1980s in fashion

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Fashion of the 1980s was characterized by a rejection of psychedelic colored, ornate fashions of the 1970s. Punk fashion began as a reaction against both the hippie movement of the past decades and the materialist values of the current decade. The first half of the decade was relatively tame in comparison to the second half, which was when apparel became very bright and vivid in appearance. One of the features of fashion in the second half of the 1980s was the interest in alternative forms. In the 1980s, alternative trends became widespread. This phenomenon has been associated with such phenomena as street style, punk and post-punk. During the 1980s, shoulder pads, which also inspired "power dressing," became common among the growing number of career-driven women. The women's shoe that typified the decade was the closed pump with a sharply tapered or pointed toe, first revived at the end of the seventies. These were similar to pumps worn during the second half of the 1950s and came in...

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