What clothes did you wear 20 years ago?

[wtfftw]

Whatever my parents put me in. Brown cord dungarees. Clothkits. Velvet dresses with scratchy white collars. wool jumpers made on the knitting machine. start rite shoes. Hec tic tocks.

 

[mr steev]

Black mostly... and a pair of pointy boots!

 

[maes]

mostly nothing, i think every now & then there were babygros and that type of thing.

 

[Cloud]

Blazer and chino's

 

[Balbi]

Nappies etc.

 

[Geri]

Denim mini skirt, black polo neck top, thick tights and DMs.

 

[butterfly child]

Can't remember what I wore last week, yet alone 20 years ago!

I was at school, but it was 4th year, and I'd stopped wearing school uniform by then..

I daresay loads of black was worn, I do like my black

 

[spanglechick]

aged 12 (1986):

(on the left)

aged 13 (1987):

(on the right).

 

[pembrokestephen]

Full length scruffy dark brown army generals leather coat, t-shirt or wooly jumper underneath, dutch combat pants and either Para boots or Doc Martinz, what was your garb of the day?

Blue jeans, variety of T-shirts. I think I'd just started living-with, so the more esoteric colour combinations (I'm colour-blind, and you'd have known it...) would have been winnowed out by then.

10 years of that, and I was then into my Black Period. Which I am struggling to hold on to in the face of massive opposition from all quarters, dammit. Even most of my shreds are black, yay.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Whatever my parents put me in. Brown cord dungarees. Clothkits. Velvet dresses with scratchy white collars. wool jumpers made on the knitting machine. start rite shoes. Hec tic tocks.

Yeah, I'm bloody glad he didn't ask about what we were wearing 30 years ago...

 

[geminisnake]

About the only thing that has changed radically is the hair.

It's not changed THAT radically imo Hubby disagrees. I found an old photo of you by a campfire the other week You wear shirt sleeve shirts sometimes too.

Mostly I was probably wearing the same sort of stuff as I wear now, but I did wear jeans more.
Tbh I think some of my clothes are the ones I wore 20 yrs ago I have a Soiuxsie T that will be 24 soon!!

 

[kalidarkone]

I was 18 and what a hippy..I cant believe I didn't wear a bra..and my knockers are massively gigantic and need scaffolding to keep em in......

I was like crass hippy punk...I wore rainbow stripy jumpers and long black skirts
and DM's with bells round them ....

My tits are down to me knees here.....


Then I lost 5 stone and wore black mini skirts and pink and black stripy tights and had dreads with pink streaks,-crusty new age traveler chic....

 

[longdog]

Levis, t-shirts and docs I expect. If it was cold my black combat jacket which I'd had for 10 years and was in the final stages of rotting away.

 

[vipper]

Silly white basket ball boots (identical to the rest of my class).
Stylishly ripped jeans.
Band t shirt (probably guns n roses, faster pussycat or def leppard).
Vile paisley patterned shirt, open.
Denim jacket.

Rock and Roooooooooooool babeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Gingerman]

White toweling socks,slip on loafers with tasles,remember splashing out £70 on a suede jacket with dangly strips hanging fron the sleeves,also wore suede boots,wanted to look like Bono thankfully Ive been cured of that

 

[Ms Ordinary]

My mums 1950's floral dresses, sewn into bubble skirt shapes if they were flarey or cropped into minis if they were straight.

An old sixties brown suede jacket of hers, which I had glued on homemade suede fringing .

'tube' & 'fishtail' skirts which I'd made myself, my dad's old khaki army shirts & wide paisley & batik ties.

A quiff made freshly each morning with lots of hairgel.

I also remember a long sleeved bright yellow lace shirt with tails, which I used to wear with yellow & white striped leggings which I had made by painting yellow horizontal stripes onto white leggings with fabric paints, which I used to wear with crinkly white stilettoes .

I used to read Blitz magazine .

These days I seem to mostly wear black .

 

[equationgirl]

I was 13, so during the day, school uniform. Batwing sweaters that my mum had knitted, pixie boots, jeans, a reversible sweatshirt that my mum had got off the market (and I thought was the best thing EVER), jeans.

I was not cool.

