The 80s theme is very popular here with my students. Of course they all come to me wanting to know if I still have some good 80s stuff they can use (they've seen some of the pictures in my office). I especially love how they come look at my composites in my office and go "mullet, mullet, crimped hair, mullet,ooh...a crimped mullet!"
Cutiepatootie, I too am a hs class of '87 alum. Our prom theme was Bon Jovi's "Never Say Goodbye", and I wore a pearl grey tuxedo! (what was I thinking?) My date wore a rather small prom dress, it was only a one-hooper, not the all-the-rage six hoop dress that barely fit into a car. I remember a friend of mine had a Fiat Spyder, and his date's dress barely fit into the car!
Some things for an 80s party:
For Guys:
Polo or Izod shirts with the collar turned up, and preferably two shirts layered with the collars up (why???)
Sunglasses on a string around your neck
Topsiders
Acid-wash jeans
Pegged pants
anything neon
knit ties/skinny ties
Ocean Pacific corduroy shorts and t-shirts
Member's Only jackets
For Women:
Big hair (with the help of Aqua Net!)
Stirrup/stretch pants (too many people who had no business wearing these wore them!)
Big, tunic-lenghth, pastel sweaters
Plastic jewelry
Swatches
Mickey Mouse or Coca-Cola shirts
Prairie skirts/blouses
What the hell were we thinking???