What was the must have when you were a teen.

franer1970

padd b1975 wrote: »

A stereo with two cassette slots.

And high speed dubbing. Can't keep your mates waiting around all day for their copy of The Unforgettable Fire.

byronbay2

A digital watch. Not one that was on all the time - you pressed a button and the time came up in red!!

omb0wyn5ehpij9

A lot of what I had thought of has already been posted. One thing that hasn't though.....a navy Adidas tracksuit top with the 3 white stripes down each sleeve

anncoates

Adidas Gazelles or Samba. Wrangler or Lois jeans or cords. , Ellesse, Fred Perry and Lacoste polo shirts. Fila, Tachini or Adidas Beckenbauer tracksuit tops and other stuff you had to save for years to buy.

Also Harrington jackets, loafers, Sta Prest trousers and the like.

AndonHandon

A few things mentioned were popular for pre-teens, not actual teenagers. I can't imagine wearing runners with lights on them in secondary school!

I went through several summers of dying the hair blonde as a teenager; cringe looking back at the photos.

eviltimeban

14 hole ox blood docs.

Blade 1 back and sides, leave the top long.

Padded check shirt.

Discman.

Mountain bike.

Stone Roses 12" EPs.

Naggin of vodka.

A shift from that cute girl who was a bit of a Curehead.

Schwiiing

Nokia 3210. Nokia 3330. Playstation 2. iPod. Sharp Camera phones. I seem to remember every girl in my school had a denim jacket when I was first year.

Ihatecuddles

I can't remember what everyone wanted when i was a teen. When I was 16 I wanted perfume and One Tree Hill on DVD

wp_rathead

Nokia 3310 - playing shhhhnaaaake for hours on end

Mountain Rescue

Got to be a mini disc Player for me,lost mine on a bus in Dublin about a month after getting it,

circadian

Wu Tang baggy jeans.

rainbow kirby

O'Neills tracksuit bottoms, had 3 pairs back in the day.

omb0wyn5ehpij9

Just thought of another 2 that guys wanted......an eye brow piercing and having the tips of their hair "frosted"

I went to an all girl boarding school, so what everyone really really wanted was a good-looking boyfriend to make the other girls jealous.

The last year I was in school there was a bit of a race to be the first to own an iPod, as they'd just hit the market. The 'girl who got everything first' got one first and spent weeks trying to figure out how to put anything on it.

I had an Archos job with an entire gigabyte of storage, which didn't disappoint me at all. Honest.

Schwiiing

Candie wrote: »

I went to an all girl boarding school, so what everyone really really wanted was a good-looking boyfriend to make the other girls jealous.

The last year I was in school there was a bit of a race to be the first to own an iPod, as they'd just hit the market. The 'girl who got everything first' got one first and spent weeks trying to figure out how to put anything on it.

I had an Archos job with an entire gigabyte of storage, which didn't disappoint me at all. Honest.

Every man reading this thread stopped at that comma.

anncoates

eviltimeban wrote: »

14 hole ox blood docs.

Blade 1 back and sides, leave the top long.

Lad in his 20s walked by me a while back with that Smiths 80s look down to a tee: greasy quiff razored at the sides, tan anorak type coat with fur lining, rolled up Levis and ox blood doc shoes. It's still a brilliant and striking look.

Samhain

Army canvas schoolbag with all your favourite bands in Tipp Ex and Permanent marker
Army or Bomber jacket
Nirvana/RHCP/Metallica T-shirt
10 hole Docs
Susst Flares
Platform shoes
In-ear headphones

Jeez i thought i was cool :cool::P

looking_around

Gameboy, gameboy pocket or colour, and if you were really lucky a gameboy pocket colour.

Mackman

Those canvas army bags as school bags, preferrably with badges and your favourite bands written all over it in permanent marker.

Weren't cool till you had one of them

Cortina_MK_IV

Levis or Wranglers.

Schwiiing

Schwiiing wrote: »

Every man reading this thread stopped at that comma.

It was an exhausting few years with all the pillow fights and communal showers.

Oh wait, no. It wasn't!

Kovu

Huge baggy NOPE trousers and GAP hoodies.
Nokia 3310s.
Fake ID or the ability to make one :P

omb0wyn5ehpij9

An Umbro school bag!

Frosty McSnowballs

Supersoakers

cocoman

eviltimeban wrote: »

14 hole ox blood docs.

Blade 1 back and sides, leave the top long.

Padded check shirt.

Discman.

Mountain bike.

Stone Roses 12" EPs.

Naggin of vodka.

A shift from that cute girl who was a bit of a Curehead.

All of the above (maybe not the mountain bike).

Paisley shirts was also a big must have.

iDave

Combat trousers

smash

sydthebeat wrote: »

an undercut

Deleted User wrote: »

Air Max, X Works & Eclipse jeans.

These... plus brylcreem and the latest Prodigy albums.

RWCNT

Big floppy mop of greasy long hair.
Cons/vans/DC's runners.
Dosh for Blast in the Temple Bar Music Centre so you could go and shift all the wannabe Avril Lavignes.

Kovu

Almost forgot about those Buffalo shoes with the huge laces and flames up the sides as well.

H3llR4iser

Well, teenage years are a long time...from like 12 to 19 a lot of thing change.

Back in my time, and considering it was in Italy, the biggest "must have" would be...

A 50cc scooter/moped

...which in Italy you can drive at 14; No matter if it was an old battered Vespa from the 60's or a spanking new Honda, having one made the owner an instant demi-god/goddess. I never had one - and actually never wanted one. Yeah I wasn't a very popular kid.

Other than that:

Discman;
Mountain Bike during the summer;
Nike AIR;
Invicta school bag (you can tell an Italian tourist from that specific brand of bags, even today);
Texas Instruments calculator (I went to science school...);
Levi's 501s;

And later, towards when I was 17 or 18...
Motorola StarTAC or Nokia 3110