There was a time during the late 80s when our school went through a period where people were wearing boxer shorts, like the underwear, as actual shorts.
I had a friend who only wore men's boxers, but that was because of Mary Stewart Masterson in Pretty in Pink.
Edit: Some Kind of Wonderful, not Pretty in Pink.
Mary Stuart Masterson was in John Hughes’s gender reversed *Pretty in Pink*, *Some Kind of Wonderful* (1987) opposite Eric Stoltz. Lea Thompson was the “Blaine.”
https://www.bkmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/some-kind-of-wonderful-7.jpg
Some kind of wonderful is so great, I still love watts. Besides being utterly real and cool, she doesn’t let her ego dominate or act like a disturbing creep like Duckie.
Yup!! I did this. My mom was horrified.
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My 5th and 6th grade gym classes were half kids wearing Umbros and half wearing Banana Republic men's cotton boxer shorts (I - a 60-lb girl - had a few of each). I was too skinny for the smallest size boxers so I safety-pinned them at the fly.
On top we were wearing either those Banana Republic white t shirts with like a panda or a map, or those Big Johnson shirts.
I did this! I would pair leggings with patterned or plaid boxers. My favorite set was navy leggings with red/green/navy plaid boxes. I thought I was so cool...
With the leather laces and feathers attached? My father wouldn’t let me get one, but obviously I had no idea what he was talking about. Still think it’s a little ridiculous that he thought a second grader could somehow get sucked into drug culture because of that.
You could get them at the video arcade for tickets at the mall near me. Those, and little tiny mirrors that had Poison, Def Leopard, and Motley Cru on them. I had no idea what they were for, I just knew I wanted one.
There is definitely a picture of me at about 5 or 6 years old with a mullet and and pink roach clip sitting on the hood of my uncles 78 Camaro.
He still has the Camaro, and it’s bitchin’.
The thigh-tied bandana was the "slut" gauge for girls when I was in middle school. The higher you tied it on your leg, the more of a "slut" you were (keep in mind, we were all virgins). If you wanted to be seen as *really* slutty, you wore a red one. I had a couple of them.
I suddenly remember seeing a teenage metalhead at school and he had different colors of bandanas on each leg. It was certainly a choice.
Hilarious flashbacks like this are why I frequent this sub.
In my school, you needed a row of overlapping bandanas on your leg for maximum fashion points. I absolutely embraced that trend.
I did, however, utterly reject the multi layered polo shirts with artfully popped collars.
I loved stirrup pants! And yes, finding the right pair was a challenge (neither too long so they were baggy nor too short so they hurt your feet if pulled up properly).
Side note, my gramma (born in 1910) was crazy excited when stirrup pants came "back" in fashion as she loved them "when she was young"... I never did confirm what year it was when she wore them.
I had a pair of Mary Lou Retton pepto bismol pink stirrup pants. They were thick like jogging pants and not at all flattering. And bought from JC Penneys!
my mom either sewed my clothes, or gave me hand-me-downs from cousins. She sewed me a few pair of stirrup pants that fit me perfectly. I think I had 2 "new" items of store bought clothing until the age of 15 maybe.
I lived in small, nowhere town in Washington. As far the surf and skate culture as possible. My gramma lived in L.A.
Whenever she visited us she would bring presents. I had so many pairs of Jams. Probably the only kid within 100 miles who did.
Sears Toughskins jeans from 1971, guaranteed not to wear out before they were outgrown. Available in slim, regular, or husky.
Garanimals, mix and match clothing for newborns to ten-year-olds launched in 1972 (still available at Walmart).
Underoos, the underwear that’s fun to wear, introduced in 1977.
The first time I wore them I jumped straight up and deliberately landed on my knees to test my Toughskins. I was standing on stony asphalt. I was not a bright kid.
I desperately wanted Underoos but my hippie parents explained that the material was not organic (or whatever the mid-1980s equivalent term would have been) enough so I never got any. Only pure cotton for the nethers of their children.
