Fads you remember fondly

Hyper-color shirts.

Magnetic slap braclets.

Jelly shoes.

Bangs. You know the ones I'm talking about.

Inside out sweatshirts.

 

And we can't forget (well, those of us who were around in the 60's can't)

Mood rings.

Platform shoes

Fallout shelters

Bell Bottoms

Lava lamps

Black lights

 

Chicks digging the long ball.

 

Oh, I know Christina's still around and indeed looking fine. But it's just not the same as when Kelly was Too Trashy To Be True.

 

It took all of five posts for somebody to turn this political. :

 

Do the following qualify as fads:
- roller skates
- disco music
- 8-tracks
- Richard Simmons' popularity
- "Valley Girl" catchphrases

 

These are the fads of my youth, along with jams (which were mentioned earlier) and parachute pants (fuck yeah!).

More recently, in the footwear department, I've noticed Crocs and the comeback of two oldies-but-goodies, Chuck Taylor Cons and black-and-white-checked, slip-on Vans.

 

Ooh, and Zubaz!

 

you can't exclude pet rocks. that shit was ridiculous. I remember asking my mom for one and she looked at me like i lost my mind.
Looking back on it, most of the country lost its mind.

 

Pegged cuffs.
Untied hi-tops for guys; Weird-laced Dexters for girls (when they weren't wearing Candies)

 

The masturbation fad. Not masturbation itself, we've always done that, but the glorification of masturbation.

When I graduated from high school in 1989, masturbation was more taboo than a NAMBLA member blitzed on Spanish fly. You did NOT talk about spanking it.

But since the mid 90s or so, declaring your love of tapping your own ass is cooler than Miles Davis.

We had the Palezoic Era, we live in the Divinyls Era.

 

That's because I didn't get on fast enough to make it the SECOND post.