biggest fashion trends from HS

[libramunoz]

And I forgot about the big teased hair look as well.
Curly perms and you could tell whose perm was fresh.
High top fades
Names/designs cut into the fades
Asymmetrical haircuts
hoop earrings with your name or initial
sweater vests
dresses with wide lapels with soutache dressing ontop (looked like the band uniforms)
rompers
big hair bows

[lovespink88]

2002-2006.

I feel like there was a different shoe trend every year....

- Freshmen year there was the Steve Madden gym shoe platforms... although those actually started in 8th grade at my school...i hope someone knows what i'm talking about, i can't find a picture!!
- Sophomore year came the Birkenstocks
- Junior year at my school those plain but brightly colored New Balances & Saucony's became really popular for some reason
- I'm can't think of what the shoe trend was senior year....
- Northfaces blew up during this time
- I remember thinking track jackets were really cool like sophomore year
- Those super glittery purses/bags that were just covered in sequins
- Everyone at my high school used pre-wrap, that stuff you use in like bandaging, as headbands when they were wearing a pony tail to keep stray hairs in place
- Old Navy flip flops, although thats still popular...
- Side bangs!!
- Abercrombie & Hollister polos

i know there's tons more but i cant think of any...

[Thetagirl218]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

2002-2006.

I feel like there was a different shoe trend every year....

- Freshmen year there was the Steve Madden gym shoe platforms... although those actually started in 8th grade at my school...i hope someone knows what i'm talking about, i can't find a picture!!
- Sophomore year came the Birkenstocks
- Junior year at my school those plain but brightly colored New Balances & Saucony's became really popular for some reason
- I'm can't think of what the shoe trend was senior year....
- Northfaces blew up during this time
- I remember thinking track jackets were really cool like sophomore year
- Those super glittery purses/bags that were just covered in sequins
- Everyone at my high school used pre-wrap, that stuff you use in like bandaging, as headbands when they were wearing a pony tail to keep stray hairs in place
- Old Navy flip flops, although thats still popular...
- Side bangs!!
- Abercrombie & Hollister polos

i know there's tons more but i cant think of any...

I was in high school from 00-04, but many of the same styles were around:

I totally remember the polos...I had imitation ones from old navy!
Northfaces were not as huge in Florida, but track like jackets were.
The Old Navy flip flops were huge, and they still are!
I remember some wearing some ugly sweater tank tops..I don't know what I was thinking! lol!

[ZTAngel]

1995-1999

I really don't remember too much what the fashion was. I feel like fashion in the late 90s wasn't all that distinctive...at least not the way it was in the 80s or even early 90s.

I do remember:

- Hemp necklaces
- Platform strappy shoes
- Dark, matte lipstick
- Plaid (during my first year of HS)
- Shirts with thick horizontal stripes...it seems that my friends and me are wearing this type of shirt in a ton of photos I have from HS
- Converse sneakers

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

*Those backless tops that were held on by like one string in the back (someone HAS to know what I'm talking about).

I completely forgot about those! Those were really popular my freshman/sophomore year in college. I remember double knotting all of my strings because there was always a drunk fraternity guy at every social who loved to pull the string on the girls' tops......

[sthrnsweetie007]

Originally Posted by lovespink88

2002-2006.

I feel like there was a different shoe trend every year....

- Freshmen year there was the Steve Madden gym shoe platforms... although those actually started in 8th grade at my school...i hope someone knows what i'm talking about, i can't find a picture!!
- Sophomore year came the Birkenstocks
- Junior year at my school those plain but brightly colored New Balances & Saucony's became really popular for some reason
- I'm can't think of what the shoe trend was senior year....
- Northfaces blew up during this time
- I remember thinking track jackets were really cool like sophomore year
- Those super glittery purses/bags that were just covered in sequins
- Everyone at my high school used pre-wrap, that stuff you use in like bandaging, as headbands when they were wearing a pony tail to keep stray hairs in place
- Old Navy flip flops, although thats still popular...
- Side bangs!!
- Abercrombie & Hollister polos

i know there's tons more but i cant think of any...

oh my goodness i remember almost all of that except using prewrap to keep stray hairs in place.

-it was either sperry's, doc martins, birkenstocks, or wallabe's were the shoe of choice
-rainbow sandals were THE summer flip flop staple
-north face or columbia fleece jackets
-EVERYONE had an ll bean bookbag... the classic 2 pocket not the newer one that they sell as a college bookbag
-layering started to get popular again
-every girl either wore love spell or dream angels heavenly
-mismatching clothes but keeping within the same color started getting big my senior year
-ballet flats, skinny jeans, and button downs... oh my that was huge
-the hairstyle for all 4 years really was long, layered, and having side bangs (http://www.hrbangs.com/jessica-alba-side-bangs.jpg)


that's all i can remember really.

[summer_gphib]

I was in hs from 1990-1994-
And the things that were popular that I remember were
-- Hypercolor t-shirts (and the matching socks!)
-- Dooney and Bourke All Weather Leather Purses
-- Birkenstocks
-- Anything Ralph Lauren

[Honeykiss1974]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

I was in hs from 1990-1994-
And the things that were popular that I remember were
-- Hypercolor t-shirts (and the matching socks!)
-- Dooney and Bourke All Weather Leather Purses
-- Birkenstocks
-- Anything Ralph Lauren

This is the same for me as well ('89 - '93) although I would add:

-Pepe jeans
-Nautica anything
-Cross Colours
-Jansport backpacks

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

I was in hs from 1990-1994-
And the things that were popular that I remember were
-- Hypercolor t-shirts (and the matching socks!)
-- Dooney and Bourke All Weather Leather Purses
-- Birkenstocks
-- Anything Ralph Lauren

Originally Posted by Honeykiss1974

This is the same for me as well ('89 - '93) although I would add:

-Pepe jeans
-Nautica anything
-Cross Colours
-Jansport backpacks

Hypercolor! That's what they were called. I remember girls with one color on their butts and another on the rest of their clothes after sitting in class for an hour...classy! My sister's senior class t-shirt included a phrase in hypercolor, but the only problem is that it was mispelled!!

