Trends that are no more

Bigbagofcans

Cycling shorts, overlined lips.

Oh no wait, they're back in fashion for some very strange reason. The worst of the '90s.

Your Face

Spats.

JeffKenna

"winning"

Sardonicat

Tammy! wrote: »

Does anyone remember Friendship Burns?

Youd hold one of your fingers out and your friend would hold it and rub it with their thumb until it was red raw. Then you'd get a sore and the scar it left was a mark of the friendship 🙂

Tammy, they weren't your friends...

Tammy!

Sardonicat wrote: »

Tammy, they weren't your friends...

That's just what people who don't have the scars say

Shrinking empty crisp packets in the oven and making keyrings out of them..

http://www.planet-science.com/categories/experiments/chemistry-chaos/2012/01/shrink-a-crisp-packet.aspx

jammiedodgers

Do they still do magnets in cereals?

"Take me to your dealer."

Tacitus Kilgore

jammiedodgers wrote: »

Do they still do magnets in cereals?

Still has pride of place on my fridge, took ages to get Marge

Tammy!

jammiedodgers wrote: »

Do they still do magnets in cereals?

I remember for a while they were doing Star Trek Next Generation stickers. One of the stickers was just a sticker that said Star Trek and we stuck it on the microwave and use to say it was a replicator.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Nokotan wrote: »

Emos, are they still about or has the work being done at the Central Bank reduced their natural habitat leaving them close to extinction?

There's a full on, full grown emo lad around Cork. In his mid/late 30s I'd say.

Snake bite piercing, flat-ironed hair, asymmetric fringe, guy liner, super skinny jet black jeans, the whooooole 9 yards. I've overheard him in conversation and he seems fairly normal. I respect the commitment.

Arghus

Talking of emos, are "moshers" still a thing anymore? When I was a younger fella I seem to remember teenagers dressed in black, wearing band t shirts, everywhere, now they seem rare enough.

Salthillprom

Umbro jumpers with the half zips

Fancy paper. Used to swap it in the school yard.

Flared jeans (I wish they'd come back into fashion)

Tear-away or rip-off tracksuit pants with the buttons all the way down the sides

Record bags as school bags or college backs etc.

Going around with your walkman/diskman

Glitter spray on nights out

Wearing Ellesse clothing and/or Fila clothing, although it was usually only the scobes who wore Fila

Tommy Hilfiger jumpers with the USA flags emblazoned across the front

Boob tube tops and dresses

JupiterKid

Big long bushy beards on young lads...thankfully seems to be very much on the way out.

Key chains attached to trousers.

The backcombed hairstyle on young girls.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Aw man. Miss Sixty and Susst jeans, do they still exist even?

Sardonicat

Fabian Putrid Snowball wrote: »

There's a full on, full grown emo lad around Cork. In his mid/late 30s I'd say.

Snake bite piercing, flat-ironed hair, asymmetric fringe, guy liner, super skinny jet black jeans, the whooooole 9 yards. I've overheard him in conversation and he seems fairly normal. I respect the commitment.

You sure he's an Emo? Could just be studying/working at the Crawford. Asymmetric hair is compulsory there, I believe.

freshpopcorn

Salthillprom wrote: »

Wearing Ellesse clothing and/or Fila clothing, although it was usually only the scobes who wore Fila

Isn't Ellesse back in now? I'm amazed at how expensive it is!

Sardonicat

Arghus wrote: »

Talking of emos, are "moshers" still a thing anymore? When I was a younger fella I seem to remember teenagers dressed in black, wearing band t shirts, everywhere, now they seem rare enough.

They're still around. Just not teenagers anymore.

Tammy!

Fabian Putrid Snowball wrote: »

Aw man. Miss Sixty and Susst jeans, do they still exist even?

I had a pair of Miss Sixty. They made lovely jeans. Don't know if they still exist.

A shop called Hairy Legs on Liffey Street in town use to sell all the Susst stuff in the late 90s.

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Sardonicat wrote: »

You sure he's an Emo? Could just be studying/working at the Crawford. Asymmetric hair is compulsory there, I believe.

Yeah but the flat ironed hair, piercing, clothes etc. remove all doubt he looks like someone who'd have been in a lot of MySpace top 8s in the mid 2000s, y'know.

Also you're allowed symmetrical hair in the Crawford as long as it's closely cropped if you're a girl or very very very long if you're a boy!

Sardonicat

Fabian Putrid Snowball wrote: »

Yeah but the flat ironed hair, piercing, clothes etc. remove all doubt he looks like someone who'd have been in a lot of MySpace top 8s in the mid 2000s, y'know.

Also you're allowed symmetrical hair in the Crawford as long as it's closely cropped if you're a girl or very very very long if you're a boy!

Oh, they've relaxed the rules in the ten years since I gauged how close to home my bus was by the unevenness of the hairstyles out the window, I see.

topper75

Men in suits flanked by obligatory eye candy girlies in bikinis standing in the street holding some sign or other for promotional newspaper shots.
Sign in question could be anything from a charity lotto to a road safety campaign.
Very tigery/2000s.
Appropriate was just not a question.

Rubberlegs

Collecting fancy pages and scented erasers or smelly rubbers as we called them.
Rats tails, hair cut short with one long piece hanging down the back. A load of us had them in the 80s, I thought I was so cool.
Luminous coloured socks and t shirts.
Armfuls of rubber bangles.
Yoyo tricks.

Paddy Cow

Fancy paper. All the rage in primary school and the scented ones were the best.

