This '80s revival has GOT TO STOP!

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To be honest I haven't really noticed any 80's revival if it could bring my old job back I would be happy

No '80s bashing! I'm an '80s teenager, and I'm still a teen at heart, so we're all still here in 1984...... President Reagan has the USA at a highest morale since the end of WWII, the space shuttle has launched, and Sony has now come out with a giant 26" Trinitron TV to watch our Betamax movies on. The Cold War is about over, and the air raid sirens aren't being tested anymore. I'd write more, but I just had a brainstorm about how to solve my Rubik's Cube.

And I still have my Guess jackets, Converse Allstars, and OP shirts. And yes, I have a Toyota mini-monster 4x4 diesel truck like all the cool guys dreamed of having in my high school, and it has an 8-track player with a Metallica cartridge in it. And my wife also still has all her '80s clothes, and a totally 80s hair style! 80s forever!

All joking aside, I see young kids wearing exactly the same hair as we had back then, and last week, I saw a few boys from a nearby high school after football practice, and they were wearing the same loose T-shirts with the sleeves cut off and slit all the way down to the hips like we did. It's back! And they sell reproduced Converse shoes at Target now. I even occasionally hear kids blasting 80s metal music, which was a total faux-pas in the 90s and 2000s.

I wish the small business opportunities of the 80s were still here, as I'd go re-open my TV & VCR repair business.

Charles

Don't get me started on 1984.

Ahh, this would explain how come I saw a teen the other day wearing trainers pumped up on steroids (like the Back to the Future II ones) and sporting what looked suspiciously like a mullet.

The noughties or whatever thay are called lol have been really bland. People also idealise the past and find comfort there. Each to their own.

The noughties or whatever thay are called lol have been really bland. People also idealise the past and find comfort there. Each to their own.

You can get Converses in ANY sport shop here now, and they're relatively inexpensive too (RRP $60 for the basic canvas non hi-top pair), but I always thought they were a 90's fashion statement and not an 80's one.

Skinny jeans and t-shirts cropped off at the midriff are from the 80's. I also see leggings and bodysuits making a comeback too, and all the Nike street shoes are in fluro colours.

If people were wearing clothes that was out of fashion or date I would never be able to tell. I'm that bad with keeping up with clothing trends. One time in high school I was wearing this Orange Julius shirt that I found in my closet that I thought was just a stylish shirt and everyone loved it. Took me a while to realize it was a former Orange Julius employee shirt from the 70s, I think that might've been my dad's and somehow wound up in my closet. Also during high school I was the only one who wore torn up jeans to school that went out of fashion before high school started but CAME BACK into fashion after I left. ARGH!! !!

Plus in my family we barely update our wardrobe. I'm sure I still have shirts from elementary and middle school that my mom wears now!

I was born in '78 and spent the 80's as the child and grandchild of coal miners in the Rust Belt. You're right-- the 80's were definitely not safer, kinder, or more gentle. They were a hard and scary time. Sometimes I think that's why all the 80's stuff is coming back-- because our economy and such are in a similar place and it is a hard and scary time again.

Bon Jovi, "Livin on a Prayer."

I saw slap bracelets in the drug store a couple weeks ago. I laughed out loud and used the phrase, "Totally tubular, dude!"

The cashier, who was so young he probably hasn't even studied the 80's in history yet, looked at me like I was from Mars. It was fun.

Personally, I'm waiting for grunge to make a resurgence. I was grunge WAY before Kurt Cobain made it cool.

Ditto. Can't say I've noticed anything of the sort.



They never stopped making Converse shoes (I should know, I've been wearing them since high school), but their prices went way up after Nike bought them in 2003 (hooray, I always wanted to own my very own pair of overpriced overseas child labor sweatshop produced cheap canvas shoes!). From what I've seen though, Target only carries the One Star line, not the original Chuck Taylor All Stars.



Relative to what??

Before Nike bought them, Meijer sold them for around $15 to $20.

Nowadays I'm lucky if I can find a pair on sale for $30. Fortunately I've got three pair right now, and my old pair from when I was 19 still hold up.

I was born in 73, and lived in Northern Ireland during the hunger strikes, and Manchester during the miners' strikes. Late 70s and early 80s UK was a hard place to live if you weren't insulated by money or ignorance.

Maybe that's why the music of the time was so good though. Seems music and hardship have that sort of relationship.

coming up next: HAMMER PANTS! they're totally back - my daughter's friends have them.

I remember paying $40 in 1980-81 (8th grade or so) for a pair of white leather All Stars. That was more than Nikes, and Vans were only about $16. My mother didn't approve, so I had to pay with my own money since the Cons weren't "necessary". When Converse went out of style in the late 80s, they got cheaper, and cheaper, but as pointed out, were always available.

Charles

In a way I miss the 80s. I like the metal bands that had long hair and wore make-up. I like long haired effeminate men. Now I have to watch anime to find them.

I still have my Michael Jackson LA Gear sneakers from the 80s. I think I got them in 90 or 91. They are in bad shape now and I'm not sure if they still fit but when they were new they looked like this. If they are in good shape they are worth hundreds of dollars now.

Apparently you're not the only one who doesn't like the 80s

http://coolandcollected.com/were-the-80s-really-this-lame-no-way-way/

Personally I perfer the 90's, that was the decade where I spent my childhood and while I didn't have the best childhood I remember fondly all the things I used to enjoy in the 90's like the cartoons and movies. Most of the new crap today doesn't interest me.

I could care less about fashion though, I wear whatever I like and think looks good on me.