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What was the must have when you were a teen.

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  • #92
    Kylo Ren
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,366 ✭✭✭✭Kylo Ren


    Pokemon. The cards, games, cartoon etc. It took over our lives.

    I still ponder how different my life would have been had I obtained the shiny Charizard.


  • #93
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I hit my teens in the 50s and the must have item then was food on the table.


  • #94
    black & white
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭black & white


    A Levi jacket with a 20 major box in the top pocket, (Wrangler jacket would not suffice)
    Levi jeans.
    Doc Martens, Ox Blood or Black.
    Cheesecloth check shirt or Rory Gallagher/Thin Lizzy T shirt but that later developed into Boomtown Rats, Stranglers and Sex Pistols etc
    A pierced left ear, right ear was though to be for Gay men only.
    Long hair a la Bobby Sands

    For more formal occasions, Ox Blood Loafers with bell bottoms or parallels with a 3 button waistband.


    This was in 1978 - 1980, F*ck I'm glad there are no photos of me dressed in that get up now.....


  • #95
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ophelia Shapely Tweet wrote: »
    I hit my teens in the 50s and the must have item then was food on the table.

    You win!

    One upmanship at it's finest. :)


  • #96
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Candie wrote: »
    You win!

    One upmanship at it's finest. :)

    Well, truth will out.


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  • #97
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    valoren wrote: »
    The new season Man United kit.

    It was almost like understated class warfare.

    If you had last seasons home jersey, you were poor.

    If you had the new season home jersey, you were working class
    .
    If you had the new season home AND away jerseys you were middle class.

    If you had the new season home, away and the third kit, you were the master of the universe.

    If you thought in those terms, you were a spoiled, snobby little p***k. :P


  • #98
    dcrosskid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 257 ✭✭dcrosskid


    Keno wrote: »
    Pokemon. The cards, games, cartoon etc. It took over our lives.

    I still ponder how different my life would have been had I obtained the shiny Charizard.

    Memories, I was never into them much myself but I remember one of my friends got the Charizard card & we asked for a look. When he wasn't looking we went down to some young lad on the bus & asked did he want to swap for one of his cards. We came back with some useless f**ker anyway that couldn't really do anything but we got a good laugh out of it & that's all that matters!!A bit of entertainment for the bus journey home:D


  • #99
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    ChunkyLover54 wrote: »
    If you thought in those terms, you were a spoiled, snobby little p***k. :P

    I once got my nephew a retro United top from the 80s and the look of horror on the poor kids face was a sight to behold.


  • #100
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Sex and Biactol


  • #101
    ChunkyLover54
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 564 ✭✭✭ChunkyLover54


    venusdoom wrote: »
    'Hooker' Boots or the complete Friday night ensemble of spaghetti top, mini skirt and hooker boots. I dunno why our mammys let us out in that get up.

    ...and a must have for me was a teenaged chick wearing that particular get up.

    No really, all I can remember spending my pocket money on as a teenager was rock music cds and the odd video game. A lost decade.


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  • #102
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Levi Jeans
    Pogs
    Trolls
    Cycling shorts (neon was better)


  • #103
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    A fake ID and a Grove membership.


  • #104
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    Early 90s. Checked shirts, converse all stars, guitar.

    Mid to Late 90s. Yokes and a quarter of something to calm down after.

    Football shirts indeed, a waste of a youth.


  • #105
    SMJSF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 600 ✭✭✭SMJSF


    twas only a few years ago, it was a blackberry!
    now, it seems babies are the "in" item... which is quite sad tbh!


  • #106
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Air Max, X Works & Eclipse jeans.

    I wasn't allowed to wear these, nor could we have afforded them anyway!!

    I remember my big sister learning to sow so she could sow little red X's on the black Dunnes jeans my mother used to by for her.

    'Rip-offs' were one of the things when we were kids. Those tracksuit bottoms with buttons all up the sides. What the **** were we thinking? May as well have just headed out in your underwear from the get go. The clue is right there in the name.


  • #107
    Ronan|Raven
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,164 ✭✭✭Ronan|Raven


    A barcode battler!


  • #108
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    Candie wrote: »
    It was an exhausting few years with all the pillow fights and communal showers. :)

    Oh wait, no. It wasn't!

    Plenty of energy at that age.


  • #109
    Fizman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,605 ✭✭✭Fizman


    The latest Championship Manager, operating on Windows '98.


  • #110
    BBJBIG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭BBJBIG


    Must have - a good roide - as I was always dying with the Horn ...
    Only managed a hand shandy though - several times a day ;)


  • #111
    zcorpian88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭zcorpian88


    Camera Phone

    PS2

    Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas :P


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  • #112
    DeJa VooDoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭DeJa VooDoo


    A mullet!


  • #113
    DeJa VooDoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 684 ✭✭✭DeJa VooDoo


    A mullet!

    The haircut, not the fish.....


  • #114
    ciaranlong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 64 ✭✭ciaranlong


    The most expensive trainers you could get. Nothing else you wore seemed to matter bar what was on your feet, and how much they cost. I was often quite anxious over this, as my mother insisted on buying all my footwear in Dunnes Stores - which certainly was not cool. It stood to me later though - as I see through all the obsessing over brands now. I'll buy a brand if it means getting quality at a fair price, but quality is my main concern. I'll also never wear anything where the brand is heavily prominent. Ideally it wouldn't be visible at all.


  • #115
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,143 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    I was 13 in 1996 and for some unknown reason two things became stupidly fashionable, Aran jumpers and tearaway tracksuit bottoms.

    Thankfully I wanted neither, but there were many a stupidly dressed teenager in those days.


  • #116
    StormWarrior
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭StormWarrior


    I was a teenager in the 90s. In the earlier part of the 90s the must-have was a puffa jacket. In the later 90s it was a Kookai bag, Kickers shoes, Nike air trainers and a Caterpillar pencil case.


  • #117
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Boot Runners


  • #118
    Mister Vain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,402 ✭✭✭Mister Vain


    Mortal Kombat 3. I wanted it so bad.


  • #119
    marklazarcovic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,224 ✭✭✭marklazarcovic


    raleigh vektar

    https://www.google.ie/search?q=Raleigh+Vektar&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dn2QVKfvKYO07gap6oD4BQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667


  • #120
    SPM1959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 358 ✭✭SPM1959


    anncoates wrote: »
    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.

    80's casual teenage years. :)


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  • #121
    MonkeyTennis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,095 ✭✭✭MonkeyTennis


    marklazarcovic wrote: »
    raleigh vektar

    https://www.google.ie/search?q=Raleigh+Vektar&es_sm=93&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=dn2QVKfvKYO07gap6oD4BQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=667


    hehe. My neighbour had one. We were sort of jealous. The bike itself was a bit ****


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