Membership of the ‘spice girls’ revolved around two white, working-class girls, Carly and Debbie. Jenny, Rachel, Alice and Lisa were less consistently members of the group. Lisa and Alice would sometimes claim to be ‘tomboys’ while Jenny and Rachel, when playing and spending time with the ‘girlies’, and especially when Carly and Debbie were in trouble with adults in the school, would realign themselves as ‘girlies’. Very occasionally, when she had quarrelled both with Carly and Debbie, and with Jodie, the one consistent tomboy among the girls, Alice too would reinvent herself as a ‘girlie’.