what are the "must have" items when you was in high school?....

[Mara]

from 89-92....

acid washed guess jeans with safety pins at the ankles to taper them or zippered!

keds with scrunchy socks that matched your top!!! i have this picture of me from school with a bright red mickey mouse top on and acid washed jeans, srunchy big red socks and white keds. oh yeah it's charming.

stretchy stirrup pants with long button down flannel shirts, so unflattering!!

big poufy front bangs with lots of hairspray

billabong denim patterned shorts, i had this one wild white pair with pastel florals all over it and you folded them up a few times over the knee!

torn sweatshirts so that a shoulder showed ala flashdance

colored hoop earrings, aka talking turquoise and fuschia here people!

matching scrunchies to either your earrings or your socks/top.

and i remembered this the other day but can't remember if it was HS or college, maybe the end of HS...wearing mens striped rugby shirts from jcrew over the stirrups? haha i so did it!

oh ETA one more...stretchy non-denim material items, but patterned to be made to look like denim. I had this long dress that looked like acid washed denim but was really strechy polyester or something and a tacky ass matching belt with it...omg it's horrible.

 

[Mara]

OMG Island Dreams I totally forgot the BANANA CLIPS.....I had like 4 of them and yes had to still have the big front pouffy bangs...LOL!

 

[Mokey]

Eastland loafers with the laces tied into weird knots, and you had to have a pair in all of the colors. Keds. The jeans that buttoned closed and then they had a big top on them and it flipped over to a different fabric. Oh, and the MC Hammer type pants......I feel so old now!

 

[eks6426]

Mara-"keds with scrunchy socks that matched your top!!! i have this picture of me from school with a bright red mickey mouse top on and acid washed jeans, srunchy big red socks and white keds. oh yeah it''s charming."

Mara-I think I have the twin of that picture somewhere...there is a picture of me standing in front of my first car (1987 red Chevette) with a red mickey mouse sweatshirt, acid wash jeans tunked into red scrunchy socks and white keds. How very scary!

 

[Mara]

Date: 2/23/2006 2:17:04 PM
Author: IslandDreams
Mara-''keds with scrunchy socks that matched your top!!! i have this picture of me from school with a bright red mickey mouse top on and acid washed jeans, srunchy big red socks and white keds. oh yeah it''s charming.''

Mara-I think I have the twin of that picture somewhere...there is a picture of me standing in front of my first car (1987 red Chevette) with a red mickey mouse sweatshirt, acid wash jeans tunked into red scrunchy socks and white keds. How very scary!

OMG that is just hilarious....was it like the HS public school uniform around the US or what?! oh and then i had really big curly wild hair too. it''s just such a charming picture....when Greg saw it he couldn''t stop laughing. And we thought we were SO COOL.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 2/23/2006 12:48:17 PM
Author: Matatora
I graduated from HS is 2001. The must have items were:
-computer with internet access in your room, had to be able to talk online all night this was my AIM SN then and still is
-car that cost too much (my SLK was not impressive),
-knee high leather boots
-Discman
-Cell phone
-North Face Denali fleece
-addias exercise clothes for PE
-LV bags (I was given one my senior year and still feel like I am not old enough to carry it even though nearly everyone I see on campus has at least one LV bag. I don’t like things where you know the brand at a glance, makes me feel odd.)
-A&F Jeans
-Tiffany’s Heart charm bracelet (I had the circle…hearts were cheesy.)
-RL Pony Polos

Mat

bunch of spoil brats

were the LVs fake or real?

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 2/23/2006 2:20:19 PM
Author: Mara

Date: 2/23/2006 2:17:04 PM
Author: IslandDreams
Mara-''keds with scrunchy socks that matched your top!!! i have this picture of me from school with a bright red mickey mouse top on and acid washed jeans, srunchy big red socks and white keds. oh yeah it''s charming.''

Mara-I think I have the twin of that picture somewhere...there is a picture of me standing in front of my first car (1987 red Chevette) with a red mickey mouse sweatshirt, acid wash jeans tunked into red scrunchy socks and white keds. How very scary!

OMG that is just hilarious....was it like the HS public school uniform around the US or what?! oh and then i had really big curly wild hair too. it''s just such a charming picture....when Greg saw it he couldn''t stop laughing. And we thought we were SO COOL.

