"Dreagen1;c-16205804" wrote:
"phoebebebe13;c-16204405" wrote:
@Dreagen1 We would not have worn leg warmers with pumps. Leg warmers were more the physical fitness craze. Olivia Newton John's song and video Physical or falshdance movie with the off the shoulder sweatshirt. They would have worn headbands not a bow in their hair. Flat Jazz Capezio dance shoes were in. People put hard soles on them so you could wear them in the street..With pumps back in the early 80's we wore baby socks or tights. They made the baby socks for adults. The thin socks that fold over with lace on the trim. This is more 1983. I was watching some soul train videos. I remember shirt dresses were big too.
I just watched Purple Rain That was big in 1984. You can see how some people dressed, the hair styles in the audience etc. Prince always had his own look .
1984 Movies
Ghost Busters ( do not know why stranger things put that in 1983)
Gremlins
Purple Rain
Footloose
Revenge of the Nerds
Breakin
Breakin II Electric Boogaloo
Sixteen Candles
Nightmare on Elmstreet ( Johnny Depp's first movie )
The Flamingo Kid
Beat Street
Where The Boys Are
Oxford Blues
Bows in the hair Madonna or Boy George looks. George is big on hats but he sometimes wore bows if you check google images
Looking up more stuff I could overload you with music videos. My suggestion is to look up each year 1980, 81, 82 etc Billboard top 100 lists. They had different lists for R & B, Pop, Rock, Rap. There are allot of great songs back then that may have not even made the top 100. I grew up in NYC so we had allot of more underground music. Some songs were bigger hits in the UK than USA and visa versa . For example I read somewhere that Culture Club ( Boy George) song " Miss Me Blind" was written for a USA audience . It was # 5 on billboard in 1984
I also forgot in 1983 John Travolta's movie Stayin Alive which is another dance movie
The valley girl movie poster has her wearing leg warmers with pumps... I was just going off of that with my own twist.
We never wore that though. Valley Girl was based in California and made fun of the way they speak. The Girl who who actually stars in the movie isn't even on the poster with Nicholas Cage. That was a big mistake done by the movie studio. That poster is more of a cartoon . I get it's your own take but your mixing styles from different years and styles we would not have mixed together.
Valley Girls have a certain way of speaking. If you go on youtube and listen to Frank Zappa's song Valley Girl, His daughter Moon Unit Zappa does all the Valley Girl talk on the song.
Also a great teen movie1982 is Fast Times at Ridgemout High
I just also came across a movie on youtube I have never seen. It's called High School USA 1983 and there seems to be allot of known teen actors from that time period in the movie. I started watching it to see how many people I know are in it. Michael J Fox. Nancy McKeon , Crispin Glover, and some others. Add: It looks like a made for TV movie. We had allot of those back then.
If you want a cool look for the 80's Joan Jett videos.