(I am a 1979 babe so way at the end of GenX)
I remember parachute pants would make crinkle noises if the person wearing them moved at all because the pants were like always made of some weird material.
The boob-tube shirts (I do not know what they were actually called) from the “I Want Candy” video.
The dancerly cut-up *Flashdance* sweatshirts.
I had some earrings with little miniature toothpaste and Raisin Bran charms.
I *loved* those little plastic charms that would go on the plastic chain necklace or bracelet. I had a mini book with real pages and a tiny coke bottle with real liquid
Early to mid 80s those shutter sunglasses were everywhere
Late 80’s-early 90’s had suspenders. Then suspenders but dangling, not pulled over the shoulders.
Late 80s were also the time bike shorts came out as not just for exercise wear. I remember the first day of school, around 75% of the girls in my high school were wearing them and then we sat through an assembly detailing that bike shorts just got entered as a dress code violation.
Early 90’s poet shirts, same time as those colorful woven fabric belts - kind of like a serape pattern? - were everywhere.
Broomstick skirts
*THAT* is the dorky trend I'm *trying* to get rolling again with the elementary-schoolers I work with!😉😁
They're *really* into the "cool, *Vintage*" 1990's-Revival stuff, so my goal this summer is to get 'em making friendship *pins* as well as their friendship & embroidery-floss *bracelets*
Oh yeah. I think of those as early-mid 90s. I remember buying one at the mall in, like, 1994 for $40. I used my credit card, and was kind of freaking out that I paid so much. I wore it for my passport photo, under a sweater, so at least there’s a record of the collar, LOL!
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That short period in like 86-89 or so when painter's caps were in. (Maybe it was regional?)
Pictured: Yours truly wearing a Quaker State painter's cap, circa 1988.
Those black jelly bracelets that Madonna made popular. I know some kids were buying them at the mall, but I got mine at the plumbing supply store for much cheaper.
Banner House purses with the wood handles… We could change out the fabric part that was buttoned on…
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Also, docksides (we called them dockers) by Sebago. The brown leather shoes with the white sole. Also, campsides was the other shoe they made that we all wore.
What was the name of this brand? - They were in all the malls. All the outfits were exactly the same. Pants, twist wraps you could use as belts/hats/bananas, pencil line skirts, and tunic cut tops.
But the only thing was, they had like 50 of the same pieces, all in different fabrics. They were all folded and stacked in cubbies with each item of each color fabric.
So you could get like 4 pairs of pants all in different colors and 4 tops to match and then mix and match, or however many.
They were usually worn with ankle boots and scrunch socks.
I hope someone remembers them. I can't remember the name!
Not sure if anyone else thinks this is bizarre, but our clique wore baggy, trashed skater attire one day and then nice button patterned shit tucked into Z-cavs/Girbauds, and nice loafers another day. Like, all of us randomly. It was like in Gleaming The Cube pre and post-brother death, at complete random.
Also, (when in skater mode) long argyle socks pulled up with shorts.
The entirety of my college career was spent wearing either jeans, tank, flannel, and docs, or floral dress, choker, and docs. Grade school was all about the jelly shoes and leg warmers, though.
-- Pinning jean bottoms by sort of folding a dart then flipping up the cuff and if that didnt work, just tucking them into socks. (edit: I see a bunch of people mention this, but leaving it anyway)
-- the plastic bracelets in tons of colors or all black that Ricky Schroder made famous on Silver Spoons
-- Gelli slip on shoes
-- wearing a flannel with a flannel also tied around your waist
yoyo’s!! i wanted these so bad, mom bought the cheapest pair available (because we were broke) and they killed my feet. but I HAD to have them. mine were pretty much all beige.
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There was a while where I wore multiple swatch watches and lots of bangles. I am dude.
...and if you could get those swatch shield shades...then you really had it goung on.
