# What is 80s Fashion?
80s fashion had a significant influence on fashion history. The style of the 1980s placed emphasis on cheap clothes and fashion accessories.
Bright color apparel, shiny costume jewelry,
clothing covered with sequins & diamonds, and more were the trend in 80s fashion.
And Punk fashion has created at that time.
Now read about "80s Men and Women Fashion":
# 80s Women's Fashion
The early 1980s observed a backlash against the brightly colored.
Coming to fashion, with less emphasis on accessories.
In the UK and America, clothes colors were suppressed, quiet, and bare;
Differing shades of brown, tan, cream, and orange were familiar.
General women's street-wear dressed in the early 1980s
Included ripped sweatshirts, tights, sweatpants, and tracksuits.
Athletic accessories were a huge trend in the early 1980s,
and their popularity was boosted mainly by the aerobics craze.
This added leg warmers, wide belts, elastic headbands,
and athletic shoes are known as 'sneakers' in the US or 'trainers' in the UK.
In the 1970s, most of the women were joining the workforce,
so, by the beginning 1980s, working women were no longer thought unusual.
As a way to proclaim themselves as competitors in the job market,
women began to dress more seriously at work.
Popular clothes for women in the job market added knee-length skirts,
wide-legged slacks, a matching blazer,
and a blouse of a different color.
Kitten-heeled shoes were often worn.
Formal shoes became more comfortable during this time.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
# Women's Sweater
Fashionable clothing in the early 1980s added unisex and gender-specific attire.
Broad fashions for women in the early 1980s added sweaters like,
turtleneck, crew neck, and v- neck varieties, extraordinarily long and bulky sweaters.
# Women's Jackets, Coats, Blazers
Fur-lined puffer jackets; tunics; faux-fur coats;
velvet blazers; trench coats, long wool coats,
leather gloves dress worn with wide or thin belts.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
# Women's Skirts, Tops, Pants & Jeans
Crop tops tube tops; knee-length skirts(of no designated length, as designers opted for choice)
long flared skirts, slim miniskirts,
slightly tapered pants and stirrup ones; loose, flowy,
knee-length dresses (with high-cut and low-cut necklines,
differing sleeve lengths, and made in a variety of fabrics, including
cotton, silk, satin, and polyester);
high-waisted loose pants; embroidered jeans;
Leather pants and designer jeans.
Women's pants of the 1980s were, in general,
worn with long inseams,
and by 1981, the flared jeans of the 70s
had gone out of fashion in favor of straight-leg trousers,
Short, tight Lycra or leather miniskirts.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
# Women's Shoes
From 1980 until 1983, popular women's accessories included thin.
belts, knee-high boots with thick kitten heels,
sneakers, jelly shoes, mules round-toed shoes and boots,
jelly bracelets, shoes with thick heels,
small, thin necklaces, and small watches, strappy sandals,
kitten-heeled sandals, pumps, and Keds.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
# Women's Makeup
Women from the 1980s wore bright, heavy makeup.
Everyday fashion in the 1980s consisted of light-colored lips,
dark and thick eyelashes, and pink or red rouge(otherwise known as blush).
Makeup's primary concern in the 80s clearly wasn't promoting a natural look,
so popular lipstick colors included cherry red,
orange, fuchsia, and even purple.
Lip gloss was plentiful, cheap, and everywhere.
Blue eyeshadow went as a trend in the '80s.
# Women's Hairstyles
Although straight hair was at the beginning of the decade, late-1970s styles were still relevant. The perm had come into fashion by 1980.
Big and eccentric hairstyles were popularized by film and music stars,
in particular among teenagers but also adults.
These hairstyles became iconic during the mid-1980s
and include big bangs worn by girls from upper elementary,
middle school, high school, college, and adult women.
Hair in the 1980s was typically big, curly, bouffant, and heavily styled.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
# 80s Men's Fashion
Athletic Clothing
In the early 1980s, fashion had moved away from the unkempt hippie look.
And overdressed disco style of the late 1970s.
