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To think we're back in the 80s

78 replies

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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busybutterfly · 27/10/2009 23:54

Depeche Mode
Erasure
The Smiths
saying "lush"
being able to smoke in nightclubs

MrsFlittersnoop · 28/10/2009 00:11

YANBU. Moved back to the West Country from London recently. Moved to London in 1984 because of the recession, couldn't get a job etc.

Just signed on for JSA last week. The place was HEAVING. Far worse unemployment down yurr that in the Big Smoke.

Plus ca change .

And batwing jumpers?

Meh

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AnyGhoulKno · 28/10/2009 00:25

aha, it's not just me then

I saw someone selling knocked off stuff from a suitcase in front of a boarded up shop in my town recently

I feel like bollyknickers from ashes to ashes - well, if she'd ever gone looking around at anything other than the inside of the police station and her own flat

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Marioandluigi · 28/10/2009 08:00

Please please please bring back T-shirt dresses.

GetOrfMoiLand · 28/10/2009 08:15

Busybutterfly - I love your list (Depeche Mode and the Smiths my favourite bands much to dd's horror.

I used to covet all the clothes in Jean Jeannie when I was a kid. Every single thing I remember from back then (denim jackets with shoulder pads, tight bleach wash jeans with zips up the side, lurex batwing jumpers, baggy crop tops) are all fashionable now.

Then I listen to La Roux and Little Boots on the radio and it sounds like early 80s synth music. Muse's latest song sounds just like Depeche Mode in the late 80s/early 90s. There are national strikes for post and localised ones for rubbish. The conservatives are going to get back in and will be there for ever. It is the 80s again.

GetOrfMoiLand · 28/10/2009 08:17

All we need now is for Harry and Will to pull their fingers out and we will have a couple of royal weddings to get all excited about (I remember staying home from school to watch Fergie's wedding, even back then I laughed at the fact she had F & A embroidered on her wedding dress )

GetOrfMoiLand · 28/10/2009 08:18

I mean S and A. Would have been better to have F&A though, admittedly .

gorionine · 28/10/2009 08:23

Oh and these beautiful socksHmm got me back in time as well!

notyummy · 28/10/2009 08:25

I have bought a bat wing jumper. I think it looks good

Once again we treated to lots of teenage girls and young woman who REALLY don't suit tight jeans/leggings/jeggings wearing them and making my eyes hurt.....

sarah293 · 28/10/2009 08:31

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BalloonSlayer · 28/10/2009 08:48

Squidgeyeyeballs, that picture you linked to is how I had my hair for about 10 years. I consider it my hairdo for my "prime."

[Miss Jean Brodie emoticon]

notyummy · 28/10/2009 08:51

Oh yes - that shaggy perm is pretty much EXACTLY what my hair looked like c 1988/89...apart from when it was first done and I was waiting for it to 'drop'. Ah, the lovely tight poodle curls whilst I waited!

sarah293 · 28/10/2009 08:53

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Janos · 28/10/2009 08:56

Love this thread!

Thought I was the bees knees in my ultra cool black and white batwing jumper when I was 10 (1984).

Bambinoloveseggbirds · 28/10/2009 08:56

YANBU. My Sister in Law will be pleased, her perm with straight fringe disaster of a hairstyle is at last back in fashion.

Janos · 28/10/2009 09:00

I for one am delighted that leggings are back in fashion! They are soo comfy.

Stonewash jeans and jeggings ming like the merciless though. They looked bloody awful then and they still do now!

sarah293 · 28/10/2009 09:04

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PuppyMonkey · 28/10/2009 09:05

I have got to get me one of those ski jumper sweaters that were in. Maroon.

Please note: No matter how many magazines, style gurus or slebs endorse them BATWING JUMPERS ARE HIDEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BalloonSlayer · 28/10/2009 09:08

What I always liked was that it was

(Are you listening Trinny and Susannah?)

fashionable, NAY, imperative to wear: all black with a colour, or all white with a colour.

mustrunmore · 28/10/2009 09:15

I've got a really really bad urge to buy a batwing jumper

PuppyMonkey · 28/10/2009 09:22

Nooooooooooooo.!!!!!!

Why would you want to wear something that no matter how skinny you are is going to make you look fat and shapeless?????

SquIDGEyeyeballs · 28/10/2009 11:05

BalloonSlayer that hairdo was how I wanted my hair to look - I asked the hairdresser for a shaggy perm like the girl in Cocktail. What I actually got was this...

I had the same hairdo as my mum and granny, just blonde instead of brown or grey. Ugh.

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AnyGhoulKno · 28/10/2009 11:20

pmsl

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roulade · 28/10/2009 12:31

I saw 3 women in jumper dresses yesterday!!! They are definitely back

Janos · 28/10/2009 12:40

I HEART jumper dresses. So cosy and flattering!