Is this 80s or 90s?

hatfeathers

hatfeathers

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I'm getting a Melrose Place vibe from this number...
It looks like it should be a normal suit, but the skirt is super mini, ala Heather Locklear?
It's made by Mademoiselle Tokyo. I have no idea how it got to my mid-mo church rummage sale.
Jenn


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The shoulders look pretty strong. Are they padded? Otherwise it looks very 90s. I wore a similar suit to my brother's wedding in 95 - same color and pleated skirt and all!

Lizzie
 
It doesn't look bulky enough for 80s. It looks like a 90s Ally McBeal power mini suit!!

It's really smart yet sexy! I love that color of pink. It's so bright yet muted at the same time!!

Very nice Jenn!!

:USETHUMBUP: ~Maureen
 
Yep, those are padded sleeves. Didn't think to give them the squeeze until you asked.

I forgot about Ally McBeal, she wore horribly short skirt suits, too. Hers didn't spend as much time on the floor of her office as the Melrose gals' did!

Jenn
 
I have strong memories of the early 90s when i was workin' 9 to 5 and wearing suits every single day. I totally agree with Jonathan. Shoulder pads were indeed in the early 90s.

What you have was the softer look that was going on, and in a few years, as the 90s went on...maybe about 98, you would see that jacket have a collar on it.

The style i used to wear a lot form the early 90s that might be considered the less soft look is the very tailored blazer with shoulder pads, with a really nipped in waist but it came over the hip or mid thigh. it had a very strong "man's 40s suit jacket" inspiration. (then of course men's suits had that going at that time too). One i had was a shawl collar instead of the peaked collar. then it had a slim pencil skirt or a slim miniskirt. But the miniskirts had the banded waist and a lot of the design features and darting of a pencil skirt - just short - versus the more flouncy ideas of the 80s or versus the A-line miniskirt that would be more popular later. I really did like those miniskirts. I could leave some other things in the 90s where they belong, but the skirts were perfect for me. Picture big for this time frame a longer 3/4 length blazer with a nipped in waist, mini skirt ending a few inches below the jacket and opaque pantyhouse and you have a very quintessential look for the time.

As you got into 93-94, the softer shawl collars were replacing the peaked collars and then the shoulder pads shrunk dramatically.

Another thing that you saw in the time was the cropped, very military influenced often double breasted blazer (but very often just a single button) that would end at the natural waist. that would be fall 93 or 94. The cropped blazers, shoulder pads, and all sorts of doodads...buttons, embellishments, were late 80s, maybe just into 1990, but by the time 93/94 wound around, you still saw some short jackets. but they ended a bit below the waist, but still not over the hip. they might just be touching the high hip, and they would often be slightly nipped in at the waist. they would most definitely be double breasted. and some had a very trenchcoat button placement as well with sometimes convertible lapels.

I am definitely off on a tangent, that is for sure.

Chris
 
Wow, Chris...I'll have to commit that to memory. I am horrid with 90s clothes.
I spent the first half of the 90s in college. My outfits were Tshirts, flannel, military jump boots and jeans in assorted states of distress.

The last half of the 90s was mainly just jeans and T's (ala Target boutique) because I worked in a sign shop. I certainly wasn't wearing a suit to screen print in or to climb up a ladder in the sun to put graphics on a huge truck.

I didn't wear a high heeled shoe or dress anywhere between my graduation in 95 to my wedding in 99. Only worn one or two of either since then...but I sure love to look at them!

Jenn
 
We are probably pretty close in age then. I graduated from HS in 92, but in the summers i worked 9 to 5 as during the year i was running around the theater morning noon and night and didn't have as much time to generate money to keep myself at school when i was in college. i eventually went to work a few days a week and school a few (running rehearsals and designing for shows at the same time and often doing renderings while i was on the phone at work. or in my sleep). I didn't get much sleep. I also wore a lot of vintage blazers, but worked for a company that had been owned by Ross Perot in 94-1995, so they often weren't the approved colors. looking back, i don't know how i hacked it.

But i will say about the mid 90s is that i was able to fulfill my need for platform shoes...platform pumps were there as well as 70s inspired skyhigh platform numbers. not quite like having 40s peeptoe platforms, but you didn't have to worry about treating them with kid gloves.

In my other hours, i obviously was not so impeccably dressed. believe me. night and day.
 
Yes, I'm a class of '91 gal, grad college in Dec of 95.
I worked on the grounds crew in college and spent any other non-class time painting in my studio. Ran on 44 oz Pepsis and 5 hours of sleep.
I have no idea how I kept that pace.

I was doing some gardening this weekend, unloading a pickup bed full of dirt, and panting and grunting like an old hog. Used to be able to shovel and hurl dirt like nobody's business....how sad!
Guess a few years on the computer and having a child has taken it's toll.

Jenn
 
Tell me about it! No kids, just dogs, but i can't believe how i used to climb on a rickety metal ladder 80 feet above the stage floor and think nothing of it. I was also trained in stage combat/stunt stuff and learned how to voluntarily fall off horses. Now looking back...the stage combat was cool, but why besides not getting hurt if the situation arose, but i am surprised i didn't cause myself any permanent damage. Was i nuts? none lives? And now i get bruised up just doing much lesser things. I am now such a lightweight now LOL.

At any rate...then when i got even more insane i started working on 2-5 shows at once and working midnights because i no longer had time during the week to do so. I should have had my head examined. I don't drink cola just because i don't like it, so i didn't do the pepsi thing, but i really should have. I did know people who took no-doze during the last week of rehearsals but that was crazy
 
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