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I was a teen of the 80s, but I've never heard of Zubaz. Are they supposed to be like parachute pants?
I used to like small shoulder pads, but not the huge ones. For people like me with small shoulders, a little bit of padding made me look more proportional. Even blazers I buy today have small padding in the shoulders.
Leg warmers were only a "thing" in the early 80s. By 84, at least where I lived, they were gone.
The headbands were also only in the early 80s. If you wore a headband (across the forehead) after about 1983, you'd be totally ridiculed or called Richard Simmons.
I never thought of fanny packs being an 80s thing. I just always thought they were for geeky kids and old ladies. In the 80s, the only people I saw with them: geeky kids and old ladies shopping. In the 90s: geeky kids and old ladies shopping, maybe some moms-on-the-go pushing kids in strollers. In the 2000s: geeky kids and old ladies shopping.
The nylon warm-up suits also didn't seem like an 80s thing to me. Just something the track team or other athletic team members would wear, and maybe the gym teachers. I think I associate them more with old ladies (again) and maybe thug guys like in Goodfellas or the Sopranos.
I also only remember neon colors being big right in the mid 80s. After that, little kids and pre-teens still wore a lot of neon, but teens and adults didn't. I was a Junior in 85-86 and we were making fun of neon clothes by then.
I was a teen of the 80s, but I've never heard of Zubaz. Are they supposed to be like parachute pants?
They were cotton leisure pants, similar to sweatpants in degree of formality, and were striped like zebra stripes, in the colors of different pro sports teams. They were a sporty thing, don't know how mainstream they were outside of people who really wanted to wear blue and orange striped pants to a Chicago Bears game, say. I think they were more late 80s, early 90s. I remember them, but I'm about a decade younger than you are. I turned 13 in 1990. Most 80s fashions that I remember, I remember as an elementary schooler.
There's no doubt the 1980s had some ugly hair and mustaches, but do people in the 2010s, with their obesity, tattoos, and gauge piercings really have any room to criticize another generation?
I'll take 80s fashion over the 90s grunge trend any day of the week. I graduated high school in '93 and half my classmates looked like starving homeless people who hadn't washed their hair in three weeks.
I'll take 80s fashion over the 90s grunge trend any day of the week. I graduated high school in '93 and half my classmates looked like starving homeless people who hadn't washed their hair in three weeks.
Yeah the 90s had a lot of pretty ugly fashion. I think most of the "everyday" fashion in that decade was similar to the stuff people wore in the 80s though.
When I look through my high school yearbook, I'm horrified. I think today's kids, at least my kids' peers, look pretty good by comparison. No crazy perms, glittery make-up, or fluorescent clothing. To me, that's a dramatic improvement.
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I'll take 80s fashion over the 90s grunge trend any day of the week. I graduated high school in '93 and half my classmates looked like starving homeless people who hadn't washed their hair in three weeks.
No kidding.
I loved the 80's. There was so much fun and variety. You could find clothes in almost any color... not just neon. I see a lot of styles that we wore back then being sold in stores now. Not all of the clothes were wildly outrageous. My sister is twelve years younger than me. She wore some of my old clothes to high school for Retro 80's day. Some kid told her that she was not dressed properly. A lot of clothes don't fit the 80's stereotype.
I hated the 90's clothes. They were so bland and lacked imagination. I remember a lot of denim and khaki and what I called the "desert colors". The colors weren't very flattering for me.
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