Preppy 80's ideas

[LiLIrishChick63]

if your hair is long enough you can do the side-ponytail!!

 

[jlima]

Yup, pearls with jeans is 80's. Do you happen to have about 100 plastic neon bracelets? You could wear them all at once on one arm! Make sure to layer your socks too, preferrably pink ones with white ones. That was my favorite color combo. And to go with the blue eyeshadow, how about some electric blue mascara? Yes, I actually used to wear that!

Pearls with jeans - check.
Plastic neon bracelets - check
Blue mascara - OH MY GOD . . . YOU JUST DUMPED ME IN THE WAY BACK MACHINE - I wore that too! What was I thinking!

 

[Ceila]

Preppy '80s fashions I wore:

Faire Isle sweaters
layered polos or a polo under an oxford cloth buttondown (Polo or Izod only)
khakis
plaid kilt skirt with the big safety pin closure
Pappagalo button cover purse
headbands worn with shoulder-length pageboy- bangs optional
pink and green color combo
corduroy Bermuda shorts
a sweater tied around your shoulders
navy sundress with little sailboats or whales embroidered all over it
wedge-heeled espadrilles
Topsiders
penny loafers
Add-A-Bead necklaces
Madras plaid skirt, Bermuda shorts, or pants
anything from the L.L. Bean catalog

Ahh, the good old days- the early '80s!!

We "totally" would have look like twins!

 

[Ceila]

Oh, and the best part of all - I am thoroughly embarrassing my children today! "You're NOT wearing that to work, are you Mom?!?!" "Yes, yes I am."

 

[Pooh's Pixie]

Ah, blue mascara. That would probably scare the living daylights out of people now, but I wore that fashion statement proudly!

Have fun!

 

[OK!]

Sadly, my penny loafers are long gone.

BUT - I have Tretorns!! I had completely forgotten about the bright socks. Hmm, might have to raid DD's sock drawer for those. And I could hit CVS on the way in to work and pick up some cheap blue eyeshadow.

On the Tretorns, you could also write "I ♥ _______ (name of DH or SO or whoever)"! and doodle all over the bottoms. At least, that's what I used to do in the '80s with all of mine. And this may be too late, but you (or anyone else who might need 'em!) can probably get some good ideas from this thread from a few months ago. That was a lot of fun.

 

[NCRedding]

You can also go to the fabric store and get multicollored grosgrain ribbon to wear as a belt.

Remember the belts with the hooking/interlocking designs (I had shells, lion heads for my sorority). You could buy lengths of belt fabric in many different colors. My Christmas gifts to my friends one year in college were handsewn tie belts in cute plaids with a matching headband cover.

Loved my bermuda bag with the interchangeable outsides.

 

[Quiksilvr]

These descriptions could fit a significant number of the folks in my law school class. I graduated less than five years ago.

A lot of the preppy WASPishness is still going strong, if you know where to find it.