Time to fess up... Did you ever own a pair of wear acid wash jeans?

[kmla]

Or pastel jackets with the sleeves pulled up?
Or tennis shoes with velcro straps instead of shoelaces?
Or parachute pants?

I'll sheepishly admit to everything above - except the parachute pants.

And floating out there somewhere in the cosmos is a picture of me with a mullet. Eeeps.

I'm so embarassed...

[youngred]

1. no, no, no and no

thank god I was only 7 when the 80s ended

[eyesroll]

2. No parachute pants, but everything else

Including the bad hairstyle -- only for me, it was "mall hair."

Yikes.

On edit: The pathetic thing was, I was born in 1975. Mall hair came in the (!) 90s...

[Whitacre D_WI]

27. You STILL have acid-wash jeans.

n/t

[afraid_of_the_dark]

3. Yes to the tennis shoes...

but unfortunately (thanks Mom) it was WAY after that fad had passed.

[kmla]

7. But they were probably on sale by then, huh?

Or did they just coordinate with the Peter Pan collar?

[afraid_of_the_dark]

10. It was definitely the "On Sale" factor

I was just destined to be uncool because of this :P

[GOPisEvil]

4. I owned none of the above.

And I graduated high school in 1986, too. I did own a Members Only jacket, though. :D

[NYYFan]

5. But of course, why ? 'Cause it was cool and in style

Why else would you do this ? :shrug: There is however, very little photographic evidence that it happened. ;-)

[Loonman]

6. Nope

I had a Bennetton shirt I bought at a flea market, but I ripped it apart at the seams, safety pinned it back together and put a picture of Reagan with a bullet through his head on the back.


The principal didn't like that.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. and the legs were pegged on my jeans. My tennis shoes were

the Candies with the lace around the ankle (like a docksider). I wore my blazers with big chunky plastic bracelets and earrings and I had pumps in every color of the rainbow to go with my clothes.

I also cannot forget using "jaws" (those clamps hairstylists use to section your hair) as decorative additions in my hair. :hi:
Thanks for the memories...psst...I still have my blazers.

[kmla]

13. They'll probably come in handy when your kids have an "'80's Day"

at school.

I remember when we would have a "'50's" day when I was in Jr. High.

Do the math. I don't like counting that high...

[ScreamingMeemie]

16. We used to do the 50's day thing in high school too! Now, my

daughter's classes do the 70's thing. My son will probably get the 80's. Too bad his dad was such a dweeb in high school..

(just kidding...he was cool, in a James Dean, rebellious nice guy sort of way)

[kmla]

17. Oooh. 70's day.

I bet the old leisure suit would come in handy on that day.

Speaking of leisure suit - there sadly is photgraphic evidence of me wearing this smashing burnt orange number in my formative years.

Quite the fashion plate was I.:eyes:

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. heehee. My brothers had the matching ones. One had lime green

the other had navy blue...with the pastels shirts with no top button and horses and trees on them...giggle. I regularly scan and send them to them as fun. :) This is a great thread.

[Disandra]

9. Yes to all...

I even had every color of "Jelly" shoes.

*Runs and hides in embarrassment*

[afraid_of_the_dark]

14. I loved "Jelly" shoes...

But again, they were something I acquired after that fad had passed. Doh!

[Disandra]

21. Ah the memories....

they were really popular when I was seven. That summer, I would come in after playing outside all day, and take off my shoes and laugh because my feet were covered in dirt with the clean part of my feet being were the jelly was on (making that "Jelly" pattern).

My mom hated those things....

[afraid_of_the_dark]

26. Mine too...

Because I'd always get rocks stuck in the soles which my mom was afraid would scuff up the floor.

[VelmaD]

11. All but the velcro

My mother didn't believe in velcro. :eyes:

I think I may well have worn parachute pants every single day of junior high school (1983-1985). :-)

[PVnRT]

12. Acid wash jeans were BAD-ASS pimp gear

I had some parachute pants when I was about eight (that would have been 1986).

[wysimdnwyg]

15. Sort of

no, yes, no.

I didn't BUY acid washed jeans, but I threw a cup of bleach in the wash with several pair of new ones. Oh, and for those of you who don't know better (I didn't at the time), put the bleach in while the machine is filling with water. After it fills some more and has plenty of time to mix the bleach and water, THEN add the jeans. Otherwise you get blue jeans with big white spots.

[CanuckAmok]

19. Heh, no.

Wait, maybe the pastel jacket. I know I had a white dinner jacket I wore 'sleeves-up'.

I also had "Terra Zeros by Santana". They were this cylindrical suede casual shoe in either blue or brown, with a formed-foam sole. Does anyone else remember them, or is that a "Canadian thing"?

