I am standing here in jeans from my teen years, they are faded beyond belief, way too tight, and have holes punched in them, pen marks all over them. Nothing else fits since I lost so much weight.
Anyway, I started thinking of all the stupid trends we’ve followed in our teen years. Here are mine, I can’t believe I used to think of myself as so cool for doing them.
shaving my eyebrows
black lines drawn with eyeliner running down from my eyes
weird makeup so I looked like I was a victim of battery
being dirty. Really, it was cool to be stinking, filthy among my group of friends in h.s. So we showered less, wore dirty clothes, sat in dirty places on the ground
torn jeans and pants
torn, ruined boots
safety pinned shirts
silver thread wrapped around my legs and arms
minskirts with pants underneath
rolling up skirts
anything old, from the thrift store 5 dollar rack
plaid
platform boots
metal music that I hated, but still listened to because it was “cool”
- torn jeans and pants - torn, ruined boots - safety pinned shirts - minskirts with pants underneath - rolling up skirts - plaid - metal music that I hated, but still listened to because it was "cool"
one fashion nightmare i remember was wearing lotsa blue mascara to college one day. EVERYBODY was staring. i still dunno if they thought it was cool or not..but two desi guys were laughing at me....n i was like "VUTEVAR!" and then i gave it to my 10 yr old cousin later.
and i STARTED the trend of wearing a long black/embellished crocheted poncho over my head and UNDER one arm ( so it looks like a sari) with a plain/embellished black tank or tee under it
still love..
-torn tattered jeans
-jeans with lotsa paint smudges on them.
-tops, shirts with paint smudges( I am in arts, so..)
-tying the ipod ear plugs wire around the waist.
-blue, green mascara( it's not a fashion disaster anywho).
-uber layering, 4 to 5 layers.
-rolling up one leg of your jeans.
-wearing short jeans/pants, showing off ankles and wearing bright colored socks.
Uhm, i had horible sense of fashoin in HS, I shopped at Lane Bryant rolled up my skirt (was part of the school uniform)… as for “trends” uhm i did the blonde highlights that every desi girl has to do once in her life … can’t think of anythin else
Hair spraying my bangs so they stood up and frizzy BIG hair...eek! Just looking at my high school graduatoin photo...cap on but bangs sprayed up makes me laugh.
Didn't really follow trends when I was growing up. I wasn't allowed any western clothing and in our town here we were the only Pakistanis unfortunately, so I was the only child in shalwar kameez and often harrassed by the other kids for my clothes.
My Mom always chose my clothes, only when I turned 18-19 I slowly started to speak up taht I don't like those designs of kameez with always flowers on them, I got tired of flowers in winter on almost all my kameezay, and then the gold and silver on my suits, even when there would be no feasty day, I would often be the only one with shiny clothes in the class...
So I often looked terrible. Nowadays, I don't dislike shalwar kameez anymore. Some designs are modest but still nice. I wear a mix nowadays, sometimes shalwar kameez and sometimes western clothes, sometimes I wear a kameez over jeans. Nowadays you can mix anything you want. :)
I don't think you can really follow trends, sometimes something which is in fashion doesn't look good at all on you.
I still wear 'oldfashioned' clothes sometimes, because they look better on me then some of the newer trends.
the only trend i started was a mini chaye revolution in my corridor. i used to study at giki where the student body was primarily punjabi and pathan, who dont drink the five cups of chaye a day requisite for karachi walay. i became the chaye center for my part wing of the hostel, and over a course of some years I turned three of my neighbours into pakkay charsi, one of them who used to scorn my tea drinking now averages around six cups a day when hes doing well.
rolled up my skirt (was part of the school uniform)… as for “trends” uhm i did the blonde highlights that every desi girl has to do once in her life 
… can’t think of anythin else 
