80s Fads

1. Mall Bangs - Spray them straight up with aqua-net.
2. Layered Perm - What happens when you perm feathered hair.
3. New Wave bangs over one eye
4. Rocker Hair Band Hair
5. Mohawk
6. A Flock of Seagulls
7. Spikes
8. Shaved head except bangs.
9. Mullet
10. Big Hair-multiple styles
11. Banana Clips
12. Butterfly Hair Clips
13. Crimped hair Hair Crimper on Amazon
14. Side pony tail.
15. Woven ribbon barrettes (worn mostly by young girls. The tail ribbons could be a foot long.)
16. Jheri curl.
17. Comb in the back pocket or your jeans. Either plastic with a handle, or switchblade. Goes with very early 80s feathered hair.
18. Vietnamese American new wave original photos People looked like this where I was too, but it wasn't just Vietnamese kids.
19 .Speaking of Vietnam. I seem to remember recently arrived girls from South East Asia wearing pink foam hair curlers as hair clips.
20. Afro Pik worn stuck in an afro hairdo. Looks like this one's back.I'd forgotten about this one. I usually associate it with the 70s, but I remember several people doing this in the early 80s.

1. The Cabbage Patch - Cabbage Patch done by a guy who was there.
2. The Roger Rabbit - Rodger Rabbit tutorial on Youtube
3. The Robot
4. The Moon Walk
5. The Zombie - See the original version in Michael Jackson's Thriller video
6. The Running Man - Running Man on Youtube
7. Break Dancing - Vintage Break Dancing Short Documentary
8. Walk Like an Egyptian - Bangles video. Vintage video with regular people dancing.
9. Dancing or walking down the street with a boom box on your shoulder. photo
9. Heavy metal head banging.

1. Cabbage Patch Dolls.
2. Strawberry Shortcake Characters. This character was printed on clothes, lunch boxes and everything else, and was very popular with grade school girls in the early 80s.
3. Transformers toys
4. He-Man
5. Care Bears
6. My Little Pony
7. Garbage Pail Kids
8. Slime
9. Girls socks with lace on top.
10. Velcro sneakers with zipper pockets. Kangaroos still in business
11. Sticker collecting and trading.
12. Teddy Ruxpin (Adults were more into this than the kids.)
13. Rainbows and unicorns.

1. Hollow cheek blush. - Use a dark streak of blush under your cheek bone angled from the ear to the chin. Use two colors dark above light.
2. Sparkle Pink Lipstick - The original had fish scales in it.
3. Three color eye shadow. - Often the right and left side of the lid were different colors. A light shade like pink used up to the eye brows.
4. Eye Liner on guys - Think young Richard Grieco, or Boy George
5. Blue Eye liner and mascara, especially on blue eyed women.

1. Jelly Bracelets
2. Multiple ear piercings on girls
3. One ear piercings on boys. (gay left, straight right)
4. Ear cuffs
5. Big hoop ear rings
6. Painted and colored plastic geometric shape jewelery.
7. Dog collars as jewelery
8. Handcuffs hung between the front two belt loops. Kind of a punk look.
9. Friendship bracelets home made from embroidery thread.
10. Madonna style big cross necklaces.
11. Wearing 30 bracelets at once.
12. Swatch watches - (Plastic watches often worn two or three to a wrist. You could add a plastic scratch guard over the lens.) picture
13.Button covers
14. Flavor Flav clock necklaces.
15. Tiny gold rings that you wear on pierced finger nails, often with glued on rhinestones.

Gym
1. Off the shoulder sweat shirts Flashdance style.
2. Leg warmers
3. Leotards - Sometimes belted. Cut very high in the leg. Thong leotards worn over leggings.
4. Special shoes for each sport.
5.Pom Pom White Anklet Socks

Office
1. Tennis shoes with skirts and nylons on the way to work. Pumps in the office.
2. Shoulder pads in everything.
3. Blouses with a bow at the neck.
4. Square neck scarves.
5. Squiggle metal lapel pins.
6. Not a fad, but no pants allowed in most offices.

Casual
1. Stirrup Pants with big sweaters or shirts. (This came in at the same time as neon colors)
2. V-front big belts to wear over the big shirts. Often the buckle buckled at a right angle to form the V. Finally found a picture here.
3. Crinoline on the outside.
4. Keds with no socks.
5. Reebok Classics
6. Jelly Shoes
7. T-Shirt Clips
8. Terri cloth rompers. Usually a swimsuit cover up in the early 80s. Shorts attached to a tube top.
9. Men's boxer shorts as shorts. Don't forget to sew up the fly.
10. Girls lace top socks with heels
11. Esprit Cloth Bags - Popular as a teen girl book bag especially.
12. Dove shorts
13. Socks that matched your t-shirt. Sold together. Late 80s.

Special Occasion
1. Prairie dresses. (This was early 80s late 70s. Usually made by Gunne Sax.) Cotton with lots of lace and ribbons.
2. Giant puffy sleeves. Prom Photo
3. V front torso princess dresses.
4. Elbow length spandex gloves.
5. Fingerless Lace Gloves

YUPPIE
1. Suspenders On Michael Douglas in Wall Street.
2. Short shorts for jogging and the gym.
3. Sweater tied around the shoulders
4. Pink, lots of pink. Think Miami Vice.
5. Alligator polo shirts - Lacoste is still in business. Don't forget to turn up the collar.
6. Loafers with no socks.
CASUAL
1. Muscle shirts with no arms
2. Flowered Bermuda shorts.(mostly worn by skaters)
3. Spuds Mackenzie t-shirts.
4. Michael Jackson Red Beat It jackets with lots of zippers
5. Bandannas - tied on anywhere. (I remember this particularly with break dancers who didn't want to loose their Karate kid headbands while dancing.)
6. Parachute Pants
7. Member's Only Jackets
8. Piano keyboard ties.
9. New wave skinny ties
10. Fingerless black leather gloves, or Michael Jackson's one glittery glove look.
11. Painter's hats, especially French legion style.

1. Rubik's Cube
2. Trivial Pursuit
3. Pictionary
4. Atari
5. Pac Man
6. Space Invaders

1. Suit jackets with rolled sleeves
2. Pegged Pants
3. Brand name labels prominently displayed. (Guess jeans with the triangle on the back pocket, T-shirts with ESPRIT or Gucci printed on the front)
4. Tuck in your shirt. (This isn't really a fad, but it's the thing that sticks out most in old group photos as compared to today. Everyone wore a belt and tucked in their shirt.)
5. Pleated front pants with high tight ankles.
6. Acid wash denim came out in 1987. It was really a mass produced version of the earlier fad to spill bleach all over your jeans like this guy did.
7. Hard Rock Cafe T-Shirts
8. Pleated front Jeans.
9. Pocket t-shirts.

1. Vally girl talk. It started with Frank Zappa's daughter And ended with Bill and Ted.
2. Where's the beef? - From this commercial.
3. Ending sentences with, "not".
4. Yo. Painting out all by the YO on the tailgate of a Toyota truck.