What stuff was around in the 80s?

Question

What stuff was around in the 80s?

Answer 1

Pacman and jheri curls were everything back then.

Answer 2

The VCR was a new thing in the 1980s, and along with that, video rentals.



Aerobics and similar exercise programmes became a minor obsession.



Cabbage Patch Kids were very popular with children; my kids each had one.



Cell phones, video games, and compact discs were all new phenomena.



The Berlin Wall came down.

Answer 3

Sheepskin coats (my dad owned one), waffle check shirts (as worn in National Lampoon's Xmas Vacation), acid wash jeans, fringe jackets, baseball jackets and western shirts. The typical stuff you'd find in a teenager's room included a lava lamp, eyeball light, plasma globe, typewriter (or ancient MS-DOS computer), two-tone TV (mine is brown and cream), Transformer robot, Care Bears, heavy metal poster (like Iron Maiden's Eddie), vintage guitar (like a Les Paul), Rubiks cube, cassette player, and Sega megadrive (not every kid had one: i used to go over to my cousin's house to play on hers). Perhaps you could borrow an 80s sports car like the Ford Capri or Chevy Camaro if you're shooting outside

Answer 4

The A Team

Multicoloured clothes

Big Hair

Top of the pops

Jim l fix it

Aha - train of thought

Feed the world

the birth of computers (late seventies)

The soda stream machine

CD's

Answer 5

Huge hair, huge shoulder pads, bright red shiny lips slick with lipgloss, heavy make-up, electronic music, clunky plastic jewellery and the brick we used call a mobile phone came out in the 80's. Guys dressed like Miami Vice with rolled up jacket sleeves and deck shoes with no socks, Ray Bans, New Romantics were huge so guys also started wearing make-up very openly with clear lip-gloss and eyeliner etc (see Duran Duran, Visage etc). Cyndi Lauper and Madonna also emerged, wearing little lace gloves, bare midriffs, loads of rubber bracelets/bangles, huge earrings, bright clashing make-up. Great big Boom Box radios started appearing as Break Dancing took off, later on Sony brought out the Walkman. Headbands either Rambo style or Olivia Newton John style took off (as Aerobics was born during this decade). Dressing down was also big so bands like Dexy's Midnight Runners appeared in tatty dungaress and not much else other than battered hat/beret, Eurthymics had Annie Lennox looking amazing and Dave Stuart looking (sometimes) weird, but slicked back, wet-look hair a la Sweet Dreams was big for a while, and if someone is really brave ZZ Top were pretty big for a while there too with enough facial hair to clog an olympic size plug hole!

Hope that helps.

Answer 6

Significant hairstyle trends of the 1980s include the Perm (started popularity in the late 1970s), the Mullet (evolved from the 1970s to a cleaner look using hair gel), the Jheri curl, the Flattop, the Hi-top fade and Big hair.

Significant clothing trends of the 1980s include Shoulder pads, Jean jackets, Leather pants, Aviator jackets, Jumpsuits, Diane von Fürstenberg Wrap Dress, Members Only Jackets, Skin-tight acid-washed jeans, Miniskirts, Leggings and Leg warmers, Off-the-Shoulder Shirts and Cut Sweatshirts.

Additional significant trends of the 1980s include Headbands, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses (popularized in the film "Top Gun"), Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses, Swatch watches, Slap bracelets (popular fad among children, pre-teens and teenagers in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was available in a wide variety of patterns and colors).



Hope that helps, you can google image all those things if you don't know what they are :)

Answer 7

http://www.only80s.com/ try that out.It pretty much sums it up.

Answer 8

We had lots of things like TVs, motor cars, and writing paper.



Seriously though. We had just strarted to get home PC, in the form of Amstrad and Amiga. These would be simple tape drive machines that plugged into a TV (Donkey Kong introduced us to Mario). Clothes tended to be out of synthetic materiials with pale coloured suites coming into fashion, along with different coloured gents shoes, llke burgandy. The women tended to have big hair and be made up to within an inch of their lives + shoulder pads.



You can check out the fashions of the time by looking at band shots for Spaundau Ballet, Duran Duran, Adam Ant (New Romantics in early 80s) or by watching TV shows like Dallas. Have a look at Dianas wedding and you can see the influence on wedding dresses for the decade,



Mobile phones were not really in much supply, since they were quite large, more like Army field radios, so people still tended to use land lines. We didn't have the internet and, as stated, computers were just starting to arrive in the home, so most businesses still used mainframes and dumb terminals.



There were still only a few channels and TV tended to shut down after about midnight and didn't start again until the next morning.



In short, the 80s were still in a bit of revolutionary mode in the early part, but by mid 80s we had all become born again tories, so we had a breed of business people called YUPPIES. Brash, new money, who liked to show off about all of the money they were making.



We also had the falklands war.



But pretty much it was a time of change and transition. The music reflects this, as do the TV shows. However, we were not so tied to the computer or the telephone.



Luck