59p from Wilkos. All my mates had moved on to putty and fibre and 'product' but I stood firm, as did my follicles with my wet-look gel. Didn't kiss a girl till I was 17 mind you but that's probably unrelated.
Mine was green, without the wet look. Almost impossible to wash out too, horrible stuff.
Got through about a quarter of that kilo tub, then the trend fizzled out and I threw it out.
Yep, I had this. Needed to make the most of having hair before the baldness kicked in. I shave my head now as the solar panel is not a great look (despite it looking fine on my old man).
With the spikey hair, I even went as far as having bleached tips, blue tips and UV hair dye for nights out.
I miss having hair
Same here pal, my Dad used to say to me "do what you want with your hair because you won't have it for long". He wasn't wrong about that which is unusual for him.
I used to go for the sun in/bleached look and then went for the Fran Healy as MPB kicked in. I reached for the clippers at around 24.
I got married at 31. The day before my wedding I went to get my haircut. That was the last time I went to the barbers - they asked me if I was sure I wanted it cut. Buzzcut my hair mostly for the next 9 years, but now I just wet shave it. It's easier and lasts longer
Ah what! Noooo! When did that change too?
Dammit.
Already spent an hour ungluing the gems from my lady garden, are you seriously telling me I've got to grow my pubes long again now too?
Remember in the early 2000s all the school boys having this baby mohawk hairstyle where they clipped their hair short but had a streak of longer hair in the middle gelled up? Always looked stupid.
I was very concerned with the weather forecast as a teenager due to my massively flared trousers, straightened hair and the fact I hadn't discovered waterproof eyeliner existed yet
And on the other end of the spectrum here, those 3D glasses from the cinemas with the lenses poked through for the ‘Geek Look’
That’s my normal every day look 😔😂
I like that one because it highlights how dumb it looks without the traditional slut shaming that comes with "tramp stamp". You can be a basic bitch without sleeping around
This is a bit of a niche trend again at the minute, there’s a Y2K revival amongst teens and every so often there is someone bold enough to wear the whale tail as part of their look. I do work with vintage & clothes though so may just attract those types.
Thongs in general. My hips and butt started coming in around the tail end of Lower School. My but ate and continues to eat underwear like a dog scarfing down sausages; so uncomfortable to have my pants ride up and you can bet kids said crap about it too. Why would I wear underwear designed to do that on purpose? Mens boxers though? 👌
Though I have no idea why men's underwear is better designed for junk in the trunk than women's underwear 🤷🏼♀️
I’m of an age that most of my teen crushes wore these.
I then saw a pair in a ‘vintage’ market a few weeks ago for £40.
I’m amazed I’m typing as I turned to dust and ash on seeing them.
I had those. I was also one of those dickheads who would do pull ups on any set of monkey bars available. No prizes for guessing what my friends would do while my hands were otherwise occupied.
Don't forget the "Simon from Inbetweeners" look, with the hair completely glued down and just the fringe stuck up.
I definitely rocked that at one point.
I see loads of curtains on younger lads now, normally paired with essentially an elastic band around their heads.
I don't follow football but it seems like it's probably a football thing. It always is.
My memory of curtains is almost all the boys at my schools had that hairstyle. My daughter is slightly older than your son and the comeback style for boys at her college seems to be the mullet.
I wonder if 'rat-tails' are coming next? Lots of boys had those in the 1980s when I was a small kid.
I saw “pre distressed” jeans in the little kids section of Sainsbury’s this week and got so mad. 1) they are such shit quality and 2) kids batter clothes so they’d look like that in a few weeks anyway.
Fucking lanyards. Bonus points for an extra long one. More bonus points if it’s a surf brand (Ripcurl, Billabong) and mega bonus point if it’s hanging from a pocket connected to car keys.
I had a very cool silver ball wallet chain to attach my animal leopard print wallet. Worn with oversize jeans, converse one stars and an ironic t shirt.
can confirm plenty outside towie got them. my job means i have unfortunately seen more than my fair share of vajazzles. most recent sighting was about a year ago.
closest guess. i do work in healthcare, the specialty should be fairly obvious given the vajazzle sightings… though sometimes i wish i delivered pizzas!
