80s revival clothes

Current mood:nostalgic

Originally posted on Jan 3, 2008

When clothes are revived every 20 years we're in an 80s revival now. Back in the 90s we were in a 1970s one. I'll admit in the 90s I use to wear a loud flower print polyester shirt. I even wore platforms and a mod skirt but not together. When the 80s revival was first starting back in around 2001 all I really wanted to see come back were pumps and huge skirts like the one Cindi Lauper wore in the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" video. Or the one Jody Watley wore in the "Looking for a New Love" video. The petticoat looking ones.  

The style of flats now are not like the old ones. The ones people wore back in the day were like a pump and more pointy toed. The ones now are too rounded at the toe plus they are mostly made of fabric the old ones were mostly made of leather, leather-like material or plastic (jelly).

Ankle socks need to come back in style and not those little ped ones. I mean the ones that have lace on the top that even the women wore back then with high heels. The ones that are made out of that stretchy material.

Denim needs a lot of work. It should come back in stonewash or acid wash. These really haven't come back in full force. The denim today is not really the same style as it was like 20 years ago. The denim now is unevenly colored and it's not even the kind that is washed. I'm talking about the distressing and whiskering that is not from the 80s. I hate pants that are colored like that. I like my pants to be one color. I can fade them myself. The dark denim is more of an early 80s thing from the disco era which also had pants in one shade.

I can't believe how long hawks stayed in style. All the hawks; mo, faux, pony, Atlanta… I want to see big bangs and overly crimped hair come back. I'm really indifferent about the mullet. It was around well into the 90s, or at least the 1st half of it.  

Big bows need to come back. I really like them. They were so cute and puffy. They were made of materials like tulle, lace and shoelaces.

I had really wanted to see charm bracelets come back in style. Not the metal ones, but those plastic ones that had funny little charms shaped like fish, tennis rackets, and soda cans.

Check back for my predictions of 90s revival clothes.