Teens Try What Life Was Like In 1984

[@TheJustineCredible]

As someone who actually graduated HS in 1984, DO NOT USE movies for fashion info. Always remember: Hollywood DOES NOT equal Real life! Rarely did teen girls wear skirts as a part of "casual wear." They were usually for more dressy occasions. Jeans, early leggings, and causal pants that narrowed at the ankles were WAY more commonplace. "Pegging" one's jeans was a skill nearly EVERY teen girl in 1984 knew well! Leg Warmers were ONLY ever worn over jeans or leggings, never on bare legs. They were inspired by "Dancewear" but how they were worn for everyday use was much different. Very few girls wore windbreakers, that was mostly guys and near Retirees. The older ladies who did wear them usually wore them as "cruisewear." Jazz dance shoes were commonplace, as were Keds classic white sneakers...and hightops for the more "urban" look. A typical days attire for me, in HS would probably have been leggings, with legwarmers, and an oversized sweater. (usually stolen from my dad) - Or jeans, legwarmers, an oversized button down shirt and a men's vest and tie! To this day, I still wear oversized button down shirts sans the vest and tie. Oh...and Polished Cotton pants/jeans were VERY popular!

[@stefaninafla]

Demin skirts were pretty popular though. The dresses with knit on top and satin ruffles showed up a lot too.

[@suran396]

You're right, that was a pretty poor attempt. I do agree with denim or faux leather skirts. The closest she got was the sportswear for the tall guy in group 2, the jazzercize stuff for the group 3 girl, but only for a very limited group and mostly only when going to a work out, and the leather jacket/t-shirt/jeans girl. She completely missed: ripped t-shirts (girls.and guys,) concert t-shirts (mostly guys, but girls, too) and muscle sweatshirts (guys,) parachute pants (guys,) silver, dangle jewelry (girls,) and suede ankle boots (girls.) 😮

[@lisayoder5686]

Lucky you that discovered leggings before 2009. They are the cutest wardrobe starters ever created...I was always super uncomfortable wearing jeans or 'slacks' to school in the 80's.

[@daisyjo88]

@@suran396I remember those suede ankle boots so fondly!

[@starshake8998]

I had all kinds of skirts by '86-'87, '88.

[@Pabz2030]

Meanwhile as someone who was 16 in 1984, I can assure you only the people on the TV dressed like that. We wore jeans, T shirts, sneakers and baseball caps mostly. Maybe it would have been a good idea to have some GenX'ers consult on this rather than another Zennial 80's Google Expert?

[@dwiggins1]

Yes!!!!

[@deedrole5296]

we wore colored jeans with high tops...acid wash jeans, denim on denim, jelly shoes cloth mary janes and chinese slippers slouchy socks and leg warmers and incredibly tight jeans that often required a wire hanger to do up the zipper

[@PraveenSrJ01]

My first memory was when my sister was born on June 21, 1986 when I was age 2 and a half

[@kommentkingtopdogboss]

Facts ... the whole saved by the bell attire is off for the most part ... we tight rolled our jeans at the bottom ... caps and ts for sure ... were not really a lot of style options like today ... if there was an 80s style ... I think it would be more about hair style, hair spray , maybe women in shoulder pads ... skinny ties ... weird sun glasses ... stone washed jeans ... idk... stuff like that

[@Starteller]

Yes, only the "follower" type wears Madonna, Michael, Prince, etc. outfits. I had only fluo lace, t-shirts with bands and a Walkman I had a cousin who was wearing Madonna-style

[@LostInSpice]

I was 15 in 1984. Nobody used the word Narbo and they weren't mall maggots. They were mallrats.

[@DedraAmbroseandSnow]

I was 14 lol

[@TimRock1269]

@@LostInSpice Mall Rats exactly!

[@Maisygirl1974]

I was 10 and I was definitely a mallrat. I’d still be a mallrat if malls hadn’t started dying. R.I.P Malls 😢

[@jamesoverholt878]

Denying how narbo you were in the 80s is totally narbo.

