What did you wear in high school? What years?
High school class of '58
I remember more about the guys.
We were fairly conformist.
The standard 'uni' was a blue oxford button down shirt, jeans with a narrow black leather belt, white cotton athletic socks, and black 'Italian' loafers.
'Italian' as opposed to penny loafers.
The 'rich' guys wore Levis and the shirts were Gants with the little hanger loop thingy on the back yoke. Shirt colors of white and pale yellow (except on Thursdays*) were also acceptable. Later light pink, but that's another story.
(*If a guy wore yellow on Thursdays it meant he was queer. How THAT got started I will never know. 
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Eventually penny loafers came into vogue.
Oxblood Bass Weejuns were preferred, but with no socks.
In my junior year the Pink and Black fad came along.
Pink shirt, black slacks.
With a very skinny pink suede belt.
The preferred slacks were 'Skeets'.
No pleats and extremely 'pegged' (narrow) cuffs.
"Skeets are neat, little momma" the radio commercial sang.
In winter we'd add a heather gray crew neck sweater and maybe a wind breaker.
Red was popular after 'Rebel Without a Cause' came out.
How about you?
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... which was pretty standard for SW Wisconsin. Everything got to us about eight years later.
OK, chinos ("wheat jeans"
instead of blue. but otherwise pretty much the same.
A cool California surfer dude in my USAF pilot training class in Oklahoma was wearing a pair.
I went out and bought some.
I think my husband still has one in his closet.
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Of course, all my friends had big cowboy hats. Hats was serious business for teenage boys in Texas. They were kinda spendy too so I begged my mom and step-father to get me one for christmas. And in 10th grade they relented and got me a hat.
Except my mom and step-father were cheap bastards and instead of getting me a real hat from a real hat place they went who knows where and got me a smokey the bear hat - I mean that style he wears - not a cowboy hat at all. Dumbest effin thing I ever saw. I had to wear it at least once though since I been begging for a hat for like 2 years so first day of school back from Christmas vacation I wear the hat and, as I suspected would happen, got teased mercilessly all day so I came home, put it back in the box and hid it in the deepest closet corner I could find.
Thankfully my mom never asked why I didn't wear that hat because I was trained (literally had it beaten into me) that you don't complain about nothing in Step-father's house and you ESPECIALLY don't complain about a gift. IF she had asked there's no way I could have lied convincingly enough and telling the truth would have gotten my ass beat so hard I'd still be standing.
By the time I got sick enough of his shit to move out, I was no longer in a hat-havin' mood so I never did get that cowboy hat.
Oddly enough, though, just this morning I was looking online at bolo ties. I think I might get me a bolo tie for special occasions.
This:
is not even the same universe of cool as this:
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How could they, in TEXAS fahgodsake, be that much tone/fashion deaf on hats?
So you went to school looking like a Marine drill sergeant?
You poor guy.
On edit: No wonder you left. I would have too.
With penny loafers.
Or saddle oxfords.
Matching sweater sets.
Skirts; full, pleated, a-line, or sheaths with a kick-pleat in the back for the more adventurous.
Absolutely NO shorts or slacks.
Maybe culottes, mainly for the 'lady jocks'.
Or so it seemed.
The gym outfit was laughably short 'oneseys' with puffy 'bloomer' bottoms.
Gold circle pins, which meant you were a virgin.
White Peter Pan collar dickies.
Otherwise known as a Navy Pea Coat. In the winter I usually wore one with a crew cut sweater underneath, jeans, and hush puppy shoes. Sometimes I wore a pair of Rolling Stones type side zip booties I bought in Europe. On a trip to Spain and France, I picked up a beautiful black shiny long leather jacket made of soft African antelope hide that I wore when it got warmer. I also wore a French Foreign Legionnaire khaki military jacket that I picked up at a flea market in France with epaulettes and silver buttons. Sometimes I wore long sleeve lumberjack shirts in the winter but I usually wore tie-dyed t-shirts or t-shirts I dyed solid black with jeans. Sometimes, I wore a pair of bell bottom Navy issued deck work jeans.
According to Sven Raphael Schneider of the Gentleman's Gazette: The term pea coat originated from the Dutch or West Frisian word pijjekker, in which pij referred to the type of cloth used, a coarse kind of twilled blue cloth with a nap on one side.[6]
According to the US Navy: The heavy topcoat worn in cold, miserable weather by seafaring men was once tailored from pilot cloth -- a heavy, coarse, stout kind of twilled blue cloth with the nap on one side. This was sometimes called P-cloth from the initial letter of pilot, and the garment made from it was called a p-jacket -- later a pea coat. The term has been used since 1723 to denote coats made from that cloth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_coat
Button-down shirts and pants that went "zhoop zhoop" while I walked. Yup, cords. 
Forgot, Earth Shoes! I had 'em.
Remember those?
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... Brownsville Station ("Smokin' in the Boys' Room" ... their original bass player -- a young
Black man (Tony Driggins) who looked a LOT like Hendrix (played bass behind his back and
with his mouth). He had the COOLEST bright psychedelic paisley sportcoats that he had
custom-made in Ann Arbor.
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I dressed like a hippie in 10th grade, but "evolved" to a goofy punk-ish thing for later high school.
I had my hair dyed a couple colors simultaneously, wore peg-leg pants tucked in ankle boots, an Army surplus trench coat with weird stuff pinned all over it. I wore a safety pin in my ear, and black gloves with the fingers cut off. I got in trouble in PE for wearing a hand-lettered "nuke Reagan" t-shirt with ripped off sleeves. Good times! LOL
Fun thread - I haven't thought about that stuff in a long time. 
Mid 70's in Maine. Winter jackets were the fashion statement. You needed a CB Sports ski parka to be cool. Never did have one. 
