SUBMITTED TO: NEHA DAS

SUBMITTED BY: SUBHASMITA CHAMPATIRAY

COURSE: FASHION DESIGNING (2 YEAR)
 ACKNOWLEDGMENT
I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my HOC
teacher “Miss. Neha Das”for their able guidance and support in
Completing my project. and providing me with all the facility that
was required

DATE:25/05/2021 Subhasmita champatiray

Fashion designing (2 year)

INTRODUCTION:
 The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s") was
a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on
December 31, 1989.The decade saw major socioeconomic change due to advances in
technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and
towards laissez-faire capitalism.
 As economic deconstruction increased in the developed world,
multiple multinational corporations associated with the manufacturing industry
relocated into Thailand, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and China. Japan and West
Germany saw large economic growth during this decade. The AIDS epidemic became
recognized in the 1980s and has since killed an estimated 39 million people (as of
2013).[1] Global warming became well known to the scientific and political
community in the 1980s.
 The United Kingdom and the United States moved closer to supply-side economic
policies beginning a trend towards global instability of international trade that would
pick up more steam in the following decade as the fall of the USSR made right
wing economic policy more powerful.
 The final decade of the Cold War opened with the US-Soviet confrontation
continuing largely without any interruption. Superpower tensions escalated rapidly
as President Reagan scrapped the policy of détente and adopted a new, much more
aggressive stance on the Soviet Union. The world came perilously close to nuclear
war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, but the second half of
the decade saw a dramatic easing of superpower tensions and ultimately the total
collapse of Soviet communism.
 Developing countries across the world faced economic and social difficulties as they
suffered from multiple debt crises in the 1980s, requiring many of these countries to
apply for financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and
the World Bank. Ethiopia witnessed widespread famine in the mid-1980s during the
corrupt rule of Mengistu Haile Mariam, resulting in the country having to depend on
foreign aid to provide food to its population and worldwide efforts to address and
raise money to help Ethiopians, such as the Live Aid concert in 1985.
 Major civil discontent and violence occurred in the Middle East, including the Iran–
Iraq War, the Soviet–Afghan War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the First Nagorno-
Karabakh War, the Bombing of Libya in 1986, and the First Intifada in the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank. Islamism became a powerful political force in the 1980s
and many terrorist organizations, including Al Qaeda, started.
 By 1986, nationalism was making a comeback in the Eastern Bloc and desire for
democracy in communist-led socialist states combined with economic recession
resulted in Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, which reduced Communist
Party power, legalized dissent and sanctioned limited forms of capitalism such
as joint ventures with Western firms. After newly heated tension for most of the
decade, by 1988 relations between the West and East had improved significantly and
 the Soviet Union was increasingly unwilling to defend its governments in satellite
states.
 1989 brought the overthrow and attempted overthrow of a number of governments
led by communist parties, such as in Hungary, the Tiananmen Square protests of
1989 in China, the Czechoslovak "Velvet Revolution", Honaker’s East German regime,
Poland's Soviet-backed government, and the violent overthrow of the Nicolae
Ceausescu regime in Romania. Destruction of the 155-km Berlin Wall, at the end of
the decade, signalled a seismic geopolitical shift. The Cold War ended in the early
1990s with the successful Reunification of Germany and the USSR's demise after
the August Coup of 1991.
 The 1980s saw great advances in genetic and digital technology. After years of
animal experimentation since 1985 the first genetic modification of 10 adult human
beings took place in May 1989, a gene tagging experiment which led to the first true
gene therapy implementation in September 1990. The first "designer babies", a pair
of female twins were created in a laboratory in late 1989 and born in July 1990 after
being sex-selected via the controversial assisted reproductive
technology procedure preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Gestational surrogacy was
first performed in 1985 with the first birth in 1986, making it possible for a woman to
become a biological mother without experiencing pregnancy for the first time in
history.
 The 1980s was also an era of tremendous population growth around the world,
surpassing even the 1970s and 1990s, thus arguably being the largest in human
history. Population growth was particularly rapid in a number of African, Middle
Eastern, and South Asian countries during this decade, with rates of natural increase
close to or exceeding 4% annually.
 The 1980s saw the advent of the ongoing practice of sex-selective abortion in China
and India as ultrasound technology permitted parents to selectively abort baby girls.
The global Internet took shape in academia by the second half of the 1980s as well
as many other computer networks of both academic and commercial use such
as USENET, Fidonet and the Bulletin Board System.
 By 1989 the Internet and the networks linked to it were a global system with
extensive transoceanic satellite links and nodes in most rich countries. [7] Based on
earlier work from 1980 onwards Tim Berners Lee formalized the concept of
the World Wide Web by 1989 and performed its earliest demonstrations in
December 1990 and 1991. Television viewing became commonplace in the Third
World, with the number of TV sets in China and India increasing by 15 and 10 times
respectively.
 Video game consoles released in this decade included the continuing popularity
of Atari 2600, Intellivision, Vectrex, Colecovision, SG-1000, NES/Famicom, Sega
Master System, PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16, Mega Drive/Genesis and Game Boy. Super
Mario Bros. and Tetris were the decade's two best selling and most popular video
games. 1980's Atari VCS port of Space Invaders was the first killer app. 
Terrorist attacks:

