clothes brands from 80s and 90s

Cica trainers anyone? I think they were Clarks "sporty" range. Probably had them when you were in primary school if your parents thought robust trainers were better than cool ones.

Edit - http://www.clarks.co.uk/about/cica they still exist! 3-8 year olds apparently.

Also seem to remember a lot of chavvy types wearing lambretta and sonetti tops etc, although that may be more recent.
 
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I remember seeing of lot of plain black jackets with Technics/Kenwood/Pioneer branding on the back.

I always wanted a pair of Reebok Pumps, was never lucky enough to own a pair though.
 
Ocean Pacific is one that springs to mind. Another would be Global Hyper-Colour too, scary thing is I still have one of my t-shirts and it still works, purple t-shirt that turns yellow with heat.
 
Adidas Poppers
Spliffy Jeans (These were awesome)
Bomber jackets with things like Technics or Kenwood on the back
Levi Twisters
Adidas Galaxy trainers
Sonetti
Joe Blogs
Eclipse

These are the ones I can remember.

Gola and Hi-Tec were considered poor kids trainers and if you didn't have kickers at school you were not in the elite and the elite were graded by how many kickers tags you had on your laces :D.

I also can not remember the brand but tartan trousers became quite big in the early 90's.
 
robfosters said:
That's the kiddies. Loved them. Would spend most Sundays running in and out of the house in fascination. To this day, I still don't know how they worked.
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Wikipedia:
Substances that can change color due to a change in temperature are called thermochromes. There are two types of thermochromes: liquid crystals (used in mood rings) and leuco dyes (used in Hypercolor T-shirts).

The color change of Hypercolor shirts is based on combination of two colors: the color of the dyed fabric, which remained constant, and the color of the thermochromic dye. The dye is enclosed in microcapsules, tiny (few micrometers in diameter) drops of liquid sealed in a transparent shell, bound to the fibers of the fabric.

When it is cold the mixture in the capsule is solid and the carbon molecules in the leuco dye are attached to each other in a ring shape. When the capsule experiences a rise in temperature the molecules change shape, just like liquid crystals. They break open the carbon ring. This change means that the dyes absorb and release light differently, and the color seen is different.

The liquid is a leuco form of a dye (in this case crystal violet lactone), a weak acid (benzotriazole), and a quaternary ammonium salt of a fatty acid (myristylammonium oleate) dissolved in a solvent (1-dodecanol). At low temperatures, the weak acid forms a colored complex with the leuco dye, interrupting the lactone ring. At high temperatures, above 24-27 °C, the solvent melts and the salt dissociates, reversibly reacts with the weak acid and increases the pH. The pH change leads to closing of the lactone ring of the dye, which then regains its colorless (leuco) form.

Therefore, at the low temperature the color of the shirt is the combination of the color of the microcapsules with the color of the dyed fabric, while at higher temperatures the capsules become colorless and the color of the fabric prevails.
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Firetrap then brought out a fireproof MA2 and people went nuts to get them because they were fireproof, for some reason, like being fireproof was going to be something they would make use of.
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So you didnt get hotrocks when skinning up ofc lol
 
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