Ok....Let's hear what wonderful "accessories" you remember wearing in the 80's....
I did the friendship bracelets w/ the safety pins and beads....gummy bracelts...slap bracelets....big belts that hung lower on one hip...swatch watches...

And how's about you???

~Dawn

I was definitely a bracelet girl, as many as I could fit on my wrists......I also wore the big belts that hung down and wacky earrings, the bigger the better. We used to make friendship pins with the beads and put them on our shoes....speaking of shoes I used to wear lots of different shoe laces, I had little aligators printed on them , ladybugs, bands.....I still have my Duran Duran, and Madonna shoe laces http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//laugh.gif

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Wow! Madonna and DuranDuran shoes laces!? Awesome. Are men allowed to post in here!?
Uh...accessories...i wore moüsse in my hair. And i had an Atari. Garbage Pail Kids. Okay i guess i didnt have any lol. Thats odd.

The great thing about the 80s was that guys could accesorize too. My best friend was wearing a fedora way before Pretty In Pink http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//smile.gif

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I wore fat neon laces, but I wove them in a checkerboard pattern. I didn't actually tie the laces, they became like slip-ons.

I wore denim jackets with patches of bands sewn on, and pins all over.

Bugle Boys!

You know, i never really thought about shoelaces.
I know kids started wearing the sneakers unlaced when Run DMC became popular. I used to tuck them in, not sure if i pulled the look off.
Of course, i was a "toothpick" as my cousin Billy called me back then, and as we all know, thin people can get away with anything!
Also, Promo Pins! They used to have them at the five in dimes in my old neighborhood. I did have a denim jacket, so maybe i WAS accessorizing in that respect. Kind of funny thinking of a six year old accessorizing lol.
I remember a kind in my kindergarten class had velcro sneakers, i wanted a pair so bad, and when i got them (like two years later hahhah) they were these awesome navy blue nikes.
I accessorize with Wranglers now- just for the ladies mind you. http://www.80sxchange.com/ubb/smilies//pimp.gif

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I had a grey John Taylor hat I wore sometimes. I had a spiked black floppy belt that wrapped around twice I wore with my parachute pants. Of course I had tons of big and colorful earrings that were big back then. Also, some of those black rubber Madonna bracelets.

Originally posted by Zel:
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Fedoras! Wow I had almost forgotten about those. Speaking of men and accessories...I had this thing about men in creepers in high school (1985-1988).

I had some wickid looking black lace up granny boots and the studded belt. If I find a pict. of Vilji and I to post on here I might be wearing those. Yikes! <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

Remember the leggings with the huge tshirt and you had this odd peice of plastic that you pulled the tshirt through? I hated em but my mom dressed me up in em. I was too fat to keep the plastic in the shirt lol!

Does a hair crimper count as an accessory? You cant live without the hair crimper, it was more important than the hair dryer!

I also used to wear up to four watches at one time...

imsoosure and i also wore the duranie outfits. The fedoras and the kahki pants. And we went nuts for guys that actually looked like the Duran members. It made school a lot more fun. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
(oops. that was in '83. I think we changed a bit after that...lol. sorry to embarrass you, imsoosure.)

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Lacey thing tied in a bow in my hair, or big hair bows, definitely lots of jelly bracelets, jelly shoes, big earrings...ya know..all that cool stuff..lol <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

I had 10 pairs of leg warmers. I loved big combs in my back pocket of my wonderful flower pants.
I loved jelly shoes, anything that was made of jelly.
I had big belts. Wow isn't amazing that those trends have not come back yet? haha

Originally posted by morningmyst:
<STRONG>Ok....Let's hear what wonderful "accessories" you remember wearing in the 80's....
I did the friendship bracelets w/ the safety pins and beads....gummy bracelts...slap bracelets....big belts that hung lower on one hip...swatch watches...</STRONG>

Did those all. Had banana clips in my hair, big, pink florescent bow in my hair and the colored mousse!! <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Oh hey, I just remembered another one--the cool antique pins like in Pretty In Pink! I used to wear those way up high on my collar at my neck. And long, pearl necklaces tied in a knot!! Anybody else?? <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Studded Leather Wrist Bands, Ripped Jeans, Leather Gloves, Shades
BTW I Still Wear All this Kinda Stuff, I'm Never Gonna Change,80's Fashion Rules!!!

