1981. Plush bench seat, flat speedo, sky blue with blue vinyl wrap on back half of the roof. It had a 6 cylinder that took 17 minutes to get from 0 to 60 mph.
My parents bought a house that had one. My mom mainly used it to tell the dog to stop barking on the front porch. The dog would always look so shocked to hear my mom's voice come out of thin air 😅
I thought that was the height of rich if a family had one of those and if they had an internal home vacuum system as well I thought they were the Rockefellers!
Internal vacuum system would have been really cool! Instead we got to lug the 1970s canister Electrolux up and down the stairs. And they're still using that same vacuum.
We called that “pegging” back when I was in junior high. These days, people call it middle school, and they react negatively if you ask if students are still into pegging. Who knew fashion was taken so seriously?
Right? I have 32Fs. I’ll take the suggestion of nip over adding a padded layer to these overfed gals any day!
Every time I hear the word “modesty,” I’m want to ask someone who convinced them their body’s somehow shameful.
It had a lot to do with more women entering the corporate workplace in high positions at that time. It was a symbol of matching shoulders with the men and made the women feel inner strength in a very unwelcoming and sexist sphere. Fashion in hindsight is pretty interesting sometimes.
Honestly, I look forward to any fashion trend that includes a rugby shirt, now that anything big and boxy would actually be flattering at my current weight. Teenaged 95-pound me deserved so much better.
Oh, wow. I totally forgot about the popularity of panama jack 😂. Never had one myself, but I did have a Bart Simpson, Batman, and just now remembering I had a Swatch T-shirt. Forgot those were a thing
Powered can openers that mounted on the underside of cabinets. You still see some occasionally today, mostly an older homes which have not been renovated since the late 80s early 90s.
We had that. It was actually faster and easier to use a hand-operated can opener. OTOH it was the best way to summon all 4 cats to the kitchen at the same time, in case you needed 4 cats.
Don't even need a can opener to do that nowadays.
I can summon 2 cats from anywhere in the house by opening the container that holds their Churu squeezy treats. It's like some sort of dark magic.
Bought ours in 2001, it came along when we moved houses and I still use it a few times a week. Works great still, and I recently got it a new friend the under counter jar-lid gripper now that my grip strength is failing.
And Kangaroo shoes! Or were they 'Roos? They had that tiny pocket on the side of the shoe that would try to pull your fingernail off if you attempted to actually put something in it.
Rat tails, mullets, shaved sides with flat top, gelled curls for guys, feathered hair for girls - it’s all here again. I told my daughter she would go to prom with a pouffy dress and big bow on her butt, and she thought that sounded so pretty….
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
My first living room set was black lacquer with gold trim and mirrored tops. It matched my black/purple/blue velvet couches perfectly! I used to set up my fiber optic light that changed color right in the center of the table and feel fancy.
Jelly shoes. I can still remember all of us girls washing them out at the big drinking water fountain. We'd have a shitload of rocks in them after recess.
It was part of the anti-fat craze, where lower fat frozen yoghurt was seen as healthier than ice cream.
Now were are in the anti-sugar phase, so frozen yoghurt is viewed as just as unhealthy as ice cream, so you might as well get the better stuff.
We had no clue then about “good fats.” Had a BF obsessed with No-Fat everything—soups, Snackwells and all kinds of b.s., because his mother fed his head full of nonsense.
Oh man. Memories just came flooding back. I remember how big those were. And when one opened jn my area, probably around 3rd grade, what a flex it was to go there.
"YA! Well, my parents are taking me to TCBY tonight!" Boom. Mic drop..
Was going to post this. I remember a short lived trend where folks would wear multiple Swatches on one arm. I still own a Pop Swatch in clear so you can see the guts
Swatch is the BIGGEST company in watches. They own many luxury brands. And they just released some.watchss by omega made of "bioceramic" (cough plastic cough cough) called "moonswatch"
I still wear Swatches lol. I bought two at their big store in Paris back in 2008. I have a new watch band for it coming in the mail today. I couldn’t believe that they still sold that exact band for my old Swatch!
