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

iamstop · 06-07-2021 6:31pm #1

What trends do you remember and shudder to think back on? What trends do you still do or think could still be decent today?

I remember when 'step' haircuts were a big trend. Sorta silly looking now. Never looked right on me with my cows lick fringe anyway.

Bomber Jackets.

Doc Martins

X-Worx Jeans

LA Gear

iamstop · 06-07-2021 6:33pm

Actually LA Gear with the 3 sets of laces.
White, Black and whatever matching day-glo colour the runners (runner-boots) had.
Massive tongue sticking up too. Silky tracksuit tucked behind.

Burt Renaults · 06-07-2021 6:40pm

iamstop wrote: »

I remember when 'step' haircuts were a big trend. Sorta silly looking now. Never looked right on me with my cows lick fringe anyway.

I had that, combined with a cow's lick-defying centre parting. My brother christened the centre parting as "a dick rest".

Hangdogroad · 06-07-2021 6:43pm

Barry McGuigan tashes among some fellas. Continued into the 90s as the wacker tash. Largely disappeared post 2000.

Archeron · 06-07-2021 6:47pm

Moon boots. Big padded basketball type boots but in silvery and gold space suit colors. I vaguely remember wanting a pair so I'm guessing about the mid eighties.

iamstop · 06-07-2021 6:52pm

Naff Naff jackets.

appledrop · 06-07-2021 6:52pm

Tracksuit bottoms with popper buttons all up the side.

Eclipse and X Work jeans.

Nike Air Max, which are back in fashion now!

Chokers, which are also back in fashion.

retalivity · 06-07-2021 6:54pm

iamstop wrote: »

Naff Naff jackets.

These have come back

https://naffco54.com/

whisky_galore · 06-07-2021 6:58pm

Bermuda shorts with day glo colours.

06-07-2021 7:02pm

Road chinos/cords, Hobo hoody, Air Max = Ready for Irish college

God be with the days

06-07-2021 7:04pm

Boy racers

Though its great to see it coming back again....everyone should have a hobby

3wayswitch · 06-07-2021 7:08pm

Petro Motion jeans, New Rock boots and wallet chains.

Kinda tempted to get a pair of Dr. Martens again.

mistersifter · 06-07-2021 7:08pm

The Kickers and Fila shoes with the buckles on the front, and the wool jumpers with the brands written across em.

going back even further, Troop runners. Loved em. Think they were expensive though so only ever had one pair. I spent a long time wearing those ones from Dunnes with the different colour laces in them, Air Force I think they were called.

padd b1975 · 06-07-2021 7:11pm

Grey slip-on shoes with white socks.
Leather ties.

Hello ladies!

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:13pm

Global Hypercolor t-shirts.
That stupid curtain style haircut boybands had in the 90s which became popular.

salmocab · 06-07-2021 7:13pm

Teenager through the 90s and jeans couldn’t be too baggy. Joe bloggs top. The rocker lads wore hi-tech league runner boots.

The J Stands for Jay · 06-07-2021 7:16pm

appledrop wrote: »

Tracksuit bottoms with popper buttons all up the side.

Eclipse and X Work jeans.

Nike Air Max, which are back in fashion now!

Chokers, which are also back in fashion.

Too much 90s stuff is back and it's weirding me out.

the beer revolu · 06-07-2021 7:16pm

When I was in my late teens, people started deliberately ripping their jeans.
I knew it would never catch on!

The J Stands for Jay · 06-07-2021 7:18pm

mistersifter wrote: »

The Kickers and Fila shoes with the buckles on the front, and the wool jumpers with the brands written across em.

Even at the time I thought that look was terrible.

Jimbob1977 · 06-07-2021 7:20pm

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

SnuggyBear · 06-07-2021 7:20pm

The J Stands for Jay wrote: »

Too much 90s stuff is back and it's weirding me out.

I love to see it, epic decade.

06-07-2021 7:21pm

Man bags
Those stupid hipster jeans, you still see the odd straggler in them. Buy new jeans.
Beanie caps, ditto.

There was a brief period of lads wearing a t-shirt, preferably with a nice graphic, over a short-sleeved shirt, happened around 2005. I was one of the culprits. Every comment that night was "did you get dressed in the dark?"

salmocab · 06-07-2021 7:22pm

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

Behind the ilac?

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:25pm

It seems young wans these days are all wearing Doc Marten's again, the types who'd go to college. Where I live I see girls wearing these kind of slippers with a big fluffy ball like a rabbit on the front of them, they are the most ridiculous things I have ever seen.

DarkJ · 06-07-2021 7:25pm

20+ years after my 1st pair of Docs I'm back in them and I love them. Do ye remember when PLO (?) scarves were all the rage with the bomber jackets? Oh the shtyle was mighty. Found a Joe Bloggs T-shirt in the attic from my college days, 'tis huge.

Jimbob1977 · 06-07-2021 7:25pm

salmocab wrote: »

Behind the ilac?

Somewhere like that. The kind of place you'd find flower sellers and hawkers.

I was young and not familiar with the area. Definitely on the Northside and close to the City Centre.

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:26pm

salmocab wrote: »

Behind the ilac?

I think I remember this. Back when you could go around there and buy 200 cigarettes, a hunting knife, and some German bangers all for about a tenner.

