Full nylon tracksuits in colour combinations that should have required a licence.
They rustled when you walked and built up enough static to give the dog a shock. They were also, genuinely, flammable, which featured in more than one news report.
Worn with white trainers and absolute confidence. Every family album has at least one.
Cost back then
£19.99
Goes for now
£30–£90 for original 90s pairs
Keep going
The freezer centre was a whole shop of frozen food, and going there meant a chest freezer in the garage.
Sony's superior video format lost the war to VHS, leaving a small number of very smug and very stranded households.
A cassette player with headphones and no speaker, which sounded absurd until everybody had one.
Sinclair's £175 home computer put programming into British bedrooms and created an entire games industry.