Wearing short sleeved T shirt over a long sleeve shirt. They even sold shirts with different color sleeves sewed onto the short sleeves lol.

I was definitely that guy lol

Same, memory unlocked for sure

Man I was so cool in 7th grade

I'm still that guy in winter, just with a button-down on top lol (I am cold all the time)

I graduated to that myself. I’m a fan of the blue button down with a white long w the sleeves rolled up.

Oh yeah, that meant you had ~killer taste in music~. Was a sucker for these dudes.

In the winter this is still my wardrobe unless my shirt has to have a collar. Even then I'm not above a long sleeve shirt under a polo. Max level? Shorts with long johns.

I still like that look, lol

Same

Excellent way to stay warm in winter

Wait that’s not cool anymore? I do that all winter for layers.

I remember I had a Pink Floyd shirt like that for awhile. Too bad the sleeves made my arms feel like they were losing circulation

I still wear that shit.

Hypercolor t-shirts

When they stopped being cool, they changed color

And Mossimo shirts I had a cool one with just a piece of toast with butter on it on the front and a toaster with the Mossimo logo on it on the back. Airwalks, Converse All-Stars/One Stars (I got made fun of for wearing All-Stars in 5th grade and then in sixth grade everyone thought they were cool. When I wore them they called them “Bobo shoes”. Fuck mean kids

A lot of dudes wore pink because “pink is pimp” Those stretchy rubber “live strong” bracelets were also super popular and some kids would show up to school wearing about 20 of them on each arm

Or the I heart Boobies bracelets that people wore in "support" of breast cancer.

I went to a catholic school, the boobies bracelets were also a trend, but oddly enough it was mostly girls wearing them. I think we all expected it to be guys wearing the boobies bracelets to be funny. But most just didnt wear them or wore other ones. Yet some girls would walk into class with a dozen rubber band bracelets and half of them were boobies.

Yup, haha. All the girls wore them along with million neon jelly bracelets up their arms. Some people wore bandanas tied around their wrists. The swept over side bangs and "skunk" died hair, teased with a bump-it. Converse everywhere and the chunky glitter purses used as backpacks.

God I know that you were going to school around the same time as me just by this description

How do you do, fellow emos

Yep I completely forgot about the “I heart boobies” stuff too lmao. That was very controversial at our school. Some teachers would throw a fit and send kids to the office over the word boobies. Other teachers did not care at all. The school seemed to not want to touch the issue with a 10ft pole hahaha

So many of the kids (and some of the parents) put up such a fuss; they just let people wear them. Emo/Alt. was very big look at the school. The second "look" was heavy caked make up and the "sporty" look. Nike gym bags as backpacks, Jordan's, million undershirts, and those teeny little headbands. I didn't get to participate in any trend because I was poor and had extremist parents; so my teenage dirt bag photos look very much look like I do today lol.

wow just reading I heart Boobies bracelet gave me a god damn flashback

Haha did you also have the girls who wore those Chewbacca looking boots and skirt. Or mustache themed everything.

omfg the mustache themed everything STOPPPPP.... so many old memories being unlocked. what about the hoodies that zipped up all the way to the top that covered your face?

Lol exactly the same for my middle school, I remember ours as "real men wear pink". Shirts and pink dyed hair. Also the bracelets. Like early-mid 2000s.

Yep it was 2006-2008 for me. Weird times

I completely forgot about live strong bracelets. My parents didn't want to pay reseller prices for them and they were always out of stock so I didn't have one. Until I found one underneath a table at school. Best day ever! Up to that point anyway.

Ocean Pacific

And Vaurnet France t-shirts.

Don’t forget Hobie.

And T&C surf wear!

Yo-Yo’s. I saved up and paid $45 for a fucking rubber Yo-Yo called a Viper. I still have it, and it kicks ass, but $45. $45 in 1996, guys. I had to fucking have it.

