Last Awesome Fashion Trend of the Week - SLap Bracelets

I am gonna have to be quick, cause FH is waiting (impatiently) for me - something about a wedding that needs to be planned for

SLAP BRACELETS:



A totally awesome accessory and weapon! I remember loving them oh so much until their untimely demise because some kid out there managed to injure themselves with them (and I am the QUEEN of injuring myself with random stuff and I didn't manage that - so really that was quite the fete). They added a certain pizzazz to every outfit, plus they were fun to play with in class.

(strangely amusing)


Wikipedia:
A slap bracelet (or snap bracelet) is a bracelet comprised of layered, flexible metal bands sealed within a colorful fabric cover. The bracelet can be straightened out, creating tension within the springy metal bands. The straightened bracelet is then slapped against the wearer's forearm, causing the bands to spring back into a curve which wraps around the wrist, securing the bracelet to the wearer. The slap bracelet was a popular fad among children, pre-teens and teenagers in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was available in a huge number of then-popular patterns and colors. Today the slap bracelet is considered unfashionable. Many Generation Xers and Generation Yers, now older and presumably more fashion-conscious, refer to slap bracelets as 'old school.'

Many schools at the time banned the bracelets on campus after students suffered wrist injuries while putting the bracelets on. The school bans helped to usher the fad out of the mainstream once children were no longer able to wear them to classes.

Re: Last Awesome Fashion Trend of the Week - SLap Bracelets

S&M for the younger set. Oh, how I miss those things.

Re: Last Awesome Fashion Trend of the Week - SLap Bracelets

OMG...my niece 'slapped' one of these on me yesterday! LOL

Re: Last Awesome Fashion Trend of the Week - SLap Bracelets

I used to LOVE those things!!

Re: Last Awesome Fashion Trend of the Week - SLap Bracelets

I could never get them to work right!!!

They have to come back at some point just so I can try it again........