Apparently, you and I had the same fashion sense “back in the day”. But I DID have the puffy insulated vest.
Don’t forget the buttons on the denim jacket: I had Whitesnake and Night Ranger on mine. And mullet-perms. Ugh…
The rich kids had Jansport backpacks (and I was not one), the rest of us had either cheap knock-offs or just carried books in a duffel bag.
In second grade or so, there was a brief fad for clawing the backs of each others hands.
Does anyone remember Yaga clothing suddenly being popular, around 92 or 93? There was a store in our local mall and everything. Apparently, it’s still around.
31, generic middle-class suburban child-factory in the northeastern US.
Just things that I don’t think were mentioned:
In pictures from when I was very little (mid 80’s), my mom tied my pigtails or ponytails with these thick yarn things. They were so cute! I must have caught the tail end (har har) of that trend, because I don’t remember them after kindergarten.
Double socks! You’d fold them down so both were visible. (Late 80’s)
In middle school (mid 90’s) there was one month where almost every girl in the school was wearing these black cotton ballet flats, but with straps, and half the guys were wearing woven ponchos. Both these fads seemed strange to me because they were so pervasive for a short time, then one day disappeared. Not petered out like trends usually do, but it was like everyone had a meeting one Friday and those items were never seen again. (The shoes fell apart quickly. I have no idea what happened with the ponchos.) I’ve always wondered if this was a larger trend, or if it had something to do with the “random new age stuff” store that opened at the nearest mall around this time (both things were sold there).
Yeah, it was a very specific boat shoe - brown leather, brown soles. Mine came from Bass shoes. People would replace the lace-spiral-things with neon ones.
Remembered a handful more: