Clothes of the Eighties, SKIDZ pants
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Description
Sex: Both
Type of clothing: Clothes
When it was popular: 1989
Description: SKIDZ were the most fashionable pants any kid in the 7-15 age group catagory could wear. They were made of cotton and had many different colors and designs. Everything from stripes to checkers were seen on these pants around the streets of Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington DC. The SKINZ looked like pajama pants, they were straight legged and were tightened by a drawstring. The only way one knew they were SKIDZ, was because each had a yellow triangular sign with a car followed by skid marks(just like a street sign) on the right rear pocket.
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These were the coolest pants ever! I wish you had pictures of these awesome pants posted!
I just recieved an e-mail about the 80's. A girlfriend commented about SKIDZ not being a part of the list. If you grew up through the 80's and 90's it will "SHOOT you through the HEART"!!! (HAHAHA)
I loved skidz. I use to have about 4 or 5 pairs. We use to "peg" the bottom of the pants so they were not so wide. I wish you had a picture of the pants.
the most rediculous trend that EVERYONE including me fell into. I had black skidz with the blue yield signs on them. nothing matched but I didnt care. they were really comfortable.
All you needed in 88 or 89 to look cool were Skidz(pegged of course) a champion sweatshirt and hi-top black reeboks(MINT)
I always ask people if they remembered these pants and no one could. I thought forever that I imagined it so I was glad to that it really existed!
I remember these vividly. I even worked at a Merry-Go-Round in '88 and sold them! Funny, huh.
i still have mine ,i sleep in them. 19yrs old and still look good.
How could I forget my SKIDZ. My girlfriend and I had a matching pair of white with black stripes and turquois and yellow streaks. I used to match them with some Le Coq Sportifs with the same turqois and yellow color scheme. We were soooo dope!
My mom wouldn't buy me Skidz. I got "Cautions"
lololol @ 'cautions'
i'm 27 and only got the SKIDZ passed down to me from my big bro, i only have the shorts left and i wear those short everywhere... i get laughed at, but hey... i'm still cool!
anyone know of anywhere i can buy skidz. email me. jnicholson718@yahoo.com
i remember skidz well. there was a time when that's all i wore to school.
and i remember the fat kid whose mom took them in on the sides and they fit tight on! lol
I WAS 18 AND HAD MULTIPLE PAIRS! THEY WERE THE MOST COMFORTABLE PANTS EVER MADE! WOULD LOVE A PAIR FOR HALLOWEEN!!!!!
I LOVED these pants. Wish I could buy some! I live in WV and nobody here seems to remember them??!! FLASHBACK!!!What a great part of my high school life!!!
I still have 2 pairs left, one of them a checked flannel. I use them now for PJ's and they're still in great shape after 20 years!!
I was in 8th grade when I got 2 skidz outfits for back to school!! You couldn't tell me nuttin!!! I had a pair of green plaid overalls, and, of course, I only buttoned one side so one could see the matching skidz tshirt underneath!! I just saw myself in a pic from highschool and I was wearing the shirt!!! Damn! God bless the internet!!!
I live in Michigan and they were HUGE here in 88-89. I was 9 years old and had black and white checked overalls and green and yellow pants and I was the dopest kid around. If you had Skidz AND Z-Cavarichi's, black of course, you were the COOLEST. and LOL at the Cautions! I totaly had a pair of those before the skidz cause they were CHEAPER!!!
Where can I get a pair of skidz, i used to wear z cavariichi's or something like that. Please email me at JReeves0077@optonline.net
yo, these pants takes me back to my childhood. i went to Frederick Douglass High School, in Baltimore, Md and we rocked the Skidz so much that my principle banned them from the school.
I'm from Baltimore too and remember kids wearing their Skidz to the ankels so that you could see their fancy Scooby Doo Boxers.I was a punk and loved plaid pants so I wore them with my Doc Martens.I hated wearing jeans sometimes and the Skidz were snazier then sweats lol.It did'nt mater what scene you ran with because they were just cool,comfortable pants.
Hell Yea,88-89-90,i was in jr high,,,Skids with a Bart simson Tshirt or a Batman Tshirt on top,,,,These were big in my hood... Central Islip, Long Island.NY
I distinctly remember Skidz...In fact, I remember wanting them in 6th grade but not having the guts to buy them because I didn't think I was cool enough to pull it off. It wasn't until I was in my mid 20's that I put on my first pair of Skidz...I went to an 80's party and a friend loaned me a pair. They were fantastic.
Does anyone know where I could get my hands on a pair or two of the SKIDZ overalls. I am willing to pay a decent price for a couple of pair in good condition. would even be interested in some that are in need of mending. 937-414-1314
can anyoune please tell me where i could possible still buy skidz nobody seems to know anything about them
my nephew and brothers were all having a bottle rocket and roman candle fight one year and my nephew had on a pair of baggy skidz with all his ammo in the back pocket well the pants actually exploded right off his butt!so hysterically funny istill crack up at the thought of those pants flying through the air!
I still have my Skidz and wore them to bed last night!
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