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[Table 5]

Oh I have some myself too, and am a fan...I'm just surprised how popular they are with kids now too. Never really saw them as being particularly cool.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

I so wanted a pair of Adidas rugby pants as a kid

My memory of these are blurred together with the tearaways fad.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

My memory of these are blurred together with the tearaways fad.

These predate tear aways.

These were early 80's

[Cecil Terwilliger]

One of the weird things about growing up in a small town. Most of the kids in my school thought the movie 8 seconds was the peak of human coolness. I actually got more #### from my classmates for wearing designer clothing in junior high than I ever did for not wearing name brands because most of them were dressed like they were going to the rodeo after school. Which now that I think about it, quite a few of them probably were. In fact we didn’t even have a junior high. It was just K to 5 elementary in one school and then grade 6 to 12 in another.

And by the time I got to high school in the city most of the brands I already wore suddenly became popular. That was when skate/snowboard fashion all of a sudden became super popular.

[puffnstuff]

Birks are great, comfy, last a long time. Flips flops suck, no normal person wants that stupid thing between their toes.

[woob]

Oh yeah, Birks are amazing. Best supportive sandal out there in my opinion. But I don't think I'll be wearing them with wool socks anymore.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

These predate tear aways.

These were early 80's

Makes sense. I was 90s to early 2000s for elementary/Jr High. Worth mentioning that rugby pants/track pants were still around at that time. IIRC, lots of kids used to wear pants underneath track pants if they didn't have snow pants/didn't want the bulk of snow pants. After recess, take off the track pants and go through the rest of the day in their normal pants and pants wouldn't be as water logged and wet.

[Knut]

Did anyone have a week long Kris-Kross phase in your school ? They wore all their clothes backwards. I think a bunch did for like a week after.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by woob

Oh yeah, Birks are amazing. Best supportive sandal out there in my opinion. But I don't think I'll be wearing them with wool socks anymore.

i wear them with socks when i fly

[The Yen Man]

Originally Posted by 8 Ball

Georgetown Hoyas Starter Jacket.

Charlotte Hornets jacket for me.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Ashartus

I remember not wearing jeans for years after a girl made fun of my Toughskins in grade 7.

I remember when rugby pants and Lacoste shirts were required by preppies for a brief time in the 80s.

[CliffFletcher]

It caused a sensation when Tim O’Neal, the toughest guy at Milton Williams, came to school in rugby pants. And the rugby pants we wore as kids in the early 80s didn’t look like the sporty, athletic ones undercover posted. More like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThi...s_was_king_of/

[getbak]

Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly rugby pants were. They certainly weren't athletic/workout pants.

I remember having a pair that had big pockets on the legs, like cargo pants.


Was it just another name for what are called casual pants/khakis now?

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

It caused a sensation when Tim O’Neal, the toughest guy at Milton Williams, came to school in rugby pants. And the rugby pants we wore as kids in the early 80s didn’t look like the sporty, athletic ones undercover posted. More like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThi...s_was_king_of/

I'm gonna disagree.

I'm a '71 vintage.

That photo you posted is not rugby pants. They are Khaki.

[puffnstuff]

IIRC rugby pants didnt have a zipper or a button closure, just an elasticized waist with a drawstring. They might have had a fake zipper looking flap.
Theyd be more like todays sweatpants.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

We were poor as crap as kids but we still wouldn't shop at Army and Navy.

Was all their products left over from WW2 or the Korean war?

Like the first time I went in and went to the Toy dept... it was like stuff you would find in North Korea.

Army & Navy was great. I shopped there right until the end, mostly because they had Dickies stuff. I bought cheap camping gear too.

[Sainters7]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

My memory of these are blurred together with the tearaways fad.

Tearaways were a nightmare fad when you're in junior high...you can imagine what was happening in the hallways and gym class, lol

[WideReceiver]

Originally Posted by surferguy

I also attended St Patrick’s School in my hometown.

Brothers unite!

Me, too!

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Nufy

Yep !!

https://earth.google.com/web/@47.040...ign=vine&hl=en

Holy crap...that place looks like an actual prison. Like an outbuilding at Guantanamo...

Some knuckles were ruined by Nuns with Rulers in that building...I dont know how many but its greater than Zero!

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Sainters7

Tearaways were a nightmare fad when you're in junior high...you can imagine what was happening in the hallways and gym class, lol

The popping sounds of the buttons like a fidget before we knew what those were? Or people being pantsed?

So many guys being sent to the office for pantsing the girls, but it was always a risk, no idea why people would wear underwear instead of shorts for tearaways.

I think near the end, modified designs for tearaways made it a little harder to pants someone, but the fad was basically dead even before those options began showing up.