 

[moose]

DM shoes, thick black tights, tartan mini, Smiths t-shirt
And a nice selection of 60s frocks.

 

[LilMissHissyFit]

I was not cool.

me either....
I have a VERY fetching ( NOT) tank top picture.... my mum refused to buy my school uniform anywhere nearing acceptable or slightly trendy so I was a saddo square with jumpers knitted by gran

I also had a fetching pair of yellow jeans ( which I tried not to wear ever) and I also remember a pair of moon boots and some rather dodgy late 80's outfits I refused to wear the neighbours hand me downs from 10 years ago (damn being VV small, surrounded by neighbours who were girls and all at least 5 years older than me)

 

[pembrokestephen]

me either....
I have a VERY fetching ( NOT) tank top picture.... my mum refused to buy my school uniform anywhere nearing acceptable or slightly trendy so I was a saddo square with jumpers knitted by gran

I also had a fetching pair of yellow jeans ( which I tried not to wear ever) and I also remember a pair of moon boots and some rather dodgy late 80's outfits I refused to wear the neighbours hand me downs from 10 years ago (damn being VV small, surrounded by neighbours who were girls and all at least 5 years older than me)

Oh, shit, you too, eh?

My mum wasn't doing with all that uniform thing, but it's not even as if we got to just wear normal clothes, oh no. We got to wear the Audrey A____ School Uniform Pastiche Option - her take on what she thought the school uniform *ought* to look like.

Oh, joy, those were the days . I think I'm just about getting over that shit now, 30-odd years later...

Ah, well, off-topic

 

[xenon]

Just about to go to secondary school. One which uniforms weren't required. SO think I wore jeans, later chinos, T-shirts and usually a black jumper.

Not a great deal has changed.

 

[pogofish]

It's not changed THAT radically imo Hubby disagrees. I found an old photo of you by a campfire the other week You wear shirt sleeve shirts sometimes too.

Errr - Its gone from hair to effectively no hair! Don't think you can get more radical than that?

Don't think you ever saw it gelled & spiky or worse still long & Cossacked (didn't need a lid there! )

Yes, shirts too - I do like a nice shirt. I may even still have a very 80's red stripy one in a box somewhere. It was too vile to even put in the bin!

 

[nino_savatte]

Black combats, black flight jacket, black beret. Sometimes I would wear a sixties chalk stripe suit with my Lenin badge on the lapel.

 

[Cloo]

I was nine, so it would have been leggings (first time around!) big jumpers the reached halfway down to me knees (it was the in thing) and ankle boots. Seemed to be my signature look, and I did it partially to avoid wearing jeans, which I thought was dull. But my sis (two years older) was my style guru and I was aware of the grim commandments that leggings were not to be worn with a top shorter than mid-thigh length, and only with footwear at least ankle high.

 

[red rose]

I was three months old so I was probably wearing a lot of tiny knitted things that my nan and my grandma made. All of them were yellow or green because my mom refused to dress me in pink

 

[i-am-your-idea]

a little pink dress, that is now worn by a doll!

 

[mrs quoad]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo, the most ghastly 'silky blue' shellsuit. I wore it EVERYWHERE

I ended up going on a school skiing trip in it, got explosive food poisoning in mah silky blue trousers beneath salopettes, didn't dare tell anyone, and came back to the ski place with silky tracksuit bottoms brimful (quite literally bulging from ankles to waist) with torrents of diarrhoetic shit and undigested sweetcorn.

I forget what I did with them. But they didn't make the journey home.

 

[northernhord]

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo, the most ghastly 'silky blue' shellsuit. I wore it EVERYWHERE

I ended up going on a school skiing trip in it, got explosive food poisoning in mah silky blue trousers beneath salopettes, didn't dare tell anyone, and came back to the ski place with silky tracksuit bottoms brimful (quite literally bulging from ankles to waist) with torrents of diarrhoetic shit and undigested sweetcorn.

I forget what I did with them. But they didn't make the journey home.

A pair of my jeans suffered a similar fate in Bombay, I,d been to eat and hadnt eaten the yoghurt curd which was part of the dish, the curd contains bug killing bacteria, on my way back to the room I was staying in I farted slighty and followed through hugely, not good