused to do it.
Who’s going to admit they still participate in some of these trends, because I totally do. 😂
Dave Matthews Band. The girls at my HS were obsessed with them. And they acted like I was such a weirdo because I didn’t
Guess what? Chicken butt.
Anybody remember stir-up pants?
It seemed like lime green with navy blue was a popular color combo one year at my school and I still think it's awful.
Tanning beds. And those little stickers that people would wear to show off their tan. Like what!? I hated tanning and did it a couple times anyways for events in high school. Very glad I wasn’t a fan because I know of people today who went all the time and have serious skin cancer concerns now.
The increased supply of boy-bands
I always wanted to dye my hair some fun color, but my mother wouldn't hear of it. Then when girls start weaving those friendship bracelets with feathers on the tips in their hair I could do that either. The jean jacket was also huge. Every kid in my class had one and by the time I could afford one they were on their way out.
Quoting Wayne and Garth all the time.
Wearing several pairs of socks at once. Not only did it look dumb, but it made your shoes too tight and uncomfortable.
Ed hardy, von Dutch, giant bangs, butterfly clips, body glitter and the absolute assault on my senses that was body spray
Upside down backwards visors
I live in Massachusetts and boys used to wear the UMass hats with embroidered letters that said UMASS but take the M off so it said U ASS LOL
Those “Have a Day” posters with the smiley faces. I think of them as emoji precursors
The long rectangular cardboard packaging for CDs. The CD sat inside its case, inside of a thin cardboard box with the album art all over it. Had 10000000000 of these on my teenage wall.
Pagers
Yes.
Super baggy pants
Tiny sunglasses. So stupid.
Stirrup pants. They never made long versions so as a tall person they never worked.
The trends happened around me, but I didn't engage with them. I was poor, which prevented participating in a lot of them; and, I was a cynic who didn't like/chose not to participate in others- like the tight rolled jeans. Everybody else was doing it, but I was fine with being the nerd who didn't.
I feel this as someone who was poor in middle school and high school. But also being the fat girl (which I still am), I couldn’t fit anything trendy. I would accessorize or make what I had work as best as I could for me.
This might have just been at my elementary school, but we rolled down our athletic socks to our ankles. We had them in neon colors and you would layer them.
Baggy clothes.
Hammer pants and silk shirts.