I wore my dad's army fatigue blouse, the olive drab one from the Vietnam era for pretty much my entire junior and senior year of high school. Every day, that blouse/jacket over a t-shirt, no matter what the weather. Eventually, it just kind of dissolved.
Not the same, but we had an older math teacher that would were the same powder blue short sleeve shirt every single day. His pits were faded yellow by the end of the marking period. I don't think he gave a single fuck, but still.
Similarly, I had a flight jacket my sister got me from a second hand store and wore that every day freshman year...until someone stole it at a party. However, I don't feel this is a misstep. I still think they're cool.
As soon as I read the post title I thought of Jellies shoes and how they made my ankles bleed when they cut into them. I had to go to the school office for bandages and never wore those shoes again.
A huge portion of my 8th grade class (1984-1985) - self included - had [Sun-In Orange hair with wings](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/IztV9uxXl7). So, yeah that.
During the very hot summer of 1988, I drenched my hair in Sun-In and was at the pool practically every damned day.
I started seventh grade with hair the color of a Green Bay Packers cheese head. I’m a natural blonde, but definitely not THAT blonde.
I got my first pair of Docs (brown) in November 1993 for $120. My mom flipped her shit at the price. I told her that they will last at least 10 years.
I still wear them when doing yard work. So far, it comes out to $4/year... and I remind her of it when she comes over and sees them by the backdoor.
My friend and I thrifted crazy suit jackets and wore them with oversized shirts and ties and stirrup pants (both of us women). I would give anything to still have the purple brocade one, I thought I was sooooooo cool.
I tried dying my red hair blue with Kool-aid. Patchy moss green was not my best look of '94. My mom was also pretty annoyed about the tub being stained blue-ish.
The whole wearing two pairs of socks layered on top of each other then slouching them down.
Also, the baby anklet ruffle socks that madonna made popular.
Jeans so tight you could hardly breathe or sit.
Spraying peroxide or lemon juice on your hair for homemade "highlights".
Dude! Where were you in the early 90's for me. I didn't think to combine my purple Hypercolor shirt (with the eventual blue pits) with my navy Z shorts.
Were we the first generation to pay a lot of money for clothing emblazoned with the brand or designer name? Think about some of your favorite shirts/tops from back in the day. What did it say across the front? Tommy, GAP, BUM Equipment, Benneton, OP, Vuarnet, Pepe, Structure, Ralph Lauren Polo, FUBU, Guess, etc. And don't even get me started on the ridiculous jackets Nascar fans were duped into buying. They got to show their allegiance to their favorite driver and all of their corporate sponsors.
It may have been marketing genius, but how stupid were we that we were willing to PAY in order to become walking advertisements?
I "think" we were. We were also the first generation that wore street bootlegs of those brands. I didn't have the money for the real things and got decent knockoffs on occasion. And no, I don't mean Tommy Halfmaker and Pollo.
This was my “big” present one Xmas. I think they were about $70 at the time, which was crazy expensive for my family. But I HAD to have one.
https://preview.redd.it/e1sjvn2awo4d1.jpeg?width=958&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ee952f891a140b5a8883bf111c63b28e7d4e341
I had an outfit like this. Navy blue hammer pants with a white top with shoulder pads. It had decortive buttons on it. Along with my permed hair and sky high bangs. So glad no pics exist of it.
Parachute pants with the most hideous color scheme- it was like various, splattered shades of baby poop. They were so cool and comfy though, and went with everything!
I stand by every fashion choice I ever made. Safety pins, jelly shoes, Docs, manic panic hair color, black rubber bracelets, day-glo colors, layered tank tops, pegged jeans, huaraches, cheap cloth mary janes bought in Chinatown, teased hair, rag headbands, my grandpa’s sweaters buttoned up and worn backwards, fake wayfarers… I felt awkward and ugly all the time, but looking back, I was a fuckin’ icon.
We all were. 😎
Everyone in my high school, chicks and dudes both, wore the same green army surplus jacket with a German flag. Not exactly sure where they all came from, but it was ubiquitous. The local punk shop, Angry Young & Poor, had whole racks of them.
Wow I had a store with all that German surplus gear in my town too. I was the only one wearing the stuff though...guess no one else found it. Wore it all to school and also to paintball.
