what were people your age wearing when you were 15?

[May Kasahara]

What do you mean, 'wore'? I've still got at least three in my make-up bag now I did resist the inside lining for years though, because I thought it meant actually drawing onto your eyeball

Some of my eye make-up experiments were legendary: bright yellow across the eyelid, then bright orange up to the brow; or the same but with bright blue and acid green. Once I painted one eyelid green but forgot to do the other....my mum's girlfriend pointed it out to me several hours later

 

[sojourner]

What do you mean, 'wore'? I've still got at least three in my make-up bag now I did resist the inside lining for years though, because I thought it meant actually drawing onto your eyeball

Some of my eye make-up experiments were legendary: bright yellow across the eyelid, then bright orange up to the brow; or the same but with bright blue and acid green. Once I painted one eyelid green but forgot to do the other....my mum's girlfriend pointed it out to me several hours later

I was rather fond of black eyebrows, black eyeliner, and bright red eyeshadow done in 'wings', and bright red lippy. Have to say though, I would experiment at the tender age of 15 with measuring people's reactions to my outfits...would wear full make up, fishnet stockings and miniskirt one night and me cowboy outfit the next...and I'm afraid to say I treated the lads who acted like wankers over the first outfit with complete disdain

Brown eyeliner only for me these days. Putting it on the inside of your lids meant you couldn't see much for most of the night due to debris escaping into the eyes

 

[astral]

I still do the black eyeliner thing

It was mainly baggy ripped jeans, ex-army surplus shirts, long flowery skirts and dresses, ripped tee-shirts and a shaming amount of tye-dye for my friends and I.

I doubt this was the case for everyone who was 15 in 1995, but for the life of me I can't remember what the 'cool' girls wore.

 

[Mogden]

I'm in the milesy/May/all the others born around 1975 camp.

I had a perm but I also wore DMs and flowery skirts. I remember visiting the Lanes in Brighton and being in awe of the shops there. I also owned a fringe skirt. I think I still have it upstairs somewhere.

 

[scifisam]

I'm in the milesy/May/all the others born around 1975 camp.

There are an awful lot of us, aren't there? And we don't even all begin with M!

 

[RubyToogood]

I forgot to mention those sort of checky scarves that you draped round your neck with the point at the front, so that you looked like you were wearing a huge napkin. And Boy George hats.

 

[mrsfran]

There are an awful lot of us, aren't there? And we don't even all begin with M!

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[jonH]

skimpy skirts

 

[scifisam]

People In Their Late 20s Frequently On The Internet Shocker

I'm happy enough to be included in the 'late twenties' group that I'll overlook the sarcasm.

 

[Rainingstairs]

scruffy ripped up jeans, converse, flanel...GRUNGE era

 

[Rollem]

mostly champion track suits, fruit of the loom sweat shirts, kicker boots (preferably red) naf-naf puffa jackets, fila trainers (the more obscure the colour the better), levi jeans and jean shirts, wallaby shoes...boys and girls

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

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

Yes, and what's wrong with having it on the insides of your eyelids?

oh, you mean INSIDE, as opposed to ON the eyelids themselves as opposed to under?

 

[Stanley Edwards]

Pringle
Lyle & Scott
Lacoste
Adidas Rom
Pod
Floppy hair
Earings in one ear only (mostly)
Levi red label
Poxy pony tails


It wasn't good.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I was wearing much what I wear now, albeit the actual garments were different. What other people were wearing I couldn't tell you.

strangly enough i think thats about the same for me

t-shirt and shorts.... and other people just were wering stuff..

guess this forum ain't for me

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

striped polo shirts
skinny designer jeans with embroidery on the pocket.
comb in back pocket.
Farah style feathered hair.

<Yuck>

I wore black.

 

[sojourner]

oh, you mean INSIDE, as opposed to ON the eyelids themselves as opposed to under?

Yes
On the part next to your eyeball, ont'other side of the lashes

 

[Rollem]

oh and sergio testino track tops and kappa too....classy!

 

[D]

hmm...

there was a kind of "future PhD candidate/perpetual grad student" look among many of my friends...Bootleg cut jeans with well worn trainers and a very plain solid color top of some kind.

