Did teenage girls really dress like grandmas in the 80s?

Clothes got boxier and baggier in the very late 80s/early 90s. And blazers were huge.

Janet.

Tight jeans were definitely a thing in the 80s, but I remember girls pairing them up with giant oversized (usually belted) sweaters or blouses.

No idea what you're talking about.

OMG. Wow, they really did. So weird...more pics please....I am laughing out loud.

Girls back then wanted to look like grown-ups. not prostitutes.

I think they were more covered until the belly shirt came in. I hate the too tight and to skimpy look. It even makes thin girls look fat. It is not arractive at all.

Part of the overall “sex is bad” 80s backlash against the “sex is great” 70s

Big, baggy Forenza shaker sweaters in Day-Glo colors were a practical uniform for girls at my high school circa 1984. Also: jeans with gaudy cabbage roses printed on them.

Not sure why they thought shoulder pads for women were a great look back then.

They didn't dress like grandmas but they didn't dress and act like whores in heat either. Nowadays parents will proudly parade around the mall with their 12 year olds dressed like Jodie Foster from Taxi Driver. Just beaming with pride at their little skanky offspring. On occasion, schools will attempt to establish basic dress codes but Mommy and little Olivya will run to the media wailing about "slut shaming " . Never mind if boys came to school dressed like that, they would quickly be shown the door.

My mother's teen pics (she was a teen in the 80s) have her dressing like that...big sweaters, etc..It is hilarious. I never thought she dressed like a grandma...till this post....OMG.

First day of school for kids here in Toronto, sitting at a red light I watched a handful of teenage girls walking across the street. I had more material on me than they had on all their bodies combined. One girl was wearing white leggings that left nothing to the imagination. Kids are stupid and will do stupid things, it's their parents who need a good hard slap for letting their kids leave the house like that.

OP, your still is from Heathers. Those characters were supposed to be wealthy, so you are seeing what passed for affluent, hip style in high school. Veronica’s (Winona Ryder) clothes were a little more subdued and didn’t age quite as badly.

Have you seen Pretty in Pink? It’s an ‘80s teen movie, and one of the great reveals at the climax is that the main character made her own dress for the prom. This is the dress. I don’t think it was supposed to be homely.

Get ready. One day people will look back at what young people wear now and wonder WTF you were thinking. It’s a weird feeling but a right of passage I suppose.

What caused the shift? Britney? SATC?

Now the clothes and the hair scream, WHITE TRASH! No one looks good.

[quote]Get ready. One day people will look back at what young people wear now and wonder WTF you were thinking. It’s a weird feeling but a right of passage I suppose.

This is true but the estrangement that one decade feels towards its predecessors doesn't always take the form of wonder at how modestly people dressed back then. In fact, when I look at celebrity pictures from the late 90s and early 2000s, it surprises me how much more whorish the women looked than today.

I don't know what people in the future will think of female fashion today, but I don't believe they will wonder at how modest the 2010s was.

R13 I think a big part of the problem is that suburban parents in this society absolutely worship the ground that their teen daughters walk on and will not establish any boundaries for their little "princess " . Asking them not to go out in the equivalent of a painted on bodysuit is "shaming " them. I'm not saying we should go to the other extreme like you see in the mid east but I think we overdo it. On that note, if parents want to send their daughters outside like that, they need to start preparing Them for the attention they may receive, some of it unwanted.

R15 I really believe the few girls in the 80s who dressed like sluts had kids and permitted their daughters to dress like sluts and basically it was a domino effect of trashy clothing.

For all the talk about "straight male privilege " ,there is this weird taboo in American society against even mild criticism of middle class suburban girls, particularly if they are attractive. Note the hysteria during the height of the campus sex "crisis " that perhaps young women might consider not going to raucous parties and getting themselves into an alcohol induced stupor on a regular basis. Even gently offering this advice would lead the sjw mob to demand your firing. I think many schools would like to institute dress codes but fear the media histrionics. There would be mass protests with female students parading around in leggings and tube tops holding signs saying " ILL WEAR WHAT I WANT". Dimwitted female journalists for outlets like Salon, and their dutiful male protectors in the media, would make this a 24 7 news story.

School uniforms for both boys and girls would be a huge positive. It would help level the playing field in the war of the “haves” and “have nots,” eliminate the time fretting over what to wear in the morning, etc.

