It’s been nearly a year-and-a-half since I started digging out my old ’80s fashion magazines, scanning ads and editorials and...
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Asymmetrical Style
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Asymmetrical Style
If there is one instantly recognizable trend of the 1980s, it’s asymmetry. Designers loved it. Consumers wore it. From the...
Elvis Costello and the Great Geek Trauma
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Elvis Costello and the Great Geek Trauma
Angry doesn’t even begin to describe how I’m feeling right now. How Laurie could have said that about me I’ll...
Big Hair Day
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Big Hair Day
Big hair is synonymous with ’80s style. It’s the cliché, the joke, the impression burned into all of our minds....
Seventeen, April 1984
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Seventeen, April 1984
I was 13 in April of 1984. I had become fast friends that school year with a group of girls...
Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of March 2014
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Our Top Ten Tumblr Posts of March 2014
168 images were posted to the periodicult.tumblr.com site last month. We gathered a list of the most liked and reblogged....
Prints, Please
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Prints, Please
Growing up, April was the month of the great closet swap. Winter-weight sweaters were exchanged with light cardigans, T-shirts replaced...
’80s Fashion Humour & Hubris
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’80s Fashion Humour & Hubris
I’ve been wondering recently exactly when and why I began to lose interest in the contemporary fashion presentation and press....
Mad Plaids
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Mad Plaids
I’m trying, really trying to think spring, but it just keeps snowing and I’ve become one of those boring people...
Oral Fixation
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Oral Fixation
Sexy? Silly? Sometimes it’s a toss-up when it comes to fashion images that involve licking, tasting, biting and sucking. To...