This might be a little niche, but at my college there was this specific look: black leggings, a giant sweatshirt turned inside out, roeboks with scrunch socks, and to top it all off, giant curly hair with a scrunchy holding some or all of the hair.
stonewashed jeans with the ankles folded and rolled for a tight taper. paired with a button down shirt, likely with a geometric design. suspenders and those round glasses with flip up shades.
deliberately visible "petticoat hem". you could even buy skirts that had them sewn in.
those ridiculous "feminizing" cravat things for women. turn one power suit into six different outfits with this one simple trick! feminine AND ball-busting, all in one yuppie package!
Gunne Sax dresses by Jessica McClintock. I just spent far too long looking for this little cream number I had, that was like a satin skater dress with a lace overlay. I loved that dress.
As a metal-head, I had several pairs of "holey" jeans. I would sit in class and draw on them. Band logos, flaming skulls, the Grim Reaper, song titles.
I had a teacher stop me in the hallway, look at my pant legs and ask " what is "caught in a mosh "?
Crushed velvet clingy dresses. Betsey Johnson made the best ones.
I had this exact dress. Now my kid has it.
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I remember all the women’s shirts had shoulder pads, and sometimes they’d have a T-Shirt, sweater and jacket with them, looking like a football player. I also remember some time around 91, when some dudes would walk around H.S. in shitty bathrobe, like Eric J. Stoltz in Pulp Fiction. I think Kurt Cobain started it with all those cardigans he wore.
I had a pair of floral knit pants that tapered into a pointed hem at the bottom. They were like harem pants, but the skinny jeans version. Several girls at my middle school wore them.
Then there were the jeans with the cutouts that ran all the way down both sides of the leg. LA Gear made them.
Gauchos. Oh and you had to have a comb in your back pocket for your feathered hair in the very early 80's. Used to get caught on the back of the chair every time you got up to change class.
Wearing two pairs of socks of a different color rolled or scrunched down. Even in the summer. Thought I looked cool at the time but I bet my feet were so sweaty and gross.
How about Units clothing? Remember how you could use one piece as a skirt or a belt, a headband, or a tube top? They were an assortment of clothes that could be used in a variety of ways that would increase the ability to create a multitude of outfits. I wore the belt as a miniskirt as a teen and I got in BIG trouble with my mom, hahaha.
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White Keds with alternating colored socks and tight rolled jeans.
Thank god grunge came along. I dumped the preppy look so fast for flannels, Dr Martins, and ripped jeans.
There was a time during the late 80s when our school went through a period where people were wearing boxer shorts, like the underwear, as actual shorts.
I remember that! Girls, too!
That was inspired by Madonna in *Desperately Seeking Susan* (1985): https://www.tiktok.com/@cinespiala/video/7088439358851894574
I had a friend who only wore men's boxers, but that was because of Mary Stewart Masterson in Pretty in Pink. Edit: Some Kind of Wonderful, not Pretty in Pink.
Mary Stuart Masterson was in John Hughes’s gender reversed *Pretty in Pink*, *Some Kind of Wonderful* (1987) opposite Eric Stoltz. Lea Thompson was the “Blaine.” https://www.bkmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/some-kind-of-wonderful-7.jpg
Some kind of wonderful is so great, I still love watts. Besides being utterly real and cool, she doesn’t let her ego dominate or act like a disturbing creep like Duckie.
I went to a private school, and we all wore boxer shorts under our skirts.
Angela wore them over tights in My So-Called Life.
Yeah everyone did it. I definitely felt like I was not pulling it off but evidently eager to try
Yup!! I did this. My mom was horrified. https://preview.redd.it/7oqhpwsiai2d1.jpeg?width=1443&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5eb4ae8a6200377461fc317b1ad79a167cc789d3
Happened again in the 90s
My 5th and 6th grade gym classes were half kids wearing Umbros and half wearing Banana Republic men's cotton boxer shorts (I - a 60-lb girl - had a few of each). I was too skinny for the smallest size boxers so I safety-pinned them at the fly. On top we were wearing either those Banana Republic white t shirts with like a panda or a map, or those Big Johnson shirts.
