Acid wash jeans and jean jackets. Using gel in your hair. New Wave music. Ladies wore suit jackets with big shoulder pads, and had their hair all fluffed up and permed. The mid to late 1980s.
Man! Is this my only alternative? Joining a stupid fad or merely paying bills? What a bleak outlook. I think I need to revise my Christmas list, now. Scrooge is among us.
@wundayatta I used to own a pair of very faded bell-bottom blue jeans. They were my favorite pair of jeans——wore it to the point of thinness, until the blue faded to a very very light blue, and I got a hole in my knee.
Platform shoes The Bay City Rollers not that I dressed like this but plenty did. Dresses like this I had one very, very similar to this. The perm The Jump Suit
“The Purdy cut“http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q3JZk38yc6U/SnSvT1QCZnI/AAAAAAAAErY/oc9BSso7Nq8/s400/07.jpg Joanna Lumley was responsible for this one and I had my hair like this for a while. Saturday Night Fever Ahhh disco… I remember it well.
To name but a few things, probably best forgotten.
I was never a trend follower and tended to stick with what I had until it broke, fell off, wore out or burned up.
In the early 70’s I used a piece of rope as a belt for my jeans I tied it using a reef knot . Very sporty.
I don’t know that I necessarily followed the most popular trends, in highschool I was the girl with the fishnets and the blue hair, so that didn’t exactly put me at the top of the fashion savvy food chain.
However, I was a teenager in the 90’s, and some of the popular things that jump out at me are bowl haircuts, flannel shirts, alternative music, slap bracelets, and JNCO pants (you know, the ones with ridiculously wide legs).
Designer jeans, worn long over Candies shoes, hawaiian print shirts and hair parted down the middle with ‘wings’ (layers in front), Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” was the song as we headed out on Friday nights.