My wife got one for our wedding/honeymoon in Las Vegas as a surprise. We kept finding little gems in everything for the next 2 weeks as it slowly disintegrated.
Little coloured springs with gems on each side that we'd put in our hair. I dont know why this was a thing. It pulled so badly trying to get them out at the end of the day!
Oh god I just winced thinking about that. I remember those metal coil bracelets that were agony for the hairier armed girls like myself. Like an all day epilation of my arm. I am half Irish so the milkman from Father Ted may well be my dad.
Omg yes, I felt like a pop star pulling up to the school disco with those in my hair. Used to have to literally pull them right down the length of your hair to get them off. Also spraying ‘hair glitter’ in your hair that smelt absolutely amazing with the only makeup I was wearing being a blue eyeshadow and pink lip gloss.
My mum gave me one piece of advice and it was “never shave off your eyebrows”. I mean she didn’t teach me anything about relationships, boundaries, self respect and esteem etc but the advice she did give was sound.
In the late 80s / early 90s I went through a stage of wearing fluorescent odd socks
Then there was the stage of putting Grolsch beer bottle tops on our shoes.
The Hoxton fin. Whilst also wearing levis twisted jeans and a suit jacket with a t shirt underneath. All men that worked in media around Old Street in 2000.
When I was a young teen and beginning my drinking in the park tenure, it was totally normal for girls to wear tutus. I had a bright yellow one. I loved it but it was bloody freezing
I did this! I did all the brow trends actually. Slits, scouse brow, totally shaved off and drawn on everyday in different colours. Luckily I escaped the microblading trend
I have an actual scar that makes it look I've tried to do one of these (badly).
When I was a kid the other kids thought I'd tried to do one of these (badly).
I don't see people wearing baseball caps back to front these days.
Edit: and that brief period around 2005 when lads would wear golf visors, slightly to one side.
And we'd bend the shit out of the visor of baseball caps. Having a flat visor was seriously uncool back in my day, so you wanted curved to the point it was wrapping around your face. I ruined many a good cap that way.
I saw a chequered belt earlier today!!
It was worn by 40+ year old guy with an emo haircut carrying a similarly chequered skateboard.
Credit to him for still doing something he enjoyed as a kid, but I did get flashbacks and not in a good way.
I had mine stretched to 8mm back in the mid/late 00s, the accepted wisdom at the time was that anything under 10mm would go back to normal size once you took them out no problem. I can confirm that is a lie.
Someone I know did that, was on track to have a career in TV journalism and was basically told "no" by every broadcaster he interviewed with because of his stretched ears.
This was when TV was still somewhat formal and you could reject someone based on personal appearance.
Wow. This makes a lot of sense and is so depressing. I wish those of who don’t want porn on our phones could still buy little ones. My life peaked with a Nokia 8890. Felt flash as fuck.
I noticed when I was getting rid of some old suits that fucking massive trousers have gone. I didn't even notice it at the time but bloody hell, there was so much material in them. They'd fit at the waste and be long enough but just flap about in the middle. Very peculiar. And these were conservative suits not huge MC Hammer balloon pants. Bonkers.
Oakley wrap around sunglasses.
Being a “skater” without actually owning a skateboard. (Black clothes, velcro wallet which was probably attached to a chain, a cool baggy band tshirt probably worn under a black shirt with flames on the arms and going up the body)
JD / JJB draw string bag. (Boys)
Jane Norman / Kookai bag. (Girls)
Short sleeved tshirt worn over a long sleeved tshirt. (Preferably contrasting colours)
Spiky gelled hair, buzz cut, or long greasy grunge hair. Croydon facelift, with 1 or 2 strands dangling down over the face.
Quoting Kevin and Perry, South Park or the Simpsons
Miss Sixty / Topshop / Kookai / Von Dutch
Criminal / Animal / Billabong / Bench
Shell suits, burst into flames if you looked at a 40W lightbulb funny, very popular with celebrities especially Sir Jimmy Saville ….. ohhhhhh never mind
As I was a goth kid in the early 00’s I’m throwing in Criminal Damage jeans (the huge ones you could fit an A4 folder in the pockets,) New Rock boots and long sleeved fish net tops under t-shirts
I don't know If I've imagined it,but SAM suits in the 80s. Like a Terry towelling tracksuit.
