Pat Benatar is a certified rock’n'roll superstar, a four-time Grammy winner with six platinum and four gold albums to her credit as well as such hit singles as “I Need A Lover,” “Heartbreaker,” “Fire and Ice,” “Treat Me Right,” “Hit Me With Your Best Shot,” “Hell Is For Children,” “Shadows of the Night,” and “Love Is A Battlefield.” Long acknowledged as one of the leading female rock vocalists in the industry.

I dont remember much about her because i was born in 1978 and her superstardom was mainly early eighties.
I do know though that her style legacy has spanned over 3 decades! her look which is made up of mainly primary colours, body concious fabrics and a lot of eyeliner still exists today.

I saw these amazing Pat Benetar Stylee Boots on Faith footwear.com and it immediately made me want to watch “love is a battlefield”. Do yourself a favour. Buy these boots, use a tie as a headscarf and dance yourself crazy! to this album

I dont know about you but I am loving the new Katy Perry video, Hot n Cold. The girl has great style and she looks like she is a lot of fun! The video has lots of lush outfits, but one in particular gave me a big 80’s smack on the face and woke me up! There is a scene in a club where she is wearing the most 80’s outfit ever….And I will not sleep until I have it!!!!!

Seeing that there is a fab bit of product placement for the sunglasses and you can clearly see the words diesel on the lens..then we can nab a bit of this great look for yourselves. I have found some very similar and the same make as Katy’s They are amazing 80’s Diesel sunglasses

The man is pretty hot too! I wonder if he comes with the outfit!

Lets face it…denim was huge in the 80’s. Sno-wash was the denim of choice for many!
You were no one in the 80’s unless you had at least one pair of jeans. Tiffany drought the jacket/jeans/jumper combo into fashion (It was ruddy hot wearing all those layers)
Bros brought ripped jeans into style!

I let out a squeak of excitement when I discovered that the denim jacket was back in style. I remember my jacket in the 80’s having a Giant Michael Jackson patch on it and tons of button badges.
The style for the naughties is to team up the jacket with pretty layered dresses and cowgirl boots!

This fab Jacket is available on the Littlewoods site with pre rolled up sleeves!

So pull on that denim jacket and stick on Tiffany’s Greatest hits And make like the little flame haired denim clad nymphet herself!

If there was one thing that the Eighties chick loved..then it was animal prints. In the home, on your Bod…anywhere! I remember one friend who has a tiger print rug, tiger print wall hangings, zebra pillows! It was like bloody Bristol zoo! 

I was reading in Grazia that Tigers were big this year! Intrigued by the concept of Tigers being fashionable this year, I decided to seek out some Tiger merchandise. I found this rather beautiful and suprisingly wearable dress on the littlewoods site. Its bang on the 80’s trend with a fabulously shiny belt (which nicely ties in the lacquered trend that is around at the moment) 

Stick on a pair of Leggings and black school pumps and make your way to Ritzy’s! 

 

The shoe of the decade had to be Dr Martens in the 80’s. Universally loved by men and women, this shoe company will always be cool an they are also supremely comfortable! (I still have mine from the age of 13 and they are moulded to the shape of my feet) DM’s as they are fondly known come in pretty much all colours of the rainbow. They still sell the Classic 3 hole shoes and they are looking at a bit of a comeback if supermodel Agyness Deyn has anything to do with it! She has been seen working the Duckie from Pretty in Pink look! Click here to get your filthy mitts on these Dr. Martens!

By the late 1970s, Dr. Martens boots were popular among some British punk rock and New Wave musicians, and soon many punk fans were wearing them. The boots and shoes then became much more popular among some parts of youth subculture. Dr. Martens have been the subject of a song by Alexei Sayle (featuring on The Young Ones episode “Oil” with the band “Radical Posture”) and have appeared on the cover art for a Madness box set The Business. In the late 80’s it was fashionable to wear the shoe version with turned up trousers and slouch socks. Bros even adorned theirs with bottle tops.

The late 1970s and 1980s saw the boot adopted by – not thrust upon – nearly all the ‘tribes’: Mods, glam, punks, ska, psychobillies, grebos, Goths, industrialists, nu-metal, hardcore, straight-edge, grunge, Britpop …Then with the birth of the net ……There were no tribes anymore. At least, “not like they used to make ’em.”. You don’t see one tribe fighting another anymore, a haircut does not define a person to four albums by three bands. Does this mean the end of the DM?

I say no!!

Nothing evokes more memories of child hood to me than seeing a pair of roller skates. Skating became popular in the seventies. But in the 80’s every kid had a pair of roller skates, Going to the roller disco on a saturday became the thing to do, and me and my friends used to spend most evenings in her cul-de-sac doing roller routines!  To recreate our look (Minus the scabby knees) click here

Roller skates came in 2 kinds, 4 wheeler, or the dreaded strap on ones!!
After doing some research into skating it turns out that they were introduced over a decade before the 80’s Roller-skating was introduced in 1863, and it was quickly made fashionable by the elite of New York City. The 1870’s rinks with hard maple had built floors in nearly every town and city. By paying an admission fee of twenty-five or fifty cents, men, women, and children could participate in races, fancy skating, or dancing on skates. Special skating dresses, which allowed more freedom of movement, became popular by the 1870’s.

I personally feel quite upset by this t-shirt I was born in 1978 so therefore was not “Made in the 80’s” However I do remember all of the 80’s vividly!  So god damn it!!! I am entitled to wear this T-shirt! This style of T shirt was made popular by Wham who proudly declared that they were going to “Choose Life” And Frankie really advocated Relaxation!   If  you want to tell everyone you were born in the best decade ever click here

This top screams 1980’s to me. The multicolour foil star pattern is quite pretty! In fact I cannot take my eyes off it! I would suggest wearing this with some very skinny black Jeans, Hot pink stilletoes and Black Sparkly Leg warmers, and get on that dance floor and spin until you spew!!  Purchase this here!

If there is a look that is bang on trend at the moment it is the stretchy dress!
Nothing screams 1980’s more than a dress so tight that you can see what the wearer had for dinner! Wear with towering heels and add colourful accessories to be on-trend this season. Sienna Miller was seen wearing a very similar dress this season and as you know she can make no fashion mistakes (apart from her big knickers look!)  Chick here to get your mitts on it!

In the eighties it was esential to have at least one strapless dress with a ra-ra skirt. The rule was…the brighter the dress..the better. I spotted this beautiful green number on ASOS  It comes in white or green and would look stunning with some stilletoes.
If you really want to go mad, throw on some chunky beads!!!
You may want to draw the line at leg warmers though!