Something a little different from Lauren for today’s Throwback Thursday. Check it out here
This week’s prompt is: Slang
Lauren says
I think this should be no sweat, but I’ll provide some questions to help you along. You can always free write if you’d rather.
What were the words you would have used to describe something cool or popular?
How about those things that were uncool?
What were the hairstyles of the day?
Did they have a name everyone used to reference them?
What were the styles of the time?
What word would you have used to describe something distasteful?
What about peers you were not fond of or were not part of your tribe?
Any phrases you remember that were used (or overused)?
What were the words you would have used to describe something cool or popular?
Great, Brill, Terrific, Super, Cool, Swell, Cosmic Tomatoes.
How about those things that were uncool?
Crap, Bummer, Trash, Tosh
What were the hairstyles of the day?
Afro, beehive, bouffant, pony tail, bob, pigtails, bunches
Did they have a name everyone used to reference them?
Usually as above
What were the styles of the time?
Jeans, Hot Pants, Tie Dyes, Seersucker or Cheesecloth tops, Tank Tops, Waistcoats,
Flares, Hipsters. Mini and Maxi skirts, Sloppy Joe sweaters.
What word would you have used to describe something distasteful?
Foul, Gross, The Pits, E-ew! Yukky
What about peers you were not fond of or were not part of your tribe?
Geeks, A*holes, Prats, Dorks
Any phrases you remember that were used (or overused)?
When I was your age, or when your sister/brother was your age, leave that be,
pensitivity101 
Great post 😂😂😂😂
Thanks Willow
Thanks for joining in Di. A few of your terms were new to me. Isn’t it funny how each generation uses new terms to make common words seem special.
Sign of the times I guess. I am so ‘past it’ I have no idea what the ‘in words’ are now.
I hear some from the grand kids.
Ah……………………….
Haha! Much the same for me in the US. We are just about the same age! I don’t know what bunches were but we had styles called a flip, a poof and there was the Hamill after the figure skater Dorothy Hamill… As for styles it was bell bottoms and then elephant bells where a piece of wild patterned fabric was added to make the bell bottoms even bigger! And platform shoes!
I’d forgotten bell bottoms and platforms! Bunches were ‘pony tails’ level with your ears or higher. At school, my hair was rarely long enough for those or pigtails, but if your hair touched your collar you had to tie it back. Little tiny tufty tails were the result!
Brill is a totally new one for me! After the Beatles, anything coming from England was much cooler than we had here!