But god forbid you even suggest it because then the fraus and their hus-bears would scream about how schools are trying to squash their crotch dropping’s “individuality.”

R21 oh for sure. And the media would be slobberingly sympathetic, as they always are when suburban hausfraus whine about something.

Laura Ashley was a big deal.

Literal grandma clothing!!

Fashion cues in the 80s were taken from TV and movies. Now fashion cues are taken from pop sluts and rap ho's.

Yes they did OP.

The cool people dressed in black. They were New Wave and Alternative, not frumpy fraus in training.

These are the frumpy teenage girls who grew up to dye their hair like clowns in their menopause years.

R14 Even at the time, that dress was just embarrassing and not the least bit pretty or trendy. It looked like exactly what it was, a home economics project. I remember my friends and I were like "WTF?????" they could have done a better job with that dress. Andy was smart and resourceful and would NEVER have worn that ridiculous dress to prom.

Yes, R23! I remember sorority girls at my college wearing matching Laura Ashley frump dresses for "serious night" during rush.

Love your pic r4. God, Jo was SUCH a dyke.

This is UK centric, but the girls I grew up with in the 80s were all doing the Bananarama look. That blue and white striped shirt and the hair were everywhere. Posher girls did the Sloane Ranger.

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R21 the Catholic high school I graduated from enacted a school uniform in 1991. In 2006 they removed skirts from the dress code because girls were hemming them so fucking high they looked like strippers. Now the boys and girls both have to wear pants.

r30 in the US in the 80s what you called the Sloane Ranger look we called the Preppy Look. It was essentially the same thing.

The Preppy Handbook came out first and was actually going out of style when the Sloane Rangers happened.

Oh, there were short skirts, tight pants, falling-off-the-shoulder Flashdance shirts, catsuits, Punks and wannabe Punks, etc.

And then there was a lot of Laura Ashley. 80s fashion was almost entirely hideous but I do have one nice thing to say about it - that was the last decade where everyone tried to look sophisticated!

This is what the teen Valley Girls actually looked like, the girls in "Heathers" weren't meant to be dressing like ordinary trash.

[quote]your still is from Heathers. Those characters were supposed to be wealthy, so you are seeing what passed for affluent, hip style in high school.

I always thought the Heathers were comically grown-up, they looked like corner office types already.

Gap - Fall 1992.

You are never more than five minutes away from the Gap queen on any DL thread.

"Not sure why they thought shoulder pads for women were a great look back then."

I'm afraid I can't let that comment pass.

I lot of women in show business should just go ahead and take their tits out of their dresses, especially on the housewives shows. Those big tits look scary.

This shoe was the height of fashion in my high school.

I remember a girl with a dark blue pair was really upset that you couldn't easily see the Candies' logo. She said, "I don't want people thinking I wear those cheap knock offs like Linda Turley."

It seems like Doc. Martins are making a comeback.

Docs never really went away, did they? At least not for art students and blue-collar whites who vote Labour.

[quote]I'm 30 and quite ignorant and uncultured so I wouldn't know

I fixed that for you.

In addition to The Preppy Handbook, I remember Elizabeth McGovern's look from Ordinary People being recreated left and right by teenage girls in the early 80s.

Those Laura Ashley dresses were everywhere for a few years in the early 90s.

Yeah, hormonally charged young women at the height of their sexual attractiveness actually wore these Laura Ashley dresses.

Fashion is fashion, it's usually ridiculous!

Yes, OP, and the everyday housewives and working Joes all dressed like this in the 80s:

r47 Terrible comparison.

Llooking at "Jo" in that picture @r4, you can smell the saw dust and axle grease.

I dressed like this in my late teens early twenties. No, R6 it wasn't because we didn't want to dress like prossies, it was the fashion. Look at how we dressed in the early 80's (the Madonna years) totally whorish and loving it.

It does crack me up when I realize that I was rocking the same fashions as The Golden Girls when I was twenty though.

I don't know R48, I think there were a mix of influences. Princess Diana was a big one (grew up in the UK) but Dynasty was probably just as big. Lots of polyester, big shoulders and mettalic fabrics with beading thrown in. I'm sure we looked awful, but you'd never have convinced us of it. (R50)

The shoulder pad thing was definitely excessive. If you wore a blouse with shoulder pads and then a blazer with pads on top of that, you ended looking like a linebacker with no neck. My sister would cut them out.