What *I* was wearing when I was 15 was utterly ridiculous:

ski/snowboard bottoms (and I recently learned at a class reunion that the skater boys all thought I was super tough ... as if I had just coasted off the mountain and into school)

vintage store finds - especially t-shirts

this one blue Hawaiian style shirt

tennis skirts and John Fluevog boots/shoes

a gross overabundance of accessories, including, occasionally a McDonald's bib (it was, um, ironic? this was only a few years after I'd gone vegetarian and, thankfully, I had no problems keeping food/spittle in my mouth)

blue eye pencil as lipstick

Ooooh! I had this Cheerios t-shirt

Also I had many t-shirts with political stuff on them, especially pro-choice/feminist stuff

I had a charm that looked like a maroonish gummy bear, which I'd put on a satin cord and wear around my neck

pajama tops and bottoms (especially blue, if I recall)

a sparkly light orange mini skirt

it was the tail-end of the Riot Grrrl movement...and I had a bit of that flavor in my wardrobe

I remember there was a pack of older boys in my school who used to chase me around shouting, "Raver! Raver! You're a raver!" because of my fondness for plastic accessories

and, the crown jewel: I had drawstring trousers made of two or four different pieces of fabric sewn together ... "dichotomous pants" ("pants" being synonymous with "trousers" in the States) we called them

...

I'm trying to remember what I wore when I got "dressed up" - I was pretty into the idea of my everyday clothing being a kind of drag/costume...

Oh, I also cut my hair off when I was 15...went from just below the shoulder to, initially, this sort of horrible bouffant thing and then got fixed into something rather boyish, which I dug ... and it was auburn (not naturally, of course)

 

[bluestreak]

I almost certainly would have proper fancied you if we'd both been 15 at the same time.

Uh, in the same place.

That makes more sense.

 

[D]

I almost certainly would have proper fancied you if we'd both been 15 at the same time.

Uh, in the same place.

That makes more sense.

As we have discussed.

 

[D]

I forgot about my glasses too!

I had a pair of vintage, aluminum, cat-eye frames with light blue lenses. I wore them all the time. Still have 'em, but they're not the best shape for my face. There is a photo on u75 from ... 2000 or so where you can see the corner of 'em from the editor's view in the back of the taxi.

 

[Sweaty Betty]

32" wide leg jeans, mix and match shirts and wallabies!!!!

 

[Hellsbells]

checked, padded workmen type shirts (on girls), with the last few buttons left undone and the two ends of the shirt tied together in a knot.
I've seen photos of myself wearing shirts like that as a teenager & I look really riddiculous

 

[miss direct]

See through leopard skin shirts, pedal pushers, Spice Girl style platform trainers, men wore orange or lime green shirts.

 

[Wintermute]

Adidas 3stripe tracky bottoms, Fila boots and Chipie tops. Helly Hansen if you was going out posh, like. Proper sound.

 

[Schmetterling]

1983: Clochart jeans, Adidas Tennisboots (white with black stripes), black tights, white tennis socks rolled down, Esprit or Benetton jumper, bomber jacket - can you guess where I am from yet?????
My friends denies this but I have photographic evidence!

 

[Schmetterling]

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

       u
The Auters
       ^

And didn't we try to profile ourselves as having really eclectic musical tastes? For me that was stuff like Stevie Winwood, Mike Oltfield or Sanntana

 

[Swearing Nonna]

Footless tights with big baggy t-shirts tied in a knot on the hip.

Falmer flared jeans with a simon shirt and demin waistcoat over the top. Platforms!

Long cable knitted cardigans.

Lucky long skirts with moccasin, crepe soled nurse shoes.

With the exception of those gawd awful nurse shoes outfit I've seen all the others come round a 2nd time.

 

[Dillinger4]

Most of us will probably agree, that whenever we were 15, we were seriously badly and oddly dressed.

I am always struck with how groomed 15 year olds look this days. Even the punks have every single hair in place and accounted for.

Where are all the fucking scumbags?

 

[sojourner]

Most of us will probably agree, that whenever we were 15, we were seriously badly and oddly dressed.

Err I wouldn't! I look back on those outfits with pride!