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Money was kept in one of these purses, but the beads on them were so fun to pick off. (Img) -
You and your mum had a fun afternoon with the fabric puffy paints on a sweatshirt like this. (Img) -
Everyone wanted the Be Dazzler. (Img) -
Your favourite ruffle shirt. (Img) -
Jacks, Knuckles, Knucklebones - best schoolyard game. (Img) -
End of the school year, was a time to fill in the autograph book. (Img) -
You knew you had made it on the tennis court if you got yourself a pair of pompom socks. (Img) -
Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac, all dressed in black, black black... (Img) -
Ultimate in dance fashion - especially alternating/odd fluro socks or leg warmers. (Img) -
Marketing genius to get Australian school kids to open a Commonwealth Dolomite account. (Img) -
The coolest storage solution. (Img) -
.. inside, outside, inside, scales... (Img) -
Knitting Nancy (Img) -
This Belt - YES! (Img) -
How were you at "Double Dutch"? (Img) -
It's all about the love of denim. (Img) -
Hours spent reading about MaryAnne, Logan, Claudia & Kristy. (Img) -
Probably your first cassette/album you bought with your own money. (Img) -
These kept appearing even years after you stopped playing with barbies. (Img) -
This could be a picture of you and your girlfriends from your long summer holidays. (Img) -
This book was your education. (Img) -
You wanted so desperately to be someone's bridesmaid. (Img) -
You demanded a bubble skirt from your mum every time you went shopping until you got one! (Img) -
This probably topped your birthday cake a few years running. (Img) -
You had a bundle of these plastic charms. (Img) -
This was on your bedroom wall, if not, it was on your best friend's wall. (Img) -
Your mum would pop your hair in bendy rollers the night before a special occasion or dance performance. (Img) -
Dance leg warmers were THE thing. (Img) -
When Dannii from YTT released her fashion range = happiness. (Img) -
You probably had everything on your desk neatly organised in a fun stationery caddy. (Img) -
You knew your best friend's number off-by-heart (and you often thought that dialing 000 would take way too long in an emergency!). (Img) -
One of these held all your secrets and more. (Img) -
You devoured every issue of Dolly and waited eagerly for each new issue. (Img) -
You had all the dance moves to Walk like an Egyptian down pat. (Img) -
You were going to be a fashion designer when you grew up. (Img) -
You were a total grommet surf chick. (Img) -
Reached expert level on bubble writing on all your cover sheets and projects at school. (Img) -
You made, gave and received dozens of these friendship pins, and wore them proudly on your watch band. (Img) -
Memories were recorded on a Hanimex or similar (Img) -
If you didn't own a pair of happy pants, you were envious of those that did. (Img) -
The classic roller rink brown hire skate! (Img) -
Pink hair, cool clothes, rock star - Jem was your hero. (Img) -
Your most precious jewellery and trinkets were probably stored in one of these. (Img) -
You would have had something with Ken Done design on it. (Img) -
You too, were So Excellent with a piece of chewy. (Img) -
These were once "The Perfect Sock" (Img) -
You might have asked your mum to sew you and your Cabbage Patch Kid a matching outfit. (Img) -
I had this Michael J. Fox poster on my wall, did you? (Img) -
Everything about this woman was amazing - her pink leotard, the legwarmers, the headband, her hair. (Img) -
You probably had to leave the kitchen from the fumes when you made DIY chip packet shrinki-dinks (Img) -
Snacks were always served in these bowls (Img) -
You had the coolest pencil case ever that year! (Img) -
You diligently wrote letters to all your penpals regularly, from countries like Germany, Japan, Scotland, Venuzuela, and Canada. And you finally got to meet one of them when you went backpacking in your 20s. (Img) -
Your finger hovered on the record button while Barry Bissell announced the next song on the "Take 40 Australia" weekly charts. (Img) -
This skirt was the pinnacle of fashion. (Img) -
You thought these were the best! (Img) -
After years of strap-on skates and rentals, you finally got your own pair of roller skates. (Img) -
For the best posters you spent your pocket money on Smash Hits at the newsagents. (Img) -
You had an enviable sticker collection - including pages dedicated to Scratch-n-sniff and Puffy stickers. (Img) -
When mum kept saying "No" to getting your ears pierced, you had to make do with stick-ons. (Img) -
For ultimate curl volume, you knew the only thing for it was Stu-stu-studio Line! (Img) -
Your older cousin would let you use a little bit of her Sun-in when you visited, then spent the rest of the day sitting in the sun. (Img) -
The only watch to have. (Img) -
You could back comb and tease your fringe high into the sky, then asphyxiate yourself with hairspray. (Img) -
You wanted a perm like Kylie, but this is how it ended up looking... (Img: Kylie | School photo) -
You wanted this look, but your mum wasn't too keen. (Img: Cindy | Madonna) -
This poster was on your bedroom wall. (Img: ) -
You totally rocked that baggy tshirt with a tie-clip. (Img: ) -
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Only young girls growing up in the 80's would understand - from her sticker collection and pen pals, from hair crimpers to her prized bubble skirt.