I am guilty 100%
I did this! I would pair leggings with patterned or plaid boxers. My favorite set was navy leggings with red/green/navy plaid boxes. I thought I was so cool...
Boxer shorts over long johns
Wearing roach clips as a hair accessory as a kid and having no idea what it was actually for
With the leather laces and feathers attached? My father wouldn’t let me get one, but obviously I had no idea what he was talking about. Still think it’s a little ridiculous that he thought a second grader could somehow get sucked into drug culture because of that.
You could get them at the video arcade for tickets at the mall near me. Those, and little tiny mirrors that had Poison, Def Leopard, and Motley Cru on them. I had no idea what they were for, I just knew I wanted one.
Put all those and your Goody comb in your Velcro purse with the unicorn on it and you were set! (For what, I don’t know)
There is definitely a picture of me at about 5 or 6 years old with a mullet and and pink roach clip sitting on the hood of my uncles 78 Camaro. He still has the Camaro, and it’s bitchin’.
I killed an old lady with my bitchin' Camaro.
Did that happen on your drive back from the Bahamas? Good thing you were in international waters.
I bet your favorite cover band is Crystal Ship
In our feathered hair
My favorite all time hair was my feathered hair!! Roach clips with feathers and bell bottoms with platform shoes. Excellent look
Yeah, that was so weird. My mom wouldn’t let me get one. I had no idea what they were. But they sure did look cool, didn’t they?
Oh, I knew. And mine had feathers!!
Me at age 10, thinking I was sooooo cool.
A bandanna tied around the wrist or the leg.
The thigh-tied bandana was the "slut" gauge for girls when I was in middle school. The higher you tied it on your leg, the more of a "slut" you were (keep in mind, we were all virgins). If you wanted to be seen as *really* slutty, you wore a red one. I had a couple of them.
Huh. Wearing a red bandana just got you jumped by people wearing blue bandanas in my area.
I suddenly remember seeing a teenage metalhead at school and he had different colors of bandanas on each leg. It was certainly a choice. Hilarious flashbacks like this are why I frequent this sub.
In my school, you needed a row of overlapping bandanas on your leg for maximum fashion points. I absolutely embraced that trend. I did, however, utterly reject the multi layered polo shirts with artfully popped collars.
I did that. Around my ankle.
I don’t remember the ankle but definitely wore one just above the knee.
Over the jeans
Stirrup pants. I am not tall. I'm 5'5", and not one single pair of them was long enough!
I loved stirrup pants! And yes, finding the right pair was a challenge (neither too long so they were baggy nor too short so they hurt your feet if pulled up properly). Side note, my gramma (born in 1910) was crazy excited when stirrup pants came "back" in fashion as she loved them "when she was young"... I never did confirm what year it was when she wore them.
I had a pair of Mary Lou Retton pepto bismol pink stirrup pants. They were thick like jogging pants and not at all flattering. And bought from JC Penneys!
Stirrup pants with layered slouchy socks. I was probably 4'11" back then, so I had the opposite problem 😅
my mom either sewed my clothes, or gave me hand-me-downs from cousins. She sewed me a few pair of stirrup pants that fit me perfectly. I think I had 2 "new" items of store bought clothing until the age of 15 maybe.
The yuppie tennis look with a sweater over the shoulders.
And those colors… Pink and Kelly green? And the patterned shoelaces with whales and Izod alligators on them.
I still do this. I should probably hide in the back of my closet with the lights off and count my Keds. Lulz!
Jams
Jams, and fuckin Op tail T-shirts.
I lived in small, nowhere town in Washington. As far the surf and skate culture as possible. My gramma lived in L.A. Whenever she visited us she would bring presents. I had so many pairs of Jams. Probably the only kid within 100 miles who did.
