Fashion

1973 pale denim shirts and jeans with Santa Fe sequins and embroidery on the backs and pockets.  ...

Scooterboys were and 80s offshoot of the Mod, skinhead and Northern Soul subcultures. They were typified by there Ratty Vespa or Lambretta scooters, which they customised with painted murals of events etc. On weekends, they'd often take these on huge ...

Scratch 'n' Sniff T-Shirts were plain white t-shirts with a motif on the front (I can clearly remember the mint and the banana versions). If you scratched them - hey presto! They produced a not unpleasant aroma. Amazingly the ...

These were shoe heel saving devices made of metal that money conscious parents would buy to stop their children going straight though a new pair of trainers in a few weeks.You put them in the heel of the shoe - ...

Remember Set Two hair spray? I believe the advert went:"Spray it on wet hair the style will set there! Spray it on dry hair and the style will stay there!" ...

Health and safety just wasn't the same in the 80s as it is now. For one, if it was kids would never have been allowed to wear shell suits... on bonfire night... while brandishing a sparkler. Cue the fire engines! The ...

Remember these from your local market stall? Usually black, these shiny nylon bomber jackets had a picture of a panther or tiger on the back. These were for the 'harder' 80s wannabes only. ...

When the new school year started, it was off to the Shoe Shop for a new pair. In the early 80s, there was a fashion for the shoe companies to give away little badges in the box with the shoes. ...

For some reason, in the 80s every woman wished for bigger, sharper shoulders. It was all to do with the trend for power dressing at the time and about womens' attempts at smashing through the corporate glass ceiling via masculinised ...

For both skiing and posing off piste, there was a particular kind of jumper people of the 70s wore. They varied in colour, but most seemed to be burgundy and made from a waffle-type of knitted acrylic. What every jumper ...

Skinners were baggy parallel-leg jeans best worn with external turnups at the top of a pair of highly polished Dr Marten boots. Skinners were favoured by the post Skinhead bootboys of the early to mid 1970's. They came in blue ...

Slade Socks were bright/garish to say the least. They were luminous socks in lime green, orange yellow or pink with a number of black hoops down the ankle. Sure to make you stand out in a crowd! All the rage ...

I remember on school trips you'd often see these bracelet-like must-haves in gift shops. Slap wraps were brightly coloured material over this plastic strip. You slapped it real hard on your wrist and it coiled around tightly. We used to ...

Around 1983, there was a surge in popularity of oversize T-Shirts with slogans on the front. One of the earliest I remember was inspired by the band Frankie Goes To Hollywood - it said something like "Frankie Says: War! Hide ...

Snow wash jeans were just one of the 80s fashions you parents were never going to understand. Why buy jeans that were faded before you even got them home? Just like, why woud you buy ripped jeans? Because they were ...

Early 90s Soviet Jeans had the logo embroidered on the right back pocket. I had a couple of pairs but there are never any true vintage jeans around these days.  ...

Most of us are unsure as to who or what encouraged this craze. It was like Boy George's Culture Club meets Madonna's Like A Virgin style. More lately, you may well associate the spiral perm with a pair of 'now ...

These came out around 1995, typically a bomber style jacket made from black nylon with an embroidered logo of a man smoking a spliff (spliffy) what were they all about?! ...

These were the height of fashion for 12 year olds in 1972. Mine were crimplene, and two different shades of green. Lovely!!Well I thought so... ...

Sta Prest trousers were a mod fashion in the early 80s. They were quite slim fitting, made of polyester cotton and were treated so they didn't lose their crease. I remember wearing pale-grey Sta Prest trousers and I even had ...

These were fairly straight legged jeans with either a red or white stripe all the way down both sides. Often teamed with a matching red or white fabric belt which had a rectangular solid metal buckle and metal ends. ...

No teenage boy worth his salt was seen without a dark suit (usually slightly shiny) which had multi coloured flecks of cotton throughout. These flecks were usually in pastel colours and the sleeves of the jackets had to be rolled ...

Who remembers these weird jeans ??? They were baggy jeans with an elasticated bottom...just right to show off your white towelling socks and red coasters I had a pair with a cuff bottom to them...yes,the bottom of the leg had ...