I'm really just a t-shirt & jeans type guy, so I really didn't follow any BIG fad...I did roll the cuffs of my jeans, & I did have 2 Hypercolor T-Shirts.

I also had an extensive amount of Ocean Pacific shirts...

AH! I wore lots of pastel colors, like turqoiuse, and pastel pink...& docksiders w/o socks

guess I did follow a couple fads...

problem I was a teen of the 90's...so my pet rock really was a Tomogotchi...etc...

Unlike MoCrzy I WAS a teen of the 80's.

I was in high school from 82 - 88 (ha ha, just kidding, 82 - 86, only FOUR years I SWEAR!)

But I didn't really get into the fads either.  If ANYTHING I modeled myself after Alex Keaton from Family Ties (I know, HOW BORING)

HOWEVER, many a Sunday evening when the Jazz Doctor has stopped in to do his show we have sat around the studio with a coupla Jack & Cokes and reminisced about how much we both appreciated what Madonna did for us in the 80's.

The absolute BEST fad of the 80's (if you were a guy) was the girls walking around bare-midriffed wearing very little clothing and what they were wearing was usually mesh see-through!

Very hard to concentrate on what the 63 year old female english teacher with the facial tick was talking about when you were sandwiched between to Madonna wannabe's

OOOOOOOOH GOD I MISS THE EIGHTIES

-- Edited by Jeremy Riggs at 11:49, 2004-11-05

That was the FIRST TIME clothing was that revealing on such a mass level. I NEVER missed a day of highschool my sophmore year when that fad was hitting big!

It's funny, because I was actually pondering this question yesterday while I was stuck in traffic. I would have to say that besides being the Aqua Net queen, I wore leg warmers, spandex, and parachute pants. I also wore about fifty bracelets. I never took them off, not even to sleep or shower!  I guess I should not really even miss the 80s, but I do!

 

Oh yeah...I actually used to make those too...I still make use of the embriodery floss, but no longer for Bracelets

Yea, my mullet was more Richard Marx like than Camaro driving metal head too!

I just thought of another one - hehehe

For those really "special occasions" (school dances, etc.) I would take my 501's out of the dryer early and put them on still damp. Thay way, they'd get that "just right" fit as they dried in place.

Duh!

Trish,

Your mentioning a skirt limit reminded me of something I totally forgot about from my high school years.

I remember one year (don't recall which), they were having problems with girls coming to school in mini mini mini skirts (which of course none of the guys were complaining about).

So they were announcing almost daily over the intercom in homeroom that no skirt could be more than 2 inches (or something like that above) the knee.  On a couple of occassions I even actually saw girls getting MEASURED by one particularly picky English teacher.

I remember thinking back then that if I had taken shop class I would have made a bunch of special rulers that had the inch marks actually about 4 inches apart, and I would have handed them out to the hot girls to carry with them in case they were stopped by a teacher and had to defend their outfit

MAN, I shoulda taken shop class!  I coulda been a HERO at that school!

I came from a smaller rural town. We only had about 75 in our class so we were always behind the times. My school went through a crack-down on naughty graphic tee shirts. An announcement was made and then the rebels had to test it. Kids were being forced to either go home and change, or turn the shirt inside out and wear them that way.

I remember one day when I had my "Class of '84" shirt on . . . I was walking down the hall and the principal hollered at me. He yelled my last name and said "You're gonna have to go home and change that shirt!". I was trying to figure out what was wrong with my shirt when he continued . . . "Then when you get back, we'll talk about your grades".

He was a cool principal.

They did have a crackdown on the t-shirts at our school, too.  We would go to concerts over the weekend, buy the concert t's and wear them to school on Monday (after you tried to wash the smell of weed out them.  Never tried it, but I sure inhaled enough from the people around me.)  Anyway, Guns N Roses or Kiss, I can't remember which one, had a particularly bad t-shirt in the late 80's, early 90's that depicted a girl in an alley with her underwear around her ankles and a dazed look on her face.  Wow, that caused quite a stir.  I can't believe they sold those shirts.  I'm not one to be offended by much, but that one was so bad.  It looked like the girl had been raped.  It was awful.  I didn't go to that concert, but I saw the shirts on Monday.  The school had fits over it and for once I didn't blame them.  The boys were given the option of turning them inside out of going home, but either way, they had a counseling session with the kids parents on how inappropriate it was and why they were allowed to wear them in the first place. 

Oh my gosh.  I did the same thing with the 501's. I forgot all about that.  I had to have Thom McAnns top siders.  And then there was Chess King.  For some time that was the only store I shopped at for clothes--mostly because my parents hated it.

Remember the Members Only Jackets too?