1980's party outfit HELP

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Inna couple of weeks I am going to a friends 40th birthday

I need to dress up I don't know what to wear. I hate 80's clothes
I am size 18 and fat birds in the 80's wore sacks
help me please

Leggings, leg warmers, oversize tshirt and neon crap.
Claires will have the legwarms amd accesories.
You look gorgeous in that dress.

Stripey tights, dm's, lace gloves, black mini, massive t shirt - could you channel your inner Bananarama?

Lacy gloves and go as Madonna neon stuff

I bloody hate leg warmers and neon crap and more importantly they hate me I will resort to that if I have to but. I hate bloody dress up parties I am too vain

thanks I do love that dress if it was a 50's party I would be sorted!

Boy George?

What did Alison Moyer wear? Would that work?

Backcomb your hair and tie lace in it.

Oh yes go as Siousxie or Robert Smith. I modelled myself on him even though I was a teenage girl

Black trouser suit, white shirt, diamonte, smeared red lipstick and backcombed hair. Carry a stuffed cat.

Gothic could be fun I wish I looked like Kate Bush .... red lippy a leotard and wispy skirt and crimped hair ... sorted.
oh well.
Alison Moyet all sack dress and big coat iirc

I could do a ginger fat Bob... people could mistake me for jo brand though!? Which might be fun...

Thanks for the inspiration

You've got a great figure for Madonna, Like a Virgin. Lacy dress (can add extra netting quite cheaply from a fabric shop), back comb hair, floppy fabric headband, lacy gloves and pearls.

Ooh madonna I have a pair of pinstripe trews I just need a conical bra... hmm

Madonna definitely really easy Draw on a mole and set your hair and put a scarf in it!

WKD do those - here

You should def do Robert Smith with your user name. £8 jersey swing dress from ebay, rat your hair, let a toddler put your lippy on and a bunch of glads and you're sorted.

White shirt, black cropped trousers, lots and lots of silk scarves and Steve Strange makeup. Vertical hair. Sorted.

I had to be bananarama (one of!) recently.

Got it all from a charity shop - stonewashed jeans about three sizes too big, rolled up. Held up with old man braces and a hideous electric blue baggy t shirt underneath.

Obviously v garish makeup and about five cans of hairspray on back combed hair

What about channelling your inner Joan Collins and going all 80's power dressing. Big shoulder pads and nipped in waist, pencil skirt?

Based on your user name I'm going to suggest this look .

I can't help on the 80s front (90s kid here!), but where did you get that dress in your picture? It's fabulous!

What about some kind of Toyah outfix.

Pink or Orange Hair, Neon makeup and punky/leather kind of thing?

I went to an 80's night last year and wore all the neon crap - it was awful. But a friend just had a simple blue dress, with a thin red belt and red very pointy shoes. She curled her hair, made it very big and tied a ribbon in it where an alice band would normally be. She without a doubt looked the best out of all of us and probably looked most realistic fashion wise.