Lets face facts here. The 80's was not exactly a great decade for anything, especially fashion. Think bubble perms. Think Mullets. Think comedy shoulder pads and shell suits. I defy anyone to take a look of a photo of themselves from that era and say 'You know something? I actually looked pretty damn good'. Truth is, we all looked like complete fuckwits together.
Why the hell then did the young girl at the bus station last night think that the sort of illuminous leg warmers (and shamefully one was tango orange and the other vivid green. I think I can safely say its the first time in my life I have felt compelled to put on sun glasses at 11:30PM), last seen being laughed out of town in 1986, was a sensible addition to her outfit?
At a rough guess I would say this lunatic lass was about 17 which would probably have made her old dear young (and stupid) enough to have worn them first time out. Had she not seen snaps of her mother sporting this sort of classless clobber 20 years ago? Had she not grown up offering little prayers to the designer deity to not let her even attempt to try and carry off something so breathtakingly stupid? Of all the decades she could have recreated in her choice of attire, why the fuck did she hit on that one? Long suppressed bad memories of long forgotten bad outfits came flooding back and it was all I could do to run home, lay down in a darkened room and force my way back to a happy place. And one that started around the time of the Stone Roses at that. They really were such an unbelievably bad choice they even made her friends neon pink tights look sober and restrained in contrast.
I cant for the life of me work out what the fascination with the 1980's is at the moment. To me it was ten long years of crap music, crap politics and crap clothes. Just now though everyone seems to be lapping it up. The gawdawful garb is back, the likes of Rick Astley and Kajagoogoo are back, and if we aint bloody careful even the Tories will be back. Is this a nightmare come true or what?
If you don't mind I'll wait this side until it dawns on you all how fucking brilliant the 90's were by comparison. Now that WAS a decade.
Why the hell then did the young girl at the bus station last night think that the sort of illuminous leg warmers (and shamefully one was tango orange and the other vivid green. I think I can safely say its the first time in my life I have felt compelled to put on sun glasses at 11:30PM), last seen being laughed out of town in 1986, was a sensible addition to her outfit?
At a rough guess I would say this lunatic lass was about 17 which would probably have made her old dear young (and stupid) enough to have worn them first time out. Had she not seen snaps of her mother sporting this sort of classless clobber 20 years ago? Had she not grown up offering little prayers to the designer deity to not let her even attempt to try and carry off something so breathtakingly stupid? Of all the decades she could have recreated in her choice of attire, why the fuck did she hit on that one? Long suppressed bad memories of long forgotten bad outfits came flooding back and it was all I could do to run home, lay down in a darkened room and force my way back to a happy place. And one that started around the time of the Stone Roses at that. They really were such an unbelievably bad choice they even made her friends neon pink tights look sober and restrained in contrast.
I cant for the life of me work out what the fascination with the 1980's is at the moment. To me it was ten long years of crap music, crap politics and crap clothes. Just now though everyone seems to be lapping it up. The gawdawful garb is back, the likes of Rick Astley and Kajagoogoo are back, and if we aint bloody careful even the Tories will be back. Is this a nightmare come true or what?
If you don't mind I'll wait this side until it dawns on you all how fucking brilliant the 90's were by comparison. Now that WAS a decade.
lostjohnny
I guess I shouldn't kick. For a brief time as a teen, I used to wear rainbow coloured suspenders. (or should I not admit that)...when it comes to fashion, most teenager's head's seem to implode, before they (hopefully) grow up and look in the mirror one day and think, "Oh my god, what am I wearing?!?" 
You remember the 90's
they were like the 60's only upside down 