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zeitgeist4 · Gucci

did you ever start a trend in school?

travelgirl · Kate Spade

Yes! This will show my age (okay, I'm 34). Anyway, there was this store in the mall called "Units" (most of you are too young to even remember this place) and when I was about 16, I started a trend of wearing these "belts" that they had (to visualize, imagine a stretchy tube top) over leggings as a skirt. Everyone started doing this at my school and it was funny because the school had a rule that our skirts had to be no shorter than 2 inches above our knee. We made sure these "skirts" were EXACTLY two inches about the knee but they were skintight. It was hideous but that was the trend I started.

jettie · Kate Spade

I never did but this poll reminds me of the movie I saw last night, John Tucker Must Die. John Tucker started the thong trend at his school (for males)

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Collette · Chanel

Combat boots. I had these hideous green ( our school color)combat boots and wore them with everything. I started seeing them on everyone after a while in different colors. I also used to dye my hair with Kool-Aid and turned alot of people into that as well.

Kitty · Hermes

I got some navy blue Docs when I was in HS and I guess that's like a really hard/rare color to find or something and so all these people started wanting them and searching for them..it was really weird.

I also used to have straight leg levi's and the whole over-insane-flared leg jeans came out..but my friends and I were too "alternative" to buy into it, so I started cutting my pants up the side at the buttom so that they'd rest over my boots better (basically, so they were flared w/out me having to buy flared jeans). Then, all my friends started doing that.

I also started a trend of buying men's sweaters from the gap (and buying them in huge sizes) and then wearing them to school.

Lilykind · Hermes

I wore a pair of my mom's vintage (ca. 1975) flares in to school one day in 1996. Everyone laughed at me and said that I was crazy. When I started middle school (1997), everyone else was wearing them too.

I still wish I could fit into those jeans and a pair of my mom's vintage cords. Grey Any's high waist jean basically knocked off those cords and the jeans are very current looking as well. *sigh*

ILoveChoo · Hermes

silk scarves.
I know it sounds dumb, but my school had this rediculous "business professional" dress code (I so would have preferred a uniform- what 15 year old wants to wear a long skirt with a tucked in-but-not-from-fitting button down blouse and low heels?

). Anyway, I started wearing my grandmas silk scarves to add some color and interest to my outfits (and to hide some not quite allowed necklines- it's amazing how a scarf can make a crew neck look like a t-neck

). People made fun of me for a week before they started doing it too.

HeatherLynn · Gucci

ILoveChoo wrote:

silk scarves. I know it sounds dumb, but my school had this rediculous "business professional" dress code (I so would have preferred a uniform- what 15 year old wants to wear a long skirt with a tucked in-but-not-from-fitting button down blouse and low heels? ). Anyway, I started wearing my grandmas silk scarves to add some color and interest to my outfits (and to hide some not quite allowed necklines- it's amazing how a scarf can make a crew neck look like a t-neck ). People made fun of me for a week before they started doing it too.

I love it!! Now this is starting a trend. A lot of trends in school start because the individual has seen it done somewhere else, not because they came up with it on his/her own.

lynnie · Chanel

I remember when i was a sophomore in hs (about 8 years ago! eek!!), I got my tragus pierced in my ear (skin flappy thing in the middle). I saw it on an older waitress where i worked, and really loved it, but no one in my hs really had them. A girl I know commented on it and liked it, then got it done. Once she got it done, sooo many people did, because she was kinda popular. But we all know who the real trendsetter is (other than the older waitress!) Now i have a bunch of others in my ear, but that was the first.

Mitz · BCBG

travelgirl wrote:

Yes! This will show my age (okay, I'm 34). Anyway, there was this store in the mall called "Units" (most of you are too young to even remember this place) and when I was about 16, I started a trend of wearing these "belts" that they had (to visualize, imagine a stretchy tube top) over leggings as a skirt. Everyone started doing this at my school and it was funny because the school had a rule that our skirts had to be no shorter than 2 inches above our knee. We made sure these "skirts" were EXACTLY two inches about the knee but they were skintight. It was hideous but that was the trend I started.

I TOTALLY remember Units! Memories!

Seashells · Dooney & Bourke

A totally random one.

When we used to wear scrunchies, we'd wear them around our wrists a lot, and I can't STAND things around my wrists. So I started pushing it up around my elbow. Weeks later, I noticed a lot of girls doing it. I don't think I really realized it was like a "trend" until later though, I just thought all the girls found it annoying like me.

BeauteJilly · BCBG

I was quite a tomboy in my earlier years, at high school.. For every away games in any sports we have on that day, we have to dress up for the day. I wasnt too crazy about dressing up so I paired nice skirts with grungy fitted t shirts, eventually every girl followed. It continued after I graduate, neat huh?

I was one of the first few who had Dr Martens, I had them in brown and blue and I wore them with everything. Everyone started to wear them even guys!

And I graduated in '98 (the school I was in, people were kind of behind in many things!)

Cricket · Gucci

travelgirl wrote:

Yes! This will show my age (okay, I'm 34). Anyway, there was this store in the mall called "Units" (most of you are too young to even remember this place) and when I was about 16, I started a trend of wearing these "belts" that they had (to visualize, imagine a stretchy tube top) over leggings as a skirt. Everyone started doing this at my school and it was funny because the school had a rule that our skirts had to be no shorter than 2 inches above our knee. We made sure these "skirts" were EXACTLY two inches about the knee but they were skintight. It was hideous but that was the trend I started.

Don't remind me of units!!! My sister, mom and I shopped there all the time. UGH!

lilyann · Dooney & Bourke

I got best dressed my senior year of highschool- so I guess the way I put things together seemed to be edgy to others. I dressed in many styles- depending on how I felt at the time. I did wear alot of gaucho styles with boots that no one else seemed to be wearing at the time. Always playing with proportions- sometimes not to a flattering degree... but, I did have a lot of fun with my clothing.

Cortney1982 · Chanel

I've always kept my nails rather long since the 6th grade. I think it was 10th grade I decided to pierce my nail (It took a while since you just can't punch a hole unless you want to break the nail) and anyways, I put a small earring on it. By the next week, I saw a few girls who copied me (probably with fake nails!)

Tashina · Kate Spade

when i was a sophmore, i shaved my head with the long setting on the clippers. so my hair was about 3/4 inch long and i spiked it. like a month later i noticed a rash of girls with shaved heads. also, i used to wear brightly colored tights with contrasting brightly colored fishnets underneath and really short cutoff shorts. that took a little longer, but eventually cought on. it allways pissed me off because every time i would do some thing to set myself apart, stuff that i thought no one else would like, it would catch on and i was back at square one.

laken1 · Hermes

I had completely forgotten about Units - travelgirl. What a blast from the past! I'm 34 too

blubirde · Chanel

I grew up in a really, really small town. I was always into the new color trends (still am) and would start updating sooner than everyone else. My mother used to always say "those don't go together" and then a few months later she'd be doing the same thing except in business clothes. So I can't technically say I started any trends because they were trends I was just copying but I can say I wore them before everyone else saw them in the Gap.