Athletic clothes were more popular than jeans during this period,
as were more subdued colors. Popular colors were black,
white, indigo, forest green, burgundy, and different shades of browns,
tans, and oranges. Velour, velvet, and polyester were popular fabrics used in clothes,
especially button-up and v- neck shirts.
Looser pants remained popular during this time,
being fairly wide but straight, and tighter shirts were trendy,
sometimes in a cropped athletic style.
The general public, at this time,
wanted to wear low-maintenance clothing with more primary colors,
as the global slowdown going on at the time kept extravagant clothes out of reach.
Popular clothing in the early 1980s worn by men includes tracksuits,
v- neck sweaters, polyester and velour polo-neck shirts,
sports jerseys, straight-leg jeans,
jeans rolled to show off their slouch socks,
polyester button-ups, cowboy boots, beanies, and hoodies.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
New Wave Influence
From the early to mid-1980s,
post-punk and new wave music groups influenced mainstream male
and female fashion.
Commercially made slim-fitting suits,
thin neckties in leather or bold patterns,
striped T-shirts, Members Only, jackets, clubwear, metallic fabric shirts,
cat eyeglasses, horn-rim glasses with brightly colored frames,
androgynous neon colored makeup,
and new leather jackets were widely worn.
Everyday hairstyles included a short quiff for men,
and typical unisex colors for clothing included turquoise,
teal, red, neon yellow, and white on a blue screen.
Preppy Look
Popular preppy clothing for men included Oxford shirts,
sweaters, turtlenecks, polo shirts with popped collars,
khaki slacks, argyle socks, dress pants,
Hush Puppies Oxford shoes, brogues, suspenders, seersucker
or striped linen suits, corduroy,
and cable knit sweaters that were often worn tied around the shoulders.
The Mid 80s
In the mid-1980s, popular trends included wool sport coats,
Levi 501s, Hawaiian shirts, shell suits,
hand-knit sweaters, sports shirts, hoodies,
flannel shirts, reversible flannel vests,
jackets with the insides quilted, nylon jackets,
gold rings, spandex cycling shorts, cowboy boots,
and khaki pants with jagged seams.
The mid-1980s brought an explosion of colorful styles
in men's clothing such as t-shirts
underneath expensive suit jackets with broad,
padded shoulders, Hawaiian shirts
(complemented with sports coats,
often with top-stitched lapels for a
"custom-tailored" look), and (in counterpoint to the bright shirt)
jackets that were often gray, tan, rust, or white.
Easy-care micro-suede and corduroy jackets became popular choices,
especially those with a Western style.
Michael Jackson also significantly influenced teenage boys and young men's fashions, such as matching red/black leather pants and jackets, white gloves, sunglasses, and oversized, slouch-shouldered faded leather jackets with puffy sleeves.
80s Men and Women Fashion:
Power Dressing
The 1940s inspired a pinstripe suit with large shoulder pads and double-breasted fastening. These "power suits" were fashionable in Britain from the early 1980s until the late 1990s.
Three-piece suits began their decline in the early 1980s
and lapels on cases became very narrow,
akin to that of the early 1960s.
The thin ties briefly popular in the early
The '80s were soon replaced by broader, striped neckties,
generally in more conservative colors than the kipper ties
of the '70s.
Double-breasted suits were reintroduced by
designers like Giorgio Armani,
Ralph Lauren, and Anne Klein.
They were known as 'power suits,'
and were typically made in navy blue, charcoal grey, or air force blue.
Doc Martens
Doc Martens were dark shoes or boots
with air-cushioned soles that were used
by both sexes in the 1980s.
They were an necessary fashion accessory for the skinhead
and punk subcultures in the United Kingdom.
Parachute Pants
Parachute pants are a style of trousers characterized by the use of ripstop nylon or excessively baggy cuts.
In the original tight-fitting, extraneously zippered style.
of the late 1970s and early 1980s, "parachute" referred to the pants'
synthetic nylon material. In the later 1980s,
"parachute" may have referred to the extreme bagginess of the pant.
These are also referred to as "Hammer" pants due to rapper MC Hammer's signature style.
Reference:
1. 1980s in fashion - Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_fashion
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