On another beautiful Spring day, "our gang" (well, Madam Acarti, Hils, Crog, Our Sal and I, anyhow) have been wallowing in the memories, styles, sounds and images of an incredible era five decades ago - at the marvellous Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London exhibition at the Fashion & Textiles Museum in Bermondsey [on its last day, indeed]!
More on that later, no doubt...
...meanwhile, here's one of the songs that was playing as we wandered, eyes agape at the spectacular array of weird and wonderful outfits on display:
It's all such a long, long time ago... Sob.
We just celebrated our 56th anniversary! The 80's are distant memories! ( I do remember wearing shoulder pads on damn near every garment I had!!!) xoxo
ReplyDeleteOh, I miss shoulder-pads! And three-pleat pegged trousers. And big, big hair. And excessive amounts of diamanté. In fact, I miss just about everything that went with that fantabulosa early 1980s era..!
DeleteHey ho. Jx
PS 56 years?! You deserve a medal!
Those were my days of clompy Docs, torn hose, Flock of Seagulls hair, shocko makeup - made even more desperately sad by the fact that I could not stand Punk, I just liked the clothes. *Sob!*
ReplyDeletePunk here was a "flash in the pan" at the end of the 70s. As a sound, all that thrashing guitar feedback and noise didn't really change much. As an aesthetic and an attitude, however, it left a massive legacy - and the New Romantics and "club kids" of the 80s (whose music wasn't punk at all) flourished in its wake, with their home-made and charity shop outfits, back-bedroom musical productions and pop-up club nights. There's been no era like it since... Jx
DeleteClubbing til the early hours
ReplyDeleteHosing, bitching, rolling around in spilled beer
No labels
In the gutter looking up at the stars
Steve Strange, Spandau Ballet, Le Beat Route
I was there
Where were you
It was Fab !
Love that song!
DeleteIt was an utterly wonderful exhibition, and brought back a flood of memories of that era. Jx
I look forward to reading about the exhibit. I have no memory of Vicious Pink. (I must have been too young... shut up.)
ReplyDeleteThey were never mainstream, and certainly never had any hits. I probably danced to this when I was young and a regular at "Bowie/Roxy nights" in Lazers in Newport, but tbh I only really pricked my ears up at this song when it was played recently on BBC Radio 2 Sounds of the 80s show! Jx
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