OP Heathers was in the late 80s JUST ON THE CUSP of heading into the 1990s. The late 80s was when fashion like that was slowly being worn in movies & TV shows. This is how a lot of fashion becomes mainstream.

Heathers was NEVER an actual fashion. It was 100% surreal. Girls did not dress like that.

[quote]The Preppy Handbook came out first and was actually going out of style when the Sloane Rangers happened.

The Sloane Rangers and the Preppy Look were at the same time. The Preppy Look lasted well into the 80s.

I was a kid in the 80's living in KC. No one dressed like a hooker. I remember lots of Outback Red, Guess jeans with the ankle zippers and 5,7,9.

I was a kid and wore a lot of Espirit. I played soccer and could never got my calves into the Guess Jean's with the zippers.

Once I hit Jr. High, all black with various Doc's.

I don't remember belly shirts in the 1980s.

I remember lots of oversized sweaters and sweatshirts with tight jeans and sneakers.

The "excitement" was created by bright colors, weird cuts, oversized belts and buttons and accessories and wild hair, not by revealing flesh.

In MY day, we called those "Fuck Me Pumps", r41.

Guess jeans, white shirt, red pumps. Boom. I actually think that was one of the best looks of the time. Easy too.

Broad, padded shoulders were very 80s... along with the big, high, overly permed hair. Not the best decade for fashion.

r61, While she wasn't the first to wear them to school, the second girl to get a pair was nicknamed "The Black Hole."

This was every girl in my hometown.

Yellow teeth? Must be the water in your home town.

Hey OP, they didn't dress like grandmas. They were trendy for their time, they just became grandmas without a wardrobe change.

R14 : We call this dress "The Box"

Everyone dressed like that, even the men.

Miami Vice was considered really really stylish for the time. Pastel suites with t-shirts. Usually the suite sleeves were scrunched up to the elbow. Most men did not go this far thank god.

The 70s and early 80s were super fitted and yeast infectionally tight. The obvious pendulum swing was to loose, oversized and pleated. That went to cargo panta and mom jeans and the sagging pants and Jencos. We're finally getting into tighter pants bit most people are too fat for them.

Well OP, guess you could say the way they dressed was...truly Outrageous.

Seriously though, what was the big idea with Caboodles? I'm a Millennial and literally do not understand.

What happened in the late 80s was the shift to the wearing of sports attire for daytime, even as workwear. Women started to pack sneakers in their work bags and would walk to work in them, then change to pumps. That was a slippery slope to today's horrors - yoga pants as a default outfit, sneakers as the ubiquitous shoe. Also rap. Sportswear and 'urbanwear' = the sloppy, lazy, sweatshirts and sneakers 24/7 styles of the modern era.

R74 “looks like a pump it feels like a sneaker...”

I was a star!

I remember when the clothes got even baggier in 90/91. Bright color was pretty much gone by 92. Have started seeing ads from over in France and the UK this year - the high waistedness, pleats, Mom/dad cuts, and rooomy fit are starting to creep in. Won’t be long before we start seeing it again here.

Early 80s was very granny-look. Princess Di was partly responsible for that. She only started dressing beautifully later in the decade.

The reason the shoulder-pads were considered a good look was that the mid-80s was when the baby boomers started hitting senior management levels, bringing with them the first widespread generation of female professionals. The idea was to dress in skirt suits that mimicked male business attire, so women would be taken seriously. At the same time, lingerie was far more beautiful in the 80s than ever since (lots of quality silk and lace in the department stores), so that women could remind themselves of their femininity under the masculine garb. It was sexy because it was secret.

The dressing like a hooker thing came with the cult of celebrity. There is room for suspicion that this was actively promoted to undermine the rise of women in the business world where, as we know, they continue to be widely hated. The focus on looks, and slutty looks at that, completely trivialises women except as sex objects. Of course, Madonna dressed like a hooker throughout the 80s, but her look didn't move into the wider community till the following decade.

Most clothes had a roomy fit from the 60s through to the mid-80s, because in those days it was incumbent on clothes to fit you, not on you to downsize to fit the available clothes. Women's magazines used to tell you what clothes to buy to fit your shape: now they tell you where to get plastic surgery so you too can dress like a hooker. (That probably started in the late 80s with aerobics and the invention of activewear for people who weren't professional dancers.)

I have a friend in marketing who theorises that the death of bright color was caused by the rise of China as a clothing manufacturer to the masses - black dye being cheaper than colors.