[@michellegrimm3991]

Yeah I never heard narbo either and I have yet to come across any Gen Xer who has. Mall maggots didn't sound right either then I read the mall rat comments and I was like ah that's what it was!

[@paulhill7928]

It wasn't all just pop music back in '84. Each group had their own vibe and style. You had punks with their crazy mohawks and leather jackets. Reggae fans rocked those green, yellow, and red colors. Metalheads were all about the black shirts and denim with studs and patches. Goths looked super dark and dramatic, like straight out of a Victorian novel. New Wave and Synth-Pop folks dressed like they were on Miami Vice, with those bright pinks and blues and big shoulder pads. Hip-Hop fans were all about the Adidas tracksuits, Kangol hats, and big gold chains. R&B and Soul fans went for that glamorous look, with sequined dresses and big hair, just like Tina Turner and Whitney Houston. Your music genre was like a badge that showed who you were and how you wanted to be seen.

[@sander_bouwhuis]

As someone born in 1974 and having actually lived in 1984, I think you are missing the 'feel' of the 80's. Things like : no smartphones (not being able to reach someone, and you had to go to the library to look things up), using computers was very user unfriendly (crashing a lot and having to type commands in DOS), tv screens were really small and low resolution, the hairdos and moustaches, ...

[@LilyBecca]

Those are not the Cabbage Patch dolls we played with. I don't know what those are, but our dolls had cute little bottoms with the Xavier Roberts signature. I still have my 1984 World Traveler in the box. He went to Spain.

[@ericmm6822]

I believe the reason Richard Simmons wasn't "fit" was because he struggled with being overweight and lost a lot of weight with Jazzercize and wanted to share it with people. It wasn't really geared towards young people looking to get strong, it was for older people looking to move more.

[@Altmetalpunk]

His whole thing was about feeling healthier. Showing that fitness was about more than just how you looked. My mom did a couple of his programs in the 90s. Weight loss was part of it but not key, it was more about being mobile, eating healthier, and having a stronger cardio system.

[@trogdortheburninator3621]

And bow we prancerize

[@MikirraGaming]

I worked out to his videos a lot and I even used it as inspiration to guide my mom and older sister in a few work outs.

[@aaronlayes4485]

He was done dirty he didn't deserve the level of criticism we gave him as a society. He did good for a lot of people and I'm glad he was an American icon. He reminded me a lot of the exercise groups of Sweden and Norway

[@loonylovesgood]

That’s how all exercise should be. It should be about being healthier, not trying to achieve some ridiculous aesthetic.

[@DSonthehomestead]

Born in the 70s grew up in the 80s. No one I knew or went to school with ever dressed like that.

[@disposablehero4911]

Yeah, basing stuff off movies is the perfect way to be wrong about something.

[@danamichelle1290]

@DSonthehomestead They forgot to roll those girls hair on tiny rods too, with the poofy side ponytail. 😆

[@NotSoMuchFrankly]

No persons over 40, living or fictional, were consulted during the making of this video.

[@DaMoNarch91]

Facts

[@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396]

Still rad though.

[@martinbuhrer3893]

"Actually, my mom's calling, so I gotta peel out." A for effort, girl. But in 1984, there's no way for your mom to get a hold of you if you're not in shouting range. 😉

[@krisdiperna3929]

So funny how she checked her wrist for her Apple Watch!

[@KOZMOGRAFX]

Gelled hair. Shoulder pads. Simmons drums. Parachute pants. Leg warmers. Fitness clubs.

[@Josh-vc2ul]

They should have gotten a person who was a kid or teen then, to direct this. The Wedding Singer got it more right

[@lLushKitty]

To be a Betty was a reference to Betty from The Archie's comics. Not from The Flintstones. Also, it's Mall Rats. Not Mall Maggots. Other slangs: Aweome Bag/Bag Face Bail//Bail Out Barf/Barf Out Gag Me/Gag Me With a Spoon Gross/Grody/Grody To The Max Melvin Totally Like/Like, Ohmigawd Tubular Tripendicular Spazz Space Cadet Spacing Cool Geek/Dork/Nerd/Dweeb Mondo/Mega/Massive Poindexter (I can't remember the rest) And the fits are all sorts of TF?! 1984 styles were Cyndi Lauper, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Flashdance, and Prince. Chic jeans, stirrups leggings, oversized shirts with wide belts... Fannypacks weren't a thing until the 1990s.

