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Posted by Budgiejen@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 32 comments
Pacifiers. Around 8th grade these popular girls started wearing pacifiers. Sometimes they even put them in their mouths 🤮
Posted by Budgiejen@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 32 comments
Pacifiers. Around 8th grade these popular girls started wearing pacifiers. Sometimes they even put them in their mouths 🤮
DoctorQuarex@reddit
That has to be the first trend I remember where I began to realize what someone did was less important than who was doing it
If I had shown up to school one day with a pacifier it would have been the funniest thing of all time and I would probably have been called "Big Baby" for ten years afterwards
But a random raver dude shows up doing it and always has at least a few ladies following him around at all times (yes I realize in hindsight it was almost certainly that he had drugs) and somehow I am the only one like "so nobody is going to laugh at the guy using a baby product?"
Cyrussphere@reddit
I think this was very late 90s but mostly early 2000's. I remember this trend but was already in collage and thought this was pretty stupid. It was definitely a rave thing that started around this time.
Budgiejen@reddit (OP)
For me it was about 1993.
MashedPotatoesDick@reddit
Middle school boys at my school got in on it presumably because they watched Boyz n the Hood.
kkaos84@reddit
Oh yeah, that WAS a thing! Thankfully, iirc, it didn't last long either.
crazycatlady331@reddit
At my school (circa 7th grade) all the cool kids wore these hard plastic/resin? pacifiers as necklaces with silk cords holding them. The entire pacificer was hard plastic so not suited for a baby.
I begged my parents for one but don't remember if I got one or not.
I don't remember seeing them before or after 7th grade. Can't remember if the school banned them or nto.
Elohim7154@reddit
Yep Boyz in the Hood had an effect on all of us
fartknockertoo@reddit
I forgot all about that!
psilosophist@reddit
That was a raver thing. Either those girls were going to raves or they were just copying their older siblings or something without knowing what the deal was.
For a short moment in time, condoms became a fashion staple on the east coast because cities were handing out so many free ones that kids would wear them as belts or whatever.
Budgiejen@reddit (OP)
I thought they were popular from Lisa “left eye” Lopez
psilosophist@reddit
TLC took the look mainstream, but street style is always a bottom up movement. Top down/dictated fashion trends often fall flat.
Gadshill@reddit
People using ecstasy would often grind or clench their teeth (known as "gurning").
Pacifiers provided something to chew on, helping to prevent tooth damage and jaw soreness. They were often worn on necklaces for easy access.
Imaginary-Mix-5726@reddit
And then the kids' accessory stores in the mall picked this up, and the trend spread among the girls whose parents had the most disposable income.
Gadshill@reddit
Yes, it was performative rather than of necessity for most.
Less-Cap6996@reddit
The candy ravers of the 90's started this. Gen X again. Sorry xennials.
AgreeableSun8645@reddit
Candy kids (ravers) wore pacifiers. Something to chew on while on E.
Budgiejen@reddit (OP)
Or sometimes while at the skating rink because I doubt we had real raves in Nebraska.
Into-the-stream@reddit
E makes you grind your teeth. Sucking on something stopped the grinding.
Vox_Mortem@reddit
Yep, along with the candy bracelets and mesh shirts.
Mwiziman@reddit
Jesus, just watch Go!
BenignAtrocities@reddit
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Any_Parfait206@reddit
We had a really hot September / October one year and they let us have water bottles in school. All the really trashy girls used baby bottles, which of course pissed the admins off and they immediately re-banned us from having anything like that. These of course are the same girls who got pajama pants banned at school because they'd wear cookie monster pj pants for weeks on end.
brilliantpants@reddit
Yes, I definitely remember this, but I think I was younger. Maybe 4th or 5th grade? Big, translucent plastic baby pacifiers as jewelry.
butt_honcho@reddit
Weird hard plastic ones, if I recall correctly.
stamata_tomata@reddit
sounds like a microplastic dispenser
IndomitableAnyBeth@reddit
That were translucent, yeah. Still have the blue one I got at the mall in 5th or 6th grade.
velouria-wilder@reddit
They went really well with the Cat in the Hat hats.
Intelligent_Serve_30@reddit
Yes I remember them. They were one grade younger than me and they'd all pile up in the hallways on the floor at lunch, pawing at each other, drinking alcohol out of baby bottles, sucking on pacifiers and they had a bunch of baby stuff attached to their backpacks (like the things you hang in cribs). I wanted nothing to do with them because of all the baby items.
I never tried E, simply because classmates told me that's what they were on and in my bratty teenage brain I thought "God that's looks so dumb, no thanks". I was not any less dumb though because I was doing some real stupid shit too, just not with any baby stuff involved.
twobootsranch@reddit
Saw it on tv / movies but never really happened where I lived.
someguyfromsk@reddit
Yeah, one day all the "cool" girls had them, then like 6-8 months(?) later, gone.
charbiedoll@reddit
They were a popular trend at raves. Kids would suck on them whilst on drugs. Or so I saw on Dateline.
Odd-Outcome450@reddit
Must have been past my time.