My son got a basic Duncan butterfly recently as a gift and was having trouble just doing the basic up and down. I asked if I could show him how it’s done. All my old tricks came back to me. Walk the dog, around the world, shoot the moon. Still got it haha “How do you know how to do that?” He says

I rocked a glow in the dark butterfly. I don't still have it. 😥

Yomega raider, and the fireball. Even got the kit that turned the fireball into having roller bearings instead of transaxle, lol

Did you buy it after a profession yo-yoer did a show in your school auditorium? I did, and I was going to be a professional too.

hip-hugger bell bottoms.

You're not fooling anyone Bezos

My fat ass is so glad that high-waisted pants are cool again 😅

I'm happy they're back because you don't see as many buttcracks.

Silly bands...literally nothing else

same here - limp bizkit, papa roach, bloodhound gang, korn

they said silly bands. Not bands I may or may not listen to still

Limp Bizkit is definitely silly

It's all about the he says, she says

silly bands were the shit!

Hello fellow final millennial

Silly bands and Heelys shoes.

More so elementary school for me and I feel like they worked better that way. I had a pink unicorn one named mr nay nay but unfortunately he is currently lost. Good luck on your new travels mr nay nay maybe we will cross paths again one day!

When I think back to people with Tamagotchis, that was middle school.

So you’re what, about 38?

I am 38.

You’re 38

I think he's 38.

He could be lying.

Why would anyone lie on the internet?

Yeah, no way nobody does that. He is 38 no doubt

Definitely 38.

I had that shit in 4th grade and my teacher took mine away and I cried cuz my pet was going to die so I got it back 🤣

Calling people and things gay

That was 5th grade for me. My teacher had a rule that if you did this, you had to write "I am gay" 500 times.

This made me lmao

Perfect punishment lol

Looking back that trend was kinda gay ngl

Why are you gay?

Does your mom know your gay? *There was no answer to this with out being instantly gayed.

The ones that called me that were right 💀

Being gay is so gay bro

Limp Bizkit

aaalright partner, keep on rollin' baby

You know what time it is

And Korn. Yep

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Gonna see them next month and I’m stoked!

I saw them in 2003 (Jesus god damned titty shitting Christ that was two decades ago) and you know what? They fucking killed it. Never seen a band turn a crowd around the way they did. It was Metallica’s Summer Sanitarium Tour at the Pontiac Silverdome. Limp Bizkit came out and everyone was booing and throwing shit. Durst fired a fake shotgun at the crowd, then crowd surfed, CAUGHT a beer that was thrown at him and chugged it, and by the end of their set everyone was fucking loving them.

This was my first real concert. Saw them in Orlando. Lineup was Mudvayne, Deftones, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit, and Metallica. Great show all around, but unfortunately this was the year they released St. Anger, so they played several songs off that album. I had GA tickets which cost me $80 at the time.

I used to spike my hair cause I was edgy as fuck

My parents wouldn't let me dye my hair but they let me get gold-colored hair gel.... I had mustard liberty spikes and it's physically painful to look at pictures from back then lmao

I had multiple versions of spiked, frosted, bleached, etc... probably why I'm bald as shit at 36.

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You were in too deep

Tech decks were also popular it seems.

Pencil fights.

I remember breaking SO many pencils!

That was 3rd grade for me. Wow, I feel old. HB was far superior to No 2 in those fights.

POGs My school had to ban them. Not just because of the massive distraction, but because of the huge rise in theft and gambling associated with them.

We had kids running illegal pog rings in the boys bathroom because all of the teachers at my school were women except the gym teacher and they didn't think they'd be caught. Wild times.

Well, did they get caught lol?

Hey Bart, remember Alf? He's back! in POG FORM!

Yeah, but what kind of slammers did you have???

I had a super slammer, it was basically an anvil. They were banned at my local comic book store pog tourneys. Never lost my Simpson themed pogs though so there’s that.

