What were your favourite 80s clothes?

[Nik_Barbour]

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Really beat up white baseball boots, laces un fastened. Black 501 jeans, again beat to cr@p with rips holes and frays. T-shirt with an unfastened lumberjack shirt over the top of it, or a really baggy sweat shirt.

[MalcolmAndSheldon]

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Slim black Madness tie with piano keys down one side. God I loved that thing. I also quite liked my pair of Deckers when they were briefly in fashion back then, as they were as comfortable as hell.

Had a fishtail parka during the 1980s Mod revival thing - they were expensive as hell, so mine was a second hand thing which didn't fit and thus the fishtail ended somewhere round my backside. But I had a fishtail parka and that's what counted.

Flat-top haircut. As it grew out, I turned it into one of those fluffy Limahl style mullets - my most grievous fashion sin. I regret it even now.

[George 1978]

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Donald's picture above makes me think of the Scousers characters on Harry Enfield's Television Show.

[George 1978]

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To be honest, I would have been a t-shirt and jeans person back then - I remember wearing shell suits but that was only around 1991-1992 when most other people (cf David Icke) wore them. I would never wear them today, and I was thinking "did I really wear that back then?"

[Donald the Great]

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I certainly did not find this a fashion statement in the 80s.

[Twocky61]

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Those baseball caps with built in radio's lol they may have been pre Sony Walkman

[80sChav]

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The two tone Nike Windrunner was THE coolest jacket in '84-'85.
Still have my original Blue/grey in my parents loft.
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True thouigh as I have said elsewhere I think it has been improved on, way more since

I agree with you though DemonEyeX, it sure was a prized piece of clothing yes!

[DemonEyeX]

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Being an 80s Kid - most people wore or desired to have a Windrunner - even if the Colours never matched (which was often the case) they still looked amazingly trendy I think, without doubt. Still I think the up-darted version are a good match for the 1980s and have re-juvenated the idea! Did any of other members like/rate Windrunners back in the 1980s/1990s?

80sChav

The two tone Nike Windrunner was THE coolest jacket in '84-'85.
Still have my original Blue/grey in my parents loft.
The quality went downhill when they became popular though.
The modern rereleases are OK, but nowhere near as nice.
The originals had an embossed Nike zip & the logo was embroidered.
I'm still after a mid '80s original in XL, gotta be mint though...

[80sChav]

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I mainly wore track suits and trainers trainers where those ones with out laces you had a sort of sticky thing you pulled across to tighten up ur trainers.

Loved cords but i only wore loose fitting clothes.
Wore a lot of shell suits.

Wore lots of adidas and reebok stuff.

I think the Trainers you mention was the ones with Air on the side that helped them as you say Darren. These Trainers became immensely trendy and very popular indeed I recall

80sChav

[darren]

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I mainly wore track suits and trainers trainers where those ones with out laces you had a sort of sticky thing you pulled across to tighten up ur trainers.

Loved cords but i only wore loose fitting clothes.
Wore a lot of shell suits.

Wore lots of adidas and reebok stuff.

[Arran]

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Being a kid of the 1990s I have never owned any Bermuda shorts, nor an old school BMX outfit or a shell suit. I don't think I have ever owned a pair of Hi-Tec trainers either.

One of my favourite items of clothing as a kid was a grey pair of trousers with coloured streaks. Trousers and not a tracksuit. They must have been at least 10 years old and various people at the time claimed that they were out of the ark but I wasn't one bit fussed.

[80sChav]

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What too about the 'John Travolta" Look wearing a T-Shirt underneath your Shirt with No Buttons done up!? Particulary if it was with those heavy Padded Coat Typed Shirts, the idea looked well cool!!

80sChav

[Littlelen]

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Ha ha! I too had the reversible 101 dalmations jumper - of course you NEVER wore it on the reverse side.
other things...

Chino skirt
Pods
Pepe 'Betty' stone wash jeans with Pepe keyring
Fluorescent yellow blouse from Tammy Girl worn with fluorescent pink socks and fluoescent pink and white striped T-shirt
Levi 501 T-shirt
Ripped jeans with sewn on Bros patches
T-shirt with rubber Bros image on the front from the T shirt print shop
Ear muffs
Campri ski jacket
Ghost Busters track suit with big glow in the dark Ghost Busters logo from Presto
Putting plastic beads on my trainer laces
jellybean mac
kid's size kitten heel shoes from Mansfield's
Lumberjack shirt

I never knew about plastic beads on trainer laces. I think I might resurrect this trend starting today with mine and my little girls.

[80sChav]

Re: What were your favourite 80s clothes?

Being an 80s Kid - most people wore or desired to have a Windrunner - even if the Colours never matched (which was often the case) they still looked amazingly trendy I think, without doubt. Still I think the up-darted version are a good match for the 1980s and have re-juvenated the idea! Did any of other members like/rate Windrunners back in the 1980s/1990s?

80sChav

[Richard1978]

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I really liked having Bermuda shorts, at the same time swimming trunks when from skin tight to baggy.

I wanted some cycling shorts in the summer of 1989 but my Mum would let me have any because I waa getting "puppy fat".