80’s Pants

If you take a look back at 1980’s fashion, you’re likely to come across stretch stirrup pants. These pants look like regular leggings but they have a strap that goes around the heel so they stay in place. They are also very colorful and come in many different designs, some with a huge waistband, others without. Originating in dance studios,…

If you were around in the 1980’s, you would have seen an awful lot of spandex wherever you went. Spandex was something every cool kid wore, and as well as looking good, it was comfortable too. Before 80’s rock stars began to dress in spandex, it was primarily worn by dancers and wrestlers so they could move in all kinds…

During the 1980’s it wasn’t uncommon for people to be seen wearing ripped jeans. This phenomenon was one that you won’t see much of today, but for a while it was the thing to wear. Jeans could either be purchased already ripped, or you could damage them yourself, as long as the holes were big, you could get away with…

Parachute pants somehow became one of the most fashionable items to wear during the 1980’s. This item of clothing was also known as “MC Hammer pants” and were associated with and predominantly made popular thanks to MC Hammer, a successful 80’s rapper. These pants were very different to anything else on the market at the time, and that could be one…

During the 1980’s mini skirts were considered to be the height of fashion, and were worn by many women everywhere. A mini skirt is defined as a skirt that has a hemline that sits far above the knees and is usually no more than 10 centimeters below the wearer’s buttocks, and has a hemline that sits on the upper thigh,…