There's a girl working in my building with the claw. It's very scary. Even here, the land of the mullet, her hair is out of control.

I work with a few women who still belive the claw is popular. Of course I am a teacher, some of these women start teaching and never ever update their wardrobe. My gosh, we aren't paid that badly! I wish I had some pictures!

http://www.hairfinder.com/images/803.jpg

I like her hair. I had her hair. I rocked the bubble skirts also. I wish that I had some pictures on my computer to show you.

Just so you understand, her hair is NOT the claw. Think Tonya Harding, the ice skater. She had some serious claw going.

When I was in grad school at North Texas, there was a certain sorority that ALL had those mall bangs. We used to point out girls who had their bangs "all moussed up like the XYZs."

I grew up in Queens so I have seen the claw up close, but we didn't call it that. You would freak if you saw the pictures in my sister's high school yearbook. They had huge hair. I really need a scanner.

You could look worse. I could look worse. The way I feel now, I wish I did look like that right now!! (hold the bubble skirt!)

Re: Re: Near the end of Chi O at CMU
 

I went home and checked by copy of Baird's (the most recent edition (1993?) and that listed them as having those dates. However the AEPhi National website says the Carnegie-Mellon chapter was founded November 21, 1943.

I think the source that we want is the 1944 Carnegie-Mellon Yearbook.

I didn't know what a bubble skirt was, but I was just reading December's Lucky and there's two pages on how to wear a bubble skirt. Is this what you were talking about? It looks like it folds underneath somehow. Page 264. Maybe it is coming back?

Thanks for making us feel ancient! From the Nordstrom's site it looks like maybe they are bringing bubble skirts back in some form.

http://a1216.g.akamai.net/f/1216/955...edium/6264.jpg

Oh lord...Rampage has them too....
http://www.rampage.com/images/items/...05X001REAR.jpg

Holy crap that is ugly. The leggings make it worse. I guess we should be happy we can't see the top.

If we do have an "80's revival" fullblown, I predict it'll be like the real 80's was...weird clothes in the magazines, but the majority of real people wearing VERY subdued versions of the stuff, or else just giving up and prepping out. At least, I hope so!

Does this mean I have to stop making fun of my mother's wardrobe...because I think this is a sign it's all coming back in style...

On yeah, the one with the leggings is hot! All she needs is an off-the-shoulder torn sweatshirt. (And the claw, of course.)


Someone just joining this thread may wonder if this is the dress code for CMU or something.

Your MOTHER'S wardrobe? :(

I am all up for prepping out......I am still a preppy at heart...and always will be.

:)

Local news reported that the upcoming fashion trend is the Izod polo with the sweater tied around your shoulders. Do you think they'll reprint the Preppy Handbook?

It will be the Preppy Handbook, 2nd Edition, in the Northeast and Midwest and the Fratty Handbook in the South. :)

Re: Re: Re: Near the end of Chi O at CMU
 

All 5 of the women's fraternities were local sororities and we all affiliated with a national GLO in the early 40's.

I still have my copy! I love that book. I should reread it.

Admit it - if you were old enough to be preppy in the 80s, when you see the alligator or the horse - you stop, you look, you touch it. We can't deny it.

Prep vs Flashdance
 

When freshmen of my era arrived at CMU from New England where the prep look reigned supreme, we were distressed by the big hair, ripped sweatshirt, leg warmer look. We kept our crocs, Docks, pearls and pageboys and pledged ASAP to hang with our like-minded conservatives.

Don't get me wrong, I wore the 80's stuff too...but I got over it. The 80's is when my mom hopped off the Fashion Train.

Re: Prep vs Flashdance
 

The Flashdance look was how we "rebelled" in the 80s. THe preppy look was the other 360 days a year.

Re: Re: Prep vs Flashdance
 

That or trying to recreate the London West End look a la Boy George or Madonna with a fishnet shirt and fingerless gloves.

The whole ripped sweatshirt/shirt thing has come back with a vengeance. It started to get popular when I was still in college. We'd cut all of our Zeta shirts and then wear a brightly colored tank top under it so that you could see the straps. Pair that with one of those ruffled skirts and I felt like I was in 1987 all over again. I was just missing the crimped hair and leggings. I'm praying that doesn't come back in style.