 Bologna massacre in Italy on August 2, 1980, three members of the neo-

fascist group Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari detonate a time bomb at Bologna
Central Station, killing 85 people.
 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador on December 11, 1981, against civilians,
committed by government forces supported by the United States during their
anti-guerrilla campaign against Marxist–Leninist rebels.
 The Rome and Vienna airport attacks took place on December 27, 1985, against
the Israeli El Al airline. The attack was done by militants loyal to Abu Nidal,
backed by the government of Libya.
 The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing – during the Lebanese Civil War two truck
bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military
forces killing 299 American and French servicemen. The organization Islamic
Jihad claimed responsibility for the bombing.
 Air India Flight 182 was destroyed on June 23, 1985, by Sikh-Canadian militants.
It was the biggest mass murder involving Canadians in Canada's history.
 On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was blown up over the village of
Lockerbie, Scotland, while en route from London's Heathrow Airport to New
York's JFK. The bombing killed all 243 passengers, 16 crew members and 11
people on the ground, totaling 270 fatalities who were citizens of 21
nationalities. The bombing was and remains the worst terrorist attack on UK soil.
Natural disasters:

 Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, U.S. on May 18, 1980, killing 57

people.
 On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco Bay
Area during Game 3 of the 1989 World Series, gaining worldwide attention.
Sixty-five people were killed and thousands injured, with major structural
damage on freeways and buildings and broken gas-line fires in San Francisco,
California. The cost of the damage totalled $13 billion (1989 USD).
 The 1988–89 North American droughts decimated the US with many parts of the
country affected. This was the worst drought to hit the United States in many
years. The drought caused $60 billion in damage (between $80 billion and $120
billion for 2008 USD). The concurrent heat waves killed 5,800 to 17,000 people in
the United States.
 Hurricane Allen (1980), Hurricane Alicia (1983), Hurricane
Gilbert (1988), Hurricane Joan (1988), and Hurricane Hugo (1989) were some
notably destructive Atlantic hurricanes of the 1980s.
 Other natural disasters of the 1980s include the 1982–1983 El Niño which
brought destructive weather to most of the world; the 1985 Mexico City
earthquake, which registered 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale and
devastated Mexico City and other areas throughout central Mexico; the
1985 Nevada del Ruiz lahar in Colombia; the 1986 Lake Nyos limnic
eruption in Cameroon; and the 1988 Armenian earthquake, which rocked
the Caucasus region of the USSR.
Non-natural disasters