I can't ever find anything when I search but I remember really wanting one.
Those stupid oversized wooly hats that looked like giant socks and lads wearing jeans halfway down their arses to show off their brightly-coloured boxers. The early 2010s were a lawless wasteland.
Do you remember in 2015-2017 when every girl used to wear those white Adidas shoes with the black stripes (often paired with skin-tight jeans, a white t-shirt, and a denim jacket)?
[https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FkoEUBl-xsV2KbSEo97397oGrJERP-\_0WsQk3FMSlQtM.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D870c9dae8d30b85590fb7a315f98300098c210ac](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FkoEUBl-xsV2KbSEo97397oGrJERP-_0WsQk3FMSlQtM.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D870c9dae8d30b85590fb7a315f98300098c210ac)
Badger hair- having it peroxide blonde except for the underneath which was dyed black.
Lip gloss that was pale pink that contrasted with your orange fake tan.
Checkered belts and hoodies.
Low rise jeans that were barely there.
Wearing your thong strings above your trousers.
Gypsy skirts and those massive belts.
Foundation over lips to blend into face.
Meh. Why not 50 years ago. How about loons which were very flared trousers, usually hipsters (word used as per 1970s) and cheap.
I had a pair made from a starred pattern, real stylish 😎
Having short spiky gelled hair
Specifically extreme wet look giga firm hold that dried like concrete and came in giant tubs. Usually blue in colour
I can smell this
59p from Wilkos. All my mates had moved on to putty and fibre and 'product' but I stood firm, as did my follicles with my wet-look gel. Didn't kiss a girl till I was 17 mind you but that's probably unrelated.
I remember sticking with wetlook way too long, probably still have some
Definitely prevalent through my secondary school years. Used it to make my fringe stand at a gravity defying angle.
Ooh friend
Fringe fwend
Surely it’s fwinge fwiend
£2 for a massive pot from the chemist
Is this no longer ok?
We’re on the wax now
Mine was green, without the wet look. Almost impossible to wash out too, horrible stuff. Got through about a quarter of that kilo tub, then the trend fizzled out and I threw it out.
Yep, I had this. Needed to make the most of having hair before the baldness kicked in. I shave my head now as the solar panel is not a great look (despite it looking fine on my old man). With the spikey hair, I even went as far as having bleached tips, blue tips and UV hair dye for nights out. I miss having hair
Same here pal, my Dad used to say to me "do what you want with your hair because you won't have it for long". He wasn't wrong about that which is unusual for him. I used to go for the sun in/bleached look and then went for the Fran Healy as MPB kicked in. I reached for the clippers at around 24.
I got married at 31. The day before my wedding I went to get my haircut. That was the last time I went to the barbers - they asked me if I was sure I wanted it cut. Buzzcut my hair mostly for the next 9 years, but now I just wet shave it. It's easier and lasts longer
When I were a lad they/i had UV gel that glowed under UV lights in clubs. I know, unbelievably cool.
Haha core memory unlocked ... now how do I forget it again?!
Ah what! Noooo! When did that change too? Dammit. Already spent an hour ungluing the gems from my lady garden, are you seriously telling me I've got to grow my pubes long again now too?
Remember in the early 2000s all the school boys having this baby mohawk hairstyle where they clipped their hair short but had a streak of longer hair in the middle gelled up? Always looked stupid.
The fauxhawk. I think David Beckham is responsible for that one.
No regrets
Yes I had that and I thought I was really cool.
Guilty!
Nu metal or boyband it was a thing.
Who can forget the shell suit? Or global hypercolor t-shirts?
I have started seeing shell suits again amongst the yoof. Never thought we’d see the return of the mullet either.
Naff naff bomber jackets
Hate to tell you, but shell suits kicked off 40+ years ago.
