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pooka Member Since: January 2006 Contributions: 8309 Gold Stars: 711 View User Posts	Cool Clothes Posted: Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:26 pm Central Time What clothes did you think were cool? (In your younger days) I remember always wanting white or black stretchy Go-Go boots and unique colored Adidas. Candie's and Calvin Klein jeans were "it" in jr & high school.
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Jughead Jones Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 5731 Gold Stars: 297 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:58 pm Central Time Remember those HyperColor T-shirts? The shirts that changed colour with your body heat? The "must-have" fashion accessory of 1993? I always thought they were kind of cool. I never owned one, but I'd say that a quarter of my classmates in 6th grade rode the HyperColor wave. _________________ "Every heartbeat is a soundtrack to your life" ~ Kylie Minogue
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pooka Member Since: January 2006 Contributions: 8309 Gold Stars: 711 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:21 pm Central Time Jughead Jones wrote: Remember those HyperColor T-shirts? The shirts that changed colour with your body heat? The "must-have" fashion accessory of 1993? I always thought they were kind of cool. I never owned one, but I'd say that a quarter of my classmates in 6th grade rode the HyperColor wave. view Those were cool! I had a necklace w/beads that changed colors in the sun....
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D-Rock Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 3297 Gold Stars: 107 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 10:59 pm Central Time Jughead Jones wrote: Remember those HyperColor T-shirts? The shirts that changed colour with your body heat? The "must-have" fashion accessory of 1993? I always thought they were kind of cool. I never owned one, but I'd say that a quarter of my classmates in 6th grade rode the HyperColor wave. view It's funny, but I've seen mention here on RL before about how HyperColor shirts were so big in 1993. I had one in about 1989, and apparently I was the only person in the universe who owned one! I would wear it on my college campus and people would come up and ask me where I got it quite a few times. I never really saw anyone else wear one, and I certainly don't remember them being big in 1993! Funny how things are in different regions, huh? _________________ Zombies, man. They creep me out.
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endurance Member Since: August 2007 Contributions: 2136 Gold Stars: 1311 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:42 am Central Time In 1981 when I was in 5th grade you needed turf shoes to be cool.I had Pony turf shoes like these pictured below If you combined the turf shoes with a satin jacket you achieved "Fonzie" cool status. _________________ Far better it is to dare mighty things than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much,because they live in a grey twilight that knows neither victory or defeat....T.Roosevelt
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Rooney Member Since: January 2007 Contributions: 5217 Gold Stars: 894 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:36 am Central Time D-Rock wrote: It's funny, but I've seen mention here on RL before about how HyperColor shirts were so big in 1993. I had one in about 1989, and apparently I was the only person in the universe who owned one! I would wear it on my college campus and people would come up and ask me where I got it quite a few times. I never really saw anyone else wear one, and I certainly don't remember them being big in 1993! Funny how things are in different regions, huh? view Yeah - because I had mine around 1990 - by '93 it was a "yard-work/paint" shirt that wouldn't change color anymore - and people would say "You still have that?"
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autumnsquirrel66 Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 443 Gold Stars: 411 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 8:32 pm Central Time Candie's clogs, definitely. In fact, they were dark blue 'mule' clogs and had a big, chunky, clunky wooden heel. All the girls had them. Also, granny square sweater vests were pretty cool. Granny square anything was cool, especially the tote bags made from milk cartons and the granny square pattern. Ponchos and gauchos were cool, too.
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sweetsgrl Member Since: February 2006 Contributions: 2916 Gold Stars: 124 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 10:56 pm Central Time autumnsquirrel66 wrote: Candie's clogs, definitely. In fact, they were dark blue 'mule' clogs and had a big, chunky, clunky wooden heel. All the girls had them. Also, granny square sweater vests were pretty cool. Granny square anything was cool, especially the tote bags made from milk cartons and the granny square pattern. Ponchos and gauchos were cool, too. view Around here it was Bastad Clogs and I had the Navy ones with the buckle! Ohhhhhh.....Gauchos! I had several pair! In fact, I sewed a pair for myself in Home-Ec class!
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autumnsquirrel66 Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 443 Gold Stars: 411 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 8:44 am Central Time sweetsgrl wrote: Around here it was Bastad Clogs and I had the Navy ones with the buckle! Ohhhhhh.....Gauchos! I had several pair! In fact, I sewed a pair for myself in Home-Ec class! view We did the totes in Home Ec, LOL:-) The teacher was also a Girl Scout leader and taught her girls the art of granny square milk carton totes. Loved those things and all the older ladies carried these on the bus all the time:-) Fun memory:-) Gauchos are fun, aren't they? We used to call them 'Chrissy Snow's' The Candies also had a buckle on them! The fashions back then were great; glad stuff keeps coming back.
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Allie Fox Member Since: June 2006 Contributions: 3056 Gold Stars: 273 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:43 pm Central Time One of the biggest things when I was a teen were Sweet Orr pants. They were like regular Dickies flat front slacks with an elastic waistband. They had piping down the side. The cool thing was to have different colors. _________________ People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby
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kendra Member Since: February 2008 Contributions: 3887 Gold Stars: 4688 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:49 pm Central Time D-Rock wrote: It's funny, but I've seen mention here on RL before about how HyperColor shirts were so big in 1993. I had one in about 1989, and apparently I was the only person in the universe who owned one! I would wear it on my college campus and people would come up and ask me where I got it quite a few times. I never really saw anyone else wear one, and I certainly don't remember them being big in 1993! Funny how things are in different regions, huh? view I had mine in '89,too. The overalls thing was cool ,for awhile.I swear,any fad that was in,I had to be a part of it.
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Rooney Member Since: January 2007 Contributions: 5217 Gold Stars: 894 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:31 pm Central Time Marc Jacobs _________________ Wake up and smell the coffee, Mrs. Bueller. It's a fool's paradise.
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Rooney Member Since: January 2007 Contributions: 5217 Gold Stars: 894 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:32 pm Central Time endurance wrote: In 1981 when I was in 5th grade you needed turf shoes to be cool.I had Pony turf shoes like these pictured below If you combined the turf shoes with a satin jacket you achieved "Fonzie" cool status. view My photo under Parachute pants - you can see I have on NIKE turf shoes! _________________ Wake up and smell the coffee, Mrs. Bueller. It's a fool's paradise.
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Raggedy Ann Member Since: January 2007 Contributions: 1242 Gold Stars: 459 View User Posts	Re: Cool Clothes Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:12 pm Central Time As far as High School goes being a "Madonna Wannabee" was in--as for Jr. high anything preppy was in--Argyle sweaters,Izod alligator or Polos shirts, Dickies panter's pants, clogs and bermuda bags were the fads of choice.
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