Fashions of a DecadeFrom the designer suits of yuppie men and women to ripped jeans to the mini-crinoline craze to the eloquent fashion sense of Princess Diana, the 1980s encapsulates a time when it became fashionable to make money and dress well. This work explores the enthralling history of fashion as it recreated itself through the popular trends of the eighties. |
Contents
Introduction | 6 |
Romantics Pirates and Princes | 28 |
Power Dressing The City Slicker and the New Woman | 32 |
Cut Shape and Drape | 36 |
Bizarre and Absurd | 40 |
Hiphop House and After | 44 |
Second Skin Design in New Fabrics | 48 |
Retro Fever | 52 |
Towards the Nineties | 56 |
Chronology | 60 |
Glossary | 62 |
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