Retsy Series 1 · Card 0261 · 80-FSH
Wear forty. Lose twelve. Trade the rest.
Thin rubbery bracelets sold by the bundle and stacked from wrist to elbow in clashing neon colors.
The story · 1984
A bundle of jelly bangles cost less than a slice of pizza, which meant you could wear your entire allowance on one arm. Kids traded single bangles like currency, with glitter ones worth three plain ones. They clattered on every desk during spelling tests, and teachers sighed loudly enough to prove it.
The record stack at one school reached the shoulder, and its owner had to write left-handed for a week.
Six finishes
Elbow-Deep Jelly Bangles comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-FSH
Elbow-Deep Jelly Bangles is one of 32 cards in the 80s Fashion & Style set. Here are the other 31.