Mara
post the picture

 

[MissAva]

Date: 2/23/2006 2:31:20 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 2/23/2006 12:48:17 PM
Author: Matatora
I graduated from HS is 2001. The must have items were:
-computer with internet access in your room, had to be able to talk online all night this was my AIM SN then and still is
-car that cost too much (my SLK was not impressive),
-knee high leather boots
-Discman
-Cell phone
-North Face Denali fleece
-addias exercise clothes for PE
-LV bags (I was given one my senior year and still feel like I am not old enough to carry it even though nearly everyone I see on campus has at least one LV bag. I don’t like things where you know the brand at a glance, makes me feel odd.)
-A&F Jeans
-Tiffany’s Heart charm bracelet (I had the circle…hearts were cheesy.)
-RL Pony Polos

Mat

bunch of spoil brats

were the LVs fake or real?

Yes they were...and I was freash from being a military brat and thought I had it soo good and everyone looked down their nose at me....their adults lives are going to really suck when they realize not everyone gets to grow up the way they did.

And yes the LVs were real, so were the Fendi, Prada, and Vesarce clothes they wore.... he he I was just thrilled becuase my parents would buy me 40$ jeans. OMG did I stick out.

 

[jetmal]

oh my gosh....I can''t believe I almost forgot these.....

Remember MC Hammer pants??? aka, jeanie pants???

LMAO!

 

[Mara]

Date: 2/23/2006 4:25:15 PM
Author: jetmal
oh my gosh....I can''t believe I almost forgot these.....

Remember MC Hammer pants??? aka, jeanie pants???

LMAO!

Oh God Jetmal..some people still wear those at the GYM, the big bodybuilder types if you can believe it!

 

[Erin]

grad 1993

Add-a-bead necklace
Jeans that had suede or leather patched on them like chaps
leather bomber jacket
as many rings that could fit on your fingers without looking ''tacky''

black liquid eyeliner
Z Cavariccis or Guess jeans
Sweatshirts from Pasta or Benneton
the ''Bill Cosby'' sweaters
COLORED jeans (lime green, red, purple)
dress shirts with the sheer sleeves
a Fossil watch
Clinique makeup

 

[Momoftwo]

Grad-1978

Platform shoes
Puka (sp?) shell necklace
Toe socks
Bell bottoms
Straight leg jeans
Levis cords
Gaucho pants with knee high boots (the pants are back!)
Cowl neck sweaters with stick pins
Clogs
Skirts with matching shawls
Skirts just below the knee
POLYESTER!!!

A lot of what I''ve seen again over the last 5 years. Designer stuff was pretty much unheard of.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 2/23/2006 5:56:05 PM
Author: Momoftwo
Grad-1978

Platform shoes
Puka (sp?) shell necklace
Toe socks
Bell bottoms
Straight leg jeans
Levis cords
Gaucho pants with knee high boots (the pants are back!)
Cowl neck sweaters with stick pins
Clogs
Skirts with matching shawls
Skirts just below the knee
POLYESTER!!!

A lot of what I''ve seen again over the last 5 years. Designer stuff was pretty much unheard of.

yep.....got to have those

just toss my 6" platform in the garbage not too long ago,along with my GET THERE shoes .i found them at my dad''s house,under my old bed

 

[Momoftwo]

Date: 2/23/2006 6:27:08 PM
Author: Dancing Fire

Date: 2/23/2006 5:56:05 PM
Author: Momoftwo
Grad-1978

Platform shoes
Puka (sp?) shell necklace
Toe socks
Bell bottoms
Straight leg jeans
Levis cords
Gaucho pants with knee high boots (the pants are back!)
Cowl neck sweaters with stick pins
Clogs
Skirts with matching shawls
Skirts just below the knee
POLYESTER!!!

A lot of what I''ve seen again over the last 5 years. Designer stuff was pretty much unheard of.

yep.....got to have those

just toss my 6'' platform in the garbage not too long ago,along with my GET THERE shoes .i found them at my dad''s house,under my old bed

You had to have them to dance like John Travolta

 

[marvel]

Date: 2/22/2006 7:32:02 PM
Author: moon river
Ah the class of ''86. Some Highlights...

leg warmers
members only jackets
swatch watches(wearing more than one at a time)
jelly shoes
Etienne Aigner purses
Izod shirts
Nike shoes
tretorn sneakers
LLBean blucher moccassins
topsider boat shoes
sweater tied around your neck
Feathered hair
Slap bracelets
GQ glasses
polo shirts with the collars turned up
capri pants
Gloria Vanderbilt jeans
Jordache jeans

