I wore those flowy broomstick ankle length skirts with the big shirts ALL the time.

I graduated from high school in 1998–this looks very 1990s to me. Yes we had color photography but this shot looks to me like something I might have taken around school on an old black and white Pentax camera while I was in photography class. (It was one of the “shop” classes at my public school along with metal shop and wood shop. Do they still do those classes anymore?)

Also the “yearbook kids” took black and white photos and developed themselves which nobody did with color photos at the time. Since there weren’t cell phone pics and Polaroids were a little old and big to carry around you didn’t really take a lot of pictures in school at all and most of the ones I remember where black and white from those school cameras.

People did use disposable cameras a lot for trips and vacations and out of school. But I really don’t remember many kids taking pictures in the halls with them and getting them developed at the drug store. Maybe teachers didn’t allow it —can’t remember. It also cost $$ to get color pics developed so you didn’t take as many candid shots.