I night clubbed mid 80s in an Adam Ant look. Yep, incl the lipstick stripes on the cheeks.
In my defense, I was a 5-year-old girl and not yet choosing my own clothes.
To my everlasting shame, as a child, I loved my dickie.
I know this isn’t the thread for happy fashion memories but I loved my rope petticoat. I loved it so much, I’d wear it as a skirt.
Sadly, I owned a couple pairs of parachute pants. It was my one and only foray into contemporary fashion. It was, of course, a complete disaster. Afterwards, I’ve followed a regimen similar to Gatopescado, and I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything.
Didn’t start loving mine until adolescence.
Is a body suit the same thing as a body stocking? :dubious: The first girl I ever undressed had on a white one, and the mere thought of undoing those snaps still turns me on! :o
Before I had any kind of fashion sense, I actually let my old man take me shopping at Sears. He bought me two polyester leisure suits and a couple for himself. (Mine were at least in colors I had seen before.) I wore them out in good order and started wearing blue jeans and cotton shirts again.
Why the world ever decided polyester was a good fabric, I’ll never know. I hate it. I’ll wear synthetic fabrics only when there’s no alternative.
What’s wrong with corduroy? 
I had a couple of corduroy sports jackets (tan and dark blue, narrow wale) back in the '80s, and I would still wear them today if I could.
I don’t get the hate either. It’s winter here (almost spring, yay!) and I have a cream cord jacket that’s been worn almost daily since the end of June. I love it and it looks fine, although it’s a little large for me now that I’ve lost some weight.
These things go in cycles; khaki trenchcoats were cool when I was a senior in high school in 1986.
Seems I’m the only one still wearing a Devo hat.
Khaki trenchcoats have been popular for the last 100 years and will continue to be so well into the future. It’s a classic design and a status symbol (certainly on anyone over 18).
Do you guys remember Spike on Degrassi Junior High? I totally had hair like that, just not as high.
So many fashion crimes committed while growing up in the 80s, but I still can’t figure out why pegged jeans were so popular. It looked so incredibly stupid, and yet you were a total lame-o if you didn’t do it.
You need to whip that habit. Whip it good.
Corduroy jackets are okay but corduroy pants are embarassing. There’s a reason Ninja’s don’t wear corduroy.
Because fashion has to be silly enough that it’s not something you’d just do to look good. It has to be something goofy you do to look fashionable!
That’s an Energy Dome.
I had a mullet.
Corduroy is WAY older than the seventies.
I was going to say that I have never followed any particular fad, but there was one. I don’t know how widespread it was, but when I was in junior high there was a fad for wearing fatigue jackets and having everyone write things on it.
My parents wouldn’t pay for anything they thought was a fad (I grew up with the sheep speech), but Dad had an old fatigue jacket that was just sitting in a trunk and they kind of approved of someone getting use out of it.