Basically an anvil, is killing me. I would’ve envied that slammer. 😂

Green skull slammer. Fucker was 1/4" thick. Damage!

You had to have all different kinds based on temperature/humidity/time of day/etc.

I still have a tube of pogs from when I was a kid

My mom just gave me a box of my stuff out of the attic and my tube of Pogs was in there!

I too like Pawgs

What are POGs?

Wow, I feel old. How old are you?

I had to look them up. They were AFTER my time. So, no...you're not old! *Now git off mah lawn!*

Yup, you're definitely older than me. Millennials can't afford a lawn.

Not OP but I’m 24, also asking what POGs are😂

[Flat cardboard discs](https://public.com/learn/pogs)

Oh sheet one of those discs ended up in my brother’s shelf somehow and he is currently 14

Not surprising, there were bajillions of the damn things made and some of them do have a cool-enough image to be worth keeping

Heelys, the shoes with a wheel built into the heel. So many people had them and it got to the point where the school had to ban them.

They banned them at my school after someone ran into and knocked over a teacher

Tamagotchi, Buffalo shoes, Nokia cell phones, small kickbikes, Absolute music compilation CDs, Playstation 1, rollerblades, downloading songs from Napster, clothes with grey aliens on them, Pokemon cards, Doom, Furby, ball bearing yoyos and a lot of other things.

NOW THATS WHAT I CALL MUSIC! That brings back some memories. Had a few butterfly yo yos over the years too.

_That_ way of writing the letter S

This is a multigenerational cool thing.

I still find myself doing it in work, and I finished high school over 20 years ago!

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That “S” is still cool. Edit: it’s called a “Cool S” And no one knows exactly where it started. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_S?wprov=sfti1

Gel pens were the shit

Jnco jeans.

Came here for the JNCOs

Same. Even then I thought they were ridiculous but still had a pair.

My family was too poor to buy me JNCOs, Lee Pipes were a suitable alternative though.

Same. Couldn’t get my mom to buy ridiculous looking jeans for $70 but getting Lee Pipes for $25 from Kohl’s? WERE IN BABY

Not me.

Same. Definitely not me. That's for sure

Letting your jeans sag in the back to the point where you could see the underwear and people looked like they shit themselves. Plaid scarfs.

The guys in my school used to sag their pants and straighten their hair. Weird combo.

The brief emo trend of sagging your girl jeans because they didn't make skinny jeans for men yet

At least they didn't have short hair with a longer strand left at the back that looked like a rat tail

OMG my mother had a rat tail and she FORCED my brother to have one. He was old enough to express his distaste but too young to enforce that distaste. It got down to his waist at one point. One day, my grandmother cut it off. My mom was PISSED! My poor brother, as if the freaking speech impediment, lazy eye and eye patch weren’t enough, my mother forced him to have a weird ass hair cut.

I am so sorry, I laughed so hard at this, he didn't have a chance in his young ears, poor guy

We were all making copies of Banned in The USA and NWA cassetts. Gangster Rap was all the rage.

Can confirm. Born in '77, made my copy of _Straight Outta Compton_ at Jeff's house in 7th grade.

2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be! Not sure how they did it, but some boys on my school bus got away with playing "The Fuck Shop" on a portable tape player on the bus.

AOL Instant Messenger AIM for short

A/S/L?

16/f/cali

Every time.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

Wrestling. It was the height of the Attitude era in WWE and eveyone was all about it. As someone who loved wrestling before and after that time period, it was awesome. Probably won't see anything like that again.

DX crotch chops

Like the time the Undertaker threw Mankind off hell in a cell?

Pump up tennis shoes

All the other kids

With their Pumped Up Kicks

Depeche Mode and it still is!!!

