80’s Accessories

Before the word bling became a buzzword, rap and hip-hop artists were all about fashion accessories such as dookie chains. The dookie chain is a thick necklace that looks like a braided rope. It’s usually made of gold (or gold-plated), but there are some platinum versions floating around as well. The dookie chain was often paired with other popular 80s…

While Nike still rules supreme in the athletic shoes department, this doesn’t mean that Adidas is far behind. After all, Adidas is serious about running for number one, and that’s one of the reason it bought Reebok in 2005 for a staggering price of $3.78 billion. Reebok Shoes In The 80s It’s hard to think about Reebok as a mere…

If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you owned a fanny pack. They helped you keep your stuff together, was convenient, and came in some cool fashions. What’s not to love right? The 1980s saw the appearance of quite a few strange things (especially for those who never lived through it) and the popularity of the fanny pack…

During the 1980’s shoulder pads became very popular, and gave the wearer the bigger and broader looking shoulders. Pop stars, movie stars and soap stars helped this iconic accessory become a worldwide phenomenon, so much so shoulder pads were usually sewn into garments, and there would be little or no need to buy them separately. Both men and women wore…

Leg warmers were incredibly popular in the 1980’s, and just about every young girl and woman had the privilege of wearing them. Leg warmers were worn on the lower legs and helped to keep them warm. Originally worn by some dancers, it was thought they would keep the leg muscles warm. While there has never been any proof they would…

During the 1980’s huge earrings became an iconic fashion statement, and they were the accessory to wear if you wanted to have style and sophistication, without being afraid to show it. Thanks to television shows such as ‘Dynasty’ huge earrings meant you were going places, that you wouldn’t take ‘No’ for an answer, and you loved the fact they were…

There is nothing more intimidating than a person walking down the street with what at first you think are brass knuckles. However, when you get closer you realize they are not brass knuckles, but four finger rings on the person wearing them. They are intimidating at first, but once you realize they are a fashion statement you realize how intriguing…

During the middle of the 1980’s fingerless gloves started to become very fashionable. It’s thought they became very popular at around 1984, as a wide variety of pop and rock stars wore them as accessories. There was a time when fingerless gloves served a non-fashion related purpose, and they merely helped to keep the wearers hands warm, while enabling them…

A big fashion trend in the 80s, especially in the hip hop community, was the bucket hat. If you wanted to be hip, if you wanted to wear something that gave you a bit of status, then you needed to wear a bucket hat. These large hats looked cool, they came in lots of different styles and all the famous…