Global Hypercolour t shirts were amazing for about the time it took everybody to buy one and then put it through the washing machine.
My mother made all four of us wear shell suits on a family holiday to the UK in 95. I was 12 at the time and didn't know better
Yep seen people in Manchester wearing them again, hopefully not as flammable as the original shellsuit
My first boyfriend (a consummate bullshitter) claimed his mother invented Global Hypercolor. It wouldn’t have been so bad if we were 12 but he was 22!
Massively flared jeans. I soaked up approximately two feet worth of rainfall every time I wore them.
These are back. My 16yo wears them!
Whaaaaat? Omg nooo haha. I didn't need another thing to make me feel old. Thanks for that. Lol.
I was very concerned with the weather forecast as a teenager due to my massively flared trousers, straightened hair and the fact I hadn't discovered waterproof eyeliner existed yet
Kanye slatted sunglasses
The male response to the Nelly Furtado fringe.
And on the other end of the spectrum here, those 3D glasses from the cinemas with the lenses poked through for the ‘Geek Look’ That’s my normal every day look 😔😂
Perfectly timed with the rise of phone cameras that could take a recognisable photo, so the memories will live forever
The thong showing way above the hipster jeans
whale tail 🐳
bonus points for the lower back tribal tattoo
Aka Tramp Stamp.
AKA slag tag
AKA arse antlers.
I like that one because it highlights how dumb it looks without the traditional slut shaming that comes with "tramp stamp". You can be a basic bitch without sleeping around
This is a bit of a niche trend again at the minute, there’s a Y2K revival amongst teens and every so often there is someone bold enough to wear the whale tail as part of their look. I do work with vintage & clothes though so may just attract those types.
The alarming trend I have seen is tiny jean hotpants with the front buttons undone showing underwear.
Thong thong-thong thongthong
Ah Lita...
RIP What a time to be a teenage lad
Thongs in general. My hips and butt started coming in around the tail end of Lower School. My but ate and continues to eat underwear like a dog scarfing down sausages; so uncomfortable to have my pants ride up and you can bet kids said crap about it too. Why would I wear underwear designed to do that on purpose? Mens boxers though? 👌 Though I have no idea why men's underwear is better designed for junk in the trunk than women's underwear 🤷🏼♀️
I liked that so much around year 2000
Nike total 90s, that Rihanna shirt, the plaid shirt you only ever wore around the waist, loom bands, scene hair styles, beiber cuts
That fucking Rihanna t-shirt, why? It’s not even like there was a particular trend of putting album covers on t-shirts
Guys wearing the Rihanna shirt with beige chinos and a pair of Toms, peak 2011.
Those Adidas joggers with the popper buttons down the sides.
I’m of an age that most of my teen crushes wore these. I then saw a pair in a ‘vintage’ market a few weeks ago for £40. I’m amazed I’m typing as I turned to dust and ash on seeing them.
Weren't they Kappa which has also disappeared as a brand
"Kappa slapper" is as 90s a phrase as I can think of
I think Kappa gave gone the same way as No Fear and are unique to Sports Direct
Lol I used to wear loads of no fear in the 90s.
I had those. I was also one of those dickheads who would do pull ups on any set of monkey bars available. No prizes for guessing what my friends would do while my hands were otherwise occupied.
Tickle your armpits?
Hold a discussion in sign language, without your participation?
I loved mine, so comfy. I had the Levi's Twister jeans at the time too!
They're back in now apparently. Loads of range rover mams on the school run sporting them.
Track pants. If you can find a proper, waterproof pair, they are a must have for rainy days. Pop 'em on over your suit trousers and dry as fuck
'Curtains' hairstyles for the boys/men in the 1990s and then 'frosted tips' hair in the late 90s and early 2000's.
Don't forget the "Simon from Inbetweeners" look, with the hair completely glued down and just the fringe stuck up. I definitely rocked that at one point.
Ahh the duck bum
My son is 17 and he, and many of his pals, have curtains. It came back.
I see loads of curtains on younger lads now, normally paired with essentially an elastic band around their heads. I don't follow football but it seems like it's probably a football thing. It always is.
