How to dress like an 80's teen?

i kinda wanna go retro for school. i like how marty's gf dresses in back to the future. i remember how she wears those skinny blue jeans and a pair of converse? i don't know, what else does she wear?

how did girls in the eighties style their hair? i have breasts-length, black hair with bangs. is that okay?

and i like how they used big headphones for their cassette players. i, of course, dont wanna use cassettes cause i have an ipod. so are ipods compatible with other headphones other than the ones they come with?

thanks!

How to dress like an 80's teen?

Not sure that 80's headphones will go with an IPOD, but you can give it a try with the smaller ones. The large ones we old timers used to have had a bigger jack connector, kind of fat.

As for hair....almost anything goes. Spiral perms were the rage when I was growing up, but definitely big hair, lots of mousse and hairspray to make it a bit messy, but cool. Curly, crimped, permed or teased was what most did then. When I was about 13 (1983) we wore clips with soft rawhide leather strips and feathers attached with beads in our hair. It was also cool to have glitter and vivid eye make up, or just really heavy black eyeliner. Jelly bracelets were cool too....the more you wore the better. Necklaces were usually big crosses or a lot of layers of beads or anything eclectic like that. Flourescent colored clothes were cool like neon blue, orange, green, yellow or pink. Black was also cool as well as white shabby chic dressses, etc. If you wear jeans, roll up the cuffs of your pants at the bottom, skin tight against your legs. If you wear tennis shoes, try mix matching them or putting in funky strings or no strings at all. Depends on how BIG time you want to go, because in the 80's flashy and weird were the coolest things around.

Hope that helps.

PS: Look at old Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Bangles, Bon Jovi, Cinderella and Adam Ant videos. They'll give you a good picture of what styles were in play then. I think you can find most of them on YouTube.

Try this link: Madonna's style pretty much epitomizes the 80's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCdXCKor6...

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX5VLMQeB...

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEO7CNByP...

or Cydni Lauper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqf9PuKi6...

How to dress like an 80's teen?

You need the Madonna gloves.

How to dress like an 80's teen?

hmm..

I would have to say anything that Pat Benatar wore and you would look like an 80's girl. As for your hair they did not call it Big Hair for nothing. Make it poofy on top and you would be in!

BTW I just met Pat last weekend and she is so much shorter than I thought she would be.

How to dress like an 80's teen?

find a pair of parachute pants if you can't get that pin your pants at the bottom so there tight to your ankles

Hair should be at least 4 inches high at the bangs.

How to dress like an 80's teen?

omg dont! cant believe the 80s are over, dont bring them back!

How to dress like an 80's teen?

stirrup pants man. then have an oversized button up with a huge belt to top it all off

How to dress like an 80's teen?

Go Flashdance style! Leg warmers and a sweatshirt with the collar and the sleeves trimmed off. You know hanging off one shoulder and a tank top underneath. And of course a pair of pink leggings to top it all off. Oh........ and there is never anything ever wrong with breasts in any era.

How to dress like an 80's teen?

I think parachute pants are strictly 90s!

How to dress like an 80's teen?

defintiely a side ponytail

How to dress like an 80's teen?

See movies of that time -you will hit the bulls eye and more importantly not go wrong.

How to dress like an 80's teen?

Have you ever heard of Charlie's Angels, a tv show? Farrah Fawcett had a hair style lots of girls tried to lmitate. It was extremely feathered, not as long as yours, tho.