Carrier bags. Again,

Oh no, it *had* to be a cool bag!! Anything name brand...River Island, Topshop, Miss Slefridge....no Tesco bags for me!

I'm still kind of the same. If I have to use a carrier bag from home, I always dig out the nice ones rather than using a Tesco or Asda bag etc. if I douse a supermarket bag, I always try to use a Sainsburys or Waitrose bag too...I am a carrier bag snob!

Yes! River island bags were acceptable, as we're faith ones, they were orange drawstring ones with 'rin tin tin' on them.

if you had a new look bag then you were shunned. If it was a tesco bag or similar you may as well not bother going to school!

It was the Jane Norman bag craze when I was at school. I wasn't cool enough so stuck to New look instead.

Jane Norman here! Or we had a designer shop in town that sold various ranges, Miss Sixty, French Connection, DKNY - if you had one of them you were ultimate cool!!!

Ok I'm going to admit something... I used to kinda collect carrier bags... I wouldn't get rid of the bag if I didn't already have one of them. That's so so so sad and I have a horrible feeling along with my spoon collection (i dont have this no more eithet btw), that this is going to feature in my dads speech... Help me!

Guessing none of you had Spinneys or Choitrams? No just me? Ok back in my box.

I do still notice the cool bag thing, my clients like JD Sports and GAP bags , think its the drawstring that makes them cool

Jane Norman for me too! I also kept them if I didn't already have the colour.

I remember the jane norman bags too!

Yep, Jane Norman, Faith, Topshop, River Island etc were all acceptable.

I particularly favoured the 'box' style bags - you know, the ones with a gusset that had rope handles?

I would NEVER have taken anything to school in a supermarket carrier bag.

I would never carry anything to anywhere in a carrier bag of any description. Except current shopping.

Ah good to see other people are the same!

im currently carrying my maternity notes around in an Apple bag, although that's mostly for practicality as it is drawstring and I can sling it over my shoulder with my handbag whilst I struggle to carry a whinging toddler.

Not to school? But it was considered the height of cool!

Couldn't you lot afford rucksacks ?

I wouldn't have used anything other than mine blue and black Adidas rucksack. They WERE cool. Promise

Well. yes, I had that too! Worn with the straps really long so as to do as much damage to your back as possible.

Haha, oh God, I remember the carrier bag craze, and the kids would get bullied if they had a supermarket bag!

If I didn't have a 'good' carrier bag, I'd carry all my extra stuff in my hands - it was a billion times better than a supermarket bag!

Absolutely this!

Jane Norman bags for us, or any sports branded drawstring bag.

I still keep JN bags now, they are handy! I sold a large one on eBay once for a fiver!!!

Over one shoulder only was the trend in our school!

Spinneys as in the supermarkets in Dubai ? Yep, I had these as a kid, I lived there in the late 80's !

As for when I was at school, I would only ever use the bags with the drawstrings, so JD sports and Faith shoes bags etc, never a standard supermarket carrier bag ha ha

Not carrier bags here, we had the jelly craze as in bags and shoes, fun times!

You couldn't get away with a carrier bag at my school, even for things like your food tech ingredients! I still remember a girl in my year coming into school in year 7 with a Primark carrier bag (one of the big, pillow sized plastic ones they used to have) and people were still calling her a "tramp" in year 11 for it!

When I started secondary school, black "Morgan" messenger bags were all the rage, and it slowly evolved to Jane Norman and a few others. For a while the draw string nike bags were the in thing, but only for PE kit.

When I got to year 11ish Paul Frank got really big and I came into school one day with a Paul Frank messenger bag after a trip to London and people seemed in awe hahah, i've never had so many compliments in my life!

WTF! I was obviously far too kool!

I had a rucksack but you could only wear it on one shoulder as only losers, geeks and tourists wore rucksacks on both shoulders and I had a gym bag as well for PE days.

I would not have taken anything to school in a supermarket carrier bag! I wasn't cool as it was without lowering myself further down the foodchain. It's still stuck with me now a bit if I must use a carrier bag I pick out the nice solid ones. Our Tesco ones get used for bins and garden dogsh1t. If you had a topshop bag that was the best, or you could possibly top that with Jane Norman but you had to go into the city to get that. New look was acceptable, but no primark or peacocks! I remember a craze of la senza and ann summers bags. As a self concious teenager though I never went there. For how we wore the ruck sacks it was definitely straps full length so they hung past your bum. My mum used to tell me off all the time and even OH has took the Mick.

Maybe thats a boy thing? I was talking to MrMini this morning and at his school the boys had to take any additonal stuff to school in a boot bag?! MrMini is the least sporty man I know.

Rucksacks? No, when I started yr7 it was record bags all the way. Only geeks had rucksacks.

In later years rucksacks became cool, but only one strap, or then 2 but reeeaaaalllllllly long. I dread to think of the damage done to my back all those years of trying to be cool!

I had a rucksack like this, only slight different colours

I was at one school years 7-9 and the trend was also to have your bag as low as possible. If you didn't cause that kind of damage to your back you were known as a 'happy camper' and bullied constantly. ?

Year 10 through to 6th form it was all about wearing it on one shoulder if you had the misfortune of owning a rucksack and if not it was BIG HANDBAGS. I never ever ever had a handbag at school and even at uni I still have a big rucksack. Practicality before fashion in my opinion. Don't care what people think of me.

Ha! Yes! I had this but in a green and red colour way.

I remember we all had boot bags too (I'm definitely not a boy) for PE.. I can't remember what was in them but assume it would have been trainers....