Bangle bracelets, also known as slap bracelets, are making a comeback among today’s youth. They are flexible, colorful, and relatively inexpensive, making them popular for trading and demonstrating group solidarity. However, some schools may prohibit them due to past issues with misuse.
Many people like to wear bracelets. For the youth, there is a bracelet that was popular in the late 1980s and early 1990s that is currently making a comeback. This type of bracelet is known as a bangle.
Sometimes called a snap bracelet, today’s punch bracelet is simply a flexible band of metal that has been lightly padded and colored with colorful material. The padding in today’s bangle bracelet is an improvement over the bracelets of earlier times, which tended to consist of just the metal and fabric covering. To put on bracelets of this type, one simply extends the wrist and gently taps the bracelet against the wrist. The flexible metal in the slap bracelet then encircles the wrist, leaving the look of traditional round bracelets.
Part of the appeal of these bracelets is that they are relatively inexpensive, which is good for any teen’s budget. A second draw is that the bracelets come in all sorts of colors and patterns, so they can be as calm or wild as the wearer wants them to be. A slap bracelet can be paired with an outfit for a more urban look, or it can be a wild pattern that stands out easily if the wearer is going for a more grunge look. There are even black bracelets that can be worn as part of a gothic look.
Since the bracelet has never been very expensive, it is an ideal item to trade with friends. In true adolescence, two girls can exchange their favorite slap bracelets as a demonstration of their status as best friends. In other situations, all members of a group may choose to wear a bracelet of a single color or pattern, as a way of demonstrating group solidarity.
During the early years of the wristbands, some schools chose to prohibit the wearing of the wristbands during school hours. One of the problems was that the bracelets were used to literally smack the wrists causing frequent trips to the school nurse. In other situations, the wearing of a particular armband began to be adopted as a way for gangs to circumvent a school’s dress code. While many of these old restrictions are now long forgotten, some school jurisdictions are likely to revive them as the bracelet regains popularity among today’s youth.
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