1980's Fashion Trends
Fashion by Decade
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n the 1980s, rising pop star Madonna proved to be very influential to female fashions. She first emerged on the dance music scene with her
“street urchin” look—short skirts over leggings, necklaces, rubber bracelets, fishnet gloves, hairbows, long layered strings of beads, bleached, untidy hair with dark roots, head bands, and lace ribbons. In her Like a Virgin phase, millions of young girls around the world emulated her fashion example that included brassieres worn as outerwear, huge crucifix jewellery, lace gloves, tulle skirts, and boytoy belts.
Gloves, sometimes lace and/or fingerless, were popularized by Madonna, as well as fishnet stockings and layers of beaded necklaces. Short, …show more content…
Black was the preferred colour. Another club fashion for women was lingerie as outerwear. Prior to the mid-1980s it had been taboo to show a slip or a bra strap in public. A visible undergarment had been a sign of social ineptness. In the new fad’s most extreme forms, young women would forego conventional outer-garments for vintage-style bustiers with lacy slips and several large crucifixes. This was both an assertion of sexual freedom and a conscious rejection of prevailing androgynous fashions.
Happy Pants
Happy pants were worn mostly by teenagers, especially girls in the 1980s.
Fun kids fabrics were used to make the happy pants. This meant those who wore them, had their own unique pair of happy pants. In Australia, happy pants were a basic, elasticised pair of shorts, made from children’s range of bright and bold designs in cotton fabric. The shorts were not too tight, not too baggy, and finished in length just above the knee. In 1986, Dolly Magazine released an 80s happy pants pattern for the basic elastic shorts. As most teenage girls had done Home
Economics, they made their own shorts for happy pants.
Parachute …show more content…
From the early 2000s onwards, women wore denim miniskirts, burberry, hiphop inspired sweatpants, Daisy Dukes, ripped “distressed” jeans, flip-flops, ponchos, flared trousers, denim jackets and tank tops exposing the midriff.
Colors like baby blue, yellow and hot pink were popular.
Mid Thousands
From the mid 2000s onwards women wore lowrise skinny jeans, lycra yoga wear, knee-high boots with pointed toes, trenchcoats and peacoats, tunics worn with wide or thin belts, capri pants, longer tank tops worn with a main blouse or shirt, leggings, and
“vintage clothing” including hippie and Boho inspired dresses with paisley patterns. Crocs were a brief fad for both sexes in the summer of 2005, despite their kitsch connotations.
Late Thousands
In the late 2000s, headbands, denimprint leggings, knitted sweater dresses,
Nike Tempo shorts, ballet flats, acid wash skinny jeans and light, translucent tartan shirts worn with a camisole underneath were popular among young women. Long, baggy shirts were taken in at the bustline and of-
ten paired with a belt. Leather
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n the 1980s, rising pop star Madonna proved to be very influential to female fashions. She first emerged on the dance music scene with her
“street urchin” look—short skirts over leggings, necklaces, rubber bracelets, fishnet gloves, hairbows, long layered strings of beads, bleached, untidy hair with dark roots, head bands, and lace ribbons. In her Like a Virgin phase, millions of young girls around the world emulated her fashion example that included brassieres worn as outerwear, huge crucifix jewellery, lace gloves, tulle skirts, and boytoy belts.
Gloves, sometimes lace and/or fingerless, were popularized by Madonna, as well as fishnet stockings and layers of beaded necklaces. Short, …show more content…
Black was the preferred colour. Another club fashion for women was lingerie as outerwear. Prior to the mid-1980s it had been taboo to show a slip or a bra strap in public. A visible undergarment had been a sign of social ineptness. In the new fad’s most extreme forms, young women would forego conventional outer-garments for vintage-style bustiers with lacy slips and several large crucifixes. This was both an assertion of sexual freedom and a conscious rejection of prevailing androgynous fashions.
Happy Pants
Happy pants were worn mostly by teenagers, especially girls in the 1980s.
Fun kids fabrics were used to make the happy pants. This meant those who wore them, had their own unique pair of happy pants. In Australia, happy pants were a basic, elasticised pair of shorts, made from children’s range of bright and bold designs in cotton fabric. The shorts were not too tight, not too baggy, and finished in length just above the knee. In 1986, Dolly Magazine released an 80s happy pants pattern for the basic elastic shorts. As most teenage girls had done Home
Economics, they made their own shorts for happy pants.
Parachute …show more content…
From the early 2000s onwards, women wore denim miniskirts, burberry, hiphop inspired sweatpants, Daisy Dukes, ripped “distressed” jeans, flip-flops, ponchos, flared trousers, denim jackets and tank tops exposing the midriff.
Colors like baby blue, yellow and hot pink were popular.
Mid Thousands
From the mid 2000s onwards women wore lowrise skinny jeans, lycra yoga wear, knee-high boots with pointed toes, trenchcoats and peacoats, tunics worn with wide or thin belts, capri pants, longer tank tops worn with a main blouse or shirt, leggings, and
“vintage clothing” including hippie and Boho inspired dresses with paisley patterns. Crocs were a brief fad for both sexes in the summer of 2005, despite their kitsch connotations.
Late Thousands
In the late 2000s, headbands, denimprint leggings, knitted sweater dresses,
Nike Tempo shorts, ballet flats, acid wash skinny jeans and light, translucent tartan shirts worn with a camisole underneath were popular among young women. Long, baggy shirts were taken in at the bustline and of-
ten paired with a belt. Leather