Northeastern High School - Aerie Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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Clockwise from top: The multi-pierced ear was the in thing. The more earrings, the better. Different styles and different colors walked the hall of Northeastern as the shoes of the day such as penny loafers, flats, tennis shoes. playboy shoes and goliath sandels. William Overton sported the new look in the emerging fad of suspenders. The baggy sport sweats were the rage this fall along with the stirrup pants worn by Michelle Monds. Micheal Iordan's fame spread even to the outskirts of Oak Stump Road and onto the feet of William Price. 26—Teen Scene

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Clockwise from bottom—Scott Oliphant dis- played fust how hard N is to work at Farm Fresh. Gettin' some air7' would be the right expression for this as Denny Howell seemingly takes off on his bike. Michele Mooring and some former NHS students hang out at Sonic. Tonya Iordan enjoyed herself at the Southgate Mall, a typical hang-out for the students at NHS. Teen Scene—25

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Clockwise below: Sophomore, Amy Emerson certainly showed the contrast of styles with her mod mousse hair opposite her old-fashioned pin. Kevin Williams wore a more conservative style in contrast the Anita Sutton's flowered pants, just as fenae Haislip and Kelly Hollowed donned contrasting looks. Perhaps, to sum up the styles of today Caroline Tatum wore the pastey shirt with high-topped shoes and her grandmother, Wilma Flood, wore the conserva- tive two-piece suit. From multi-pierced ears to old- fashioned jewelry, students at NHS were decked out for the Teen Scene r contrasting styles could be the motto for the styles that emerged on Oak Stump Road this year. It was a combination of the old and the new. Pinks, plaids, fluorescents, stripes, jams, regular tennis shoes, high-topped ten- nis shoes, El Jordans, Reeboks were worn by boys and girls alike. The styles were not limited to just one group. Girls wore the jams as well as the boys. These were a rebirth of the bathing suits that were worn by the surfers of the 60's. Also the bleaching of portions of the hair whether it was the rat-tail or the sides was a fad taken from the free-spirits of the 60's. The more earrings in the ears the better, for girls, but the boys who did wear earrings stuck to one in one ear. Cer- tainly, the popularity of MTV helped to create the styles as students found themselves imitating the rock stars they saw on the videos Surprisingly, jeans were not the main emphasis for the girls. They wore long skirts, short skirts, flowered pants or baggy pants With them were the baggy sweaters that were so popular in the 40's. All in all the fashions showed a combination of styles that ended up very stylish Teen Scene—27