Crazy stuff you rocked in school
 

There's got to be some embarrassing things you've worn to school that looking back now you're glad they didn't catch on. Here's mine:

THE KEYCHAIN BELT ~ For those that remember, I used to collect keychains of anything. I'd make people in my family that went on trips buy me keychains (keep the T-shirts!). While I was in high school, I managed to amass enough of them to make a keychain belt. Nevermind that the thing was heavy, I wore it a few times to school. However, my keychain obsession got so bad that the darn thing was/still is as tall as I am! I had to wrap it around myself a few times. After awhile I got tired and started wearing different keychains on my jeans (through the belt loops). I still have that monster of a keychain belt. :(

PIERCED EARRINGS IN FINGERNAILS ~ This was probably the stupidest thing I've done in junior high. Because I didn't have my ears pierced (was too scared to do it), I got the bright idea of using a needle to poke a hole into the tops of my long nails and sticking the pierced earrings in them. I did one per hand, usually either my pinky or my thumbs. However, I learned the fast and hard way of how to quickly break off your nails.

BROKEN NECKLACE IN THE HAIR ~ This one was probably the least stupid of all my tricks. This one actually started in junior high. I had a favorite necklace I liked and the clasp broke and fell off. I got the bright idea of stringing two bobby pins on either end and attaching it to the back of my head. People probably thought something was seriously wrong with me, but I didn't pay any attention.

What are/were yours?

I am a bit disappointed that I didn't wear ENOUGH crazy things. Only my senior year did I decide to try some weird stuff, and it was fun, whether or not people liked it.

I was very proud of my odd clothes, but my favorite was my combination of calculus t-shirt, blue shorts, and knee-high socks that were tie-dyed orange and black (for the Baltimore Orioles)...I got some odd looks, but it was accepted with the relation to my personality...I'd still do it today if the public understood....

A NY Giant's (American Football) jacket, original colors. It's older than me, and I've worn it every day of Senior year. There's a sob story behind it, and if anyone ever gives me shit I feed it to them. It makes them feel awful, and after a while it became more of a mark of positive distiniction than anything else.

Though it should probably go through a wash, the original blood stains are still on it.

I'd wear that keychain belt. :)

Well, for me, I guess I could say that I use to wear a shoestring with my key to the house on it around my neck. Then I had a bright yellow bandana wrapped around my hand in a pentagon shape. That was last year.

Then there were the many different string a ma bob things that I put through my pants belt loops so that it would go around my waist once and then a long piece would be hanging near one of the legs swinging side to side when I walk or bouncing up and down when I ran. I hope that's not too confusing.

With me it's mostly the hair. I change my hair a lot. Last year I tried a different hair style for the whole school year. I wasn't very creative and only lasted about 2 1/2 months though..

Oh yeah, there were the safety pins in my shirt in different shapes. Like a square a triangle, a star...

my friend keeps saying that he should bring a camera to school to videotape me so he can show me later how dumb I was.

In 9th grade, I once wore a black turtleneck under a green Hawaiian shirt. I got the idea from a Dean Koontz book.

Thanks a lot, Dean Koontz.

Back in Jr. High, the thing was to collect those spring loaded toggles you would find on the zip pulls for winter coats. You know, the little plastic things that kept the hood zipped up tight around your face.

Kids would get into fights over those fuckers.

We had uniforms, but the unique trends I saw were:

-socks worn over pants
-pop-up collars
-thongs under skirts (I didn't see it!)
-coloured shirts under uniform (They had to be white normally,.. oh no! lol)

The first day of middle school I came with a guy harvey fish shirt tucked into my blue courdery shorts and long socks.

Yeah, I got beat up my first day of school.

Oh, the worst one wasn't really a clothing thing. I was trying to grow my hair out but I have a widows peak and as it was growing out it was about to the middle of my ears but the peak wasn't long enough to brush to one side or the other so it stuck down the middle of my forehead.

SO, I got the bright idea to cut it off...yeah...didn't realize that the scalp would be a different color than my forehead so I basically had this gray stubbly triangle at the top of my forehead for a while until it grew out.

That would've been fine but this asshole kid had to point it out to the girl I had a crush on. "Dude, what the hell did you do to your head? Look at his head" *crush: "Hahahaha what the hell?" *Me: "NOOOOOOOOOOEESSSSS!"

::Sigh::

Good times. Gag.

I don't think I've ever worn weird things.. Which is something I'm sad about, but there's no point in thinking about it.

Nothing really strange, but I did have the high top (or box) like Kid from Kid n Play for about 4 years. Looking back on it now, I looked incredibly stupid.

Oh yeah. I used to wear little choker necklaces..

i wore school uniform.

what a rebel ay XD

since nearly everyone in australia wears school uniform, the most usual things you'd see on girls is that they'd make their skirts shorter, their shirts a bit tighter, more makeup, more jewellery, and sometimes they'd have legwarmers instead of socks/stockings.

for the guys, its nothing much. just don't tuck your shirt in, don't wear your tie properly.....