 On April 25, 1980, Dan-Air Flight 1008 crashed on approach to Tenerife in

the Canary Islands. All 146 people on board were killed.
 On August 19, 1980, Saudi Flight 163 caught fire moments after takeoff from
the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh. The flight quickly returned to the airport, but
evacuation of the plane was delayed and all 301 people aboard died.
 On July 9, 1982, Pan Am Flight 759 was forced down by a wind shear microburst,
killing 153 people.
 In 1984, the Bhopal disaster resulted from a toxic MIC gas leak at the Union
Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, killing 3,000 immediately and ultimately claiming
15,000–20,000 lives.
 On September 1, 1983, Soviet Union fighter jets shot down Korean Air Lines
Flight 007, which was carrying 269 people, none of whom survived.
 On August 2, 1985, Delta Air Lines Flight 191 crashed on approach to Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airport in Texas. 137 people were killed while 27 survived.
 June 21, 1985, Air India Flight 182, flight from Montreal Canada is blown up over
Irish waters by a bomb placed in the luggage compartment. This was the greatest
act of terrorism until the September 11 attacks of 2001.
 Japan Airlines Flight 123, carrying 524 people, crashed on August 12, 1985, while
on a flight from Tokyo to Osaka killing 520 of the people on board, leaving four
survivors. This was, and still is, the worst single-plane crash ever.
 On December 12, 1985, Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed seconds after lifting off
from Gander, Newfoundland. All 256 people on board, many of them U.S.
servicemen returning home from duty overseas, perished.
 On January 28, 1986, the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73
seconds after launch, killing all of the crew on board. This was the first disaster
involving the destruction of a NASA space shuttle. A faulty O-ring was the cause
of the accident.
 On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl disaster, a large-scale nuclear meltdown in
the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union, spread a large amount of radioactive material
across Europe, killing 47 people, dooming countless others to future radiation-
related cancer, and causing the displacement of 300,000 people.
 On August 31, 1986, Aeroméxico Flight 498 crashed after colliding with a
private Piper Cherokee over Cerritos, California, killing everyone on both
airplanes and several others on the ground. On the same day, the Soviet
passenger ship Admiral Nakhimov sank after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr
Vasev in the Black Sea, killing 423 people.
  On September 27, 1986 Cliff Burton died in a bus crash while on tour with his
band, Metallica
 On May 9, 1987, an uncontained engine failure on LOT Flight 5055 caused an in-
flight fire on board the airliner, which subsequently crashed, killing all 183
passengers and crew.
 On August 16, 1987, Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed almost immediately
after takeoff from Detroit Wayne Airport in Michigan, killing 156 people.
 On November 28, 1987, a fire broke out on South African Airways Flight 295,
eventually causing the aircraft to crash into the Indian Ocean. All 159 aboard
were killed.
 On December 7, 1987, 43 people were killed when an irate
former USAir employee went on a rampage aboard PSA Flight 1771.
 On December 20, 1987, the Philippine passenger ferry MV Doña Paz burned and
sank after colliding with the oil tanker MT Vector. With an estimated death toll
of over 4,000, this was and remains the world's deadliest peacetime maritime
disaster.
 On July 3, 1988, Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down by the U.S. missile
cruiser USS Vincennes over the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people on the
plane. The event is one of the most controversial aviation occurrences of all
time, with the true cause disputed between the Americans and the Iranians.
 On December 21, 1988 an American passenger 747 airliner en route from
Frankfurt to Detroit (via London and New York) Pan Am Flight 103 was destroyed
by a bomb while it was flying over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing the 259 passengers
and crew members on board and 11 people on the ground. This was the worst
terrorist attack to have occurred on British soil.
 On March 24, 1989, the oil tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh
Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound spilling an estimated equivalent of 260,000
to 750,000 barrels of crude oil. Although not among the largest oil spills in
history, its remote and sensitive location made it one of the most devastating
ecological disasters ever. The after effects of the spill continue to be felt to this
day.
 On April 15, 1989, The Hillsborough disaster occurs during a FA Cup Semi-Final
in Sheffield, England fatally crushing 96 football fans and injuring nearly 1,000
more.
 On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, carrying 296 people, suffered an in-
flight engine failure and was forced to crash-land at Sioux City, Iowa. 185
survived, while 111 were killed when the plane burst into flames upon
touchdown.

