Logan High School - Amphion Yearbook (Logan, UT)

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FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FADS FAD5 FADS FADS FADS FAD The best port of being New Wove wos being different soid Doug Bryner, Meredith Sorensen Yvonne Duncon. ond Downi Johnson. ' New Wave News] When several students at our school were asked whot New Wove wos. they hod trouble defining it. Some people soid it was just a mellow form of punk rock. But New Wavers thought of themselves os being in o class oil their own. The reasons that New Wavers were different from the overage student was found in their oppeoronce ond in the music they listened to. They thought that the best port of being New Wove wos being totally different from everyone else. Downi Johnson soid, T just love being creative in the way I dress.” They wore o combinations of other fashions. They got into buttons, mini skirts, long ties, ond anything that was out of the ordinary. Many of the guys could be distinguished by their extreme bi-level hoir cuts, which were dyed in o few Chucks lined the walls before, during ond after school. Girls Like Frills The girls rediscovered their own femininity. Many of their clothes expressed this desire to look like o girl. Because of this reawakening, they become more inclined to wear skirts to school. One of the most populor styles wos a puffy sleeved blouse with o lot of ruffles on it. The girls wore this blouse with o mid-colf skirt which also was etched with ruffles. Outfits like these mode the girls feel ond look more feminine, ond they liked it. The girls found on identity through being femoles. ond stopped acting like boys. The girls realized that they could be girls and still compete with the boys on the some level. • Sophomore Potty Potter enjoyed wearing frilly clothes Guys Like Chucks ) Chucks, more formally known os Chuck Taylors, were worn by a large majority of the mole studentbody. These shoes came in o variety of colors including purple, green, oronge. red. burgundy, ond yellow. The guys wore yellow shoelaces. After a short time they begon switching shoes, it wasn't uncommon to see one yellow shoe ond one red shoe on the some person. Just when they begon to get tired of switching shoes, Converse, the company which manufactured chucks marketed o shoe that was purple, green, oronge. ond red. The multicolored shoe become the ultimate chuck to own. ; Fads 19

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■....... ■ ■ Dennis Hosson and Heather Steel tolk about miniskirts, while Craig Snow listens. ' Valley Talk ) A new dialect which sported phrases like, Gag me with a spoon,'' Fer sure , and It’s like so tubular , became a part of most students' language. It was known as Valley Talk. Volley Girls were the originators of the talk, they lived in San Bernadino Volley, California. Vais wore anything that was way rad” or popular. Miniskirts became their favorite fad. Anything that wasn't way rad was Joanie” and an ugly guy was An Aqua-velvet geek”. The most important word in their language was like , and an average Valley Talk sentence had at least two or three likes” in it. Like was like so rad. I mean like fer sure. ' Diamond Duo ) The preppy look brought in other styles, one of those was orgyle sweaters and socks. Both guys and girls wore argyles. Argyle was defined as a diamond shape. The guys' sweaters had any number of them on it. They covered their whole upper body, or a single one was found on the chest. The girls' sweaters usually hod several argyle shapes on them, but they were more contained, or in a line. They wore pullover argyle vests too. The students also wore argyle socks. The socks were used to coordinate with the rest of their outfit, and added life to a usually mundane article of clothing Argyle sweaters and socks were on added focet of preppy clothing. Duttons were o new woy to show the students views and music toste. ( Button Boom More than o few people wore buttons during the year, the button topics ranged from music groups, to political standings, to personal feelings. The students used the buttons to express their veiwpoints on a wide variety of topics. The buttons used slogans pertaining to current events such as; Arms Buildup, Anti-Nuclear sentiments, and ERA. sentiments. The administration was not against people wearing the buttons as long as s they weren't obscene or pornographic, o Although a few of the students were asked to remove their buttons, the s students usually respected the administration and didn't wear buttons that were not up to our school's standards. ; 18 Fads DAV£ LYON

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( Shopping Dy MqIT :ASHION5 FASHIONS FASH v SHtC 5 FASHIONS FASHIONS FASHIONS FASHIONS FASHIONS FASHIONS FASHIONS FASHION 20 Foshions Morylyn Christensen. Corrie Hillyord. Tom Emmett. Orion Thomson ond Diono Thomos discuss preppy news. lotest preppy foshions. Preppies did most of their shopping out of moil order cotologs such os L.L. Bean or Londs End. These cotologs were mode with preppies in mind. They found treosures such o button-down shirts in stripes os well os solids, cotton ond wool Preppies did rheir shopping our of catalogs. sweaters, topsiders ond penny loafers. After receiving their seosonol catalog. they brought them to school and com- Brian Thomson ond Diono Thomos look ot their new catalog. pored with their friends' cotologs. They would each choose different clothes to buy so that none of them would be caught wearing the some thing. It was so embarrassing to come to school and see someone wearing the some blue candy stripped button-down that I hod on that day. Corrie Hillyord complained. V Todd Godfrey obviously ei omos r Kothy Allen discuss the i z I g p'epoy.