06-07-2021 7:28pm

Army surplus jackets with German flags on the sleeves.

black & white · 06-07-2021 7:29pm

Tan coloured Winstanley shoes with steel tips, cheesecloth shirts and parallel trousers worn with a Levi jacket (mid 70's), moved on to Docks and Jeans after that with Lizzy/Rats/Gallagher T shirt but the Levi jacket stayed.

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:30pm

Does anyone remember "crepes"? Christ.

YFlyer · 06-07-2021 7:34pm

Bale twine belts.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 06-07-2021 7:35pm

Early 00s, lots of lads wore these huge baggy chord trousers (maybe they were skateboarding trousers), usually completing the look with frosted tips and a tight River Island beaded necklace. They died a death in the main after, but 10 years later Id be around Limerick and see some tragic fella still in them.

Its a D4 trope but the polo shirt with the collar turned up, Dockers trousers and deck shoes could be seen around Limerick also.

But nothing comes close to the tragedy of the Crosshatch / mushroom haircut brigade of recent times.

eviltimeban · 06-07-2021 7:36pm

Shirts with "tails". Was a Curehead thing. In fact, Curehead fashion in general.

Denim jackets covered in thrash metal band patches. Off to the Sound Cellar!

Definitely undercuts. Blade 1 or 2 up the back and sides, let the top grow long.

Oh and Docs you get now will never be like the Docs you had when you were younger - they'll always look new, unless you wear them all day, every day, to everything you ever go to, for 3 years.

deise08 · 06-07-2021 7:36pm

Big plastic dummies on a cord to wear around your neck.

theoneeyedman · 06-07-2021 7:37pm

Wavebird wrote: »

Army surplus jackets with German flags on the sleeves.

This, and later Desert Boots!

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:37pm

I remember it seemed pretty much every teenage/college age girl from middle class backgrounds seemed to wear Canterbury tracksuit bottoms, coloury cute socks, and boat shoes. It was just the most bizarre combo, I haven't seen it in years though.

appledrop · 06-07-2021 7:38pm

deise08 wrote: »

Big plastic dummies on a cord to wear around your neck.

We all went to Monsey one year on school trip and every single one of us came back with one of these along with the actual lollipop version you could eat.

We thought we looked so cool!

Sardonicat · 06-07-2021 7:38pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

Does anyone remember "crepes"? Christ.

Blue or red ones, worn with your hair in a DA?

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:39pm

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

Early 00s, lots of lads wore these huge baggy chord trousers (maybe they were skateboarding trousers), usually completing the look with frosted tips and a tight River Island beaded necklace.

Lol, that was a really bad trend, your description really took me back to 00/01 type of time, before 9-11 changed everything and frosted tips were no more!

appledrop · 06-07-2021 7:40pm

After or before (can't remember) eclipse & x work jeans were levi 501 which you had to have and cost a fortune.

We could only afford Lee or wrangler jeans so I wasn't in with the 'cool' crew.

mistersifter · 06-07-2021 7:41pm

Skinhead with a long fringe and a piebald horse. That was a good one.

Sardonicat · 06-07-2021 7:41pm

eviltimeban wrote: »

Oh and Docs you get now will never be like the Docs you had when you were younger - they'll always look new, unless you wear them all day, every day, to everything you ever go to, for 3 years.

Do they still cut the feet off you till you soften up the leather? But my God, it was worth it, they lasted years and mine got me out of a few very nasty situations more than once.

salmocab · 06-07-2021 7:44pm

Jimbob1977 wrote: »

Somewhere like that. The kind of place you'd find flower sellers and hawkers.

I was young and not familiar with the area. Definitely on the Northside and close to the City Centre.

Think you went down Moore street and turned left behind the ilac, there were a few stalls outside lockup type units.

The J Stands for Jay · 06-07-2021 7:44pm

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Those stupid hipster jeans,

These things? https://images.app.goo.gl/Eir7NbDfGvkSZx6G7

Floppybits · 06-07-2021 7:45pm

Baggy jeans not the 70's ones but the early 2000's ones. In England there was a trend in the early 2000's that girls would wear their jeans below the waist line so showing off the thong. Going back to the early 90's the rockers, where the lads wore skin tight jeans and boot runners and the girls wore baggy clothes.

appledrop · 06-07-2021 7:46pm

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

I remember it seemed pretty much every teenage/college age girl from middle class backgrounds seemed to wear Canterbury tracksuit bottoms, coloury cute socks, and boat shoes. It was just the most bizarre combo, I haven't seen it in years though.

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.

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:47pm

I remember Miss Sixty yes, there was a shop in Covent Garden when I lived there, are they still a thing?

Ash.J.Williams · 06-07-2021 7:48pm

thrashers , known as skinny jeans now but in my day combined with moon boots they were the uniform of thrash metal back in the day when there was only a gee hair between Metallica slayer and megadeth

Thelonious Monk · 06-07-2021 7:49pm

The J Stands for Jay wrote: »

These things? https://images.app.goo.gl/Eir7NbDfGvkSZx6G7

I think they're called lo-riders and I think they're coming back I read somewhere.

I think he meant these though

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Ash.J.Williams · 06-07-2021 7:50pm

appledrop wrote: »

We all went to Monsey one year on school trip and every single one of us came back with one of these along with the actual lollipop version you could eat.

We thought we looked so cool!

So did I but mosney was homelands that weekend

Bassfish · 06-07-2021 7:51pm

Tell me I'm not the only person who remembers the t-shirts that would change colour when heated?

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

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