Irish College, 1998

Hang on.

A bunch of lads from the local Coláiste get in on the act during an American Vogue shoot in the Aran Islands by Mario Testino, July, 1998.

Cá bhfuil siad anois?

Celtic Chic, Mario Testino

Thanks MR

Meanwhile,

Yesterday’s O’Vogue post gets the streetview treatment.

Thanks Geoff Hamilton

30 thoughts on “Irish College, 1998”

The guy on the girls right is photobombing to the Nth degree!!

Clampers Outside! on January 18, 2013 at 12:23 pm said:

Wouldn’t you if you were 13 :)
- FRY on January 18, 2013 at 12:25 pm said:
  
  meant to the right of the girl. hes easy to spot. he looks like a 17th century miner who just found gold,
  - Bejayziz on January 18, 2013 at 12:36 pm said:
    
    Haha!

i would turn for him

Comment from the page Celtic Chic, Mario Testino

reanimato: “i like this but everyone on these photos seem to have carrot face and orange hair. eh.”

Jaysus!

Hmmm, not quite sure if that’s the way they’re made or camel toe?

I would love to have seen Wintour’s face when they brought these back…

Ah, the Gaeltacht in 1998, when the height of fashion was Kappa “rip offs” and Fila or Paco jumpers… and that was the girls! There were always red faces from all the leppin’ around avoiding having to find a dance partner at the céilís.

l on January 18, 2013 at 2:49 pm said:

Rip-offs! Everyone had a pair! Everytime we went out for daily ‘cluichi’ there was just a load of kids running around trying to rip eachothers trousers off!

Ha! My first thought was ‘that girl’s a bit good looking (and mature looking) to be in a photo of Irish college’!

I remember the Paco jumpers! The most boob-flattening knitwear ever.

LJ on January 18, 2013 at 1:16 pm said:

Back when being a 14 year old girl, the aim was to look as much like a boy as possible and wearing clothes big enough to fit a man! I think that things have changed somewhat.
- SDaedalus on January 18, 2013 at 1:28 pm said:
  
  well said. couldn’t agree more.
- DaithiF on January 18, 2013 at 2:26 pm said:
  
  Didn’t stop us. You could have worn a dress woven from Tayto bags and we still would have had a punt.
- Clampers Outside! on January 18, 2013 at 2:37 pm said:
  
  “boob-flattening”
  
  You’re a star Sibling :)
  - LJ on January 18, 2013 at 2:50 pm said:
    
    The days of gelled hair with frosted tips..
    - MT on January 18, 2013 at 9:27 pm said:
      
      i was thinking about this very trip to Irish College the other day, the lads all went through gallons of “Sun-In”,if it wasnt cropped youd everyone with the same orange hair
Obvo on January 18, 2013 at 4:04 pm said:

Ha, read that as flattering at first. Thought I had the wrong decade.
- SDaedalus on January 18, 2013 at 5:45 pm said:
  
  No, flattening, not flattering.
  
  For anyone young enough never to have owned/tried to put their hand up a Paco jumper:-
  
  https://marketplace.asos.com/listing/jumpers/vtg-womens-paco-wool-knited-pattern-jumper-size-1038/534327
  
  Not as bad as the truly frightening Aran sweater monoboob though…
  - Spaghetti Hoop on January 18, 2013 at 5:54 pm said:
    
    Ended up on “Vintage Freak Clothing” via your link.
    Not a pleasant journey….
    - SDaedalus on January 18, 2013 at 5:56 pm said:
      
      No indeed. A terrible feeling of shame.
      
      I owned two Pacos. One of them came down to my knees. I used to wear it for special occasions. With trousers.
      
      I’m sure you have similar memories. ;-)

Apparently, they tried to photobomb the shoot the day before. Testino, overcome with LOLs, asked them to come back and do an actual shoot the next day… Bunch o’ madsers.

But where are they now?

l on January 18, 2013 at 2:46 pm said:

Holy crap! Is this Colaiste O’ Direain?!, Summer of ’98… They had the photoshoot on the beach! I remember they came round to the Irish college looking for boys with red hair (because they looked really ‘Oirish’)! What a flashback! I remember they took a Dublin kid that everyone called Kipper! And to this day I haven’t a clue why they called him that!
- Original Kipper on January 18, 2013 at 4:21 pm said:
  
  Sad but true fact from my nickname past..AFAIK I was the original “Kipper” christened with it in secondary school on the north-side of Dublin in 1990.
  A lad tried to come up with something different instead of the usual redhead nicknames, usually anything to do with the word red. So I was called red herring for a about a day and then changed to Kipper after that. By the time I got to 6th year a few of the younger lads had been dealt that nickname. Anyone calling the house phone looking for me used it and even the teachers called me by it which didnt impresses my Dad during the parent-teacher meetings.
  
  TL;DR= Redhair -> Red herring ->Kipper
  - l on January 18, 2013 at 5:26 pm said:
    
    Ah I see!