You in the 1980s!

You know how current fashion is starting to be enthralled with 80s fashion? I've been writing on my blog about some 80s fashion trends and the impact I think they seem to be having now (here is my blog if you'd like to check it out).

After several more trends I will come to the end of that series and I'd love to show real people in 80s fashions. If you weren't just a baby then would you be willing to share a photo or two of your stylin' self from the 1980s? Show us all here, and I'll show you on my blog in a week or so...if you don't mind, that is.

If you were wearing vintage then, great! I am going to discuss the influence of vintage clothing on 80s fashion, and you'd be a fine illustration!

P.S. Joules: You HAVE to post the pic you posted on Twitter of yourself! HAVE to!

 

Hi Maggie -

I have a lot of pictures of myself in the '80's. I've shared some of them before but will post them again later.

Linn

 

Thank you Linn...I know I've seen some of your vintage pics, but I must have missed the 80s shots of you.

I'm still trying to dig out some of my own. We didn't take so many pictures back then, did we? I know I went through a bit of a punk housewife phase with 50s dresses and pink hair. I probably should be glad I don't have photos of that!

 

I'll play! This is the only 80s pic I have scanned into the computer at this point. This was taken in 1986, and I am in vintage:


I still have it hanging in my closet although I haven't worn it in awhile. It's the top 2 pieces of a 40s rayon lounging pajamas set - the wide legged pants were much too short, but the SS double breasted blouse and quilted frogged jacket look great on top of black pants. In those days, I often wore them over a mid calf black cotton knit swingy skirt and black riding boots. Oh, and of course, my 80s perm tops the whole thing off.

DH is wearing a 40s rayon Hawaiian shirt that he has since outgrown. With a mullet.
:scratchchin:

 

:D Maggie, I would have loved to look so great in the 80s!

 

Thanks for the nice compliments. Joules, I had the exact same Mickey Mouse tee that your friend is wearing in the photo - I wore it to death!

 

that's so funny, Maggie (Mags)! i had the MINNIE mouse t-shirt like Joules' friend's!! and i, too, wore mine so much, ALL the time!!! ~ but i had a very dear friend who had to move back to Japan, and when i asked what she wanted for a going away gift, she chose that. how could i say no?

what a small vintage world.

and Mags, OF COURSE he had a mullet!!!!!

i think i posted this photo a couple years back for a rockabilly thing, but this is my friend, Ken and I before hitting the (rockabilly) clubs in Chicago, about uh, 1985?? 6?? 7??

 

!!!!!!! I knew there was a lot of 80s style among people here!! Keep them coming!!

 

I'm still searching for some, but here's a few, including The Perm:



and who knows what...I hope I wasn't planning on doing any reading:



I wore polka dots so much it was sort of ridiculous, although I don't have lots of evidence:




This is from the early 80s, and I look like I am dressed for work, not a concert performance:

 

Great thread, wish I had noticed it sooner, was at my Mom's earlier today and she keeps all her photos in such fine order...I could have scanned some from there....mine are all in a box somewhere:clueless:

 

Ah, Kristine, you look great!

 

I've shown some of these before but here goes:

This was taken in 1985 at my office at U.H. I taught interior design there for several years. I bought the Gucci bag in Paris the previous summer.


Here's a picture of me in Paris - August 1985. The dress is hand-woven. I bought it at a Craft's fair in Honolulu. I wish I still had all that hair!!!



Taken outside my "flat" in Honolulu in 1986. This is one of my favorite '80's dresses. I wish I'd kept it - and the shoes.


This is me on my birthday in 1986 with my DH - we have only been dating a few months at this point:


The dress is not a Diane Von Furstenberg - it's a Jeannene Booker but I'll post about it on another thread. I bought it in 1979 - and I still have it! I shortened it which was a mistake...

Another of my favorite '80's dresses. This one is silk - made in Korea. Love the colors and the lines. I could not get into this one now. (But it's long gone...)



Linn

 

Linn...I recognize that beautiful smile instantly! Awesome photos!

 

Kristine -

Thank you! You look great in your '80's photos. I am getting such a kick out of seeing these. I always preferred a "Classic" look. I was a blonde for a little while in high school and college and in the very late '90's. It looks much better dark.

I think the most "amazing" change is Louise - although Maggie (Denisebrain) with dark hair is different! Maggie - I thought the red- blond was natural. Is the dark dyed?

We should show current photos next - wearing vintage of course.

Linn