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• To step
• Method 1 of 4: Find vintage clothing
• Method 2 of 4: Style your hair
• Method 3 of 4: Make your own outfit
• Method 4 of 4: Top it off with accessories
• Tips

Theme parties are very popular and great fun. You may have been invited to an 80's party, but now you have no idea what to wear. If you follow these tips, you will relive the style and feel of those fun, funky 80s so you don't fall out of control and be the center of attention at the party!

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Method 1 of 4: Find vintage clothing

1. Go to the local thrift store. The best way to get that great 80s look is to find authentic clothes from that era. A thrift store can be a treasure trove of bad, corny styles, so that's where you need to go first.
2. Ask older family members if they still have 80s clothing. You will be amazed at what people still have in the attic. Ask family members or neighbors who were teenagers in the 80's (then they were born in the mid-60's) if they still have some old clothes that you can borrow.
3. Look for specific items of clothing that were popular at the time. A few iconic pieces from the 80s include baseball jackets, MC-Hammer pants, bleached jeans, shirts with large logos on them, mini skirts, leg warmers, stretch pants with an underfoot strap, jumpsuits and denim jackets.
4. Look for materials that were popular in the 80's. Combining different materials was very popular in the 1980s. Look for leather, denim, lace, velvet or velvet garments. Overlap things that clearly contrast.
   • Also look for bright colors and crazy prints.
   • Ask older people at the thrift store what they would have worn if they were young in their 80s.

Method 2 of 4: Style your hair

1. Get "big-hair", otherwise you might as well stay at home. The 80s were mainly characterized by "big-hair", hairstyles with a lot of volume. People with straight hair often got a perm, which left them with curls. You can also temporarily add volume to your hair, using a comb, hairspray, and a little patience, by backcombing your hair.
2. Make wafers or curls in your hair. A waffle iron is a kind of flat iron that you use to make waves in your hair. It takes quite a bit of time, but it will definitely give you 80s hair, and it will give even the straightest hair more volume. Curling your hair with the curling iron or curlers and then backcombing it with your fingers and a good coat of hairspray is also a good way to get big-hair.
3. Wear a mat. Although the mat is usually thought of as a men's haircut (just search on Google for country singer Billy Ray Cyrus), in the 80s both men and women had mats.
   • If you'd rather not have a mesh cut, you can find a mesh wig at the party store. You can also style a wig with long hair yourself.
   • Be sure to tell everyone that your hairstyle is "business-like at the front and festive at the back."
4. Wear a side tail. Whether you have straight hair or curls, the side tail is a classic '80s hairstyle. The bigger the better, so if you can, curl or backcomb your hair before putting it in a side tail, it's even more authentic.

Method 3 of 4: Make your own outfit

1. Put together your outfit. In the 80s there was a lot of experimentation with different styles. Outfits for women were often large at the top and narrow at the bottom. An oversized shirt was often combined with a miniskirt or tight pants or leggings.
   • If you have an oversized sweatshirt, cut the neck out so that it falls over your shoulder and it will be even more 80s. Wear a camisole or sports bra underneath, preferably in a bright color.
   • If you don't have an oversized shirt or tight pants, take a look in your parents 'closet (they may still have real' 80s clothes on them). A younger brother or sister may have tight pants that are actually too small for you, so you can borrow them.
2. Find or make shoulder pads. Shoulder padding was very popular with women. The bigger the shoulder pad, the better. If you don't have a shoulder padded shirt, put something else in it to fill it.
3. Mix all kinds of colors. Many fashion dolls in the 80s went for bright, garish color combinations. Neon colors were especially popular.
   • Match the top and bottom colors and add a contrasting color. For example, bright blue pants and shirt can be accented with a bright yellow or pink belt and matching large earrings.
   • Wear contrasting bright colors. If you don't have a matching outfit, you can just wear all kinds of different bright colors together. Try to put together three or four different colors that are all different, but very bright.
   • You can wear a bright tights under a mini skirt and top it with leg warmers in a different color.
4. Try the '80s punk look. Another approach is the '80s punk look, where you mainly wear black and denim.
   • Wear at least two different types of denim. Men usually wore jeans with a denim jacket. Women wore denim mini skirts with a denim jacket. Men and women usually wore a tight T-shirt underneath.
   • Combine denim and lace. A classic 80s look is a lace shirt paired with bleached jeans or skirt. The contrast of the different materials is an important characteristic of 80s fashion.
5. Wear sports clothes. Sportswear was also very popular in the 80s, which was much hipper than the sportswear of today.
   • Wide sports pants with matching jackets paired with sneakers can be the perfect 80s look. It may be hard to find, but velor or velvet jogging suits are best.
   • Another way to look at sportswear is the iconic 80s sports outfit for women: a high-cut leotard, leggings and leg warmers. Preferably in contrasting bright colors.

Method 4 of 4: Top it off with accessories

1. Cut the fingers off your gloves. Fingerless gloves were very popular, especially when paired with the punk denim and lace look. Lace gloves are best, but others are good too.
2. Wear large earrings. The earrings do not have to match. Wearing two different sized earrings - by both men and women - was very popular. If they have bright colors that match or contrast with your outfit, that's even better! If you can't find large colored earrings or feather earrings, large gold rings are fine too.
3. Find a large chain. Put several large necklaces on top of each other, then you get the real 80s punk look. Chunky necklaces or beads were very popular, and a cross was often added to them. The more chains the better. You can also layer different bracelets in contrasting types of metal.
4. Wear large sunglasses. Large plastic-framed sunglasses were very popular, even indoors and in the evening. Cheap kids sunglasses with bright temples are very similar to the sunglasses that were popular in the 80s. You also saw a lot of glasses with a gold frame, which you can find at party shops.
5. Put on 80s makeup. Classic 80s make-up consists of dark lipstick (for women and for punk men!) And very bright eyeshadow. The eyeshadow can be applied all over the eyelid, up to the eyebrows. '80s celebrities often experimented with different shades of eyeshadow on top of each other, creating two or three stripes.
6. Wear sweatbands. A wide sweatband over your forehead (preferably in combination with a mat) immediately gives you the right look.This accessory works especially with the sports outfit: Either with a matching velor jogging suit, or with a leotard / legging / leg warmer combination.

Tips

• Overdo your 80s outfit. The idea of ​​an 80's party is that it has to be funny and wrong.
• If you don't have anything in your closet that meets this requirement, replace it with something else. For example, if you don't have leg warmers, get knee socks.
• Be crazy and wrong. Make sure to wear neon pink, dark red, or dark purple lipstick.