👖 Fashion

What we wore, what our mums made us wear, and what we swore we would never wear again.

11 things

1950s 1958

The Teddy Boy shoe: exaggerated points, worn with drainpipes and a drape jacket, hated by every parent in the country.

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1970s 1974

Everybody wore them, including men, including your dad, and there are photographs.

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1970s 1975

Flares got wider every year until about 1976, then vanished almost overnight when punk arrived.

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1980s 1989

Full nylon tracksuits in colour combinations that should have required a licence.

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1990s 1994

Light-up trainers were the most desirable footwear in any primary school, for roughly six months each.

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2000s 2001

A haircut that required a plastic cap, a hook and forty-five minutes in a friend's bathroom.

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2000s 2003

The defining silhouette of the early 2000s, and the reason a generation is wary of any photograph taken between 2001 and 2006.

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2000s 2005

A flip phone thin enough to be a fashion object, sold on looks rather than function.

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2010s 2014

An extendable pole for your phone, briefly ubiquitous, then an object of universal embarrassment.

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2010s 2015

A specific look (full beard, top knot, rolled chinos) that spread from Shoreditch to every town in about two years.

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