FASHION of THE 1980's

FASHION OF THE 1980's

Fashion, what can we say about the fashion during the 1980's? You could see a group of teenagers with tight fitted jeans and loose shirts that draped one shoulder, or you could see another group of friends with leather jackets, fingerless gloves heavy makeup, and had the heavy metal style. or on a street, you'd se street dancers (hip-hop) with neon colors or clocks hanging of their necks, different styles, everyone had. Fashion was an important thing to many people during this time. Whether it was punk-rock, gothic-rock, vintage, hip-hop, etc. Everyone during the 1980's whether teenager, older, or kids had a certain style. Every year the fads would change but throughout the 80's era the style was impacting.

While in the era of 1970's men and women wore tight on the top and loose on the bottom, in the 1980's this style basically turned around. Shirts were loose and tight or tight-fitted pants. many men wore suits to show their wealth. Many brands of clothing became well known and worn a lot. from shoes, purses, clothes, fashion was important. Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Reboks, and many other well known brands. Some were influenced by new romantic movement, which inspired heavy metal styles.

So you may ask what was the clothing style? many significant fashion trends in the eighties included jean jackets, leg warmers, leggings, shoulder pads, headbands, pastel colors, alot of "ray-ban" sunglasses, ripped jeans, loose-fitted shirts, and neon colors, big earrings, fingerless gloves, high waisted mini skirts, parachute pants, Stretch-Stirrup Pants, leather jackets (especially "Members only" jackets), Add-a-Bead Necklaces, The Madonna Look, Acid Washed Jeans, The Preppie Look, Guess Jeans,Layered Socks, Wayfarer Sunglasses, Swatch Watches, Jelly Shoes (Jellies), Knit Square End Ties, Reebok Hightops, Princess Di Fashions - Chuck Taylors by Converse, Rolling: Sleeves and Jeans, Paint Splatter, Jumpsuits, and Baja Hoodies. Hairstyles was also a major part of the fashion. the main trend was-volume. Many people worried about the volume of their hair, and "teased" their hair to add volume, others just did spikes in their hair, depending on their style of clothing. Many people as well chose funky styles and dyed their hair to match their style. Others just had short hair or long, classy, vintage, punk etc. The 80's was a period of time were hairstyles as well as clothing style would be called strange. Surely the fashion during the 1980's was very important to alot of people. Even though the fashion was during the 80's today one can see that the 80's fashion has an influence on today's fashion.

LITERATURE PIECE

BY: JUDITH KRANTZ

Published: November 1984

Princess Marguerite Daisy Valensky is about a girl who lives spoiled and without no worries. Her dad is a prince and her mom a American actress. She goes to parties, balls, money and love. Men wanted her and women despised her. Her brother betrayed her and was left with no money. She moves to New York and decides to work to pay her sister's medical bills. The setting takes place in England and in Santa Cruz, California. The plot is she needs to decide whether to keep her identity safe or not in order to get money. The reason her brother betrayed her was by raping her and leaving her with no inheritance. Her dad keeps a secret from her which is she has a twin sister. He didn't want her to know because she had a disability problem and he felt disgusted by her. She must learn to accept the life she has, accept her sisters disability and learn to love and trust a man.

FUN FACTS

• It was later on made into a film

AWARDS WON

• New York Top Sellers list

IMPORTANT PASSAGE

"When Stash had recieved the telephoned news of Francesca's death from Matty Firestone, he had started to consider his options even as he booked the flight to Los Angeles. Almost immediately he realized that somone had to be told the story which had been, until now, kept absolutely secret from all the world. He needed help in managing the future and Anabel was the only person he trusted. During the few days that Stash was away in California, Anabel managed to find Queen Anne's School, the best home for retarded children in England, and make arrangements for Danielle to live there."

TELEVISION BY:BELEN

Television in the 80's

How would people entertain themselves in the 80's? Some would go outside and play. Some would play with there Rubik's cube. But many chose to watch TV. A lot included funny sitcoms, movies of all types, dramatic soap operas and cartoons. I think many thank who ever invented this device.

Popular shows were "The Cosby Show", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Married...With Children", "Rescue 911", "Roseanne", and "Different Stokes". There also was News shows that would let you know whats going on in the world. Other examples of the shows were "G.I. Joe", "M.A.S.H", "227", "The Jetsons", "The Golden Girls", "Seinfield", "Happy Days", "Growing Pains", "Baywatch", "Cheers", "Silver Spoons", "Murder She Wrote", and " The Twilight Zone".

TV was important because it would entertain many audiences. It would help you know when disasters would happen and helped you not be bored on rainy days. Some say some shows were educational and keep you up with the latest trends and music.

Historical figure
Person
Sandra day o cornor

Sandra day o cornor was in office September 25 1981 thru the day of January 31 2006. She was associated justice of supreme court of the united states. She was nominated by Ronald regan. Preceded by potter stewart and succeded by Samuel alito. She was the Arizona state senate majority leader she was in office from 1973 thru 1975. Sandra was born the day of march 26 1930 in el paso texas. Her political party was republican.

The first woman to serve on the Supreme Court, O’Connor was nominated by President Ronald Reagan and took her seat on Sept. 25, 1981. O’Connor, 78, was born in El Paso, Texas. She received her bachelor’s degree and law degree from Stanford University. She was appointed to the Arizona state Senate in 1969 and was subsequently re-elected to two two-year terms.

Soon after graduating, she married John Jay OConnor III, a classmate at law school. She became the mother of three sons. O Connors opinions have helped define a moderate middle ground in cases testing the boundaries between religion and government judging affirmative action laws and determining a woman's right to abortion. Though she considered retiring in the 1990s O Connor is thought to have postponed her retirement because a Democrat was in the White House. She finally retired in 2006.

Stephen King By ilissa

Stephen King was born on September 21, 1947 in Portland, Maine. He lived in Wisconsin, Indiana and Connecticut, then he came back to Maine and stayed there. King lived with his older brother David brother and his mother Nelli Ruth and as for his father he had left them when King was two years old.Then While living in Maine, King experienced a tramatic event in his life, he witness the death of his friend when he was very young. It has been said that this is where King got his inspirations for his darker novels. Later on in life King went to Durham Elementary school, then graduated from Lisbon Falls Higd graduated inh School and went on to the University of Maine an 1970.

At first King had a certificate that allowed him to teach high schools, but could not find a job and decided to write short stories for magazines to make a bit of money. Around the same time King got married with Tabitha Spruce a fellow student from the University of Maine. King was still writing short stories for magazines but was now coming up with his new ideas for novels. Then King worked on his first draft for his first novel "Dream Catcher". Kings books were mostly all of horror and terrifying stories and when asked why he choosed to write these kind of stories his response was that he has no choice, that these ideas just come to mind and he writes.

In King's early novels were mostly about the pains and agonies of childhood, parental neglect and abuse like his stories "Carrie" and "Firestarter". Then later on, King's novels were mostly about the many different pains of adulthood and loneliness of older people. Like in his stories "The Shining", "IT", "Talisman","Danse Macabre", and the "Dark Tower" series. Also some of these were made in the 80's, like the classic horror movie "The Shining"and "IT"which were big horror flicks in the 1980's. Stephen King had also won numerous award for many of his books. He has won te Alex award, Balary award, Black Quill Award, 9 Bram Stokes awards, 5 British Fansty awards, The Hugo Award, The International Horror Guild Award, 5 Locus awards, 4 World Fantasy award, and the Golden Pen award.

The Fall of Berlin Wall by ilissa

For about 28 years the Berlin Wall stood, dividing up Berlin into two seprete ares which were East and West Berlin. The wall wasbulit in 1961, constructed by the German Democractic Republic. The wall was made to contain communisum from west Germany and to keep East Germans from escaping to west Germany, This wall stood for almost 30 years. Then on June 12, 1987 while giving a speech at the Brandenburg Gate, Ronald Regan challenged General secretary of communist party, Mikhail Gorbachev and said to him "Mr. Gorbachev open this gate, Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!" It was two years after this speech that the wall was torned down.

Then in August 23,1989 Hungary ha dtaken it's border defences with Austria and also 13,000 East Germens escaped to Austria from Hungary.Then a similar event happened in Czechoslovkia as well. These events were all setting up the destruction of the Berlin Wall. Then in September was when all the protest rallies began, protesters leaving the west chanted "We want out!" This started the peaceful revolution and had half a million of protesters had gather at Alexanderplatz in East Berlin to speak out, and these rallies began in September and ended in November of 1989.

Then during that time the New Krenz government was preparing the new law for travel restrictions for East German citizens. Then it was decided on November 9th that refugees could existthrough the crossing points of East and West Berlin. Then at a press conference Gunter Schabowski was going to give the news, but he was not fully aware of the updates of the disscussion so when asked about when the law went into force he said straight away, immediately without delay". This news spead all over and with no time thosands of East Berlins went to the border crossing and demanding the guards to open the gate. Since the guards couldn't take on the overwelming crowds they basically had no chocie and opened the gate and then the East Berlins finally greeted the West Berlins, which meant it was the end of the Berlin Wall completely. Then all was left was the demolition of the wall, which ended in November of 199, but only some sections and watchtowers remained as memorials and piceces of the wall were sold all over the world and this wall will never be forgotten.

LITERATURE FIGURE: DANiELLE STEELE

DANIELLE STEEL

Born: August 14th 1947

Birthplace: New York, New York

Danielle Steel was the only child of John and Norma Shuelein-Steel. During her childhood her parents got divorced when she was around seven or eight years old. Apparently her parents didn't want to take care of her and she was raised by many of her relatives and servants in Paris and New York. She graduated from school a little before she was fifteen years old, and in 1963 ahe was enrolled in New York's Parsons School of Design. Her dream was to become the "new chanel", but had to basically give up on it due to an illness of ulcers. She then enrolled at New York University, where she studied until 1967. After, when she was eighteen years old she married her first husband. After being married with her husband she became bored with her jet-setting lifestyle, and she was against her husband's wishes so she decided to find a job. Soon she was hired as a vice president of public relation and new business for Supergirls, which was a Manhattan public relations and advertising agency. Her job seem to look weak for the future so she decided to write stories. She wrote her first book (Going Home) and published it in 1973, when she was living in San Francisco. from there she started writing many more novels. Around 1977 she started also writing advertisemnts and poems about love and motherhood which appeared in Women's section of magazines. Soon after she married her second husband and this time they had alot more in common. Throughout the years up to the present she was successful in many of the novels she wrote, and although she as a lot of money, she lives a quiet life.

• Fun Facts:

-Best Known As: Author of the romance novels Jewels and Crossings

- in th bestseller list since 1980's

• Books written in 1980's:

-The Ring (1980)

-Changes (1983)

-Full Circle (1984)

-Secrets (1985)

-Family Album (1985)

-Wanderlust (1986)

-Fine Things (1987)

-Kaleidoscope (1987)

-Zoya (1988)

-Daddy (1989)

-Star (1989)