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So, you old geezers on gaf. What the **** was up with the shoulder pads in the 80s?!
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kruis
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There have been wild fashion trends in 80ies music, from the New Romantics to those hair bands you mentioned, but their fashion choices never hit the mainstream. You wouldn't see college kids, teachers and office workers dressing up like that.
You're crazy. The blue-haired, It's Pat, land whale aesthetic is the peak of fashion.
Trogdor1123
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As bad as it was, it is still better than the stuff today
OmegaSupreme
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Nah. Fuck it.
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ResilientBanana
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Born in ‘84 here, couldn’t agree more. People also looked old in their 30’s in the 80’s probably all that smoking they did.
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At the time, a football game could break out at any minute, so you needed those built-in shoulder pads.
Ulysses 31
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It's still happening in todays movies.
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DetectiveBananas
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Say what you will but we sure could cut a rug!
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Putonahappyface
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I was born in 1982 and loved the toys, clothes, movies and music growing up.
bitbydeath
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You’re complaining in the year where body mutilation is considered by some as an acceptable trend.
Putonahappyface
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Anyone like the rainbow colored puffs of rice? 
NeoIkaruGAF
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I remember my mother often getting dressed to go out and going "oh, I almost forgot the shoulder pads!" with a resigned face. Shit looked so stupid.
The 80s were terrible for fashion. You had the early 80s with men wearing brown checkered suits and the biggest glasses ever made in the history of mankind, then the mid-80s hit and suddenly you got men with colored cotton candy hair and women dressing like early 80s business men with the unsexiest hairstyles ever seen. Jennifer Connelly is the rare example of a 80s movie star any contemporary man would still fuck if he saw her like she was in those movies. 80s movies had to be all about great action and good comedy because you'd never get a boner from the women. Even when they were just in lingerie, that hair was the most effective boner killer ever.
The 80s were terrible for fashion. You had the early 80s with men wearing brown checkered suits and the biggest glasses ever made in the history of mankind, then the mid-80s hit and suddenly you got men with colored cotton candy hair and women dressing like early 80s business men with the unsexiest hairstyles ever seen. Jennifer Connelly is the rare example of a 80s movie star any contemporary man would still fuck if he saw her like she was in those movies. 80s movies had to be all about great action and good comedy because you'd never get a boner from the women. Even when they were just in lingerie, that hair was the most effective boner killer ever.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
I wasn't alive in the 80s, but go on.Yea, it's fucking me with the bad taste...
Nah, it's all of you that had to breathe the leaded gasoline as kids with the bad taste
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Winter John
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Fuck anybody who doesn’t think Bowie wasn’t one of the greatest rock stars of all timeAnd gentlemen.
Trunx81
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The 80s were great. The fashion … not so much. But still better than the 70s (fight me in your rainbow trousers!) and the 90s. Especially the 90s, yuk.
My mom had one of those shoulder pad coats. It was just “in”, like Buffalo Plateau shoes or these neon key chains made of plastic. Remember when Naomi Campbell fell on the Runway because she was wearing Vivienne Westwoods (RIP, great designer until she sold her soul to Electronic Arts) Plateau shoes?
My mom had one of those shoulder pad coats. It was just “in”, like Buffalo Plateau shoes or these neon key chains made of plastic. Remember when Naomi Campbell fell on the Runway because she was wearing Vivienne Westwoods (RIP, great designer until she sold her soul to Electronic Arts) Plateau shoes?
8bitpill
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Thank you for this. Jennifer Connelly was was a childhood crush! I was born in 1983 and I remember when I first watched Labyrinth and being enamored with her. Then came Career Opportunities…
She is still amazing looking.
She is still amazing looking.
how dare you
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-Minsc-
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It's like...... the complete opposite of someones ass hanging out of their pants.
8bitpill
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As for the shoulder pads. It's funny you posted this because I was just having a discussion with my wife while we were watching X-Files together and how goofy shoulder pads were,
It's like any mainstream fashion, it wasn't questioned at the time because it was the norm and most people were sporting it.
Business suits of the late 80's into the mid 90's always reminded me of this,
As for current fashion trends, it just looks like people blindly reach into their closets and what ever they grab they throw on,
It's like any mainstream fashion, it wasn't questioned at the time because it was the norm and most people were sporting it.
Business suits of the late 80's into the mid 90's always reminded me of this,
As for current fashion trends, it just looks like people blindly reach into their closets and what ever they grab they throw on,
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how dare you
I appreciate how sensual she looks without exposing significant skin.
PhoenixTank
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That doesn't look bad, but all I can see is this:Broad, pointy shoulders was in the vogue at the time. The trend was also popular back in the Interwar period and a lot of stuff of that era saw a reurgence in the 70s-80s. These included.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
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Something had to hold up all that hair and hide bags of cocaine.
You mean shoulder pads for women suits? That goes further back than the 80's, like wayyyyy further back.
That Blade Runner pic is kinda misleading. While it was from the 80's, BR is riffing on film noir, and some of the fashion, style and set design takes from that era.
Fashion and style is basically a retreading, rebranding, reframing and regurgitation of the past(combined with modern technology and modern sensibilities of any given era).
As for the hairstyles? I think maybe it was from a bleed-in from the 70's in freedom of expression, the 70's were also bright and colourful, bleeding into the 80's as well, as well as more acceptance of black culture.
That's my theory anyway, there's probably a dozen articles tracking and explaining fashion and trends from various eras, including the 80's.
That Blade Runner pic is kinda misleading. While it was from the 80's, BR is riffing on film noir, and some of the fashion, style and set design takes from that era.
Fashion and style is basically a retreading, rebranding, reframing and regurgitation of the past(combined with modern technology and modern sensibilities of any given era).
As for the hairstyles? I think maybe it was from a bleed-in from the 70's in freedom of expression, the 70's were also bright and colourful, bleeding into the 80's as well, as well as more acceptance of black culture.
That's my theory anyway, there's probably a dozen articles tracking and explaining fashion and trends from various eras, including the 80's.
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Dural
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I just want to chime in say that even in the 80's I hated the travesty that Princess Diana called a hairstyle.