what were people your age wearing when you were 15?

[milesy]

Oh yes

The Pineapples sometimes wore Kickers, I remember that. And for a while there was a strange trend towards harem pants, you know, those ones that bag out like flares but then are elasticated at the ankle...maybe that was a bit earlier though.

may - i think we were 15 at about the same time, judging from your descriptions

ALL the girls in my year at school had that big tsunami fringe/bump, but with the rest of the (permed) hair hanging down under a ton of wet look gel. they also wore long pencil/hobble skirts, bunched up long white socks and flat pointy shoes. the boys had curtains and tracksuits and ski jackets or football-manager type coats with umbro or whatever on the back.

except us indie types, who wore what indie types wore in the late 80s/early 90s.

 

[soulman]

Ben Sherman shirts, Levi's and Adidas Samba

or Fred Perry shirts, Levi's and suede Hush Puppies and a fishtail parka

 

[mrsfran]

I'm with May, scumbalina and Milesy. My own favourite outfit was a short tartan kilt, thick black tights with holes in, DMs written on with Tippex (FUCK on one toe, YOU on the other), a Neds Atomic Dustbin t-shirt and an army jacket with my favourite band names written on in tippex on the back.

I was SO FUCKING COOL.

 

[scumbalina]

yep, this was me, although not DMs, deffo black flat laceup clumpy boots though. I dunno if I couldn't afford DMs, or if they hadn't got popular yet.

I sooo wanted some Dms in middle school, when the whole long flowery skirt thing kicked off. I begged and begged and my mum anded up buying some very dodgy "DMs" off a very dodgy man, bless her

I was so made up, but they only lasted a few months to be fair though, I think that was mainly due top the fact that I'd developed the grunger walk of leaving your laces (rainbow ones form local head shop, ofcourse) undone and dragging your boots instead of actually picking your feet off the floor

 

[Madusa]

horse hair crinoline skirts
lace trimmed petticotes
s-bed corsets
bustles
gigot sleeves
pelerine collars

 

[mrsfran]

Note: I actually worked in DM shop on Saturdays when I was 15. Oh yeah.

 

[pogofish]

lots of fucking burgundy tanktops and grey trousers.

Oh fuck aye!

 

[Hellsbells]

Loads of friendship braclets that went half way up your arm to show off how many millions of friends you had, despite the fact that you probably made most of them yourself

And if you were cool, you had to have one of those army type canvas bags grafeetied with band names and doodles and messages from friends.

 

[May Kasahara]

Loads of friendship braclets that went half way up your arm to show off how many millions of friends you had, despite the fact that you probably made most of them yourself

And if you were cool, you had to have one of those army type canvas bags grafeetied with band names and doodles and messages from friends.

I was just about to mention my canvas knapsack covered in music-related graffiti!

 

[Belushi]

And if you were cool, you had to have one of those army type canvas bags grafeetied with band names and doodles and messages from friends.

Indie Kid and Cool weren't words that i remember being associated together

 

[mrsfran]

True story: I spelled the band name The Auteurs wrong on my army jacket so it was written like this:

       u
The Auters
       ^

 

[bluestreak]

linen shirts with low collars and wide cravats, frockcoats and appropriate waistcoat if relaxing, breeches, and of course the stovepipe hat.

 

[zenie]

horse hair crinoline skirts
lace trimmed petticotes
s-bed corsets
bustles
gigot sleeves
pelerine collars

you look alright for 115

 

[Madusa]

i age well.

 

[Hellsbells]

Indie Kid and Cool weren't words that i remember being associated together

At my school, if you were into indie, you were incredibley cool. Especially if you liked really obscure bands that nobody else had ever heard of.
I was never seriously into indie music but I memorised a list of obscure indie bands to reel off whenever anyone asked me what music I was into. It was the only time I was ever able to impress anyone.

 

[Belushi]

At my school, if you were into indie, you were incredibley cool. Especially if you liked really obscure bands that nobody else had ever heard of.
I was never seriously into indie music but I memorised a list of obscure indie bands to reel off whenever anyone asked me what music I was into. It was the only time I was ever able to impress anyone.

In my school Indie kids were weak, soft creatures, natural prey for the casuals.

 

[soulman]

Ben Sherman shirts, Levi's and Adidas Samba

or Fred Perry shirts, Levi's and suede Hush Puppies and a fishtail parka

Plain crew neck lambswool jumpers over the Ben Shermans when it got a bit nippy

 

[scifisam]

Tons of orange foundation that left a tideline on your collar.

About a can of mousse a day, plus gel, plus hairspray, plus defrizzing stuff sometimes. We could probably have headbutted our way through bank safes.

