Me and my friend did the feathered hair, silkish shirt disco thing in middle school around 1978. We used to practice dance moves to Sat Nite fever in living room.
My friend later went on to represent the wosrt of 80s fashion, complete with the glove on his left hand and trench coat.
running in puma h streets
Most of you gaylord fockers seem so young. 80s, 90s, hmmph.
early 70s - Woodstock Generation. Dressed like like Dennis Hopper in 'Easy Rider' or Roger Daltry. Never had a leather jacket with fringes though.
Age 13 and 14: baggy bell bottoms, tie dyed shirt (home spun) or work shirt, paisley belt, and sneakers. If it was cold I had an Army surplus jacket, several sizes too large. Long hair with head band.
Age 21 or so: runner geek.
During middle school (mid 90's) growing up in Northeast L.A., I was into the "vato" machismo style (yup, I'm Mexican/American). Spoke in the tongue of "sup ese, firme ride ." Basically a spanish version of inner-city ebonics. Sort of dressed it, with the dickie pants, white-t's, ray-bans (locs') when I wanted to look cool. Not all the time, mostly it was just the white-t's and locs'.
In HS (late 90's), outside of running and basketball, I was into the videogame scene and hung out with alot of Asians whom were very hardcore. Reading up every article in the monthly gaming magazines, spending hours with my modded PS1 playing Japanese versions of KoF. Even several of the girls at my school, mostly Asian, were into it too. This was also in the final years of the golden era of arcades when the local corner market or 711 or any hang-out spot with arcades would be packed with some really talented players. Street Fighter II (Champ.Ed, Hyper, Rainbow Ed.) , King of Fighters, Marvel vs Capcom, Mortal Kombat were the common games. I even used to see business dudes come straight from Downtown L.A. in their suit-n-tie challenge the neighborhood talent.
Now was a twenty-something, I just try to look presentable enough.
Had a mullet for a while starting about a year ago until 6 months ago...sported a Canadian tux and cowboy hat or tricker hat depending on the kind of mood I was in. I did learn one thing during that time...a well kept mullet in this day and age will get you all kinds of tail.
I think the only "look" I've ever had was the runner geek look in high school. Short hair cut, always wearing old 5K road race t-shirts, wore old pairs of running shoes... always. Always wore shorts, no matter how cold it was. Always wore a plastic running watch even when dressed "formal". Basically I always looked like I was getting ready to go for a run.
I think that the look I've been sporting for the past 4 years, since I started college is the typical college nerd look. I wear sweater vests when I student teach, I never wear contacts, always glasses. Nice watch on all the time, wear class ring. I basically look like a freaking honor student, I get lots of compliments.
Late 70s/early 80s I got really into punk rock, but just could not shave off my big mop of curly surf-punk/Roger Daltry-Tommy-era hair. The two did not mix. Made me look like a drug addict, which it turned out I was.
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Bum flaps. I never understood that whole thing, looking like an urban loin cloth. And all the ones I ever saw had band logos. Bum billboards more like it.
Speaking of failures: how old are you (and your former streetpunk peers)? And how many of them are still barbacking and washing dishes at the local watering holes?
I once heard that their real purpose was so that if one happened to be wearing a pair of rather tight pants while packing a few joints or syringes or a pipe in teh back pocket or whatever that they wouldn't be visible to people (cops).
I'm finishing up college. They--last time I checked--were all working at local resturants. Moes is a big place to work for 80% of my buddies--I used to get free burritos and such when I was at home until the health department shut down the one everyone was workign at while I was at school for the fall. Now most of them work at Paco's (if you know that place then you know where I live and probalby some of these guys).
Wow--that was unnecessarily long...
I went through a skater phase which was funny because I was never a skater. I just wore the clothes and decided Kurt Cobain's death was the worst thing that ever happened to my generation.
Then I graduated to an 'NSYNC loving phase. Spent so much money on teeny bopper magazines. I bet they would've paid off my student loans.
I jammed and hummed the tunes "Workin For the Weekend" a few times in the mid-Eighties. Actually I would like to eliminate most of the mid eighties from all memory. Still trying to get that bitter taste out of my mouth...gawd the thought of Loverboy and Journey makes me PUKE!
I had a tail in 7th grade....Swatches, anyone?...
Hardcore Running Phase - using cheesy war metaphors and five-cent similes to validate my athletic endeavors. Wore xc sweatshirts and gear, which were most of the clothes i owned. Ran nearly 100 miles each week. Did nearly everything short of get off to my own running. I realized it wasn't a relationship with running with sustainable happiness.
Break Dancing. I still cringe when I think about it.
Really thick shoe laces and adidas. Anyone wearing a vest with no shirt underneath should shot on site.
laguna beach
My "look" has remained fairly consistant. So I dont have a lot of big stories about that. My hair may have been a little longer back in the late 70's and 80's but not huge changes.
As far as the worst phase of my life in the early 80's I played D&D. I in the 8th and 9th and maybe even the 10th grade. Yes. That's tough to admit.
TrackBunny wrote:
I went through a skater phase which was funny because I was never a skater. I just wore the clothes and decided Kurt Cobain's death was the worst thing that ever happened to my generation.
Then I graduated to an 'NSYNC loving phase. Spent so much money on teeny bopper magazines. I bet they would've paid off my student loans.
BWOOP! BWOOP! BWOOP! BWOOP! BWOOP! BWOOP!
EZ10Miler wrote:
My "look" has remained fairly consistant. So I dont have a lot of big stories about that. My hair may have been a little longer back in the late 70's and 80's but not huge changes.
As far as the worst phase of my life in the early 80's I played D&D. I in the 8th and 9th and maybe even the 10th grade. Yes. That's tough to admit.
Yikes. Thank god I stopped playing after 6th grade, about the same time you were a player. However, my now-adult sister and her husband while away their free time playing WoW.
I came of age in the 80s so it was a train wreck...
Got my ear pierced before most guys were doing it.
Pegged the legs of my jeans (and dockers!)
Wanted long John Lennon hair... but had curls so I ended up with a bush on top of my head. (went great with my 5'8" 105 lbs body)
skinny black ties with white shirts and jeans (looked like a gay male nurse)
A lime green sport coat with shoulder pads. I didn't get it at Merry Go Round, but it was some place similar.
Red Converse high tops that didn't fit right with pegged dockers.
Black rubber "madonna" braclets (almost as pathetic as the Live Strong ones - thank god I never did that).
These days I can't pick between 40 year old business exec that thinks "casual" is slacks, shirt, and dress shoes and mid-life crisis boy that thinks 40 year olds should wear Keens, and only clothing from REI.
But do you wear Crocs and/or rock a Bluetooth?
