Bonne Bell, Sun-In, what do you remember from your youth?

Frost and Tip?

Bonne Bell Ten-O-Six lotion.
Bonne Bell shower gel…smelled so good!

Noxema…I’m sure it’s probably still around but we used it on sunburn!

Coppertone suntan lotion…does it still smell the same?
Clearasil
a shampoo…the TV ad had a multiplying women saying “tell your friends and so on and so on and so on” Had honey in the name? Wheat Germ and Honey?
Dippity Doo
Frosted lipstick
Heaven Scent
Villager clothes
Ferragama and Capezio shoes (flats)

Love’s Lemon Fresh products take me right back to junior high school. I loved Villager dresses. My mom found an outlet that had seconds, so I had a few. Also, Bonne Bell lip smackers. I’m 63 and I have a huge strawberry one (the kind that came on its own woven necklace) in my make-up drawer right now. I stopped using it for the most part in my 20s, but have occasionally used it when my lips have been really chapped. It hasn’t killed me yet and I love the way it smells and feels. I looked at it again recently when I was purging Clinique bonus things I never use and thought about tossing it, but decided my kids can do it when I’m gone.

This is a fun thread!!! Some of you are so much younger than I!!
More from me as I’ve seen mentioned:
Signet pinkie rings…a must have
madras shirts over white shorts one summer’s required look

I forgot Bass Weejuns. Straw basket purses.

So comfy when I had to be on my feet all day.

As far as I know my sister in law still wears it. LOL.

In late grade school, when a boy wanted you to “go steady with him,” he gave you his ID bracelet-a silver or gold bracelet with his name on it. It was usually offered to you by the boy’s friend so that a rejection could be kept relatively private. And when the boy wanted his bracelet back, the news was given by the friend again.

It was a BIG DEAL, even though you actually never went anywhere, certainly not alone. You might roller skate together holding hands at the skate rink whilst wearing your hip huggers and gooey lip gloss. Whole thing was really silly looking back on it.

Any of y’all do this back in the 70s, or was this just a small local thing?

^middle school tradition where I’m from. Graduated HS in 1974. In high school, you got a promise ring with small diamond or your college boyfriends fraternity pin… or both.

Thinking back, it seems this was more of a ‘50’s/60’s thing but, in the 70’s at my HS, we were still wearing our boyfriend’s varsity jackets and/or class rings either on a chain around our necks or made to fit our ring fingers by wrapping angora yarn around the bottom edge. I remember ID bracelets, but I don’t remember them being used in place of rings for going steady, but they may have been, just not in my experience.

@Nrdsb4 I think we are from the same area. I remember ID bracelets in 6th grade. A guy gave me his. We hardly even talked to each other, let alone went anywhere! I don’t remember him being at the skating rink, but I went there a lot at that age.

I shopped at Stripling’s (my great aunt worked there so there may have been a discount involved), Leonard’s, Sear’s Lemon Frog shop, Sanger Harris, 5-7-9, and some small boutiques. Henry’s Jean Scene was the cool place in high school.

Also remember the guys wearing Aramis cologne. I loved it. It was the good stuff and I saved my money to buy it for my BF for Christmas.

In the 60’s the guys wore English Leather or Jade East.

In Florida we shopped at Jordan Marsh and Burdines, both gone now :cry: .

Maas Brothers! It went into Burdines that went into Macy’s.

I had totally forgotten about Love’s Lemon Fresh. I progressed form Lemon to Charlie and then to Ciara.

LOL - my dad wore Aramis.

I miss sun cameras and orange haired tr0ll dolls, Gimbels and B. Altman. I don’t terribly miss Woolworths or John Wannamaker’s or Alexander’s or Kresge’s or spoolies curlers or white go-go boots or pet rocks or brownie cameras with the flash cubes that rotated as you took photos. But polaroid cameras were fun.

ID bracelets were a thing in elementary school in my home town in the late sixties early seventies. In high school, boys had “drops” or pendants with a charm made up of their initials.

Last page someone mentioned Avon Pretty Peach. I had the creme sachet as a child-- loved it!

I was just going to mention the white go go boots. I had a pair of shiny white boots up to the knee boots with fake laces up the front (had a zipper on the side). I really liked those boots.

Torture! My mother set my hair in those little pink rubber “martini” cups with holes every.single.night of my young life. They hurt to sleep on, but it was important to her that I have a perfect fringe of curls around my head every day. If I’d only know how to contact CPS…

I’d forgotten about 5-7-9, but that was a go-to for sure. I think we were smaller back then.

5-7-9 did they really only sell clothes in those sizes. There was also a store called strawberry (or strawberries?) Joyce Leslie and Rainbow stores - they were inexpensive.