CMU Expansion - Page 8

ZTAngel · #**106** 12-30-2005, 03:03 PM

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.

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Originally posted by lonestaradpi
I work with a few women who still belive the claw is popular.

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.

irishpipes · #**107** 12-30-2005, 03:07 PM

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...)

tinydancer · #**108** 12-30-2005, 04:38 PM

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

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

but we looked cute!!

TSteven · #**109** 12-30-2005, 04:43 PM

"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

Tom Earp · #**110** 12-30-2005, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by naraht
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.

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

It is a very interesting listing of Older Line GLOs!

Peaches-n-Cream · #**111** 12-30-2005, 06:27 PM

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

Sister Havana · #**112** 12-30-2005, 08:27 PM

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!

KillarneyRose · #**113** 12-30-2005, 08:49 PM

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Originally posted by Sister Havana
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

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.

honeychile · #**114** 12-30-2005, 09:19 PM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
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

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!

carnation · #**115** 12-30-2005, 09:29 PM

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Originally posted by tinydancer
I don't know why I am laughing at that. In high school, we wore fishnet hose and white lipstick.

Aaaccckkk! Why did you bring that up!

And it had to be Yardley lipstick!

pinkyphimu · #**116** 12-30-2005, 09:59 PM

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.

tinydancer · #**117** 12-30-2005, 10:31 PM

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Originally posted by carnation
Aaaccckkk! Why did you bring that up! And it had to be Yardley lipstick!

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

#**118** 12-30-2005, 10:38 PM

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!

irishpipes · #**119** 12-30-2005, 10:54 PM

Damn moderators ruin all the fun.

#**120** 12-30-2005, 11:01 PM

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Originally posted by irishpipes
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.