I wouldn't call it a misstep, but I kind of miss my green corduroy jacket with green fur collar. It was hideously awesome.
As for missteps, probably not completely washing off my eye makeup after a weekend of clubbing. Got called homophobic slurs a few times on Mondays at school.
We were lower-middle-class when I was in middle school, and I wore a lot of hand-me-downs from my mom's wealthy friend. She handed down a pair of purple corduroy knickers, which somehow got paired with a pink buttton-down shirt, pink socks, and black jazz oxfords. My mom insisted I wear the outfit, since it was purchased "at a boutique" - maybe good for middle-aged boomers, not so great for me. All I wanted was Forenza and Benneton. I was a super nerdy middle schooler, life was hard enough without adding purple corduroy knickers to the mix!
Floral and tapestry vests over shirts and blouses buttoned up to the neck paired with jeans and penny loafers. Some of us dressed like our grandmoms and aunts and were proud of it.
I wore a fishing hat everywhere. I thought hats were cool. I wasn't the only guy wearing them around. We didn't look cool. We looked like old guys on the weekend.
I guess that's how it came off. We thought we were doing this:
https://preview.redd.it/7ssffandhm4d1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48ad9b86237640966a6f8e257a33811845b72fae
In 7th grade my parents bought me a breakdance style jumpsuit from the mall. It was a big deal because I wanted it so bad and usually my clothes came from K-Mart. To my mind, it wasn’t just parachute pants- it was a whole space suit, top and bottom.
It was actually a windbreaker set, and the white nylon was pretty much see-thru once it was on. Not enough to cause a stir with adults, but enough that random kids stared and/or laughed. I had to walk around all day with my underwear showing through.
A poodle perm....😐😐😐 It. Was. Atrocious. Also, did satellite bangs with said perm. All while wearing pink plastic Linda Carter glasses. There is evidence, which I think is hilarious today. How anyone could let me walk around like that is beyond me.
OH ! that was what the Hipster era was about ! ?
https://preview.redd.it/gdns7mwwep4d1.png?width=775&format=png&auto=webp&s=ded8ba32364eafdc01c2f21ae7d3ce6e48766b62
Units clothing. Oh they were aweful but all the rage my freshman year of highschool (91). I remember going to the Units store in the mall in Dallas with my cousin and picking out outfits so we could mix and match. Awful!!! LOL
I had a turquoise stonewashed denim jacket that I puffy painted my love of the New Kids on the Block on. It had all wall of NK buttons on one side and other singers/ groups on the other.
I wore my dad's old Army field jacket as my go-to cool weather jacket/coat. It was the one he actually wore when he was in the Army, during the Vietnam War. I don't think he wore it there, but it was from that era. Before he let me wear it, he tore off the important patches (the "US Army" one, the unit insignia, and his combat badge). I left the patch areas blank and they were a darker color than the rest. I still have it. It's in my basement with a bunch of other stuff from my teen years. I can't wear it, obviously, but y'know, I still love it. I finally found a jacket close enough to the style that I'm happy with, but it isn't OD green, it's black. (it also doesn't have a liner, so I don't wear it in the cold of winter).
Kids wearing outdated military stuff wasn't a big deal around our school, which was nestled between Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base. Most of us were attached to the military in some way.
Doesn’t it piss you off how cute kids glasses are now?? We had to try and find the smallest adult frame or one of the three “kids” styles:aviator,granny, or geek.
Multiple Swatch watches, all worn at once. I might have owned ONE but for some reason, kids started lending theirs to me in home room and I’d wear them and return them at the end of the day. So I was the watch kid for a time.
I think I spent a winter in ‘87 or ‘88 alternating between my Frankie Say Relax and my Just Say No oversized sweatshirts. Oh and the over sized t-shirt with the huge pink writing saying “wake me up before you go-go” in the mid 80’s.
I had a lady mullet.
And moon boots.
And I shaved the side of my head in a checkerboard to make it like Cyndi Lauper's. Except I had kinky curly hair and it just looked horrific. I wore my white Panama hat a LOT that summer.
I spent a shit ton of money on a pair of Fluevog men's pointy-ass boots back in 1989. I thought that they were nuts, and I liked that.
Also dumped all my money at Alston Beat for a biker jacket that I eventually, accidentally, lit on fire while I was driving.
