Forgotten Irish 'Fashion' trends from when you were a teen

mojesius · 06-07-2021 10:38pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Boys had 'rat's tails' hair cuts.

Does any woman remember circa 1995, there was a trend of materials with luminous coloured fruits?
Like a psychedelic coloured green blouse with limes printed on it or bright coloured oranges? All in a shiny polyester material too.

The Levi jeans of the 90s were the ultimate status of cool. You'd automatically look at someone's ass for the little red tag.

Rats tails are right up there with the mullet in that they should never happen again. I've seen a few young fellas with mullets recently :O In fairness, it may be lockdown natural growth.

I remember the luminous shiny clingy clothing alright. I blame the spice girls. I remember getting a lime shiny skirt with a silver built in buckle paired with a purple tight shirt, the look completed with black platforms.

Most of my Levi's were my sister's hand me downs

Purple Mountain · 06-07-2021 10:41pm

Mo, I can safely say we would've been friends back then!
You were considered poor if you wore any other jean than Levis.
There was another brand of jeans/top like Levis..can't think of it. Not Wrangler.
Maybe you'll remember.

L1011 · 06-07-2021 10:42pm

Short sleeved shirts with a horizontal section in a different colour to the main section of the shirt
Wearing said shirt open over a long sleeve tshirt/baseball shirt.

I had highlights or a full bleach for about a decade '03-'13, not sure why I stopped and I think I'd look a bit odd restarting it eight years on.

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Mo, I can safely say we would've been friends back then!
You were considered poor if you wore any other jean than Levis.
There was another brand of jeans/top like Levis..can't think of it. Not Wrangler.
Maybe you'll remember.

The other of the 'big three' jeans brands I can remember was Lee (not Lee Cooper).

appledrop · 06-07-2021 10:44pm

Purple Mountain wrote: »

Mo, I can safely say we would've been friends back then!
You were considered poor if you wore any other jean than Levis.
There was another brand of jeans/top like Levis..can't think of it. Not Wrangler.
Maybe you'll remember.

They were Lee jeans!

I was the poor one in wrangler and Lee jeans!

mojesius · 06-07-2021 10:46pm

I still think 80s and 90s teen fashion trumps 'what the kids are wearing nowadays'. Grey tracksuit bottoms/skinny jeans..it's just so dull.

appledrop · 06-07-2021 10:47pm

Purple Mountain I had a jumper with not just one luminous fruit on it but loads of different types.

It was a baggy jumper and it was styled with a pair of skin tight ski leggings.

Ah the height of fashion!

banie01 · 06-07-2021 10:47pm

appledrop wrote: »

When I was in college(UCD) all the wealthy girls( not us!)had miss sixty jeans. They were low rise and bet onto your bum with massive flares at the end.

They cost about €140!

That's mad money even today, but 20 years ago it was scandalous. That's D4 for you.

Lived in Lanzarote in the late 90's and early 00's and there was a Miss Sixty boutique in Arrecife that my Mrs hammered on a regular basis.
It got to the point where they'd just ring her every time they got new stock and let her know they were holding the full range aside in her size

God when I think of her arse looked ensconced in those jeans!

Also Stradivarius and Forever21.

The 25yr style cycle is very evident in fashion trends at the mo.
Lots of things that were de riguer in the mid 90's are all over the place.

mojesius · 06-07-2021 10:48pm

appledrop wrote: »

Purple Mountain I had a jumper with not just one luminous fruit on it but loads of different types.

It was a baggy jumper and it was styled with a pair of skin tight ski leggings.

Ah the height of fashion!

You just reminded me of Fruit of the loom jumpers!

greensausage · 06-07-2021 10:51pm

ongarboy wrote: »

In the 80s, fellas were considered the height of cool if they wore a mullet hairstyle, tight acid/stone washed jeans, biker leather jacket (tassels on the arms optional) and pointy toed cowboy boots!

I also remember a brief period where PLO scarves were a fashion must have. Most who wore them never heard of Palestine!

Since pubs came back a few weeks ago I've noticed loads of young fellas with mullets.

appledrop · 06-07-2021 10:51pm

mojesius wrote: »

You just reminded me of Fruit of the loom jumpers!

Ah jaysus Fruit of the Loom & Paco jumpers!

L1011 · 06-07-2021 10:51pm

mojesius wrote: »

You just reminded me of Fruit of the loom jumpers!

Because of Donegal family, when I was a kid we had FotL fecking everything as some form of support for the factories then. Jumpers, tshirts, socks, underwear.

banie01 · 06-07-2021 10:52pm

L1011 wrote: »

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The other of the 'big three' jeans brands I can remember was Lee (not Lee Cooper).

