This is your mother's Rush! What we wore 1960-1990

[dukemama]

Originally Posted by LionTamer

So, not rush, but 15 PSU ASAs from the early 80's were at a get-together in Ocean City, NJ last weekend, and we were looking at the 1982 composite.

A lot of the other photos showed girls wearing high-necked blouses with goofy-looking ruffles - kind of a Gunne Sax/Little House on the Prairie look.

Someone commented that she didn't realize so many of the girls were Sister Wives.

None of us could look at the composite after that without laughing.

(A little OT: I felt kind of bad for the girls who had traveled from outside the East Coast, where any mention of heading to the Jersey Shore for the weekend conjured in the minds of their coworkers and friends images of fist-pumping and bar fights for those unfamiliar with the SOUTH Jersey shore, which is actually not quite as....Jerseylicious.....)

I was in high school in the early 80s but also had one of those awful Seinfeld-esque puffy shirts - in fact, I'm wearing one in my HS graduation picture. What were we thinking?

[AnchorAlumna]

Hey - it was the style at the time.
In the early 1970s, I loved bell bottom pants. 10, 15 years later, everybody laughed at them. High waists, pleats and cinched ankles were haut couture.
Then the 2000s - helloooo bell bottoms again!
Now we're getting into the 20-teens...farewell, bell bottoms, see ya next time around!

[carnation]

Haha, I can remember all the sorority girls at Auburn wearing bell bottoms whose bells were so big that they slapped against each other as we walked. And when they got wet in the rain--yechh! What an awful sound and feeling.

[AnchorAlumna]

Elephant bells!
I made a pair (yes! I sew!) out of a kelly green cotton with tiny white dots. Loved 'em. Made my waist look tiny.
I kept a couple of big safety pins to pin the bells up to ride my 10-speed to class! Good times.

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by carnation

Haha, I can remember all the sorority girls at Auburn wearing bell bottoms whose bells were so big that they slapped against each other as we walked. And when they got wet in the rain--yechh! What an awful sound and feeling.

I am only 5' tall. I remember having some bell bottoms that were so wide that they appeared to be bigger than me. My kids are 24 and 21 and they love to laugh at the clothes I wore until I pull out some of the pictures of them when they wanted to wear "in styles" and realize how silly they look once they go out of style.

DaffyKD

[DubaiSis]

I can tell you for sure that whatever I was wearing in 1984, it was with moisturizer, foundation, powder, eye liner, 2 or 3 shades of eye shadow, mascara, eye brow pencil and lip stick. For some reason I didn't know the wonder of a good lip liner yet, but I sure knew about the rest of it! I would also have been sporting heels (this is BEFORE the bunions killed that for the rest of my life), shoulder pads in everything including t-shirts, and a big ass black cinch belt. I've never been thin but in the 80's I had a teensy waist, and that style was MADE for me. Collars would definitely have been up, and walking shorts and knee socks were probably worn on one of the middle days of rush. And long dangly earrings. Oh, and the thick flat gold serpentine necklaces. We all had to have them, the wider they were the cooler you were. I am SOOOO opposed to ostentatious displays of wealth these days I can't believe I got sucked into this.

Perfume: Ralph Lauren Tuxedo, which I still wish they'd bring back.

The cinch belts are on their way back in, and I think that's good for most of us, as are shoulder pads if done with a certain amount of restraint. Little lift of the shoulder line=good. Line backer=bad.

I tried to re-post my pledge day picture, but I haven't been able to get the link thing to play nice for a couple days. It's on gc somewhere.

[KillarneyRose]

I am not sure how I stumbled upon this thread, but I'm glad I did! It's provided many laughs and many more nods in agreement. Glad to know I'm not the only girl who rocked the high necked blouse in the mid eighties!

I'm trying to remember what my pref dress looked like but I'm coming up blank. I vaguely recall a floral print and shoulder pads. Probably best that I DON'T remember! lol

PS I'm glad that we wore those black velvet drape things for our composite pictures. That way, the sisters who come after us have only our hair and makeup to laugh at instead of our hair, makeup AND clothes!

[Shellfish]

Check out these very '80s-looking people at a KD mixer in 1984. Oh, gosh, look who turned up.
https://twitter.com/sarahhthielee/st...58786873970689

[ChioLu]

Originally Posted by Shellfish

Check out these very '80s-looking people at a KD mixer in 1984. Oh, gosh, look who turned up.
https://twitter.com/sarahhthielee/st...58786873970689

Almost didn't recognize him. Think he tanned to the next nationality!

[amIblue?]

How fun to be able casually to slip into conversation that he went to a date party with you!

[33girl]

OMG....the shirt. The collar that looks starched. THE SHORTS. I've come to the conclusion that guys' 80s clothing (at least when they were trying to be fashionable) was WAY sillier than women's.

[limegreen]

HOW ARE HIS TEETH SO WHITE?! I must know. This was well before commercial teeth whitening.

[Titchou]

The old fashioned way? Rinse with peroxide.

[KillarneyRose]

Well, looks like I'm the only one brave enough to post pictures of my and my sisters 80s fashion choices

Fall Rush, 1987. Yes, I am in here; no I am not saying which one I am (although, to be honest, all four of us are kind of embarrassing looking)


Informal Rush, I'm thinking 1989

[limegreen]

Originally Posted by Titchou

The old fashioned way? Rinse with peroxide.

Darn, that never worked for me. Damn you, Brad Pitt! *shakes fist*

The blonde in the first picture has glorious hair. My 1989-self is very envious.