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School bags - choosing a new one!
**helen**
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So, Jo7, James and I were chatting about school bags - Jo and I remember it being quite a big deal having to choose a new one each year - and this carried on into college and uni too... James said this wasn't really an issue for him - maybe it's more of a girl thing?
I created a buzzfeed list on this topic - let me know if any of these trends continued past the 90s
Are you getting a new bag for school/college/uni for September?
I created a buzzfeed list on this topic - let me know if any of these trends continued past the 90s
Are you getting a new bag for school/college/uni for September?
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Was that black with white writing?
They had all sorts of styles and colours. I had one similar to this
It was the ultimate bag.
Bags were just as important and just as useless amongst the lads - they were probably a lot more homogenous though. Lads seemed to have decided there was one type of bag that was needed - there must be no deviation from that bag, any subtlety, nuance or dis-order was seen as contempt for the social heirachy.
For example, this particularly useless piece was a must have for year 9s & 10s. It's effectivelessness made it all the more desirable. It would crunch any paper/important letters/ homework the moment you pulled the drawstring. If you didn't have one of these you were screwed. Often used for PE bags as well.
Mine was pissed on by our cat and stank.
It's something that still sticks in my head whenever I see lads knocking around after school, they seem to be going for this one at the moment - This is also very tiny and useless.
It appears that the cooler and more must have the bag, the more useless and ineffective it is.
I'll rack my brain for a few others and see if I can remember them.
brilliant!
I remember that nike drawstring number - my brother definitely had one.
These types of bags were used as well.
Jane Norman shut down near me. I was so gutted
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Those Nike ones were about a lot too!
I yearned for the Kookai one for ages and then finally bought it when I was at uni! Then the zip broke, lol. Is Kookai even still about?
Tote bags are back in.
Miniature rucksacks for girlies are DEFINITELY in. Completely pointless.
New big thing, satchels, my mum had one so we're talking 70s/80s here. Most of the preppy girls have those.
I've noticed that! My 40 year-old cousins had them and gave them to me and my sis to play 'schools' with when we were really little. They weren't as nice as the ones that are about now though.
I bought a Satchel for Uni xD - It's purdy, and from Primark? Totes not a preppy girl though xD
Cex bags are going round in High Schools here, don't know any boy who actually didn't have one?!?!
...although in hindsight I don't reckon any of them had a clue what Technics even was.
ETA: Just looked at the Buzzfeed list (should probably have done that before replying), had completely forgotten the River Island carrier - the ultimate status symbol! We ALL had them! Bizarre.
Jansport separated the classes. The rich kids had jansport, us rifraf had some sort of knockoff. I actually still used one as a gym bag until recently... the thing had to be over a decade old.
Back in school it seemed everyone had a paul's boutique bag and also the tigger/winnie the pooh/eeyore disney bags from argos...
I only had mine for the key chain
I remember the Nike drawstring bag, at my school we would cover one side with permanent marker messages like - I ?? and Best Friends 4eva
Any bag with a mobile phone holder was seen as the ultimate in cool - I had a flowery quicksliver bag with matching mobile phone holder (oohhhhhh) bought on holiday showed it off to my best friend and then on the first day of school she rocked up with exactly the same! Not cool - bad school bag etiquette Big fall out!
But in true Spice Girl fan/ 00's teen style I also owned one of these babies:
Potentially the most impractical school bag on the planet!
I think they are due for a revival :yes: