Costumes

[charliesmum]

Forgot to mention yesterday that Target had a range of costumes that were 1980's charactatures. Can I tell you how horribly old that made me feel, to know that my generation is long enough ago they can make Halloween costumes out of it.

There was, for example, a Miami Vice costume, and a Punk Rocker costume.* and, God help us, a Madonna costume.

Scary.


*Which, frankly, is much more 'new wave' than punk, thank you very much.

Comments

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I forget that you were in your toddler years when Miami Vice was on the telly. To be fair, I never watched it, but it was a rather trend-setting cop show at the time. Don Johnson and this other guy played vice cops who had fancy cars and fancy boats because, I guess, they were pretending to be drug dealers or something. They had artfully stubbled faces and wore pastel jackets with pastel shirts and loafers without socks and it was totally a trend. Did you ever see The Wedding Singer? Drew Barrymore's fiance dresses like that at one point.

Anyway - it was the first "MTV influenced" show in that it had lots of cool music montages.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

But don't pay attention to Drew Barrymore for the '80s look, because for some reason she was exempt. Especially her hair. I liked that movie overall, but when everyone else had to look silly for the visual joke, it bugged me that her appearance was so anachronistic. She time-traveled from the '90s, I guess.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Hadn't really thought about that, but you're right. I'm trying to remember what she wore. She had that big necklace, but that's all I can remember. And she was in her waitress outfit a lot. Huh. Now I'm going to have to watch it again.

Know what was a good show and it should have lasted but didn't? Do Over. It was about this man who gets electecuted and suddenly finds himself back as a 14 year old in the 80's - re-living his life, but with the knowledge of what happened, and the chance to fix it this time around. It was really good, and surprisingly sweet, and they did a good job of 'doing' the 80's without overdoing it. /random comment

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I can't remember her clothes beyond the waitress outfit either -- it was mainly the hair. A nice, straight little bob, no teasing, no hairsprayed-to-the-heavens bangs for her!