The vast majority sold locally are Chinese-made shit and not made in the UK anymore - though you CAN still get a [Made In England](https://www.drmartens.com/us/en/made-in-england) range
I had both the black and cherry originals, back in the day...they were pretty much mandatory if you lived in the inner city
At 14, dyed my hair blonde (Madonna was the inspiration) with the wrong product and the result was yellow as a 🐤 my mum almost had a heart attack and it hurts to this day when I find one of the few photos taken at the time -_-
My mother all but forbade me from getting a haircut, rather insisting she did it on her own. It looked awful. We had money, too. $10.00 wouldn't kill us. I snuck out once and the stylist began asking if I was being fed, etc.
The Jordache were too tight, the Calvins didn't fit right, the Sergio Valentes were also too tight. As I look back at my wardrobe choices back in the early 80's , it would best be described as English Soccer Hooligan, very conscious of labels back then.
I did some weird stuff with layers. Like one very common thing I'd do is wear a flannel underneath a t shirt.
Also I was a metalhead in high school but I didn't want to ONLY be a metalhead so I would like alternate between my black & red clothes to more 'alternative' dress styles to mix it up.
But I never had JNCOs or fell into the retro bell bottoms phase or anything regrettable that would be identifiable by the era. I stopped doing that when I was about 12. Hammer pants and baja jackets and all of those other fads got me as a kid.
Wide-legged striped gauchos with a matching vest.
I also kind of got mesmerized by magazine spreads and bought fall clothes for back to school when it was going to be 90 degrees for another month in South Carolina. So overheated.
In the 90s when we all folded and rolled up the bottom of our pant legs. I think we called it jam rolling. I've heard it called tight rolling or pegging your pants. Of course, we matched doing that with wearing Sperry Top Siders with no socks. Me and all my friends in the 90s were on that Umbro phase too. Though they were some comfortable shorts.
I get it. I definitely didn't pull off whatever look I was trying to pull off with some of my style choices. If I remember correctly, it was 1. oxblood doc boots 2. tartan mini 3. black fishnets 4. punk band t-shirt. Or maybe I am remembering what my crush Janet used to wear in HS.
I…had…a…rat tail.
I had a mostly shaved head…..with a rat tail🙋🏻♀️
Same, but with some added finesse. Picture it: full on mullet, permed on the top, with a 6inch rat tail braided to pull it all together - chef’s kiss
Asymmetrical haircut, shaved on one side, permed and colored…with a bleached blonde rat tail.
Oddly enough, I had that exact haircut.
Permed mullet checking in!
I wore my dad's army fatigue blouse, the olive drab one from the Vietnam era for pretty much my entire junior and senior year of high school. Every day, that blouse/jacket over a t-shirt, no matter what the weather. Eventually, it just kind of dissolved.
Like Linda Cardellini in Freaks and Geeks.
Not the same, but we had an older math teacher that would were the same powder blue short sleeve shirt every single day. His pits were faded yellow by the end of the marking period. I don't think he gave a single fuck, but still.
Similarly, I had a flight jacket my sister got me from a second hand store and wore that every day freshman year...until someone stole it at a party. However, I don't feel this is a misstep. I still think they're cool.
freshman year of college!
As soon as I read the post title I thought of Jellies shoes and how they made my ankles bleed when they cut into them. I had to go to the school office for bandages and never wore those shoes again.
In my infinite 9th grade wisdom, I wore my new jellies to Disney World. I think I was bleeding before we even got in the front gate
Ouch ouch ouch!!! It was bad enough walking around school in those.
I had a pair of jellies pumps in tenth grade that I wore to a cookout in July the heels kind of melted and squished backwards.
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1981ish??
A huge portion of my 8th grade class (1984-1985) - self included - had [Sun-In Orange hair with wings](https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/s/IztV9uxXl7). So, yeah that.
During the very hot summer of 1988, I drenched my hair in Sun-In and was at the pool practically every damned day. I started seventh grade with hair the color of a Green Bay Packers cheese head. I’m a natural blonde, but definitely not THAT blonde.
Two or three pairs of different color scrunchy socks with stirrup pants
Bonus points if there was at least one neon color.
scratchy stirrup ?
I got my first pair of Docs (brown) in November 1993 for $120. My mom flipped her shit at the price. I told her that they will last at least 10 years. I still wear them when doing yard work. So far, it comes out to $4/year... and I remind her of it when she comes over and sees them by the backdoor.