FASHION:
  Fashion of the 1980s placed heavy emphasis on cheap clothes and fashion
accessories. Apparel tended to be very bright and vivid in appearance. Women
expressed an image of wealth and success through shiny costume jewellery, such as
large faux-gold earrings, pearl necklaces, and clothing covered with sequins and
diamonds. Punk fashion began as a reaction against both the hippie movement of
the past decades and the materialist values of the current decade.
 The first half of the decade was relatively tame in comparison to the second half,
which is when the iconic 1980s colour scheme had come into popularity.
 Hair in the 1980s was typically big, curly, bouffant and heavily styled. Television
shows such as Dynasty helped popularize the high volume bouffant and glamorous
image associated with it.[3][4] Women from the 1980s wore bright, heavy makeup.
Everyday fashion in the 1980s consisted of light-colour lips, dark and thick eyelashes,
and pink or red rouge (otherwise known as blush).[5][6]
 Some of the top fashion models of the 1980s were Brooke Shields, Christie
Brinkley, Gia Carangi, Joan Severance, Kim Alexis, Carol Alt, Yasmin Le Bon, Renée
Simonsen, Kelly Emberg, Ines de la Fressange, Tatjana Patitz, Elle Macpherson,
and Paulina Porizkova.

WOMENS FASHION:
Early 1980s (1980–83)
Minimalism

 The early 1980s witnessed a backlash against the brightly colored disco fashions
of the late 1970s in favor of a minimalist approach to fashion, with less emphasis
on accessories. In the US and Europe practicality was considered just as much as
aesthetics. In the UK and America clothing colors were subdued, quiet and basic;
varying shades of brown, tan, cream, and orange were common. [7]
 Fashionable clothing in the early 1980s included unisex and gender-specific
attire. Widespread fashions for women in the early 1980s
included sweaters (including turtleneck, crew neck, and v-neck varieties); fur-
lined puffer jackets; tunics; faux-fur coats; velvet blazers; trench coats (made in
 both fake and real leather);[7] crop tops; tube tops; knee-length skirts (of no
prescribed length, as designers opted for choice); loose, flowy, knee-length
dresses (with high-cut and low-cut necklines, varying sleeve lengths, and made in
a variety of fabrics including cotton, silk, satin, and polyester); high-waisted loose
pants; embroidered jeans; leather pants; and designer jeans. [7][8][9] Women's
pants of the 1980s were, in general, worn with long inseams, and by 1981 the
flared jeans of the 70s had gone out of fashion in favor of straight leg trousers.
 From 1980 until 1983 popular women's accessories included thin belts, knee-
high boots with thick kitten heels, sneakers, jelly shoes (a new trend at the time),
[10]
 mules, round-toed shoes and boots, jelly bracelets (inspired by Madonna in
1983),[11] shoes with thick heels, small, thin necklaces (with a variety of materials,
such as gold and pearls), and small watches.[7]
Aerobics craze

 The fitness craze of the 1970s continued into the early 1980s. General women's
street-wear worn in the early 1980s included ripped sweatshirts, [12] tights,
sweatpants,[13] and tracksuits (especially ones made in velour).[7]
 Athletic accessories were a massive trend in the early 1980s, and their popularity
was largely boosted by the aerobics craze. This included leg warmers, wide belts,
[13]
 elastic headbands, and athletic shoes known as 'sneakers' in the US[14] or
'trainers' in the UK.[15]
Professional fashion

 In the 1970s, more women were joining the work force, so, by the early 1980s,
working women were no longer considered unusual. As a way to proclaim
themselves as equals in the job market, women started to dress more seriously
at work. Popular clothes for women in the job market include knee-length skirts,
wide-legged slacks, a matching blazer, and a blouse of a different colour.
 Kitten-heeled shoes were often worn.[7] Formal shoes became more comfortable
during this period in time, with manufacturers adding soles that were more
flexible and supportive.[16] The shoes with moderately spiked heels and relatively
pointy toes from the very late 1970s remained a fashion trend.

