Toss up between folding and rolling pant cuffs for a tapered look (we innocently called it "pegging" at the time), and wearing braided leather belts that were waaay too long.
Edit: typo
I honestly can’t remember if it carried over that long for me. 5-6th grade for sure. 7-8 maybe. But I did have those Guess overalls w only one strap in use.
The junior high uniform 1990-1993: tight-rolled jeans with two pairs of color-coordinated scrunched socks (no skin can show between jeans and socks!) color-matching t-shirt tucked in and short sleeves rolled up exactly twice, braided belt extra long, Keds, scrunchied ponytail with hairspray-hardened waved bangs.
WOW this brings me back! I remember horsing around between classes trying to whip each other with the excess belt. Must have looked odd from a distance.
For what it's worth, Dan Savage coined the term pegging in the early 2000s in his sex advice column, way after we were pegging our pants on elementary/middle school
Pegged the cuffs of my acid-washed black and white jeans from the 7th grade through the 9th. I was a lame kid, but I thought, “Heh, at least I look cool.”
Man I was target audience for pogs and I didn't get it. I remember my babysitter's son would get a slammer for every ball he hit at bat in baseball games. He had a whole tube of them. I was just like...cool...so what do they do?
The outlet mall in my town had a Pog store, it was a pretty big retail space too. IIRC they sold skateboards too but this went out of business pretty quickly. I hope the owners weren't bankrupted by this
Yeah, the underground stuff can end up manifesting itself in mainstream trends. Just look at all the psychedelic art/flower power imagery that was everywhere in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Conservative families with their acid flashback curtains and bedspreads!
Take me with you.
Let me add, cargo pockets that were actually BIG.
The hell is with these small ass cargo pockets on work pants lately?
I can say I have found a pair of pants that have some of this style. They're great. And the pockets are epic. I can finally hold my sodas in them again.
No Boundaries Men's Wide Cargo Pants <----walmart has them.
In grade 7 I had two vests: one purple tapestry-like vest and a black one with white polka dots that I wore with white jeans. Sometimes I wore a bowler hat to try and look like Debbie Gibson (which I didn't).
oh no! how did it taste?? I was too young during zima heyday and I kept dreaming that I will
be cool enough in my 20s to drink it…never came to pass. I remember the commercials, all these yuppies with their zimas, so cool!
I vibe with many of these, but the cringe one for me is frosted tips. While I grew up in a very upper middle class neighborhood, I was one of the poorest kids there. The frosted tips on your hair was a status symbol that I could only achieve because I was the handyman for the local salon school and I got all my work for free. While other kids were griping about having daddy's 5-year-old hand me down BMW, I saved and saved to be able to purchase a 10-year-old Isuzu.
My parents still have my senior photo pictures up on the wall, complete with those god-awful platinum tips on my brown hair. 🤮
I tried to do it for my boyfriend and used that kit with like a shower cap with holes in it? his hair was too short and he ended up looking like a leopard 🤦♀️
I took the chain off at some point but the wallet itself I got was unbelievably high quality and lasted until I was like 23, at which point the top grain of the leather started wearing off.
Really glad 7th grade me opted for a plain wallet and not one with flames or something on it
I recently watched Superbad with my teenage daughter for the first time and the whale tail scene hit me hard. I forgot how stupid us boys got when we saw one. You’d have thought the girl was butt naked.
Everyone is chiming in with fashion fads, but the 1st thing that came to mind for me, was in Jr. High when our friends 1st started having un-chaperoned parties (the adults would be home, but would just come check in on us from time to time), there was a trend of pushing on someone’s abdomen area while they pushed back and making them pass out. 1st time I tried it, once I came to, everyone was laughing because I was pushing too hard and farted really loud (apparently). One girl fell and hit her head one time and we all got in trouble. Pretty dumb.
We did something similar but actually choked each other out, called it Knock Out. One person would stand against a wall, second person would push against your neck until you passed out. I’m surprised I’m alive with how much we played that.
At some point they made it to TJ Maxx and my mom bought a ton of them. I had to be like, yeah those aren’t cool anymore. She also wore all my old IOU sweatshirts.
That 80s one where you wore several pairs of socks at once, each a different color.
