# To what extent will the 80's come back in style?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 5, 2017, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-will-the-80s-come-back-in-style/800749 "2017-11-05T02:48:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-will-the-80s-come-back-in-style/800749/21 "2017-11-06T00:53:38Z")

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> [@Dr.Strangelove](#):
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> Completely the opposite. 80s kids are entering their prime years for both nostalgia _and_ buying power. Marketers love that stuff.

Exactly. It’s the mid-career demographic with money, people in their late 30s, 40s, and maybe early 50s. Of course 80s nostalgia is going to be ripe for the pickings for marketers.

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**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-will-the-80s-come-back-in-style/800749/22 "2017-11-06T01:12:42Z")

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I buy the shit out of that stuff.

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**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2017, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-will-the-80s-come-back-in-style/800749/23 "2017-11-06T01:29:56Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Of course 80s nostalgia is going to be ripe for the pickings for marketers.

Probably doesn’t hurt that parents today have kids of roughly the same age as they were in the 80s. I’m 39 now; if I had kids they’d likely be around 10. When I was 10, it was 1988. I’d be constantly reminded of myself at that age–i.e., 80s nostalgia.

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