During the summer of 1989 I remember that we had quite warm days. I was in the final year at Junior School and was about to move to the big comprehensive school half a mile away.
One thing I do remember is that so many people wore coloured shorts at playtime during the summer term, and I suppose that these would look garish now just as much as early 1970s fashions did years before then even. The school didn't have uniform until well over a decade after I had left.
I bet that they even had the flip-flops to match as well.
I personally blamed Timmy Mallet (and perhaps Pat Sharp?) for this craze, for they both seemed to be the most famous people to wear them. Thankfully, I didn't wear them back then.
It is the main thing that I remember about 1989 from a fashion perspective, as well as moving schools, and all the other obvious 1989 memories such as Hillsborough, the Reynolds Girls and Big Fun in the charts, and Maurice Jones bulldozing Mike Baldwin's factory on Coronation Street.
Anyone wear coloured shorts back then?
One thing I do remember is that so many people wore coloured shorts at playtime during the summer term, and I suppose that these would look garish now just as much as early 1970s fashions did years before then even. The school didn't have uniform until well over a decade after I had left.
I bet that they even had the flip-flops to match as well.
I personally blamed Timmy Mallet (and perhaps Pat Sharp?) for this craze, for they both seemed to be the most famous people to wear them. Thankfully, I didn't wear them back then.
It is the main thing that I remember about 1989 from a fashion perspective, as well as moving schools, and all the other obvious 1989 memories such as Hillsborough, the Reynolds Girls and Big Fun in the charts, and Maurice Jones bulldozing Mike Baldwin's factory on Coronation Street.
Anyone wear coloured shorts back then?
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