One of the secretaries at my last job rocked the claw hairstyle. I guess no one told her that it wasn't 1987 anymore.

I wish the hairstyles from the 1940's would come back in. Those women looked stunning. The only problem is that my stick straight hair would never hold all those curls.

The black leggings had a nice slimming effect, but the crimped hair really had no redeeming qualities. Of course, you could combine the crimp with the claw...


ETA: Did any of you wear things inside out in the 80s? I remember wearing letter sweats (shirts and pants) inside out - especially on a test day or other day when you looked skanky at class. (Pretty much test days or mornings after exhanges were the only acceptable times to go to class without full makeup - pink and blue eyeshadow, blue eyeliner AND mascara, etc...)

Re: Re: Re: Prep vs Flashdance
 

I don't know why I am laughing at that. In high school, we wore fishnet hose and white lipstick.:o


but we looked cute!!

"Designer Music"
Lipps Inc.
(1981)

Everywhere you go
Lights flash
All you got to have
Is the cash

While you think you’re able
It’s got to have a label

Designer music
Designer music

I don’t even know
What it means
Stick it on your shoes
Or your jeans

If Calvin says it’s smashin’
It’s got to be in fashion

Designer music
Designer music

Designer music
Designer music

Following the crowd
It’s their game
Everything depends
On which name

It’s got to be designer
There could be no finer

Designer music
Designer music

Wearing your Sassons
Stop the show
Got to be in Vogue
With Polo

Stick it on your sweater
It’s got to make it better

Designer music
Designer music

Everywhere you go
Lights flash
All you got to have
Is the cash

While you think you’re able
It’s got to have a label

Designer music
Designer music

I don’t even know
What it means
Stick it on your shoes
Or your jeans

If Calvin says it’s smashin’
It’s got to be in fashion

Designer music
Designer music

Re: Re: Re: Near the end of Chi O at CMU
 

Yepper, checked a older Bairds. 1943 is correct date!

It is a very interesting listing of Older Line GLOs!:)

Here is a bubble skirt dress courtesy of Gunne Sax and Macys.

I graduated high school in 1991 and it seems like almost every girl in the school had the mall bangs.

I could never get mine to do that, though!

Neither could I! My hair is stick straight and resists any attempts at curl and/or volume.

About the bubble skirts...The Greek Week Formal my junior year I, as usual, didn't have the money to buy a formal dress. My very awesome big sis came to my rescue because she bought two formal dresses and she lent me the one she wasn't wearing. It was, you guessed it, a dreaded bubble dress. Silver and black. With a silver sequined bolero jacket :eek:

I wore it for the first hour of the formal but then I could no longer stand how it made me look like a pumpkin-butt so I ran up to our hotel room and put on sweats and my Greek Week t-shirt. I was much happier then.

You'd think that was the end of it, but the next week at the Greek Week awards ceremony, the chairs showed a slide show they'd put together and wouldn't you know it, one of the slides showed me dancing with some sisters and there was my giant pumpkin-butt in all its silver and black glory. Captured on film for all eternity.

I get shivers just remembering it.

Yes, but were you dancing with hardware or not? Somehow, the old photos of me in Greek Week attire don't look as bad, if at least one of us is holding a trophy!

Re: Re: Re: Re: Prep vs Flashdance
 

Aaaccckkk! Why did you bring that up!:o And it had to be Yardley lipstick!

here, the hair was called "jersey." ocassionally, it was mall hair, but mostly jersey hair. although the clothes went out by 90, the hair remained until the mid 90s. it was a scary time. if my mom still had a scanner, i would scan my college id pic. it was a sad sad day.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Prep vs Flashdance
 

Oh, yeah - I had a whole set of Yardley lipstick!

As much as I love this 80s retro talk, maybe it's time to get back to the OT? Remember CMU? ;)

It was mentioned that groups have already been chosen to present.

I know SeussN10 offered to reveal the info via PM, but when will be public knowledge? I doubt it'll turn into an "OMG I hope they choose XYZ" thread. I'm itching to know.

Good luck to the groups that were chosen to present!

Damn moderators ruin all the fun.

Not trying to ruin the fun at all..if you want to continue the walk down memory lane -- feel free to start a new thread on CC (or continue the old one because I think we had a similar one before).

Just trying to get the focus back to original topic because some of us are really interested in that and not so much 80s hairdos. :)