Northwest High School - Silvertip Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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LEFT:' Sporting a tail of hair, Sophomore Chris Sparks becomes of the first to wear the unique style. BELOW: Coming in a rainbow of colors, plastic shoes are frequently worn with cropped pants. 1 W' AS' F New looks appear Remembrance of the school year was usually based upon the major fads and trends that occured at Northwest High School. A lot of the trends began at Northwest such as the suntana craze. Everyone who planned on attending the Prom became obsessed with changing their pale skin color to a shimmering bronze in a matter of days. The tanning process, however, took at least a month to acquire a faint shimmering glow. The cost of tanning ranged from S25 to S30 for a month's membership The rubber shoe demand began in mid- winter when it was too cold for sandals, but yet everyone roughed it and wore them with pastel stockings. Then, when the warm winds of spring began, the stockings were shed and the sandals blossomed on everyone's feet and in every color of the rainbow. The rubber sandals proved that along with being popular, they were inex- pensive, cool and comfortable. The price ranged from 34.99 to 151999. Cropped pants gained their momentum at the middle of the year, but made their debute as a springfsummer fashion. The pants sprouted up in jeans, different colors, stripes and dots. Hairstyles became a part of the fad, all of them usually based on the new wave or punk look. Guys and girls alike had their hair spiked on top so it would stand on end. The bi-level cutg an angled cut over the ear, was also very popular at Northwest. Occa- sionally hair was dyed or shaved in certain styles in order to be unique. The average cost of a bi-level cut was 312, as was the cost ofa punk hair cut. There were a number of fads that filtered through the halls of Northwest after the release of a movie. After the movieRz1rky Burzherr hit the box office. The black frame, tinted lense sunglasses worn during the movie became as big of a hit as the movie. Out in the parking lot before and after school a numerous amount of students could be seen sporting the Tom Cruise sun glasses complete with black ropes holding them on the owner's face. Another fad made popular by the movie industry was break dancing from the movie Flarbdance. Along with the dancing fad came a style of clothing which consisted of high top tennis shoes and baggy pants, top- ped with an oversizedfloose fitting shirt. Music that accompanied the dance was usually a song with a fast-moving beat with or without worcls. Break dancing at first was a form of settling disputes between gangs, instead of fighting. But eventually emerged at school dances as a form of entertainment and sport. -Staci Roberts Student Life 0 25

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ABOVE: Arriving as one of the springfsummer fashions, cropped pants are a com- mon part of the Northwest female student's dressing attire, RIGHT: Dancing 'break style' Senior Glen Henry displays his talent like that in the hit movie 'Flashdance'. BELOW: Pausing to take a break from studying, junior Helen Peck wears the popular 'punk' hair cur.

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ABOVE: Gasing up the car takes a big chunk out of a student's pocket asjunior Chris Clark experiences as a car owner, QFOP RIGHT: Known as the most common car at Northwest, the Chevrolet was plentiful in the student parking ot. vii' ABOVE: Taking a job in a fast food establishment becomes a way that junior Rick Hawk earns extra spending money. RIGHT: Shopping for the latest fashions, Senior jackie Schnurr browses at her own pace among the items at a local store, FAR RIGHT: Taking a date out for fast food is a common way for the Northwest student to spend extra money. 26 ' Student Life