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Post by Zee on Nov 13, 2022 0:48:14 GMT
I graduated in 1990. We didn't wear dresses unless it was a sweater dress. We did wear skirts though. Mostly jeans. Usually flats or Keds or boots. We were usually pretty dressy back in the 80s.
By 1989/90 I was decidedly more casual, having gone to pretty much t shirts and ripped jeans and doodled on shoes by then. Something weird like a sequin skirt with a punk t shirt. Sometimes something skimpy and revealing a la Kelly Bundy. The dawn of grunge and apparently I was On Trend. 😂
ETA I can't believe I forgot about harem pants (Hammer pants!) and stirrup pants! I had two pairs of Hammer pants and some leggings and bicycle shorts and tights too.
I don't remember having stirrup pants of my own but I remember everyone wearing them. Maybe I had one pair or else I borrowed a friend's and hated the way the knees were baggy by the end of the day.
Acid wash mini skirt jumper, the tiniest skirts imaginable, giant flannel jacket and boots, lol.
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Post by Fidget on Nov 13, 2022 1:03:28 GMT
I was in the generation where we had to wear skirts or dresses until I was in Jr. High. I did still wear skirts or dresses once or twice a week after we were allowed to wear pants. Initially pants did not include jeans so I wore what I had!
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Post by bc2ca on Nov 13, 2022 2:14:11 GMT
Dad insisted we "dress" for school, so my sisters and I wore a skirt or dress daily until I hit junior high. We had to change for PE three times a week so I told my parents we weren't allowed to wear dresses on those days because it took too long to get ready for the next class. Somehow it worked. I still wasn't allowed to own jeans because they weren't appropriate for girls unless horseback riding. Cords were the closest I got to jeans until I was about 17 and I haven't stopped wearing them since. For the years I worked in the corporate world skirt suits and dresses were absolutely the norm. I'm so glad to see that has changed.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 13, 2022 2:46:04 GMT
It always makes me smile to see the high school girls who walk past my door everyday with their skirts hiked up as far as possible. They probably wouldn’t believe we all did the same thing forty-odd years ago! Yep! My mum refused to take the hem of my summer uniform dress up, so I would tuck the dress up under my bra, then put my jumper (sweater) on over my dress. Instant short tarty dress! At my daughter's private school, the rules were a LOT stricter, and the dresses had to reach the knee. My nieces who went to private school would roll up the waist of their uniform skirts once they got to school! Theirs were supposed to be knee length too.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 13, 2022 3:15:35 GMT
Class of 82. In grade school we had to wear dresses. They had to come down to where your fingertips hit your leg. I was short, but with long arms and my dresses were longer than most. In jr and sr high I could wear what I wanted, I pretty much only wore jeans, t-shirts and sneakers, mostly Vans. As an adult, that is still more or less how I dress, except in summer when I swap in skirts for the jeans, or simply wear casual dresses, still mostly wear sneakers. I was also class of 82. The white leather Nikes with the blue or red swoosh or Tretorn were a couple of the in/popular brands here for sneakers. I had a pair of Nikes with the blue swoosh. Clogs was what I wore probably more often for shoes…but it was either Clogs or sneakers. Stripped Rugby shirts, Izod polo shirts, and CB winter jackets were also big around here.
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Post by buddysmom on Nov 13, 2022 4:37:40 GMT
We weren't allowed to wear pants to school until I was in 8th grade. But there were "no rules" on how short a skirt could be. I sewed a lot so it was no big deal for me to shorten dresses/skirts, plus I made a lot of my clothes-and I was really good at it for a teen back then! So the length of my skirts/dresses would hit at the end of my thumb when standing. (try it--it's really short!) Had a fight with my dad just about every morning about how short my skirt was as I was leaving for school! But I saved a lot of $ on fabric when I sewed! I could make a skirt with 1/2 yard of fabric.
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Post by Merge on Nov 13, 2022 5:00:15 GMT
Class of 1990. I wore dresses to school sometimes, and frequently had to wear one for concerts and competitions. Jeans and sweaters were probably more common for every day, though.
My mom made a lot of my clothes, and she preferred to make dresses because they were easier to fit. I had a lot of dresses.
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Post by myboysnme on Nov 13, 2022 13:36:03 GMT
In my NY junior high skirts and dresses were required.
I moved to MD in junior high and pants were allowed. At some point jeans were also. This was the very early 1970s
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2022 14:09:49 GMT
If anyone wore a dress, they'd get asked what's the occasion, in high school. The only girls who wore dresses/skirts regularly were the fundies (ultra conservative Christians where the girls never cut their hair and never show skin).