[@avant-punk]

I was going to comment that fanny packs weren't a thing in 1984 but you covered it. but where I live in SoCal they started getting big around 1988-89.

[@rcschmidt668]

You are 💯 right on The Archies. The girls were Betty and Veronica.

[@aimeejo3405]

I said the same about Betty. You could be a Betty or a Veronica.

[@ambitaz]

Yeah, y'all should have consulted someone that had actually been alive in 1984

[@minenoturs4271]

*THiiiiiIiiiiiiiS!*

[@maladyofdeath]

Yeah this whole thing is meh.

[@garygretarsson]

Hahahahahaha

[@barbaraayarza5352]

Like.. They had 10%... Lol

[@Jovixgal]

Mall-maggot is new to me. Mall-rat on the other hand... I think the people who put this together should have asked their parents to fact check them.

[@leslietaylor4458]

On the air popper the little measuring cup on top was used to melt butter while it popped

[@KevyNova]

You can tell this video about the ‘80s was made by people who didn’t live through the ‘80s.

[@lumav7440]

Yup they just took scenes from movies and thought that's what it was.

[@jj4774ns-te5px]

Definitely

[@suzilindblad5207]

I was in high school in 1984 and i have to say, i wish i could be there helping y'all with this cuz this is like the Halloween dress up version of the 80's.😂

[@cannonrosenau2135]

If you were dressed like Marty McFly's mom then that is 50s fashion because he went back in time! Math

[@MariaGarcia-rn2xt]

I was a junior in high school in 1984, and we never wore things like that except the bracelets. What they're wearing in what people wore in the movies.

[@douglasbrittain7018]

I was a junior in high school in 1984 and I can remember 1 girl who had that Madonna look to her. Most of the guys and girls wore very conservative clothes back then.

[@teripepper295]

I've never heard "narbo" or "mall-maggot" before. Mallrats, I've heard. But, like, totally gag me with a spoon! 😂

[@justincase1919]

That doesn't look like 80s fashion at all. By the way, Marty's mom, was not in the eighties wearing that dress, she was older then. She was from the 50s./60s. It's a time travel movie.

[@2rific_2]

^This!!

[@cariaus3758]

I was 15 in 1984, those were some of the best years of my life. Being a teen in the 80's was amazing... the music, the fashion, the movies, tv, everything was so cool. Madonna was really big in 1984 & most girls around the world were dressing like her. I live in Australia so we were also really influenced by Great Britain's music and fashion as well.

[@pipertarin68]

@@cariaus3758 I was more into Rick Springfield, Duran Duran & Culture Club❤ I still love 80's Music!

[@cariaus3758]

@pipertarin68 Oh yeah, those are great artists. They are still some of my favourites.

[@kpr2]

Considering their reactions to PogoBall (10:45), I wish you'd shown them lawn darts, lol. It's amazing any of us survived our childhoods. 🤣

[@davidpietarila699]

How come… they don’t have someone who was actually around in 1984 involved in this?

[@herbie_the_hillbillie_goat]

You noticed that too?! 😁

[@Hunter225]

@@davidpietarila699 That is what I asked someone. I was in that time. They should ask gen x

[@Cossieuk]

Ghostbusters, Gremlins, The Karate Kid, Conan the Destroyer and Star Trek III The search for Spoke all released in June 1984. What a hell of a month

[@jamesestelle7260]

May was just as good. Temple of Doom, 16 Candles, Footloose, Police Academy, Terms of Endearment, Firestarter, and Splash. Holy Crap what a great year for cinema.

[@dianefontaine7204]

They missed Valley Girl - the movie & the slang, “like fer sure!” “Bodacious!” “Ooh! Like gag me with a spoon!” Thrift stores were popular too - for clothes & womens’ jewelry, lots of big, bright heavy jewelry in colors to match the clothes. Buttons with messages on shirts and jackets were popular too.

