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

gameoverdude · 30-12-2021 07:34PM

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The one with the pocket on them?

30-12-2021 08:02PM

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Yes! Zip pocket that could hold a couple of pence. 🪙

Nigel Fairservice · 30-12-2021 08:26PM

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Cá bhfuil mo dheinims dubha agus M'Umbro top??

Haven't heard the name Umbro in many years.

gameoverdude · 30-12-2021 09:02PM

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Really wanted them. Pricey enough if I remember correctly?

gameoverdude · 30-12-2021 09:04PM

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Still decent quality. Only boots I bought (didn't have money then for fancy stuff). Making a come back.

30-12-2021 10:00PM

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Yes. Got them as hand me downs from richer cousins. 😄

whisky_galore · 31-12-2021 10:53AM

Bicycle shorts worn under cut down jeans were a thing once.

JimmyVik · 31-12-2021 11:29AM

Leg warmers,

Parkas.

Bomber jackets

Baseball jackets.

Runner boots

31-12-2021 02:52PM

I used to love Troop runners. Black and white things.

Then went through a phase of those Kickers and Fila shoes with the buckles across them, along with the woolly jumpers. Thought I was the business.

iamstop · 21-03-2022 09:51PM

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When I was a kid we used to love Bubble Gummers Shoes because they had the alphabet on the soles.

Cyclingtourist · 21-03-2022 10:00PM

Desert boots.

shockframe · 21-03-2022 10:09PM

This is more of an 80s/90s thread by the looks of it but the late 00s looks to have a few styles that have come and gone.

In terms of brands Abercrombie and Fitch was the must have logo back then but seems to have faded big time the last few years. Also American Apparel disappeared after a huge hype (and bankruptcy).

Then there were brands like Franklin and Marshall, Gio Goi + G Star that slipped away.

Cyclingtourist · 21-03-2022 10:16PM

Button down collars and knitted ties.

black & white · 21-03-2022 10:39PM

Early 80’s we used to wear a metal tie pin that went through a tiny hole in each collar (Del Boy has them in OFAH)

often woke up on a Sunday morning still wearing the shirt because the pin was too fiddly to take out while pissed.

Zebra3 · 21-03-2022 10:49PM

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Miss Sixty. Jaysus. Remember one bird I saw for a while that had a pair....

Whatever happened to that brand...

fryup · 21-03-2022 11:12PM

PLO scarfs, Mullet Hairstyles (still fashionable in Germany), Keyboard Ties, Dingo Jeans, Kangaroo Trainers

riclad · 21-03-2022 11:57PM

denim, eg wearing denim jacket, and jeans at the same time. goths, wearing all black cloths, young men wearing military style coats,army surplus.musicans all wore a leather jackets, if your jeans were torn you were poor, no one would buy jeans with holes in them.Working class men wearing donkey jackets.

L1011 · 21-03-2022 11:59PM

Only saw someone in double denim yesterday. Unfortunately its not forgotten - but its still awful.

Hellrazer · 22-03-2022 12:08AM

Jesus I think I wore everything "thrasher" in this thread - stretchy jeans, german parka jacket,hi-tec high tops.

Hair down to my arse!!!

FFS I even went out in a Kilt and hot pants because I WAS Axl Rose in the 90s. Had an Axl rose white leather jacket as well that cost me a few weeks wages back then.

I was a looker with my hot pants, kilt and white leather jacket!!!

Just as well there was no social media back then!!!

Hellrazer · 22-03-2022 12:10AM

Oh yeah and ripped jeans with black tights under them was a look aswell!!

Sheep breeder · 22-03-2022 12:24AM

Wrangler jacket with the sleeves cut off over a leather jack in the winter and in the summer wrangler with a concert t shirt.

Dr Bob · 22-03-2022 01:50AM

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Ha! I remember those , most of what I wore as a teenager came from either Army Bargains , Sound Cellar or FM (for metal T shirts), Docs from that stall /Shop at the ilac and a biker jacket that I lived in from the ages of 14 to 20 oh! and my hair was in Comic Book Guy style ponytail at all times .

