The Cosby Show
What may have been one of the most beloved shows of the 80s graced our television screens for the first time in 1984. The name of this funny and wholesome family show was The Cosby Show and we welcomed the Cosbys into our homes and hearts right from the start. If you didn’t watch The Cosby Show, you may think it was a show about the typical American family – and it was if the typical American family has an abundance of income, no...
80s Party Costume Idea: Mall Rat
Think the opening scenes of Valley Girl when the group of girls is shopping at the Sherman Oaks Galleria in, like, the real Valley. This is your mission. This costume includes all the standard 80s fashion elements and is only limited in execution by your imagination. Here are some essential elements: Tops huge top option #1: a big button down with shoulder pads in a bright color or pattern with the color up huge top option #2:...
Oversized Shirts in the 80s – The Bigger the Better
Remember Flashdance? Ahhh, yes. Good memories of Jennifer Beals welding by day and dancing by night. Besides being a wildly popular movie and soundtrack of the 80s, the movie sparked a range of fashion styles we now associate with the 80s. Leg warmers, high heels with spandex and oversized sweatshirts just to name a few. The Oversized Sweatshirt On the cover of every cassette player was a picture of Jennifer’s character in an...
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, 1986
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it,” Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) informed teens everywhere in the 1986 hit movie Ferris Buellers’s Day Off. Considered one of the 80’s funniest films, the movie follows the adventures of fictional high school senior Ferris Bueller when he decides to play hooky. In an award-worthy performance, Bueller convinces his parents that he so...
Just One of the Guys, 1985
It is a story that had been done before and one that has certainly been done since (see Amanda Bynes’s recent vehicle, She’s The Man). But, 1985’s Just One of the Guys stands out as among the best of the type, a great movie by any standards and a totally fab example of the 80s teen movie genre. It has a slightly low budget feel, but manages to pull off the story with good performances and some really funny lines (example: great...