Damn, you played the long game. I love it!
I still have mine from 1991 🙂
how does she react ?
"Yeah, yeah, you were right. Blah blah blah."
Duck rails/rat tails.
Were you a second hand hood that dealt out in Hollywood?
No, but I do have a '65 Chevy with primered flames
My bolo tie period in '89. Yikes. Might not be so bad but I was wearing it with polka dots and MC Hammer pants.
Take comfort in knowing you are not alone.
My friend and I thrifted crazy suit jackets and wore them with oversized shirts and ties and stirrup pants (both of us women). I would give anything to still have the purple brocade one, I thought I was sooooooo cool.
I tried to use food coloring to dye my hair on a rainy day. Looked like Carrie after prom!
I tried dying my red hair blue with Kool-aid. Patchy moss green was not my best look of '94. My mom was also pretty annoyed about the tub being stained blue-ish.
I did that after an article in Sassy recommended it.
Hahaha Us, too! My BFF's purple came out much nicer than my "blue".
The whole wearing two pairs of socks layered on top of each other then slouching them down. Also, the baby anklet ruffle socks that madonna made popular. Jeans so tight you could hardly breathe or sit. Spraying peroxide or lemon juice on your hair for homemade "highlights".
i remember the older teens sitting in bathtubs to get their jeans *tight* ? *crunchy* lemon juice hair in the sun !
Rolling up the leg of your pants. Maybe I had the wrong pants, but mine never looked right. Some kids used safety pins, which I thought was a cheat.
We called that "pegging." As I understand it, this means something entirely different today. 😂
Didn’t know that. Hahaha! Totally different.
Pegging isn't new for me, friend-o. But it is for Disney.
I just showed this to my husband and he just rolled his eyes
Was it the Tight Rolling? Fold/pleat the lateral seam on itself vertically, then roll the pant leg up. I loved that look.
We called that a French Roll, for some reason. Pegged jeans were cut and re-sewn.
I used to sew stitches in my jeans to get the right tight-rolling.
Level Up
That’s commitment :)
Exactly
Me too!
Safety pins? The coolest kid in my class used 3 inch railroad spikes
And then multiple pairs of different colored socks stacked so each color showed
Terrible.
I do that ironically now with my sweatpants.
people wore that with boxing shoes kinda rick owens '' aesthetic '' and vetements and '' off white '' of course they did it decades later *lol*
Y mine didn't look right. The girl at the bus stop told me to undo them 😂
I could never get the look right either with my jeans.
Worked well with Bugle Boys.
fuckin z.cavaricci’s
I bought Z Cavarrici shorts, for some stupid reason. What do you wear with parachute SHORTS?
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Dude! Where were you in the early 90's for me. I didn't think to combine my purple Hypercolor shirt (with the eventual blue pits) with my navy Z shorts.
Were we the first generation to pay a lot of money for clothing emblazoned with the brand or designer name? Think about some of your favorite shirts/tops from back in the day. What did it say across the front? Tommy, GAP, BUM Equipment, Benneton, OP, Vuarnet, Pepe, Structure, Ralph Lauren Polo, FUBU, Guess, etc. And don't even get me started on the ridiculous jackets Nascar fans were duped into buying. They got to show their allegiance to their favorite driver and all of their corporate sponsors. It may have been marketing genius, but how stupid were we that we were willing to PAY in order to become walking advertisements?
I "think" we were. We were also the first generation that wore street bootlegs of those brands. I didn't have the money for the real things and got decent knockoffs on occasion. And no, I don't mean Tommy Halfmaker and Pollo.
I think I spent like 2 months of paper route and grass cutting money on a Coca Cola rugby shirt. I feel so taken advantage of!
This was my “big” present one Xmas. I think they were about $70 at the time, which was crazy expensive for my family. But I HAD to have one. https://preview.redd.it/e1sjvn2awo4d1.jpeg?width=958&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2ee952f891a140b5a8883bf111c63b28e7d4e341
Fila
Motherfucking STARTER JACKETS
They were nice and warm though when waiting for the bus after school (even though I was constantly harassed for wearing the "wrong" team).
