Crazes: A flash in the pan - then it's gone.
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Dusty964 said:
Campri ski jackets.
(From 30 years ago mind)
I used to work in a sports shop (on the YTS) back then, and we sold them for a couple of years. I went for the 'Peirre Cardin' ski jacket instead though, which had a tormented collar from the baby oil I used to use on my 'wet look' perm...(From 30 years ago mind)
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Also kappa trousers with the press studs all down the sides.
Also kappa trousers with the press studs all down the sides.
Baz Tench said:
the baby oil I used to use on my 'wet look' perm...
Classic! There are some dreadful confessions coming out on this thread; you could have hung out with me with my burgundy streaks. We would doubtless have scored with precisely zero girls.On the subject of girls - in the '80s there was a big craze for them wearing eye shadow and plastic jewlery in this sort of electric blue colour - anyone else remember that? I thought it was actually rather good - my first gf was into it.
Baz Tench said:
The ones I remember were pin stripe stretch jeans and were sold on the local market. They were made by 'punn'.
No idea who punn were, but everyone who was anyone at school wore their trousers, including the burgundy ones that crazed for about three months. All off a market stall, but incredibly cool at the time.
ETA: I remember rhe Cosmic ones now, I even remember the label.
I had a pair of stretch pinstripe jeans, i think they were Pepe.No idea who punn were, but everyone who was anyone at school wore their trousers, including the burgundy ones that crazed for about three months. All off a market stall, but incredibly cool at the time.
ETA: I remember rhe Cosmic ones now, I even remember the label.
Edited by Baz Tench on Thursday 16th June 21:06
Also I remember plastic sandals, High waister trousers, pegs (trousers with big pleats billowing out and nipped in at the ankle)
Once I bought a superb paisley penny collar shirt with matching tye from C and A. I think I could wear that now, hipster style.
Anyway, Sekiden guns, were they a craze? can't imagine them being allowed now.
Thankyou4calling said:
pegs (trousers with big pleats billowing out and nipped in at the ankle)
I used to wear those for school; shadow striped. And with slip on shoes with steel tipped heels. Also had my left ear pierced with a dangley diamante earring (a la Phil Oakey) and about 50 steel bangles. I must have been a right t
t.Dog Star said:
I used to wear those for school; shadow striped. And with slip on shoes with steel tipped heels. Also had my left ear pierced with a dangley diamante earring (a la Phil Oakey) and about 50 steel bangles.
I must have been a right tt.
I had some of those shoes too. That was after the ones i had with Blakeys on the heel, do they still exist?I must have been a right t
t.As for earrings I'm afraid mum wouldn't let me so I got an earring and just let it sit on the lobe to look like it was pierced.
Obviously it was the LEFT ear as the right had you marked out as a homo
glazbagun said:
Are those wheelie shoes for kids still popular? I thought they were the coolest idea ever when I first saw them... to bad I was 20 years past their target demographic. 
http://shop.heelys.com/adultsThankyou4calling said:
As for earrings I'm afraid mum wouldn't let me so I got an earring and just let it sit on the lobe to look like it was pierced.
Obviously it was the LEFT ear as the right had you marked out as a homo
That's right! I'd heard that about the right ear.Obviously it was the LEFT ear as the right had you marked out as a homo
Also very relevant to the '80s - Busby! My sister actually pierced my ear using a Busby badge with (I s
t you not) a potato behind to "catch" the needle going through.I wonder what went through my head sometimes (Busby badge pins, almost).
Dog Star said:
I used to wear those for school; shadow striped. And with slip on shoes with steel tipped heels. Also had my left ear pierced with a dangley diamante earring (a la Phil Oakey) and about 50 steel bangles.
I must have been a right tt.
I must have been a right t
t.
Used to quite like my Pegs, Stuart Adamson made them cool (to me as a kid anyway
) on the cover of Into the Valley. Liked the style and always bought Peg style Pepe jeans in the 80s. I miss them really.
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