Poppers
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Adidas Poppers
No, not the down-market drugs, but the stripper style buttoned up tracksuit bottoms that adorned many a wardrobe in the 1990′s. Sporty Spice acted as ambassador for this ground-breaking attire which saw parents throughout the country forking out for Adidas trackies or worse, skimping on the poppers and buying the socially inferior “Abidas” or “Addidas” version with one or four stripes instead of three.
A great rival to the Adidas poppers was the Kappa version featuring Bond-style naked silhouettes down each leg. However, the Kappa brand carried its own dangers -that of being branded a “Kappa-Slapper”.
The allure of the popper design soon wore off as too many people were “popped” and shamed by the easy exposure of their legs. Normal tracksuit bottoms proved much safer and cheaper leading to the demise of this much loved fad.
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I’ve still got mine somewhere.
I like how they gave you a spare button – or popper – in case one came off: as all your mates ripped them open at least twice a day, you invariably lost more than one (and it was impossible to put the spare one in anyway!)!
A riduculous fad.
[...] from Alan the manager with saying something wacky down the microphone to the amusement of my Adidas Popper-clad Panda Pop-swigging pals, through to trudging/snatching/rejecting matriarchal praise until she [...]
[...] language was akin to that of the new kid at school, awkwardly poised between pricking either the Adidas ‘poppers’-clad sporty-gang with their Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United replica jerseys, or the one with [...]