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Retro fashion - The good AND the Bad!

  • 19-12-2013 11:08am
    #1
    Lyssa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭


    So, fashion is always changing, and it inevitably comes back around again and again...
    What 'fashion trends' do you hope NEVER make a reappearance?
    What did you wear that makes you cringe now?
    And, do you like any aspects of retro fashion now?

    I love the 50's style dresses at the moment... I've bought 3 in the last short while :)

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    On the other hand, I hope XworX jeans never, ever, EVER make a reappearance! :D


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  • #2
    Micky Dolenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,080 ✭✭✭✭Micky Dolenz


    Naf jackets. All sorts of awesome :p


  • #3
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    And a quick search for 80s fashion brings back this.
    Amazing :pac:

    80s-fashion-trends2.jpg


  • #4
    LizT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,089 ✭✭✭✭LizT


    And 90s fashion brings back this :pac:

    a110.jpg


  • #5
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Damn you people renaming images!


  • #6
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Shell suit in the most horrendous colours and acid wash jeans. Sony walkmans and also nearly everyone had a quiff of some kind. Hi-Tech runners!


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  • #7
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    The Vanilla Ice haircut needs to return


  • #8
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    In the late '80's, blouses with bows like Maggie T.
    Dresses with shoulder pads AND peplums, hilarious when you're 5ft nothing!
    Corduroy jeans.


  • #9
    Pang
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭Pang


    I remember in the early 90s wearing dungarees and awful pink and flowery leggings. I hated wearing them but was forced to.

    Now I see that they are all back in fashion and it just brings back horrible flashbacks. They are brutal and so unflattering.

    I remember wearing and loving a necklace which had a plastic pacifier on it in fluorescent yellow. They were pretty cool at the time :)


  • #10
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    Ruubot2 wrote: »
    Shell suit in the most horrendous colours and acid wash jeans. Sony walkmans and also nearly everyone had a quiff of some kind. Hi-Tech runners!

    I still have the Walkman somewhere in the loft. I never owned shell suit, but I remember the crackle of static as people walked by. :D


  • #11
    An Riabhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,689 ✭✭✭An Riabhach


    Duffle Coats.

    We wore them to school in our primary school days,and I used to love mine.
    But seeing people wearing them nowadays-I dunno what it is about them but they look kinda shabby.

    Siúl leat, siúl leat, le dóchas i do chroí, is ní shiúlfaidh tú i d'aonar go deo.



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  • #12
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Holy sweet jesus how have I never seen this site before :pac:

    http://90svintage.com/

    ....not sure if I need to laugh or hide my credit card....


  • #13
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,507 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Does anyone remember Kangaroos, shoes with pockets, do they even make those anymore?


  • #14
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    whisky_galore wrote: »
    Does anyone remember Kangaroos, shoes with pockets, do they even make those anymore?

    Yes! They do indeed make them. Very flashy colours these days. I got an orange and blue pair with zip about 2 years ago on eBay.


  • #15
    whisky_galore
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,507 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    I do like the 20's - 50's retro look, but lads trying to pull it off with beards that look vaguely Edwardian or Victorian and girls plastered with large tats I dunno.


  • #16
    Aethan Dor
    Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭Aethan Dor


    Have to say shell suits for me are the one thing I used to love that I now can't believe I wore, Dear God !


  • #17
    madmaggie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭madmaggie


    I had shoulder pads, ruffles and peplums, sometimes all on the one dress. At 5 ft nothing and size 8 you could hardly see me in all the material. Bat wing jumpers, I was lost in them, but with my ski pants, sure I was lovely. :P


  • #18
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Aethan Dor wrote: »
    Have to say shell suits for me are the one thing I used to love that I now can't believe I wore, Dear God !

    Never be ashamed of the shell suit!! :pac:


  • #19
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    LizT wrote: »
    And 90s fashion brings back this :pac:

    a110.jpg
    4 of those tops are ok, the shoes fine too, its just the trousers which nobody in Ireland wore anyway.


  • #20
    kumate_champ07
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    carrey-unnatural.jpg

    it wouldnt be so bad if it actually was sized to fit.


  • #21
    jonnny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,670 ✭✭✭jonnny68


    The Madchester look from 89-92 flares hoody tops, think Happy Mondays, Stone Roses, Inspiral Carpets was the best look ever IMO


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  • #22
    metrosity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 116 ✭✭metrosity


    I like the Bottega Veneta leather jackets of yore. I had a green type like that once.
    I left it open when out and felt like the business.


    Not allowed to post http links as im a new user. I love old retro clothes, anything retro, not out of any hipster mentality like most of you drones. I just know that older sensibilities and trends made sense - comfort, practicality, style, class - none of which can be found today. I am retro.

    I like analogue music synths especially, like the new Korg ones and the old Roland 808's and 303's - I like vinyl too - invariant, beautiful sound, freedom.


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