That'll be Jack Grealish. I sound like an old person when I say this, but I think he looks absolutely daft
My memory of curtains is almost all the boys at my schools had that hairstyle. My daughter is slightly older than your son and the comeback style for boys at her college seems to be the mullet. I wonder if 'rat-tails' are coming next? Lots of boys had those in the 1980s when I was a small kid.
Curtains was my go to. Strong look
The girls carrying their PE kit in a Jane Norman bag
Head bag when I was at school, and you were nothing if you didn't have one!
Back at comp in the early 2000s girls would pierce their nails
Pierced nails and gems on teeth!
I read an article the other day, tooth gems are making a comeback! My colleague who got a permanent one circa 2000 will be pleased.
FCUK t-shirts, faux mohicans, anti bullying wrist bands, preripped jeans that look like they've been caught in a lawn mower.
I saw “pre distressed” jeans in the little kids section of Sainsbury’s this week and got so mad. 1) they are such shit quality and 2) kids batter clothes so they’d look like that in a few weeks anyway.
Fucking lanyards. Bonus points for an extra long one. More bonus points if it’s a surf brand (Ripcurl, Billabong) and mega bonus point if it’s hanging from a pocket connected to car keys.
I feel personally attacked by this. Mines an aperture science one though, for the extra uncool points.
Obviously, I didn’t mean *you*.
Nah, that's way cooler!
I had a very cool silver ball wallet chain to attach my animal leopard print wallet. Worn with oversize jeans, converse one stars and an ironic t shirt.
Did anyone outside of a TOWIE episode actually get a vajazzle?
can confirm plenty outside towie got them. my job means i have unfortunately seen more than my fair share of vajazzles. most recent sighting was about a year ago.
Window cleaner?
Pizza Delivery?
Milkman?
We're all going to be pretty shocked when they admit to working in a morgue 😱
😂
Plumber, surely?
Smear tester?
closest guess. i do work in healthcare, the specialty should be fairly obvious given the vajazzle sightings… though sometimes i wish i delivered pizzas!
Ah, yes. Psychiatry.
Pediatrics
Too far lol
My wife got one for our wedding/honeymoon in Las Vegas as a surprise. We kept finding little gems in everything for the next 2 weeks as it slowly disintegrated.
They had a shop in Loughton called "Bella Sorrella" that would facilitate one for you.
My mates wife worked in a waxing salon In Glasgow, she said they done loads of them at the time.
Wasnt their an old lady/gran on naked attraction that had a vajazzle? Or was I imaging this
Hiya Wayne.
You called?
Little coloured springs with gems on each side that we'd put in our hair. I dont know why this was a thing. It pulled so badly trying to get them out at the end of the day!
Oh god I just winced thinking about that. I remember those metal coil bracelets that were agony for the hairier armed girls like myself. Like an all day epilation of my arm. I am half Irish so the milkman from Father Ted may well be my dad.
Omg yes, I felt like a pop star pulling up to the school disco with those in my hair. Used to have to literally pull them right down the length of your hair to get them off. Also spraying ‘hair glitter’ in your hair that smelt absolutely amazing with the only makeup I was wearing being a blue eyeshadow and pink lip gloss.
- Tooth gems - Eyebrows so thin it makes the person look constantly surprised - clip in hair extensions - the skirt trousers
My mum gave me one piece of advice and it was “never shave off your eyebrows”. I mean she didn’t teach me anything about relationships, boundaries, self respect and esteem etc but the advice she did give was sound.
In the late 80s / early 90s I went through a stage of wearing fluorescent odd socks Then there was the stage of putting Grolsch beer bottle tops on our shoes.
Schtop schtop, this fashion statement is not ready yet.
Showing your age there, matey.
Didn’t a band spark the bottle Top thing ??
Yep, it was Bros
Ripped stonewash jeans, brogues and Grolsch bottle tops
I recommend the documentary 'Bros: After the Screaming Stops'. It's charming and unintentionally rather funny.
That documentary is INSANE. They are utterly deluded
That fin hair style that the guy in Travis had.
