After the heady days of #menswear, athleisure and its many offshoots, suits ended up in the back of most wardrobes. But the Nineteen Eighties was dominated by tailoring, of the dominant sort, which suggests right now’s ripe for dusting off the two-piece. Although if all you’ve got hanging up is the type of skinny suit that was de rigueur a number of years ago, you’ll need to replace your silhouette.
punk rock, rocksteady, and two tone music during the winter of discontent. In response to the racism of white power skinheads, Eighties rude boys wore checkerboard motifs to suggest that both black and white individuals were welcome. Crew cuts and buzzcuts were worn by each sexes, and ladies usually incorporated hair bangs in a partially shaven type generally known as a Chelsea mohawk. In Brighton, the Skins of the Eighties fought the outlaw bikers and rockabilly guys, as the Mods and Rockers had beforehand carried out in the 60s.
The tv prime time shows Dallas and, particularly, Dynasty influenced more and more oversized shoulder pads. Shoulder pads, popularized by Joan Collins and Linda Evans from the soap opera Dynasty have been in style from the mid Eighties to the early …
