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Batwing jumpers, stonewashed jeans and other horrors

  • 13-11-2011 11:42am
    #1
    JessicaRabbit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭


    Hi,

    I just wondered if anyone of my era looks back fondly (or if you're like me - in horror :D) to the days when batwing jumpers and stonewashed jeans were cool and you wore them proudly to school discos and other social events :eek:

    Just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on the subject....


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  • #2
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    JessicaRabbit wrote: »
    Hi,

    I just wondered if anyone of my era looks back fondly (or if you're like me - in horror :D) to the days when batwing jumpers and stonewashed jeans were cool and you wore them proudly to school discos and other social events :eek:

    Just wondered if anyone has any thoughts on the subject....
    Forgive me for my ignorance but what are batwing jumpers and when were they in fashion?


  • #3
    JessicaRabbit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭JessicaRabbit


    They were these hideous looking jumpers with sleeves resembling the wings of a bat, ie. with deep armholes and tight at the wrists. At the time of course they were the height of fashion :o - can't ever imagine them catching on again like they did back then (late '80s if memory serves me correctly).


  • #4
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,187 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Peruvian-Knitwear-Alpaca-blue-batwing67.jpg


  • #5
    iMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭iMax


    Faded grey denim too ???

    You're the same age as me !!!


  • #6
    JessicaRabbit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭JessicaRabbit


    MYOB wrote: »
    Peruvian-Knitwear-Alpaca-blue-batwing67.jpg

    Exactly!

    Or maybe something like this.....

    batwing1.jpg


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  • #7
    JessicaRabbit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭JessicaRabbit


    MYOB wrote: »
    Peruvian-Knitwear-Alpaca-blue-batwing67.jpg

    Or this....

    batwing.jpg


  • #8
    JessicaRabbit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭JessicaRabbit


    iMax wrote: »
    Faded grey denim too ???

    You're the same age as me !!!

    Ha ha!!! There are loads of us out there I'm sure :)


  • #9
    jonnyrudyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭jonnyrudyard


    Disco was mostly 70s in the US and stonwashed jeans were 80s/early 90s. Jeans in the 70s were pretty "normal" except for the bell bottom ones which were silly and even then thankfully I was smart enough to never get. Don't recall the "batwing" tops at all but then again I wasn't paying much attention to women's clothes then just what was underneath. :cool:


  • #10
    desolate sun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 347 ✭✭desolate sun


    I love Batwing jumpers. :)
    In fact didnt they make a comeback a few years ago? I got one a couple of years ago that I still wear.

    Stonewash on the other hand is a crime against fashion. :eek:
    That too has made a comeback with all the 80s fashion


  • #11
    JessicaRabbit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭JessicaRabbit


    desolate sun wrote: »
    I love Batwing jumpers. :)
    In fact didnt they make a comeback a few years ago? I got one a couple of years ago that I still wear.

    Stonewash on the other hand is a crime against fashion. :eek:
    That too has made a comeback with all the 80s fashion

    I didn't realise that batwing jumpers had made a recent comeback! :eek: Glad I missed that revival.....:o


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