JG Hook Fair Isle Sweaters
Guess Jeans - highly coveted when they first appeared on the fashion scene - remember Claudia Schiffer ads?
Aziza sparkly blue eyeshadow - wow, bad.
I wanted Candies heels so much, but my mom said “no” Still a little bitter!
@surfcity I wore my POW bracelet and eventually my now husband’s ID bracelet. Leather bracelets and necklaces were popular at my school, especially with the Hippies!
That reminds me, I lived in my suede jacket with fringe; my brother also had one.
While I didn’t realize it at the time, my parents really gave my brother and I anything we wanted, especially when it came to clothes. We never had fights about shorts being too short, or tops being too cropped. My children would tell you they got almost nothing they wanted; they would not be telling the truth, but there were limits.
Eek! I just found out Famolares are back. I may have to purchase a pair just because I can!
Yes to the Hawaiian Tropic, lip smackers, Love’s baby soft, and so many others mentioned.
It seemed like a lot of the guys wore Polo cologne(the green bottle) and I still love the smell of it.
Leather bomber jackets, my mother and I waited in line for at least 2 hours to buy one on black Friday one year. I still have it.
Panama Jack
Parachute pants
Annie Oakley jeans
Acid washed jeans
Jeans ripped to shreds which we had to wear bike shorts(the spandex ones) under in order to wear to school.
Spud McKenzie?
stirrup pants with oversized tops and a belt around the waist
pumps with fancy socks
windsuits
Guess jeans. My mother would not buy me a pair because they were too expensive so I spent $60 of my own money to buy a pair. They were black with zippers at the ankles and not at all comfortable but I wore them anyway.
In college, Duck Head
I went to charm school at Montgomery Ward. I think they called it Wendy Ward charm school and I was also about 10. It may have been in the summer because at the end we got to model back-to-school clothes in a fashion show inside the store. I think the “workbook” was still at my mom’s house until a few years ago. One thing I still remember and practice to this day is rinsing my hair and face really well! Don’t want any of that dulling shampoo/soap left in it.
Jane Fonda? Oh no…Richard Simmons Sweating to the Oldies. I still have the vhs.
What about mohair sweaters? I saved babysitting money for months to buy one.
Yes, we also had a fashion show at the end of the course.
Yes, I remember the Hai-Karate ads. with big, busty women in wet look at suit
Charlie perfume creme in an apple screw container pendant
Glow in the dark eyeshadow and lipstick (great for discos!)
Leg warmers!
Avon Pretty Peach
Fishnet tights (before I knew they were associated with hookers!)
Dry shampoo
stypstick (for razor cuts)
Probably a lot of other things, but I can’t remember.
Circa 1970…“wet look” leather. I had a bright red skirt version.
This thread is making me feel really old. So many of these memories are from the 80’s while mine are from the 60’s! Who am I kidding – I AM really old!
And where did we buy all these cool things? If you grew up in the Detroit area, you shopped at Hudson’s, Winkleman’s, Crowley’s, and Jacobson’s, as well as other now-defunct national stores like Woolworth’s, Kresge’s, Robert Hall, Marianne, Jean Nicole, Gantos, Pappagallo, Chess King, Thom McAn, Lerner, Korvette, Casual Corner.
Where else did you remembering shopping?
In Ohio…Woolworths and Winklemans were favs of mine. But also liked the now defunct department stores Higbees and Halles.
In Santa Cruz, CA, we stopped at Mervyn’s (in Capitola, cheap, could afford with babysitting and lifeguarding money), Gottschalk’s (nice, downtown Santa Cruz), Leask’s (trendy shop in Aptos). On special occasions, made a trip to I. Magnin in San Francisco.
My favorite in Brooklyn was EJ Korvette. They had just about everything, including a great record department. Records were priced by code - so records labelled A were $4.99, B were $5.99, etc. A plus was that it was close by and as a young teen I could walk or bike there with friends.
Lerner became NY& Company which just went bankrupt.
We did much of our clothes shopping in local retails shops that were not chains - the local dungaree shop, little boutique, etc.
We would take an annual holiday trip as a family to the A&S in downtown Brooklyn to buy stuff and see Santa.
Ah! Seeing Santa! One of the best memories of my childhood was the annual trip downtown to the flagship J. L. Hudson store to see Santa at the (real to us) North Pole. It was very much like the scene in A Christmas Story. And, kids could shop by themselves in a makeshift kids-only store on that floor to buy presents for mom and dad with our piggy-bank money. I felt so grown up with my secretive purchase that mom and dad could not see until Christmas morning.
The big department stores in my east coast area were Sears, Strawbridge & Clothier, Wanamaker’s, and Gimbels. There weren’t a whole lot of smaller stores like today, that I remember. When I was in college I do recall LadyBug and Casual Corner.
Discounters like Kmart, Two Guys, Korvettes, and Clover.
When I lived in St. Louis - Famous Barr and Stix Baer and Fuller
Then in Chicago - Marshall Field and Carson, Pirie Scott
In L. A. - Bullocks’s Wilshire
They are all gone now.
All these stores had really classy, quiet, high end rooms that I loved to browse in (and sometimes buy).
In HS and college, most of my “fashion” came from Contempo Casuals, The Wet Seal, Limited, and small boutique called The Attic. My friends and I were also into vintage wear and frequented a few thrift stores–The Bus Stop and Flip Clothing Store on Melrose Blvd. I think all of these stores are now gone except for The Limited.
Yes, I remember Contempo Casuals. Also shopped at the Limited and Casual Corner.
I also shopped at Mervyn’s, and remember Gemco? We used to go there, then our Gemco became Target.
My mom would try to make me go to Kmart, but I never wanted to. I wanted to shop at Macy’s and Liberty House (I think that was the name), but those were the expensive stores.
In high school, my girl friends and I were taken with Estee Lauder Youth Dew cologne–if you can believe it, the fragrance still exists. The cologne was in a blue bottle. Don’t know if it’s still packaged the same way.