[@smuckersmurfbarnes9932]

Moccasins were in and bandanas tied around your legs and high tops untied with neon shoes strings. Plus stone washed had just became popular.

[@colleenkeefer2545]

Don’t know what a mall maggot is but we had mall rats.

[@BarfingGerbil]

Nobody I knew called them "mall maggots", but "mall rat" was a common term in 1984.

[@suran396]

@@colleenkeefer2545 mall rat, yes. I believe I heard mall maggot when I was in my 20's early 90's and it makes sense, buy mall rat was what we were known as. Where I lived we were also known as desert rats, buy again, I didn't hear that term until several years after leaving HS and leaving the area!

[@thevisionary2007]

I never once heard anyone use Betty, Narbo, or Mall Maggot! Not in 84, not ever!

[@sheilaa1333]

I was coming to leave the same comment! 😂

[@pipertarin68]

Me either & I was 16 in 1984.

[@deanbarnette1602]

I graduated high school in 1984 & now I'm 58 years old. I wouldn't have never wanted to be a teenager & young adult in any other era than the 80s!! 💜💯

[@xaemosxone]

Yes the 80s were amazing I am 57, however I would have liked to have been in my 20s in the 1920s or 1960s with all the free love or the 1970s with all the Disco dancing lol However I am still pleased with the 80s. Far better than the 1990s.and beyond.

[@tamarac2267]

No teen worth their Aquanet would have been caught dead doing Richard Simmons! Maybe our Moms/Grandmas! 🤣

[@binxbolling]

Dressing like Marty McFly's young mother is not 1984 fashion. It's 1955 fashion.

[@eldonstrackeii7892]

This is not what we all wore at all. This is what Hollywood tried to sell as fashion at the time.

[@daffydlandegge3843]

Right... where are those grey and tan light jackets?.. leg warmers were an actual style and so were those colorful rubber bracelets you could get in the $0.25 machines in grocery stores. We boys always got the slime lol

[@josephmummerth]

never heard mall maggots in my area , we called the mall rats ! lol

[@DrkStorm1]

I was in Hs in 1984. No one dressed like that except maybe those on tv. The term was Mall Rat not maggot.

[@iamjmph01]

Jeeze thanks for reminding me i turn 40 this year. Y'all are always a blast to watch, especially these "kids throwback" shows...

[@TheBlindDyslexic]

I was 17 back in '84, and I remember all this stuff. God, it was delightful back then. No social media, you went outside and did things.

[@bonniemcmaken3966]

It says a lot that their initial reaction to the pogo ball is that it's dangerous.

[@danamichelle1290]

Today they would probably be made to wear safety glasses and mouth guards or something.

[@userafw]

There were far more dangerous things than that pogo ball in the 80s. We rode in the back of pick-up trucks without seatbelts. We rode bicycles without helmets. And yes, we drank from the garden hose, but the water was not as contaminated as today so we did not get sick from it. Seatbelts were optional in the 70s and early 80s in many states. Canada, however, had legalized required seatbelts already. The rear brake lights did not exist yet until the 90s. Back up cameras also did not exist yet.

[@rswear]

Reading the comments I like how all of us Gen-Xers who were teens in 1984 are calling them on the carpet. I am like, gag me with a spoon already, like totally.

[@chrish6001]

Some fashion was inspired by TV shows like Miami Vice or The Cosby Skow. Dance wear and sports jerseys were popular. It was common for girls to wear leg warmers. Jeans and many other fabrics did not stretch so they weren't as comfortable as they are now. In winter it was common gor guys to wear a pullover sweater with a lighter colour dress shirt in the same colour family underneath, like a read sweater with a pink dress shirt. The preppy look could include wool pants and a blazer with velvet trim. Equestrian themed clothing was also an influence.

[@popuptarget7386]

Growing up in the 80s....just no. This is a Hollywood interpretation of the 80s. Bits and pieces of this crap is what the rich kids wore, not the average.

