Next they’ll bring back shoulder-pads
As the fashion officionado that I am, I absolutely must protest the return of balloon skirts, spotty fabric, pastel/plastic jewellery and big glasses. Ok, so dressing up like you never left the 80′s might seem cool to people right now, but give it about 10 years, and the young women out there who are rushing into their closest Valleygirl, Dotti or Supre to buy plastic bangles, tights (to wear under their skirts, of course) and ballet slippers to go with it all, are seriously going to regret the purchase… Fr most, it’ll come back to haunt them when they turn 21, for the rest…. well, you should know better.
I suppose the reason why this fashion phase is getting to me is because, whilst I was born in the 80′s, I wasn’t really subjected to its atrocious fashion sense until the 90′s… when my cousins decided that they wanted to move on, and handed down any clthing they deemed ‘uncool’. So I was subjected to flouro coloured shorts and T’s, shoulder pads, big bows on my clothes and scrunchies, when everyone else was moving on to baggy jeans with big belts, purse backpacks, overalls, ‘bum-bags’ (you know, the bags that you clipped around your waist) and layered haircuts a-la Rachael-from-the-TV-show-’Friends’ (for those still out of the loop, Jennifer Aniston’s character?)
I dunno, call me gloomy, but I seriously think that, while returning to 70′s fashion, or as early as the 1920′s, even bringing back camofluage pants every so often, is a mad thing to do (especially the camo pants, in my case! 
), the 80′s sense of style should remain just there… in the 80′s.
Power dressing is NO LONGER NECESSARY. Feminism has done its job. Lets leave the shoulder pads in the past, shall we?