Olivia Newton-John's fashion line from 1988 - Koala Blue.

Bratz dolls turned them all into pole dancers in training.

R73 It's for storing makeup and related accessories, as clearly illustrated by the photo you linked. Are you blind?

" Women's magazines used to tell you what clothes to buy to fit your shape: now they tell you where to get plastic surgery so you too can dress like a hooker"

WW

The sluttiest period was 2000-2004 or so, the heyday of Paris Hilton. I returned to the US from living abroad in the 90s in 2000 and I was shocked at the near nakedness of young adult women.

R88 Agreed. By 2000 every young girl was wearing Baby Gap everything. Asses and stomachs hanging out all over the place. Super low jeans and belly rings and whale tales. Gross!

At my (private) high school in Maryland 82-85ish, when not in uniform, the height of fashion was a tweed blazer, Polo or Izod shirt (collar popped), tight Levi's or Guess jeans and brand new white Nike basketball shoes.

The off-the-shoulder "Flashdance sweatshirt" was a hugely popular look. When that movie came out, you saw girls and women wearing these sweatshirts all over the place.

Girls at my high school dressed up in plaid skirts that covered the knee along with boots, so no leg was showing, with a white blouse buttoned all the way up, and a blazer. That was their standard-issue nice outfit in the 80s.

I liked the preppy look of the 80s..as mentioned in R85's comment. I was probably more preppy than anything, back then.

Honest to god, I don't think I'll ever learn this MS-DOS thing. Why can't we use typewriters anymore? Does anybody have a cigarette? My nerves are WORKED right now!

[quote]Of course, Madonna dressed like a hooker throughout the 80s, but her look didn't move into the wider community till the following decade.

Funny you mentioned that, because a friend and I were just talking the other day about Madonna in the 80s, and how people thought she looked like a whore most of the time, but if you look at pictures of Madonna from back then she was actually pretty covered-up by today's standards. Her tits weren't hanging out and she tended to wear lots of layers. We tend to think that Madonna went around half-naked in the 80s (like today's celebrities) but she actually wore quite a lot of material.

If you look closer to the pic in r59, those women aren't on their late 30s, they are much younger but the hair and makeup made them look at least 10 years older. Many women in the 90s seems like they didn't age much just because they looked older before.

R91 Yeah I know what you mean. Kind of like how all the girls in my Mom's 1963 HS yearbook all looked at least 30 because of the bouffant hair.

I started college in 1988 and the girls wore Laura Ashley. Here is what must be one of the first modelling shots of then aged 14 Kate Moss, in a Laura Ashley wedding dress from 1988. You can see the continuing influence of Diana's dress from 1982.

Typical Valedictory Ball dress from Laura Ashley worn by middle-class British women graduating from university in the late 80s, my friend Rachel wore this actual model, but in electric blue taffeta.

1983 Ashley, what I suppose could be termed Latvian Peasant Chic

The young female teachers in my elementary school all wore Laura Ashley or equivalent.

R95... That photo looks like the sister wives, of a polygamist.

My aunt still loves Laura Ashley.

Nowadays, parents take pride in being seen with their skanky looking adolescent daughters. And if schools complain about princesses attire, mommy will go running to the media and facebook wailing that her daughter has been "slut shamed " . These are the same girls who wind up passing out in a drunken stupor at campus parties a couple years later.

Yes. I dressed like a Pennsylvania Dutch secretary in the 80s.

R93 a child modelling a wedding dress. Guess it was still a man's world in 1988, huh?

They dressed to look like young boys wearing Calvin Klein and Guess. Oversized jackets. Buzzed hair on one side.

R101 True and creepy. Off topic, I never understood the appeal of Kate Moss.

The Laura Ashley pics really illustrate how grandma-ish 80s fashion was. Young women dressing like 80 year-olds on their way to church.

The girls in OP pic are wearing 1980s “power suits.” They’re advertising their wealth & snobbishness

I remember stirrup pants from that era.

Stirrup pants..ugh. How much coke did the designer do to come up with that idea? It's not like your pants were going to fall off at the bottom.

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Yeah, the 1980s were the last decade when ordinary women tried to look more sophisticated than slutty, with their shoulder pads and Diana haircuts.

That ended in the 1990s, with Grungewear and belly shirts, and only got worse in the early 2000s. The gymwear and short-shorts you see everywhere today isn't actually as bad as the godawful velveteen sweatsuits and muffin tops of the previous decade.

