Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "1980s in fashion" in English language version.
[Perry Ellis's] cropped pants...have been copied by many of the smart manufacturers...
The Reagan influence wafted through the major cities like heavy perfume. Where the young had once been the apple of the fashion eye, the elders took over, wearing expensive suits and ball gowns. And youth followed the example. In its way, nothing said more about fashion than all those 15-year-olds in wing collars and black ties swimming like well-bred minnows in the wake of stately taffeta.
Designers...have a predilection for hats...More surprising was the appearance of...rather formal leather gloves...
...[T]his new spirit harks back to the glamour and dressed-up correctness of the 1950s, but now tuned to the women of the 1980s. It makes accessories such as hats, high-heeled pumps, perhaps even gloves and red lipstick, desirable once more.
At the Body Map booth at Olympia, Stevie Stewart, who designs the collection with David Holah, was checking off the names of clients, including Gimbel's, Charivari, Bergdorf, Bendel's, in her date book.
...[T]he international retail fashion world seems to have caught on to young British fashion and has accepted the idiosyncracies of the British.
...[I]n London...were long skirts that stop below the calf, best in body-hugging stretch fabrics, like Helen Robinson's skirts with a single stripe down the side found at her store PX in Covent Garden.
...Body Map...models wear...tight, stretchy tube skirts...
Early in 1984, Crolla, an English fashion design team, showed a collection of flamboyant tapestry-like floral-print clothes....That March, Jean-Paul Gaultier, the French designer, showed an oversized, hand-embroidered sweater decorated with Crolla-like cabbage roses and geometric borders on the hemline and sleeves....[T]his single design...ascended from the streets of London to a Paris runway, then descended to American mall-quality acrylic...
As for Claude Montana, who is to big shoulders what Alexander Graham Bell is to the telephone, fashion is simple: 'Shoulders forever,' he says.
The Reagan influence wafted through the major cities like heavy perfume. Where the young had once been the apple of the fashion eye, the elders took over, wearing expensive suits and ball gowns. And youth followed the example. In its way, nothing said more about fashion than all those 15-year-olds in wing collars and black ties swimming like well-bred minnows in the wake of stately taffeta.
It doesn't take a social historian to observe that fewer people are wearing jeans than, say, a few years ago. There are fewer jeans worn to the Kennedy Center, fewer in Georgetown on Saturday afternoon, fewer jeans in high schools. Stores have reported a decline in sales, particularly the designer-label jeans.
Knickers are hardly a new idea. But not since the Twenties and Thirties, when young boys wore corduroy knickerbockers, have they been so popular.
Did you love the way your mother looked in the 1940s? If you did, you are in luck - because Yves Saint Laurent, clearly the strongest influence out of Paris, has designed a collection of haute glamour clothes for fall with roots in the Joan Crawford, grand-entrance era.
It is back to the history books if you care to comprehend what the Paris fashion designers are up to...[T]here is a heavy dose of the 1940s in the fall designs, with broad-shouldered suits with fitted bodices, tightly nipped waistlines, and peplums, plus a heavy injection of the early 1900s...
Last season [designers] took a decidedly different route: very sophisticated, very dressy, 'grown-up' styles reminiscent of the ones mothers and grandmothers of the fashion crowd had worn in the '30s, '40s and '50s. Peplums, skinny tight skirts, stiletto heels, hats and gloves. A lot of the designers showed that kind of fashion and a lot of stores put it on the racks.
'People are dressing up again and wearing dresses rather than jeans or sportswear,' says...[dressmaker] Stanley Love, the head of Joseph Love Inc.
[A] more refined, ladylike look is the mood of many of the clothes...In the spirit of being very dignified, designers have revived the jacket and dress ensemble.
...[M]any of the clothes this season...came complete with hat and gloves...
...[B]lack is a major theme throughout all the Paris collections...
...'This is the way I dress all the time,' said Lisa Lin, who was wearing black velvet and lace to the Siouxsie and the Banshees concert...Most of the clothes were black...Michelle Hammond...dressed extravagantly in belted black lace and pleated chiffon skirt. 'I dress this way all the time.'...Erica Hoffman...was wearing spider-web gloves with her black outfit...[T]he predominant scheme was black – black clothes, black shoes, black hair.
...[O]ver a year ago [1984],...London designers Scott Crolla and Georgina Godley began making clothes with chintzes and tapestry fabrics that were meant to furnish homes.
Crolla, a shop on Dover Street, was often the fashion crowd's first stop for beautiful chintz shirts, brocade Nehru jackets and crushed-velvet pants, an opulent look sought out equally by men and women. In fact, these clothes are so popular that they are carried by other shops in London, and are sold on a limited basis to American stores so that there will be enough to go around.
...[T]he highly publicized chintzes shown this season by Ralph Lauren and Bill Blass are merely confirmations of a trend begun by Crolla...
Designer Katharine Hamnett made headlines in March 1984 when she wore one of her '58% Don't Want Pershing' T-shirts to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's fashion reception at No. 10 Downing Street.
Claude Montana and Thierry Mugler both structured their jackets with their signature exaggerated shoulder padding.