And the not to be forgotten Pepe jeans and wrangler too.

Montage of Feck · 06-07-2021 10:56pm

Either I've maintained my youthful physique quite successfully or my remaining cloths from the nineties were originally massive.

Purple Mountain · 06-07-2021 11:09pm

No, this was a different brand I'm think of.. I'll get googling.
L1, you're only a baby!
Banie, Stradivarius has outlets in Ireland too.

shockframe · 06-07-2021 11:09pm

mojesius wrote: »

I still think 80s and 90s teen fashion trumps 'what the kids are wearing nowadays'. Grey tracksuit bottoms/skinny jeans..it's just so dull.

We didn't have the cutting edge fashion that teens have now,

You'd rarely have many shops selling top of the range Adidas or Nikes in the 90s. That changed utterly in the 10s.

Then there's online shopping that made it easier to get the best stuff.

rainbowtrout · 06-07-2021 11:44pm

mojesius wrote: »

Rats tails are right up there with the mullet in that they should never happen again. I've seen a few young fellas with mullets recently :O In fairness, it may be lockdown natural growth.

No, mullets are back in fashion with secondary school boys. It was like walking into 1985 in some of my classes when we went back after lockdown.

Vestiapx · 06-07-2021 11:47pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

There was a shop in Dublin named Peggy's.

It was the place to go for Doc Martens in the early 1990s. I think it was near Mary Street or Capel Street.

Maybe not a shop - more of a temporary shack.

Dubarry deck shoes and grey or green bomber jackets.

Armani Crew raver jeans

Back of the ilac center

deise08 · 07-07-2021 12:14am

banie01 wrote: »

And the not to be forgotten Pepe jeans and wrangler too.

Anybody remember gazara jeans?

Thelonious Monk · 07-07-2021 12:23am

remember when certain people's going out attire was a Pringle jumper and a pair of kickers

foxy farmer · 07-07-2021 12:33am

deise08 wrote: »

Anybody remember gazara jeans?

We're they Irish made? I'm sure 2fm used to give them out as prizes back in the day.

spurious · 07-07-2021 12:40am

Clogs, with clompy wooden soles.

If you were super bored, you could drape your flares over them so it looked like your legs were long skinny triangles.
Your mates could also hear you coming two roads away.

completedit · 07-07-2021 12:44am

McKenzie tracksuits.
My Yankee tracksuits
Cardigans and chinos with a Rihana t shirt

It's crazy how fashion evolves and goes in cycles. I notice.plain t shirts are no.longer cool
Back around 2013 to 2016, a plain classic t shirt, v necks especially was just the epitome of cool in a throwback to the James Dean rebel without a cause days.Now. it seems.like the plain t shirts has become just that - A plain t shirt.

Skinny and tight jeans are hanging on, in Ireland anyway. Starting to look a bit dated especially the type of ball strangler topman skinny that guy's with muffin tops were wearing about 5 years ago

KKkitty · 07-07-2021 12:47am

Any ladies remember the stretchy fabric shirts that buttons started low down enough and half sleeves usually worn with a spaghetti strap top underneath?

KKkitty · 07-07-2021 12:49am

I remember all the lads cutting their jeans at the bottom for that extra flare.

Tork · 07-07-2021 12:50am

Back in the early 90s, cardigans and woolly jackets had really big, loud zigzag patterns on them. If you look at The Snapper you'll see loads of them on the auld wans

Ray Palmer · 15-07-2021 12:56pm

I find some of the comments a bit funny as people didn't seem to understand how they came about. The plastic soothers were from the rave scene, people grind their teeth on certain substances so they wore the soothers as they used them to stop grinding. Yes young teens wore them thinking it was just fashion.

riclad · 15-07-2021 2:54pm

Denim jackets, worn with jeans. Too much denim.

fryup · 15-07-2021 5:19pm

Dingo jeans and kangaroo trainers

silliussoddius · 15-07-2021 5:48pm

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The Coppers tuxedo.

ShatterAlan · 15-07-2021 6:34pm

Those crappy flecked suits. They were usually silver/grey with darker flecks all over them. Usually sold in budget retail shops on Henry/Liffey street for about £20 and worn by scrotes. I blame the popularity of Miami Vice for this fashion abomination. Completing this obscene ensemble were grey Simon Hart pinhole slip-ons with tassels on the side, white socks and thin leather tie. Topping it all off was the essential frosted step haircut (the bird-shit hairstyle).

riclad · 15-07-2021 7:30pm

from the 70s, men wearing platform shoes .not a good look ,unless your name is david bowie.