I had a grunge period with flannels. I couldn't go all in because my mom refused to let me have jeans with holes in them. By the time I could buy the shoes I wanted, the grunge phase had passed for me. Dad keeps insisting I had a goth phase. No, dad I did not. Goth and grunge were nothing alike!
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Post by Lexica on Nov 13, 2022 14:39:06 GMT
I’m old. When I was in school we were required to wear dresses every day. Except for a special occasion or for casual Friday. Then we could wear a“pants suit“ which meant no “denims” allowed, even if it had a matching jacket.
And the dresses had to be long enough to touch the ground when we were kneeling! The Dean of Women would walk around and if she thought your dress was too short she would demand that we kneel and if our skirt or dress wasn’t touching the ground, we were sent home to change.
By the time I was in my senior year of high school things had changed and we were allowed to wear pants suits every day and jeans on Fridays only.
Oh and shirts had to be properly tucked in. That went for both guys and girls. Shorts were never allowed.
Wow I had forgotten how strict the dress code was. And this was in a normal public school, not a private facility.
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Post by milocat on Nov 13, 2022 16:21:07 GMT
Mini skirts were in when I was in jr/sn high. I had a jean one and a black stretchy one. I really only wore them in the fall or spring. Bare/nylon legs and walking to the bus when it's -20C/-4F and colder isn't fun. Maybe on a chinook day.
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Post by RosieKat on Nov 13, 2022 17:58:17 GMT
I wore uniforms, but in college, I wore jeans/shorts probably 90% of the time and skirts probably the other 10%. I didn't really own many dresses as such.
My DD is in HS now, and she does not even own a dress or a skirt. Even for homecoming, she wore a pretty pantsuit. She did wear a dress to their formal underclasmen dance last year, but I don't see that happening again.
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Post by iluvpink on Nov 13, 2022 18:02:41 GMT
Dresses? Rarely. Skirts, quite often. Maybe a couple of days a week.
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Post by maryland on Nov 13, 2022 18:53:54 GMT
When I was in high school, dresses weren't very popular but skirts were. I was very into fashion when I was young so always had nice clothes. I loved dressing up for school! Also loved all styles of clothing and was always happy with how I looked.
I am the opposite now, wear sweats all winter because I hate jeans. In summer I love shorts so dress much better in summer.
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Post by worldwanderer75 on Nov 13, 2022 22:57:48 GMT
I don't think I wore a pair of jeans ever my senior year of HS and hardly ever before then. It's so weird when I think about it now but I LOVE clothes and just had tons of options and jeans weren't really my thing (i graduated in 1994). I did wear a cheer uniform a couple days a week but I dressed up all the time, by choice. My kids are completed weirded out by this strange fact about me.
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Post by compeateropeator on Nov 13, 2022 23:16:38 GMT
Thanks for the replies everyone. I have really enjoyed the responses. I should have used dresses/skirts in the poll because in my mind I put them both in the same category. What I said about dresses would be exactly the same for skirts. But that is something I learned, they certainly are not. 😄
The posts here have made me think back a little deeper to remember what I wore in high school. And so many things came popping back. I think where you lived certainly dictated what was popular, including things that were more local/regional. One of those things for my area was Wool Geiger jackets and turtlenecks. 🤷🏻♀️
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Post by scrappinwithoutpeas on Nov 13, 2022 23:19:41 GMT
I occasionally wore skirts in middle school and HS. I mainly wore jeans, sweaters/tops, bellbottoms, hip-huggers, cords, boots or leather lace-ups, and would only wear a skirt once in a while. I don't think I wore actual dresses to school (only skirts). When I was in HS if our glee club was performing we had to wear our glee club dresses to school (cord jumper with white bow-tie blouse).
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Post by scrapngranny on Nov 13, 2022 23:22:20 GMT
I’m an other. We had to wear dresses, not uniforms, girls just had to always wear dresses.
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Post by katiekaty on Nov 13, 2022 23:43:40 GMT
I had a large selection of dresses, pants, skirts, tops jeans, etc. my mom was an excellent seamstress and I learned to sew at a very young age and made beautiful clothes also. It was really common for clothing to home sewn, sewn by seamstresses. There just wasn’t the number of clothing stores available like today. You had the JCPennys, sears and Montgomery wards catalog if you didn’t sew and a few stores in a nearby larger town a two very expensive department stores in our small town. I wore lots of different dresses, etc. we weren’t allowed to wear any kind of pants until I hit 7th grade when the state school system gave the ok. I still love dresses.
I think in high school I had better design choices than I do now and overall style and class than I do now! I could pick any fabric/pattern and get whatever fit and look I wanted! Even though money was tight when I was a child, sewing was a lifesaver. Today I wear scrubs to work and jeans on the weekend and occasionally a dress. Othman than that, I am a Jammie girl!
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