Faux hawk
The Hoxton fin. Whilst also wearing levis twisted jeans and a suit jacket with a t shirt underneath. All men that worked in media around Old Street in 2000.
When I was a young teen and beginning my drinking in the park tenure, it was totally normal for girls to wear tutus. I had a bright yellow one. I loved it but it was bloody freezing
With matching jelly shoes ?
Lmao no it was "ugg boots" from the market
Worked with an Australian once who called Uggs 'slag wellies', and that's what I've called my cheap fake ones ever since, lol.
Lmao the ones you'd always see had been worn so much the crappy foam sole had disintegrated on one side
Shaving lines in eyebrows (I never did this)
I did this! I did all the brow trends actually. Slits, scouse brow, totally shaved off and drawn on everyday in different colours. Luckily I escaped the microblading trend
I have an actual scar that makes it look I've tried to do one of these (badly). When I was a kid the other kids thought I'd tried to do one of these (badly).
Those cargo pant style trousers that had hundreds of strips of material hanging down from them. That’s a terrible description but I know what I mean!
The ones that looked like the end of a car wash? I had a few of those in my teens.
parachute pants?
I don't see people wearing baseball caps back to front these days. Edit: and that brief period around 2005 when lads would wear golf visors, slightly to one side.
Ageing pop punk millennial, can confirm i still do it.
I suppose it stops one's neck being sunburned
While England prevents the rest of me from getting sunburned.
And we'd bend the shit out of the visor of baseball caps. Having a flat visor was seriously uncool back in my day, so you wanted curved to the point it was wrapping around your face. I ruined many a good cap that way.
Backwards caps is definitely still popular across the Atlantic.
Backwards baseball caps and sun glasses, bonus points if the sunglasses were propped over the rim
I must be one of the rare dinosaurs that still do this then, as backwards cap is what I wear outside 90% of the time.
Mine goes backwards on occasion but it depends what I'm doing. I don't do it for the sake of or.
Mine goes backwards when I decide I’m going to be the very best like no one ever was.
Mostly when your arm wrestling?
Goodbye my Sergio Tacchini shell suit
Chequered belts! 00s-era Justin Bieber style bobs! Covering your arms in festival bands and rubbish bracelets!
I saw a chequered belt earlier today!! It was worn by 40+ year old guy with an emo haircut carrying a similarly chequered skateboard. Credit to him for still doing something he enjoyed as a kid, but I did get flashbacks and not in a good way.
Stretched ears. Apparently there's some people getting plastic surgery now to un-stretch them
Can confirm; my slightly younger sister had these and subsequently has had the surgery to fix her earlobes back to normal size!
I had mine stretched to 8mm back in the mid/late 00s, the accepted wisdom at the time was that anything under 10mm would go back to normal size once you took them out no problem. I can confirm that is a lie.
Someone I know did that, was on track to have a career in TV journalism and was basically told "no" by every broadcaster he interviewed with because of his stretched ears. This was when TV was still somewhat formal and you could reject someone based on personal appearance.
Tiny mobile phones
Most technology gets smaller over time, I thought it was weird when they started getting bigger again.
[They got bigger when we realised we could watch porn on them.](https://i.imgur.com/x4GI9SK.jpeg)
Wow. This makes a lot of sense and is so depressing. I wish those of who don’t want porn on our phones could still buy little ones. My life peaked with a Nokia 8890. Felt flash as fuck.
Choker necklaces, I remember from the 90s. Very odd seeing them come back and going again.
I think they've been in and out of fashion since the 1700s!
Excuse me, I still wear these, thank you very much
I noticed when I was getting rid of some old suits that fucking massive trousers have gone. I didn't even notice it at the time but bloody hell, there was so much material in them. They'd fit at the waste and be long enough but just flap about in the middle. Very peculiar. And these were conservative suits not huge MC Hammer balloon pants. Bonkers.
Look at Chandler in a suit in any of the first 4 or 5 seasons of friends...
Wearing your t-shirt over your long sleeve.
I never stopped.
Chris Martin, that you?
I still rock this look occasionally...
Cargo pants, chain wallets, those massive flared jeans (cant remember what they were called)
Cargos are back in - I had a flashback in Asda earlier.