Mid 1980s (1984–86)

Bright Colours

 Women's fashion in the early 1980s became more colourful around 1982. This
included long wool coats, long flared skirts, slim miniskirts, slightly tapered pants
and stirrup ones, designer jeans, spandex cycling shorts, extremely long and
bulky sweaters, jumpsuits, pastel colours, "off-the-shoulder" sweatshirts over
tight jeans, leather trench coats, fur coats, extremely large scarves, beanies,
leather gloves, and dresses worn with wide or thin belts. The aerobics craze of
the early 1980s continued into the mid 1980s, but the clothes became more
colourful than they were before.
 Women's shoes of the mid 1980s included strappy sandals, kitten-heeled
sandals, pumps, ballet flats, boat shoes, slouchy flat boots and Kids.
 In the 1980s, rising pop star Madonna proved to be very influential to female
fashions. She first emerged on the dance music scene with her "street urchin"
look consisting of short skirts worn over leggings, necklaces, rubber bracelets,
fishnet gloves, hair bows, long layered strings of beads, bleached, untidy hair
with dark roots, headbands, and lace ribbons. In her "Like a Virgin" phase,
millions of young girls around the world emulated her fashion example that
included brassieres worn as outerwear, huge crucifix jewellery, lace gloves, tulle
skirts, and boy toy belts.
 Gloves (sometimes laced or fingerless) were popularized by Madonna, as well as
fishnet stockings and layers of beaded necklaces. Short,
tight Lycra or leather miniskirts and tubular dresses were also worn, as were
cropped bolero-style jackets. Black was the preferred colour. Prior to the mid-
1980s, it had been taboo to show a slip or a bra strap in public. A visible
undergarment had been a sign of social ineptness. With the new fashion's most
extreme forms, young women would forgo conventional outer-garments for
vintage-style bustiers with lacy slips and several large crucifixes. This was both an
assertion of sexual freedom and a conscious rejection of prevailing androgynous
fashions.
Power dressing

 The television prime time shows Dallas and, in particular, Dynasty influenced

increasingly oversized shoulder pads. Shoulder pads, popularized by Joan
Collins and Linda Evans from the soap opera Dynasty were popular from the mid
1980s to the early 1990s. Dallas, however, promoted displays of wealth
involving jewellery and sparkling clothing. Meanwhile, women's fashion and
business shoes revisited the pointed toes and spiked heels that were popular in
the 1950s and early 1960s. Some stores stocked canvas or satin covered fashion
shoes in white and dyed them to the customer's preferred colour, preferably
bright colours.
 During this period, women were becoming more confident in the workplace and
were attempting to advance in their careers. These women wanted to fit into
higher management levels by emulating a masculine appearance through fashion
to look more capable. Hence, they would wear empowering garments that
portrayed masculinity, thus making them seem more professional by fitting in
with the male majority. This would be accomplished with attributes such as
wider shoulders with the aid of padding and larger sleeves. Other items included
dresses worn with skinny or thick belts, pleated or plain skirts, tights or
pantyhose, above the ankle length pants sometimes worn with pantyhose or
tights underneath, ballet flat dress shoes, long sweaters, boat shoes and slouchy
flat short length boots,
 A movie by Lizzie Borden, Working Girls, affected how society perceives women
in different fields and positions; it also features feminism and topics on
capitalism. Working Girls is an independent production published in 1986 about
the daily life of upper class prostitutes in a small Manhattan bordello. The main
characters in the story have backgrounds such as graduates from Yale University
and Law; the movie makes it clear that they were not forced into the field but
chose it themselves. Throughout the film, power dressing was promoted along
with the capability of women taking control of their own future.