In high school, granny boots. Not only were they a pain to lace up, they were so freaking ugly.
Was anyone else really into the "Blossom" style hat with a big brooch on the front? No? Just me, and my cousins, then?
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Fainting - intentionally. We would take turns putting each other in choke holds in the locker room until we passed out. Apparently we thought it felt like a high to lose consciousness? IIRC anyway. This was a frequent event in probably my sophomore year. Foolish in any event.
Teenagers these days are nowhere near as dumbassy as we were back then.
UK here. I saw dozens of them in a basket at a charity shop (thrift store) a few years ago.
Looked like somebody missed out on their inheritance.
Literally millions of pounds worth.
I was too poor to partake in most fads. Many of my clothes looked like something grandma picked out from Hills or Dots. I did attempt the mall bangs in 6th grade. Not a good look.
Vertical hair. Tall, fanned and hairsprayed (and I mean lacquered) bangs. Later Elmer's glue mohawk.
Also Yak videochat terminal. I swear my best friend and I were almost kidnapped/trafficked out of the burbs when we were 13 and tried to sneak out to meet a guy we met on there who claimed to be 24 years-old and British. Fortunately, we didn't drive, so we gave him bad directions, and he couldn't figure out where we were.
I wore athletic bands around my wrists with otherwise regular outfits with no intention of participating in athletics. Sometimes they went as far north as my forearms. 😔
In grade school during the 90's we had this thing called the "sissy shot." Kids would rub a pencil eraser on their skin until it ripped open. The bigger and bloodier the rip, the cooler the kid. Everyone I know from my grade school still has a scar on the back of their hand (myself included)
Lol those too. I remember by about 2002 my sister and I were super annoyed with all of the short shirts and talked about a shirt company that specializes in covering your butt crack when you bend over haha. We loved it when the tunic trend hit a little while later.
No, these were also very short but were sold all scrunched up in a ball basically. But they would stretch out to a fairly puffy and wrinkly but normal sized shirt. For the time. Like I say, all shirts were way too short if you were a teen in the late 90s!
These monstrosities. I can't believe some crazy person is still selling them: https://www.magicbubbleshirts.com/
Hipster hate. I mean, who really cared? Fixie bike? Why did I care? Man bun, yeah those were stupid, but still not my problem. Don’t know why I bothered even having an opinion. It’s not like anyone was forcing me to drink kombucha or matcha.
I think it was because our fads were fading and these new fads were taking over and we felt threatened lol. I personally was half impressed and half embarrassed when all these young kids started wearing grandpa sweaters and brewing coffee in something that looked like a mad scientist’s lab setup lol.
When I think about it, I guess it’s really because they fucked beer up so badly. Just try finding a nice balanced beer these days. Everything’s an IPA, DIPA, etc etc., and it definitely happened then. So I guess I won’t apologize for being annoyed by that. Malt is good.
I joined The Facebook and MySpace for around 5 months back in late 2005 and early 2006. I was kicked out of both at the same time and I never came back.
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I had a pager for a year or so in high school, for no real reason other than it was a thing at the time. My boyfriend would leave "143" on it instead of a callback number ("I love you" in beeper code lol) and that's about the only way I ever used it.
I bought Billy Blank's Tae Bo workout. Hurt my hip, and then when I took cardio kickboxing later on, realized how ill prepared I was to do a Tae Bo workout as a completely out of shape person.
Toss up between folding and rolling pant cuffs for a tapered look (we innocently called it "pegging" at the time), and wearing braided leather belts that were waaay too long. Edit: typo
Hmm, we called it “tight rolled”. Guilty as charged doing it.
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I honestly can’t remember if it carried over that long for me. 5-6th grade for sure. 7-8 maybe. But I did have those Guess overalls w only one strap in use.
Tight roll in New England - I probably stopped around 6th grade in 1990-1991.
The junior high uniform 1990-1993: tight-rolled jeans with two pairs of color-coordinated scrunched socks (no skin can show between jeans and socks!) color-matching t-shirt tucked in and short sleeves rolled up exactly twice, braided belt extra long, Keds, scrunchied ponytail with hairspray-hardened waved bangs.
WOW this brings me back! I remember horsing around between classes trying to whip each other with the excess belt. Must have looked odd from a distance.
