Even though the Eighties will always have a place in my heart, I absolutely agree with you, Otter. Those clothes had their time and place, but it's not here and it's not now. (though it's kind of a shame since I really rocked that Flashdance look)

ETA: The Flashdance look is what Otter was describing in her post. So called because the style was popularized in the 1983 movie, "Flashdance" (which was a huge deal when I was in high school, but most twenty-somethings probably have no idea what I was talking about).

Come on KR. Give us some credit. I know what flashdance is, and I have even seen it. Although I was 3 when it came out.

today being dress down day....
 

here are a list of the fashion violations in my office today:

1 spandex pants.....honey, your over 50- burn those pants and no, that t-shirt is not long enough to cover your butt

2. the tweety-bird t-shirt. After about age 10, you should no longer be allowed to wear large colorfull cartoon carechters on your body. (nor should you want too!)

3. brown pants, black shoes. 'nuff said.

4. men in sweat pants....EW!

5. men wearing jean shorts WITH white sneakers that I have been told get polished white once a week! (and crazy enough, this is not the same guy who is wearing the sweat pants)

6. If your button down shirt strethches so that the buttons bearly button and it shows your man nipples, you need not wear it!

7. Yellow sneakers. (and not like funky cool yellow sneakers- mustard colored ones from payless that have blacklaces and black soles)

8. any type of v-neck shirt on a male that exposes their chest hair.

9. dressing your dog to match your outfit. (yes, the ceo brings her dog in everyday and it matches what she is wearing!)

10. If you weigh over 200 lbs. do not ever wear gingham overalls...it makes you look like a giant tablecloth!

11. and finally.....the lady who is 56 yrs old who is wearing a t-shirt and is clearly not wearing a bra.....my eyes! my eyes! they're burning!

You guys with the anti-tapered pants sentiment crack me up. I remember as I was nearing the end of my college days the first flared and boot-leg pants were starting to appear in stores. I remember myself and all my friends being appalled...."EWWW Brady Bunch pants! Yuck, keep them in the 70s!!!!" We all swore that we'd never wear them, nobody else would either, and they'd never catch on again. In fact, I remember that my dad always used to hang onto clothes forever and I used to make fun of him for keeping this pair of cinnamon cord flares in his drawer (no he did not wear them thank God) and finally he let me throw them away. Imagine my amazement a couple of years later to walk into Abercrombie and see the IDENTICAL pants for $60!!!!! Needless to say, once flares were everywhere and all the fashionable young girls were wearing them, they suddenly looked a lot cuter and naturally my friends and I all succumbed.

My point is, 80s styles are coming back everywhere. Tapered pants will be an inescapable part of this. They may not be the same hideous acid-washed pleated things that we wore, but there will be nary a flare anywhere. And as soon as they start catching on with the little girls who are too young to remember them from the first time and the young celebrities, they'll spread like wildfire and everyone will be wearing them because flares will look passe.

PLEASE don't let them bring back acid washing or huge shoulder pads or "big hair!" though....PLEASE

The fashion police should seriously look at people who do not know how to dress appropriately for the occasion or place.

Yes, I am talking to you, teen girl in the ulltra short suede patchwork skirt and too-tight, too low-cut top AT CHURCH!!!

LOL, I don't care if tapered pants become the hottest thing since Ugg boots (which also should be against the law) -- I will never, ever wear them. They're ugly and matronly and I hate anything that has to do with the 80s.

Hey, did any of you used to tight roll your pants? I know a person who was still tight rolling her pants just a few years ago. WTF?

I did that to my jeans. I stopped when George Bush became President, George the First that is. :)

Hee! I used to tight roll my pants back in junior high. :D

How about high heels with jeans!
Those T-shirts with shoulder pads and little people/3 dimensional things all over them.


Ditto to tinydancer and inappropriat dress. THAT's a biggie and you see it everywhere.

While we're at it............................gold crowns. (teeth)

A lot of people around here wear heels with jeans, especially going out and the like. But of course they're not tapered jeans, and they're not crazy white pumps or anything. A lot of times it just looks like boots.

How about cheap jeans or shoes?

Guys that wear Kenneth cole or Aldo and think they're being fashionable bother me.

Girls that wear cheap jeans and iron them inflame me. Rudey gets madder than the Hulk and breaks things when he sees that. Rudey get mad!

-Rudey
--Rudey get angry

Don't diss little mini skirts....they're sooo cute!!!! BUT.....when you can see your thong and your butt cheeks.....that's when the line needs to be drawn (I have seen both of these things at least three times in the past two days). The skirt needs to go about a half inch below your rear or else it's just FOUL!!!

I also hate plaid shorts/pants. EWWWWW. Seriously, the only plaid thing that is cute are cute little schoolgirl skirts. That's pretty much it. Oh...and same for flannels on men/women. You live in suburbia/downtown, you don't need to look like you're a lumberjack/still stuck in the grunge movement which THANK GOD went away YEARS ago.

Spandex......it only looks good on a select few people at the gym....but if you are anything but skinny, it's NOT AT ALL flattering. Seriously, it needs to be made ILLEGAL!!!!

ALSO.... the tight rolling thing. EWW.

Overalls...also GROSS.

Underwear that is three sizes too small.....and the same for bras. Hello, you wear a size 12. A size extra small bikini is TOO SMALL....step away from the XS PLEASE. Also, if you have 38DD breasts, PLEASE do not try to wear a 34C. Trust me, I wear a 34C and both of my breasts are not even the size of one of yours. It's too small. OHHHH and I hate even more people who do this and then whine that their bra gives them NO SUPPORT. All I have to say is NO SHIT! It's five million sizes too small.

AND my favorite fashion faux pas....clothes that are way too small, and LARGE AMOUNTS of fat and love handles are spilling over. Seriously, I know I don't fit into a third of my clothes....that's why I DON"T WEAR THEM!!!!

HUH??? You've got to be joking me. I only wear high heels with most of my jeans...that's why they're cut so long!! If I'm wearing tennis shoes, I'm usually in stretchy black pants, velour pants, or workout pants....

Nope. You are incorrect. It's cute. And honestly, I love wearing all of that stuff. It's hot, and sooo fun. I wasn't old enough to wear alot of the eighties fashions, and am so glad that they came back because they are soooo hot!!!!

Well slap my face and call me stupid!:D

absolutuscchick- HUH??? You've got to be joking me. I only wear high heels with most of my jeans...that's why they're cut so long!! If I'm wearing tennis shoes, I'm usually in stretchy black pants, velour pants, or workout pants....

Looking back to Urban Cowboy and of course Grease, girls were wearing stiletto type heels, mostly straps, with their Blue jeans.
Would see this at Houston's Cowboys and Gilley's. Just looks old fashioned and out of step to me. Boots are great-no problem.

Maybe it falls into the white before Memorial Day category-some approve, others don't.

Rudey -How can you tell cheap jeans apart from expensive ones?
I honestly can't tell one from another. It never occurred to me to buy a pair of jeans based on the price...just the arse!:p

Ooooh. Purposely visible thongs. Just looks skanky!

And guys wearing pants so large it looks like they can fit three people into them, where the waistband is almost below the crotch so you can see their underwear and it looks like the pants are just falling off.