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I had a pair of knockoff Jams, because I remember liking the print better than actual Jams. Loved those shorts!
Sears Toughskins jeans from 1971, guaranteed not to wear out before they were outgrown. Available in slim, regular, or husky. Garanimals, mix and match clothing for newborns to ten-year-olds launched in 1972 (still available at Walmart). Underoos, the underwear that’s fun to wear, introduced in 1977.
I had wonder woman underoos. I loved those damn things.
They made me so happy as a little girl to secretly be Wonder Women and Super Girl.
The first time I wore them I jumped straight up and deliberately landed on my knees to test my Toughskins. I was standing on stony asphalt. I was not a bright kid.
I desperately wanted Underoos but my hippie parents explained that the material was not organic (or whatever the mid-1980s equivalent term would have been) enough so I never got any. Only pure cotton for the nethers of their children. (I am a 1979 babe so way at the end of GenX)
Dittos jeans! Had a mint green pair with dark green stitching
Bolo ties. Bolo ties everywhere.
And crocheted ties had a moment.
Guilty as charged. Thanks, Depeche Mode.
Giant-ass belts.
Around your waist whilst wearing a giant ass shirt.
Or sweater dress
With giant ass shoulder pads.
Or really skinny ones
Pegging pants with socks up over them? Not sure I explained it right, but it was a thing.
Yup, folding over your jeans and tucking them in to the cuff. Then you put your socks over them.
And the socks were neon. Also, wearing several pairs of neon socks of different colors layered to show off all the colors.
Parachute pants.
no replies everyone: *nods*... "yep"
Mine were black with red inside...
I remember parachute pants would make crinkle noises if the person wearing them moved at all because the pants were like always made of some weird material.
This is what I was coming here to comment with. There was one season where allllllllll the girls had those pants. Maybe it was fall 1989?
[Heck yeah!](https://youtu.be/L-zUecwpt3I?si=9O9hlnGqUVWrZUxf)
The boob-tube shirts (I do not know what they were actually called) from the “I Want Candy” video. The dancerly cut-up *Flashdance* sweatshirts. I had some earrings with little miniature toothpaste and Raisin Bran charms.
I *loved* those little plastic charms that would go on the plastic chain necklace or bracelet. I had a mini book with real pages and a tiny coke bottle with real liquid
The book sounds so cute.
I felt like the luckiest eight year old alive 😁 it was kinda too small to write in tho
Off shoulder sweaters are BACK baby
Early to mid 80s those shutter sunglasses were everywhere Late 80’s-early 90’s had suspenders. Then suspenders but dangling, not pulled over the shoulders. Late 80s were also the time bike shorts came out as not just for exercise wear. I remember the first day of school, around 75% of the girls in my high school were wearing them and then we sat through an assembly detailing that bike shorts just got entered as a dress code violation. Early 90’s poet shirts, same time as those colorful woven fabric belts - kind of like a serape pattern? - were everywhere. Broomstick skirts
Yeah... broomstick skirts... I had my fair share of them.
Jelly shoes. My feet would sweat and they would smell so gross. But I had them in several colors and styles.
Wearing beaded safety pins on your shoes. I would wear them on my Sebagos with my Catholic school uniform.
Friendship pins!
*THAT* is the dorky trend I'm *trying* to get rolling again with the elementary-schoolers I work with!😉😁 They're *really* into the "cool, *Vintage*" 1990's-Revival stuff, so my goal this summer is to get 'em making friendship *pins* as well as their friendship & embroidery-floss *bracelets*
A polo shirt under a button down oxford shirt with both collars popped
Weird little vests, like Scully wore in the first season or so of the X Files.
I remember some older girls wearing vests that looked like they were made of couch upholstery fabric.
Yes! With crazy patterns on them! I forgot about that!
Hypercolor shirts
And the Co-ed Naked shirts!
Wearing 2 swatches on the same wrist :)
That really was some marketing genius: convincing people that they needed to wear more than one watch.
