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I was born in 1987. I don't remember many fads, so I'll just say this: Those shoes that you pump up. I never got them to work :-(
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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MC Hammer Pants
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Shoulder length hair for guys. And I still love it.
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Furby and those W.W.J.D. things.
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Cutting up a pair of shorts and wearing legggings under them
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Converse Shoes (I generally had to buy the K-Mart generic canvas shoes...) and Pleather coats (Plastic Leather-look-alike). I couldn't stand Pegged Pants... kids would wear them with low cut shoes and no socks or really low cut socks... It was apparently a preppy thing...
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I was a kid in the early sixties, when hippies were starting to spread and multiply...so I can say that the greatest fad was to look like s**t, with very long, untreated and uncombed hair, lousy clothes, and doing drugs to become philosophical and talk a lot of crap about saving the world from everything that represented law and order...
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Nehru jackets, Beatle boots, bellbottoms, platform shoes, love beads, peace signs, heavily lined eyes and "ratted up" hair. Ahhhh, the 60's and 70's...!
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i guess it would be hula-hoops & the yo-yo.
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pokemon
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Bell-bottoms & Beatles, tie-dye, hip huggers, long hair....
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I loved the Lemon Twist. I Lemon Twisted everywhere I went.
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Pogs and pokemon cards.
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I don't know about "fads", but, everyone in school collected these bubble gum cards of Hot Rods with weird names. The hardest card to get was "Super Fuzz". Long hair and "chukka" boots were pretty popular, too.
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Collecting cards from gum packs...there were all sorts of sets in Australia, but I liked the music ones best...
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The Hippity Hop, Lite Brite, and Super Elastic Bubble Plastic.
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teased hair that stuck up about 4 inches with lots of aqua net hair spray. Florescent colored shirts, madonna leggings & lots of earrings. Also those lil jordache pocket books that were lil strings that came in all kinds of cool colors that I usually matched my jelly shoes up with. Can you guess what era I'm speaking of? And LA Gear high top tennis shoes for women & Frog Skin purses. Also members only jackets in all kinds of different colors
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Pet rocks and mood rings. Oy vey.
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lol. UM. Slinky, YoYO, Skateboard, Shoes on wheels, umm i think thats it.
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Plastic Jelly bracelets.
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Pokemon!!!
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Tight rolled jeans and parachute pants oh and miami vice jackets come on you know you wore them
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Beanie Babies!
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hmm. leg warmers, trapper keepers, garbage pail kids, skinny pencils....
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My mom used to dress me in leggings that had stirrups on the bottom, usually in a very bright color! Oh, and I always had a gigantic bow in my hair!
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guys with long hair
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Elvis Presley - Chubby Checker's and Velvet Bell Bottoms with Short Velvet Tops -- Soft Material
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Pet rocks, chia everything, mood rings, Ditto jeans
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jelly shoes!!!!!!!
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The Pet Rock! The precursor to the Cabbage Patch Kids!
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Garbage Pail Kids
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hula hoops, (I think was the seond go round for them) Chinese elastics Skipping ropes, yo's yo's swap cards can't think of any more...memory fades with time...
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pokemon cards and later digimon.
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transistor radios.
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the wheel, but then again I am the oldest person on AB
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Ripped jeans. I have this memeory of wearing pants with holes in the knees and feeling awesomely powerful.
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I seem to remember yo-yos being hot shit when I was in fifth grade. And BOY were Pokemon on fire. Jeeez.
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PokeMon. I was completely obsessed with it, and as was most of the kids in my 4th grade.
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parachute pants and leg warmers!
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Jelly shoes, crimped hair, VERY high bangs, those wierd big plastic charms, two different colored scrunchy socks on each foot, stirrup pants. Ahh...memory lane. Great question!
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Rubik's Cubes Deelyboppers Jelly Shoes Ra-Ra Skirts Rolf Harris and his Stylophone
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Boglins and anything that annoyed your parents. Rainbow Brite. Cabbage Patch Kids.
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Those plastic strips that you plait into a long useless plait of plastic strips...can't think of the name (so long ago! )
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Slap Bracelets Pogo Balls TMNT Ring Pops
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Frankie Says t shirts
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YO-Yo's and Marbles
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tight jeans
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Chopper bikes, harrington jackets, those disgusting savoury pancakes with minced beef in them.
