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?
miSta said,
Monday, 23 October 2006 at 3:02
Yeah .. shirly’s got some 80s clothes with shoulder pads hiding in the wardrobe ..
hehe
to embarrasing to admit i reckon
hehe
tricky84 said,
Monday, 23 October 2006 at 21:39
No, thank god, cos I managed to get rid of them ages ago!and even IF they made a come back, then i’m definitely going to boycott! My shoulders are straight and as emphasised as they need to be the way they are.
No artificiality about me!
thepocket said,
Monday, 23 October 2006 at 22:01
I agree with the 80′s dressing it was something nobody ever claims they did but a found out at the slide nights. Do you remember slap bands? One thing I do disagree with you on is the big sunglasses, I love my big sunnies and they prevent those unsightly crows feet (plus they make my head look smaller).
tricky84 said,
Friday, 27 October 2006 at 20:31
Lol, I suppose, the glasses are ok, altho have you seen those aviator-HELMET like ones?? They’re massive ones that only really allow a small amount of nose to make its appearance… I think if I wore them, I would LOOK like I was abot to go fly some fighter jet or something, lol.
Slap bands were mad!! THEY were cool! They should make a come back, I’m thinking.
misslionheart said,
Saturday, 28 October 2006 at 19:28
What are slapbands?:lol:
Ole said,
Sunday, 29 October 2006 at 18:58
Interestingly, I never found the 80s dress code that bad (I am born in 1975, so I can almost remember all the stuff that happend in the 80s). Of course, the shoulder pads and some of the hair styles were a bit f**cked but overall it wasn’t any worse than today’s lame hiphop ‘I have to waer my pants below my knees’ style. I would even go so far and say that today there is no style. It’s either a return to the past or a mixture of no taste and ‘I have to follow a trend to be cool’ attitude. Very sad. At least the 80s had their OWN style.
Cheers
Ole
tricky84 said,
Monday, 30 October 2006 at 20:04
Ok, I know what they are, but explaining it is a bit beyond me at the moment, so I looked it up online, and here are two fairly good explanations of what they were:
1. slapbands
Possibly an unique Australian sort of thing…
There a pice of PVC/fabric with steel plate embedded into in, usually covered in some bad 90′s design.
People these things were the shit in their heyday.
Between Full House and Vanilla Ice these things are like totally way cool.
Basically you ‘slap’ the strip onto your wrist and it snaps around it like a bracelet. Sure it’s hardly functional and quite dangerous (our school banned them after a couple of weeks, and i think they are outlawed and a ‘WOMD’ in serveral countries) but god damn, they were cool.
2. slapbands
One of the greatest and most fun trends that any kid growing up in the 90s should remember. Often had rad 90s designs on the outside and either black or a neon colour on the inside. Were banned in many school settings because of their ability to cause great pain to others when used improperly.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=slapbands
And I’d have to agree with Ole when he says that “today there is no style”. Long gone are the days when a new form of clothing was designed. I’m thinking of things like Bauhaus (which, yes, I realise is an art movement, but focusing closley on ppl like Sonia Delaunay etc who worked with textiles) where it was the first time for people to play around with colour and design simultaneously with textiles and fashion. Now all you need to do is get onto Windows Paint, and you can probably come up with a design in 2 minutes, which has probably already been done before.
Also, there’s not much that you can take off a body anymore to scandalise the masses, and putting fabric on just doesn’t work the same…
Ah mass globalised consumerism! What would we do without you?
carpentersdaughter said,
Saturday, 30 December 2006 at 0:45
I too was subject to the 80s hand-me-downs …
tricky84 said,
Sunday, 31 December 2006 at 17:27
Some really serious stuff happening at home… my sister has bought for herself a black-with-white-polka-dots, high-waisted, shirred bodice with shoe-string strapped dress!!!! I think the thing looks really bad, but she’s over the moon, and is trying to get accessories to go with it, so she can wear it out!!! tres disgusting!!
And then she gets into a snit when she asks how she looks, and I say she looks pregnant!
*sigh*