Fashion Crimes of the 80s

[Lace Neil Singer]

http://www.thefashionpolice.net/2007...n-crime-1.html

Come on, own up; how many of you owned a shellsuit?

[Evil Queen]

My grandmother still has her shellsuit. And she still wears it.

<shiver>

But I miss the acid washed demin sometimes.

[flybye023]

I don't get the hatin' going on toward the acid wash look myself. Some of it was extreme, but some of it was no better/worse than some of the stone washed look we have now.

I think that if you're going to rip on acid wash then I think you need to rip on some of the current trend of the pre-worn-out jeans where they make it look really light on the thighs/seat of the pants. Even worse are the jeans that are pre-stained to get that well-worn look.

[alogram]

That wasn't a very good list!

seems like there should be much more to it!

Weren't the scrunched socks from the 80's?

Tight rolled jeans?

[One-Fang]

God yeah. Of all the 80s fashion crimes, THIS is all they could come up with? None of that is even all that bad.

[Lace Neil Singer]

The shellsuit is. XD Not just cuz it was just so terrible, but... it was also highly flammable! O.o

[Fenrus]

I was born in 89... I don't even know what a shell suit is!

[iradney]

The bubble dress - which is, alas, back in fashion! !

[crazylegs]

I never owned a shell suit, my PCUs wouldn't let me have one, now I'm glad!

[draggar]

I don't get the hatin' going on toward the acid wash look myself. Some of it was extreme, but some of it was no better/worse than some of the stone washed look we have now.

I agree, acid washed jeans were great and "jean jackets" were great - they were warm, comfortable, and tough.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

I had an acid wash short jacket, with shoulder pads, tassles, frogs, and a wide lapel. I didn't have any acid wash jeans, I was a metalhead. So most of my jeans were dark or even black, painted with bleach to rip the fronts ( you have to be careful not to put holes where your knees will come through.) so you could get that all important 80's metalhead spagetti-jean effect. Zipped ankles. Flat slouch boots, either red or black. Fitted midriff shirt or tight pullover. Lace tights. Black leather jacket (I had two or three). Big teased metal hair. Huge earrings.

People are suprised to find that out, I don't look like that now. My bookish, computer guru husband, too. I have a picture of him from his band days, shredding away on a custom yellow guitar in front of a Marshall stack, long, curly, black hair hanging all over the place. Looked for all the world like Slash, only without the hat and the smoke. People are all like "Holy CRAP, is that Mr. Kinkoid????"

I miss the eighties. Bang your head!

[Severen13]

Ah...shell suits, shoulder pads, neon, jelly shoes, banana combs, Swatches, huge hair....


I miss the 80's. *sniff*

[blas]

Leg warmers not on the list? Wtf.....that trend has been back for a few years now. And leggings are back. Those look terrible on pretty much everyone.....

[Boozy]

I had all of those things on the list, and almost everything people have added to it thus far. I was so awesome.

Things I don't miss: jelly shoes (uncomfortable), big hair (too much work), shoulder pads (made me look like a pinhead).

Things I greatly miss: Leg warmers, popped collars, and neon colours. I'm still waiting for the third to make a comeback.

[blas]

Popped collars made a comeback, Boozy.