Late 1980s (1987–89)

Consumer-friendly fashions

 From 1987 until the early 1990s, the mini skirt was the only length supported by
fashion designers. Although skirts of any length were acceptable to wear in the
years before, all attention was given to the short skirt, especially among teenage
girls and young women worn with tights, pantyhose, leggings, or slouch socks.
Shoulder pads became increasingly smaller. Accessories popular in Britain,
France and America included bright-colour shoes with thin heels, narrow
multicoloured belts, berets, lacy gloves, beaded necklaces, and plastic bracelets.
 Women's apparel in the late 1980s included jackets (both cropped and long),
coats (both cloth and fake fur), reversible inside-out coats (leather on one side,
fake fur on the other), rugby sweatshirts,[7] sweater dresses, taffeta and pouf
dresses, baby doll dresses worn with Capri leggings or bike shorts, slouch socks,
and Kids or Sperry’s or with opaque tights and flats or opaque tights and slouch
socks, neon or pastel collared shortfalls, denim pinafore
dresses, Ked, Sperry, ballet flats, jumpsuits, oversized or extra long t-shirts
sweaters sweatshirts blouses and button down shirts popularly worn with
leggings and stirrup pants, miniskirts, stretch pants, tapered pants, skirts worn
with leggings, dressed up leggings outfit of leggings with an oversized v-neck
sweater over a turtleneck, slouch socks, Ked (shoes) or Sperry, and bangs with
a headband band or ponytail and scrunchie, happy pants (homemade pants
made in bold designs with bright colours), and opaque tights. Popular colours
included neon hues, plum, gold, pinks, blues and bright wines.

MENS FASHION:
Early 1980s (1980–83)
Athletic clothing

 In the early 1980s, fashion had moved away from the unkempt hippie look and
overdressed disco style of the late 1970s. Athletic clothes were more popular
than jeans during this period, as were more subdued colours. Popular colours
were black, white, and indigo, forest green, burgundy, and different shades of
browns, tans, and oranges. Velour, velvet, and polyester were popular fabrics
used in clothes, especially button-up and v-neck shirts. Looser pants remained
popular during this time, being fairly wide but straight, and tighter shirts were
especially popular, sometimes in a cropped athletic style. The general public, at
this time, wanted to wear low-maintenance clothing with more basic colours, as
the global recession going on at the time kept extravagant clothes out of
reach. Also worn were striped tube socks sometimes worn with the top folded
over worn with shorts. It was not uncommon to see parents especially fathers
wearing these along with their kids.
 Popular clothing in the early 1980s worn by men includes tracksuits, v-neck
sweaters, polyester and velour polo-neck shirts, sports jerseys, straight-leg jeans,
jeans rolled to show off their slouch socks, polyester button-ups, cowboy boots,
beanies, and hoodies. Around this time it became acceptable for men to wear
sports coats and slacks to places that previously required a suit. [7] In the UK,
children's trousers remained flared, but only slightly.
New wave influence

 From the early to mid 1980s, post-punk and new wave music groups influenced

mainstream male and female fashion. Commercially made slim-fitting suits,
thin neckties in leather or bold patterns, striped T-shirts, Members Only jackets, club
wear, metallic fabric shirts, cat eye glasses, horn rim glasses with brightly colour
frames, androgynous neon collared makeup, and pristine leather jackets were widely
worn.[43] Common hairstyles included a short quiff for men, or teased big hair for
women, and typical unisex colours for clothing included turquoise, teal, red, neon
yellow and white on a blue screen.

Preppy look

 In response to the punk fashion of the mid-late 1970s, there was a throwback to the
1950s Ivy League style. This revival came to be definitively summarized in an
enormously popular paperback released in 1980: The Official Preppy Handbook. Popular
preppy clothing for men included Oxford shirts, sweaters, turtlenecks, polo shirts
with popped collars, khaki slacks, argyle socks, dress pants, Hush Puppies Oxford
shoes, brogues, suspenders, seersucker or striped linen suits, corduroy, and cable knit
sweaters that were often worn tied around the shoulders.
Mid 1980s (1984–86)
Miami Vice/Magnum P.I. look and Michael Jackson's influence