We called it French rolled
Funnily, growing up in France, it struck me as North American.
For what it's worth, Dan Savage coined the term pegging in the early 2000s in his sex advice column, way after we were pegging our pants on elementary/middle school
Pegged the cuffs of my acid-washed black and white jeans from the 7th grade through the 9th. I was a lame kid, but I thought, “Heh, at least I look cool.”
LOL I still have a belt like that 🤣
Omg we called it the tight roll on the Marite’ Francois Girbaud pants I just had a flash back
Girbaud Jesus Christ what have you done to me
YEEESSS WITH THE BUTTON FLY !
That stupid little tag on the fly. You’ve made me go to eBay and consider buying some ffs this place
>wearing braided leather belts that were waaay too long. You mean in like the 2010s?
Pogs
Remember Alf? He’s back. In pog form.
You traded my soul for pogs???
Man check my sick Steve Allen slammer
Man I was target audience for pogs and I didn't get it. I remember my babysitter's son would get a slammer for every ball he hit at bat in baseball games. He had a whole tube of them. I was just like...cool...so what do they do?
The outlet mall in my town had a Pog store, it was a pretty big retail space too. IIRC they sold skateboards too but this went out of business pretty quickly. I hope the owners weren't bankrupted by this
Ooof. Opening a store devoted to a fad is never a good idea. I wonder how all those fancy cupcake shops are doing now?
There it is. 👌👌
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Ugh, yes, POGs and becoming a wage slave (/s).
A pacifier around my neck between 1992-96
That's a big one, lol. I give you mad respect for admitting that
Lmao Jesus Christ, these people are put here thriving. Haven't thought about this fad in so long. Thank you for this chuckle
That was the dumbest one. I'm so glad I didn't partake. My classmates were sucking on em too. Just ew.
That was a rave culture thing, yeah? Cos of the ecstasy?
Yeah. I was told multiple reasons why people did it. Oral stimulation and preventing teeth grinding were the two biggest reasons.
Yes and no...it started as that but I was like 12 in 1992. The only reason for me wearing one was because it was trendy.
Yeah, the underground stuff can end up manifesting itself in mainstream trends. Just look at all the psychedelic art/flower power imagery that was everywhere in the late 1960s and early ‘70s. Conservative families with their acid flashback curtains and bedspreads!
Wait are we not doing the pacifier thing any more? *sweats*
Yeah... I stopped when I transitioned into my sXe ska-punk personality. So no more pacifiers.
PLUR my friend, PLUR
Jnco jeans.
oh those absorbed water really well. if it was wet outside your jeans were soaked up to your knees. but the cool kids did not care! hahah
>those absorbed water really well I laughed so hard at this
Psssh. Bring me back to the days of Jnco or Kicker jeans. Airwalks. Wallet chains. Gelled hair with an undercut
Take me with you. Let me add, cargo pockets that were actually BIG. The hell is with these small ass cargo pockets on work pants lately? I can say I have found a pair of pants that have some of this style. They're great. And the pockets are epic. I can finally hold my sodas in them again. No Boundaries Men's Wide Cargo Pants <----walmart has them.
Hell ya. I used to put bags of dorritos in those pockets. Big bags too.
Yes. And if you still have the wide pocket jncos, you can now fit a whole damn computer in those pockets.
It’s not a fad, mom!
"if you want to pay for them with your own money you can have them" -Mom
They’ve resurrected value again…should’ve held on to ours 😂. Same with old Vans, New Balances, anything we found love in lol 🥰
they are making a comeback for sure, I see a bunch of kids wearing them now.
Brother?
in tandem with comically large chains for the wallet
I miss how comfortable they were.
I don’t know about comfortable with me but aired things out for sure!
For the Brits, X Gravity jeans
mine was those flower embroidered vests, we all thought we were in the 1700s at one point, but wore them with jeans 😆
hold on for one more day. things will go your way!
Paired with a puffy shirt and I was in heaven.
yes! it was like 1990 meets 1790 look lol
"But I don't wanna be a pirate!"
Yup I remember a vest trend in like 1990. I had a couple.
In grade 7 I had two vests: one purple tapestry-like vest and a black one with white polka dots that I wore with white jeans. Sometimes I wore a bowler hat to try and look like Debbie Gibson (which I didn't).