That''s all I can remember now....I am ssssoooooo old

Fire&Ice I had the biggest collection of burmuda bag covers in the whole school

MoonRiver, You have an EXCELLENT memory! I couldn''t remember anything but legwarmers

 

[sarita]

Class of 2000 - some that I remember during the 4 years (all girls Catholic prep school)

- scrunchies, plastic hair claws
- ankle sport socks so low ankle bone shows
- black hip huggers
- fake, over the top nails
- flare front-distressed jeans
- tiffany style rolo/ heart charm bracelet
- Victoria's Secret Pear Glace spray
- Tommy Girl
- Abercrombie & Fitch
- platform or any chunky shoes
- Sanrio stuff
- huge hoop earrings or really teeny tiny little post-earrings
- hair chunking
- fake tans
- the bra strap headband
- knee highs
- addidas sandals
- LL Bean Initial backpacks

 

[moon river]

Marvel-I did forget a few items. I'm having 'flashbacks' reading the new posts.

Starset Princess-Yes!! I loved my add a bead necklace. Did you also do the add a pearl? And I had rings on all my fingers. What us, tacky, never

Libster-I HAD THE RED SWOOSH NIKES TOO!!!! I was the FIRST one in school to have them. And 'Nothing comes between me and my Calvins' Oh, the controversy surronding that ad. Seems tame in this day and age.

Fire&Ice-I bet if You, Libster and I compared yearbook pics we wouldn't be able to tell each other apart. How funny that our cloths and accesssories were so 'REGIONAL'. I'm from Southeast Tennessee. How about you guys?(er, ya'll)?

Mara-AAACCCKKKK....You HAD to remind me of Acid Wash jeans and safety pins!!!!!!

And those embarrassing scrunchy socks that on a short person as myself was NOT a good look

. And don't even get me started on the Flashdance tops!!!How many of us took scissors to brand new sweat shirts in the name of FASHION?????

Dancing Fire-I love this thread!! Thanks for the memories. I think I'll put on my scrunchy socks and dance to 'Footloose'

 

[icefisher]

Class of ''82 must-have: tickets for Led Zeppelin''s 1980-81 North American tour.

Had ''em in my hot little hands....till John Bonham decided to have 40 shots of vodka for breakfast one morning. R.I.P. Bonzo.....

Great thread DF, thanks for the (fuzzy) memories....

 

[glaucomflecken]

OMG this thread is cracking me up! Mara I SO wore mens rugby shirts over stirruos! (shudder)

Pebbles I am having so many QOP flashbacks here! LOL!

1990-1994:

Z cavaricci pants with "pegged" bottoms
Guess or LA Gear Jeans
Anything Esprit...bookbags, scrunchies with the Esprit tag hanging out, Esprit ribbed shirts
Birkenstocks
Banana clips or wearing multiple scrunchies at once
Big hair, big bangs and spiral perms
Penny loafers with a nickel stuffed in the pocket on the front
Colored jeans, especially navy, brick red or hunter green
Huge colored hoop earrings...I had them in red, green, fuschia, etc... LOL!
Acrylic nails and colored contact lenses
Rings on every finger

And of course you HAD to have your boyfriends class ring, wrapped in the back with yarn to make it fit on your much smaller finger, and also have his high school jacket.

 

[glaucomflecken]

Date: 2/23/2006 2:09:55 PM
Author: Mokey
The jeans that buttoned closed and then they had a big top on them and it flipped over to a different fabric.

OH have mercy I had a pair of those! Yuck!

 

[Mara]

omg Punchie I forgot about the penny loafers, my friend had a pair of those!!

and the letter jacket is always a high school staple!

OH i just remembered something else that was SOOO cool then....a total must-have:

those little acrylic 2x3 see through/clear keychain two-sided picture frames, you put a picture of your boyfriend on one side and your best friends on the other and clipped it on your backpack so everyone could see them....and also clipping all sorts of other crap to your backpack too, those big gobs of keychains and pictures people always had on their backpacks. HAHAHA.

 

[Dancing Fire]

Date: 2/23/2006 9:53:08 PM
Author: icefisher
Class of ''82 must-have: tickets for Led Zeppelin''s 1980-81 North American tour.

Had ''em in my hot little hands....till John Bonham decided to have 40 shots of vodka for breakfast one morning. R.I.P. Bonzo.....