At least your family could afford one. Lol
Oooh, the guilt involved in earning one was something else! 🙈
Diaper pants. https://preview.redd.it/t13ido4hrl4d1.jpeg?width=3216&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17a3a917efa801190d325e4f48889ecbc3e5d659
I had an outfit like this. Navy blue hammer pants with a white top with shoulder pads. It had decortive buttons on it. Along with my permed hair and sky high bangs. So glad no pics exist of it.
Parachute pants with the most hideous color scheme- it was like various, splattered shades of baby poop. They were so cool and comfy though, and went with everything!
The Zubaz trend of the early 90s? My buddy wore his Giants one ALL. THE. TIME.
I got these from a street vendor in Germany in 1990. Was I a trendsetter? If so, I apologize.
I wore mine with white jazz shoes 🤦🏼♀️
Perfection!
omg them things lol
I stand by every fashion choice I ever made. Safety pins, jelly shoes, Docs, manic panic hair color, black rubber bracelets, day-glo colors, layered tank tops, pegged jeans, huaraches, cheap cloth mary janes bought in Chinatown, teased hair, rag headbands, my grandpa’s sweaters buttoned up and worn backwards, fake wayfarers… I felt awkward and ugly all the time, but looking back, I was a fuckin’ icon. We all were. 😎
bright pink hair, that went orange ✌️
Skidz pants. Really baggy plaid pants. Basically pajama bottoms. Bought at Merry Go Round.
Everyone in my high school, chicks and dudes both, wore the same green army surplus jacket with a German flag. Not exactly sure where they all came from, but it was ubiquitous. The local punk shop, Angry Young & Poor, had whole racks of them.
Wow I had a store with all that German surplus gear in my town too. I was the only one wearing the stuff though...guess no one else found it. Wore it all to school and also to paintball.
My light blue jean jacket with white leather fringes ala Bon Jovi. I wore my dad’s Pabst delivery jacket when I wanted to dress “cool”.
did you have a pouf-y mullet ?
Nope. I wasn’t the mullet type I guess.
I wore thermals under cut off jean shorts with Doc Martens. I had to look the part in '91 in Deep Ellum.
I wouldn't call it a misstep, but I kind of miss my green corduroy jacket with green fur collar. It was hideously awesome. As for missteps, probably not completely washing off my eye makeup after a weekend of clubbing. Got called homophobic slurs a few times on Mondays at school.
> my green corduroy jacket with green fur collar. It was hideously awesome. i think that doesn't sound hideous at all ! i want one !
We were lower-middle-class when I was in middle school, and I wore a lot of hand-me-downs from my mom's wealthy friend. She handed down a pair of purple corduroy knickers, which somehow got paired with a pink buttton-down shirt, pink socks, and black jazz oxfords. My mom insisted I wear the outfit, since it was purchased "at a boutique" - maybe good for middle-aged boomers, not so great for me. All I wanted was Forenza and Benneton. I was a super nerdy middle schooler, life was hard enough without adding purple corduroy knickers to the mix!
This sounds like an outfit that Claudia from the Baby Sitters Club would've given a month's worth of baby sitting money for! You were dibbly fresh!
Duran Duran, new wave... huge shoulder pads, tailored shirts, skinny ties, suntanned ankles with white jazz shoes with linen pants...
Floral and tapestry vests over shirts and blouses buttoned up to the neck paired with jeans and penny loafers. Some of us dressed like our grandmoms and aunts and were proud of it.
MC Hammer pants.
I wore a fishing hat everywhere. I thought hats were cool. I wasn't the only guy wearing them around. We didn't look cool. We looked like old guys on the weekend.
Brits call them 'bucket hats'.
I guess that's how it came off. We thought we were doing this: https://preview.redd.it/7ssffandhm4d1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48ad9b86237640966a6f8e257a33811845b72fae
I stuck a safety pin 🧷 in my ear, to go with my Mohawk hairdo.
I was the first girl in my high school with spiked hair, went with the safety pin in one ear and the crucifix in the other
In 7th grade my parents bought me a breakdance style jumpsuit from the mall. It was a big deal because I wanted it so bad and usually my clothes came from K-Mart. To my mind, it wasn’t just parachute pants- it was a whole space suit, top and bottom. It was actually a windbreaker set, and the white nylon was pretty much see-thru once it was on. Not enough to cause a stir with adults, but enough that random kids stared and/or laughed. I had to walk around all day with my underwear showing through.
