Can you remember the major fads of your day? Before you decided to just settle for paying bills?

Acid wash jeans and jean jackets. Using gel in your hair. New Wave music. Ladies wore suit jackets with big shoulder pads, and had their hair all fluffed up and permed. The mid to late 1980s.

Bell bottoms.

Man! Is this my only alternative? Joining a stupid fad or merely paying bills? What a bleak outlook. I think I need to revise my Christmas list, now. Scrooge is among us.

@wundayatta I used to own a pair of very faded bell-bottom blue jeans. They were my favorite pair of jeans——wore it to the point of thinness, until the blue faded to a very very light blue, and I got a hole in my knee.

@MRSHINYSHOES
If you had those jeans today, you could probably sell them for more than you bought them for!

@wundayatta I wore them out when I was in junior high. You know, the hormones and such.

Hair weaves and hair extensions.
What was I thinking!!

Pogs! Pogs! Pogs!

I remember this

And this

Oh boy I remember every one of these

Tails – You remember … The short or long 5 pieces of hair running down your back.

Green Lipstick – Turned pink when you put it on.

1953 Blue jeans rolled up to mid calf; one of your dad’s shirts, bobby sox and saddle shoes.

Platform shoes
The Bay City Rollers not that I dressed like this but plenty did.
Dresses like this I had one very, very similar to this.
The perm
The Jump Suit
“The Purdy cut“http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q3JZk38yc6U/SnSvT1QCZnI/AAAAAAAAErY/oc9BSso7Nq8/s400/07.jpg Joanna Lumley was responsible for this one and I had my hair like this for a while.
Saturday Night Fever Ahhh disco… I remember it well.

To name but a few things, probably best forgotten.

Let’s try that again. The purdy cut.

Skinny jeans pink shirts permed hair….yes I was that tosser outta the 80’s :¬(

Fascination with Pierre and Maggie Trudeau.

I was never a trend follower and tended to stick with what I had until it broke, fell off, wore out or burned up.
In the early 70’s I used a piece of rope as a belt for my jeans I tied it using a reef knot . Very sporty.

I don’t know that I necessarily followed the most popular trends, in highschool I was the girl with the fishnets and the blue hair, so that didn’t exactly put me at the top of the fashion savvy food chain.
However, I was a teenager in the 90’s, and some of the popular things that jump out at me are bowl haircuts, flannel shirts, alternative music, slap bracelets, and JNCO pants (you know, the ones with ridiculously wide legs).

Designer jeans, worn long over Candies shoes, hawaiian print shirts and hair parted down the middle with ‘wings’ (layers in front), Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” was the song as we headed out on Friday nights.

Fame tshirt
Lace gloves and bangles like madonna
Short hair with a little longer bit at the back that you braided
Deely boppers

Tight bluejeans that almost ruined the family jewels…1953

The yellow hair gang…ha

Madris shirts that bled on my body

Blk and white dress shoes

Flat top haircuts. Some barbers used a level and some used a yardstick to measure

Barber clippers that had a vacuum hose attached to catch the hair and not on me

Bluejeans cost $2.95 cents and buttoned up the front

Clackers not crackers

And, the time to ever live and experience rock and roll music in its infancy.

Too bad todays music has lost its meaning.

Isn’t today my day?

Boy bands.