To think we're back in the 80s

[AnyGhoulKno]

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

I still have my red suede Pod boots from 1983; I can't bear to throw them out. Not sure I'd wear them again though.

I like this. I never threw out my boots from the 80's so I can still wear them now

Oooohhh I was talking about this in the post-office the other day . There was a massive queue - about 20 people and just 1 (yes, that's right 1) person behind the counter! And we were saying that it seemed like the late 70s. Strikes, blackouts (we've been promised them), and shortages (there will be!).

Having been through it all once I guess I can cope.

But batwings and depeche mode were unforgiveable. In fact loads of the bands that I listened to in the 80s were vile.

I saw a maternity bat-wing jumper the other day! I can't really imagine anything more unflattering.

Still tried it on though, haha..

at Ormirian's Depeche Mode sacrilegious comments

Oh I know getorf. I used to tell my DC that we listened to great bands when I were a lass! But when I actually listened to DM a few weeks ago they were terrible. Ditto Flock of Seagulls, Haircut fucking 100, Spandau Ballet etc etc.

The only thing that I still like is The Smiths.

I was sort of rocking this look in the eighties. I was out on a limb

Anyone remember ski-pants?
Oooh.. and curly inverted bobs for those of us who's hair was too thick for a shaggy? ( with blonde streaks in the front)
Edge to edge leather jackets in the early 80's ( my mum wouldn't let me have one... said they were common)
When we've had a good day in our house it's still referred to as a "Haircut 100 kind of day"

at OrmIrian's sacriligious Spandau Ballet comments!! Tony and the boys rocked the Toon the other night!!

lol pruneplus2 at jitter... I remember people shouting "Jiterrrrrrr" from across the street and me and my friends.
Grebo, anyone?
I'm sure someone has mentioned strikes already, haven't they?
Wearing leggings again (as opposed to jegging, which are just wrong imo) has taken me back, as has a batwing top I bought in the summer (which I love btw).
Here's hoping White Musk doesn't have a resurgence. Or, heaven forbid, Fuzzy Peach

Ski-pants? Bloody hell!

Barack - dd and her friends still call grubby goths Grebos.

Orm - still loving Depeche Mode. DD has a folder in her her Ipod (I don't have my own) called Mum's Crap Tunes. I often horrify her to her very core by singing very loudly my fave Depeche Mode song of the day 'the grabbing hands, grab all they can, everything counts in laaaaarge amounts'.

My dd loves long journeys with me

I absolutely love the Smiths. I always thought that loving DM and the Smiths was mutually exclusive until Busybutterflys post on this thread.

But still the snood remains elusive, yet to make it's glorious comeback.

It's not a scarf, it's not a hood.

Ahh those were the days.

I loved Fuzzy Peach! One can get fleece snoods at the Christmas market in Brussels. I have two.

Well that makes it a scood not a snood.

You know Orm I never thought of that

But am more shocked that they have never been away it seems! here

Did anybody else have a small group of girls at school known collectively as 'the slags'?

We did. They always hid in the toilets playing smoking games, wearing ripped nylons, snooker ball beads, mid calf black leggings and lace fingerless gloves a la Desperately Seeking Susan.

Needless to say they're all now happily married to a man named Jeremy.

Until I out them

I tried some White Musk on recently - and it was so nice and comforting I bought some. I spent most of the 80s smelling of Body Shop Vanilla, and having people go, 'Eurgh, who's got Play Doh on their shoes?' whenever I walked past.

Are jumper dresses flattering though? I remember them making me look like a Moomin in the latter stages of Moomin pregnancy. It's a downhill slope to ski pants and the 'Pepsi and Shirlie at Clockhouse' puffballs..

Getorf DH bought a Smiths tape from a motorway some years back. I sang along loudly all the way home, was GREAT!

Also saw Depeche Mode twice, 1st time was all young people (like me at the time) - second time, 10yrs on - all the audience was 10yrs older too!!

Orm you don't know what you're missing...

PS I love the fact this thread was originally about rubbish customer service and has morphed into how wonderful the 80's was!!

"wearing ripped nylons"

Nylons? Nylons?

How old are you, Morris?

Next you'll be saying they had gravy browning and a line drawn down their legs but they had deliberately drawn the line wonky to get that "hip dishevelled look", the jolly minxes.

I'm afraid fashion has played another dirty trick on us, because ski pants are back

Oh dear. How about crinkle-effect ones?

The best bit about this fashion resurgence is that everything DD1 (15) picks up in the shops I say "ooh I had one of those in the 80s".

Poor thing - she drops said item like a hot brick in disgust at liking the same stuff as this old gimmer (although I was of course tres chic is those days )