My thing in highschool was asymetrical belts (wore one or two hanging down one hip, almost like a gun-belt), militaria (I had a belt made out of .30cal shells which was confiscated by my VP), and skinny leather ties.

What an odd mix!

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. Yes!! I wore those belts over prairie skirts all the time. Strangely

I see prairie skirts making a comeback. Although they don't tie up one side like we used....VVVvvvery daring. :P

[Shananigans]

22. What is wrong with acid wash jeans?

I love acid wash jeans. I dont understand why you people are making fun of them.

(*She said as she looked down at her saucy acid washed, skin tight, pinned at the ankle jeans*)

[kmla]

25. Oh, nothing is WRONG with them.

Just make sure you keep them neatly folded, right in the drawer next to the leg warmers.

[Loonman]

23. I liked those Prairie Skirts

Nice.

[kmla]

24. Prairie skirt?

Please post a picture of one of these.

Mee not fam-eeel-e-yurr with prarie skirt.

[LanternWaste]

28. Let's hop into the way-back machine

Oh my yes. Let's hop into the way-back machine and set the year to 1983-84.

Acid washed, boot cut jeans. White, canvas Nike shoes and a pink or yellow pastel shirt (Izod, or it wouldn't have worked) with the collar pushed up in back. And my girlfriend wore either red (or black) parachute pants or gym tights with leg warmers. On dates, she wore her Gloria Vanderbilt jeans that must have taken hours to paint on. Yes, I was child of the eighties and no better or worse for it. :)

Although mullets were getting to be popular (thanks to one of the MTV VJ's whose name escapes me... this was back when MTV actually played videos more often than not), I did keep to my Richie Cunnigham (although I did blow-dry a nice feather on one side every morning...lol).

[kmla]

29. I think you are thinking of either Alan Hunter (blond w/ a mullet),

or Mark Goodman (black & curlie w/ a mullet).

I had the black and curly mullet myself...

[LanternWaste]

31. Mark goodman....thank you! I was beginning to bug me

Ahhhh.... Mark Goodman! That was the guy.

Who was the really cute brunette? She was... well, she was more important to me at the time than the Sear's catalogue bra-models. :)

I remember one of my best friends had the World's Biggest Afro pretty much throughout high school (and that's saying a lot for a white guy...lol)

[kmla]

32. The cute brunette was Martha Quinn. She was more of the

girl next door type, as opposed to the worldly Nina Blackwood.

And J.J. Jackson rounded out the roster.

I too had a crush on Martha Quinn. What a cutie.

[LanternWaste]

34. I'll know who to blame....

If I end up digging out my Police and Adam Ant albums this afternoon, I'll know who to blame....

[skippysmom]

30. hell yeah

my typical outfit:
acid washed jeans
baggy sweaters that fell off the shoulder
high top black Reeboks with the velcro
floppy socks
huge earrings
hair tied up in a scarf a la Madonna

in 8th grade i had a mullet (a female version -- a mullette?). but even better, in high school i had one of those asymmetrical hair styles -- short on one side, long and feathered on the other.

[LanternWaste]

33. I think I dated you our junior year! (joke)

And the weird thing is, to this day, I would loooove to see that style (for girls, anyway-- God forbid I ever wear another white&black blazer w/ the sleeves puched up to the elbow) come back into fashion. I guess I just grew up when that was the defining "look" for girls and it's stuck w/ me ever since. The baggy sweater thing with the bra-strap showing was better than girlie-mags for me.

Ahhh... the memories lol :)

[skippysmom]

40. that look was much more forgiving

than today's styles, where the more you expose the better.

(btw, i was SUCH a dork in high school that no one wanted to date me!)

[LynneSin]

35. I even owned an Acid Wash Jacket

I still have it too, but I never wear it

[VelmaD]

36. My jacket wasn't acid-washed, but...

it was covered completely in buttons. :-)

[jonnyblitz]

37. ack! there is nothing i hated worse than acid wash.

ewwww ewwww ewwwww :puke:

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. You mean I'm not supposed to be wearing my acid washed jacket

anymore??? I didn't get that memo. No wonder my daughter hates being seen with me. ;)

[populistmom]

39. I did in 1987

I think in the early 80's I had a pink satin jacket with a big roller skate on the back. No parachute pants or velcro sneakers though.

(I'm 31 by the way.)

[Lostmessage]

41. I had a pair that was ripped to expose the bottom of your butt cheek

During the winter I had a chapped butt and I had problems sitting down.

[Lady Freedom]

42. Not the parachute pants, no mullet, but

I still wear the other stuff! I'm sooo embarrass!:eyes:

[Bossy Monkey]

43. Yes, but not until they had been out of style for 10-15 years

and had them up until a couple weeks ago. Donated them to a thrift store, partly because of a busted seam, MUCH to the delight of my sweetheart.