Nigel Fairservice · 15-07-2021 8:16pm

I remember when I was in my late teens in the early 2000s a load of fellas would wear those really baggy Road jeans and cords and Etnies skate shoes. The ends of jeans would be all frayed because they were too long. Lots would have their wallet on a long chain going to their pockets too. Haven't seen Road jeans in years.

shockframe · 16-07-2021 7:10pm

Watching GAA games from the 90s on Youtube was fairly interesting!

Reebok sweatshirts as I mentioned before was a big thing. What was surprising was how widely worn Umbro t-shirts and sweatshirts were from 95-97. And the logo right in the middle. The style all but vanished by 2000.

You start to get a lot more wearing Nike track tops but that's lasted right up to the present day.

Trendy footwear was absent however. The era of the Dad Shoe! The Nike/Adidas/New Balance hipsters were a long way off.

Ger Roe · 16-07-2021 7:48pm

Two jeans related fashion memories from the 70's.

1) Jeans with tartan trim at the end and down the sides (Les McKeown RIP)

2) Stone Washed jeans ..... white fade streaks and light wear patterns... not as much as the torn and holed style of today today, more subtle.

Madeoface · 16-07-2021 8:24pm

Shaved head. Ben Sherman shirt. Braces. Docs (from behind the ilac). Bleached jeans. Or the alternate Army surplus shirt n jacket, combats, docs and mullets... sometimes braided.. Even Power of Dreams modelled the look though they were barely alternative music.

Any punk/ska gig in the capel st area in the late 80's or early 90's. That was the look of alternative music for me ( if you weren't a Goth). Dublin was hopping then...£2 gigs...5 **** bands, all happy to get a gig.

Then New Model Army invented crusty and it all got hairier...

Then rave came in on top of all that and it got smellier and crustier.

Mad_maxx · 16-07-2021 10:38pm

when I started secondary school back in 1990 , about half the guys in the school wore those " army jackets " with the german flag on the arm

awful looking yokes but they were bloody warm

L1011 · 16-07-2021 10:43pm

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The Osiris D3 was the other option of skate shoe for that look, the ugliest shoes ever made and they're now back again somehow.

Heckler · 16-07-2021 10:55pm

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Those Parkas were the job. Removable lining depending on the weather but if it got soaked with the heavy lining in you'd be fecked.

Strumms · 16-07-2021 11:09pm

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All the ‘trashers’ or ‘threshers’ in school used to have those, with doc martins.... on a Saturday you’d see the likes of Army Bargains full of the little chaps picking up their weight in green army surplus coats, shirts and wooly jumpers.... the most fûcking uncomfortably and ungainly fashion statements... as for their hair... ughhhh

Remember around ‘94/‘95 Reebok Pumps were huge, expensive but comfy...i had a pair, was gutted when one of the pumps broke.

16-07-2021 11:27pm

One strap on the school bag was cool

Also the step and its cooler brother the undercut haircut

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 16-07-2021 11:29pm

Cutting slits in your jeans to fit over your runners.

appledrop · 17-07-2021 12:13am

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Ha ha I forgot about the one strap school bag! We all walked to my school and back for lunch, 20 mins each way, we had no lockers and your back would be broken but no way would you wear the bag with two straps!!!!

Walking back after lunch was a dream only books for 3 classes.

Kids spoiled nowadays with their lockers and lifts to school.

L1011 · 17-07-2021 12:17am

During the one-strap thing, in ~01 I had a diagonal strap schoolbag, with a mobile phone holster on the strap that could barely take a 3210 let alone most of the bricks the few who had phones actually had. My weird Panasonic was thin enough but too tall.

sheesh · 17-07-2021 12:20am

I remember the bomber jackets

the army surplus parkas

the white socks slip on shoes

paisley shirts

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 · 17-07-2021 12:21am

NAFF Co. 54.

appledrop · 17-07-2021 12:28am

White socks with slip on shoes are back in fashion for school especially among the lads.

foxy farmer · 17-07-2021 12:33am

On the subject of schoolbags these were all the rage in my time. Army surplus. Blue green yellow or black.

foxy farmer · 17-07-2021 12:33am

17-07-2021 12:41am

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Strange looking back on it now, bag full of books and one strap.

Even had lockers but rarely used them

beveragelady · 17-07-2021 10:19am

Walking into college in the rain in massive flares. After a few minutes the hem your jeans would have soaked up so much water that the bottom 12 inches of your jeans would be saturated. If you were forced to break into a run for some reason you ran the risk of one of your giant wet flares wrapping itself around the other ankle where it could stick, bringing you down like you'd been lassoed.

Forgotten Irish 'Fashion' trends from when you were a teen

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