7All of which combined to keep me single until my mid twenties!

Still I thought I was the height of fashion in Fibbers.

Hellrazer · 22-03-2022 08:00AM

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I met my wife in Fibbers - she was wearing a nightdress , tights and Docs - and we`re married 26 years this year!!!

Sgt Hartman · 22-03-2022 08:33AM

These schoolbags were very popular, always worn with just one strap and often covered with permanent marker or Tipp-ex graffiti.

flended12 · 22-03-2022 08:54AM

1990s school goer here.

In the height of Nike Air, Reebok Pumps etc....Remember Adidas Torsion "shoes". Brown leather, look like shoes but felt like trainers. Anyways our school principal was very much their way or no way. School policy was brown or black shoes. Plenty of us bought the torsion shoes above and were promptly told not to wear them as they were runners.

Que P.E. Class and we wore them there, PE teacher said you cant wear them as they are shoes!!!

Some craic with parents v teachers soon after.

Carpet Jackets!

Snorkel Jackets!

Man Utd leather jackets!

Sover-din Rings

The lads going to school with about 4lb a brylcream on the skull! 🤣 Always windy on the way to our school so by the time school started the brylcream had set like concrete cos of the wind and we looked like we failed auditions for Krusty the Clown!

The girls using a whole can of hairspray for the very front of the fringe to see how high they could get it, the higher the trendier!

Cringey to look back on but great times!

ohnonotgmail · 22-03-2022 10:56AM

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I stumbled into fibbers a few weeks ago. the dress sense hasn't changed much since the 90's.

edited: hasn't changed much NOT has changed much

Conor Bourke · 22-03-2022 12:04PM

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Loved those bags! So much so I think I’m going to buy one for the nostalgia but this one won’t be covered in friends signatures in biro or tippex.

Regarding the neon green clothes with fruits on them in the mid/late 90s, my confirmation dress was made of exactly that kind of material. Wore a white kinda bolero jacket over it and weird white canvas shoes that had a heel, thought I was class.

Teenage me thought that Susst and NOPE garments were theeee height of coolness. My pals and I would love an oul spin to Dublin on the train to spend our Saturday job wages on some delights from there (these things couldn’t be gotten way out wesht until I was almost out of them and onto my next phase, more below)

We’d make a beeline for Hairy Legs on Liffey St to get a few bits, then to The Eager Beaver in Temple Bar and maybe back to the Ilac and the general Henry St. area then when we were ready for home toddle back to Connolly, ring parents from a pay phone to say we’d be back in about 3 hours and off we’d go, dying to show off our new hoodie or flares (or maybe some stretchy, lurid, glittery top) when we got home.

Morgan was a clothes shop that came to Sligo in the early 00’s which coincided with me getting a much better paid part time job. The shop was owned by Shane Filan (Westlife singer) sister and we’d never had anything so fancy at our disposal. Loads of kinda boho/sienna miller/WAG style clothes. A denim shop down the street also sold Miss Sixty jeans, I definitely had at least one pair, maybe two.

Dont think I ever bought one of those Jane Norman dresses (iykyk) but defo borrowed one from a friend. So chic.

Nowadays I have the pair of 6 hole docs that I dreamt of but was never allowed to have as a kid.

iamstop · 22-03-2022 01:58PM

By the time I was going to discos it was baggy jeans and long sleeve jumpers, no collar.

XWorX, Fila, Petro Motion, Eclipse,

Everyday clothes were Umbro jumpers, Nike Air Max if you could afford and baggy jeans.

A few years before that it was runner boots as big as you could get them. LA Gear. Usually 2 or 3 different coloured laces. One black, one white and one day-glo that matched the runner boots. Naff Naff.

22-03-2022 02:01PM

I definitely remember when Tommy Hilfiger jeans were ‘cool’ and not worn by middle aged men mostly.

black & white · 22-03-2022 03:46PM

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Gets coat

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

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