Hollywood and Instagram are notorious for focusing on celebrities and clubwear of the 1980s. Younger people tend to have this inauthentic neon fantasy version of the 80s fashion born from Miami Vice. This thread is for real people. Real fashion of the early 80s. Starting with famous fashion photographer Richard Avadon's "american West" photo series where he recruited real people off the street or in their workplace to use as his models. A lot of men with no shirts back then, and women with no bras.
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It wasn't long after this era that "No shirt, no shoes? No service" signs started to appear in restaurants and grocery stores. From May through September it was "Tarps off, boys!" and the shirts vanished.
$10 says this carney sucks cock for meth.
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The rest of the photos from the series are here. Just dumped a few to get a thread going.https://www.cartermuseum.org/carter-collection/collection-group/american-west
Nice thread, OP
Top-tier thread, please keep going
"Fashion" excludes the working class by definition."Fashion" is when you choose your clothes based on looks and change them when they get out of style.The working class chooses clothes based on functionality and price (which means middle of the road designs that can be mass-produced and sold in huge numbers), and they change them only when they're completely worn out. That's not fashion, that's just clothing.Now, fashion can obviously draw inspiration from working class clothing, but it's not the same.
> I'LL MAKE B&W PICTURES OF THE FILTHIEST FUCKERS I CAN FIND IN SPECIFICALLY UNFLATTERING WAYS THIS IS SOOOO ORIGINALSnobs of the past were adorably naïve.
>>18568244t.
>>18568197yeah but fashionable people and designers look at what the working class used to wear spontaneously for inspirationgood thread, good resource
>>18568197>The working class chooses clothes based on functionalityIf the working class didn't follow fashion trends people would look exactly the same in 1990 as they did in 1890, and most clothing companies besides levis would not exist.
maybe 1-3 of these people look working class, the rest just look homeless
>>18568244>B&W PICTURES???Most professional photographs of the era were B&W. Pic related is a photo of the catwalk from a 1980 fashion show by André Courrèges.Artists and professionals used B&W.Pornographers and prom photos used color, as did the god awful Sears portrait studio. Aside from offering overwhelmingly better detail, the other reason B&W was still dominant was because color printing in magazines was still shit and publications like vogue were still 90% B&W in the early 80s. A lot of the celebrity photos you see from the 1970s and 80s are recolored B&W photos. This includes the Oscars red carpet photos.
>this is what the guy calling you nigger or jeet on 4chan looks like
>>18568145Been trolling someone's IG account on my phone and got blocked. How do I get around an IG block? Can't even see the person's IG account on my alt IG accounts..,
>>18568898anti fingerprinting browser config + prepaid phone number + residential static proxy. you might need to age ig accounts a bit too i can't remember.
cool thread. >>18568317that's a crazy fit
>>18569211You're not seeing any fit bro, it's just a t-shirt.
>>18569029Thanks
for me, its carl
>>18568244TRVKE. These pictures are cringe poverty porn.
>>18568145>inauthentic neon fantasy version of the 80sI would add, the neon thing (and MV, for that matter) didn't happen until the mid-eighties. early eighties is hard to describe because there's not a lot that stood out. by the very late 70s, people were getting away from the exaggerated 70s stuff like bell bottoms, wide ties, and shaggy hair and platforms for men.so in contrast to that, people were wearing stuff that wasn't really exaggerated at all. pic related is a Hollywood movie from 1980. it doesn't look like 70s clothes, but it doesn't really look like what we think of as 80s, either. then the next trend was bright and colorful stuff that contrasted with that like Swatch and Benneton which was baggier, and the whole neon and t shirts with jackets MV thing.it is unsurprising that people in flyover country would be more western influenced, and doing the shirtless thing which was not unusual for men in ordinary settings to do when it was hot around that time and even much later all over the USA. the only exaggerated thing that you might have seen in 1980 would be punk when punk style was super exaggerated to contrast with normal society. but when hardcore came in in the mid and especially late 80s and into the 90s, that style was just shaved heads and plain clothes. they even became fond of blocky, collegiate style lettering for their tshirts and zines. the message was "I don't have to wear a costume to be punk, I'm hardcore enough to just wear regular stuff, I'm punk because I'm punk, not because of what I wear." which became a costume anyway.
Very cool thread
Is fetal alcohol syndrome /fa/?
>>18568145cool pics op. not really fashion but nice thread anyway
Coney Island, 1981
Fashion models posing in downtown Seattle, September 18, 1981
>>18568317>no sunburn on shoulders>still cools you offbring this back
>>18569135>belt the same color as your skinunbelievably cool
Encino , CA
Manhattan
Dolphin shorts were everywhere for a few years.
Arcade, 1982I love vintage arcade photos.
>>18570318London
Venice beach, 1985
>>18570270it was a different time ... a better time.i think one thing people don't understand is the mental calm or composure people had, everyone now is kind of, high strung.
>>18570273this is the fucking Treacherous Three.white kangol is Kool Moe Dee
>>18570273>>18571697
some heavy metal band from the 80s that had an effay pic on metallum. forgot what band.
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>>18569135That dude's outfit rules. I gotta get more striped short sleeve dress shirts and silk ties. I'm into that shit the same way people are into like maid outfits or cop uniforms or whatever. Damn that's my shit.
