What do you miss about the 80’s?

[Boredofthegram]

Ra-ra skirts
scrunch dried hair
choose life t shirts
sun in hair colour
jelly shoes
1/2p sweets in your pick n mix
Sunday night top 40 countdown
Rimmel ‘heather shimmer’ lipstick

Heather shimmer I wore it proudly with dewberry scent from body shop

 

[Dickydoo123]

Top 40 countdown on a Sunday on the radio.
Top of the pops.
The music and films.

Taping the the top 40 trying to avoid the DJ’s voice wondering who was no1

 

[Anasnake]

The freedom - going out for hours, no phones, no recording of anything, just making sure you were back in time for tea
And roller boots, I bloody loved mine

 

[Dickydoo123]

As an 80’s baby, what makes you feel nostalgic? What music, tv shows or food do you miss?

The definitive 80’s Christmas decorations!
Reading the Argos catalogue
Proper Cadbury’s chocolate
Game Shows on TV
Mix tapes
Top of the Pops
The ‘fashion’
The music!!!!

I could go on!!!

 

[Miss Fanny]

My waistline !!

 

[Kim Mild]

I was a small child in the 80s . I miss the way people looked, like goths we saw on the street, I thought they were so cool. Party dresses at Christmas. And places that aren't there anymore, especially where my grandma took me.

 

[Oohthedrama]

Your mammy or granny cutting every single summer tee shirt you own into fringes

 

[Bogwoppit]

Another 80’s baby I love the 80’s, I listen to absolute 80’ & heart 80’s the music was the best, I miss the Christmas build up, it was magical back then not like it is today plus had actual Christmas no1 songs, going out playing with friends in the street or going to the shop & buying a quarter of sherbet lemons, tv was better 4 channels, no remote control, loved my school, miss my grandparents, I had some good memories!

 

[HowlOwl]

Crimping and dyeing my hair, backcombing it and spraying it with half a can of Bristow’s hairspray ... it wouldn’t budge for a week.

I loved all the New Romantic fashions at the time.

 

[Anasnake]

I had a puffball, it was white and I wore it with a cropped striped jacket, thought I was the bees knees though it looked like a giant nappy.

 

[265]

The 80's was a great Decade for films so many films now deemed as "classics", Disney upped their game and delved into Science Fiction with success with the film "The Black Hole" in 1979 and "Tron" in 1982. A number of films gained the classification of "The Chick Flick", Pretty in Pink was a perfect example and a personal fav of mine. There was a few trilogies made, one of which became the most talked about, "Back to the Future" was a Trilogy which was a perfect family film. Even now all these decades later it's still talked about and probably one of the most memorable film of the decade.

Music wise, got off to a great start, new music, new technology but IMO the music scene declined around 1987 with the arrival of SAW who produced a lot of mindless drivel, however they did give us Kylie.

One thing that really changed was the amount of number one singles, during the decade the amount of number one's increased, not many singles stayed at number one for 4 or 5 weeks which used to be the norm.

The Christmas number one has always been the "Holy Grail" if your single made number one for Xmas it was number one for the following week.
This was because back in those days the Pop Charts took a break for xmas, I don't know when that changed.

 

[MrsOgre]

I did buy myself Heather shimmer today! Straight back to the 80s
Then went into a charity shop and found the breakfast club and pretty in pink in the dvd section. All I need now is leg warmers and I'll be complete.

 

[Renegadedancer]

Ra-ra skirts
scrunch dried hair
choose life t shirts
sun in hair colour
jelly shoes
1/2p sweets in your pick n mix
Sunday night top 40 countdown
Rimmel ‘heather shimmer’ lipstick

 

[Dickydoo123]

I didn't have one of those either but I had a jumpsuit a la Anneka Rice

Anneka jumping out of the helicopter

I still listen to Absolute 80’s and watch old re-runs on TOTP

 

[Dickydoo123]

Heather Shimmer lipstick and Dewberry perfume from The Body Shop used to drown myself in that stuff

 

[Londoncailín]

Those amazing brightly coloured punk Mohawk hairstyles that people had. I used be fascinated by those as an 80’s child.

 

[cushtybert]

Seeing Pepsi and Shirleys clothing range in top shop, I was too little to wear them but can remember thinking how amazing they looked and so jealous of my older sister who had some of them

 

[Kim Mild]

And this orange desert from school. I recently found out it's jelly and condensed milk whisked together, then chilled and served with chocolate covered cornflakes.

 

[ChubClubThug]

my niece asked for a crimper for her birthday, she asked me to do her hair and it took me back Neighbours and Home & Away!!! I remember Pyramint choc but whenever I mention it nobody remembers Had a frightening perm too use to use half a bottle of Wella curling gel on it everyday, looked like I’d been dipped in a chip pan ooooh proper home made chips too

Omg I'm sure I had the same spray it never ever used to come out properly.. would clog in the little hole.. i used to top it up with water when it was running low.. I loved blue eyeshadow and black lipstick. My brother used to say my frizzy permed hair had the texture of pubes!! I loved My Little Pony, Garfield, Thunder Cats, keepers, snuggle bums.. leggings that looked like sticks of rock, bumbags, long waistcoats in tartan fabric over white lace shirts Bermuda shorts and slogan t-shirts.. I could go on and on! I remember my parents getting a microwave and it was the size of like a fiat punto and everyone,.no matter how rich you were had a bloody horrible velvet striped sofa or a floral chintz thing

 

[MrsOgre]

Make up and clothes! I never had a puffball skirt and if they ever come back into fashion, I'm having one.
Miss watching totp with all the screaming every Thursday night