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…specifically, things from the 80’s. The buzz is that the 80’s are coming back in fashion, in a big way. I’m a little apprehensive about this, having been a pre-teen in the late 80’s, just starting to look around and notice styles and care a bit more about how I looked. I think some of these bleed over into the early 90’s when I was in junior high and I hope they don’t come back either:<\/p>\n
Pegged pants. Also those ridiculous zipper-with-bow contraptions at the ankles…<\/p>\n
“Paper-bag waist.” this only looks good on tiny children, like 3 or 4 years old. Proof of this is the model in the photo above – she’s obviously very tall and slender but those pants make her look, well, like she’s wearing a bag!<\/p>\n
Shoulder pads!<\/p>\n
Acid-wash denim: I think this looks very ugly, even in moderation. But especially on top as well as bottom – picture this: parachute-style jeans, with a jean jacket featuring shoulder pads. Both acidly loud. It’s like static you can wear.<\/p>\n
Big hair – long, poofy perm with huge spiked-up bangs. Remember those girls who had like a peacock-fan thing on their head? What were they thinking?<\/p>\n
Florescent colors<\/p>\n
Puffy sleeves<\/p>\n
I’m somewhat opposed to jumpers, jumpsuits, and overalls. I think overalls look kind of cool in some cases (not shortalls, though, see photo above), but they were not a good fashion choice for me, who looked childish enough in my teens without wearing OshKosh.<\/p>\n
Here are some things I don’t mind:<\/strong><\/p>\n Leg warmers… but not those puffy “slouch socks”<\/p>\n Colored tights… maybe even leggings, but NO stirrup pants and only under something that covers the derriere. I have to admit I loved that long-sweater-over-leggings look when I was 12. And now I love tights in colors and even patterns such as stripes – I wore my blue and white tie-dye tights just this past Sunday.<\/p>\n Scrunchies! But no side ponytails.<\/p>\n And I just have to say, I absolutely adored jelly shoes and jelly bracelets. I don’t think I would wear them much if they came back in style (and I have seen them around once in a while) but I’m so glad they were in while I was a little girly-girl.<\/p>\n Oh, and one thing that’s back and I’m happy about, but I haven’t gotten around to wearing, are long dangly earrings. I loved dangly earrings because I could make them myself so easily. I made them out of beads, “Friendly Plastic” – honk if you remember that! and even small toys like those thread-wrapped worry dolls. aw, yeah, ha-ha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" …specifically, things from the 80’s. The buzz is that the 80’s are coming back in fashion, in a big way. …<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}