Next time you’re going around the halls, take a look at girls’ wrists and count how many feature scrunchies. I know it is basic of me to say how much I love scrunchies, but I do, and apparently most other girls in Powell High School do as well. items like these have proven that our generation has taken the ’80s into consideration, looked at the fashion and said, “Why not? We’re too lazy to come up with our own sense of fashion, so let’s take the idea of our parents and use that.” These are just leg warmers that are not as colorful, not as thick and are meant to only show over the top of your boots, never even touching your ankle in the process. In the ’80s, leg warmers were a huge hit in the fashion world as the was were for “jazzercise.” Our generation has put our own little twist on them, styling them to more of our time and calling them boot socks. It seems in the last six months alone, more people are flashing back to the ’80s and styling some of the clothes our parents would have worn at the time, just with our own little twist. In the last couple of years, I have noticed a boom in the amount of scrunchies being bought, leggings being worn and. But come on … perms and mullets? Again? Really? Let go of the mistakes and move on. Sure, the scrunchies can stay (and if I’m being honest, I love the scrunchie, like, a LOT.) and the leggings can stay as well. However, I think it’s right to say some of the fashion choices people are making can stay in the ’80s. ![]() Umm, thanks for your help, Mom.It’s time to give in and accept that the ’80s are making a comeback. "Like I'm so totally sure! We had like the most gnarly slang like ever!" "OK, what kind of slang was popular then?" Savannah's eyes glazed over with information overload ![]() And we had MTV and MTV was just all videos all day long back then!" Actually, nope, sometime, later in the 80s, we had better ones like PacMan and Asteroids. And there was no caller ID either! Our video games were all the same - a little square that hit another little square back and forth. And I couldn't move more than 5 feet away from the wall or the phone would unplug. I had to stand in the kitchen and have my conversations while my mom was cooking dinner or my sister was doing her homework. "We didn't have cell phones, we didn't even have cordless phones til later. "Seriously? And you were making fun of us for wearing those shaped rubber band bracelets." Oooo and we had jelly bracelets! And jelly shoes! And Swatches! Lots of Swatches! We'd wear half a dozen of these plastic watches down our arm at once! Yep, and we had portable curling irons that ran on lighter fluid, and we'd light our black eyeliner pencils with a lighter to make them more spreadable, then we'd layer it on thick. "I think it was more of an accessory because after we sprayed half a can of Aqua Net or Stiff Stuff in our hair, we couldn't possibly pull a comb through it." "Oooo, and we'd carry a big ole comb in our back pocket!" Oh yeah! And we wore lots of bright, neon stuff! Oooo, and color-changing shirts! They'd actually change color if you were hot or cold! And fishnet tops over other shirts!" "Well yeah! At least, the totally cool kids did! Oooo and parachute pants! Everyone had parachute pants! I got mine at Madigan's Junior at Woodfield Mall. "You tucked your jeans into your socks? On purpose?" Savannah looked at me like I was some sort of dork. Or leg warmers! Oooo, yeah! We wore sock and leg warmers and we layered them! We generally wore a couple different pairs of brightly colored socks too. ![]() We wore tight, skinny acid washed jeans and we rolled the legs around as tight as possible and then tucked them into our socks. Well, we wore Gunne Sax dresses to prom and homecoming. I started getting excited at this point, reminiscing about my high school couture. I'm kinda stuck in the 80s," I confessed to Savannah. "I listened to the same stuff I listen to now. "So, what kind of music did you listen to in the 80s?" I take a look at his assignment, see all the numbers and start feeling woozy, then I feign an injury that needs immediate medical attention so I have don't to admit to my kids that I still count on my fingers (and sometimes toes).īut a project about the 80s? Now, THAT I can do! Like when my 5th grader asks me for math help. "YES! I can totally help you with it." I love getting requests like this because I don't have to come up with excuses why I can't help. "Hey Mom, can you help me with a project about the 80s?"
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