FabSwingers.com forum: Did you rock the 80s?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Well the short answer looking back, i certainly didn’t, sporting a Mullet and wearing Farah pants and a Ben Sherman shirt, i looked bloody ridiculous, but that was the fashion

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I wasn't born until near the end so no

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

I was a baby/child so probably had a rocking horse

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was a tomboy in the 80's but still wanted to be one of the kids from Fame.

NBVN x

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By *gent CoulsonMan
over a year ago

Secret hideaway in the pennines

Indeed I did, from the early new romantic look to the Miami vice look

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

And leg warmers and white musk!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I looked ridiculous- I was a teenager so I had ridiculously baggy jeans / tracksuit bottoms the tightest bodysuit tops and massive earrings

Blue or green eyeliner and mascara with matching eyeshadow topped off the look

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

I so wanted a rara skirt!

Jealous

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By *eyond PurityCouple
over a year ago

Lincolnshire

Big perm. Big shoulder pads. Of course I rocked the look

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Very much so. I used to wear luminous knee high socks and denim shorts with a CHOOSE LIFE crop top.

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

Yes still look back on photos with a huge perm and think oh no

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Well the short answer looking back, i certainly didn’t, sporting a Mullet and wearing Farah pants and a Ben Sherman shirt, i looked bloody ridiculous, but that was the fashion

I still have my Farah pants from the 80s obviously wouldn't fit now so it's memorabilia along with few Farah, Pringle shirts and few others and my D.M

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By *rivateparts!Man
over a year ago

Walking down the only road I've ever known!

Oh I rocked it alright, brilliant carefree days.

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Not forgetting the checker pants

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By *xciter7169Man
over a year ago

The Midlands

Farah trousers,i remember wearing them,can you still get them?

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By *eyondhornyMan
over a year ago

Abercynon

Was at school in the 80s but had (what I thought) was the coolest stonewashed denim jacket, loads of iron on patches, the best being a massive Def Leppard Hysteria album cover on the back.

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

I was as cool as fuck in the 80's

Well I'm sure I was, almost certain.

Possibly.

I had a wicked wet look perm.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

And leg warmers and white musk! "

Don’t forget the perm and Pernod and black

good times.

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

I so wanted a rara skirt!

Jealous

I loved mine. I had a few in different colours

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

And leg warmers and white musk!

Don’t forget the perm and Pernod and black

good times. "

Pernod and black was the devil's drink.

I've never been as sick on a hangover drinking that stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had long hair permed. Very much lace crop tops jeans and fingerless gloves accessorised by a crucifix (yep very much a Madonna fan) still have the crucifix in my jewellery box

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

A bright pink rara skirt here. No comment on big Rick though

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Certainly rocked the 80's, as it was the decade I graced the world with my being born

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By *eyondhornyMan
over a year ago

Abercynon

Completely forgot, I also made loads of leather wrist bands so I could be like Morten Harkett from a-ha!

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Lots of outdoor nudity

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

Used to love the lace petticoat I wore under skirts, also the denim gillet

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

And leg warmers and white musk!

Don’t forget the perm and Pernod and black

good times.

Pernod and black was the devil's drink.

I've never been as sick on a hangover drinking that stuff."

I lost my 18th birthday weekend to it. I haven’t touched a drop since so I can relate to that

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By *abs..Woman
over a year ago

"Totally. Rara skirt and fluorescent fingerless gloves - the works. Fell in love with Rick Astley the one true love of my life

A bright pink rara skirt here. No comment on big Rick though

He knows, I’ve told him

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not much, but I ‘ grunged’ the 90’

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had left college and was embarking on my career, I had the money to buy my first car and go out when I wanted, I definitely rocked,in ridiculous fashions and big hair

pmsl.

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By *losguygl3Man
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Was at school in the 80s but had (what I thought) was the coolest stonewashed denim jacket, loads of iron on patches, the best being a massive Def Leppard Hysteria album cover on the back.

That was me too!!! But I had Guns’n’Roses instead of Def Leppard

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By *losguygl3Man
over a year ago

Gloucester

"Used to love the lace petticoat I wore under skirts, also the denim gillet "

Weren’t gillets called body warmers back then?

Or a waistcoat?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

10 minutes of Memories. Remember buying the little uns some of these toys. Also remember wearing similar clothes to these. Wish they would bring back some of these snacks in the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHb9d-Y3Io&t=27s

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Farah trousers,i remember wearing them,can you still get them?"

Yes you can I noticed few times on the shopping channel but on television and certain clothes shops will still have them as they were classified as a top brand Farah press

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a mullet, drain pipes and fluorescent socks. But I was never one of the cool kids anyway

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Of course. 1987 Appetite for Destruction came out - I was 16.

Skinny black jeans, cowboy boots, long wavy blonde hair (more Brett Michaels than Axl Rose), black nail varnish, bracelets up my arm, sleaze band t-shirts or skull shirts, headband, drinking Jack Daniels, hanging around Kensington Market.

My best compliment was seeing G 'n' R at Wembley and a 'normally' dressed bloke looking at me and saying 'you couldn't tell the blokes from the girls in here'.

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

I'm nor quite sure what you mean by "rock" but the 80s were my formative years and it's kind of still the time my head lives in. Luke

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By *ilverjagMan
over a year ago

swansea

Those were the days! The Thatcherite boom, there was enterprise allowance to give apprentice yuppies like me a head start, cash was king, privatisation made us all a quick killing, champagne flowed like water, and a 3 series BMW was the must have big boys toy, especially when you had the added extra of a gorgeous girlfriend on the passenger seat in mini skirt, which had also been reinvented. It was the roaring 20s reinvented. We never had it so good!

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By *iking67Man
over a year ago

BP Auckland

I looked cool as in my levis,fred perry's dm's and harrington.....

Looks down and realise I still do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I just diffused my hair and I look like I did in the 80s

Cross between Carol Decker and David Coverdale

I miss those days when I could just embrace the long hair frizziness and make it worse by backcombing it and then fixing the mane with half a bottle of hairspray

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By *imbobaMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

Yup. Rocked it as a rocker vis new wave. Silly clothes and hair. Down to an Adam Ant style military jacket.

Luckily some things never change. Still a fashion victim.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I went from wanting a skin head (female version) back in the 80's.

Was a huge Madness /Ska fan.(liked the music only nothing else)

Strutted around in my crombie coat.

Then came along those jeans with the colour stripe cord down, I had red!

white canvas type boots, rara skirts and a ribbon in my hair.... Ooh what a catch

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By *aughty_tonyMan
over a year ago

King's Lynn

Was a kid during the 80's, but late 80's had a lime green shell suit and hi-tech trainers with bright green lace in one and pink lace in the other. I believe my parents still have the photographic evidence in their loft, which sadly I've failed to destroy said photo's lol.

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

Everyone thought they looked cool back then, the few photos that exist from then are ‘crikey what were you thinking’.... well hidden and grateful smart phones / social media didn’t exist

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Rocked, rolled, partied, blew shit up, discovered the human condition, almost grew up. I miss the 80's...

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