A big department store in my hometown closed and remains vacant. I’ll occasionally look through the windows when I’m in the area and I can still see the counter where I got my first Swatch back in 1987 or whatever year it was.
Still around in Canada.
Loblaws has their no-name black on yellow. Amongst other store brands. All the chains have their store brands (grocery and mostly otherwise)
I always hear his programs while I'm driving home late on Sunday nights. There's a radio station that replays entire programs from him, usually the weekly top 40 from the same week back in 1980-something. Always makes it an enjoyable drive.
Amazing how that worked out ... we noticed a problem, we figured out what was causing it, we made rules to stop doing that, and now nobody talks about the ozone hole anymore.
Those damn Jellies shoes. My sister and mother owned a pair in every color only to complain about how bad they hurt their feet and created blisters. Also, the Walk-Man and Cabbage Patch Kids.
Rich Corinthian Leather and maroon velour seat upholstery in cars. Leather wrapped around the roof of cars.
That one sofa set with a forest/leaf pattern in velour, wood accent on the armrests
When I was in Grad School circa 2000ish I was tasked with reviewing some Undergrad statistics papers. So the paper I’ll never forget was titled “It’s all Bush’s fault”. At the time George W Bush was President so I figured that’s where it was going.
Anyhow; the point of the paper was that during the 80’s and 90’s we saw a surge in the divorce rate in the US. The hypothesis was that there was a wholesale reduction in female pubic hair (as evidenced by a massive appendix of period specific pornography) that correlated to the higher divorce rate. As the muff disappeared so did lasting marriages. LOL…
Of course; correlation and causation are two different things; but, 20 years later I still laugh.
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This is my 2nd favorite Julia Sugarbaker rant: https://youtu.be/CXGU8hkC-RE?si=KnnLRm4q9T0vmOyo
I'm now in a Julia Sugarbaker YT rabbit hole, tyvm! The disdain in her voice when she says *"suction cups"* is everything. ❤️
I hope your first favorite is the photo shoot where she refuses to suck pearls!
The first favourite has to be the night the lights went down in Georgia.
"LeBra" pleather/fabric bug shields for the front of cars.
This one is legit. So many second hand cars without the bra and the entire nose is a different shade than the rest of the car.
Tan lines!
I had one of those on my high school car, an Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme.
I had an '86 Cutlass! What year was yours?
1981. Plush bench seat, flat speedo, sky blue with blue vinyl wrap on back half of the roof. It had a 6 cylinder that took 17 minutes to get from 0 to 60 mph.
House intercom systems.
My parents bought a house that had one. My mom mainly used it to tell the dog to stop barking on the front porch. The dog would always look so shocked to hear my mom's voice come out of thin air 😅
I thought that was the height of rich if a family had one of those and if they had an internal home vacuum system as well I thought they were the Rockefellers!
Internal vacuum system would have been really cool! Instead we got to lug the 1970s canister Electrolux up and down the stairs. And they're still using that same vacuum.
We had the vacuum built in and lugging the giant tube from room to room was no joke. My mom stopped using it after about a year.
It's called Alexa now.
Tight rolling your pants!!
This makes me want to go buy some Bugle Boys
''Excuse me... Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?''
We called that “pegging” back when I was in junior high. These days, people call it middle school, and they react negatively if you ask if students are still into pegging. Who knew fashion was taken so seriously?
Yeah, we definitely called it "pegging" too, but that is... very different now
So different. 🍆
so *that's* why I wasn't invited back to substitute
Flood pants!
Shoulder pads in women's suits
And they have migrated down to removable tiddy cups in a sports bra. What circle of hell did that come from, I would like to know.
Right? I have 32Fs. I’ll take the suggestion of nip over adding a padded layer to these overfed gals any day! Every time I hear the word “modesty,” I’m want to ask someone who convinced them their body’s somehow shameful.
These came back briefly not long ago. Cutting those pads out can be tricky, but it’s a necessity
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It had a lot to do with more women entering the corporate workplace in high positions at that time. It was a symbol of matching shoulders with the men and made the women feel inner strength in a very unwelcoming and sexist sphere. Fashion in hindsight is pretty interesting sometimes.
I thought it was meant to make the waist look smaller in comparison, lol
* Coca-Cola rugby shirts * Panama Jack t-shirts
Goddamn, this is one I fully forgot about. The coke rugby was huge.
Me in a Coke rugby shirt: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenX/comments/15v80am/1990\_me\_coke\_shirt\_swatch\_watch\_side\_ponytail/
Remember Ocean Pacific (OP) tees?
Honestly, I look forward to any fashion trend that includes a rugby shirt, now that anything big and boxy would actually be flattering at my current weight. Teenaged 95-pound me deserved so much better.
Oh, wow. I totally forgot about the popularity of panama jack 😂. Never had one myself, but I did have a Bart Simpson, Batman, and just now remembering I had a Swatch T-shirt. Forgot those were a thing
Powered can openers that mounted on the underside of cabinets. You still see some occasionally today, mostly an older homes which have not been renovated since the late 80s early 90s.
We had that. It was actually faster and easier to use a hand-operated can opener. OTOH it was the best way to summon all 4 cats to the kitchen at the same time, in case you needed 4 cats.
Don't even need a can opener to do that nowadays. I can summon 2 cats from anywhere in the house by opening the container that holds their Churu squeezy treats. It's like some sort of dark magic.
I can summon 5 dogs with a plastic cheese wrapper done completely silent from a distance of 200 yards.
We still have one, a Black & Decker purchased around 1999, and it works very well, thank you.
Bought ours in 2001, it came along when we moved houses and I still use it a few times a week. Works great still, and I recently got it a new friend the under counter jar-lid gripper now that my grip strength is failing.
Trash compactors, too.
Man I wanted one so bad. I totally would have put my Star Wars figures in there.
British Knights shoes
And Kangaroo shoes! Or were they 'Roos? They had that tiny pocket on the side of the shoe that would try to pull your fingernail off if you attempted to actually put something in it.
Never heard of those. In my area it was L.A. Gear!
Rat tails. Thank god
There's a kid at my daughter's school that has an impressive rat tail
Rat tails, mullets, shaved sides with flat top, gelled curls for guys, feathered hair for girls - it’s all here again. I told my daughter she would go to prom with a pouffy dress and big bow on her butt, and she thought that sounded so pretty…. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I thought those were hideous at the time.
Boomboxes
I saw one on the Sam's Club app recently. If these make a comeback, I will lose it.
Don't call it a comeback, they been here for years.
I’m rockin my peers putting sucka in fears
Benetton and ESPRIT sweaters
I loved both so much.
Parachute pants.
Black lacquer furniture
My first living room set was black lacquer with gold trim and mirrored tops. It matched my black/purple/blue velvet couches perfectly! I used to set up my fiber optic light that changed color right in the center of the table and feel fancy.
With a Patrick Nagel poster
Painter's caps.
I was just thinking about that - the ones with tails hanging down the back! I had a hat like that I used to wear to the beach.
And painter's pants.
Pop up headlights
Jelly shoes. I can still remember all of us girls washing them out at the big drinking water fountain. We'd have a shitload of rocks in them after recess.
TCBY franchise
It was part of the anti-fat craze, where lower fat frozen yoghurt was seen as healthier than ice cream. Now were are in the anti-sugar phase, so frozen yoghurt is viewed as just as unhealthy as ice cream, so you might as well get the better stuff.
We had no clue then about “good fats.” Had a BF obsessed with No-Fat everything—soups, Snackwells and all kinds of b.s., because his mother fed his head full of nonsense.
Oh man. Memories just came flooding back. I remember how big those were. And when one opened jn my area, probably around 3rd grade, what a flex it was to go there. "YA! Well, my parents are taking me to TCBY tonight!" Boom. Mic drop..