Clark's magic Princess shoes. I was gutted when my mother wouldn't buy them for my communion

Plastic collectables in cereal boxes. I remember there was one that you put on the wheel of your bike that made a stupid sound when you cycled. Was considered cool back then.

MP3 players. I knew one guy who replaced his CD collection with these and lived to regret it.

MySpace, Bebo.

Paddy Cow

Tammy! wrote: »

Does anyone remember Friendship Burns?

Youd hold one of your fingers out and your friend would hold it and rub it with their thumb until it was red raw. Then you'd get a sore and the scar it left was a mark of the friendship ��

No. But I do remember Friendship Bracelets made out of knotted embroidery thread were all the rage for a while.

Rubberlegs

Paddy Cow wrote: »

No. But I do remember Friendship Bracelets made out of knotted embroidery thread were all the rage for a while.

That seems to be back in my 7 year old's class, she has 2 balls of wool in her bag and they make bracelets on their lunch break. Nice to see

Paddy Cow

Rubberlegs wrote: »

That seems to be back in my 7 year old's class, she has 2 balls of wool in her bag and they make bracelets on their lunch break. Nice to see

I'll never forget the post on another thread about the group of mothers to be who all have friendship bracelets and take them out when the mother goes into labour. That's next level evolution!

When I was a young teen I was fond of the whole tartan tights under frayed denim shorts, docs, blazer and trilby type outfits. I cringe at the photos.

When I was a kid I collected Pogs, Mini Boglins and Monsters In My Pockets, and those things with the glass beads you made into bracelets. Can't remember what they were called but they were very important to me.

Sleeper12

ibarelycare wrote:

Wassuuuuuuup

A few decades before this we had "its for yoohoo!" everytime a phone rang. From a BT TV ad if memory serves but it was everywhere. Phone ringing in a movie in the cinema & someone from the audience shouts "its for yoohoo!"

Gaspode

Hiccups.

Woke Hogan

Nobody calls them “discos” any more.

Yer Da sells Avon

I had a centre parting in the mid-90s. Spent an extraordinary amount of time on it every day, getting it just right. Spent the rest of the time avoiding gusts of wind. My brother used to refer to it as a 'dick rest'.

Corkgirl18

Playboy branded everything was everywhere for a few years.
Toe rings existed for a while

Mugser

German Parka jackets.
Doc-martin boots with 10/12/14+ lace holes per side.

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

The mullet hairstyle.

The J Stands for Jay

ibarelycare wrote: »

Wassuuuuuuup


Who remembers this bad boy? Every sap was saying it.... you probably were too. Pogs, planking and other preposterous fads took over, didn’t they? What other trends of the last couple of decades have disappeared into the abyss of obscurity?

I'm glad to say that I left Ireland before it took off here, and when I arrived in America it had already stopped.

Ipso

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

The mullet hairstyle.

Beards took its place.

EmmetSpiceland

Bootcut jeans.

Although a, large, no pun intended, cohort of “men” in their 30s and early 40s won’t let it die.

Paddy Cow

Candie wrote: »

When I was a young teen I was fond of the whole tartan tights under frayed denim shorts, docs, blazer and trilby type outfits. I cringe at the photos.

You're not alone in feeling the cringe. I had a purple shell suit that I practically lived in I look back at the photos now and think "wtf was I thinking?" but in fairness, I look happy in the pictures, oblivious to my shame At least I was too young to have had one of those awful mullet hairstyles :pac:

Paddy Cow

Paddy Cow wrote: »

You're not alone in feeling the cringe. I had a purple shell suit that I practically lived in I look back at the photos now and think "wtf was I thinking?" but in fairness, I look happy in the pictures, oblivious to my shame At least I was too young to have had one of those awful mullet hairstyles :pac:

I saw a girl of about 18 walking around a shopping centre with sort of clear plastic shorts on and some cycle type shorts on underneath. She has no idea how retrospectively shamed she's going to feel when she looks back on any photos when she's 30. Not that she's ever going to be 30.

Clear plastic shorts. At least we never went there.

SEPT 23 1989

Scutting on lurries

Yer Da sells Avon

Anyone remember that game where you'd deliberately hyperventilate and then your friends would press your chest until you pass out? And then they'd catch you (unless they didn't, in which case you'd split your head open off the edge of a radiator).

They banned that in my primary school, because I split my head open off the edge of a radiator.

Pineapple1

Bebo. And giving your mates white tic tacs in the school yard as if they were Es.

KaneToad

Hypercolor t-shirts.
What a time to be alive!

jay1988

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Anyone remember that game where you'd deliberately hyperventilate and then your friends would press your chest until you pass out? And then they'd catch you (unless they didn't, in which case you'd split your head open off the edge of a radiator).

They banned that in my primary school, because I split my head open off the edge of a radiator.

An American dream, had a mate of mines lung collapse while doing this at a session a few years ago.

ceadaoin.

ibarelycare wrote: »

Wassuuuuuuup


Who remembers this bad boy? Every sap was saying it.... you probably were too.

Has the whole people randomly shouting out the ric flair "woooooo" at every sporting event or bar or just in public thing reached Ireland yet? Everyone is doing it here, It's the new wassup that won't go away

Also, the trend in the early 2000s for huge wide legged trousers bought from the hobo shop in town.

bogwalrus

Keyring lasers and Nike rings.

Redneck Reject

The plaid pattern bell bottom pants with the patches on the knees. Yes I am that old,heh.

GMSA

Low rise jeans on women. Muffin tops. Thongs/g strings and the inevitable whale tail when worn with low rise jeans.

ToddyDoody

Wearing an onion on your belt.

Omackeral

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Wearing an onion on your belt.

In fairness, that was the style at the time.