Children of the 80s, do you remember...

[Catch22Dem]

Kaepa shoes? Two sets of laces? I had the high-tops. They were awesome!

[Bicoastal]

1. Not awesome...

...tubular!

[baldguy]

2. Totally!

I'm shur.

[hedgehog]

3. Whatever happened to dinosaurs? Everything was suddenly all

about dinosaurs for a few years; toys, kid's bed sheets, TV shows etc for a few years, then they were gone again.

[Archae]

4. They went extinct...

:-)

[hedgehog]

5. No seriously, my kids were children in the 80's and it really was dinosaurs everywhere

for a few years. I couldn't figure out where they came from or why they went away again. I even made some stuffed dinosaurs from a Simplicity pattern.

[Archae]

6. My nephews who were kids back then were like that too.

Both of them had tons of Dinosaurs, and don't forget GI Joe and The Transformers!

I had GI Joe when I was that age, but they were a BIT different... ;-)

[PassingFair]

8. Here's the real reason....

[vixengrl]

7. I remember flourescent laces--

and deliberately mismatching them, but that was on knock-off Converses (all about the chucks.) I had a pair of hot pink high-tops, which I paired with skinny jeans and big socks. Which I wore with a matching sweatshirt and a ginormous hair bow. Or a bandana. And there were different ways you could do your laces up--like so they all looked horizonatal instead of criss-crossed.

Wow. Add some friendship bangles and mismatched earrings on each ear and I was a freakin' posterchild.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. The only Kaepas I had were my cheer shoes. I don't recall them having two sets of laces, but they

did have these little color triangles you could pop into the side of the shoe to represent your school colors. These are not the same design but similar.

[Catch22Dem]

11. Yeah, Kaepa got into the cheer business years later

Still in it from what I can tell.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. Not sure when they started doing cheer ones. I wore mine during the '88-'89 season

[Catch22Dem]

19. Good point

I should have said the cheer business is all they're in TODAY. Not sure when they started though.

[bluesbassman]

10. How many of you had one of these butt ugly things?

I waited in a line for four hours to get my daughter one.



Ungrateful brat! She probably doesn't even have it any more!:sarcasm: Truth be told, she loved that doll!

[XemaSab]

12. Dora Fritzi

My grandma got her for me when they were all the rage.

I would probably have rather had a dinosaur figurine.

Dude, my kindergarten teacher had a record of dinosaur songs. It was the BOMB. :o

[SemiCharmedQuark]

13. Winona Gertrude!

That was the name of mine.

[DS1]

16. I remember the fights between parents at malls during Christmas

but I did like the Garbage Pail Kids

[LaraMN]

17. My mom wouldn't get me one.

She said they were too ugly.

:P

[Number23]

14. Nope! But I do remember...

Jellies!



Just be sure to put some baby powder in them before you go out. Those shoes could make your feet sweat in the dead of winter.

[Catch22Dem]

20. Would you believe they're back?

My daughter wants a pair.

[Rambis]

18. sorry but I left my swatch in my parachute pants

I had neither by the way!

[Catch22Dem]

21. I had both

No lie