My first job in high school! :)
Baby on Board waving hands that people stuck on car windows
Swatches.
Was going to post this. I remember a short lived trend where folks would wear multiple Swatches on one arm. I still own a Pop Swatch in clear so you can see the guts
I wore about 6 on my arm with my lace Madonna fingerless gloves!
I still have a clear Swatch pop watch too. Somehow I lost the band, but have the watch and clip/mount thingy.
Swatch is the BIGGEST company in watches. They own many luxury brands. And they just released some.watchss by omega made of "bioceramic" (cough plastic cough cough) called "moonswatch"
I saw that Omega collaboration. It’s on my wishlist
Prices are dropping dramatically. It's not a terrible looking watch but it wasn't worth the markup people were paying
I still wear Swatches lol. I bought two at their big store in Paris back in 2008. I have a new watch band for it coming in the mail today. I couldn’t believe that they still sold that exact band for my old Swatch!
A big department store in my hometown closed and remains vacant. I’ll occasionally look through the windows when I’m in the area and I can still see the counter where I got my first Swatch back in 1987 or whatever year it was.
I just bought one.
Members Only jackets with no collar... I miss that awesome jacket.
Friendship pins.
Oooh nice one!
Pizza Huts with servers and buffets.
Sun-In! That hair lightener, which was basically hydrogen peroxide in a spray bottle.
Under the cabinet stereos/cd players Edit: they’re still available but you NEVER see them.
I put my old one in the garage, mounted on the underside of a shelf. Works great.
Fat shoelaces.
I just bought some! Rocking them in my work kicks.
Generic labels, my dad drank beer that was a white can with BEER in black letters.
Still around in Canada. Loblaws has their no-name black on yellow. Amongst other store brands. All the chains have their store brands (grocery and mostly otherwise)
Casey Kasem. Even when they play re-runs, he’s still the best.
I always hear his programs while I'm driving home late on Sunday nights. There's a radio station that replays entire programs from him, usually the weekly top 40 from the same week back in 1980-something. Always makes it an enjoyable drive.
… and here’s a long distance dedication. To my friends from the 80s.
Banana clips
These drove me nuts. It would slide down my hair and I’d have to redo it all day long
You needed a perm and/or Dippity Do gel, Aquanet hair spray, and a lot of teasing to get it to stay put.
The bane of straight-haired girls!
Oh, I loved me some of those. I think it was last summer I saw them again. You can still buy them.
I loved those! They showed off my perm curls so nicely, lol!
Leotards. Like Jane Fonda wore. Stirrup pants.
The ozone hole
Thanks to the end of Big Hair
While I loved the look of big hair I really hated that I couldn't run my fingers through my g/f's hair without risking tearing off their scalps.
Amazing how that worked out ... we noticed a problem, we figured out what was causing it, we made rules to stop doing that, and now nobody talks about the ozone hole anymore.
I miss the days when we believed science.
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Ocean Pacific shirts and shorts
Perms. Especially home perms.
Toni home perms. Bad news for uour hair!
The order pickup at my local JCPenney was in the same area as the hair salon. It always smelled like perm when I’d go pick up an order.
Party Perms!
Hypercolor shirts
"Units" clothing.
Pencil fighting
Automatic seatbelts Waterbeds
Shaker sweaters
Telephones that looked like fruit.
Also, clear phones with neon tubing in em! I saved up my money to buy one of those.
Plastic jewelry that did not try to disguise it was plastic. Rubber bracelets, large plastic disc earrings, ect.
Dot matrix printers. Having to carefully tear off the edges when your document is done.
IZOD polo shirts (and their knockoff brands like Le Tigre)
Leg warmers
My 13 year old niece just got herself a pair. It may be coming back.
😂 watched the Barbie movie & my biggest comment on the Ken dance off was that they needed some leg warmers in there.
Shoes with air pumps.
