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Whenever you assume 80s, do you assume style? A problem with the concept of fashion as a succession of tendencies pin-balling from one interval to another is that it might you make you’re feeling like you’ve seen it all earlier than. The over-sized, gray sweatshirt with a large neck opening (which was ripped open and worn off-the-shoulder) turned massively fashionable after Jennifer Beals wore one in Flashdance.

Skimming by way of the August issues of shiny, trendsetting magazines, I couldn’t discover something to put on that might suit me, so I am delighted that there is a return to so-called Eighties fashion. The style gods were feeling beneficiant once they handed out fashion sense, beauty and nice hair to those boys from Birmingham.

You possibly can still look back with fondness on the trends you followed when Valley Ladies, preppies and shoulder pads ruled the day. Doc Martens were darkish shoes or boots with air-cushioned soles that have been worn by each sexes within the Nineteen Eighties.

On the left is a few bloke I’ve by no means seen earlier than carrying a dodgy wig, and on the appropriate is the cover of Quiet Life by Japan, featuring a really …