80s help???
16 June 2010 15:44I'm going to a party this evening which has the rather amorphous theme of British youth culture (from the past to the present). I couldn't really be bothered to come up with a costume, so I was just going to tuck a black t-shirt into my (also black) leather trousers, pop on my Doc Martens and revel in not wearing heels for the night. But then I got the idea of tracking down a black leotard (because they do look better if you're going for the tucked in look), and after that I turned up the end of my trousers to make my docs look like proper bovver boots and found my spangly sequin jacket in the cupboard (which is cut as if it could have shoulder pads, though it doesn't) and thought 'you know, I could backcomb my hair and do my make up like Siouxsie Sioux'... So now, it seems, I'm going as some 80s person (I should have heeded
bogwitch's warning that the 80s were coming to get me), but I can't work out if the two halves of my outfit mesh!
I need to watch some Young Ones episodes, I think, but, oh great flist (especially Brits who remember 80s "youth culture"), does anybody know if you can combine docs+turn-ups with black vest+spangly jacket? Was that done? I was wearing heels till three this morning, so I'd rather keep the bottom half, but it'll almost certainly be cold again this evening so I need some sort of jacket. Second choice is probably my black velvet blazer. Or I also have an Adidas zip-up track jacket thing, that's orangey-yellow with black stripes, collar and cuffs...
(Have backcombed my hair a bit already, BTW, because I thought I should check in case it looked horrific and I needed to wash it out - I actually quite like it... o.O )
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I need to watch some Young Ones episodes, I think, but, oh great flist (especially Brits who remember 80s "youth culture"), does anybody know if you can combine docs+turn-ups with black vest+spangly jacket? Was that done? I was wearing heels till three this morning, so I'd rather keep the bottom half, but it'll almost certainly be cold again this evening so I need some sort of jacket. Second choice is probably my black velvet blazer. Or I also have an Adidas zip-up track jacket thing, that's orangey-yellow with black stripes, collar and cuffs...
(Have backcombed my hair a bit already, BTW, because I thought I should check in case it looked horrific and I needed to wash it out - I actually quite like it... o.O )