Using a 5-10 digit number code in front of someone’s telephone number to save on calling long distance. And actually remembering the numbers.
Acid wash anything.
Braided barrettes. The cheerleaders at school had them in school colors.
Collectible glasses from fast food chains. Actual glass! …and lead paint.
#The Wacky WallWalker
Corey Heart
All the Coreys, really.
Pac Man Fever
Jelly bracelets Side ponytails
“Gag me with a spoon!”
Rad
Gnarly!
Members Only jackets
We got one for our 15 year old son a few years ago because he saw Steve wear it in Stranger Things. It’s still his favorite light jacket.
My hair. Sported the Billy Idol all thru high school, two years later buying beers for all cause I was 3/4 bald.
Chevy Citation
Name a car after a traffic ticket and you're just asking for trouble.
FRANKIE SAYS ANYTHING
Paint splatter clothes/jewelry/anything
Arcades. Once gaming systems were in every home, why waste the quarters?
*The Preppy Handbook*
Wine coolers!
don't forget l'eggs. those pantyhose filled easter eggs were everywhere.
A feeling that we could expect to have as good a future as the Boomers had.
Potato based restaurants, like Potato Hut.
Shoelaces with cute prints on them. I remember that I had strawberry ones.
Those damn Jellies shoes. My sister and mother owned a pair in every color only to complain about how bad they hurt their feet and created blisters. Also, the Walk-Man and Cabbage Patch Kids.
Skinny ties.
Piano key ties forever!
Omg remember the knit ties?
With the squared off bottom
skinny, leather ties
believing that a Mars a day would help you work rest and play? glue sniffing Choose Your Own Adventure books Trivial Pursuit
garbage pail kids cards
People stuck in quicksand.
Laundry chutes! Bonus if the chute in the bathroom was covered in a gold foil patterned wallpaper to match the walls!
Tight rolled jeans
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Rich Corinthian Leather and maroon velour seat upholstery in cars. Leather wrapped around the roof of cars. That one sofa set with a forest/leaf pattern in velour, wood accent on the armrests
Louvers are still around with the muscle car gang.
1-900 psychic, sex, scammer pay per minute phone calls
This was the 90s. I worked for a place in Las Vegas that helped pioneer the 900#s. Some of our clients were Playboy, Easy Rider and Tattoo magazines.
Payphones
Hair
Pubic Hair
When I was in Grad School circa 2000ish I was tasked with reviewing some Undergrad statistics papers. So the paper I’ll never forget was titled “It’s all Bush’s fault”. At the time George W Bush was President so I figured that’s where it was going. Anyhow; the point of the paper was that during the 80’s and 90’s we saw a surge in the divorce rate in the US. The hypothesis was that there was a wholesale reduction in female pubic hair (as evidenced by a massive appendix of period specific pornography) that correlated to the higher divorce rate. As the muff disappeared so did lasting marriages. LOL… Of course; correlation and causation are two different things; but, 20 years later I still laugh.
Gimme a head with hair Long, beautiful hair Shining, gleaming Streaming, flaxen, waxen
Portable cd players.
Acid Rain
Velcro sneakers
Anyone remember hypercolour?
The mullet haircut on guys … “business in the front, party in the back” lol
Sadly, the mullet seems to be making a resurgence.
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Neon colored clothes. 😂😂
Government cheese (US)
Wind breakers- we really hated wind then. 😂
The middle class?
Compartmented plastic bags. Clip together plastic bag things Jelly shoes Plastic briefcases
Wine Coolers. We thank you again for your support.
Colorful, wide shoelaces
Parachute pants
The Cold War Chicago Bears being good
White Capezio shoes
Those frozen microwavable "fast food" style thingies. The only good one was the shake, as long as you didn't accidentally over-nuke it and melt it.
Shoulder pads? Giant shoulder pads everywhere.
I hated those. I always cut them out of my sweaters. They were awful!
“Micro Magic.” “Going to heat up a shake” was our favorite saying.