Stalker with IP roulette

Even the "sexy" rocker girls back then dressed quite conservatively. Here's Siouxsie Sioux in a promo shot:

Even in the 70's female singers/songwriters/performers dressed more conservatively than they do today. Stevie Nicks, 1979:

I'm Carol King and I'm going to sell a shit-ton of records without showing you my tits. Meet my cat! And my bare feet.

"Carole". Sorry, Carole.

Madonna was the one who brought sluttiness to pop music.

R116 doesn't remember the Disco era.

As a kid I used to wear my dad's XL t-shirts as nightshirts. My dialing the phone with a pencil moment was doing the Flashdance off the shoulder look when I was wearing them. Sometimes, when I was feeling extra fancy, I'd put a belt around my waste to make an off the shoulder t-shirt dress. A pair of marabou mules would've completed the look but I didn't have any available. I had to make do with my mom's Dr Scholl's exercise sandals.

^waist

R119 that is downright adorable.

Yes they did dress like that. It wasn't called dressing like a grandma, it was called not dressing like a fucking hussy streetwalker.

I always tell my Mom she is lucky that I I was in high school in the early 80's when the Preppy look was in.

Don’t forget Units!

And Benetton

I still have a Caboodle in my old bedroom at my parents

The Madonna look was HUGE in the mid 80s, like singer Liz Phair said, Every girl at my school was dressed as Madonna from her Lucky Star video

Macy's even had a "Madonna section " at all there stores with Madonna type clothes, lace, fingerless gloves, scrunchies, bras as outerwear etc

Here Melanie Griffith wears the sneakers with office attire that R74 was talking about. Check out the shoulders on the coat and the frizzed out hair.

Fat girls loved this look. They got to hide their curves under shoulder pads and shapeless dresses. Part of the point of early and mid-Eighties fashion was to hide the body as much as possible--guys did the same thing when they wore double-pleated pants and big shapeless "unconstructed" jackets.

And guys' hair was also big and curly (think A Flock of Seagulls), just like the girls' was. The look was to take up as much space as possible in terms of your clothes and hair.

r119, are you a guy or a chick? At some level I sort of hope you're a guy.

You know, a lot of those old Benetton ads are really beautiful, the ones with models standing against a stark white backdrop. They look modern, which is remarkable for fashion photograph; fashion photos tend to feel very tied to their era. They have a spontaneity and style that prefigured American Apparel and Marc Jacobs advertising.

Does anyone remember this? Polarizing to say the least. It is even more amazing inbretrospect.

All this fashion talk and NOT ONE mention of Sherry topsiders being a staple in the 80s, with White Ked’s being The shoe du jour for women?

You really are all fat whores.

And OP, the poster upthread was right, the picture from Heathers is highly stylized and exaggerated. Nobody dressed like that. A more accurate depiction are the rich kids from Pretty in Pink. Nobody in their right mind would dress like Andi with an i.

Omg, the Keds. I had so many versions. Plus the damn Reeboks and Swatch watches.

No one has mentioned the jeans where you rolled them at the ankles?

The leg warmers were what made me want to puke. Every girl wore them even though 99 out of a hundred never got within spitting distance of either a gym or dance studio.

My sister is 8 years older and was a teen in the heart of the 80s. What strikes me whenever I see even her junior high class picture is that they all look so much older. From the dressing to the shoes to the hair. Ironically, I believe the teens today look older as well, but for other reasons. When I was in high school it was jeans and sweatshirts/somewhat baggy tops. I will say that decade and the ones before had character and a distinct feel. Starting with probably the very late 90s, everything started to look very similar. When you look at two of the big fashion icons of the late 20th century, Carolyn Bessette and Princess Diana, their clothes could still be worn today. The old trends that become new, never quite hit the mark either.

Does anyone remember Naf Naf outfits or Camp Beverly Hills Shirts?

R133- I still see that trend today.

Madonna would not have succeeded in such a huge way were it not for the publicity stunts she pulled throughout the heyday of her career. She relied heavily on shock value to place herself on the public conscious. Essentially, she cheated at the fame game.

