Found the following pics on a website where the blogger’s mother knitted some sweaters based on arcade games of the 80s.

I’m not sure if I’d wear them today, but they are a great time warp back to the decade that mattered

In today’s ecclectic fashion world, there are many elements that first came to light in the eighties.
Ballet shoes are all the rage again now with the kids. In the 80s they were slightly different, more like a real ballet shoe. Now they are ballet inspired flatties. However, I have seen some shoes that could have come from the depths of my cupboard where they have lived since the 80s.

The earrings the youth are splashing about are exact copies, in many cases- from the 80s. I for one remember getting about in my rainbow cloloured, shiny drop circle earrings made of only the highest quality plastic. They are everywhere again, even in the same sort of shops.

Little holes in the walls of malls, stocked to the rooftop with silver and plastic glinting “must haves”.

How come if they are all wearing it again now, and you can get it for $20, new – so you look like you are from the 80s. But, if you want to buy something that is actually FROM the 80s, which is the same, it’s called vintage or retro. AND, you will pay more than $20 for it!!!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh fashion……………

One of most iconic songs from the 80’s was Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love. The girls in the music video were scantily dressed for the 80’s, and caused quite a stir. To say they are iconic of the 80s is an understatement as even to this day they are constantly parodied.

For a reminder of the catchy tune, and the girls, check out this youtube video:

Want some trivia? Read on ….

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Addicted to Love?

Have you walked past SUPRE lately?? It is like a flash back to the 80s. All the same FLURO colours screaming out the door at you. They have even re-hashed the plastic jewellery.

If I’d had a crystal ball when I was a perky teenager/young 20 something I’d have been SO IN now, it would have been ridiculous.

I even saw A GUY WEARING HAPPY SHOES last week, I tell you I almost had to stop him and say WTF!!!

In the 80s, CINCH was the SUPRE in the shopping world, and if you were lucky enough to live in the Campsie/Earlwood/Kingsgrove area you would beat a track to their door almost religiously. Every piece of carefully handmade (read cheap and nasty) piece of clothing was there at hand, eagerly awaiting your purchase. And because not much was over $20, you could usually buy multiple items……… sounds like Supre today…….

Any area would have had their own version on CINCH, and their own 80s haven to shop.
And as with the hair and makeup, too many accessories were NEVER ENOUGH.

Think WHAM….even in the 80s they were a bit much. But we all did CHOOSE LIFE. And today we are RELAXing and walking around in a variety of other semi suggestive slogans.

It’s the same, but with a twist I guess. Where we wore skin hugging fluro orange skirts that came down past our knees, with ballet shoes and pink studded belts over over sized T-Shirts, the kids today wear tiny bum showing shorts, crop tops with fluro coulours and multilayered singlets, and flatties.

However daggy we feel as we look back at ourselves, we know we were truely the LAST original fashion (and music) era.

EVERYTHING is sampled from the 80s. Sure, they might give it a shake and a stir, but its the same same………………..

Here is a link to a RIOTOUS thread from the Vogue Australia Forums…. What was cool in the 80s

http://forums.vogue.com.au/archive/index.php/t-2563.html

LOVE IT!!