Fuck, does this mean I have to start shopping at Chess King again?

Errr, ummmm, I mean for the first time. Ahem.

Ooh. Hypercolor! Was that the flop clothing line that changed color when you touched it? Heat activated? I mean if Kool-Aid and Kiddy cereal changes colors imagine the new technology that could be used for spandex pants!

Say it ain't so...

OHG... Spuds McKenzie.... how do you remember these things!?! Ya... I even saw the return of the preppy purse, remember the ones with the wooden handles and the button-on, exchangeable cloth covers to match your pink & green polos?! Aaack.... although... '83 was sophomore year for me.... ahhhhh.

Also, jelly apparel is back. I'm sorry, but jelly was ugly enough in shoe form, I don't need it in purse form.

Hmmm and George Michael has a new album out.
Lordy, it may be the end of the world as we know it.

i am having flashbacks of zipping up my rainbow jeans with a hanger. (because they were so tight in case you missed that) :-)

Yeah, the early 80s have been in style for a little while...I don't mind that. I like my bright colors, patterns, and gold heels, but yeah, I hate polos with the collars turned up, ruffly minis (straight ones are fine!), and those rubber bracelets.

What I am afraid of is the hair-metal or corporate shoulder-padded late 80s fashions!! ack Or high-waisted, tapered leg, acid washed jeans? We can all name many people who have never abandoned that look...i guess they will be in the height of fashion in a few years. (aaaaahhhhhhh!!!)

Or maybe designers will be smart and a) be more original and cut it with the retro or b) if they are going to one day rehash the mid to late 80s, please mine the alternative looks of the time.

Let's just all thank God that Kim Catrall failed to bring the fanny pack back to life.

Even though I'll be sporting one in a couple of weeks when I take Matt to the zoo.

Shut the fuck up. I'm a mom. No one is looking at me anyways. And where exactly do you expect me to keep my valium and my little bottles of gin IF NOT IN A FANNY PACK?

I'm guilty of sporting a white leather michael jackson jacket and a side ponytail...last weekend. :) I'm a slave to fashion (all of it!)

Granted, I was only 7 in 1983. I just ask my boyfriend when it comes to stuff like that. He was a sophomore in high school that year. He tells me all the great stories of member's only jackets and white nikes with red swooshes.

uh, melly, how about a purse? novel!

I remember a really weird shirt I had back then. Very strange print, epitome of the early 80's. About a year ago, a 20-something friend of mine showed up at my house wearing THAT shirt. She must have got it at the goodwill place I dumped it at 20 years ago. What did we all do wrong to have to suffer through this decade TWICE? It took me forever to grow out the damned big hair perm . . .

As long as there are no more fashion designers angry at women for not buying those stupid poofy skirts.
If I wanted to look like whoopee cushion, it would be called a terrible awful no good very bad Halloween.

does this mean huge linebacker sized shoulder pads are going to be next?
and those sex bracelets that are out sure look like the cheap-o bangles from the era-of-aqua-net

Don't even be getting up in my face about the handbag. I love the handbag. My son just happens to love it more.

It's my shoes that are the problem, and you know it.

SHAPS.

That was supposed to be "SNAPS". Oh well. Novel your ass!

Bah. The Darkness have one good song that I'm aware of. Does that mean we're headed back in time?

OK, so the rubber bracelets are a little freaky.. not that I was around back then anyway...

i just gave nine examples of things that were popular in the early 80s that are popular or becoming popular now. this isn't about the darkness. i'm moving fast here man. try to keep up.

It's spelled day-glo...the 'w' isn't just silent it is left off...or else it isn't 1983.

And personally I love day glo.

Yup...the kids on campus are wearing their polo collars UP! I eagerly await the return of parachute pants.

Don't forget the dreaded stirrup pants. Worn OVER contrasting-colored socks, with flats. *shudder*

Well, I hate to break it to you, but "the kids" have been bringing back the 80's for a few years now. Being that I work at a middle school, I see ALL the trendy changes as they come about. This week alone I have seen leg warmers (yep - they are back and worn often with heels), gold lame (sp?) jacket a la "Solid gold" worn with a black & red striped tight top a la "pat benetar" and a pair of gloria vanderbilt jean that I swear I wore myself back in 1983. Luckily, I have only seen ONE girl game enough to wear the tapered jeans so tight I swear they are giving her a yeast infection. Come on people, don't you watch "what not to wear" on BBC???? Let's have standards for goodness stake!

I hope they start selling those acid washed, tight jeans with the zippers and the bows at the ankle. Awesome!

And why is it, that just about every person you see wearing mesh shirts at the grocery store really should not be wearing mesh shirts, at all?

I would never do that to people, but I'm rocking the fanny pack.

ya know, as happy as i am about the mini skirt (cause damn, do i have the legs for it), the ruffled poofy things can leave anytime now. tutus are so not hot.

and 20 comments about the 80s? you people are the reason vh1 is in business.

only rockstars wear the rubber bracelets. i did. :P

I know, it's about our culture regressing back to an earlier period.

Please pardon the juvenile, unenlightened comment I previously posted=)

My personal favourite recently - short mini denim skirt, with knee high lace up ugg boots (hmm, do americans know what they are?) - all that was missing was to see it teamed with a wham t-shirt!

As long as my husband isn't compelled to wear a Member's Only jacket, no one will get hurt.