Most Awesomely Awesome Fashion Trend of the Past - Friday

Yes it has been too long since my last one. I was just loving the leg warmers so much that I couldn't go on. Unfort, the Marc Jacob side snap ones sold out, I was hoping they would go on uber sale and I could then wear them - repeatedly! Alas.

Today is - Scrunchies! You know they made the outfit. Sometimes I would wear two, three in order to maximize the coordination effect. Worked especially well when the colors coordinated with the three pairs of socks I would wear (with Keds - but of course!)

Extended Scrunchie wear-age:


YES!



WIKIPEDIA:

OMG wikipedia does not have scrunchie (am I spelling it wrong), but they do have this - which is called a scrunchie in UK and a COOTIE CATCHER in US (how did I never know this?):



Wikipedia
In the US, a cootie catcher, (sometimes called a scrunchie in the UK and some other countries), is an origami device used in fortune-telling games by children. A player asks a question, and the holder of the device answers using a regular algorithm like the examples below. The fortunes written inside can be anything, but what they are determines what questions a player can ask.

There are two positions that the device should be held - switching positions is used to mean opening it into the other position. The following is one description of how to use it:

To use it, a player first asks a question to the person holding the cootie catcher. Then the holder asks for a number and a color. Switch positions of the cootie catcher that number of times, and one time for every letter of the color. Then the holder chooses the flap that is the color that the player chose. Read the fortune inside.
There is more than one way of doing this, obviously the picture to the right can't use the color to determine which flap to choose. Here is another way:

'Have a player choose a color on the cootie catcher. Open and close the Cootie Catcher one time for every letter of the color. Have a player choose a number from 1 to 10. Open and close the Cootie Catcher that number of times. The player then selects 1 of the 4 visible flaps revealed when you stop. Read the player's fortune. Remember, this is just for fun, and only you can determine your future!'

try scunci...'srcunchie' is the americanized version i think.

eta....tried scunci...got nothing.

I'm waiting to see a Faux Fe-mullet accessorized by multiple scrunchies.

That would make my day.

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Posted by CLMon7906

try scunci...'srcunchie' is the americanized version i think.

eta....tried scunci...got nothing.

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Nope. Nada. Wikipedia - you have let me down today on this VERY important topic. How will I fill the lives of other with useless fashion trivia now?

I still use scrunchies when I dye my hair.

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Posted by greenfreak

I still use scrunchies when I dye my hair.

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not

- especially if it is hot pink or neon green (added bonus for both)

When I was around 15 I was in a McDonald's with possibly the most obnoxious scrunci in my hair. It was cream tulle with pearls floating around on the inside.

Anywho, a young gentleman caller vying for my attention, attempted to do so by the following:

Yo. Yo girl. Yo you wiht the white flower in her hair.

Swooon.

chikita, you sounded awesomely COOL!

Suz, I have them in three different shades of green, red, black, blue...

But at least I don't wear them out of the house.

Oh gawd!!

Ninth grade: Not sure what kind of a statement I was trying to make but I remember wearing a white top and black pants. Then I put different colored scrunchies all the way down my ponytail to make a rainbow such as illustrated above.

Somebody in my band class actually asked me why, like if I did it for a reason or something.

The only proof I could find of my skrunchie-love:



Note the GREEN scrunchie on my right wrist. The size of my eyebrows should give you an indication of how old this picture is.

eta: I also have a picture of me with a spikey femmullet but I'll spare you the pain.