 In the mid 1980s, popular trends included wool sport coats, Levi 501s, Hawaiian
shirts, shell suits, hand-knit sweaters, sports shirts, hoodies, flannel shirts, reversible
flannel vests, jackets with the insides quilted, nylon jackets, gold
rings, spandex cycling shorts, cowboy boots, and khaki pants with jagged seams.
 The mid 1980s brought an explosion of colourful styles in men's clothing, prompted
by television series such as Miami Vice and Magnum, P.I.. This resulted in trends
such as t-shirts underneath expensive suit jackets with broad, padded
shoulders, Hawaiian shirts (complemented with sport coats, often with top-stitched
lapels for a "custom-tailored" look), and (in counterpoint to the bright shirt) jackets
that were often gray, tan, rust or white. Easy-care micro-suede and corduroy jackets
became popular choices, especially those with a Western style.
 Michael Jackson was also a big influence of teenage boys' and young men's fashions,
such as matching red/black leather pants and jackets, white gloves, sunglasses and
oversized, slouch shouldered faded leather jackets with puffy sleeves.
Power dressing

 Men's business attire saw a return of pinstripes for the first time since the 1970s.
The new pinstripes were much wider than in 1930s and 1940s suits but were
similar to the 1970s styles. Three-piece suits began their decline in the early
1980s and lapels on suits became very narrow, akin to that of the early 1960s.
While vests (waistcoats) in the 1970s had commonly been worn high with six or
five buttons, those made in the early 1980s often had only four buttons and were
made to be worn low. The thin ties briefly popular in the early '80s were soon
replaced by wider, striped neckties, generally in more conservative colours than
the kipper ties of the '70s. Double breasted suits inspired by the 1940s were
reintroduced in the 1980s by designers like Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and
Anne Klein.[45][46] They were known as 'power suits', and were typically made
in navy blue, charcoal grey or air force blue.
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 As an alternative to the power suit, the safari jacket, Nehru suit and Mao

suit remained popular in Australia, South Africa, India, China, and Zaire, where it was
known as an Abacost and worn with a leopard print hat resembling the Astrakhan cap.
At the same time, young African dandies known as sapeurs rebelled against the post-
decolonisation government's suppression of Western fashions by investing in expensive
designer suits from Italy and France and listening to the soukous music of Papa
Wemba. This continued until the kleptocratic dictator Mobutu's deposition and death in
the late 1990s, when the outbreak of a civil war in Zaire resulted in the sapeurs'
disappearance until the 2010s.
 In Hawaii, Aloha shirts and Bermuda shorts were worn on Aloha Fridays. By the end
of the decade, when the custom of casual Fridays had spread to the US mainland, this
outfit had become acceptable as daily Hawaiian business wear. Elsewhere in the
Caribbean and Latin America, especially Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, and Cuba, men
wore the guayabera shirt for semi-formal occasions in imitation of the presidents Fidel
Castro and Luis Echeverria.
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Doc Martens

 Doc Martens were dark shoes or boots with air-cushioned soles that were worn
by both sexes in the 1980s. They were an essential fashion accessory for
the skinhead and punk subcultures in the United Kingdom. Sometimes Doc
Martens were paired with miniskirts or full, Laura Ashley- style dresses.[55] They
were an important feature of the post-punk 1980s Gothic look which featured
long, back-combed hair, pale skin, dark eye shadow, eyeliner, and lipstick, black
nail varnish, spiked bracelets and dog-collars, black clothing (often made of
gabardine), and leather or velvet trimmed in lace or fishnet material. Corsets
were often worn by girls. British bands that inspired the gothic trend include The
Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and The Cult. This trend would return in the
1990s.
Parachute pants
 Parachute pants are a style of trousers characterized by the use of rip stop
nylon or extremely baggy cuts. In the original tight-fitting, extraneously zippered
style of the late 1970s and early 1980s, "parachute" referred to the pants'
synthetic nylon material. In the later 1980s, "parachute" may have referred to
the extreme bagginess of the pant. These are also referred to as "Hammer"
pants, due to rapper MC Hammer's signature style.
 Hammer pants differ from the parachute pants of the 1970s and early 1980s.
They are typically worn as menswear and are often brightly colour. Parachute
pants became a fad in US culture in the 1980s as part of an increased
mainstream popularity of break dancing.