Fashion trends and style in 1980’s

The 1980’s were curios because for some reason the fashion wasn´t the strongest point like in 1960's and 1970’s. In these years characters like Princess Diana or Margaret Thatcher were the center of the fashion attention because their dressing styles were copying. In these years the power of dressing gives woman the feeling that they could choose how they want to be.

The main characteristics of the 1980’s were the influence of television series like “Dinasty and “Dallas”, series that became popular because of the decoration of the clothes. Another reason was the women big shoulder, giving a soft masculine effect to the designs. The third reason was that designers have trouble dropping shoulder pads.

The most important characteristics of the 1980’s are Normandy rose jeans, sandals, jean jacket, ripped jeans, heavy eyebrows, playboy bunny shirts, sailor hats, head bands, piercing, drive at movie theaters, etc.

• Madonna
  Madonna began shining as a pop star during the 1980’s proving that she could be influential in the fashion trends of the girls, principally teenagers. Her music, dancing style and her look were important elements that the people try to imitate in the way they look physically. The girls want to be like Madonna, dance, sing and obviously wearing as her. Also gloves made Madonna popular as well as stockings and necklaces.
  


• Movies
  Mad Max 2 (1982, The Road Warrior)
  War Games (1983)
  Octopussy (1983)
  The Terminator (1984)
  The Day After* (1984)
  One Night Stand** (1984)
  Mad Max 3 (1985, Beyond Thunderdome)

• Music
  Olivia Newton-John “Magic”
  Air Supply “All out of love”
  Queen “Another one bite the dust”
  Kool and the Gang “Celebration”
  Pat Benatar “Hit me with your best shot”
  Christopher Cross “Ride like the wind”
  The Manhattans “Shinig Star”
  Irene Cara “Fame”
  John Lennon “(Just like) Starting over”