I guess I am glad I grew up in the 1980’s. It gave me a chance to wear some truly bright and strange clothes. I still got teased for wearing them. But I still think I looked good.
Here is a picture of my asbestos friend and I at a school dance. We must have been dancing hard because we look a little sweaty and gross. I look at this picture and think “No wonder no boys wanted to kiss me. I look like I’m eight years old!” And yes, I am wearing my Wild Puffalumps shirt that I got from the Kool-Aid Wacky Warehouse. I wonder if that still exists?
Two hot chicks at the middle school Beach Party Dance. 5/20/1988
This is my favorite 80’s outfit. I have never gotten to make my own tie-dyed shirt (I am lacking in so many essential life experiences). This shirt from Hill’s (the 80’s palace of pre-teen low-budget sub-standard style) was as close as I came. I am also wearing my jean skirt–everyone was required to have one. Notice how I am not just wearing 2 socks on each foot, but one foot has yellow/pink, and the other has pink/yellow. Ya, I knew how to rock it.
My favorite 80’s outift
This is my second favorite 80’s outfit. It was very colorful. And I was very into the color fuschia/magenta at the time. Notice the fake suspenders, where both ends are attached to the shirt. The jeans had multi-colored patches on them. (My mom didn’t put them on, they came that way. I know, stylish.) I think there were 3 patches in all, but only two can be seen in the picture.
My second favorite 80’s outfit
I told my husband “This is what teenage girls do when they don’t have boyfriends and they are at home bored.” He said, “What, masterbate?” I replied, “Well, that too. But they also put lots of hair spray and make-up on to see how awesome they can look.”
Maybe I was going for the Pizzaz from Jem & The Holograms look? Notice the Kirk Cameron T-shirt. (Man, I was a nerd.)
Final and lastmost. The pride of the collection. I present to you, the hightest my bangs ever got. They would have gotten bigger…but then the 80’s ended:( This was a school picture. Yup, I rocked the necktie in a school picture. I still totally have that shirt. I wear it now and then and tell people it is over 20 years old. (They are unimpressed.)
School picture time. Whoa, can barely fit those bangs in the picture-NOT!
OK. That is all the embarrassment I can handle for one post. Remember folks, these are the pictures I CHOSE to share with the world. There are many others that will never see the light of the cybersphere.
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The 80’s. Ahh… the music the glamour. The totally awesome, huge, plastic glasses. I think the only reason we allowed it to stop was because our hairspray was burning a hole in the ozone layer.
Remember after gym class in the locker room 30 girls would crowd around the giant mirror and shower each other with hair spray. We would all cough because our lungs were being deprived of oxygen.
I don’t think that is what the boys pictured happening in the girls’ locker room…
I don’t think that what boys pictured has ever actually happened in a real locker room! At least I hope not! My children seem amused by the picture of us. I don’t see what’s so funny. ;P
Those are really fun! I thankful, however, that my parents didn’t own a camera when I was growing up in the 80s.
I am not sure whether to believe you, or think that you are just trying to deny your own flourescent colors and high bangs:)
Haha. No comment! 🙂