Calvins! 8th grade dream jeans. Gloria Vanderbilts too, and Candies or Dr. Scholls, with a switchblade comb in your back pocket and a Bonne Bell roller ball lip gloss. SAVE ME. They still sell Love's Baby Soft, and it smells like a clean diaper. DH and I always reminisce about childhood things and then recoil when we try them again - like Spaghetti-Os, and Love's Baby Soft. The lemon and jasmine scents were a bit better, I think.

Back down memories lane. I did not wear to many jeans growing up. Mainly dresses and skirts. I remember the jodorache commercial. I did not pay as much attention to denim styles or trends as I do now but I also wear pretty much one type of style as a uniform.

First memory in junior high in the 80's were tapered pinstripe jeans. I think I had a pair with pale pink pinstripes on dark denim. They might have even had front pleats, and you wore them with little white pointy oxfords and a matching bandana rolled with a knot in it tied around your neck.

Oh, and izod polo shirts? (or the no-name equivalent). Or a brocade candy-colored button up shirt, with like a big rhinestone brooch at the closed collar.

High school was skinnies transitioning to baggy grunge jeans and military surplus pants cut into board shorts with converse. By college bootcuts were kind of the thing with various forms of doc martins and hems that were abraded in back from hitting the ground. The fragrances I remember were patchouli and obsession perfume - Kate Moss did those ads...

I have told my DDs about how bad the jeans sizing was back then. I remember having to buy to fit my hips and the waist being too big. There was so such thing as short, regular and long lengths. My jeans were always about 6 inches too long. My mom would always have to hem them up and take in the waist. Every time.

Notice how music goes with all this denim. No one mentioned ELO, or Fleetwood Mac?!!! I strongly relate to all the above, great post!

Good point about music! So 1980's pinstripe jeans -- Micheal Jackson thriller era.

high school skinnies and converse -- Dead Kennedys,

baggy jeans then later into bootcuts -- nirvana, NIN, pearl jam, neo swing

"hems that were abraded in back from hitting the ground"

Hehe, Rabbit, I never have figured out whether we did this intentionally or if it was just an inevitable consequence of everything being a 32" inseam. I still see it quite a bit where I live and find it pretty cringe-worthy now.

We didn't dare wear shorter jeans because people would ask us if we were expecting a flood, lol. Mine were never frayed because my mother would hem them up for me, but she made sure not to make them too short.

BC, BWAH! We also mercilessly teased kids who wore floodwater pants. Life could be cruel.

All of this. Every bit!

I remember when The Gap was this tiny, not very glamorous little chain store in the mall. They must have very successfully rebranded while I was in college or something.

And also, no one's mentioned how boys in the 70's wore very form-fitting jeans. A leftover from disco? That baggy, hanging down look later on...gah!

I remember Levi's shrink-to-fit jeans from the 50's. You bought them in the men's department in your nearest size, then took them home, filled the bathtub with the hottest water you could tolerate, put them on and then sat in the bathtub until the water cooled. The next part was the hardest: you had to keep them on until they dried. As I remember, they cost about $4.00 a pair.

I was never allowed to wear them out of the house except when hanging out with my girlfriends in their houses. My mother was horrified by the whole idea. Only poor people wore denim jeans, according to her upwardly mobile standards, widely shared by all her friends.

Don't get me started on music! DH is renting a bar and a DJ so I can have a giant 80s dance party with all my friends for my 50th!

All I remember is Chic jeans from when I was in junior high/high school, probably because those were the only ones that came close to fitting me. I have a bigger rear and a smaller waist, and like BC, I had to buy jeans that fit my hips, so the waist was too big. I should have bought stock in belts. Of course, the jeans had to be hemmed too. I HATED shopping for jeans. I am so grateful now for all the different sizing.