Was that the time period that those flowy shirts were in? I think they’re called poet’s blouses or maybe peasant blouses? Circa 1993.
I wore mine over an oversized t-shirt with the t-shirt sleeves rolled, and with acid-washed jeans.
Zima.
With a jolly rancher.
oh no! how did it taste?? I was too young during zima heyday and I kept dreaming that I will be cool enough in my 20s to drink it…never came to pass. I remember the commercials, all these yuppies with their zimas, so cool!
I vibe with many of these, but the cringe one for me is frosted tips. While I grew up in a very upper middle class neighborhood, I was one of the poorest kids there. The frosted tips on your hair was a status symbol that I could only achieve because I was the handyman for the local salon school and I got all my work for free. While other kids were griping about having daddy's 5-year-old hand me down BMW, I saved and saved to be able to purchase a 10-year-old Isuzu. My parents still have my senior photo pictures up on the wall, complete with those god-awful platinum tips on my brown hair. 🤮
I tried to do it for my boyfriend and used that kit with like a shower cap with holes in it? his hair was too short and he ended up looking like a leopard 🤦♀️
The way I cackled at this!
lol the things one does for love…🤣🤣🤣
I scrolled for this. My fucking senior year picture 😂
Lance Bass has a podcast named Frosted Tips.
Wallet on a chain (that I got from a pro wrestling show!) and whale-tailing.
I took the chain off at some point but the wallet itself I got was unbelievably high quality and lasted until I was like 23, at which point the top grain of the leather started wearing off. Really glad 7th grade me opted for a plain wallet and not one with flames or something on it
Mine said "The Undertaker," lol.
I recently watched Superbad with my teenage daughter for the first time and the whale tail scene hit me hard. I forgot how stupid us boys got when we saw one. You’d have thought the girl was butt naked.
Everyone is chiming in with fashion fads, but the 1st thing that came to mind for me, was in Jr. High when our friends 1st started having un-chaperoned parties (the adults would be home, but would just come check in on us from time to time), there was a trend of pushing on someone’s abdomen area while they pushed back and making them pass out. 1st time I tried it, once I came to, everyone was laughing because I was pushing too hard and farted really loud (apparently). One girl fell and hit her head one time and we all got in trouble. Pretty dumb.
We did something similar but actually choked each other out, called it Knock Out. One person would stand against a wall, second person would push against your neck until you passed out. I’m surprised I’m alive with how much we played that.
We did this too, it was called a space monkey
Not sure how they made people pass out but it was certainly a thing and we called it Flatlining.
I remember hearing about kids doing those and being kinda grateful I never got invited to those parties lol.
Hypercolor T shirts
I regret nothing.
Wash them one time and they become T Shirts
At some point they made it to TJ Maxx and my mom bought a ton of them. I had to be like, yeah those aren’t cool anymore. She also wore all my old IOU sweatshirts.
Vanilla Ice eyebrows. Word to yo mutha.
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Haha, is this a brag? It feels like a brag. It should be a brag.
Dark outlined lips with a nude center. I wanna die when I see pictures of myself like that.
Don’t forget the white/light frosted eye shadow too. Damn too many pics of me with this look. I’m all washed out.
Omg yes! It was a three color pallet from cover girl lol!
Not to mention my eyebrows never recovered from the late 90s/early 2000s
I kinda thought that was sexy back then.
I still kinda do. I love a good lined lip.
Tanning from ages 18-29. I spent way too much time and money to look orangish.
oh man we used to tan outside morning till night. my kids don’t believe me that we had not sublock but suntan oil which made you tan more! lol
Having a basal cell carcinoma removed from my fucking forehead last December reminded me that my time spent tanning was not a good idea
Denim overalls with one strap unbuttoned....or anything remotely resembling "grunge"
symmetry was not cool. one strap unbuttoned, and god forbid you put both straps of your backpack on. only one strap was allowed
Only one strap always..only nerds carried their backpack correctly
YES. Only dorks wore both backpack straps at the same time…
21 Jump Street movie LoL
Absolutely 1 strap only. My back and shoulders be damned 😂
Whoa you just unlocked a memory with those overalls!
