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To think we're back in the 80s

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 18:49

Been in town shopping today and I feel like we're back in the 80s.

All shop assistants horrible, no concept of customer service.

Closed down shops, boarded up.

Litter everywhere, people on streets smoking.

Jeggings!

Everyone wearing cheap clothing (me included)

Grey dismal skies

Queues out of the door of primark and pound shops

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dizietsma · 27/10/2009 18:51

YANBU

I've been feeling the same ever since neon leggings made a comeback.

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 20:50

too right, and wtf is up with the dayglo socks/gloves coming back (one orange, one green).

I would have confidently predicted that would be a trend that would never return.

What next, t-shirt dresses? Rags in the hair? Those wrinkle tops that used to drive my mum crazy?

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MorrisZapp · 27/10/2009 20:56

lol, how true!

I took a wander into the shopping centre of my youth last week (Cameron Toll in Edinburgh) and found myself dazed and confused in Dorothy Perkins, in amongst a riot of teal and mustard, chunky beads, batwings and fingerless gloves.

I almost expected my mum to appear, dangly earrings quavering with annoyance, to start an argument about the advisability of tight jeans on chunky thighs.

Have the last 20 years actually happened?

pruneplus2 · 27/10/2009 21:42

Cool.

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 21:47

Don't talk about leg warmers - new look was full of em. And arm warmers too! (don't ask me what I was doing in new look)

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BalloonSlayer · 27/10/2009 21:52

Oh I do hope so.

I have been longing for the return of the shaggy perm for two decades.

< rubs hands together and pats extra-large tub of moisturising henna wax in anticipation >

Dlamis · 27/10/2009 21:55

And tight jeans.

I remember my mum wouldn't buy me any so i borrowed her sewing machine and took in the ones i already had. One leg was tighter then the other and they took ages to squeeze out of get on and off.

MorrisZapp · 27/10/2009 21:57

V05 hot oil at the ready

MorrisZapp · 27/10/2009 21:59

Aargh tight jeans! We used to 'take them in' too. They looked very bizarre when they started unravelling from the ankle up, giving odd 'skirted ankle' look, not ideal match for Adidas kick trainers if I recall.

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 21:59

pmsl at Dlamis's different legged jeans [hrgin]

However there is one big difference from the 80s, apparently bodyshop are no longer doing the patchouli scent . But they do still do ananya, dewberry and white musk, hurray

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 21:59

whoops

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pruneplus2 · 27/10/2009 22:25

Haha AnyGhoul - I recently bought the Karma Komba shampoo bar from Lush - after a nice shower and hair wash I was snuggled up to my OH and he said "why the hell do you smell like Jitter Juice?"

Olifin · 27/10/2009 22:32

LOL @ Morriszapp's recollections.

But..erm...I rediscovered V05 Hot oil some time ago and am still using it, without shame.

Olifin · 27/10/2009 22:34

What is Jitter Juice please?

I am hopeful that the Bodyshop will bring back Yukka shampoo.

busybutterfly · 27/10/2009 22:36

YANBU - but it's FAB! Went to see Fame at local theatre tonight and am humming the song constantly

TrickOrTrefusis · 27/10/2009 22:38

I was looking at the music page of an online newspaper yesterday. The three leading articles concerned Spandau Ballet, Michael Jackson and Frankie Goes To Hollywood .

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 22:40

Ah Bruno, our love could never be - because you were fictional.

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pruneplus2 · 27/10/2009 22:40

Not sure if its a regional thing Olifin - its what everyone around here used to call patchouli oil.

"Jitter" being a name for metallers/goths/anyone with long hair and/or "unconventional" looks and heavy on the black eyeliner.

We used to walk through town in groups of many ponging of it in our teens - wearing the obligatory black clothing/band tshirts/silver jewellery.

Olifin · 27/10/2009 22:50

Ahhh..patchouli; maybe a regional name then. I think there was a fashion for it down here too amongst those groups.

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 23:03

We had goths, rockers and townies in my neck of the woods.

So where can you get patchouli now? I have a nostalgic yearning for some!

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pruneplus2 · 27/10/2009 23:10

Any good aromatherapy stockist will sell patchouli oil.

We used to buy ours at a tiny little shop that sold loads of candles/crystals/joss sticks etc...

Wonder if its still there?

SquIDGEyeyeballs · 27/10/2009 23:17

I am tempted to get a shaggy perm like this and buy a diffuser.

I'll have no problem buying the leggings, pixie boots and plastic pastel jewellery.

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 23:20

every girl at my school

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busybutterfly · 27/10/2009 23:27

Christ she looks like she should be in Neighbours

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AnyGhoulKno · 27/10/2009 23:34

If you buy the aromatherapy stuff, do you have to do anything with it so you can wear it as a perfume?

There were things I loved about the 80s, though it was grim, but this so called credit crunch seems to be sending us back there.

Good things about the 80s:
The video van (remember these?)
Tutti Frutti (the ice cream and the series)
Bigger wagon wheels
Ra ra skirts
rollerskates (not blades)
prince
saying 'skill' and 'ace'

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