Growing up in the 80's was so BITCHIN...lol...I see the styles coming back more and more and I LOVE IT. Big hair it was always a speciality of mine(Aqua Net hair spray a hair pick and a blow dryer) in the 80's they were necessities. Of course not if you had a spike and a tail (that was usually dyed a different color then your real hair.) And most of the time the men's hair looked just as good if not better then the womens...lol... There was one hair item that I don't remember men using the Banana clips they were great. I can remember wearing so much hair spray that I would go to sleep and when I woke up my hair never moved...LMAO... But I still loved it..Washing it out was a project by itself..lol...Once you did your hair you had to find an outfit. We had Granny boots , leg warmers, pin rolled jeans( the tighter the better...not just the pin roll but the jeans themselves) acid or stone washed, shirts with tails, hyper colored clothing(If you sweat it would change color...It sounds gross now but then it was BAD TO THE BONE)...Neon colors were a big hit... We had high tops that wasn't for sports,jellies, high heels, white canvas shoes with no laces( I went through alot of those) and of course socks with dress shoes( even high heels...LOL) we had slouch socks, and fold down with lace.But no matter what socks you choose to wear that day the HAD to match your shirt. Now we can't forget to accessorize. hats,friendship pins(safety pins with beads slid on them), swatch watch, jean jackets with pins all over it or zippers, zippers, zippers everywhere... o.k. ready for the day to begin you could choose to stay home and play Atari( early 80's) Nintendo (late 80's) or go out and head to the local Arcade we played games like Pole Position, Galaga, Q-bert, Ms. Pac man, Pin Ball, and air hockey...But if you stayed home there was always the rubiks cube, pound puppies, my little ponny, or if your mom was fast enough or strong enough you had the Cabbage Patch dolls and they were LIKE OH MY GOD LIKE TOTALLY AWESOME LIKE FOR SURE.(we all got one that looked like us...lol)..Or you could be a COUCH POTATO and watch t.v. like A team, Miami Vice, Knight Rider, Silver Spoon, Who's the Boss, Family Ties, Simon & Simon, Growing Pains, and if it was Friday night and you were up late you could watch Friday Night Videos you were always tired the next morning.. watched Saturday morning Cartoons ALL MORNING...He Man, transformers, Smurfs,& rainbow brite. And if you were grounded to your room ( which posters were really big then they were everywhere) or just in one of those moods well music was the ine thing you could rely on...Cheap Trick, Poison, White Lion, Duran Duran, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Debbie Gibson, Beastie Boys, Ice T, Bobby Brown, Bruce Springsteen,John Cougar,Michael Jackson "Beat It" & AC/DC...we didn't have cd's it was all cassette tapes(mixed ones were the best) And the movies...Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, The Goonies, E.T., Gremlins, footloose, Sixteen Candles, Dirty Dancing, Ghost Busters, and Valley Girl they were the best.I love all the 80's movies.. Our President was Ronald Reagan,The space shuttle Challenger exploded, The AIDS epidemic started, Fall of the Berlin Wall(I was living in Germany at that time 1989), Post it Notes, and JUST SAY NO!!! we had slangs: BARF BAG, CHILL, DOING THE WILD THING, CAN'T TOUCH THIS, EAT MY SHORTS, EAT DIRT AND DIE, GAG ME WITH A SPOON, GNARLY, SPAZ, SCUMBAG,and SIKE,TOTALLY