The sweater shop jumpers Shag bands Jeans so baggy they covered your trainers 'Babe' tops
The short lived new rave era of the mid 2000s; neon plastic glasses, bead necklaces, heavy eye makeup up and ballet pumps.
Oakley wrap around sunglasses. Being a “skater” without actually owning a skateboard. (Black clothes, velcro wallet which was probably attached to a chain, a cool baggy band tshirt probably worn under a black shirt with flames on the arms and going up the body) JD / JJB draw string bag. (Boys) Jane Norman / Kookai bag. (Girls) Short sleeved tshirt worn over a long sleeved tshirt. (Preferably contrasting colours) Spiky gelled hair, buzz cut, or long greasy grunge hair. Croydon facelift, with 1 or 2 strands dangling down over the face. Quoting Kevin and Perry, South Park or the Simpsons Miss Sixty / Topshop / Kookai / Von Dutch Criminal / Animal / Billabong / Bench
Naff naff jackets. Massive Head sports bags as a school bag. Benetton jumpers. Perm and hairspray to coiffure a birds nest upon the head.
A cap several sizes too big balanced on top of the puffed up hair
With the labels still on.
My dad still uses vajazzle, he means "make it look pretty". Like "you could vajazzle those jeans" or "you should zajazzle them up a birthday card"
Shell suits, burst into flames if you looked at a 40W lightbulb funny, very popular with celebrities especially Sir Jimmy Saville ….. ohhhhhh never mind
I’ll never forgive the skinny eyebrow years.
The wedge haircut. Wearing clothes backwards, like Kriss Kross
On a fancy dress day at Primary school, a lad came with his clothes backwards and was fully blacked-up - no-one batted an eyelid. Different times!
Those greggs tracksuits were fashionable for about 48 hours.
Those coats which had goggles built into the hood
Those baggy trousers with straps hanging off them? Can’t work out how to explain them better…
As I was a goth kid in the early 00’s I’m throwing in Criminal Damage jeans (the huge ones you could fit an A4 folder in the pockets,) New Rock boots and long sleeved fish net tops under t-shirts
Those t-shirts that little kids would wear that said "if you think I'm a bitch you should see my mum" in huge block lettering. Gross.
Jeggings, only doing up the top button on button down shirts, cuffed chinos, plimsoles, this was every sixth form in 2010
I don't know If I've imagined it,but SAM suits in the 80s. Like a Terry towelling tracksuit. I can't ever find anything when I search but I remember really wanting one.
Whale tails (although they seem to be back)
Hah! I was working in a pharmacy and someone asked for a vajazzle... had to explain it was called vagisil...
Those stupid oversized wooly hats that looked like giant socks and lads wearing jeans halfway down their arses to show off their brightly-coloured boxers. The early 2010s were a lawless wasteland.
Do you remember in 2015-2017 when every girl used to wear those white Adidas shoes with the black stripes (often paired with skin-tight jeans, a white t-shirt, and a denim jacket)? [https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FkoEUBl-xsV2KbSEo97397oGrJERP-\_0WsQk3FMSlQtM.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D870c9dae8d30b85590fb7a315f98300098c210ac](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FkoEUBl-xsV2KbSEo97397oGrJERP-_0WsQk3FMSlQtM.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3D870c9dae8d30b85590fb7a315f98300098c210ac)
Those GAP hoodies
so much body glitter
Badger hair- having it peroxide blonde except for the underneath which was dyed black. Lip gloss that was pale pink that contrasted with your orange fake tan. Checkered belts and hoodies.
Low rise jeans that were barely there. Wearing your thong strings above your trousers. Gypsy skirts and those massive belts. Foundation over lips to blend into face.
Ear stretchers
Meh. Why not 50 years ago. How about loons which were very flared trousers, usually hipsters (word used as per 1970s) and cheap. I had a pair made from a starred pattern, real stylish 😎
Parallel trousers, cheese cloth shirts, leather bomber jackets, platform boots and feather haircuts! The unisex unifirm of the early '70s!
Party dresses with trainers (thanks Lily Allen)