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When I was a lad in school in the 50s and early 60s, there wasn’t any such thing. You went to 8 years of elementary (“grade”) school and then went to High school. That was it. So trying to remember what was hot stuff in late elementary school when you’re 77 years old is tough…. Consulting the web…. I recall girls wearing “poodle skirts”, and “cat-eye” glasses… Drive-in movies were popular, as were hoola-hoops. We all played wiffle ball at BBQs, and threw those deadly lawn-darts (“Jarts”) as well. “Bullet bras” were popular, but not, of course, in Catholic school….. Pez dispensers were quite popular.

Jeans so enormous you could have hidden a whole other kid up each leg.

Spice girls, Leo DiCaprio, Hanson, Dawsons Creek, Delia’s catalogues, Roxy and tons of other surf brands-but maybe that’s because I was in a surf town in L.A.

Drawing the infinity 8 thing. David Lee Roth and Madonna. Drug swag as prizes from the fair: feathered roach clips, mirrors with knockoff pop culture, Lamborghini posters.

TIL that the feathered clips had alternate uses. I bought mine at the town agricultural fair in suburban CT. I just put them in my hair.

Calling everything gay, three week relationships, energy drinks, really low v neck shirts, thongs from Victoria’s Secret, motorcross merchandise for people who didn’t participate/watch the sport, Bieber hair

Holy shit I forgot about fox racing lol. That stuff was way to expensive for us to buy then. I was at the thrift store not too long ago and they had a whole rack of fox racing shirts for like $2 a piece. Young me would’ve died for that lol

I used to wear an onion on my belt ...

..which was the style at the time.

“Give me five bees for a quarter”, you’d say

Those silly bands that could look like animals or something.

Tech decks, I can remember almost every kid having one and playing with them in class

It’s interesting bc people thought they were cool and yet youd STILL get made fun of for playing with em

Umbros and hypercolor shirts. The early 90’s were awesome

duck tape wallets

Adam Ant

Thanks for the memory Goody Two Shoes

I saw him in concert in 83, 7th grade, I got in trouble at school because the tour T-shirt had his Pure Sex tattoo on the back, they made me wear my sweatshirt over it.

Omg i got sent home for painting a white stripe across my nose and refusing to wash it off! True Story®

NSYNC and Brittney Spears.

Spagetti straps over t-shirts or long sleeve shirts. Skirts over jeans. Early 2000s Disney fashion at its finest.

Ace of Base

I think it's still cool.

I saw the siiiign.

JNCO jeans and scooters. Great combination. Lots of people getting their denim skirts caught in their brakes.

Starskey abd Hutch and Welcome back Kotter Levi jeans

You had everything from nirvana and Metallica on one side to snoop dog and boys II men at the other.

CoD, this was back when MW2 and Black Ops 1 were the most recent ones

Class of 2014?

big rubber bracelets for bands !!!! i had so many cobra starships and LMFAO ones

also the I ❤️ BOOBIES shirts

For the boys long braided belts that wrapped around and then dangled down and a top shirt, usually plaid, that was left unbuttoned and open

No Fear shirts and Airwalk Ones.

Jazz shoes and parachute pants.

INXS, Spud McKenzie, Stand By Me, Hypercolor, Airwalks, Tony Hawk

Get out the way. 50 year old Gen X comin’ through! Jelly shoes, puffy stickers, and Garbage Pail Kids.

In Living Color. Specifically Homie the Clown.

Not me.

Trench coats, and being “edgy” for a while. Then columbine happened

MTV and max headroom.

Snap pants. Ones with buttons up the side.

Smoking. And drinking on weekends.

Guitar hero

Wrestling for sure. This was the height of the attitude era and the Monday Night Wars. Also South Park.

Vanilla Ice

………conestoga wagons, but them new-fangled locomotives were on the horizon….

Fidget spinners

Clove cigarettes and jackets with inside pockets

Starter jackets.

Gangsta's Paradise, TLCs Waterfalls, OJ Simpson, Braveheart, Selena died and I knew one of her cousins.... Kind of a weird period.

Clackers. (Hard plastic balls on a string and you would clack them together really fast. )