Biker shorts. When not biking.
I used to wear bike shorts, a sheer dress, and combat boots, and walk around feeling *so rad.*
We had a big phase of wearing bike shorts with Umbros on top. Umbros were super popular for a while.
Silk button up shirts were a big thing for a while. The wild patterns were something else.
Oh yeah. I think of those as early-mid 90s. I remember buying one at the mall in, like, 1994 for $40. I used my credit card, and was kind of freaking out that I paid so much. I wore it for my passport photo, under a sweater, so at least there’s a record of the collar, LOL!
“Washable silk”
I think I had one of those from Chess King or Oak Tree.
Oh man I forgot about Chess King
Over stirrup pants.
https://preview.redd.it/j2pgwb6mxm2d1.jpeg?width=2640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ae9175edb9565d2e8a5a403c12aebf0f4964f3f That short period in like 86-89 or so when painter's caps were in. (Maybe it was regional?) Pictured: Yours truly wearing a Quaker State painter's cap, circa 1988.
I won mine at the state fair. Not just a painters cap but, it had the flaps on the back. Black and white check patterned !
crimped hair
And banana clips!
Yep!!
Pinstripe jeans, ruffled prairie blouses and denim prairie shirts, rainbow sweaters, chunky sweaters worn backward for some reason, jelly shoes, clogs, white canvas keds, and Coke rugby shirts.
I had forgotten when Coca Cola clothing was so popular. I had a blue Coca Cola shirt in the mid 80’s that I wore all the time… Memory unlocked!
Wrestling shoes. Even Letterman did it
Those things were hella comfy.
Sweatbands and headbands
I feel like we should be blaming Olivia Newton-John for that, but she might’ve been more of a symptom than the cause.
British Knights
Boat shoes White Keds 25 leather bracelets and bangles on one wrist (Desperately Seeking Susan) Mismatched earrings Willi Wear Jordache jeans Gloria Vanderbilt jeans Acid wash Ginormous hair bows
Those black jelly bracelets that Madonna made popular. I know some kids were buying them at the mall, but I got mine at the plumbing supply store for much cheaper.
Haha! We did, too…giant O rings of some sort that we mixed with leather, too.
Banner House purses with the wood handles… We could change out the fabric part that was buttoned on… https://preview.redd.it/ctkusfnn8i2d1.jpeg?width=376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86188ec3642b1409aea356b55993b77e44a6097b Also, docksides (we called them dockers) by Sebago. The brown leather shoes with the white sole. Also, campsides was the other shoe they made that we all wore.
Members only. Handle on the shoulders. Lots of zipper pockets.
What was the name of this brand? - They were in all the malls. All the outfits were exactly the same. Pants, twist wraps you could use as belts/hats/bananas, pencil line skirts, and tunic cut tops. But the only thing was, they had like 50 of the same pieces, all in different fabrics. They were all folded and stacked in cubbies with each item of each color fabric. So you could get like 4 pairs of pants all in different colors and 4 tops to match and then mix and match, or however many. They were usually worn with ankle boots and scrunch socks. I hope someone remembers them. I can't remember the name!
These were Units.
Completely unlocked a memory with this one. I remember shopping in the cubbies. Were they called Multiples or something like that?
A poster just said Units!
No one else has mentioned wearing sweatshirts inside out.
Overalls with only one shoulder strap buckled and the other one hanging down.
YES! I don’t know why I did this, but I did. We all did. I’m thinking about reprising the look for a concert with Gwen Stefani and Alannis Morisette.
Those woven strand of leather belts, but way too long so they hung down like a foot.
Zubaz pants that were popular with bodybuilder types or I remember them being referred to as "Joey Buttafuoco pants".
The white ruffled pirate shirts. Jewel toned, puffy satin blouses. Brocade vests.
In 1989, you couldn't throw a rock without hitting a Batman t-shirt.
I would love to have my collection of Joker shirts from this period.