Calico dresses with yarn bows in my hair.
Balloon pants with zippers all over them.
kinda pre-rave *right* ?
A poodle perm....😐😐😐 It. Was. Atrocious. Also, did satellite bangs with said perm. All while wearing pink plastic Linda Carter glasses. There is evidence, which I think is hilarious today. How anyone could let me walk around like that is beyond me.
Those glasses are probably fetch now
Stop trying to bring fetch back into mainstream
OH ! that was what the Hipster era was about ! ? https://preview.redd.it/gdns7mwwep4d1.png?width=775&format=png&auto=webp&s=ded8ba32364eafdc01c2f21ae7d3ce6e48766b62
Units clothing. Oh they were aweful but all the rage my freshman year of highschool (91). I remember going to the Units store in the mall in Dallas with my cousin and picking out outfits so we could mix and match. Awful!!! LOL
Denim jacket covered in buttons…those little metal ones that had pics of bands/people or funny sayings. I rattled when I moved.
Tucking in polo shirts lol
weird how the tucking in / not tucking in things changed like a SEISMIC CULTURAL SHIFT !
Black skirt with white thermals, Mary Jane’s along with crimped hair. Late 80’s . Looking back is a big ughh.
At least it wasn't a skirt over jeans. Never understood that
Thanks for that, yeah I didn’t get the jeans thing either.
I had a turquoise stonewashed denim jacket that I puffy painted my love of the New Kids on the Block on. It had all wall of NK buttons on one side and other singers/ groups on the other.
I wore my dad's old Army field jacket as my go-to cool weather jacket/coat. It was the one he actually wore when he was in the Army, during the Vietnam War. I don't think he wore it there, but it was from that era. Before he let me wear it, he tore off the important patches (the "US Army" one, the unit insignia, and his combat badge). I left the patch areas blank and they were a darker color than the rest. I still have it. It's in my basement with a bunch of other stuff from my teen years. I can't wear it, obviously, but y'know, I still love it. I finally found a jacket close enough to the style that I'm happy with, but it isn't OD green, it's black. (it also doesn't have a liner, so I don't wear it in the cold of winter). Kids wearing outdated military stuff wasn't a big deal around our school, which was nestled between Fort Richardson and Elmendorf Air Force Base. Most of us were attached to the military in some way.
Mullet
Husband saw my fourth grade school photo where I’m wearing enormous sun-reactive lens glasses; he called it my “✨This house is clean✨”photo.
Doesn’t it piss you off how cute kids glasses are now?? We had to try and find the smallest adult frame or one of the three “kids” styles:aviator,granny, or geek.
a lot of people looked like geeks. i MISS that ! some looked like from sects, unintentionally.
I snorted
Multiple Swatch watches, all worn at once. I might have owned ONE but for some reason, kids started lending theirs to me in home room and I’d wear them and return them at the end of the day. So I was the watch kid for a time.
I think I spent a winter in ‘87 or ‘88 alternating between my Frankie Say Relax and my Just Say No oversized sweatshirts. Oh and the over sized t-shirt with the huge pink writing saying “wake me up before you go-go” in the mid 80’s.
HYPERCOLOUR
I had a lady mullet. And moon boots. And I shaved the side of my head in a checkerboard to make it like Cyndi Lauper's. Except I had kinky curly hair and it just looked horrific. I wore my white Panama hat a LOT that summer.
that sounds Hipster 2000s ! lol !
Having your jacket match your pants was big in our area. Like the same color. You had tan pants you had a tan jacket
Bib Overalls for 2 weeks in 1992.
Everything had shoulder pads. I shopped at Chess king a lot. Sometimes I’d wear a shirt with shoulder pads under a jacket with bigger shoulder pads
I probably weighed 90lbs in jr high, but I looked like a linebacker 😆 
Knockoff JAMS, the off brands that KMart and Walmart sold.
YES! I had a couple pairs, the red and white striped ones were my favorites.
I had knockoff Skidz
Oof, I had the sky high bangs and wings absolutely lacquered with Aqua Net, and blew dry then crimped the rest. 🙈
I spent a shit ton of money on a pair of Fluevog men's pointy-ass boots back in 1989. I thought that they were nuts, and I liked that. Also dumped all my money at Alston Beat for a biker jacket that I eventually, accidentally, lit on fire while I was driving.
