Late 70s/early 80s New Wave fashion question

Hey babe! I fought Jordache v. Sergio Valenti.

(and Jordache won)

That is a relief to hear, yo. Mail me! By the time they got to Guess? v. double-dyed Sassoon, I was audi. Also Felicity I thought of you, reading Exurbia by Molly Mcgann, LA circa '85 and the preps are all in Ton Sur Ton. Eurgh,

"the last pair of bellbottoms was bought on Dec. 27, 1981"

Wow. Did Reagan outlaw their sale after that exact date or something?

What's your email addy?

That sounds like a good read. Gah, my old high school pictures are such a mixture of Limited Express and hardcore Lake Forest.

double-dyed Sassoon

Wow, time machine. I had pink and turquoise. My mother wears the pink ones to garden in.

It is kind of bizarre to think there are developers nowadays in the business of planning and building entire malls of outlet stores (and franchising and promoting chains of malls of outlet stores), considering that outlets were originally for mistakes and overruns. Do they do this outside of North America?

The UK has "outlet villages". I think they started out cheap for seconds and overstock and are now basically just out-of-town malls with not many bargains to be found. They're the sort of thing where relatives insist that if you're looking for clothes you really MUUUUST travel for 2 hours to get to their favourite one, but I've never managed to find more than a single item worth buying on any trip round one. I know less about fashion than anyone else on ILX though and find clothes shopping horrible in that way that fat people with no dress sense do, so I guess I wouldn't know.

"Did Reagan outlaw their sale after that exact date or something?"

Good question, but no, Reagan's influence was strictly on an indirect level. He simply reminded people of how neat the 1950s were.

As to why THAT is the particular date, I think, first, bellbottoms' popularity had seriously waned (but was not completely gone) by the end of '81, and second, stores just stopped selling them by '82.

If the missionary from Bolivia incident is accurate, I can only imagine he must have returned to the U.S very late in '81.

Writing was on wall back in '78 when first rumblings of OMG DESIGNER JEANS went through my school and you needed to also have satin jacket. I joined the seventh grade in 1980 and point-blank refused any sort of flare/boot-cut trouser. Those I was stuck with I tapered to the point of today's skinny jeans, or actually past.

Felicity I am on yahoo.co.uk - just cram suzy next to my surname and follow with an @ and you're there.

Thanks, suzy. Yeah, who really invented the designer jean. Wikisays Jordache but I don't think that's right. Was it Gloria Vanderbilt for Puritan?

Esprit, Rugger, Boast.

Yes, it was probably the woman Anderson Cooper calls mommy but also on the high end, Yves Saint Laurent.

^^^^^^^^ very much in character. :)

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