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Has anyone noticed how the new car designs are looking 80ish?  The designs look modern, but have a bit of a "hard-edge" design to them.

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What the Scion BBX and Honda Element? Thats nothing to be proud of. The 80's aren't coming coming back. Lets get real here. Some of the stuff is coming back but you shouldn't look for a full-fleged revival well then again the first time I heard Stacey's Mom" by Fountains of Wayne it sounded like the 80's punk-pop group "The Clash". Still I don't look for a full-fleged revival. I just don't see it coming.

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Actually...I knew this was gonna happen.

If the real 80's killed off the real 70's and disco music, then Retro 80's just killed off the Retro 70's and the disco revival :)

Remember, Retro 80's looks back at a decade that had Retro 50's.  Think about it.... ;)


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Very true!

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Actually...I knew this was gonna happen.

If the real 80's killed off the real 70's and disco music, then Retro 80's just killed off the Retro 70's and the disco revival :)

Remember, Retro 80's looks back at a decade that had Retro 50's.  Think about it.... ;)


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Thank you for recognizing that fact, which I think many don't realize - even at the time!  Jackets (albeit more those on women like Janet Jackson), pastel colors, men's hair, music stylings and direct covers, and much -popular- pop-culture entertainment (the end of Happy Days & L&S, Back to the Future).  There were other popular retro influences, but I often had the feeling the '50s had the most say.

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Well I'm glad the 80's are coming back. I had so much fun back then.
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Me too.It was a fun time to be a kid.unfortunately,we all grow up! :(


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Afros are coming back as well. 8)


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Afros were '70s not '80s!  Even as early as 1979, the great Michael Jackson and others wore Gerry Curls...not Afros from earlier in the decade.

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It still may take awhile for fashion and hair styles to change to '80s retro.  All I see everywhere up here in the NYC metro area and elsewhere on TV are '70s still!  People are still wearing the low-rider bell bottoms, bare midrif shirts, haulter tops, platforms, patches and fringes on their bells, long straight '70s hair parted down the middle.  

And boys are definitly starting to get away from the '90s buzz cut, and go directly to the hardcore '70s dirty, unkept, long hair, sideburns and even the Afros!  They managed to skip over the short clean-cut (but full) head of hair that was standard in the '80s.
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Well, for guys the 80's also had the medium to long, teased or just big hair, or sometimes just long and never gelled to be made flat.  I hope they DON'T bring back the 80's version of guys' short hair--it always reminded me of a scissors haircut that wasn't completely finished--or flat-tops that were longer on the sides like Arnold's hair in T1--or the haircuts that looked like they were cut with a 2 inch attachment on clippers all over the head and then blowdried, then, using Aqua Net, brushed in a way that blatantly shows the brush or comb lines--no thanks! :)    

Not that I think this get-up-in-the-morning haven't gotten a haircut in 4 months look that seems to have gathered a lot of strength in the past couple years is appealing either.  I'm looking forward to long hair for guys being IN again.

I think the late 90's to '01 had the best men's short haircuts.  

I'm so glad I haven't seen Tootsie style glasses for women come back!

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It still may take awhile for fashion and hair styles to change to '80s retro.  All I see everywhere up here in the NYC metro area and elsewhere on TV are '70s still!  People are still wearing the low-rider bell bottoms, bare midrif shirts, haulter tops, platforms, patches and fringes on their bells, long straight '70s hair parted down the middle.End Quote

Yes, and they're still largely wearing the same basic crud here - and apparently in CA, too!  I just saw the "kid's page" in the local paper where they're "corresponding" w/kids in L A - and their "favorites" included the usual suspects - same things w/different names - bellbottoms, "flared jeans", hip-huggers.  Yikes.  Didn't notice about the hair, tho.  I'm seeing some more "texture" to hair lately at least in the 20-some set, if not teens.  Perhaps they finally got sick of the same old boring look?  (Again, I don't recall too many "hip huggers" in the '70s, but whatever.  And straight hair was out of the '60s in reality - the hippie look that held on in the early '70s.  1 thing the last decade missed - the barf colors of the '70s, esp when blending them in barfo patterns!  Depressed, yes, barfy, not quite!)

