Did you have any BUM Equipment clothing?

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firemouth55@reddit

Loved me some Staci Keanan back in the day. I’d love to check out her BUM Equipment. 😆

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WastelandCecil@reddit

I was too poor…for B.U.M. Equipment.

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graveybrains@reddit

Hell yes, that shit was *comfy!*

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three-sense@reddit

Yeah when she started to move away from tomboy, she was very beautiful

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three-sense@reddit

Oh naturally, from what we saw in the show though

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Secret_Paper2639@reddit

I was after Suzanne Somers, weird kid I was.

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Vox_Mortem@reddit

I had such a crush on her. She was the whole reason to watch the show!

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Ordinary_Aioli_7602@reddit

Staci and Christine are both smokin

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SpankySharp1@reddit

Didn't Christine Lakin play the troll girl in the Paris Hilton classic "The Hotty and the Notty"? wtf lol

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Drewbeede@reddit

She kinda reminds me of Natalia Dyer from Stranger Things.

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artificialavocado@reddit

I thought the one on the right had blonde hair?

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cbih@reddit

Still do. I'd abandon my whole family, today, for Staci Keanan

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The_OtherGuy_99@reddit

You are person of culture and taste.

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tersegirl@reddit

My junior year school photo, I’m wearing a white. I’m equipment shirt and a black choker. Lol

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OMG I had the biggest crush on Alicia Lambert/Christine Lakin. Also, yes I had BUM apparel. They were my favorite shirts to wear. https://preview.redd.it/ejk483dhrmlc1.jpeg?width=268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b8f59e0d0237fbe7c547735298da4fe504b01710

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Jetski125@reddit

She’s the blueprint for all my childhood crushes. Just something so cute about the hair pulled back and pure beauty. Her and Winnie cooper.

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IceMan44420@reddit

Because she was a tomboy, she actually had a cool personality, unlike Karen

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bulanaboo@reddit

Leather hat and all!!! Bvd’s to boot lol

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recovery_room@reddit

Cheeky to wear to school at the time. Then FCUK came along.

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WithaK19@reddit

Omg, yes. See also: Bugle Boy

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skeptical_hope@reddit

No, but there was a period of time at my elementary school where if you didn't have an ESPRIT bag, you were NOBODY. (I was nobody and didn't get one till the fad had already been over for a year).

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huhsorry@reddit

I really wanted one and my parents resisted with "why? it looks like a diaper bag". I wore them down and they bought me one but they always referred to it as my diaper bag. "Alright, time to go. Grab your diaper bag"

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skeptical_hope@reddit

😆 PARENTS.

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upstatestruggler@reddit

Was it the round one? Like barrel shaped? Or am I thinking of the Swatch bag that had an end that looked like a watch face.

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skeptical_hope@reddit

Naw, it was literally just a tote bag that said ESPRIT and it was THE mark of The Popular Girls in Northern California, circa 1989. [ESPRIT bag](https://www.ravishly.com/sites/default/files/Screen%20Shot%202016-10-17%20at%202.56.08%20PM.png) mark of The Popular Girls

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snn1326j@reddit

I treasured my red one (emblazoned with the logo on the outside slip pocket) like nobody’s business. Probably still somewhere in my parents’ house haha.

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gertrudeblythe@reddit

I wanted one so bad 😭

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Jrlofty@reddit

Is this from Step by Step?!

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ainsophur@reddit

Brandon Call (J.T. Lambert) was my landlord while living in Redondo Beach. It was wild when he showed up to fix a blind that fell on my wife.

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Harrychronicjr69@reddit

In 1996 he was shot 2x by someone in a road rage incident. Both arms!

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Title-Choice@reddit

Holy shit, are you serious lol?

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ainsophur@reddit

100%!! He was bald when I met him so he was hard to recognize. I spent most of the time chatting with his dad while he fixed the blind. His dad was the one that connected the "you look familiar" to "No shit, I loved Step by Step"

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Title-Choice@reddit

Awesome story pal, thanks for sharing.. that blew me away

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three-sense@reddit

Dude that is wild, also JT became JT irl lol

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Smurfblossom@reddit

Yep yep! Another underrated show.

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Tie_me_off@reddit

How is that show underrated? It was literally just on TGIF!

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smokes_-letsgo@reddit

I think people say underrated when they mean underrepresented a lot of times in relation to stuff like this.

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erinkp36@reddit

I dunno. I think Step by Step is adequately rated.

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LemonCitron47@reddit

My favourite in the T.G.I.F lineup!

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luckyguy25841@reddit

Day by day

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jerryleebee@reddit

Day by day

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mrspelunx@reddit

The last time I wore a BUM t-shirt, the kids said I was a bum. I never wore it again. It was a thing at my school to accuse each other of being homeless. The sad thing was, there was a kid there who was actually homeless on and off.

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cerebralkrap@reddit

I grew up in a town that starts with B (like Boston). One day a larger kid came to PE wearing one of these shirts. The cleverest bully yells out “what’s B-U-M?! Boston’s Under Me?!” And that singlehandedly killed the sales of anyone wearing that brand to our school

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ecksman313@reddit

I was more into Cross Colours around that time https://preview.redd.it/vgmm6xxn8qlc1.jpeg?width=210&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2a3e14035bdf6f2f75e51425ac6fdca1eef08df7

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Crafty_Rate8064@reddit

What the heck did B.U.M. stand for anyway??