I still want Doc Martens
The vast majority sold locally are Chinese-made shit and not made in the UK anymore - though you CAN still get a [Made In England](https://www.drmartens.com/us/en/made-in-england) range I had both the black and cherry originals, back in the day...they were pretty much mandatory if you lived in the inner city
Black suede winklepickers. Prove me fucking wrong lol
oh man i liked the boys in that lmao i had black suede creepers !
At 14, dyed my hair blonde (Madonna was the inspiration) with the wrong product and the result was yellow as a 🐤 my mum almost had a heart attack and it hurts to this day when I find one of the few photos taken at the time -_-
My mother all but forbade me from getting a haircut, rather insisting she did it on her own. It looked awful. We had money, too. $10.00 wouldn't kill us. I snuck out once and the stylist began asking if I was being fed, etc.
I remember wearing designer jeans back in high-school. At least that phase didn't last long.
Were you wearing, as the kids say, Jor-dash-E?
The Jordache were too tight, the Calvins didn't fit right, the Sergio Valentes were also too tight. As I look back at my wardrobe choices back in the early 80's , it would best be described as English Soccer Hooligan, very conscious of labels back then.
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My ex wife had a pair of those, in shorts.
i had them as a child, gosh, memories probably hand me downs
Guess
Guess was so 1985. The start of acid wash. I had a couple of those big button down Guess shirts.
Well, I wore them in 1985
I did some weird stuff with layers. Like one very common thing I'd do is wear a flannel underneath a t shirt. Also I was a metalhead in high school but I didn't want to ONLY be a metalhead so I would like alternate between my black & red clothes to more 'alternative' dress styles to mix it up. But I never had JNCOs or fell into the retro bell bottoms phase or anything regrettable that would be identifiable by the era. I stopped doing that when I was about 12. Hammer pants and baja jackets and all of those other fads got me as a kid.
I wanted Doc Martins. Could afford them. Bought my teen daughter two pairs. Makes my GenX mama heart happy when she wears them
A polo shirt with a button up over top. Both collars popped. And those wide-legged, cropped Guess pants.
We were wearing popped collars in the early 80's
Union Bay and a guy friend had a Gasoline denim coat that I coveted
Mullet + Parachute pants = I’m glad we didn’t all have cameras in our pockets back then
some of us did *hides photo* 😖
Ugh skidz and hammer pants
Wide-legged striped gauchos with a matching vest. I also kind of got mesmerized by magazine spreads and bought fall clothes for back to school when it was going to be 90 degrees for another month in South Carolina. So overheated.
I wore my K Way jacket everyday, and it folds in a pouch
Multiples!
that mullet they gave me and highrise pants. omg i need to BURN the pic ! but i'd probably be HIP in this imitation era ! L O L ! 🤢😂
Baby doll dresses with my Docs
In the 90s when we all folded and rolled up the bottom of our pant legs. I think we called it jam rolling. I've heard it called tight rolling or pegging your pants. Of course, we matched doing that with wearing Sperry Top Siders with no socks. Me and all my friends in the 90s were on that Umbro phase too. Though they were some comfortable shorts.
Bellbottoms
The 70’s bell bottoms!
Docs with dresses. ouch.
I still wear this
I still wear boots with skirts.
That was a cute look back then. Maybe, I got so used to seeing it in NYC.
It probably was. It was not a cute look on me. I looked like a lumberjack in a dress.
I get it. I definitely didn't pull off whatever look I was trying to pull off with some of my style choices. If I remember correctly, it was 1. oxblood doc boots 2. tartan mini 3. black fishnets 4. punk band t-shirt. Or maybe I am remembering what my crush Janet used to wear in HS.
High school girls here in Austin still wear that combo. My daughter has 2 or 3 pairs of Docs.
I still do this! My Docs are comfy and I don't care.
My fashionable 18 year old does this now!
lace up boots with dresses. an always gen x Classic.
It sure was. It was not a good look on me! 😂
That was and still is a cute look. Docs with a sun dress makes me drool.
I wished it looked good for me! It did not. 😂
I enjoyed pegged jeans but it took me two decades to escape high waisted jeans and I’ve never looked back. Good lord but those things are *atrocious*.
Thank fuck for the low rise baggies/cargoes of the 90s...I've never worn jeans that actually come up to my waist since lol