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Just when I thought it couldn't get worse!  I guess "90s guys" were OK w/their hair, albeit still a tad unkempt.  But yes, if they start letting their medium hair droop and then swirl it around for the outta-bed look, well I've about had it.  Not to mention the 5:00 shadow.  Yuck.  Add that to the never-ending gangsta-plumber look that won't go away.

And have you ever noticed that not only are these fashions drippy and droopy and depressed in themselves - but that almost invariably the people that wear them are slouching?

Please, let us finally shoot the '90s!   :o

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Well, for guys the 80's also had the medium to long, teased or just big hair, or sometimes just long and never gelled to be made flat.  I hope they DON'T bring back the 80's version of guys' short hair--it always reminded me of a scissors haircut that wasn't completely finished--or flat-tops that were longer on the sides like Arnold's hair in T1--or the haircuts that looked like they were cut with a 2 inch attachment on clippers all over the head and then blowdried, then, using Aqua Net, brushed in a way that blatantly shows the brush or comb lines--no thanks! :)    

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I swear, there must have been huge regional differences in the 80s.  I rarely ever saw "big/long" hair on boys.  They wore short hair by and large.  Boys w/longer hair just waved it (but it was never below the neck hairline).  Others had it cropped in a plain buzz, more or less - and some would gel it to be spikey.  Almost never looked home-grown/cut to me (except for those who actually did cut each others' hair)!

I also have been missing the flat-top buzz that black boys would wear.  Now they're all bald, period, a`la Michael Jordon.  That was more than 10 years ago and I'm sick of black guys always being bald; I swear I haven't seen any1 w/more than a millimeter of fuzz (and I've never seen an Afro!).  What is it about the '90s fads that won't die?    >:(

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(Again, I don't recall too many "hip huggers" in the '70s, but whatever.  And straight hair was out of the '60s in reality - the hippie look that held on in the early '70s.  
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That late '60s Hippy look didn't really catch on in the mainstream until the early '70s.  In 1969, most girls still had the Patty Duke Flip hairdo  and guys had short hair and straight leg pants.  Only a very small percentage of kids looked like Hippies.  In 1974, just about every girl in my 8th grade class was wearing Hiphuggers and long straight hair.  I look at my Yearbooks from back then and it's a scream!  1975 was the turning point, when the mini-skirt died as well as the Hiphuggers and girls started to experiment with (you guessed it) curling their hair!  Believe me, it was painful for most to change.  The late '70s was a mixture of left over Hippy looks and that Disco/Urban/early Punk look.

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I also have been missing the flat-top buzz that black boys would wear.  Now they're all bald, period, a`la Michael Jordon.  That was more than 10 years ago and I'm sick of black guys always being bald; I swear I haven't seen any1 w/more than a millimeter of fuzz (and I've never seen an Afro!).  What is it about the '90s fads that won't die?    >:(
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I;m a guy and I like the 90's but the bald look I can't stand it. When the braided look came out with Allen Iverson and Latrell Sprewell it was a breath of fresh air.

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I swear, there must have been huge regional differences in the 80s.  I rarely ever saw "big/long" hair on boys.  They wore short hair by and large.  Boys w/longer hair just waved it (but it was never below the neck hairline).  Others had it cropped in a plain buzz, more or less - and some would gel it to be spikey.  Almost never looked home-grown/cut to me (except for those who actually did cut each others' hair)!

I also have been missing the flat-top buzz that black boys would wear.  Now they're all bald, period, a`la Michael Jordon.  That was more than 10 years ago and I'm sick of black guys always being bald; I swear I haven't seen any1 w/more than a millimeter of fuzz (and I've never seen an Afro!).  What is it about the '90s fads that won't die?    >:(
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There must be regional differences.  There were a lot of guys with big hair in the 80's over here, as well as a lot of Michael J. Fox haircuts.  I live in Tacoma/Seattle WA area and right now as far as black guys I see afros or braids on about 1 of every 4 people.  

The shaved head look HERE in general is dying out rapidly but definately not gone.

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yeah,I see that as well.


Howard