This was another popular look

R136 oh SHUT THE FUCK UP you bitter bitch

Everyone whom has ever worked with her has claimed that she works harder than anyone else in show biz, she didn't marry the CEO of her record company or didn't come from a huge musical family, she did everything HERSELF

And Madonna is generally her most successful when she's NOT pulling stunts and concentrating on her music and NOT selling sex. 1995-2006 was one big album after album, except for American Life, for her and she wasn't selling sex at all or dressing provocatively during those years, she was quite conservative as the "English Lady of the Major in Tweed"

And Madonna CREATED the fame game...

I was a young boy and I wore Koala Blue fashions in the 80s because I was a little Olivia Newton-John fanatic.

Am I really the first to bring up the hideous bubble dresses that girls wore? The ones with the dropped waist, poufy skirts, and far too many ruffles and bows and ruches?

Because that was one 80s look that wasn't the least bit "grandma"!

Really, not even supermodels could look good in these things.

r130: I'm a guy.

R132...Also, black penny loafers, a la Michael Jackson.

Black Weejuns...

Sebago Docksides boat shoes were a must. Also Mia flats.

[quote] Tight jeans were definitely a thing in the 80s, but I remember girls pairing them up with giant oversized sweaters or blouses.

[quote] Also: jeans with gaudy cabbage roses printed on them.

R3/R9 that look always makes me think of Meredith Salenger, who lives in printed floral dresses this decade.

I like how 80s/'90s teens would graffiti their own jeans in marker pens, like you do with Doodle Bears.

Slightly off topic, but am I the only one who thinks 70s fashion was gorgeous and sexy? Not trolling, I'm serious.

These were all a step up from the Gunne Sax dresses of the late 70s.

R147 women's fashion yes, men mostly no.

In Ohio Everyone had a Coke shirt

R78 thank you for your insights. And I bet your friend is right about the decline of bright colors.

I love this thread. It also took longer for trends to make their way from say, the U.K. to North America. I loved buying British fashion magazines in the 80s and 90s to get an idea of what might become fashionable.

1996 was a great year for fashion - minimalist that still looks quite current (photo shown not best example)

Those bubble skirts are a horrible perversion of a New Look style, which did a similar thing with the hem, but of a circular skirt at calf level. It was beautiful. (Link to pic posted, I hope.) The short version was hideous- along with harem pants and the Mullet hairstyle the biggest atrocities of the 80s.

P.S. The Melanie Griffith picture of sneakers with work gear wasn't a "look". She put high heels on when she got to work so she'd be taken seriously. What the picture shows is the increased emphasis on exercise - women walked to work, or from a more distant transit stop, for the exercise, so they needed their new 80s trainers. You had your heels in your bag, unless you had an office to stash them in.

I think those short bubble dresses look cute, at least for a teenager or child.

R153

The trainers were literally to allow you to do the walking portion of the commute -- because heels are stupid.

Bubble skirts and balloon valances were both big in the 80s.

The clothes, hairstyles and makeup in Working Girl were not an exaggeration. Lots and lots of women in the NYC metro area looked exactly like that in the late 80s.

Growing up in the 80s, we wanted to look grown up. Looking back at John Hughes movies, the women looked like they were trying too hard to be "adult".

Seeing the young women headed towards this summer's Lollapalooza, my heart sank. Way too skanky: lingerie tops with ultra short shorts. Their choice, but there are so many more interesting and creative options. Guess I'm just old.

I loved 80s layering and big shirts. But my grandmother would never had dressed like that!

I wore a pink Izod shirt with bright green Dickie workpants and nobody blinked an eye because it was in style then.

I can't understand this trend of suburban Frau mommies posting their daughters photo on facebook or running to the media after their princess has been removed from school for breaking the dress code. It's always accompanied by some fishing for sympathy caption like "Is this outfit inappropriate? ". Why yes, it is. She looks like a 10th street whore. If a boy went to school dressed like that he would rightfully be sent home.

R160, I believe that shade of green was called "kelly green" and it was everywhere paired with pink.

^^I have always dubbed that atrocious color combo 'Baby Bop'.

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I was a teenage boy in flyover in 1985. I remember the 12th grade girls that Spring wearing floral dresses and black patent leather shoes that looked like something my grandmother would wear...some even began to wear white gloves...this thread brought back that long ago memory.

Women dressed in very revealing clothes in the 1970s, especially in the summer -- bikini tops and halters with Daisy Dukes, skimpy disco gowns with a couple of strips of clothes down the front, even button up plaid shirts were unbuttoned to the waist.

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times.

Well well well, look at the redtag on the OP.

Probably not what the bumper intended for us to notice.