DMs, Kurt Cobain T-shirts, flowery skirts and dresses, faded jeans with rips in the knees.

Items with hash leaves on.

Big gold hoop earings, which occasionally got stuck in the helmet hair and had to be surgically removed. You also had at least two other ear piercings - but no piercings anywhere else.

Cullottes.

Lycra. Neon lycra.

Really short, flaring mini-skirts (some looked like PE skirts), worn with opaque black 60-denier tights of course.

Eau de Diamond White.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Bell bottom jeans.

 

[twisted_angel]

Alot of black....short flared skirts, black roll neck jumpers, thick black tights, doc martin shoes and thick wide belt ( just brought one again..love it when things come back round) i think..its a long time ago.

 

[DotCommunist]

Spliffy Jeans, Dreamscape puffa jackets, Reebok Pumps!

 

[twisted_angel]

Spliffy Jeans, Dreamscape puffa jackets, Reebok Pumps!

Not long ago then! god i feel old now!

 

[Cloo]

Hmmm, 1992. About when I finally got tall enough to fit into 'teenage' size clothes IIRC there was a thing for long denim skirts and ankle boots. I remember being very proud of having a long denim skirt and ankle boot combo when I went to see Stereo MCs live in 93 (my first 'grown up' gig)

Also about then was short, baggy jumpers worn over big, long shirts.

I think they'd just introduced no uniform for the 6th form at my school and there were lots of battered black combats and Neds/PWEI t-shirts going on.

 

[Balbi]

2000.

Vans, Converse or New Rocks. Swears were good as well, could never see myself in them though.

Criminal Damage, Bleu Bolt (I still get their catalogue ) jeans/dungarees without the straps done up. Flared jeans to the point where it looked like you were wearing clown trousers, not helped by them being baggy enough to show off a fair amount of your boxers.

KoRn, Slipknot, Noisy not metal band of choice t-shirt, with DIFFERENT band hoody to go with it.

Hell of a mix tbh. Proto-punk rockers, goths, grungers, metallers - all just comparing clothes, bands and swigging from large bottles of cider. I had some astoundingly terrible haircuts around that time, as I was growing it out.

 

[sojourner]

Everything I wasn't

But then, I did dress meself out of jumble sales, charity shops, and skips at 15

 

[Balbi]

@ soj

I'm half tempted to go back to doing that. I spent many a happy saturday in my yoof cruising round the charity shops looking for shirts and jumpers etc, I still retain one of the jumpers despite every single person I know pleading with me to burn/bin/ban it. It makes me look like a large deckchair

Only thing I couldn't buy from charity shop were shoes. Cos shoes are dead important

I said only half of me wants to return to charity shop living. The other half want's to go and kit myself out at H&M and other stores, avoiding the godawful shite that the current crop of teens are wearing.

Oh god, i sound like a grown up

 

[RubyToogood]

Gilty pink lipstick from Boots 17 range.

Other than that, very similar to a lot of things you see teenage girls in today, at least in Dulwich - mini skirts and pixie boots.

 

[sojourner]

@ soj

I'm half tempted to go back to doing that. I spent many a happy saturday in my yoof cruising round the charity shops looking for shirts and jumpers etc, I still retain one of the jumpers despite every single person I know pleading with me to burn/bin/ban it. It makes me look like a large deckchair

Only thing I couldn't buy from charity shop were shoes. Cos shoes are dead important

I said only half of me wants to return to charity shop living. The other half want's to go and kit myself out at H&M and other stores, avoiding the godawful shite that the current crop of teens are wearing.

Oh god, i sound like a grown up

Yes. When I bought my first clothes brand new, it was a very strange feeling...I'd turned being skint into an art form, and I felt guilty for buying new!! You can make so many different outfits buying secondhand. I had a crackin outfit I got from a skip - involving a stained leather (good quality) cowboy hat and an ankle-length dark brown coat with a belt I tied at the back, and cowboy boots I'd scavved off a mate. Thought I looked like a propah cowboy in that lot

Ah, shoes, yep - one good pair of doc martens = sorted. And the odd pair of bright red high heeled ankle length cowboy boots sourced from a carboot sale that I lurved

 

[May Kasahara]

Oh, the frosted pink lipstick I had an inherited one, a Rimmel with a broken casing. That was when I was about 12 though. I'll never forget the shame when I wore it round to an older friend's house and she loftily informed me that she wouldn't be seen dead in frosted pink. I binned it that very night!

 

[sojourner]

Black eyeliner! Who wore that? I had it on the inside of my eyelids