the weirdest shit i have ever experienced as a swede is when around the mid 2000’s it became popular in sweden for teenage boys to wear rubber bands around their legs on top of their jeans. the more rubber bands you had and variety in colors the more alpha you became to the other teenage boys
i don’t understand
bring this quality fashion trend back to the streets
could it be
the return of the anglo saxons
Holy shit
see this is what i mean when i talk about folk memory and inherited genetic memory
EMMA, LINNEA, EXPLAIN
Oh MY GOD THIS IS LIK THE FUNNIEST THING TO EVER HAPPEN IN SWEDEN. DID THIS NOT HAPPEN ANYWHERE ELSE?
ok so basically for a while in sweden pretty much everyone would wear like a hairband at the bottom of their jeans. i guess it was the fashion for jeans to be kinda tight around the ankles and not flop around and shit. it wasn’t totally horrid at first considering this is, after all, a mid 2000 trend we’re talking about.
Not SO bad to begin with right? I mean the trousers here are fairly discreet even though everything going on above that is an atrocity.
but then it escalated
and just kept escalating
the trend got different nicknames in different cities. In gothenburg we called them ‘Partille Johnny’ - Partille being a slightly upperclass and pretty white suburb. Google the name yourself to see more.
I mean I’m not gonna lie, was guilty of sometimes putting a single hairband around my jeans back then, similar to the girl in the ballerina shoes here. it’s just what everyone did for a while.
but then it escalated to the previously shown madness and suddenly no one wanted to be associated with it and the light hairband-use died out and the Partille Johnny’s kept pushing the hairband further and further up their legs, to the points where i’m pretty sure parents started worrying about their kids blood circulation.
Like ok I just want to add as well that I don’t think the first post here does the Partille Johnny justice because it only focuses on the jeans and the hairbands but come on it was SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT. SO much effort went into this look ok
like everyone who did the hairband thing ALSO did this incredible thing with their hair and faces
like this was a lifestyle for the swedish lads
Every few years I type “swede teen rubber band legs” into google to find this again
The hair and bronzer were happening in the states too. This was the Growing Up Gotti -> Jersey Shore era.
