Snap bracelets Tretorn sneakers Brightly colored stacked slouch socks Pegged jeans Zipper jeans Mall bangs (I tried to pull them off and looked ridiculous) Hyper color tshirts Jelly bracelets (stacked, interlocked and as retainers) Leg warmers Banana clips This big silver cone thing I used to wear in my hair Jams (but I never actually had a pair) Ah! I heart being a child of the 80s!
Great question, Beenu. And shout-out to Fitch for being the first to answer today.
Hypercolor, but my mom wouldn't buy it for me. Also, layered socks in various shades of pink. Giant primary-colored sweatshirts over stirrup pants. Jelly bracelets - my best friend and I fought over a shoe box of them that we shared. Really ridiculous earring. Very tall bangs.
I begged my mom to buy me a pair of those bike shorts with a skirt attached, but was then too embarassed to actually wear it. Deep down I knew it a horrible, horrible trend.
Me and nearly every other dude in my junior high tried to do the long hair thing ala Jonathon Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement. The winner of the floppiest hair contest won got to dance with the girl at St. Monica's who had boobs.
While I do love me some snap bracelets and scrunchy socks, I'd have to go with those t-shirt ring things that you use instead of knotting the shirt. Such a genius yet simple innovation!
I was a huge fan of those charm necklaces... i thought the toilet bowl and baby bottle ones were SO cool. Also, the triple socks that i would wear with stirrup sweatpants and my Keds. Most often while wearing my puffy paint sweatsuit!! Scrunchies were to die for also!! My best friend and i used to call those jelly bracelets "Madonna Bracelets"... had soooo many of them!
Oh! and crimped hair. My mom wouldn't let me have a crimper, so my friend and I stayed up all night at a sleepover braiding each other's hair in tiny little braids and the next day we both had major white girl fros.
This reminds me, while an 80's party is a common theme ,my buddies did a 90's party once, and it was mind blowing. People were going apeshit over each and every song that came on. Just throwing that out there.
this is an awesome question...i loved the colored slouch socks, wearing them in different color order on each foot. i also loved the 'best friend' necklaces, that were cracked in two or three for all your bff's. also, big-ass nkotb buttons that would take up the whole front of your backpack, in which you kept your trapper keeper. ponytails worn high on the side of your head. wearing keds (or in my case, Bradlee's brand knock offs) and then covering them with various drawings or secret messages...
they were totes awesome and a great way to jazz up your outfit.
i also loved buying those cheap white tennis shoes and decorating them myself with neon puffy paint.
btw, the 80s are totes all over fashion week so we may be seeing these trends come back very soon. i'm looking at you leslie! go buy some new banana clips.
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wearing 2 different color converse high tops.
Snap bracelets! The accessory that became a cause. Everything's cooler once it's banned.
Freezy Freakies gloves. Didn't they change color when it was cold out??
Headbands. And eating napkins. Raisins were also another trend.
Snap bracelets
Tretorn sneakers
Brightly colored stacked slouch socks
Pegged jeans
Zipper jeans
Mall bangs (I tried to pull them off and looked ridiculous)
Hyper color tshirts
Jelly bracelets (stacked, interlocked and as retainers)
Leg warmers
Banana clips
This big silver cone thing I used to wear in my hair
Jams (but I never actually had a pair)
Ah! I heart being a child of the 80s!
Great question, Beenu.
And shout-out to Fitch for being the first to answer today.
Hypercolor, but my mom wouldn't buy it for me. Also, layered socks in various shades of pink. Giant primary-colored sweatshirts over stirrup pants. Jelly bracelets - my best friend and I fought over a shoe box of them that we shared. Really ridiculous earring. Very tall bangs.
Hypercolor t-shirts. All the neon. Roos sneakers with velcro and the zip-up pocket.
I begged my mom to buy me a pair of those bike shorts with a skirt attached, but was then too embarassed to actually wear it. Deep down I knew it a horrible, horrible trend.
Me and nearly every other dude in my junior high tried to do the long hair thing ala Jonathon Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement. The winner of the floppiest hair contest won got to dance with the girl at St. Monica's who had boobs.
While I do love me some snap bracelets and scrunchy socks, I'd have to go with those t-shirt ring things that you use instead of knotting the shirt. Such a genius yet simple innovation!
Good Question Lester!
I was a huge fan of those charm necklaces... i thought the toilet bowl and baby bottle ones were SO cool.
Also, the triple socks that i would wear with stirrup sweatpants and my Keds. Most often while wearing my puffy paint sweatsuit!!
Scrunchies were to die for also!!
My best friend and i used to call those jelly bracelets "Madonna Bracelets"... had soooo many of them!
there were these twin guys at my jr. high that wore their clothes backwards like kris kross. it was hot.
i wore keds like it was my job. pegged jeans, slouched socks, terrible hair. i had a perm and thought it was awesome.
Oh! and crimped hair. My mom wouldn't let me have a crimper, so my friend and I stayed up all night at a sleepover braiding each other's hair in tiny little braids and the next day we both had major white girl fros.
This reminds me, while an 80's party is a common theme ,my buddies did a 90's party once, and it was mind blowing. People were going apeshit over each and every song that came on. Just throwing that out there.
this is an awesome question...i loved the colored slouch socks, wearing them in different color order on each foot. i also loved the 'best friend' necklaces, that were cracked in two or three for all your bff's. also, big-ass nkotb buttons that would take up the whole front of your backpack, in which you kept your trapper keeper. ponytails worn high on the side of your head. wearing keds (or in my case, Bradlee's brand knock offs) and then covering them with various drawings or secret messages...
T SHIRT RINGS!
they were totes awesome and a great way to jazz up your outfit.
i also loved buying those cheap white tennis shoes and decorating them myself with neon puffy paint.
btw, the 80s are totes all over fashion week so we may be seeing these trends come back very soon. i'm looking at you leslie! go buy some new banana clips.
Swatch watches and Jams.
Tim, good call on the Freaky Freezies. I forgot about those.
Ooh, I loved hair scrunchies, the larger and more obnoxious-colored the better. Also flannel.
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