80s Prom Photos Will Take You Back To When Bangs Where As High As The People Wearing Them
Prom season 2016 is coming up. Young men and women will spend their money (most likely their parent’s money) on expensive dresses, tuxes and limos, only to look back in 20 years and go “what the hell were we thinking?!?” So let’s make them all feel better by looking back on our prom photos with a WTF? sense of wonder. Run Of The Web collected some amazing 1980s prom photos. Ah, the 80s — a time when men were...
Pac-Man Business Suit And Matching Tie Screams ‘Old School Money!’
This officially licensed Pac-Man business suit and tie available is from OppoSuits and costs about $110. That might seem expensive until you think about how many quarters you blew playing the video game back in the day. Wearing the entire suit is a very bold statement so maybe wear the pants to a BBQ and the jacket to an informal wedding? Feel free to wear the entire suit to the funeral of one of the ghosts. Just be careful,...
Lady Gaga Reps Birth Year In 80s-Inspired Dress for 30th Birthday Bash
Mother Monster and pop princess Lady Gaga celebrated her 30th birthday this past weekend and it was nothing short of a perfect tribute to her 1986 birth year. Gaga arrived to greet her celebrity friends at a secret club wearing an 80s-inspired minidress that the Huffington Post adeptly said made the singer look ready for a 1985 prom. Gaga also received a unique present that threw-it-back to the 80s. One of her guests gifted her a...
A Skinny Tie Seemed Like a Good Idea in 1985
As a junior high student in the middle-1980s I knew very little about fashion. Sure I understood that Ocean Pacific clearly made you cool, but beyond that and some tidbits about which jeans I needed mu mom to buy for me I was pretty clueless. Because of that, like so many other young teenagers of the time, I went through a brief period where I decided that dressing vaguely like Don Johnson from Miami Vice was the way to go in eighth...
Gigi Hadid Brings Back the 80s Fashion on CR Fashion Book Cover
If you haven’t heard of Gigi Hadid, well, she just happens to be one of the hottest models on the circuit right now. Hadid is now gracing the cover of Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book magazine for an 80s themed “Made In America” edition. “In the ’80s, fashion created a fantasy around the American girl – athletic, toned, smiling, happy, gracious, and perfect. Now suddenly in 2016, we see the...
Debbie Gibson Talks Her 80s Fashion Choices, Walks the Runway
There was a time when Debbie Gibson was the biggest star in the world. It’s hard to explain to a younger audience, but because there were less entertainment choices, there were less celebrities and the biggest ones shined brighter. Gibson’s fame, at her Out of the Blue height made Justin Beiber’s current celebrity look minor in comparison. That, along with the fact that Gibson actually can sing, has kept her famous...
Quite a Feet — The Rabbit’s Foot
There were so many hot accessories in the 1980s: everything from ribbon barrettes to gummy bracelets and from leg warmers to nameplate necklaces. But there was one hot trend in the early 80s that made its way onto belt loops, purse zippers and keychains everywhere – both boys and girls enjoyed this fashionable item: the rabbit’s foot. Ah, yes. Where to begin with this weird wonder? The rabbit’s foot was supposedly a symbol of good...
Two more 80s Goodies – Goody Hair Combs and Round Barrettes
Ladies, think back to your hair in the 80s before it was gigantic and shellacked with Aqua Net and Stiff Stuff. Let’s go back to the early 1980s, when you were crafting and wearing your ribbon barrettes, perhaps a tortoise shell plastic headband, or maybe even clipping a roach clip into your hair with some feathers and beads? (Did anyone else wear a roach clip in their hair? No? Anyone?) Think back to when you pulled back the sides of...
Clairol Illuminated Make Up Mirror
When I was a pre-teen/teenager in the 80s, the little white desk in my bedroom was a sacred space. Not because this was a place where I wrote in my diary, did my homework or where I penned letters to all my pen-pals (remember those?!). No, this area was sacred because it was the space where I put on my make-up every day. Fresh from the shower, I’d sit at my desk with my hair wrapped up in a towel, feeling like I was backstage on...
In the Mood – Mood Lipstick
I could write a book on my beloved 80s cosmetics. Maybelline Kissing Potion, Bonne Bell, Cover Girl Cheekers Blush, Shine Free and my staple brand Wet ‘n Wild. I wore all of it. At once. And this — remember this? Little tubes of green, blue and yellow lipstick that put the fear of God in your mom’s eyes when she first saw them on your bathroom counter, right? I remember these being super popular when I was in middle school – all...
Dudes in Cropped Tops—Putting the Omph! Back in the Omphalos
You know what we just don’t see enough of these days? The male navel. Gone are the days of the cropped top fashion trend that dudes seriously embraced throughout the early and mid-80s. Sure, men will still go for a run sometimes with no shirt. But, we have reached an either-or place with respect to male skin up top. Not so in the 80s. 80s guys liked to split the difference. I mean, on the one hand they needed to keep it classy by...
Oh Goody! – The Goody Snap-Tight Barrette Card
Fact: Hair and hair accessories were a big deal in the 80s. Back in the early 1980s, after the youthful look of pigtails with that big ropey colored yarn, but before the “cool” of ribbon barrettes and banana clips, girls across America were sporting these in their hair: the Goody Snap-Tight Kiddie Barrettes (yup, that’s the official name). These Goody Snap-Tight Barrettes were an everyday choice for my hair. And why wouldn’t you wear...
The Sweet Smell of Youth — Love’s Baby Soft
Before the days of Colors by benetton, before Liz Claiborne, and waaay before the very mature, very overpowering Obsession obsession, pre-teen girls of the 80s everywhere were spritzing this on their wrists and behind their ears: Love’s Baby Soft was the “it” fragrance to have sitting atop your dresser – it smelled (and still smells) like . . . well . . . youth. The powdery and pretty scent came in a rounded pink bottle with a big...
One Size Fits All – UNITS.
The 80s offered many great and legendary mall-based stores where teenaged girls could shop after stopping off for an Orange Julius. For example, who can forget the awesomeness of Lerner? The new-wave chic that was Contempo Casuals? The sweater staples of The Limited? To set the scene, think of the opening montage of ‘Valley Girl‘ with the girls tearing up the Galleria and their parents’ credit cards. Ok, now that you...
Put a “Le” in front of it! Our obsession with all things European in the 80s
In the 80s, anything and everything European was considered très chic – ESPRIT, Swatch, Lacoste, Z. Cavaricci, Frusen Glädje; you get the idea. I was talking with friends the other night about it—how we felt swept away walking into the stark, modern white-ness of a Benetton store. Apparently, all you had to do was put two little letters in front of a product name, and it suddenly sounded like you had to go through customs to get it....
