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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agreed, by the 80s it was tight jeans and the men were starting to stop wearing plaid everything. Remember the whole preppy thing? Polo shirts and khakis were starting to creep in, too.

This. "The Official Preppy Handbook" came out in 1980. My high school years (Class of 82 represent!) were very preppy with a heavy touch of surfer dude a la Jeff Spicoli.

High school only represents 5 ages out of the total human population though. There were other age groups alive back then besides yours.

Who wore jumpsuits? What ages and what area of the country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mom had the most beautiful polyester pantsuits in the 1970s. One was robin's egg blue and one was butter yellow. We lived on a hippie farm and almost everything was in earth tones, but those pantsuits were so gorgeous. She definitely got rid of them by the early 1980s.

That is the entire point of this post.
By January 1st 1983 the last remaining holdouts completely jumped ship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is what people wore in the early 80s:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982

High school only represents 5 ages. 14-18.

There were others alive back then who were in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

No, there are polyester jumpsuits in that catalogue. They even named them "Traditional Jumpsuits!"

There were definitely some people who looked like this in 1980, 1981 and 1982.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what people wore in the early 80s:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982

High school only represents 5 ages. 14-18.

There were others alive back then who were in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc...

Who was wearing jumpsuits? Ages? Location?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what people wore in the early 80s:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982

High school only represents 5 ages. 14-18.

There were others alive back then who were in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc...

Who was wearing jumpsuits? Ages? Location?

DP

1. People that shopped at Sears and JC Penny's, who were
2. older than high school, and
3. in geographic areas where Sears and JC Penny's were venues for clothes shopping.

I mean, not every adult who qualifies for the above, but some. That is how these stores stayed open. They sold things. (?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wore that kind of clothing in 1983, and I was a teenager then. The style you've posted looks like the early 1970s. Looks at the woman's hair; typical early '70s long with a hint of bouffant and a center part. Partridge Family clothes all the way.

The early '80s was all about looking punk, or like Princess Diana. This is not that. And polyester has always been around.

Once again and I mean no disrespect, high schoolers are only a representative of 5 years (14, 15, 16, 17, 18) out of the total human population.

The grownups tried to dress like Dynasty, the Cosby family, Elise from Family Ties, or Princess Di.

No one was wearing polyester jumpsuits in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what people wore in the early 80s:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982

High school only represents 5 ages. 14-18.

There were others alive back then who were in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc...

Hey Millennial...

Trust us.

No one in the early 80s wore polyester jumpsuits like you (or OP) posted. No one.

Not teenagers. Not grown ups. Not even old people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is what people wore in the early 80s:

Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982

High school only represents 5 ages. 14-18.

There were others alive back then who were in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s etc...

Who was wearing jumpsuits? Ages? Location?

DP

1. People that shopped at Sears and JC Penny's, who were
2. older than high school, and
3. in geographic areas where Sears and JC Penny's were venues for clothes shopping.

I mean, not every adult who qualifies for the above, but some. That is how these stores stayed open. They sold things. (?)

No. Really and truly no.

How young are you? 34? 23?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wore that kind of clothing in 1983, and I was a teenager then. The style you've posted looks like the early 1970s. Looks at the woman's hair; typical early '70s long with a hint of bouffant and a center part. Partridge Family clothes all the way.

The early '80s was all about looking punk, or like Princess Diana. This is not that. And polyester has always been around.

Once again and I mean no disrespect, high schoolers are only a representative of 5 years (14, 15, 16, 17, 18) out of the total human population.

The grownups tried to dress like Dynasty, the Cosby family, Elise from Family Ties, or Princess Di.

No one was wearing polyester jumpsuits in the 80s.

This post is about polyester clothing in general. Not just jumpsuits.

1980. 1981. 1982.

[Anonymous]

Okay. Grown up, non teenager clothes:

Terms of Endearment, 1983



20 somethings:

Flashdance, 1983



Kids and parents:

ET, 1982

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nobody wore that kind of clothing in 1983, and I was a teenager then. The style you've posted looks like the early 1970s. Looks at the woman's hair; typical early '70s long with a hint of bouffant and a center part. Partridge Family clothes all the way.

The early '80s was all about looking punk, or like Princess Diana. This is not that. And polyester has always been around.

Once again and I mean no disrespect, high schoolers are only a representative of 5 years (14, 15, 16, 17, 18) out of the total human population.

The grownups tried to dress like Dynasty, the Cosby family, Elise from Family Ties, or Princess Di.

No one was wearing polyester jumpsuits in the 80s.

This post is about polyester clothing in general. Not just jumpsuits.

1980. 1981. 1982.

80s were cotton, then spandex once Flashdance hit.

Polyester was gone by around 1974 or 75.

I was a baby in the early 70s. All of my baby clothes were double knit polyester.

My younger sister was born in 1974. All of her baby clothes were cotton, with lots of calico and floral prints. She also had a lot of patriotic stuff when she was a toddler due to the Bicentennial.

[Anonymous]

In addition to patriotic clothes, the mid 70s had a lot of cotton, granny dress type stuff, due in part to the popularity of Little House on the Prairie. There was a lot of peasant type cotton clothing, granny dresses, tunic type clothing.

Then disco fabulous followed.

[Anonymous]

Mr. Mom was 1983. This shows what a variety of age groups wore then:

[Anonymous]

Kramer Vs Kramer was 1979. By then, polyester was long gone: