List of Eighties Fashions
This great list of 80s fashion trends was submitted by one of our readers. Thanks, Celeste for the great recap of 80s fashions!! We’d love to see a list of all the 80s fashions you remember wearing back in the day. To email us your list, email us. Or, you can post your list as a note on our Facebook page. Normandy rose jeans they were the thing when I was young Cotler pants jeans that had snap pockets that would fold over...
Wayfarer Sunglasses by Ray-Ban
Wayfarers are Back UPDATE April 12, 2011: It’s official, Wayfarers are back in a big way for the Spring/Summer of 2011. A recent trip to the beach confirmed it. We are loving the return of the contrast temple version of this classic style. Shown here with blue contrast temples. These are a must have accessory for the upcoming sun season. Grab a pair, and you’ll be walking on sunshine. What did Tom Cruise, The Blues Brothers and Don...
Add-a-Bead Necklace
Eighties fashion for women included jewelry – lots of jewelry. One such trend for women and girls was the Add-a-Bead necklace. It is actually one of the nicer (or should we say enduringly tasteful) trends of the 80s and continues to a much lesser extent today. The Add-a-Bead Craze Add-a-Bead necklaces came in several different forms. They were most popular in the early 80s and were favored by the slightly preppier crowd, owing...
Swatch Watches
Swatch Watches to the Max Unless you were a complete loser, you had at least two or three Swatch watches when growing up in the 80s. If you were really cool, you had a dozen or more and you wore two or three at the same time. I mean, if one is totally rad, then two must be, like, tripendicular, right? Swatch launched its first watches in March of 1983; this Spring marks their 30th anniversary. The name, created by Nichole Lopez (so...
Layered Slouch Socks
Why stop with only one pair of socks when two or even three looked so good? Layered slouch socks, as a fashion style of the 80s, was a stand out among some pretty outrageous fads. If you had multiple colors on (and who didn’t?), you layered on multiple colors of slouch socks to match. This trend started near the time that anklet socks came back into fashion. No other decade spent so much fashion energy in the hosiery department. NOTE:...
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