I Enjoy Being A Girl- Page 28

[danmag]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:34pm

Oh, the shame.....

I'll have you know I never wore the headband (the leg warmers and ripped sweatshirt ala Flashdance, I have to admit I did)!

(*hangs head and slinks away...*)

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:37pm

I just looked at some photos of Danmag and, I swear, we could have been sisters. Same hair styles, same bone structure (Paper Moon, anyone?), same clothes (although I never wore leg warmers. I never "got" that look.)

I'll have to scan some photos from that era onto fb and you'll see what I mean.

BTW, I have my own "Big Bang Theory." Bangs make older women look younger. No bangs make younger women look older. You do the math.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:42pm

Bangs make older women look younger.

Then I guess the bangs must make Danmag look older!

Updated On: 2/7/09 at 01:42 PM

[killertofu333]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:44pm

Ok danmag, first of all...there is NO shame in trying to keep your legs warm especially if you have poor circulation. But seriously who didn't want to be Jennifer Beals in Flashdance? OMG she was hot then and she's hot now.

My shame of the 80s is that I was unnaturally enthralled by Millie Vanillie (yes lip-syncing Millie Vanillie). I wanted their braids and begged my mom. Why she gave in I'll never know. So there I was in Pre-K singing "Girl You Know it's True" looking like a poodle. Oh the shame...*crawling into a hole*

Updated On: 2/7/09 at 01:44 PM

[danmag]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:48pm

Miss P, I had the same thought! I hope you can post the pics!

Schmerg, I am old with or without the bangs (lucky for me I am very emotionally immature, tho)

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:51pm

Hey, Tofu, nobody is saying leg warmers are bad. My sister wore them. My daughter wears them. Kerry Butler, XANADU! What's not to like? It just wasn't "my" thing. I was going through the "I don't want to fit in" period of my life, so anything popular was OUT! (You know how that is.)

Besides, I'm short. Leg warmers would have looked stupid on me.

Oddly enough, this morning I was online looking for clothes like the ones I used to wear in the 80s. Everything comes back, ya know?

Also, I have a confession to make: I never saw FLASHDANCE. Sorry!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:52pm

Thank god I only lived through a few years in the 80s, or I would have been humiliating. I'd be all over those leg warmers, and I would have been a total Poison groupie. My worst obsession was:

<---- but I don't trust anyone who doesn't get the magic of Jem anyway.

killertofu: you and your Milli Vanilli braids are the most hilarious mental image! Aw!

[clever name]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 1:55pm

I am not ashamed to admit I wore the stone washed jeans, ripped sweatshirt, scrunchie socks with Reeboks, and yes.....the headband.

yikes, what was I thinking?

[Madcap Maisie]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:02pm

Updated On: 6/11/20 at 02:02 PM

[danmag]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:03pm

Don't be Maisie. It was really better in retrospect than in real life.

Although, I just bought a new pair of Rayban wayfarers. I LOVED those sunglasses back in the day!

[killertofu333]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:05pm

Maisie, you shouldn't be!!! Yes I'm glad I was born in '86 but that's about it.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:07pm

Geez, Tofu. I graduated college in '86.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:11pm

danmag, I LOVE Wayfarers! I have the light turquoise ones and wear them all the time whether they match my outfit or not (and they usually don't). I want the dark blue and white ones, too.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:21pm

I just got the old school tortoise shell frame with the dark green lenses. They are the exact ones I wore in 1985!

[killertofu333]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:24pm

Also, I have a confession to make: I never saw FLASHDANCE. Sorry!

What the what?! Miss P how on earth did you go all this time and not see Flashdance? I swear if you say you didn't see Footloose or Fame, I'm gonna have to cut you off Miss P. J'ACCUSE!!!!

But I still love ya *sigh*

[justagirl2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:27pm

I know exactly which pair you're talking about. I love it!

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 2:35pm

Okay, since I ascribe to the "Honesty is the best policy" rule, I will come clean.

Never saw Footloose. Saw Fame (the movie) on TV once.

I'm sorry! The 80s were my Foreign Film years! I didn't even think a movie could be good if it was in English. (Now I rarely see a newly released foreign film.)

I stopped going to see musicals too because I thought they were tacky. It was all Off-Broadway, cerebral plays for me. Now they bore me to tears. So, I've evolved.

[justagirl2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:02pm

Miss P.! Rent Flashdance immediately and bask in the glory of awfulness and one-shouldered sweaters! Footloose is overrated, in my opinion, so feel free to skip that one.

[lusciouslace]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:04pm

I was always in love with the 80's Flashdance off the shoulder sweatshirt look. I was too young to wear those. And I LOVED the Madonna lace gloves and bracelets. I remember I would wear two pairs of socks, different colors and alternate them. Haha...and hightops. Or what about biker shorts and long t-shirts that you'd pull to one side.

[danmag]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:21pm

Luscious, did I not just see some 80's gear on your facebook page? You were rockin' it!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:24pm

Updated On: 3/9/17 at 03:24 PM

[clever name]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:40pm

I like the bike short-big T shirt to the side look. That one worked for me. I was really happy when the leggings and long shirt with the flats came back in style. Anything to hide my stomach was a good look.
So you can imagine my horror when the low rise jeans-belly T look came around. SHOOT ME!!

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:48pm

Are you kidding, clever? I was never thin enough to wear low rise pants-not even at birth!

[killertofu333]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 3:59pm

I know that I may be tarred and feathered for this...but did anyone else rock a pair of Jellies? I had those things in every Kool-Aid color under the sun. I was the snazziest looking Kindergartener on the planet!!! Everyone wanted to play with my Play-Doh cuz of my cute Jellies.

Oh if only I had a kids' sized Franky Says Relax shirt and some George Michael "Faith" jeans...I woulda been the sh*t!!!

[justagirl2]

Posted: 2/7/09 at 4:03pm

I had four different pairs of Jellies; pink, purple, blue and silver. I was stylin', for sure. I found a pair at Target a couple years ago for adults and bought them, and they were abysmally uncomfortable. I don't know how we survived those.

I do have a Frankie Say Relax shirt now! It's all cut up and hideous, I love that thing and wear it all the time.