1980s - fashion and music

After a brief with my lecturer, Daniel, he asked me to focus on the past like 80s of music and fashion. In this post, I will talk more about music and fashion in the 1980s. Lets take a look at the fashion in the 1980s, the early 80s were subdued in colour, so we can see that there is a lot of browns, tans and oranges (Phipps, 2016). The blocky shapes (picture 1.0) and dressing like a tennis players were everywhere and it considered a very cool fashion at that moment. For both men and women, their waistline was a little high, actually in the early 1980s' fashion is a little similar with 1970s' fashion. By that time they wore high waist jeans, denim jackets with clothes tuck in. (picture 2.0 & 2.1) We can see that there is some similarities with the 1970s' fashion, but this is also a fashion trends in the early 1980s.

Picture 1.0

 Picture 2.0

Picture 2.1

Until the mid-1980s, there goes slightly different with the colours because pop music stars like Cyndi Lauper (picture 3.0) were ushering in new style, which is more vibrant and bright colours (Phipps, 2016). It totally different with what I showed just now, which the colours are more dull in the early 1980s. So, bright colours of clothing and accessories like sunglasses, bangles and hoop earings were a fundamental. Teased hair with heavy make up and neon were an important part of this style (picture 3.1). It is because of pop musicians who brings up a new trends again and kick away the dull colours style.

 Picture 3.0

Picture 3.1

So you can see how is the pop music star can influenced their music fans so much until it becomes a trend with her special high kick look and also musics. How about the music in the 1980s? In 1980s, music was all about images and popularity of MTV. The images that accompanied artist become more important, because he 1980s reflected the beginning of a period of great income disparity and a focus on affluence was reflected in the music (thepeoplehistory, 2015). There were also some new genre musics that popped up including hip hop, new wave, hair metal, all of which have influenced music today (thepeoplehistory, 2015). Some pop music stars like Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, and more, they bring up the famous musics also they had affected a lot of their music fans in such a way of their fashion too by looking their album cover and MTV.

So you can see there are so many famous pop stars in the 1980s that ushered a new trend of musics and fashion to their music fans and others. Also, the evolution of the style in just few years.

References

Phipps,P. (2016) 'Fashion in the 1980s', retrowaste, 22 January, [Online] Available at: http://www.retrowaste.com/1980s/fashion-in-the-1980s/ (Accessed: 24 June 2016)

thepeoplehistory (2015) 'Music Played in the 1980's Popular Music From the 80s', [Online] Available at: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/80smusic.html (Accessed: 24 June 2016)