[@juicesghost8501]

Obviously everyone would have their own experience, and this is just a snippet of an entire decade. Feel bad for you because I think it was the absolute best time to grow up in.

[@marcmccall237]

Exactly, my teen years was the 80s and normal people did not dress like that

[@popuptarget7386]

@juicesghost8501 I'm glad you got the best of the decade, but most of us only saw this in movies or what the rich kids had. No generation stereotype is accurate.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

This is definitely the extreme of the 80s but it was a good representation. They were off on the slang.

[@mercedesdrake9113]

its as if 10 years is too much to put in one video so they just showed a small part of some of the trends

[@ic07291]

My husband and I are 54 years old and back in the '80s we were from 10 years old to 19. We did not remember saying half of those words in our High School

[@JL-sm6cg]

A lot of those words came from California, and spread east slowly. My school in Michigan didn't start saying "gnarly" until 1988.

[@melanieswritingplans]

The Neverending Story film was released in 1984. I was only a year old but was introduced to it when I was about 6-7 and was OBSESSED. At 40 years old I got to see my favorite movie of all time in the theaters thanks to the limited time anniversary release. I'd *LOVE to see Gen Z react to this movie and others like it (The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth, for example). Also, kudos to Vivienne for knowing a lot of the pop culture references in the commercials!

[@scrumps101]

That was pretty spot on except the slang. I was 13 in 1984 in Long Beach and I’ve never heard the words Narbo or mall maggot. We didn’t use “peel out” either. We said “gotta jet” or “I’m bailing” (like bail out of here). Peel out was a term used to describe the noise a tire makes when it leaves rubber on the ground after accelerating too fast.

[@suzannejohnstone1810]

They’re just using Movie and Television stuff. Nothing actually Useful for real daily life.

[@cariaus3758]

"I'm bailing" was totally a saying here in Australia too. I was 15 in 1984.

[@scottmiller1300]

I thought "no doy" meant no kidding, no duh.

[@briencampbell1043]

Madonna would never wear a Mickey shirt in public. This is a caricature.

[@plutoyaldnil4750]

The betty was in reference to betty of archie comic fame😂😂😂😂

[@shalindria1]

I know. How did they get that wrong? She’s a Betty, not a Veronica. No doy!

[@norwegianblue2017]

Okay, I was in high school in 1984. The fashions you are showing don't look even look close to period correct for young people. They look like GenZ doing cosplay. I hate to break it to you guys, but most people dressed pretty normal in 1984. Unless you were into punk or heavy metal, it was mostly lots of jeans (girls did wear a lot of Jordache and Yes jeans), polo shirts, sweaters, t-shirts & khakis. The shorts were a bit shorter. Fanny packs weren't a thing until the 90s. Never heard any of that slang except for Bitchin. More like Rad, Sick, "As if", Dweeb and Gnarly. Now the hat the blonde girl is wearing looks legit. Just go watch Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Those are about right.

[@paulfreeborn1493]

Yeah, "Mall Rats" was a thing where I lived back in the day but never heard "mall maggot" until this video. Probably a lot of very regional specific variation on the slang--we didn't have the internet to "globalize" the slang.

[@gabem6863]

Fast Times for the average look and Ferris for the preppy look

[@steveishere7909]

Agreed

[@Sullivanin]

Penny loafers and colorful saddle oxfords. Popped collars.

[@xaemosxone]

Also you have to realize that in the 80s, what people wore was different based on where you lived. When I was on the country out in west Virginia was far different than it was when i was in the city in California,

[@stephaniejar3884]

But where were the charm necklaces, outrageous blue eyeshadow that extended past your eye sockets, and skyscraper bangs achieved with lots of Aqua Net and a Conair hair dryer? Ahh, the good ol' days!😂

[@littleshedevl]

This would be so much better if they actually did an experiment for one month. Had these kids LIVE in 1984. No cell phones, no internet, movies that are ONLY 1984 and older, music from 1984 and older, clothes only from 1984 or older. Just everything 1984 and they had to live that way for one month. These kids would lose their mind within the first week 😂

[@cambricjimenez4882]

And Im sure the average 80's kid would have had a melt-down living like an average kid from the 30s/40s.

