The 80's are back and there's gonna be trouble....

[3113]

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i190/thirteen1031/80s.jpg

Latest fashions are back in the early, flash-dance cum goth/motorcycle club 80's. Meaning black, white, silver and dark, denim blue. Tees with 80's bands, USA themes and skulls. Also lots of embedded metal um, spangles? What is it called when you've got such decorative designs on jackets and such? Also Rhinestones. Heavy brass and silver jewelry. I see problems with metal detectors in the future for people who wear the latest fashions this year.

Cropped, off-the shoulder tops for ladies and shorty-short, flared Madonna skirts. Also headbands (both hold-back hair type and about the forehead type) which are actually a remnant of the resurrected 20's style which seems to have come and gone and left behind little else.

http://images.anthropologie.com/is/image/Anthropologie/28435600_070_b?$product410x615$

And friendship bracelets are also in.

One 2013 extra: Middle-eastern scarves. They are everywhere.

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/20070321ArkArafatScarf.jpg

Thoughts on these fashions? Things you like? Don't like? Other fashions you've noticed coming into vogue for the Fall? And hey, Stella, you modeled in the 80's right? Maybe it's time for a comeback?

 

[slyc_willie]

The 80s will never die.

However, I hope we don't see a rebirth of those multi-colored leather jumpsuits with all the crazy zippers on them.

And paisley. Dear God, don't bring back paisley.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I knew if I just stuck to my guns I'd be fashionable one day. * throws on some Gary Numan and Frankie *

 

[TE999]

Yay! I'll dig out my Ronco Rhinestone Stud Setter.

 

[driphoney]

Yay! I'll dig out my Ronco Rhinestone Stud Setter.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! ... hahahahahahahahahahahahaha, hahahahaha!

 

[driphoney]

I knew if I just stuck to my guns I'd be fashionable one day. * throws on some Gary Numan and Frankie *

I stereotypically American think Aussies are waaaaaaaay tooooooooo cool to be ‘80s. Never mind the BeeGee’s or Linda Whatshername.

 

[driphoney]

The 80s will never die.

However, I hope we don't see a rebirth of those multi-colored leather jumpsuits with all the crazy zippers on them.

And paisley. Dear God, don't bring back paisley.

Are you kidding me?!? Paisley is the ONLY good thing to come out of the 80’s!

 

[Weird Harold]

Are you kidding me?!? Paisley is the ONLY good thing to come out of the 80’s!

The 80s stole Paisley from the 60s.

 

[StrangeLife]

Rick Astley better not see this thread...

 

[Handley_Page]

The 80s stole Paisley from the 60s.

Maybe, but it was the 1780s in the west.
It is a very, very old design:-

"Resembling a twisted teardrop, the kidney-shaped paisley is of Iranian and Indian origin, but its western name derives from the town of Paisley, in central Scotland, a centre for textiles where paisley designs were produced.

In Persian language the design is known as Boteh Jegheh and it has been used in Iran since the Sassanid Dynasty (AD 224 to AD 651)."

 

[Bramblethorn]

I stereotypically American think Aussies are waaaaaaaay tooooooooo cool to be ‘80s. Never mind the BeeGee’s or Linda Whatshername.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. We had John Farnham, Kylie Minogue, and Jason Donovan, along with some 'novelty' singles best forgotten.

But we also had AC/DC, Crowded House, Icehouse, and Midnight Oil. Plus, The Church and Hunters and Collectors. That makes up for a lot.

 

[TheeGoatPig]

But we have over 66 years until the 80s return?

I actually like 80s fashion. It was daring, colorful, and creative. Everything has seemed so boring ever since.

 

[jomar]

The 80s...a fashion debacle.

Though maybe parachute pants are better than the ongoing sagging and dragging that is ongoing.

 

[driphoney]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. We had John Farnham, Kylie Minogue, and Jason Donovan, along with some 'novelty' singles best forgotten.

But we also had AC/DC, Crowded House, Icehouse, and Midnight Oil. Plus, The Church and Hunters and Collectors. That makes up for a lot.

Oh yeah.

 

[Handley_Page]

The 80s...a fashion debacle.

Though maybe parachute pants are better than the ongoing sagging and dragging that is ongoing.

Personally, I thought that the 60s were far better.

But there were some really nice songs about. Like THIS ONE.
From her first LP.

 

[3113]

Though maybe parachute pants are better than the ongoing sagging and dragging that is ongoing.

What sagging and dragging? I look around and all I see are skin-tight pants. Nothing is allowed to sag or drag.

 

[3113]

Maybe, but it was the 1780s in the west.
It is a very, very old design:-...In Persian language the design is known as Boteh Jegheh and it has been used in Iran since the Sassanid Dynasty (AD 224 to AD 651).

