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This is a good slide show. Brings back memories, doesn't it?http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42454073
I so loved High School and so want to forget what I wore back then. My son has a saying when he thinks something is old fashioned, “that's so 80's Dad.” It makes me feel old. I will confess that I was a Mall Rat and on a first name basis with the people that worked at Waldenbooks in the Mall.
Wow….you really were a mall rat, weren't you?What I have always found interesting is that fashion changes so radically, and at a relatively quick pace nowadays. You look at those kinds of photos and you just cringe at how bad it gets. A Mickey the Mouse cutoff shirt? Acid-wash jeans? Hair piled sky high? Everyone laughs at that kind of fashion, even though it was little over 20 years ago.Meanwhile, music also changes relatively frequently, but we don't cringe when we hear it from a previous decade. In fact, many people still enjoy music which is quite old. I have wondered why the same repulsion that people have for older clothing styles does not apply to music.
Ouch!Okay, I was a decade ealier, but slide number 4 rang true in 1979 and 1989 - the high school letterman's jacket. I wore that thing EVERYWHERE!On a cultural historian's note - notice how many shots there were of people casually smoking in the public/common areas of the mall? Those scenes have gone the way of the public phone booth and rotary phones!
Yeah, I wore my letter jacket quite a bit too. The fact that I lettered in both Football and Baseball took some of the sting away from also lettering on the Academic Challenge team too.Ski, the scrunched socks are on girls in the picture. Ironically, many 80's fashions are coming back today. I saw a whole lot of women wearing leg-warmers his past winter. I have also seen some people wearing parachute pants over here recently.
Ski, the scrunched socks are on girls
well that explains why everyone laughs at me. Going sockless from now on.Actually, I thought the socks were something else. Back in the 70s and early 80s the style was to wear your white athletic socks all the way up. A younger (from early 90s era) friend of mine was like, "no, dude" and he told me to push them down. That's what I thought they meant by scrunched socks
Pushing your athletic socks down is ok, I do that at PT. The scrunched socks were made to look all wrinkle and if I remember right they couldn't be pulled up. They were also made of different material than athletic socks, more soft and girly looking. If you are pushing athletic socks down that I still cool I think, at least everybody in the Army does it.
I think pushing down socks has been quite normal/acceptable for a long time; the alternative is to keep them up, which is seen in some instances but is probably not the norm. The peculiar thing about the 80s (e.g. photo #5 – the one with the girl who looks like Jo from Facts of Life) is that the socks were on the outside of the bottom of their jeans. That just looks odd nowadays.
I think pushing down socks has been quite normal/acceptable for a long time; the alternative is to keep them up, which is seen in some instances but is probably not the norm. The peculiar thing about the 80s (e.g. photo #5 - the one with the girl who looks like Jo from Facts of Life) is that the socks were on the outside of the bottom of their jeans. That just looks odd nowadays.
You are probably right, but it was cool back in the day wasn't it? ;D
well that explains why everyone laughs at me.
Brother, it's not the socks... you need to stop wearing those late 1970s short gym shorts. ;D
Nice slideshow. It is always good to bring back the memories from the pat. The sad thing is, most of the youths nowadays forget the essence of our history. Recent studies suggest that the typical U.S. pupil doesn?t know much about U.S. history. The Department of Education recently discovered in its assessment of public school students that more 4th grade students were proficient in U.S. history than high school seniors. I read this here: Most American students not proficient in American history
Nice slideshow. It is always good to bring back the memories from the pat. The sad thing is, most of the youths nowadays forget the essence of our history. Recent studies suggest that the typical U.S. pupil doesn?t know much about U.S. history. The Department of Education recently discovered in its assessment of public school students that more 4th grade students were proficient in U.S. history than high school seniors. I read this here: Most American students not proficient in American history
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