I want to know more about the womens clothing and need to know more about the mens shoes.

What about them?

Well theres so many diff kinds of looks and styles in the 80s..For womens clothing and men's shoes...  Anything specific you need to know?

The thing you need to know about 80s fashion is that it is

1) NOT NOT NOT 60s/70s fashion.  As a highschooler in the early 80s, you were incredibly lame if you were still wearing love beads, patchouli oil, and chanting Indian mantras.  Tie-dyed was replaced by African colors (think Free South Africa!), Japanese Kabuki makeup, and anything sooner than 1963 was considered passe.  If you wore fringe, it would be dyed a bright turquoise blue or deep black, and hair was DEFINITLEY taken care of and tailored with as much care and cleanliness as possible.  The reason why Cheech and Chong were considered so funny was because they lampooned the very era that most 80s kids wanted to repudiate.  

2) on the flip side of that, the phrase 'anything goes' was the fulfilment of what the 60s generation tried out...only we went back to our grandfathers' era, the 1920s/1940s/1950s to get our ideas from.  Reagan harkened back to that era and subconsciously I think a lot of us wanted to relive those eras before all the cynicism of the Vietnam era...many of us grew up watching teh body count numbers and how people treated the vets when they got home.  We didn't want to be like that.

3) I love the 80s fashions because there was never one singular theme about fashion.  Sure, all the media nostalgia trips like to talk about the 'horrible hair and horrible fashions' but what *I* remember was that you could dress in whatever mood you felt for that day...and it would be the IN thing, take or leave a decade or two (see item No 1).  IF you felt liek being a Victorian doll one day, you'd dress in high collar, long sleeves, cameo at the throat, and long ankle length skirts.  If you wanted to go punk the next day, wear the Billy Idol stuff.  If you felt athletic, a terrycloth headband, and gym clothes.  

4) Key feature of 80s clothings : HIGH Fashion...NOT necessarily FUNCTION.  

I remember taking chopsticks that I had used at a local Chinese Restaurant (I cleaned them of course!), and painting them with metallic colors (anyone remember those metallic paint pens, Highliters???) and sticking them in my hair, which I sprayed with glitter, and wore with my multicolored pullover dress, and using really bright pink eyeshadow.  

We used whatever we had on hand...just so long as we didn't look like the Boomers when they had been our age.

that's my two cents worth!

rock on!