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Subject: styles you didn't know were hot
Having looked thru this site a bit and some others, I've run across some fashion trends I didn't know existed - or at least, not in the form everyone else seems to know them. Or, further, didn't seem to occur close to home even though I know about them at large. Do you have similar revelations?
Immediately comes to mind is hair-related. I'm giving '80s examples cuz that's when I was really conscious about the trends, etc. But anything goes here.
girls - side ponytails. I really don't recall much of this anywhere, including media - maybe I wasn't paying attention. But in school and around town, at least, I swear I don't recall anyone having a side ponytail.
boys - mullets. I know singers had them, but I don't think I can think of 1 boy in our area who did. Lots of short hair (buzzed, almost) w/spikes.
boys - rattails. Lots of boys had them, but they actually looked like rat tails - they were just a few hairs wrapped up to be a thin tail up to 5" long. (They went along w/the short spiked hair, too.) What I see lately called "rattail" looks more like a real pony tail - gobs of hair just let to grow and not tied up or anything.
Did anyone forget the spikes? Funny they never seem to make the lists - but wasn't that the defining element of the '80s - punk spikes? ???
Subject: Re: styles you didn't know were hot
Yeah, a lot of styles can be 'fast and fleeting' or extremely regional.
For the side ponytails, I remember seening Chrissy on Three's Company wearing them a lot, but no girls in real life in my area had them--we were too busy either 'feathering' our hair, or using tons of hairspray to make it 'big'.
As for the "wide" rattails on the boys, that was somewhat of a compromise between wanting-to-be-fasionable-boys and their I-don't-want-you-to-look-stupid-in-public-people-will-think-it's-my-idea parents.
Subject: Re: styles you didn't know were hot
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girls - side ponytails. I really don't recall much of this anywhere, including media - maybe I wasn't paying attention. But in school and around town, at least, I swear I don't recall anyone having a side ponytail.
boys - mullets. I know singers had them, but I don't think I can think of 1 boy in our area who did. Lots of short hair (buzzed, almost) w/spikes.
boys - rattails. Lots of boys had them, but they actually looked like rat tails - they were just a few hairs wrapped up to be a thin tail up to 5" long. (They went along w/the short spiked hair, too.) What I see lately called "rattail" looks more like a real pony tail - gobs of hair just let to grow and not tied up or anything.
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I never saw anyone that I knew wear the side pony tails, the only time I ever did was in pictures or on TV. I wouldn't have walked out of the house if my mother did my hair like that .
I did know quite a few boys with mullets in high school, they were mostly who I hung out with, lol.
As for the rat tails, I always disliked those. I thought any guy who had one should really take a good look at himself again before he leaves the house looking like that, lol. Where I came from, I'd say the mullet was more popular than the rat tail for guys.
I'm definately not an expert on girls' hair. For the first 14 years of my life I basically wore my hair pulled back into a pony tail and had straight bangs (or a fringe for those in the UK) Then I cut it all off and wore it in a short, spikey style, which was around the late 80's early 90s. I was and still am a 'plain Jane'. After I grew out of the short-do phase I ended up growing my hair long again, and lo-and-behold, I am wearing it pulled back into a pony tail at this very moment. The only difference these days is that my hair is all one length and I don't have the bangs (makes me look far younger than I am)
Subject: Re: styles you didn't know were hot
Maybe it's a country thing too because Mullets were huge in the U.K and just about everybody had one me included and I'm female!! Oh the shame.........
Subject: Re: styles you didn't know were hot
There was one girl in my school that wore a side ponytail. Of course the popular stuck up girls teased her because no one else did that.
The guys in our school were two extremes: either very short hair (missionary cuts) or long hair.
Subject: Re: styles you didn't know were hot
Never paid any attention to fashion. I live by my own rules. My normal dress is blue jeans (Lees) and either a sweater or tee shirt (depending on the time of year) with my hair down. When short hair was in, I still had long hair.
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