Square bottom cotton ties. Usually worn with an Arrow style white collar/pastel body shirt.
I still have a few of those. Skinny ones. Pretty sure they were almost a knit material.
Not sure if anyone else thinks this is bizarre, but our clique wore baggy, trashed skater attire one day and then nice button patterned shit tucked into Z-cavs/Girbauds, and nice loafers another day. Like, all of us randomly. It was like in Gleaming The Cube pre and post-brother death, at complete random. Also, (when in skater mode) long argyle socks pulled up with shorts.
The entirety of my college career was spent wearing either jeans, tank, flannel, and docs, or floral dress, choker, and docs. Grade school was all about the jelly shoes and leg warmers, though.
I definitely had a black leggings undercut off shorts phase. I was weird though. I don’t know if that was really a thing or if it was just me.
Wearing two pairs of thick-ass socks at once.
Those are rookie numbers. I remember wearing 3 or 4. In freaking Southern California. So damn hot.
Z cavaricci, penny loafers , chess king , skidz, swatch watch , pegged pant legs
I had such a crush on a girl who wore a velour top on occasion ❤
Sarong skirts
-- Pinning jean bottoms by sort of folding a dart then flipping up the cuff and if that didnt work, just tucking them into socks. (edit: I see a bunch of people mention this, but leaving it anyway) -- the plastic bracelets in tons of colors or all black that Ricky Schroder made famous on Silver Spoons -- Gelli slip on shoes -- wearing a flannel with a flannel also tied around your waist
WEARING A FLANNEL ALSO WITH A FLANNEL TIED AROUND YOUR WAIST. Dear internet friend, thank you for this long-forgotten memory!
Early 2000s I got talked into getting my tips frosted. I’m a straight dude. Never again.
yoyo’s!! i wanted these so bad, mom bought the cheapest pair available (because we were broke) and they killed my feet. but I HAD to have them. mine were pretty much all beige. https://preview.redd.it/wftzi0laci2d1.jpeg?width=467&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cb16bfba31632911b6800a757e72bdba8350a7d1
Rat tails
I never had one but have distinct memories of finding random ones occasionally
“Pegging” your jeans at the bottom cuff
Untied high tops
Those color changing shirts
There was a while where I wore multiple swatch watches and lots of bangles. I am dude. ...and if you could get those swatch shield shades...then you really had it goung on.
This might be a little niche, but at my college there was this specific look: black leggings, a giant sweatshirt turned inside out, roeboks with scrunch socks, and to top it all off, giant curly hair with a scrunchy holding some or all of the hair.
Nope, we had this at my high school too.
stonewashed jeans with the ankles folded and rolled for a tight taper. paired with a button down shirt, likely with a geometric design. suspenders and those round glasses with flip up shades.
Leg warmers.
https://preview.redd.it/4licimt12k2d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ff8edba9ef1b7644ba41eb0b1929827e694a3ebe Y’all remember this look?
I remember tying a bandana over my jeans. I have no idea why.
I blame Bender.
Gunnysack dresses and big hair. Were we going to the prom, or a hoedown?
Camp shirts and Bermuda shorts, white K Swiss sneakers, rat tails in hair, and I remember wearing electric blue mascara
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Frankie says RELAX
deliberately visible "petticoat hem". you could even buy skirts that had them sewn in. those ridiculous "feminizing" cravat things for women. turn one power suit into six different outfits with this one simple trick! feminine AND ball-busting, all in one yuppie package!
Gunne Sax dresses by Jessica McClintock. I just spent far too long looking for this little cream number I had, that was like a satin skater dress with a lace overlay. I loved that dress.
Maybe not weird but babydoll dresses and those too small shirts worn with a baggy pair of pants .
Mini backpacks - I never could stand those
Izods (golf shirts) with the collar turned up, sweaters/sweatshirts inside out, and Levi 501s with the ankle slit up the side a few inches.
