Fashion in the 1980s and Its' Return
Kembi, Adeyemi
English 102
The 1980s Fashion Scene on A Rapid Comeback
The 1980’s fashion is back, and its success is rooted in the similar economy we have with the 1980s. As a society we are deciding to “wear our personality”, rather than our pocket books and the fashion industry is staying alive by following this trend.
With the de-regulation of multiple government policies on industries, a failing economy, record setting recession and the booming crack-cocaine sales on the streets with Hip-Hop music employing all the facets of larger than life model of life styles, fashion sense became more of a headline than the issues that plagued the ’80s era. People simply wanted to live outside of what their day to day experience was. It was an era where what you wore, watched on TV, listened to on the radio, how you danced and pretty much all your actions was fed to through the mainstream media to the trending youth.
Fashion Cycles
Just like most things we are exposed to or experience there’s a beginning, middle, and an end. Same goes for our opinions on how we dress and the lifestyles we sometimes choose to portray. The variance however is the range in occurrences we experience, and it sticks out more when the time difference from one instance draws closer to the other. It wasn’t quite the time for the 1980’s fashion to make such a strong comeback into our culture, hip-hop didn’t quite disappear yet, neither did its portrayal of a larger than life lifestyle either. So if the fashion cycles in the 1980’s were so hideous and treacherous? What brought it back and back so soon?
In “How do fashion trends cycle?” by Eleisha she pointed out majorly that we usually would have a fashion cycle occur and that designers seem to all follow the same trends because they are mostly exposed to similar influences and are searching for inspiration for their designs around the same time.
Winterman in “The Life of a Fashion Trend” gives a rather interesting perspective on
English 102
The 1980s Fashion Scene on A Rapid Comeback
The 1980’s fashion is back, and its success is rooted in the similar economy we have with the 1980s. As a society we are deciding to “wear our personality”, rather than our pocket books and the fashion industry is staying alive by following this trend.
With the de-regulation of multiple government policies on industries, a failing economy, record setting recession and the booming crack-cocaine sales on the streets with Hip-Hop music employing all the facets of larger than life model of life styles, fashion sense became more of a headline than the issues that plagued the ’80s era. People simply wanted to live outside of what their day to day experience was. It was an era where what you wore, watched on TV, listened to on the radio, how you danced and pretty much all your actions was fed to through the mainstream media to the trending youth.
Fashion Cycles
Just like most things we are exposed to or experience there’s a beginning, middle, and an end. Same goes for our opinions on how we dress and the lifestyles we sometimes choose to portray. The variance however is the range in occurrences we experience, and it sticks out more when the time difference from one instance draws closer to the other. It wasn’t quite the time for the 1980’s fashion to make such a strong comeback into our culture, hip-hop didn’t quite disappear yet, neither did its portrayal of a larger than life lifestyle either. So if the fashion cycles in the 1980’s were so hideous and treacherous? What brought it back and back so soon?
In “How do fashion trends cycle?” by Eleisha she pointed out majorly that we usually would have a fashion cycle occur and that designers seem to all follow the same trends because they are mostly exposed to similar influences and are searching for inspiration for their designs around the same time.
Winterman in “The Life of a Fashion Trend” gives a rather interesting perspective on