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Rubik's cube, Harrington Jackets, The John Peel Radio Show (more of an institution than a fad, that one), funny coloured vinyl records, Ant Music
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steel toe boots, mc hammer pants, those plastic snap bands for the wrist
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Davey Crocket Hats.
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Chupachups, I can't remember the name of this but you put it around one leg and jumped over it... Mine was hot pink (Hop Jump maybe??), baseball cards, pogs, Belts that were extra long so it hung down to your knees instead of around your waist, My Little Pony, Leggings with long shirts that were brought to the side with a little thing that looks like the "No smoking" circle with the line through it. I had tons of those. Of course scrunchie socks, Keds, Scrunchies (hair), TMNT... OMG... I feel like an I Love The 80's Episode! :P Can't forget Hammer Pants/ MC Hammer. I loved him.
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everyone had to have a chinchila plant mine was a tweety bird head that was a real big thing back in my day!
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Banana seat bikes.
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yo-yos, hula hoops, penny loafers,
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transformers, mr. t, garbage pail kids cards (whoa, alliteration!), the smurfs, lucky charms, cocoa puffs, jelly shoes, jelly bracelets, and the original nintendo system. *sigh* i miss the old days of the mario brothers.
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Space Tape!
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Well we went through the inevitable "Pokemon" phase with the collector cards and such. I am of course very proud of the fact that in grade 8 I started a "Yo-Yo" phase - ran for about 6 months thank you very much.
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Nintendo...
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giga pets and tamagotchis. i used to have SOOOO much fun with them haha.
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slap on bracelets.
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Girls, with the nice fitting " DITTO JEAN'S " they all had to have them which was ok because all us guy's liked to look at them as well.
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Vuarnet shirts. I'm glad that fad is over.
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hip huggers with MONSTER bells.....the bell was of another color thant the jeans themselves. Now that's old.
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Pokemon, Gotta catch em all! Furbys Using the phrase "My mom is going to KILL me!" Lunchables
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Painter pants with rainbow suspenders. Kinda of Mork and Mindy like. Dr. Pepper lip smackers (lip gloss).
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Hullabaloo boots.
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my mood ring....everyday I woke up and looked at what color it was and whatever color it said well that was my mood that day...LOL
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Slap Bracelets!! Then they got banned for a while for being unsafe, then they came back, but were definatly not as much fun being all danger free.
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pet rocks
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Slinky and hula hoop. Skateboards just came out.
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POGs, hands down
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Zubaz were these zebra like hammer pants, god were they awful
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corsets, hooped skirts and powdered wigs!
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pogo stick
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Hula hoops and Barbie dolls. (I am going quite a ways back, aren't I?) - ha
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Oh definately yo-yo's. Everyone wanted the "bumblebee". I never did get a yo-yo lol.
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Davy Crockett hats and hula hoops
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space hoppers...crack me!
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mood rings, pogs, yoyo's, tamergochis, furbys and kickers :).
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Space hoppers , football stickers , conkers and lolly stick fighting.
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those bracelets that snap on your wrists, they ones with neon everything colors.
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All I can remember was Star Wars trading cards that came free with bubble-gum... We were deadly serious about trading them... for example a shiny 3PO was worth two Chewbacca's etc.
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L.A. Lites (light-up sneakers) Power Wheels (I had the pink Barbie corvette!)
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Toughskins bluejeans...but I still managed to wear holes in the knee area all the time.
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Slap bracelets.
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Farrah Fawcett and Dorothy Hammill hair.
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Parachute pants, jelly shoes, A-smile jeans, Garbage pail kids funny to think back on the 80's and hey huge hair done with great ole' Aqua Net hairspray...lol
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Mini-clip. I'm quite young. P.S. I HATE MINI-CLIP!
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making a chopper out of 'dragster' push bikes back in the 60's
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Slap bracelets and pogs!
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There were a ton, I'll list a few of them. o1). B.K. Pumps o2). Light up shoes o3). Zebra pants o4). High top fades o5). Skip-it
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yo yo's and tamagotchi's! both of which got banned in schools!
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Skipping and elastics, kiss chassy. British Bulldogs was continually being banned. Ohh the memories....
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Earth shoes. Man am I ever dating myself with that!!
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Everyone was Rockers or Rappers i was the only Redneck and i was made fun of because of it. Now everyone says they are rednecks... Ironic isn't it?
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Hoola Hoops
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Hackey sack.
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Those slap on bracelets. They were stiff, then you would slap them on your wrist and they would curl around. Charms with bells on them. Video games have always been popular, so Atari and Nintendo.
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