How do you dress a child for 80's day???

[SnowWhite607]

Oh my gosh! Is the 80s day like one of those "oldies days"?? We used to dress up like the 50s. Oh my gish, I graduated in 1986. I feel so OLD having the 80s be a dress up day for oldies! LOL!

 

[NEDisneyFans]

Jon Cryer -- Duckie -- from Pretty in Pink!

More fun than Boy George!

 

[Poohs Corner]

Don't forget, big hair, tight rolled jeans, huge t-shirts tied at the waist...

OMG... Im having flash backs.. lol.. TIGHT ROLLED JEANS,, so tight our ankles couldn't breath... lol.. OH and Boat shoes/decks.. They are big again, down here. My DD20 who was born in 1988 LOVES everything eighties.. She is always asking me why I couldn't be OLDER so I could have had her earlier so she could have been a teen in the eighties.. Thinking to myself it wasn't that great.. Geeshh.. BUT she would give anything to be a teen back then..

OH and button down shirts.. And that MEMBERS only jacket from the 80's... lol Didn't think I would ever see the day that thing came back in style..

So what did you figure out for your son to wear?

 

[melancholywings]

You could pick up a jean jacket at a thrift store. Fill a water bottle with bleach, then spray it in the bath tub to do an 80's bleached demin jacket. DH still has his jacket, and when DD had her 80's day I let her wear my plastic charm necklace and old swatch watch.

 

[DisFlan]

Wasn't Achy Breaky Heart from the 90's?? I knew that song in college!

Yup, it was from '92, but Billy Ray was so '80s when he did that song.

I like the Billy Idol idea, too!


DisFlan

 

[daisax]

Don't know how much time you have to put into it, but Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion and The Wedding Singer have lots of 80s flashbacks.

And I caught a first season episode of Roseanne yesterday that was pretty on the mark, too! (Becky was all excited about getting her "skinny jeans") and everybody had big, big hair!

 

[sherabby]

Oh, and we'd wear suspenders on our pants but hanging down, not over ourselves.

I did that too! I'm an 80's graduate too!

 

[sherabby]

I had a white jacket like Don in Miami Vice. Also a white hat to match.

 

[solfan68]

I'm thinkin Tom Cruise, ala Risky Business, would be out of the question ?

 

[NotUrsula]

Michael J. Fox in just about ANYTHING before Doc Holiday. Think Back to the Future or Teen Wolf.

Bleached jeans with tight ankles, white sneakers, a plaid flannel shirt over a colored t-shirt, and suspenders on top of all of it. If you really want to push it one more notch, a bandanna tied around the thigh. Slick his hair back on the sides and let the top hair flop into his eyes.

 

[rebecca06261]

2 words: Miami Vice

 

[fakereadhed]

Too bad DH is at work. I'd take a picture of him and send it to you.

 

[Mean Queen]

For a boy, my thought is either the surfer thing with board shorts and an OP shirt, a Member's only jacket with cuffed acid washed jeans, or parachute pants.

 

[gottaluvdis]

Wow, is this topic incredibly relevant for us right now! DD11 is in this play with her theater company, to stage in November:

http://www.backtothe80smusical.com/homeMenu.html

Not only does she have to dress 80's, but she has to dress as an 80's nerd! Luckily we have a costume designer advising everyone, but we may have to come up with some of her own pieces. And to top it all off, the last scene of the show is a prom scene, so we have to find an 80's prom dress! Luckily for her I was a child of the 80's (both HS and college), and I happen to have 2 bridesmaid dresses from 1989 in my basement (we'll see how good a shape they're in ). It's been fun reliving all the fashions, lingo and songs from her script. I've noticed retro-80's appearing all over the Mall now also.