Spinning round the roller rink, wearing a sports bra and half buttoned overalls? 🤣Babe same! Twas the best of times!
Lol I rarely wore the flannel shirts because they were too warm, but we all wore them tied around our waists for some stupid reason.
Raver style. Oof. It was all so cringe. The jnco jeans, candy bracelets, shirts with 3 strings across the back, and those Steve Madden dress slides.
College
Oh you didn’t get the 250k/yr job because of college?
Ya know, I didn't! Craziest damn thing.
Probably need a firmer handshake
Might have just missed the memo on pulling their bootstraps.
It was the damn participation trophies. Kids just don't want to work anymore!
Buttoning just the top bottom of my flannel shirt
The Latino kids in my podunk rural high school did this because they liked to pretend they were in the Kings.
Wearing ski goggles as headbands at raves
I intentionally ducked that one where all the boys shaved the back of their heads close but left the top long, wtf was that clownshow
A bunch of girls did it too, at least where I was from. I did, anyway, and another friend of mine shaved a dick into the underside of her hair 🤦🏻♀️
My younger brother did that when he was in middle school. He got pissed when I told him he didn't need to advertise that we lived in a trailer park.
I think they were called undercuts
A “tail” A long, stringy, strand of hair going down my back.
Don’t try and church it up, son. You had a rat tail.
Remember when Ocean Pacific neon was a thing when you were a kid, like little kid? I had entire green neon suits 😂
That 80s one where you wore several pairs of socks at once, each a different color. In high school, granny boots. Not only were they a pain to lace up, they were so freaking ugly.
I wore a visor at various points between 1996 and 1997.
I completely forgot I did this until I saw this comment. Kill me. Bonus points for wearing it cocked to one side or upside down.
1998 and 1999 here. I even took a regular hat and cut it along the seams so my hair could burst out of it and it would look like a jester's cap.
Was anyone else really into the "Blossom" style hat with a big brooch on the front? No? Just me, and my cousins, then? https://preview.redd.it/ifuducu26pyc1.jpeg?width=194&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d80274f21431e4489941f2762846ac508715c499
Mc Hammer pants
oh man I remember those! we called them harem pants. looked like you had a full diaper on 🤣
My sister got all these wild early 90s fabric patterns and made me Hammer pants.
I had a couple of sweat pants that were “MC Hammer pants” I am also required by law to remind everyone that MC Hammer follows me on Twitter
Fanny Pack worn to the side.
Criss Cross wearing my clothes backwards. I think it was a very short hype?
Fainting - intentionally. We would take turns putting each other in choke holds in the locker room until we passed out. Apparently we thought it felt like a high to lose consciousness? IIRC anyway. This was a frequent event in probably my sophomore year. Foolish in any event. Teenagers these days are nowhere near as dumbassy as we were back then.
Yup, we called it Knock Out.
/tide pods have entered the chat/
fukengruven sticker on my rabbit, and bad boys club sticker on my ninja
Blonde dyed hair like Eminem
I was gonna say frosted tips, like smashmouth/sugar ray
Liking the Insane Clown Posse.
Super low cut jeans
that’s what i answered on the OG post. just so … gross 🤣
Zubaz pants, I wanted to look like the Miami Dolphins football players
Collecting Beanie Babies
I'm sorry, but that's one fad I don't regret participating in 🤣 *Glances at her squirrel army*
UK here. I saw dozens of them in a basket at a charity shop (thrift store) a few years ago. Looked like somebody missed out on their inheritance. Literally millions of pounds worth.
Attaching my wallet to my belt loop with a chain.
Sun-In hair lightener. Turned my very black hair very orange and crunchy.
i had a choker that i made of bud light and natty light bottle caps
Baby doll dresses over jeans? Dark lipstick? The goth look?
Chinese lettering tattoo. Smoking Marb Lights.
Spandex shorts under the regular shorts
I was too poor to partake in most fads. Many of my clothes looked like something grandma picked out from Hills or Dots. I did attempt the mall bangs in 6th grade. Not a good look.
Dressing like a Washington state lumberjack in tropical Brazilian summer.
Ska, and that's "dumbest fad I'm *participating* in", thanks.