At my school, no would would be caught dead with a Jansport backpack...we all had Eastpak!

[tld221]

Ksuviolet, knight_shadow and epchick definitely gave me some nostalgia as I went to HS from 98-02. Let me add a few, which may or may not be NY-specific:

-wearing loud-print pajama pants as regular pants (kind of like how people wear scrubs?) Old Navy was THE spot for these. I had some red ones with white and blue stars. Bonus points if worn with uptowns/air force ones, k-swiss, or saucony.

-chinese chopsticks (for the hair)

-plastic jewels for the face (in particular the middle of the forehead or corners of the eyes)

-winter coats like shearlings, bubble jackets (bear, north face) and the swishy ones too (north face makes them too but ones by columbia were a close second)

-air force ones in assorted colors (white on white are the official spring/summer sneaker-thats how you know it was on-stores didn't really sell white uptowns in the winter). Black on black were for the winter, but sometimes unnacceptable as they resembeled orthepedic shoes.

-coach belts with the coach tag (in assorted colors to match... Everything) colorful belts in general were the poo, you could buy them for 2 dollars on any street corner.

-the "reverse" denim look (the color of if you wore your jeans inside out). The black version of these were the win. Regular black jeans were no longer acceptable after this.

-black suede timbs

-flat twists were somewhat popular. My mother hated doing them cause she said "everyone wore them, do something different" (she was a hairdresser). Microbraids were in too.

-bandana/triangle tops

-headbands with bandana fabric attached (someone tell me they know what I'm talkin about)

-denim skorts. Need I say more?

-ankle-length skirts with splits on both sides

-i think k_s mentioned the matchy-matchy style: I was all over this. Old Navy actually had some street cred and made this easy-they always had cool socks to match shirts. I remember this pink striped long sleeved shirt that had matching socks. The trick was finding a way to make sure the socks were noticed.

-racing-car-style jackets (with huge obnoxious logos and brands like Tide, Frosted Flakes, etc on them). There were also these shitty leather jackets that had "extasy" written on them. Hated them.

-jansports with all those little zipper pull strings (the more you had, the cooler you were. You were not to buy them, you had to jack them from someone else's jansport. I always got got. I think the trick was to burn the edges with a lighter so unknotting them were harder. Actually, this was more a junior high thing, but I remember it in HS too)

-victoria secret's pear glace was one of THE scents to wear. It was the love spell of yesteryear-everyone wore it and you knew the smell instantly. Others included Cool Water, Perry Ellis 360, CK1, I wanna say Burberry, tommy girl. And remember Calgon body spray? Our locker room always smelled like this!

-ankle socks with the colored cotton ball on the back (though it was just as ok to not have the cotton ball)

-acrylic tips in french manicure style, but in the color of whatever your outfit was. White one day, lavender the next. It was always on.

I could go on and on. Damn those were good times.

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by tld221

-chinese chopsticks (for the hair)

-bandana/triangle tops

I could go on and on. Damn those were good times.

YES.

Originally Posted by sthrnsweetie007

oh my goodness i remember almost all of that except using prewrap to keep stray hairs in place.

-it was either sperry's, doc martins, birkenstocks, or wallabe's were the shoe of choice
-rainbow sandals were THE summer flip flop staple
-north face or columbia fleece jackets
-EVERYONE had an ll bean bookbag... the classic 2 pocket not the newer one that they sell as a college bookbag
-layering started to get popular again
-every girl either wore love spell or dream angels heavenly
-mismatching clothes but keeping within the same color started getting big my senior year
-ballet flats, skinny jeans, and button downs... oh my that was huge
-the hairstyle for all 4 years really was long, layered, and having side bangs (http://www.hrbangs.com/jessica-alba-side-bangs.jpg)


that's all i can remember really.

Was perping in style back then too ktbug?

[Kevlar281]

I don't know what they were called but the girls at my high school loved wearing those tight ass black club pants to school. God bless whoever started that trend.

[myopicsunflower]

What a fun thread!

91-95

Big hair wasn't completely out yet.
Cowboy boot shoes (like regular cowboy boots but ankle-height)
Birkenstocks year-round (just add socks when it's cold)
Umbro shorts
Patagonia fleece pullovers
scrunchies
rugby shirts
Doc Martens
floral dresses
turtlenecks under oversized sweatshirts
lumberjack boots (but with thinner soles)
jeans tended to have high waists *shudder*

[KSig RC]

So can anyone else tell me what was happening in American high schools all of TWO YEARS ago? Because like, who can remember all that stuff, you know?

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

So can anyone else tell me what was happening in American high schools all of TWO YEARS ago? Because like, who can remember all that stuff, you know?

I wanted this to be more of a throwback thread where people who graduated c/o 1925-1995 (a noncoincidental cutoff point ) shared their fashions.

It's almost there!

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

I wanted this to be more of a throwback thread where people who graduated c/o 1925-1995 (a noncoincidental cutoff point ) shared their fashions.

It's almost there!

Hey now, I feel like the fashions have changed alot since I graduated, and that was just 7 years ago!

However, girls who graduated like, since I've been out of undergrad (2006 -now), not so much. They haven't even gotten to the point of "omg what was I thinking?" yet!

PS. still waiting on sthrnsweetie007 to tell me if multiple org perping was in style back when she graduated.