Great thread DF, thanks for the (fuzzy) memories....

and he''s "STAIR WAY TO HEAVEN"....LOL

 

[monarch64]

OK, I wasn''t going to admit to it, but I was one of the first (in 4th grade) to wear hot pink hi-top Reeboks with two pairs of scrunch sox in purple and pink ( and yes, you spelled "socks" s-o-x.)

And we also wore leggings with "oversized" sweatshirts. Unfortunately, today when I read the Chicago Sun-Times fashion section, leggings were making a comeback. I guess this means I''m officially old.

Thanks, DF. Now I''m going to browse my online plastic surgery options.

Just kidding!

 

[Mokey]

Just to go with the whole keychain thing, I remember having so many keychains for my car keys. I think I spent more on the wad of keychains than I did on the entire car! My boyfriend used to tell me I was going to pull the ignition out of the car from the weight of the keychains. I can''t belileve I forgot about the matching socks and scrunchy and shirts! I so did that. I even try to get my daughter to match socks now and she looks at me like I am a nut job!

 

[Libster]

Date: 2/23/2006 9:12:50 PM
Author: moon river
Marvel-I did forget a few items. I''m having ''flashbacks'' reading the new posts.

Starset Princess-Yes!! I loved my add a bead necklace. Did you also do the add a pearl? And I had rings on all my fingers. What us, tacky, never

Libster-I HAD THE RED SWOOSH NIKES TOO!!!! I was the FIRST one in school to have them. And ''Nothing comes between me and my Calvins'' Oh, the controversy surronding that ad. Seems tame in this day and age.

Fire&Ice-I bet if You, Libster and I compared yearbook pics we wouldn''t be able to tell each other apart. How funny that our cloths and accesssories were so ''REGIONAL''. I''m from Southeast Tennessee. How about you guys?(er, ya''ll)?

Mara-AAACCCKKKK....You HAD to remind me of Acid Wash jeans and safety pins!!!!!!

And those embarrassing scrunchy socks that on a short person as myself was NOT a good look

. And don''t even get me started on the Flashdance tops!!!How many of us took scissors to brand new sweat shirts in the name of FASHION?????

Dancing Fire-I love this thread!! Thanks for the memories. I think I''ll put on my scrunchy socks and dance to ''Footloose''

Moonriver....I grew up in Memphis!!!! It is funny how the styles of the southern gals are the same

 

[moon river]

The South...Where Big hair STILL rules

I''m sure the ozone layer in the South is in a more fragile state than any where else.

Unfortunatly, we still have alot of ''80''s hangers on'' in my town.

 

[lilyinct]

Graduated high school in Beverly Hills in 1994 - if you didn''t have a BMW or Mercedes, you were nobody.

So, I didn''t exist with my Chevy Blazer

 

[Demelza]

Date: 2/24/2006 10:31:03 PM
Author: lilyinct
Graduated high school in Beverly Hills in 1994 - if you didn't have a BMW or Mercedes, you were nobody.


So, I didn't exist with my Chevy Blazer

I also grew up in Beverly Hills and graduated from HS in 1993 (I didn't go to Beverly, though). I went to a very progressive, artsy private school in Santa Monica. I remember being into used clothing -- vintage dresses and jackets. I also loved sneakers -- Vans, Jack Purcells, Converse. The place to shop was Fred Segal, a very expensive LA clothing store I now find totally disgusting. Ugh -- I am so glad HS is over! And I'm even more glad I no longer live in BH!!!!!

 

[fire&ice]

Date: 2/24/2006 9:06:05 PM
Author: moon river
The South...Where Big hair STILL rules

I''m sure the ozone layer in the South is in a more fragile state than any where else.

Unfortunatly, we still have alot of ''80''s hangers on'' in my town.

Guilty as charged - embarrassed to admit - until a few years ago. But, I still wear a headband!

My hair grows forward and it''s the only way to keep it out of my face.

Me, Research Triangle, Piedmont Triad & VA - below N. VA.

Though - I''m a NYC ex pat. Early on I remember wearing Peanut Pants - anyone remember them? Sure should jog the mind - low slung pants with a flared bottom worn with a top that would just meet the pants - SOUND FAMILIAR -

What goes around comes around. And, not sure about this spring - but last spring summer - pink & green made a come back

This is a fun thread. The must haves extend beyond high school

 

[moon river]

How in the world could we have forgotten to mention this?