Trends from when you were young

Fashion? Hair? Cars? Hobbies?


The big trend when I was in junior high and into high school was tight-rolled jeans (we called them peg-leg jeans), peasant blouses and choker necklaces. Oh, and a half of can of Aqua Net on your giant permed hair.

Depeche Mode, INXS, The Smiths, U2 (Joshua and before), John Hughes films, Cavaricci.

My HS practically was a John Hughes film (Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club).

I drove a red '69 Camaro.

JNCO's

Cool Guy From Middle School Still Sporting Phat Pair Of JNCOs - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Josie said:

Fashion? Hair? Cars? Hobbies?


The big trend when I was in junior high and into high school was tight-rolled jeans (we called them peg-leg jeans), peasant blouses and choker necklaces. Oh, and a half of can of Aqua Net on your giant permed hair.

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In high school?

JNCOs, converse, vans (shoes), weezer.

I forgot that MC Hammer pants were very popular for the guys too. And shaving lines into the side of your hair like Vanilla Ice.

Bell bottoms, shag hair cuts, and Carter's malaise.

Josie said:

I forgot that MC Hammer pants were very popular for the guys too. And shaving lines into the side of your hair like Vanilla Ice.

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Cavariccis were not quite MC Hammer, but close.

Google pic, not me, but minus the hair in the back it could well have been.

Winston said:

JNCO's

Cool Guy From Middle School Still Sporting Phat Pair Of JNCOs - The Onion - America's Finest News Source

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I was gonna say jnco's but I could not for the life of me remember what they were called, just remembered those ugly baggy jeans everyone wore until the late 90's. I never liked those pants but a few years ago before I left the national guard, one soldier thought xyz trend of today looked hideous, then he showed here a picture on his phone from 1999 of him wearing jncos right before he joined the military.

Well the first thing out of her mouth was omg people actually wore those things!

Josie said:

Fashion? Hair? Cars? Hobbies?


The big trend when I was in junior high and into high school was tight-rolled jeans (we called them peg-leg jeans), peasant blouses and choker necklaces. Oh, and a half of can of Aqua Net on your giant permed hair.

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Ha. My high school year had BELL BOTTOM genes.

haha In my H.S. you were one of 4 things: a redneck, a whore, a redneck whore, or a nobody.

Geez, I don't remember because I didn't pay any more attention to trends then than I do now.

Fire. New thing back then. Having one was one thing. Keeping it was quite another. This reality was the impetus for "Light My Fire" by the Doors.

kings road button down shirts, with fairy loops, in jewel colors. socks to match or if not, white ones. long khaki pants because denim clothes could not be worn to school. cordovan weejuns shoes and matching seabuckle belt. indian madras or pinstripe seersucker shirt for those who wanted to be edgy. butch or flat top haircuts (with lots of greasy butch wax) otherwise it was a ducktail imitating elvis and james dean
coaster bikes with baseball cards in the spokes, secured by clothes pins
bb guns. toy guns to play 'war' in the woods
slot cars and comic books of all kinds ... and mad magazine followed by cracked magazine
building model airplanes and launching home built rockets ... the sputnik era had just arrived
applying contact explosives made with your chemistry set. ditto for stink bombs. blowing up all kinds of stuff with fireworks ... especially those model airplanes
baseball every day in the empty lot, from the time school was out until our dads whistled us in for dinner. new bats in spring were held together with nails by fall and that white baseball was likely covered in electrical tape by the time we moved on to football. tackle football. without pads
misbehaved students were the ones who talked during class and passed notes ... read aloud if intercepted by the teacher. corporal punishment was readily administered to those violators
and each day of school was begun by standing at attention and reciting the pledge of allegiance, hand over heart. bible stories were told and /or passages were read daily. and there were weekly drills to practice how we would respond to a nuclear alert
home made skate boards crafted from our metal roller skates. hand sawn skim boards for the beach
15c movies, the balance of the dollar spent on dime candy and soft drinks, watching westerns or war movies or james bond's earliest, after first seeing a buck rogers space sequel, followed by a looney tunes cartoon
see that tiny dot? yep, that was the baseball on a black and white tv. leave it to beaver was a staple and so were the westerns. amos and andy was great; that's how i 'learned' about black society/behavior. but much of the media was burlesque adapted to the small screen
listening to the kinks, rolling stones, beatles, herman's hermits, the kingsmen, dave clark five, animals, little stevie wonder, sam the sham and the pharaohs
mcdonalds was new, with its 15c hamburgers. thousands were sold. mountain dew was launched and its competition was white lightning; the latter was defunct before (steel) canned sodas emerged into the market
and we knew who our favorite baseball player was, whether we preferred the beatles or the stones, and which of the mercury seven we most aspired to emulate