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I am not sure what a "washer woman hairdo" was. If you mean, long and unkempt, then, yes I do remember. It was the beginning of the disordered hairdo, and it has been resurfacing off and on ever since.
No, the 'washer woman do' is what women wore in the early 1900's. They made a knot on top of their heads and the all-around the sides were a little poufy (occasionally you see a fundamentalist woman wear something similar). Not sure that's the name of the style but it's what my mother called it. I've seen an old photo of my grandmother wearing hers that way.
And it was a trend for a while in the early-70's. Didn't care for it, really, but it seemed to go with the granny dresses.
The 80s is, and hopefully always will be, my least favorite fashion decade. Gross.
What a bizarre clash of styles. In high school, this was a typical classroom:
a girl with a Gunne Sax dress and french braid
a girl with spikes instead of her part between her feathered sides
a guy with purple tipped, spiked hair
a guy wearing safety pins all over a denim jacket, worn backwards
a girl with safety pins all through her shoelaces, except they had rainbow beads on them--wearing Mork From Ork rainbow suspenders, rainbow socks and jelly shoes
a girl wearing a men's Polo shirt with the collar standing up, and 4 watches on the same arm
a girl wearing a black bra and ripped denim vest with no shirt, ripped lace hose, and 12 black rubber bracelets
a guy wearing a chartreuse loose Shaker knit sweater, neon blue collar under that, chartreuse socks, enormous neon blue watch, highwater jeans and Docksiders
a girl wearing things with ducks all over them
a guy sporting a jheri curl, 1 white glove, and a faux military sort of jacket Shamone!
That complaint illustrates a positive - variety in style. There isn't much of it among today's young women. Hairstyle creativity has especially declined. By the way, I think the first post showed the worst of then and now.
I like the mid-late 90s the best. Didn't have the mullety tackyness of the 80s and early 90s, nor did it have as much obesity, tattoos and lack of class as the 2000s and 2010s. Braids and pony tails on adult women is hot too, and that's definitely more of a 90s thing.
Those are the kind of chicks I crushed on as a kid, the fashions that were popular between, say, 1994 and 2004.
No. I remember the 1970s very well. The look for women was long, flat, straight hair, and the men wore verdant mustaches and longer hair. I think the long hair for men sort of evaporated by the end of the seventies. But it was very prevalent for a long time.
If anything, the big hair lasted into the 90s rather than spilled over from the 70s.
My recollection is that big hair was gone by 1992. I don't remember the 70's. Also, compared to today - and I expect someone will rudely tell me if I'm wrong - women didn't wear short shorts in most of the 80's.
The 80's were awesome. There was so much variety. We looked good and we knew it. Sexy clothes that showed skin were more like seeing a shoulder or legs under a miniskirt. Our miniskirts covered our butts and were at least mid-thigh. Our school required that skirts and dress be no higher than 4" above the knee. Boys started wearing 'jams' my last year of school. They were shorts that came to the bottom of the knee. Before that guys wore jeans or pants.
I had a mullet at one time. It just didn't look good on me. I was jealous. I had permed hair and so did my brothers. I bought hair spray by the jug from the beauty supply place and refilled my pump bottle. I went through a bottle of hair spray a week. It took me over an hour to fix my hair and put my makeup on and get dressed each morning. I repainted my nails every single day.
Fat people were different then also. Fat then would probably be average size now. You just didn't see very many overweight people. If someone was fat it was usually because of soft drinks and junk food.
I wore the Chic mom jeans with the high waist. I loved them because they showed off my hour glass figure. I could wear a sweater up top and still have an hourglass.
My dress up shoes were high heels with a 2-3 inch heel. I've never been able to wear stilettos that women today wear. I loved short boots also.
I expect someone will rudely tell me if I'm wrong - women didn't wear short shorts in most of the 80's.
Women wore short shorts in the '80s, and so did men. Toward the end of the '80s, several cultural influences led to the universal requirement of the long and baggy mens shorts that we are still cursed with today.
There is good and bad in every decade I would say. I know people get nostalgia, but the "bad" about the fashions today were probably echoed back then as well but by a different generation.
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