I'm still in school, and people there dress pretty average I suppose. Every so often me and a few friends organize "suit day" where we try to get as many people as possible to come in full suits. The last time we did this we scheduled it against student council's "pajama day", for the sake of juxtaposition.

I hope you got a picture of yourself rocking it in school. Memories!

I just remembered something else stupid I used to rock in high school for at least two of the four years. There was this oversized Mickey Mouse jacket that was gray, red, blue, and black that I wore everyday until the black blended in with the gray. If my friends were embarrassed, they didn't show it. :(

I had an overcoat at one point and would wear it a lot during the winter until I discarded it for being a shitty overcoat. Most people would think I was going to bring them harm or something and made a lot of Columbine references. Those that gave me shit to it would just see me play right along with it and I'd laugh at myself about it.

I also started growing my hair out when I was 13, so, in 2000. At this point podunk Riverton, Wyoming, you could actually count on your hands how many guys had long hair. I was one of two in middle school. Of course, I get the expected references to homophobia and the like. There was also a point where I was called "The Mullet" my freshman year. That same person also grew his hair out because mine was, and for thebrief time I had it short again--he cut it, too. It's quite humourous to think about, because after a couple years, everyone was growing their hair out. I think I started a fad...

So you actually started a successful fad? Thank goodness none of my stuff caught on. School would've been a hideous place!

I once wore a Styx T-shirt under my black denim Rocawear jacket I tend to wear a lot. I got a lotta questions about that like

"I thought you were gangsta or something. Guess I was wrong...or was I?!"

and

"Do you like rap and rock?"

or the regular
"Why do you like Styx?"

...I liked Styx. And I still do.

To celebrate Black History month I put "Whites only" signs on all the drinking fountains and bathroom doors.

I was only embarassed because I was caught.... by one of the only black kids in the school. :doh: He was cool about it and didn't rat me out though.

I was like the uber-skater kid. Holy hell those huge trousers, and the colourful wristbands and key chains.

Although now I quit all that shit. I decided to look normal(ish)

Wore a cloak and mask in Star Wars Day. Many people asked who I was and responded by looking at them in a evil way. Been into 3 battles and won all.

O man. SO many embarassing things I did.

My friend Jenn and I were always really thrilled about snow days. Too bad on the days it actually snowed, our school had a knack of holding the normal schedule anyways. On these days, we would "rebel" and do our makeup like snow plows. Literally. We would paint our faces with all of our cheap makeup and make it look like a blizzard on our fat little faces.

I also did a lot of makeup experimentation. I'd show up to school looking like a fucking IDIOT half the time. But I loved it.

When the good weather came, I would sit in my math classes barefoot. I would ask to get water and walk all the way across school to go to the cold bubbler in the gym. Barefoot. It was really liberating, actually. I got some teachers asking me "what the hell" I was doing walking around barefoot. For my own amusement, I would explain that my parents didn't love me and that I had no shoes because they were trying to be AWFUL to me.

The never really dug on that explanation.

I used to show up in a trenchcoat with Pang's notebook. I was a freak, and I decided to write down bits and pieces of peoples' conversations that I found amusing, following in Pang's tradition in his own notebook.

We still have those notebooks.

Ouch! That wasn't really my point though. My point of posting "White's Only" was; How dare the completely white staff at my school tell me (of all people) to embrace diversity. Being a Eurasian and all. Especially when just about all the staff went to segregated schools.

Plus, it truly was the most hilarious (yet racially insensitive) thing I've done. Pretty much all the students thought so. Even a couple of teachers came around.

It's only too bad that only my friends, and a few interlopers knew what I had done. Not that people didn't suspect me. I'm sure it got around. :rolleyes:

I still have my jeans jacket covered with patches of bands and random advertisements. I rocked it through high school. along with my dog choke chain around my neck.

In middle school, I cut my hair from really long to really short, and to remember my long hair, I decided to have a rat tail. big mistake was an understatement.

If I remember to, I'll get some pictures of my old jeans jacket and post them in my journal eventually.

In elementary school, it was pogs. There were pogs everywhere. The teachers confiscated so many, that they had a massive collection.

In middle school, it was a big thing to show off branded things and draw logos in notebooks.

And in high school, it was putting metallic gum wrappers on notebooks. Also wallets and purses made out of duct tape.

Oh man, I remember those damn pogs. I hated those things because one day in school some random kid came screeching through the hallway and threw a whole bunch of them everywhere. Just about everybody in the hallway was scrambling for them except me.

I've never heard of the wallets and purses made out of duct tape. Did you have one?

Ahahaha, I TOTALLY decked out my notebooks in silver gum wrapping. DAMN. I thought I was the only asshole who did that.

I always wanted a wallet made of duct tape. In fact, I think I may go try and make one sometime this week, if only to see if I can do it.

I never saw a PURSE made out of it, though. Thats fucking awesome. Did you make them yourself? Could you give a girl some tips? ^_^

Nah, I didn't have one. They don't have enough tape for the size of the purse I carry, lol.