OMG! Flash back time!! I wore the lace hair ties (like Madonna) had the shades, everything Jelly, the little 'slinky' bracelets, leg warmers, bandanas (in every color) colored hair spray, huge earrings (a different one in each ear, of course..hehe) bright colored socks, ripped jeans, concert T-shirts...Sheesh, I could go on all night... <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

O yeah! I was in the evr so popular, Wal-Mart & all this stuff is coming back! The jelly stuff, the slinky bracelets...Im in 80's heaven ya'll! <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">

Okay - I just had to have a go at this one....

Hats, bandanas, Swatch'es, rubber bracelets, huge earrings, braces (that's suspenders for you Americans <img src="biggrin.gif" border="0">), Converse hi-tops, Dr Martens, black pointy shoes, Sebago Docksides (okay what can I say - I went through a lot of phases..), badges, thin brightly coloured belts worn many at a time, fingerless gloves in neon colours, multi-coloured shoe laces, legwarmers, anything with Chinese or Russian print, anklets (bracelets worn around the ankle), hair braces, Buberry socks, waistcoats, peace symbols, sweatbands and backpacks...*phew*...

Hmm..it was just more fun back then, wasn't it?! <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Kristina

Damn,I stil wear all the same stuff I wore in the 80's.Spiked wristbands and collars,black nail polish,ripped jeans,the Sid Vicious chain and lock around my neck,Black bikers jacket with studs and spikes(I still wear the same jacket I first bought in 88)Skull rings.The only thing I don't have anymore is my Kerry King wristband with the 3" nails all over it(All you Slayer fans should remember this)

wow. i thought i was reading about my ex for a second there, culty. <img src="tongue.gif" border="0">
chains and spikes, torn jeans..

he would have loved you.

that and Jello Biafra, Subhumans, Coil, etc..
there are some good memories about an ex..lol

Well, let´s try to look back through the haze of time...

I had torn jeans before they were popular. Even the teachers looked suspiciously at me, I bet they thought that my parents couldn´t outfit me properly... <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
Either Nike basketball sneakers or cowboy boots (they were so shabby, it fits again to the outfit), a German Airforce pilot or a College jacket (with a sticker by the Special Forces), army trousers, no-name sweatshirts (my protest against Benetton, Marc ´O Polo or Hugo Boss stuff) in grey or black, own-styled T-shirts with cryptical drawings and codes and sometimes a black beret.
Once I owned a shirt which was cut like a trenchcoat...boy, it was so cool!

But I´m not sure that I would dress up like that again, although it seems it´s going to be hip again...

that and Jello Biafra

Jello is one of my hero's,I have some of his spoken word tapes and he's just an absolute genious.

call it a hunch..i knew it!
yes, I have a lot of respect for him.

wow, it's too bad we can't dress like we did that would be radical!! I had all of the accessories!! Inever could get those dran banana clips to stay in my hair!! I had the friendship braclets, jelly bracelets (like twelve on each arm), jellies (these were the best shoes ever in my opinion), I had the snap bracelets, NKOTB pins like on everything I owned!!, I did the whole jean jacket patchy pin thing, plus the colored converse high tops!! But the best accessory ever was the fact that everymorning before school I used to crimp my hair and cirl my bangs!! I'll say I don't misss the agony there!! My bangs never looked right so I always had to wet them and start over like one hundred times!! Remember those shirt clips and neon shirts with parachute pants!! <img src="wink.gif" border="0">

I did it all....and then some!!! I loved every trend that came out and wanted to follow it! I recently found all of my Teen, Seventeen, Young Miss mags in the attic. (Why my parents saved them, I have no idea!)

*SIGH*

Maybe that's why I am addicted to Glamour and the Glamour Don't's!!!

~G