Too Funny! I'm at the library and these young kids just came in

[leftyladyfrommo]

all dressed up as - well something. I'm too old to know just what this is.

Guy has a really long mohawk - hair standing straight up about six inches. Girl with lots of dark make-up. Shorts and really high heels.

Makes me remember what I was like at that age. We used to go to such great lengths to be outrageous. And it was so much fun.

[skygazer]

1. It was fun

And what was funny about it was we were all trying to be outrageous and "different" but we all looked like carbon copies of each other. :rofl:

[Redstone]

2. Good for those kids, showing some iconoclastic spirit. I'd not find their get-up to be

partcularyl attractive, but like you, I'd find it refreshing.

Redstone

[catmandu57]

3. Punk and Goth ?

maybe a gothic punk:shrug:

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. Got me.

But what was really great was that the kid with the mohawk standing straight up for 6 inches was dressed in completely straight clothes. And he was blond and had glasses on - he was completely straight except for his hair. I thought that was really clever.

I like to see kids go for it at that age. Then you get older and have to go to work and you can never have that kind of fun with your looks again.

[kmla]

5. Reminds me of myself at that age.

When I was young I.....



...are you all ready for this....





....PIERCED MY LEFT EAR!!!!!!!





Shocking, isn't it?!?!



Eh. Things were alot tamer then, I guess. (1983)


More power to 'em. Hope they are enjoying life, and letting their independent spirit grow.

[leftyladyfrommo]

9. Now its all tatoos and body art.

But that has gotten so old hat.

The kids need to think of something different - something really cool.

[Left Is Write]

12. In 1983, my boyfriend had THREE piercings in each ear and wore blue eyeliner.

The good old days.

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Oh, the mohawk look.

There was a time in the 80s or early 90s when mohawks were popular with the boys playing junior and senior high sports. One of my nephews decided to go along with his teams and got the hairdo, then went home to surprise his parents.

His mother's reaction was priceless: "John, you don't have to fake being a Indian. You are one and our tribe doesn't do mohawks. "

[leftyladyfrommo]

7. We used to braid our long hair and then take it out so it stuck out

all over. And we wnet out with it that way. And people stared at us.

Course we were hippies in Salt Lake City in 1968 - didn't take too much to make people stare.

We just had the best time!

You go kids. Be outrageous! I just love it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. That is too funny.

Indian hair makes for a lot better mohawks than caucasion hair. Getting blond hiar into a six inch mohawk really takes a lot of doing.

[Fleshdancer]

10. I'm just happy to hear they're at the library

:D

[RetroLounge]

11. My thoughts exactly...

:D

RL

[jobycom]

13. Another kick and more cudos to the teens for bucking the system.

Conformity is so damned scary. Although, as my teenage daughter likes to point out, individuality is getting rather stereotypical these days.

[trof]

14. I wore my shirt collar turned up in back.

That was waaayyy gangsta in the 50s.
We were 'hoods'.
;-)