It was actually one friend that made it for us, since hers were the most durable (well, as durable as duct tape can get). I think she had a lot of time on her hands and it was trial and error. The only thing I know for sure was that she always used scissors and never ripped them by hand. I wish that I had pictures of it. :/

I use to never iron my clothes. So I'd show up in really wrinkled denim-over-t-shirts and look like a pile of laundry.

Thats about as crazy as I got when it came to clothes.

God, pogs. I don't think our teachers ever confiscated them, but they did amass a huge collection of Magic cards, which were banned but all the gamer geeks brought anyway. By the time we graduated from grade school, the teachers actually had some of the cards' casting costs memorized. OH TWO BLUE MANA AND ONE COLORLESS MANA GIVE ME THAT

I went a week (or a month, I don't remember) in grade school wearing like four snap bracelets on each arm everyday. I was the coolest kid in school for five whole minutes.

I had a shirt plastered with Garbage Pail Kids stickers. I wore it under my uniform and flashed the goods at my friends.

We never really wrote dedications in our yearbooks, because we scrawled them all over each other's uniforms with markers on the last day of high school. I think I lost that shirt, though. Too bad.

I went to school in my boxers, a bathrobe, and hiking boots a few times... it was really relaxing ^_^

Filthy Turk.

I used to wear this odd combination of ripped jeans and like old t-shirts I had, some of them were cool, like I had a pixies shirt and a butthole surfers shirt, those I used to wear a lot and I'd sport the retro-brett-hart-style sunglasses. At one point I went through this phase where I'd wear this pair of red cover-alls I had with the sleeves ripped off, I thought I was cool, but I ended up just looking like I belonged on-stage with Devo.

Does wearing shorts every single day count as cool or tool? I was the king of no pants until college. >.>

You guys all lose. I used to have a mullet. That's right, I said mullet.

Also, this was back in the late 80s when the grunge look was on the cutting edge of fashion, and I used to wear the acid washed jeans with high-heeled boots, and a long-john shirt under an open flannel shirt.

I am not even kidding.

I cut my hair last year and accidentaly gave myself a mullet. I kept it for a week then I got annoyed of people saying,"a mullet! big no no"

So I shaved my hair off and then I went to school the next day and some kid said, "dude, what happened to the mullet?!"

Guess he thought it was cool.

Yeah, Yama, I agree. It's annoying and uncool to see some people walking around with shorts and sandals on in cold weather. What makes it even worse is when they top it off by wearing a heavy coat. It's like, what's the point? Go all out and look half-crazy instead of making it worse. I never really understood that.

Man, we had strict uniforms. Couldn't get away with so much as an earring.

Haha I've seen people like that. But add socks to the sandals. That has to be one of the ugliest fashion trends (if you could even call it one) I've ever seen.

When I was in kindergarten my mom put patches all over this pair of jeans I had.
THEY WERE GREATFUL DEAD PATCHES!! I used to get stared at by teachers when I wore them and I always wondered why. They were just bears!

Every couple of years I would make a paperclip necklace/bracelet set, but they had to be coored paperclips ^_^

Good grief! They should just go ahead and ADD PANTS to the equation so it at least looks like some form of an outfit!

Amy-Chan ~ I used to do something similiar. I used to rock friendship bracelets after they went out. I would make them while I was in class or at home. I thought I was it when I figured out how to get the fish design in the bracelet. :edgartpg:

Did you see my post? Mullet with jeans jacket. I so need to dig up some pictures.

Wearing all black (dark blue/grey, whatever) for a year. In the spring, winter, fall, and........... summer. What a complete mistake, I have learned my lesson. I felt cool all right.

Well here in Britland you have to wear a school uniform for the 5 whole years of High School, so you can't really get away with wearing crazy stuff. I did however have my stripey hobo gloves as I like to call them, those gloves where half of your finger is exposed, before it was cool. About 30 young emo kids asked me where I got them from and soon enough loads of people were wearing them. Get me, a trend setter. I don't wear them as much now but I still have them.

I think the most daring I got in terms of clothing for school was wearing my own jacket over my jumper to substitute the evil blazers we had to wear. I had this huge Nightwish jacket I always wore, made me look like a hippo but it kept me warm.

Right now i'm in college and you can wear whatever you want, however due to lack of money I can't really experiment with cool clothes since I can't afford them ;_;. It's the kinda college where you can wear anything and people wouldn't care. I saw a guy wearing a purple cloak and a wizards hat the other month.

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Go crazy~ 8-)

We had a uniform policy, but I still managed some cool shit.

I had blue hair for a half a year. Still not sure how I got away with that.

I had this khaki jacket (only blue/white/khaki was allowed), and I let people write all over it. Their names, slogans, jokes, sayings, quotes, someone loves someone, phone numbers, complimenting my hotness, etc. It was basically a mobile graffiti wall.
That's my favorite one.

I also managed to get away with wearing costumes, fake facial hair, bandanas, and god knows what else.
I wore mismatched socks, but that had more to do with me not having any matching pairs than anything else.