Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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metallic silk shirt belt knickers motching low-heeled 'AA' shoes slee ves tailored skirt wooden heels corduroy blazer blouse with tie ond gathered shirt designer jeons top siders Crozes ond Phoses SO I FADS AND FASHIONS he 'crozes ond phoses' of student fods come in os fost os o ghost could be eoten in the video gome Pocmon, ond flickered out os quick os the glimmer of 0 metollic belt. Sometimes it wos hord to keep up with oll the ins ond outs. Gomes, some thot seemed impossible, were o fod thot required tons of quorters ond plenty of po- tience. Video gome rooms went up oll over town, ond o mon nomed Rubick struck it rich with his fomous puzzle, the Ptubick's Cube. Animols even put their two cents Cond profited much moreb into the fod scene. Gorfield cots, Smerf figures, ond the muppets op- peored on everything from bed spreods to key choins. The foshlon phoses seemed just os crozy. Soilor outfits, cowboy hots, metollic belts ond shoes, heodbonds, knit leg warmers, ond overgrown sweotshirts were temporory fovorites. Despite their short-lived populority, crozes ond phoses doted the yeor - o yeor chorocterized by the flickers of dying video ghosts ond the glimmers of stylish metollic belts. oxford 4

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A COMICAL CAT named Garfield was one of the most popular fads and appeared on everything from oosters to newspaper cartoons. The furry, stuffed animals lined the shelves of many department stores. EVEN BASIC PUZZLES came into the fad scene. The Rubik's Cube, a fad game in which the object was to match colored squares, came on key chains and necklaces and was o challenge most peo- ple repeatedly attempted. Eddie O'Madigan tried to solve the puzzle during a break between classes. Students Returned to Traditional Favorites ,vi . ry , ,,, ,, , L- as , ' Izod Lacoste sweater over cotton, plaid shin 3' Y is 1 fs , , , a..,,,,ft iw if All to siders ,.,.c Q P fm' . JL, ew., tailored slacks Polo p ullo ver tweed slacks sweater tied over button-down shirt E loafers nt belt P S white 3 ,J linen ruffled blouse PICKED OUT OF THE CROWD to illustrate student fashions were Neil Beasley and Krista Morbidelli, Joanie Burton, Mary Daly, David Vazquez, Marshall Graham, and Mike Armfield and Sonia Baruch. des jeans lgner FADS AND FASHIONS I 29

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cloth headband tied belr designer jeans top siders A red and white sailor shirt canvass belr - ,g n white knickers knee socks flat, babydoll shoes dark sunglasses collar turned up on dark jacket plastic buttons bright, flashy colors nylon socks Students Adopt Trendy Favorites THE WORLD OF COMPUTERS also trav- eled into the fad scene in the form of computerized games. The old time pin ball game no longer existed - in its place was a piece of machinery that could outplay the most adept gomeroom wizards. Chris Hessner played the games in a game room in Clearwater Mall. JUST A HANDFUL of the students wear- ing the fads in fashion were Linda Linar- dos, Celina Nagy, Ken Kavonaugh, Julie Wells, April Clark, and Thea Bendik. FADS AND FASHIONS I 31