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Blue and light blue check Miami vice suit jacket with rolled up cuff and mullet of course 86
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Is it too soon to mention green cotton loons?
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This was pretty much me around Bethnal . . .

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I am cracking up LOL toy soldiers 
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There was a short phase in London soul boys to dress like toy soldiers.
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Odd fluorescent socks in the eighties.

 
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Yeah, The Cure. 
 
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There's a lot of Robert Smiths around but the best one that fits your description, Nurse is Robert Smith from the Cure?
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Nurse Ratched" wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 16:17 As a teenager I back-combed my dyed black hair and walloped on the thick kohl eyeliner. I cut about in a leather skirt and mismatched fluorescent yellow and pink socks. In my head I was an ersatz Siouxy Sioux. In reality I probably looked more like Robert Smith.

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Nurse Ratched" wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 16:17 As a teenager I back-combed my dyed black hair and walloped on the thick kohl eyeliner. I cut about in a leather skirt and mismatched fluorescent yellow and pink socks. In my head I was an ersatz Siouxy Sioux. In reality I probably looked more like Robert Smith.
AWWWW nasty LOL
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Age 11

Starsky cardigan 

Green canvas Woolworth trainers 

Chopper bike 

Job done 

 
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As a teenager I back-combed my dyed black hair and walloped on the thick kohl eyeliner. I cut about in a leather skirt and mismatched fluorescent yellow and pink socks. In my head I was an ersatz Siouxy Sioux. In reality I probably looked more like Robert Smith.
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Gank.  Some of the clobber i bought, definitely can
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Yellow trousers orange seasider shoes walking down the A13 to Beckton cringefest
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WHU(Exeter) wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 14:38 I went for a Punk orange hair look when I was around 13 or 14, left the peroxide or whatever it was on way too long and ended up looking like an alien.

There was a kid at school who wasn’t the brightest, and I saw him years later wandering round in his late teens, wearing a black leather jacket with Ghostbusters proudly emblazoned on the back, with what looked like Tippex.
LOL. I had a mate who was fat he died the bottom of his frayed jeans white and he looked like a shire horse
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Mad Dog wrote: 24 Mar 2026, 15:24 Went through a designer gear phase in my early 20s (late 90s early 2000s) and some of the choices get a few comments from my friends

Other than that my early 90s shell suits, and i definitely wore football shirts more than i should have as a teen (and now To be fair.. but mainly to games around the house and gym these days)
Things that were actually in fashion cannot be described as faux pas.
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Went through a designer gear phase in my early 20s (late 90s early 2000s) and some of the choices get a few comments from my friends

Other than that my early 90s shell suits, and i definitely wore football shirts more than i should have as a teen (and now To be fair.. but mainly to games around the house and gym these days)
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I went for a Punk orange hair look when I was around 13 or 14, left the peroxide or whatever it was on way too long and ended up looking like an alien.

There was a kid at school who wasn’t the brightest, and I saw him years later wandering round in his late teens, wearing a black leather jacket with Ghostbusters proudly emblazoned on the back, with what looked like Tippex.
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