You in the 1980s!

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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 :rolleyes: 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!
 
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:

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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.
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Maggie, I have several photos of myself in the 80s; i'll see if I can find some and scan them in. Wish I still had some of my dresses, and, even more, wish I still fit into them. Well, actually I do have some of them, but I don't fit into them. Wishful thinking, I suppose.....

I was wearing some vintage apparel back then, but I doubt I have any pictures of me in my black 1950s cashmere coat.... I think I might have one of me in a vintage party dress. I'll look.

And your blog sounds like so much fun & I'm sure it'll be really interesting!
 
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??

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OK, here are some 1980s shots that are up on my facebook page.


This is about 1980-81, I am in the center, wearing a 1940s dress and singing in a high school jazz chorus.
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Also high school, I was the mom in The Bad Seed, and am wearing my mother's 1950's dress in this play.
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My punk days, circa 1984-85.
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More bad hair (notice the tail), and bad habits
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Another 80's shot, probably 1988? me with first husband
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Jen
 
Hope I don't scare you too much but this is me circa 1984. I would have been about 19 years old here and probably on my way to either a rockabilly venue or the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester. Oh happy, happy days!

I was wearing my beloved vintage suede jacket purchased from the iconic Aflecks Palace in Manchester - I used to hang-out there a lot during the 80's! I'd have my head shaved every two weeks or I wouldn't go out! Gawd! I thought I was sooooo cool and I also thought I would ALWAYS have that hair style too :lol: I loved the Cramps and any rockabilly-type music but equally loved my jazz-funk music, The Smiths, The Cult, A Certain Ratio, Orange Juice . . . . . I was always quite open minded when it came to music - and fashion, so it seems!

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http://www.prideofmanchester.com/music/hacienda.htm
 
OMG!!!!!!! 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:

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

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

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

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I have a few more that I'm actually wearing vintage in -- but not accessible from this computer.

Here's what I've got from Facebook:



I'm in the middle. Circa 1986. I'm wearing a 60's or 70's loooong necklace (looped around) with little blue plastic rings & metallic gold paint. I think I got it from my Grandma's house.




Halloween - 1988? I'm in the white ruffly shirt. I think I was supposed to be a vampire. Or vampiress. Or something. I'm still friends with all of these gals. I went to high school with 2 of them. The 3rd (far right) just had a baby, lives in OK and I saw both of them last week :)



Me & my high school best friend. 1986. We were having a lip-sync party. I believe we were doing "Existential Blues" (a Dr Demento type song)
 
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.
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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!!!

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

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Linn
 
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
 
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