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purplepunc@reddit

Guess Jeans too! Anna Nicole

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JumpyLolly@reddit

BUM with some British knight shoes and a pair of overalls, one strap hanging of course

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ASM_50@reddit

LA Gear shoes were acceptable too!

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Right_Hour@reddit

Or K-Swiss.

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Deathgripsugar@reddit

Or Reebok pumps

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Right_Hour@reddit

That’s for rich kids. Although I was tempted to buy them pumps at their outlet in 1996, but the kid warned me that them pumps were already broken in those :-)

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Constant_Concert_936@reddit

lol, like a charles dickens character

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JumpyLolly@reddit

Absolutely 💯

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hahnsolobolo@reddit

I had a pair of Dymacel shoes, i thought they were the coolest in 3rd or 4th grade, with the little cushy diamond in the bottom. Mom bought them at Venture for me! Still remember it so well.

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HarpersGeekly@reddit

Those’ll take your eye out!

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mindonmymonkeys@reddit

Hell yeah with geko mc hammer pants

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mindonmymonkeys@reddit

Hell yeah with geko mc hammer pants

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cmacfarland64@reddit

More of an IOU guy

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jp112078@reddit

Solid. Looking back, they were both so trashy. I’m somewhat happy my parents laughed at me when I said I wanted to spend $50 on a sweatshirt.

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cmacfarland64@reddit

Yup. I got them as hand me downs from my friend’s sister. Really tried to hide that fact.

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Pseudonova@reddit

Stacey Keenan was/is a huge crush. She's a freaking lawyer in the LA District Attorney's office and an Associate Law Professor. Boss.

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

My favorite sweatshirt if all time was my "inside out" BUM

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itsk2049@reddit

Wow I haven’t thought about BUM in at least 20 years 😂

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TerseFactor@reddit

What did that those initials even mean again?

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itsk2049@reddit

In our suburban school district, it was accepted fact that BUM stood for body under maintenance

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camptastic_plastic@reddit

I got a BUM sweatshirt for my birthday after it was no longer popular anymore. I didn’t mention that to my parents and pretended to be excited. I’m still proud of teenage me for being mature enough to realize they were excited to have gotten me something “cool” and not wanting to hurt their feelings.

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Spx75@reddit

I still have a BUM t-shirt.

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a_phantom_limb@reddit

Oh, I had a bunch. Shirts, sweatshirts, a hat, even a wallet. My last tee, which I'd been using as a sleep shirt for a long time, finally came apart a couple of years ago. But I do still have one little memento from the line: the wallet had a little clip that could connect it to keys, and I still keep that clip on my keyring even though the wallet itself has been gone for, like, thirty years. It's a little piece of nostalgia that wouldn't mean anything to anyone else.

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Significant-Style-73@reddit

Yep! Also wore a lot of E.N.U.F.

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Technical-Mix2040@reddit

I've rocked the E.N.U.F. shorts in high school.

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mutantbabysnort@reddit

Step by step! Day by day…

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MelMacken@reddit

Had a grey BUM Equipment t-shirt that I wore for most of the late 90’s

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minibini@reddit

Yes. I thought it was cool at the time 😅

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Traditional_Entry183@reddit

I did not, but I remember that my dad would make, well Dad jokes every time he saw someone wearing it. Lazy bums, homeless bums, etc.

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zoominzacks@reddit

In my teens I had a B.U.M. Equipment sweatshirt Now in my 40’s I just have bum equipment Sigh……

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upstatestruggler@reddit

Well, your humor still works, because I laughed hard at this

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iwilldefinitelynot@reddit

International News and E S P R I T

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doobette@reddit

Yes - purple oversized t-shirt with a white logo. Also, I loved her in My Two Dads!

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Specialist-Treat-396@reddit

That show was just grooming to make the American public accept the gay lifestyle, even though both the dads were straight and the reason she had two dads IIRC was because her mom had sex with both guys in a short time period and so didn’t know which one of them were the father. (/s about the grooming, I just channeled my inner boomer for a minute and suddenly all of these fox news talking points came rushing out. It was kinda scary.)

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BillyVorhees@reddit

I had a MASSIVE crush on Al.

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Specialist-Treat-396@reddit

What? You’re crazy. Cody was the dream boat. The dumb as a box of rocks dream boat.

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dougmd1974@reddit

Staci is going to be at a convention I'm at this weekend!

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BrashPop@reddit

Pretty sure my older sister lived exclusively in B.U.M sweatshirts. I coveted them but don’t recall having any of my own 😭

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SuperDoubleDecker@reddit

I'm guessing like most 12-year old boys I had a crush on that whole family. Even Susan Sommers.

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YNWA_in_Red_Sox@reddit

Earliest TV memories involve Three’s Company so Suzanne Somers was ever present in my young life.

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gwhh@reddit

Tons of it.

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rpmsm@reddit

Theme Song is instantly in my head

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slappy_mcslapenstein@reddit

I did not but I definitely had a crush on the girl who played Al.

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Jetski125@reddit

What a cutie.

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Late-External3249@reddit

Nice B.U.M.!

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gertrudeblythe@reddit

Oh no. My mom would not let me be cool for any reason whatsoever. So there was no name brand anything for any reason, and of course I lived in a town where that stupid shit mattered. But honestly she did the right thing. She showed me extra money should go towards retirement and the mortgage, and only now I get it.

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