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80s Posters

By admin on February 19, 2010

80s Posters

80s Posters

80s Posters

The 80s was known as a very vibrant and energetic era. It’s often referred to as the “Me” era, an era of excess and over-the-top fashions and style. So it would make sense that memorabilia from the eighties would have the same style and feel to it.

This is one of the reasons 80’s memorabilia is so popular among collectors and eighties fans alike. The merchandise available is very vivid and stylistic and carries many fond memories for their owner’s.

One of the more popular items to purchase and procure are 80s posters, especially among collectors. There is a vast amount of different posters available; you can find posters of different eighties movies, as well as popular cartoons and 80’s celebrities.

For example, a couple popular 80s movie posters are The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Dirty Dancing, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Crocodile Dundee, The Goonies, The Karate Kid, Top Gun, Ghostbusters, The Lost Boys  and especially Star Wars (The Empire Strikes Back, released on May 21, 1980, and Return of the Jedi, released on May 25, 1983.) .

Eighties cartoons were very popular and so are their posters, 80s cartoons such as Care Bears, Pound Puppies, He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Transformers, Voltron: Defender of the Universe and G.I. JOE

Eighties movies, TV and music celebrity posters are also hot items, for example poster’s of Tom Cruise, Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Patrick Swazye, Madonna, Prince and Pee-wee Herman.

As you can see, there are many great 80s posters choices available to pick from. Posters can be found online and some great ones can even be found at garage sales! And they’re generally reasonably priced, as long as you’re willing to settle for a reprint, and not the original.

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80′s Fashion

By admin on September 21, 2009

80′s fashion

80’s Fashion

80’s Fashion

Do you remember when you were little and your parents insisted that their old clothes and hairstyles would be back in style one day? Did you do like many and laugh at the old people who must be getting senile? There was no way bell-bottom jeans were coming back in style!

Style

Current fashion trend watchers warned back in January that the 80′s comeback was primed and ready to roll, and if this falls catwalk lineup is anything to judge by, they are probably right! There are many fashion and style looks that are going to be eerily familiar to some of us.

Leggings

Leggings have never gone completely out of style thanks to pop diva’s like Lindsay Lohan and Lady GaGa, however look to see some bold prints and neon spandex to hit the shelves soon. They will go great with an oversized off the shoulder blouse, which is also said to be on the horizon.

Animal Print

Has anyone forgotten the large bold animal print fabrics that were all the rage in the mid 80′s? They are on their way back to but with a little modification. Instead of the bold in your face, style of the 80′s you will likely see a more abstract and toned down animal print in the near future.

Metallics

Anyone up for chrome silver nail polish and bright metallic blue eye shadow? Those were the days, but current trends while borrowing from this bygone era will tend to be more muted and a bit less flashy. Watch for polish, make-up and even clothes that give you a soft glimmer in muted shades instead of the bright bold of the 80′s.

Movies

Clothes and make-up are not the only places having an 80′s comeback. Have you seen a blockbuster film lately? Transformers and Fame (set to open in Sept 09) is just a couple of the 80′s comeback movies we have seen lately and if the rumors are any indication there are many more where they came from.

In Process

  • Smurfs movie
  • Teen Wolf
  • Red Dawn
  • Nightmare on Elm Street
  • Karate Kid
  • Footloose
  • Top Gun
  • Robocop
  • Short Circuit

Music

The remakes do not stop there my friend; the 80′s comeback has and will continue to make its presence felt on the music shelves as well. However, those who actually remember the original releases may not recognize them in their new forms.

Redone

  • Against All Odds
  • Every Breath You Take
  • Hungry Like the Wolf
  • Missing You – (originally rock remade country)
  • Come On Feel The Noise
  • Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

For better or worse, it looks like an 80′s comeback is in full swing and gaining momentum. Fashion, television, movies, and makeup are all going to show signs of this in the coming months. Dig out your stonewashed jeans and make an appointment for a haircut; you are going to see some major fashion changes soon.

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Mullet Hairstyles

By admin on September 16, 2009

Mullet Hairstyles

Mullet Hairstyles

Mullet Hairstyles

Oh the 80’s what an era, who can forget it! With all its colors, makeup, spikes and hair! I don’t think there was ever a time or era with so much inspired hairstyles and haircuts! A couple of the most popular 80s hairstyles were; the teased hairstyle, the asymmetric haircuts and the famous/infamous mullet hairstyle. Even though the mullet had been used before, the eighties was the true birth of the mullet hairstyles.

Hairstyles are easy to delineate: they are just the ways in which we wear our hair. The typical mullet hairstyle cut is short at the front and sides, and long in the back. Commonly panned as a lowbrow and unappealing hairdo, and often frivolously referred to as “business in the front, party in the back,”.

The mullet haircut first began popping up in popular media between the 60s and 70s but did truly catch on fire with the general masses until the early 80s. The early 80s saw a lot of mullets on female rockers and more and more men embraced the look as the years progressed.

The mullet hairstyle achieved further attractiveness in the late 70s and 80s among entertainers with thinning hairlines such as Anthony Geary of “Luke and Laura” fame from the soap opera General Hospital, and the rock performers Michael Bolton and Phil Collins. It continued to be popular until the early 90s and has enjoyed partial returns as a popular retro look.

Even though the mullet’s glory days was in the 1980s /early 1990s there are presently still plenty of people who still claim the mullet cut their own, including folks from the south, old school bodybuilders and metal heads. And even though the mullet cut has changed its look throughout the years, the core look hasn’t changed. The one thing common in all mullet hairstyles is that  hair is trimmed shorter on the top and around the ears and longer in the back.

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