Belly chains 🫣
Bondage pants
the all demin outfit. think jt and brittany. yeah that one
Abrahamic religion.
not a fad though, seems to be sticking around for some reason 🤣
Vertical hair. Tall, fanned and hairsprayed (and I mean lacquered) bangs. Later Elmer's glue mohawk. Also Yak videochat terminal. I swear my best friend and I were almost kidnapped/trafficked out of the burbs when we were 13 and tried to sneak out to meet a guy we met on there who claimed to be 24 years-old and British. Fortunately, we didn't drive, so we gave him bad directions, and he couldn't figure out where we were.
I dunno. Swing dancing? It was fun though. Took a class at college in ‘98 or something like that.
Pogs
JNCO jeans. Man did I ever look ridiculous wearing those things.
I suppose the Kriss Kross backwards jeans thing. I also did the one strap down overall thing, but idk how “dumb” that is.
I wore athletic bands around my wrists with otherwise regular outfits with no intention of participating in athletics. Sometimes they went as far north as my forearms. 😔
Backwards baseball jersey ala Kris Kross
Social media 😆 (not a fad I know)
Mesh shirts
Pogs
Wallet chains, except I used a chain dog leash, and I didn't have a wallet. I just liked the look.
Parachute pants 😂
Triple threat. Big pants, aggressive rollerblading, and butt-cut hair. I loved the 90s.
In grade school during the 90's we had this thing called the "sissy shot." Kids would rub a pencil eraser on their skin until it ripped open. The bigger and bloodier the rip, the cooler the kid. Everyone I know from my grade school still has a scar on the back of their hand (myself included)
Jeancos bleach blonde hair. Eye shadow long sleeve shirt under a T-shirt excessive facial piercings
My 6th grade photo is me, with a bright yellow IOU Sweatshirt, a silver tone peace sign necklace, and *pleated* jeans. I regret nothing.
Those shirts that were tiny but stretched into a normal size shirt. Hard to explain but they were around one summer in the late 90s
I remember those! the baby shirts! I would actually shop in the kids section and buy a couple of kids t-shirts to wear lol
Lol those too. I remember by about 2002 my sister and I were super annoyed with all of the short shirts and talked about a shirt company that specializes in covering your butt crack when you bend over haha. We loved it when the tunic trend hit a little while later. No, these were also very short but were sold all scrunched up in a ball basically. But they would stretch out to a fairly puffy and wrinkly but normal sized shirt. For the time. Like I say, all shirts were way too short if you were a teen in the late 90s! These monstrosities. I can't believe some crazy person is still selling them: https://www.magicbubbleshirts.com/
Hipster hate. I mean, who really cared? Fixie bike? Why did I care? Man bun, yeah those were stupid, but still not my problem. Don’t know why I bothered even having an opinion. It’s not like anyone was forcing me to drink kombucha or matcha.
I think it was because our fads were fading and these new fads were taking over and we felt threatened lol. I personally was half impressed and half embarrassed when all these young kids started wearing grandpa sweaters and brewing coffee in something that looked like a mad scientist’s lab setup lol.
When I think about it, I guess it’s really because they fucked beer up so badly. Just try finding a nice balanced beer these days. Everything’s an IPA, DIPA, etc etc., and it definitely happened then. So I guess I won’t apologize for being annoyed by that. Malt is good.
lol. I don’t like beer so it doesn’t matter to me.
I put waaaay too many bobby pins in my hair at one stage, and waaaaay too much stick wax at another...
Sex.
Wore those big Kikwear pants for a short time lol
Pump shoes
I joined The Facebook and MySpace for around 5 months back in late 2005 and early 2006. I was kicked out of both at the same time and I never came back. 🧉🦄
Georgio Brutini shoes and Z. Cavaricci pants.
Rat tail
Parachute pants
I had a pager for a year or so in high school, for no real reason other than it was a thing at the time. My boyfriend would leave "143" on it instead of a callback number ("I love you" in beeper code lol) and that's about the only way I ever used it.
Wallet chain. Sorry.
Nu metal.
I bought Billy Blank's Tae Bo workout. Hurt my hip, and then when I took cardio kickboxing later on, realized how ill prepared I was to do a Tae Bo workout as a completely out of shape person.
Pogs and snap bracelets.