What weird trend do you remember?

amother

Junglegreen

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 9:47 am

amother OP wrote:

How about Lisa Frank? Wayyyy too bold and bright

Nooo way! The most beautiful school supplies, I loved my Lisa Frank folders.

↑ Highstrung

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 9:55 am

amother Crimson wrote:

What are American shoes?

My mother only purchased American shoes because they were considered the strongest . They had rounder toes and wooden souls and were not as dainty as European shoes .

AlwaysGrateful

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 3:46 pm

Those black wraparound skirts from Israel.
Stevenson denim skirts
Steve Maden clunky Shabbos shoes -- they were so ugly!
Trolls!
Trapper keepers. Ooh, and reinforcements.
Those crayon boxes with sharpeners in the back.
Those zigzag headbands that made it look like your hair was parted strangely
The twirly shoelaces so you didn't have to tie your shoes
Intentionally keeping a clump of hair out of your pony on each side so that it framed your face
Those metal bracelets that said "libi bamizrach"
Balloon barettes and ribbon barettes

↑ DrMom

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 3:57 pm

Highstrung wrote:

My mother only purchased American shoes because they were considered the strongest . They had rounder toes and wooden souls and were not as dainty as European shoes .

I must have missed this trend.

Wooden soles? You sure they weren't Dutch shoes? Wink

amother

↑ Nasturtium ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:03 pm

Not a clothing trend but who remembers this:
Echobuzz! Anytime anywhere from any phone!

Like if u know what Im talking about

↑ dankbar ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:04 pm

cnc wrote:

What are American shoes??

When I was ten everyone had a bulky ugly blue closed shoe with a maroon velcro, very much like a boys style shoes.

When I was in preschool it was more like the straightless shoes worn to correct feet. Like right and left look the same

↑ dankbar ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:07 pm

Also a specialty was if someone brought you from Israel those hard plastice clogs, same style as crocks like a closed front with holes in it. The wooden ones might have had a strap with a buckle in front

↑ dankbar ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:24 pm

zigi wrote:

Padded toilet seats

When I got married, printed padded toilet seat with same print on shower curtain and cloth wrapped hamper. Ot was peach with pastel colors. It also had matching print accessories, garbage can and even towels, with pleated fabric in this print attached to the towels. Then we coordinated a wall paper to it.

↑ dankbar ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:28 pm

I feel ancient.

The rotary phones if you made a mistake, you had to start all over again.

Those banging typewriters in the typing room. If you made a mistake there was no delete. You had to go back to that word and override it with xx's on top of letter or word that was a mistake

↑ dankbar ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:30 pm

The grand standard gift from chosson and kallah friends was a huge stereo system. Night of my wedding both the chosson and kallah's friends met up in my apt, realizing both brought the same gift, sneaking in to apt, while we were at wedding

↑ GLUE ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:31 pm

dankbar wrote:

My mother was once talking about how toilet paper was different colors and you brought the color to mach your bathroom.

↑ dankbar ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:33 pm

I still remember record players, vcr cassettes, movie projectors.
Country yossi radio show, magazine, and quirky game, his tapes too.
Kayla kuchleffel.

amother

NeonBlue

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:45 pm

Maybe this was jus my OOT school: But I remember wearing a colored t shirt under my uniform shirt and having a little bit of showing through through the opening of the collar. Early 2000s.

Also purposefully leaving a tiny bit hair out of your pony and having it dangle in your face. If you were super cool maybe you would braid it 😂.

ra_mom

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:48 pm

cnc wrote:

What are American shoes??

Round bulky sturdy awkward bowling oxford type shoes.
My mom only allowed Italian (or American) and said everything else was junk. Thank God we went with Italian each year, narrow neat laces, Daniel something brand. But really wanted the cool slip ons. Once I was 12/13, she said my feet were mature enough to finally handle those.

amother

Hawthorn ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:52 pm

dankbar wrote:

I must be your age. Yellow rotary phone on the kitchen wall with looonnnggg cord.
Plastic padded toilet seats that eventually ripped and hurt when you sat on them!! 😬
Shag carpet like matching toilet seat and tank covers

amother

Moccasin ↓

Sun, Oct 29 2023, 4:53 pm

AlwaysGrateful wrote:

I’m feeling old, all of the sudden…

Who remembers carbon paper? You used it to take notes for your friend that missed the lesson..