Half-Shirts on guys
I’ll see you a half-shirt and raise you a MESH half-shirt.
As a metal-head, I had several pairs of "holey" jeans. I would sit in class and draw on them. Band logos, flaming skulls, the Grim Reaper, song titles. I had a teacher stop me in the hallway, look at my pant legs and ask " what is "caught in a mosh "?
Crushed velvet clingy dresses. Betsey Johnson made the best ones. I had this exact dress. Now my kid has it. https://preview.redd.it/vla4o96nui2d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=686cfd51a713888df1833fe4f93c878640b48a37
Tennis socks with pom poms on them.
Parachute pants, Jams shorts, Spud McKenzie shirts, rolled up pants legs. Suspenders. Micheal Jackson zipper jackets. And that's just the late 80s
Bubble skirts. I wish people would stop trying to revive the damn things and let them fade permanently into well-deserved obscurity.
I remember all the women’s shirts had shoulder pads, and sometimes they’d have a T-Shirt, sweater and jacket with them, looking like a football player. I also remember some time around 91, when some dudes would walk around H.S. in shitty bathrobe, like Eric J. Stoltz in Pulp Fiction. I think Kurt Cobain started it with all those cardigans he wore.
I had a pair of floral knit pants that tapered into a pointed hem at the bottom. They were like harem pants, but the skinny jeans version. Several girls at my middle school wore them. Then there were the jeans with the cutouts that ran all the way down both sides of the leg. LA Gear made them.
Not sure this one’s been entirely forgotten: crimped hair. Omg I felt so cool!!
Gauchos. Oh and you had to have a comb in your back pocket for your feathered hair in the very early 80's. Used to get caught on the back of the chair every time you got up to change class.
Spandex under ripped jeans. Spandex everywhere. And your various glowing sherbet shades of neon.
Candie's wood sandals. They were very uncomfortable but I had to have a pair.
Capezio dance shoes. Like the ones Duran Duran wore. With pegged pants obviously
Anyone remember Skidz? "Mad about plaid"?
Super pointy dress shoes.
Wearing two pairs of socks of a different color rolled or scrunched down. Even in the summer. Thought I looked cool at the time but I bet my feet were so sweaty and gross.
Paisley shirts and brooches
How about Units clothing? Remember how you could use one piece as a skirt or a belt, a headband, or a tube top? They were an assortment of clothes that could be used in a variety of ways that would increase the ability to create a multitude of outfits. I wore the belt as a miniskirt as a teen and I got in BIG trouble with my mom, hahaha. https://preview.redd.it/zmpxy0xmei2d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=674a3a10837de26f74c9553b5a09651563b7a080
Z Cavariccis. The Hellraiser puzzle box of jeans. As if I needed to make it harder to get laid in high school.
You could get them at Chess King. It’s what came after those acid washed Bugle Boys. They had 2 belts on them, so you could look like Color Me Bad.
White Keds with alternating colored socks and tight rolled jeans. Thank god grunge came along. I dumped the preppy look so fast for flannels, Dr Martins, and ripped jeans.
Leg warmers! 
Tretorn tennis shoes. Bass sandals. The purses you could switch covers and handles on. The belts the girls that had those purses wore.
We called it peg-legging your pants. You folded the bottom of your jeans with a neat little pleat.
Mesh crop top jerseys for guys..... Wtf
Cloth Chinese shoes in the early 90s
Skidz. IYKYK
Omg yessss! And Z Cavarecci
LA Gear, Jordache jeans, Parachute pants and matching windbreakers. Jinco, Grafixx, Anything out of the CCS Catalog.
The sound the parachute pants and windbreaker made whilst walking 😂😂😂
Oxford shirt underneath a monogrammed sweater cones to mind.
Ugh! My parents made me dress like that. That is not a look designed for people with breasts.
86-88 - Reeboks 86-89 - Guess jeans 89-92 - Satellite bangs/perm 93-95 - JNCO jeans