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We used to buy 4 cans of beer, a big bottle of strongbow plus a bottle of blackcurrant squash and get snakebite drunk before we went out
 
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I really wish someone else could remember and could find me a picture of the Cream Soda alcopop . From memory it was in a clear bottle with a white label with a blue band around it. I'm starting to think it was locally produced!
 
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On the coat trend once around 16 (1997) I spent the next few years in the worst coats I could go from the charity shops

Jeans, band tee, superstars and a ratty old seventies afghan coat
With one of those army surplus back packs covered in badges

Small town
 
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I can picture that so well!

Back then I wished I could have pulled off that kind of look. It seemed so effortlessly cool to me. It was a pattern that would continue all my life - wanting to fit in with a tribe so desperately but never quite managing it
 
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Velvet blazer, rolled up jeans and docs here!

And my mad fat diary could have been me!! Overweight, outsider teen, childhood sweetheart was fit and I thought he was too good for me, stone roses t shirts, converse, denim skirts, depression and anxiety and of course, the best fucking tunes on my Walkman!!
 
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Harp lager was our pre-gig drink of choice. Lager is the most 1990s of drinks.
My local gig venue used to sell a disgusting Czech beer called Zamek. Its only saving grace was that it was cheap.
 
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Yesssss the army and navy bags (I think we called them Swedish bread bags, for some reason). I’d completely forgotten about them.

Dr Martens, black band tee (sometimes worn as a dress), green army shirt worn as a jacket.

Or strappy dress worn over flared jeans (preferably with some kind of embroidered bit on the bottom) with bindis and a bracelet that was attached to a ring and had a chain over the hand
 
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That bag was my schoolbagWorn with one strap naturally.
I was 17 in 1997 and my shop of choice was the army and navy surplus store.
Flared cords/jeans-bottoms cut off for the fringe effect- band tees, 70’s adidas tees (worn tight), army shirts and docs/ campus runners.
Perfume was Tribe/Charlie Red/ Exclamation/Body Shop White Musk and CK One.
Hair was short. Very short.
 
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Corduroy flares, V-neck woolly jumpers with huge shirt collars poking out from underneath, Adidas Campus, a short bob and 60s style liquid eyeliner. It was quite a sight for the village.
 
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All of you guys sound so much cooler than I was. I used to get £100 clothing grant once a year from social services so it was just a case of going to the cheapest shop to get as much as I could I did make good use of boyfriends huge checked shirts though.

When I was 16 I saved my wages from waitressing for ages so I could buy a pair of Doc Martens They were a thing of beauty.
 
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I would wear Tribe today if I could!
 
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I still wear CK1 it’s the only perfume that doesn’t give me a migraine…
 
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White Musk, Charlie and Exclamation are still around. WM is the only one you can still get in the Body Shop which is a shame as I loved Dewberry and Anayna. Charlie you can get anywhere and Exclamation is on Amazon. I got a bottle to see if it was still the same and it was....god, it brought back memories.
 
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I really wish someone else could remember and could find me a picture of the Cream Soda alcopop . From memory it was in a clear bottle with a white label with a blue band around it. I'm starting to think it was locally produced!
I had this once in a club and could never find it again! It was fantastic!
 
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Me too!! I remember my school bully telling me it was fucking horrible and not to wear it. I’d wear it still out of sheer defiance like I did every day back then. I have also stocked up on that other blast from the past - impulse o2
YES !!!! I did this too with impulse, it took me right back to being 15
 
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