I’ll do ANYTHING you ask, just stop with this hideous 80s revival!
The tacky aspects of 80s sucked the first time around, but have been made much worse by this completely non-ironic resurgence.
People didn’t know better back then, but you have no excuse! I promise that in just a few years, you will all be cringing when you look back at how you’re dressing today. It would be bad enough if it was original, but instead you’ve chosen to mine one of the most shallow eras of cultural history.
It is just so incredibly depressing to see a beautiful girl dressed as if a colour-wheel had thrown-up on her. <b—My eyes hurt
This article appears in Sep 2-8, 2010.
Well OP sorry to tell ya, these kids (and some desperate aging hipster types) are even more shallow and self-absorbed than the so-called “me generation” of the 80’s. Back then, it was rare to see someone mining past fashion or cultural trends as a means of self-identification. Somewhere along the way (in the mid 90’s I suppose) it became widely accepted and acceptable to not merely cite or reference cultural examples but to recreate them in their entirety, almost fetishistically, rather than to learn from the IDEAS behind those examples and create fresh new things heretofore unseen. Art and culture became stalled in a general sense, and still are (despite what some improperly call our constant evolution, which is soulless; a new smart phone not constituting a significant cultural leap).
I hate to be a doomsayer, but even if there were no major problems plaguing the world today, these mewling, tech-obsessed, attention whore, halfwits would still be fucked. They are fucked. They have no good ideas.
i really gues we are lucky then, that it wasn’t a dashiki 60’s revival type of thing. although cool at the time, would look completely wird if worn by everyone and their rover now. as to the then now looks, well you gota wonder who’s life some of them are trying to live. after all, this is 1010, we were told in the 50’s that we would all be driving flying cars and shit, did i miss that decade or something?
Back in the mid-eighties to early nineties I hung out with the rockabilly/country crowd. We girls wore poodle type skirts, saddle shoes, sleeveless pencil dresses with stiff collars, rolled jeans and bowling shirts. The boys wore pegged pants, suits of shark-skin, roach-killers and every boy had either a James Dean or Elvis pompadour. Nah, no mining of previous fashion styles there :)! It was just a lot of fun! And the music was great. (Our dances and car rallies raised money for the Hosp. For Sick Kids in TO– we may have looked goofy, but at least we were nice)
You do not know how much I agree with you OP.
If kids today want to hearken back to a kinder, gentler decade when bodily hygiene was “hip” I’m jiggy wit dat.
Establishing a viable breeding colony of pediculis pubis on your landing strip is neither an expression of individuality, nor is it a revolutionary act.
So lighten up OP, girls just wanna have fun
Oh Ivan, I’m not ready for this
http://fashion.3yen.com/wp-content/images/…
to come back. Too soon, too soon. I didn’t live through it, and I don’t want to 🙁
YIKES!. That;s the drawback with nostalgia Donk. We only remember the good stuff. Thanks for the gut-check. >: )
THere are those who say colour blindness is a problem.
Perhaps its a blessing…& I seen a real pair of full on Bell bottom jeans in Halifax last week !
All they needed was 4 in wide heels & 2 inches on the front of their shoes, saddle style of course ~;)
If I start seeing hammer pants again,
I’m moving to the nearest mountain and becoming a hermit.
At least in the 80s we wore pants or leggings with our long shirts. Girls these days seem to think those long shirts are dresses. Well it’s not a dress if I can see the bottom of your butt check! These girls seriously need to learn to cover themselves up. They don’t look cute pulling down on the bottom and up on the tops of their shirts because they’re not dressed properly!!
“the 80’s. Back then, it was rare to see someone mining past fashion or cultural trends as a means of self-identification.”
Back in the ’80’s the majority of my wardrobe came from past fashion ‘mined’ from fashions of the ’40’s, ’50’s and ’60’s. Judging by the crowds also seeking treasures, I was not an anomoly. Kensington Market was and still is en vogue for those who reject the clothing industry’s narrow options. Thank goodness for Courage My Love! Originality vs looking like everyone else? Conformity be damned!
courage my love!!! i shopped there when i lived in TO…i *mouse ears* that store…freaky rawk
Courage My Love rawks! I still wear clothes from there! It is my FAVOURITE store on the whole planet, cyber-fashion-sis! (Freaky indeed!) A trip to the Big Smoke is not complete without the CML pilgrimage, a scoff at Kim Moon and dessert at the Roach-a-rama.
someone told me that tiger’s is gone, was next door…mango shakes mmm
Actually, zZz: ham-pants *are* back. H&M and AA sells them. They were all the rage when I was in Quebec — my neighbours all bought the same pair and wore them around ALL the freaking time while listening to the same ke$ha song over and over…
I saw a chick wearing hammer pants today. Ok, I lie, someone told me they wore a chick wearing hammer pants and I didn’t look fast enough to see it.
I did see a chick wearing those glasses with the ‘upside down’ frames, though. We used to make fun of girls in grade 9/10 that wore those. Its funny, back then a lot of ugly chicks wore those, and now its ugly chicks again. WTF? As much as I could get off on the fantasy of fingerbanging that redhead that sat two seats over from me in grade 9 english, I can do without the glasses. Throw some leg warmers on and we’ll talk.
ha ha, my friend “SAW” a chick wearing hammer pants, she didn’t “WEAR” a chick. So funny.
cyber sis: A virtual google streetview tour of the street is always a nice trip down memory lane:)
Mmmmmmmm…mangoes!
you mean use technology ol? jeez louise i will attempt^^and cranky your first post was the best “they wore a chick wearing hammer pants”
Now that would be an original use of retro-fashion.
Happy to provide a chuckle now and again.
I vote it “Funniest Typo Ever” at LTWWB, Your Crankiness!
Courage My Love… now there’s a store I haven’t thought about in years! Loved it, Along with Trash n’ Vaudville in NYC! Ahhhhh memories! Thanks guys n’ gals!
This happens with every trend…the 70’s had a period of 50’s revival, the 80’s revived parts of the 60’s and the 90’s revived parts of the ’70’s.
There are no new trends there are just regurgitated fads from previous decades .
I saw acid-washed jeans on an otherwise hot girl today.
She was even wearing shoulder-pads.
I need to vomit now. ‘Scuse….
Oh wow, Cranky!
That really IS the funniest typo ever!!!
No. It is not funny at all you stupid fuck.
i cringe already.
people here need to get a sense of style!