7 x old fashion looks

Since I turned 26 a few weeks ago, everyone in my circle finds getting great joy in reminding me that I am “almost 30”. Now I’m not really that sensitive about it since I more often feel like teenager than an adult, but something happened on Wednesday that left me feeling ancient. While everyone was totally occupied with the Germany-Brazil thing, my best friend whats’appd me that Hitzone 70 had just been released. SEVENTY. My first Hitzone was number 11 I think, and the idea that they have reached SEVENTY caused immediate wrinkles. Because clearly I have grown up and am old and a lot damn closer to 30 than to 20. So hereby some fashion items from my youth (the stone age okay), that we don’t wear anymore, with good reason, but which are fun to yearn after (in shame) and think of the days gone by.

1. T-shirt with spaghetti straps over a regular t-shirt

I’m not exactly sure what went wrong here that allowed this trend to happen, but I do remember the moment (I was around 10) that I absolutely wanted a top with spaghetti straps to wear over my white shirt. So hip, aye yay. Every now and then you still see a woman walking around wearing this combo and I always feel like asking if she has a time-machine that took her back to 1997 and if I can borrow it one time. No not to fetch the spaghetti strap top, but because time travel is cool.

2. The necklace that looked like a tattoo

Totally complemented the spaghetti-strap trend, a kind of woven necklace that sat tightly around your neck and looked like you had had your neck tattooed. HAHA LOOK DAD, LOOK MOM I HAVE A NECK TATTOO. Seriously, what were we thinking?

3. MAG schoes

Oh the horror, these clodhoppers with a colossal sole were the fashion statement to prove that the 12 year old was totally cool and happening. With laces or without laces, high tops or low, they came in all sorts and sizes and were all equally ugly.

4. Bomber jacket

This is one of those things that is totally in, but my first association is always with ‘gabbers’ and then with my teens. You had to wear an army green one with bright orange lining, cause that was the genuine thing. They also came in blue without the orange lining, but that one was for wannabes.

5. Dungarees

The dungaree is joining forces with the bomber jacket and fighting to get back into our cupboards anno 2014, but I’m giving it a miss this time. I remember going to the ‘Hennes and Maurits’ (that’s what we called it back then and not H&M like we do now. The abbreviation was Hennes. I’m popping to the Hennes.) to buy bright blue and bright orange denim pairs. Sometime in the middle of summer, cause it was too hot to wear them and I remember pining for them and counting down the days. The shape of the dungaree was a little less charming than the sexy festival types we have now, but that did nothing to dampen my enthusiasm.

6. The little bowling bag

Little bags were the absolute shit, the smaller the better. And then preferably a round one with a ridiculously impractical little handle, nothing actually fit in to it but it was super duper mega awesome.

7. Eastpak versus Kipling

Alongside the hip bowling bag, we had the backpack for carrying 45 kilos of books and lunch boxes that needed to go with to school everyday. A very clear and life important split happened in high school, between She with an Eastpack and She with a Kipling. The Kiplings were for the nerds and the Eastpacks for the cool people. Then there were those super tough boys who would use tippex to alter the word Eastpack into ‘lastpak’ (trouble). So rebel!