Fashion in 1980's & Fashion in 2020's:
80s Fashion:
80s fashions introduced hip hop culture, evolved punk fashions and the yuppie movement. On these 80s fashion pages you'll see pictures and descriptions of 80s clothing and hair styles. Many of the 80s fashions sprung from American & the UK subcultures that have had a great influence cultures around the world.
80s Hip Hop Fashion:
Adidas jump suits and shoes, multifingered rings, thick gold chains,
kangol, jheri curls. Hip Hop music, fashion and culture was called a
fad throughout the eighties and part of the nineties. In the 80s Hip Hop
was the loudest expression of african American subculture.
80s Punk Fashion:
Multicolored mohawks, bleached hair, short spiky hair, torn leather with chains, eye liner, spike collars, spike wrist bands. Punk is about rebelling against any and all social structures. The less real reasons for the rebellion the more "punk" it is. This extreeme counter culturism inspired shocking almost perverse 80s hair styles and trends: close-pin piercings, shredded clothing, ect. 80s punk fashion is like nothing else.
80s Rock:
Huge hair, platinum blonde hair, glitter, lots of make-up, sexual abiguity, tight jeans (bulging crotch). Male 80s "hair bands" were all very feminine looking and driven to do nothing but get wasted and have sex. Hair bands drew as many women fans as male despite their teased hair, lipstick and womanizing.
80s Yuppie:
Ladies wore spike banges heavy cheek make-up, both men and women wore shoulder padded business jackets. Sweater vests were popular as were sweaters tied loosely around the neck over button down shirts. Yuppie men were clean shaven, prim and egotistical snobs drunk on dreams of high society and elitism.
These fashionable trends have evolved but have much of the same spirit was couter-culture, decadence, rebelion and/or ego worship that they began with.
MP3 players built into jackets, internet sites where you can design your own clothes... You can already see the effect today's technology is having on fashion. So we asked our BT futurologist, Ian Pearson, what he thinks will be next.
Clothes will get a life of their own:
Soon we'll be wearing jumpers that can generate power, either by solar power, or in electromagnetic, thermal or mechanical ways. And we'll be able to store music and videos in our actual trousers (not just in the pockets).
Our clothes will interact with our surroundings
There could soon be microchips in buildings, furniture, packaging and even food. These could all interact with chips woven into our clothes.
Designs themselves won't be affected
Because microchips are so small, fashion designers will be able to add gadgets and electronic devices to clothes without needing to change the designs.
We'll make our own clothes
A funny throwback to years gone by, but thanks to cheap production and design software, more and more of us are going to get into it.
Beauty will still be in the eye of the beholder
But not as you might imagine. High-tech contact lenses already make it possible to scan images onto our retinas. If this becomes mainstream, we'll be able to superimpose computer-generated images onto what we see in the real world, including images of each other. So fashion designers will need to design virtual fashions. And we'll have to worry about our digital appearance as well as our physical one
