80’s girls check your attics!

[CloudbustingKate]

Was sorting through some clutter and found two Vivienne Westwood corsets from the late 80s and an Azzedine Alai dress. I googled and I think they are worth a few hundred each! I have a teenage daughter so may keep them anyway but had no idea they were worth that much. Anyone else find some 80’s gold?

Update there’s a secondhand fashion website selling an identical corset for £3K, not that anyone has bought it 😂.

They must be worth something!

The V and A might be interested!

If my country needs me I will answer!

Just had a look at V&A website ArseInTheCoOpWindow, blimey you are right! Crazy. They have half a dozen corsets, mine are more plain, probably not of interest but still. One of them was in a box with Christmas decorations. Wish I had kept my full length black wool Boy coat with all the straps. I used to watch a lot of Dick Turpin as a child and loved that coat. I remember buying it in a pit of a shop on the Kings Road, must have been around 1987. This is making me feel old, I am old!

Boy! Wow l remember them, they were great! I had a pair of shorts by them.

I am also old. Not sure an Xmas decoration box is the best place to store a Westwood corset though!

I had a red jacket by her. It had black velvet lapels that formed a black heart shape when it was fastened.😍

Found it, another museum piece now. It was called the Love Jacket, 1991. Gorgeous.

I'm an 80s girl and I can say, with fair certainty, that's there's no Alaia or Vivienne Westwood in my attic

Same here now.

Bloody wish there was though!

Great username, OP! Kate B is a goddess (actually, is that you, Kate???). Getting suspicious re the designer corsets!

Sadly, 80s girl though I am, no such treasures lurk in my attic. I miss the style individualism of the era though.

I still have relics of the 80s and even 70s, but defo no VW. more likely Chelsea Girl or What She Wants and worth about 2p.

Not Kate, never even saw her perform live sadly. Her music is still so so good isn’t it. She is a one off.

The Alai cost 2 months pay, I must have been on £7,500. The cool beautiful girls in Joseph made me do it. I was so broke afterwards.

The Alai cost 2 months pay, I must have been on £7,500. The cool beautiful girls in Joseph made me do it. I was so broke afterwards

I love this!

I still have a blue double breasted hip length jacket, complete with brass buttons and shoulder pads, that I wore in the 80s. Princess Diana used to wear one and I read somewhere that Prince Charles once made a nasty remark about it making her look like an air hostess. I absolutely loved that jacket and although I will never wear it again I just can't bring myself to get rid of it. Probably worth a fiver lol.

ilikebungalows I know exactly the blazer you mean, I had one too. Mine had pointy shoulder pads and it ‘had’ to be worn with blue jeans and a white shirt. A friend lusted after mine and I remember we swapped for it.

And I have a Jaeger blazer just like that! Still wear it from time to time, generally over dresses and with trainers though.

@CloudbustingKate I used to wear mine with a white shirt and a blue pleated short skirt and I probably did look like an air hostess! I thought I looked the bees knees. Happy days.

@Craftycorvid I'm wearing mine right now! Oh the memories. Mine was from the Anne Brooks petite range. Still can't bring myself to wear it in public though.

I found my old Jean Paul Gaultier laced skirt and corset jacket not long ago & got a good price on eBay. Almost kept to wear but wasn’t very comfortable even back in the day.

Yeah happy days! The fashion and music was fun. Not a bad time to be 20.

@ilikebungalows. Wear it with pride . I definitely wear my 80s things in public - think the trick is to wear them with something more contemporary or it can look slightly fancy dress (and if that’s anyone’s bag, crack on and enjoy! I love seeing people who enjoy what they are wearing, whatever it is).

I don’t have any of my stuff left. But l was looking at this photo of me. And l had on a cotton corded jacket from Next. It cost £80.00.

And Next now🙀

I used to make all my own stuff then.

It was taken in 1988

Next used to be a bit special - you bought your ‘good’ work outfits there and a few ‘going out’ things. I had a bodycon dress in a lovely dark red colour that buttoned up the back. Next now is unrecognisable!