Fads from your childhood/high school years?

[bertha katzenengel]

Pet Rocks

[applegrove]

1. Feathers for earings. Sometime a gold feather as an earing.

[Twillig]

2. Pop Rocks

Mood rings

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. Pogs were huge when I was in the 5th grade...so much so they were banned at school

Remember Alf? Well he's back and in pog form!

[ghostsofgiants]

25. I loved Pogs.

:thumbsup:

[Celeborn Skywalker]

26. Fifth grade for me too.

Class of "02 by chance?

[Reverend_Smitty]

42. yep

Pogs were huge in 95

[Celeborn Skywalker]

48. yeah,

94 and 95 were the years of the pog. The next year, hacky sacks were big at my school.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. Slam books, cinnamon oil toothpicks, trolls with long hair,

Ben Casey blouses, granny dresses, wig hats, shirts worn with dickies, white lipstick and lots of eye makeup (on the same face).

[dropkickpa]

5. In elementary school, slap bracelets

Banned because they could slice your hand off (so the rumor said).

[Arugula Latte]

6. Wacky Packs (elementary), jingle bells on shoe laces (annoying)

- big Farrah hair (jr. high/high school)
- preppy crap including Izods, penny loafers, kilts, pink and green clothes, oxford shirts, etc.etc. (high school)

[bertha katzenengel]

10. We're about the same age.

Oh, the preppy crap . . . bleagh.

[ikojo]

41. I LOVE the preppy look...love me some

Lacoste shirts!!!

[devilgrrl]

49. Earth shoes

[southpaw]

7. Parachute pants, mullets and Members Only jackets

early to mid 80's. High school.


Going back to the mid 70's for my elementary school years, I remember CB radio culture, Planet of the Apes...

[Throckmorton]

8. CB Radio

It was almost a sickness for some of my friends.

[Arkansas Granny]

9. A few things I remember from mine.

Hula hoops


Poodle skirts


da haircuts


teased hairstyles

[TheCentepedeShoes]

29. Same for me

Had a poodle skirt (now have a real live poodle). It was grey felt with a white poodle.
Had a bunch of those clip-on bows for my ratted hair.
Had a hula hoop (elementary school)
Penny loafers and thick socks
Steady chains
Watching American Bandstand after school
The Twist
Formals

Help me here, I just turned 60 and am now "old"

Sorry, can't help it, it's what happens when you start going to all those Early Bird dinners. Psst...I think they put something in the iced tea.

<looking out window> YOU KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN !!!!

[Arkansas Granny]

32. Nah, you're not old. It's just mind over matter.

If you don't mind, it don't matter.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

34. You are right

Thank you

[RebelOne]

43. I remember all those fads, but of course, I'm getting old.

[flvegan]

11. Break dancing, glam "metal", Swatch watches (in multiple if possible)

pants and jackets with more pockets and zippers to ever be used by a reasonable person (think Michael Jackson jackets and parachute pants). Head to toe bandanas. Lamborghini Countach wall posters. Big hair/mullets.

[RebelOne]

12. Shmoos during my elementary years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmoo

[meow2u3]

13. Mood rings

Disco
Bell bottom jeans (much wider than now)
Platform shoes--for both men and women--we called'em 42nd Street Hooker Shoes in NYC

[Sheets of Easter]

14. flannel, chain wallets, Doc Martens, giant Africa medallions, "X" baseball caps

[Maine-ah]

45. I'm guessin' we're about the same age, King.

:hi:

[Inchworm]

15. Moccasins

a small fad but I wore the near knee-high ones.

:hi:

[Dr. Strange]

16. Math.

This one teacher in particular would talk about it every day, for almost an hour.

[JVS]

18. In every fucking grade there's some teacher who never will STFU about that!

[JVS]

17. Beating kids up and stuffing them in their lockers!

[bertha katzenengel]

19. More?

:kick:

[Footay]

21. Flashdance sweatshirts,

Mork suspenders, ribbon barrettes, the whole preppy thing and white hi-top reeboks

[MrCoffee]

20. Pinch-rolling your jeans

I have no idea why, but everyone did it.

[Aristus]

22. For about 15 minutes back in 1985, it was considered cool to drip random drops of bleach

onto a new pair of jeans, causing weird and bizarre fade-patterns. When the fifteen minutes were up, people realized it was just a damned awful waste of a good pair of jeans. We went back to fading them the old-fashioned way.

[Left Is Write]

23. Ankle boots, cropped jackets, Izod shirts with the collars flipped up...

penny loafers, deck shoes, parachute pants, jeans so tight you'd need a crowbar to get out of them, Members Only jackets, Ocean Pacific, Forenza, Esprit, Calvin Klein, Jordache, Sergio Valente. Actually, Gloria Vanderbilt jeans back then were also a hot item rather than the Golden Girls apparel they are now.

[Xipe Totec]

24. Clackers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers

[GoddessOfGuinness]

36. Oops...

Should have seen whether someone else posted it first. :hi:

[Xipe Totec]

38. Many a bruised forearm came from that clacking calamity! nt

[Turbineguy]

27. Lifting up

the dress of a girl called Vicky. She seemed to enjoy the attention. The Pricipal got involved.

It was 2nd grade. It was 1958 and we we too young to smoke cigarettes and own cars.

[puerco-bellies]

28. Vietnam POW/MIA bracelets.

Oh, and pot, lots and lots of pot.

[lunatica]

30. I remember the hoola hoop

One day everything was normal during recess, and the next everyone had a hoola hoop.

Then there was the twist! Chubby Checkers rocks!

Did I give my age away?

[Lars39]

31. Rainbow colored toe socks.

[Lil Missy]

33. Chia Pets

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. Clackers

Second only to mumbly-peg on the list of things school nurses love to hate.

[LiberalEsto]

37. Ironing hair

to get it perfectly straight like Cher's hair

Wearing hair curlers to go shopping on Saturday afternoon so everyone would think you had a big date that night.

Pin-on buttons like "Impeach Nixon" and "Frodo Lives". And "Peace".

[cordelia]

39. Earth shoes

I also had some of the ugliest 3-inch platforms you can imagine. Bright red and blue.

[ikojo]

40. From middle school...putting plaid strips on your pants

and anything else you could think of, thanks to the Bay City Rollers!!

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!

[schmuls]

44. In high school, fishnet stockings and those big suede or leather

watch bands that you could attach your watch to.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

46. I remember the mid 1990s being relatively fad free

Which is why I liked them so much.

I mean, I guess there's beanie babies....do flannel shirts count?

[zabet]

47. Elementary years...

Hippity Hops (those big rubber balls you ride while bouncing) <---there is NO Way to explain it without sounding dirty :evilgrin: 5 kids in the neighborhood besides myself had one, I know it must have looked hilarious to see us all bouncing around on them. :rofl:

Pet rocks, mood rings, the whole prep scene in HS...probably owned every color of Lacoste shirt on the market at the time, button down shirts, monogrammed sweaters, etc. :puke: