In 1983, did everyone collectively come together & decide to stop wearing polyester clothing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wait, what's the goal here?

Disagreement with statements of absolute facts. But then the statements change, so, I guess it's a moving target of conversation.

Poly doubleknit was definitely past it's sell by date in '82. My K teacher had an amazing double knit pant suit in sea mist green in 1977, and as much as I loved, loved, loved that get-up, even as a five-year-old, I knew poly doubleknit was gross.

Sure, for most people. But there are always subgroups of people whose clothing would be considered gross and weird by the kids. The elderly, small-town unhip mid-America, the socially awkward. Plenty of people still had these things in their closets, and some sill wore them while the rest of the world had already moved on. Same as always.

Are we just bashing jumpsuits again? They come come and go, pick your side, you'll get a chance to argue pro/con every ten years.

And they were still there in the early 80's. That's all.

Is it really surprising that a car chase movie had a woman in a supped up mechanic's uni? Agree, not real life.

Why is it supposed to be convincing when you (or another PP) posts from entertainment media to show "what was really going on," but when there are counterexamples from the same time period, suddenly that isn't real and not reflective of society? Just curious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, people, what performers wore in music videos was NOT what normal people wore everyday. Not in 1983 any more than in 2018.

Just the fact that a living, breathing, human being was still wearing it well into the 1980s is good enough for me.

[Anonymous]

The Ropers and Three's Company were on air well into the early 80s. You can't tell me that anyone on those shows every met a natural fiber.

Sure, they weren't cutting edge fashion, but they were supposed to be funny because everyone knew someone a little like Mr Roper -- a dorky older guy, with his overblown and slightly clueless wife, both of whom dressed tacky, and behind the times, and just did weird things.

[Anonymous]

January 1st, 1983 was truly the end.

Though I am sure there were still some holdouts in middle America somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When did this thread become strictly about jumpsuits?

The second OP posted a picture from the early '70s and implied it was from the early '80s.

Polyester itself never went away but the thickness of the knit is much more refined. Gone is the thick, rough texture. Now it is a smooth, fine knit. Check your closet. Pretty much anything that isn't made of natural fiber is probably polyester or some similar plastic fiber. Also, those athletic clothes all the teenagers are wearing, including Under Armour, are all made of polyester.

Yep, double knit is now known as ponte, it's available in varying degrees of synthetic.

[Anonymous]

We're still wearing polyester. Lots of it. The clothing stores are full of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait, what's the goal here?

Disagreement with statements of absolute facts. But then the statements change, so, I guess it's a moving target of conversation.

Poly doubleknit was definitely past it's sell by date in '82. My K teacher had an amazing double knit pant suit in sea mist green in 1977, and as much as I loved, loved, loved that get-up, even as a five-year-old, I knew poly doubleknit was gross.

Sure, for most people. But there are always subgroups of people whose clothing would be considered gross and weird by the kids. The elderly, small-town unhip mid-America, the socially awkward. Plenty of people still had these things in their closets, and some sill wore them while the rest of the world had already moved on. Same as always.

Are we just bashing jumpsuits again? They come come and go, pick your side, you'll get a chance to argue pro/con every ten years.

And they were still there in the early 80's. That's all.

Is it really surprising that a car chase movie had a woman in a supped up mechanic's uni? Agree, not real life.

Why is it supposed to be convincing when you (or another PP) posts from entertainment media to show "what was really going on," but when there are counterexamples from the same time period, suddenly that isn't real and not reflective of society? Just curious.

Well is OP trying to determined when something went out of fashion or when it ceased to exist? Because if it's just fashion, of course there will always be the unfashionable, and sitcom characters that are the butt of jokes would represent the unfashionable, but by '82 that wasn't fashionable. If it's ceased to exist, well that's a stupid question, it's plastic some of it will outlast the human race so the unfashionable can have at it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Well is OP trying to determined when something went out of fashion or when it ceased to exist? Because if it's just fashion, of course there will always be the unfashionable, and sitcom characters that are the butt of jokes would represent the unfashionable, but by '82 that wasn't fashionable. If it's ceased to exist, well that's a stupid question, it's plastic some of it will outlast the human race so the unfashionable can have at it.

OP wasn't trying to determine anything. She made a humorous observation. The conversation went from there.

[Anonymous]

All this is reminding me of the Freaks and Geeks episode with the intense ridicule over Sam's "parisian night suit". I think that was supposed to be 1980-1981...

[Anonymous]

"Here's a link to the Sears catalog of 1981 and the clothes represent pretty well. You can definitely see the Princess Diana influence. There are polyester pantsuits, but definitely no jumpsuits. I'm not digging those men's v-necks, though. I'm pretty sure I owned those embroidered pocket jeans. My mom bought all my clothes out of the Sears catalog and I was extremely unhappy about it.

http://www.retrospace.org/2011/08/catalogs-14-sears-fashion-1981.html"


OMG! My younger sister had the girls outfit in blue, with white piping and the star/rainbow on the shoulder. with the matching shorts! LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ropers and Three's Company were on air well into the early 80s. You can't tell me that anyone on those shows every met a natural fiber.

Sure, they weren't cutting edge fashion, but they were supposed to be funny because everyone knew someone a little like Mr Roper -- a dorky older guy, with his overblown and slightly clueless wife, both of whom dressed tacky, and behind the times, and just did weird things.

You’ve ruined my week! I just realized that DH and I have become the Ropers!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ropers and Three's Company were on air well into the early 80s. You can't tell me that anyone on those shows every met a natural fiber.

Sure, they weren't cutting edge fashion, but they were supposed to be funny because everyone knew someone a little like Mr Roper -- a dorky older guy, with his overblown and slightly clueless wife, both of whom dressed tacky, and behind the times, and just did weird things.

You’ve ruined my week! I just realized that DH and I have become the Ropers!!

I love it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Here's a link to the Sears catalog of 1981 and the clothes represent pretty well. You can definitely see the Princess Diana influence. There are polyester pantsuits, but definitely no jumpsuits. I'm not digging those men's v-necks, though. I'm pretty sure I owned those embroidered pocket jeans. My mom bought all my clothes out of the Sears catalog and I was extremely unhappy about it.

http://www.retrospace.org/2011/08/catalogs-14-sears-fashion-1981.html"


OMG! My younger sister had the girls outfit in blue, with white piping and the star/rainbow on the shoulder. with the matching shorts! LOL

The 1981 catalog still closely resembles late 1970s fashion.

Post 1983 forward was a completely different world.

[Anonymous]

Considering all of the mocking pre 1982 received during the mid and late 1980s it only took around 7-8 years (1990) for a lot of that stuff from that era to come back.

By late 1995 Kiss was back in full make up.

[Anonymous]

Boss Hogg 1985.