The 80’s: Bad Fashion
Posted by parsingtime on November 10, 2009
While on my flight to Chicago in August I was thumbing through the Delta magazine and found an ad for scanmyphoto.com, a website that (duh) scans all your old photos for pretty reasonable rates. When I was in Houston I told my mom that I wanted to go through all our old photos and get some of them scanned. All the photos from 1977 (the year my parents go married) to 1990 are in a big jumbled mess in two old cabinets from Hong Kong. So one evening my mom and went through all of them culling out things that I wanted to save digitally, including my parent’s wedding photos, that photo of me naked learning to use the toilet and all sorts of vacation photos.
What I discovered in all those photos was that the 80s truly were an awful decade for fashion. I mean I knew about the big hair, acid washed jeans and leg warmers but seeing it on me brought home how truly awful the 80s were. My (and the family’s) fashion faux pas are about to become your entertainment. Trust me when I post the photo of my dad wearing what can only be described as daisy dukes, you will be entertained. And maybe horrified.
So without further ado, I bring you the first in a Parsingtime series.
This can only be titled what the hell were my parents thinking? I think someone had probably been watching The Sound of Music a few too many times.
Do you love how the shoes match the apron/pinafore thing going on in front?
What’s hilarious is this photo was taken in Saudi Arabia during Christmas time. It was all of 80 degrees outside but that warranted long sleeves and a side ponytail. Also what is up with those bangs?
Emilia said
Those are fabulous! You were much more fashionable than I was in the ’80’s! I was most fond of carebear t-shirts and my black cowboy boots.
My rates are reasonable – ice cream and conversation!
Also… I have a scanner – if you need other things scanned, I can do that for you – it’s what I do! I can bring it with my laptop (I bring it to relatives houses all the time…) or bring photos home with me. Keep that it mind – I’d love to see all of the parsing family photos.