Pinson Valley High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Pinson, AL)

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Preppies Once the extremely good dressers were limited to extravagent college students. But the dress up fashions have taken a different road since those radical collegiate oddballs, and now many people prefer to dress in a preppie style rather than the loose, comfortable look of most high school students. Ties, slacks, and ox- ford shoes have become the latest style for guys and girls prefer argile sweaters, twist-a-beads and pumps. These traits link students with people preparing for college and thus they are called preppies. No matter what they ' re called, however, the preppie look has apparently endured the trials that new styles always face and seem to have become commonplace. Argiles Letter Jackets All the big jocks around the school have one, whether they ' ve played one sport or one hundred. It ' s a letter jacket, the item of clothing signifying one ' s accomplishments on the field of play. Most of these jackets, though, are never worn by the owner, but a girlfriend instead. Anyway, it ' s nice to know you ' ve got a jacket, plus it looks better on her anyhow. At least some one gets some use out of it. Though the diamond shaped design called argiles have existed in the past couple of years, their popularity did not catch on till this year. Argiles have actually been around for quite awhile and chances are your parents had a pair of argile lavished socks or a sweater with argile designs on it. For thirty years, however, the funny shaped design was virtually unheard of. But this year they made a come- back and invaded almost everyone ' s closet. Christmas brought out many more new sweaters as students rediscovered a fashion of years passed. FADS, TRENDS, AND STYLES 25

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Punk Punk has become the generic name for just about anything that is New Wave or just different. The most obvious aspects of punkers is their style of dress. Many wear baggy pants with black and white Frankie Say . . . shirts, and adore any item of clothing with holes in it. Others like flashier things such as black leather pants, pastel lipstick, and chains. Ghost Busters One of the top films of 1984 was Ghostbusters , and it not only brought in enough money to clear the national debt, it also made the word buster a popular phrase. No matter where you looked, people were trying to cash in; pricebusters , in the win- dows of stores where sales were in progress (with dollar signs in the mid- dle of a red circle with a slash across it, also a rip-off from the movie). Thirstbuster is the new slogan on the 3-liter Coke bottles. Even here at Pinson Valley, we ' ve run the phrase in- to the ground; several football players have worn their backbuster t-shirst, and several times the different classes have busted opposing schools. We have seen the Ghostbusters idea used often (too often) in the past, and unfortunately, we probably haven ' t seen the last of it. It ' s certainly one of the best movies of the year, but you can have too much of a good thing. 24 FADS, TRENDS AND STYLES

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(Above) The Homecoming Parade; the true beginning of Homecoming (Lower Left) The Seniors last Homecoming Pep Rally sign (Lower Right) R. Walker and C. Catalano ride shotgun in Senior car The Spirit Begins Getting ready for the thrills, excitement, and events of Homecoming One of the most eagerly-awaited and exciting moments during the school year is Homecoming — the time when graduates return to visit their hometown and Alma Mater, and all the present students of Pinson Valley try to have a little fun in an otherwise dreamy year. As is in the past, the ac- tivities of Homecoming are not limited to just Friday night, but instead span the entirety of the week. For a time, it looked as if the events that everyone had come to expect during the Homecoming week would not take place. Sure, there would still be the door decoration, hall displays and the like, but the word was there would be no parade, historically one of the week ' s main events. It was more im- portant that everyone remain in their classes like P.E. and study hall. After some pressure was applied by the stu- dent body, the parade was reinstated at its new time slot — Thursday after- noon at 5:00. Though not at the most favorable time, no more was said since everyone was happy just to have a parade. While anticipating the march through beautiful downtown Pinson, people involved themselves in the other activities to celebrate Homecoming. As in the past, the most popular of these was working on class floats. The dedicated students of each class got together for several hours each night at their designated places to build, tear down, rebuild, polish up, and finish the works of art which were proudly displayed under the breezeway. Everyone couldn ' t help but believe that their float would win top prize. 26 HOMECOMING