The length that something has been around isn't the issue. The issue is, how long as it been a big thing in fashion? Jeans may have been around for 100+ years, but what matters (fashion-wise) is when they stopped being work/play clothes and become a fashion trend, something everyone wanted to wear in order to be trendy, with different styles.

So it is accurate to point out that the 60's was the paisley era even if paisley has been around for nearly 1,800 years because up till then, paisley wasn't a fashion trend (i.e. so far as we know. I don't think they accurately recorded fashion trends in 224 a.d. Iran).

 

[3113]

Yay! I'll dig out my Ronco Rhinestone Stud Setter.

Studding! That's the word I was looking for. Yes. Studding with rhinestones and metal studs (spikes?) is back in fashion, big time. Also southwestern motifs.

Oh, gag...does this mean all those pale pinks and greens and such will be back? I don't want Nagel to come back. I really don't!

http://silverliningopticians.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/08/xxx-patrick-nagel-014-thumb2.jpg

 

[3113]

I actually like 80s fashion. It was daring, colorful, and creative. Everything has seemed so boring ever since.

Creative, yes, I'll grant you that, but there's also a distant and cold feeling to 80's fashions. And not so colorful (colors muted, black dominated).

That said, you've got the same problem here as when the 60's fashions came back. No one is being creative or daring as when the fashions were invented--these are just retreads. Copies of an old fashion. And the context that created that fashion (early 80's arising out of the punk movement for example), isn't there. So there's no context behind it as there was the first time around. So it doesn't mean anything to those wearing it.

Putting it another way, when kids with mohawks and piercings first appeared, they were shocking and part of a very raw counterculture with big, screaming radios balanced on shoulders. A modern mohawk isn't going to shock and the kid's music is blasting only into his ears from his iPhone. What can that mohawk mean to him outside of it being currently in fashion--and easily out of fashion next year?

 

[Tyro999]

Maybe, but it was the 1780s in the west.
It is a very, very old design:-

"Resembling a twisted teardrop, the kidney-shaped paisley is of Iranian and Indian origin, but its western name derives from the town of Paisley, in central Scotland, a centre for textiles where paisley designs were produced.

In Persian language the design is known as Boteh Jegheh and it has been used in Iran since the Sassanid Dynasty (AD 224 to AD 651)."

Sometimes, HP, you are font of useful information. This wasn't one of those times. I never paid too much attention to paisley. Now, I'm steeped in an excess of useless information about it. Thanks a lot, rat fink.

 

[Weird Harold]

The length that something has been around isn't the issue. The issue is, how long as it been a big thing in fashion?

If we're going to be picky, Paisley was a major fashion trend in the 19th century; it just wasn't a huge fashion trend in clothing. Furniture/upholstery and carpets/wall hangings featuring woven Paisley and Paisley wallpaper were all the rage.

So it is accurate to point out that the 60's was the paisley era even if paisley has been around for nearly 1,800 years because up till then, paisley wasn't a fashion trend...

Again to be picky, the 60s were the "Paisley-Print" era. Before Paisley became popular, cheap, lightweight, colorful (psychedelic) paisley prints had to be developed. The 60s had little interest in the (relatively) drab woven paisley fabrics of Victorian fashion.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In gentlemen's neckties and pocket squares, paisley has been in fashion for decades. It will never die.

 

[slyc_willie]

Studding! That's the word I was looking for. Yes. Studding with rhinestones and metal studs (spikes?) is back in fashion, big time. Also southwestern motifs.

Oh, gag...does this mean all those pale pinks and greens and such will be back? I don't want Nagel to come back. I really don't!

http://silverliningopticians.com/wp-content/uploads//2010/08/xxx-patrick-nagel-014-thumb2.jpg

Ah, Peter Nagel. I used to want one of those prints.

As far as the pastel colors, I've seen them here and there, but not to the extent that I did during the 80s. I am rather glad that multi-color eye shadow is back. That always reminds me of Ginger Lynn.

In gentlemen's neckties and pocket squares, paisley has been in fashion for decades. It will never die.

Neckties are fine (though I wouldn't wear one). But I remember the paisley shirts and blouses, the paisley jackets, the paisley iron-ons for your jeans jacket . . . ugh.

Yeah, I had a couple of paisley shirts

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Paisley...

I much prefer tie-dye or madras and I can't wait for my Nehru jacket to come back in style.

 

[TxRad]

The 80's?

Oh yeah.... Now I remember.

No thanks, I think I'll pass on reliving those years. Not the best of years in any way, shape, or form.

Way too many bad memories.