[@littleshedevl]

@@cambricjimenez4882 probably, but this is a volunteer basis so you never know. Some people might enjoy the quiet

[@toddylu6869]

@@littleshedevl Like the awesome set of Stranger Things. I even had one of the shirts one of the actors wore. It was so weird seeing all the items I grew up with.

[@jmrdrgz]

When you said 40 years ago, I was like what! Then I remembered how old I was. Wow, 1984 doesn't seem that long ago.

[@pamelasmith6221]

Scary for sure.

[@Nodster]

@@pamelasmith6221 If your Gen X here is food for thought, there has been 3 generations since ours and a 4th starting next year I think it works out to be.

[@yiddena]

Agreed. I was a kid in the 1980's. Where are the gummy shoes and gummy bracelets?

[@jax2428]

We got a girl who wasnt born until 20 years after 1984 telling us how things were in 1984.😂

[@kathyh.7709]

@@jax2428 It kind of feels like they're making fun of us, doesn't it? Because this isn't even close!

[@felpawgaming8767]

Here in Footloose also reminded me the fact that Kenny Loggins was the soundtrack king of the 1980s I mean how it is a danger zone from top gun, Footloose, I'm all right from caddyshack. The Man literally was everywhere in the 1980s I remember seeing him with my dad when I was 9 years old

[@heatherpayne1995]

That D.A.R.E. fanny pack is pure nineties.

[@1teamski]

You really needed some Gen X folks to help you out with this. Having millennials doing this was pretty pointless when they themselves never experienced the 80's. Other than the walkman, this was a big miss!

[@JoyfulNoiseLearning]

😂😂😬😬

[@therese6447]

Sony Walkman!

[@MsTexas73]

I was sitting here thinking king the same thing. Like the clothes, the slang, the music, yeah. They needed GenX and Gen Jones to help.

[@danamichelle1290]

Hey now, I'm BARELY a millennia but I'd have made em wear acid washed denim jackets, bedazzled of course and a Cyndi Lauperesque tutu, some jeans with the zipper near the heels and HAIR, then more hair and no less than one side ponytail and a flattop! ❤❤❤😂😂😂

[@danamichelle1290]

And I don't mean that green scrunchie chick, I mean like a frizzy parasitic twin coming out the side of the head with gigantic bangs.

[@amabangu2769]

when she said she had a walkman my heart fluttered because there is still hope for this generation....

[@finnmccool1591]

If they wanted to serve them popcorn 1984 style, they should've had them make Jiffy Pop on a stove.

[@sonya4272]

I was 16 in 1984 and that was not the fashion back then. They should have had someone who lived through the 80s to show them the real clothing styles and chose clothing actually from the 80s 🤷🏽‍♀️😂

[@sirfoxalot434]

1984 was my first year of high school. Splash was one of the other hit movies that year.

[@finnmccool1591]

"Mall maggot?" You mean "mall rat?"

[@tammycenter8757]

Okay, in 1984 we did not say mall maggot. We said mall rat. We also never said no doy, it was no duh. Who ever did the slang for this video was definitely not around in 1984. That was my graduation year. I remember it very well and those are two slang terms that I never heard in my life until now. So remember kids. It's Mall Rat and No Duh.

[@SarahMichelle777]

Where i lived, I heard no doy once in a great twhile but yes no duh was what we usually said

[@adnap]

Mall maggot was 💯new to me ,but “no doyee” was at one point used interchangeably as much as no duh.

[@gristlevonraben]

i was a teen, it wasn't mall maggots

[@xzonia1]

Yeah, I remember mall rat. Kept scratching my head at mall maggot. I always said No Duh as well, but I think this is a regional thing and some did say no doy.

[@gristlevonraben]

@@xzonia1 we just said doey

[@pvtois780]

"Which is 40 years, this year." Hearing this made my bones start creaking. How dare you. Hahaha.

[@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396]

And this is how they view our lives now. :)

[@aaronbryan4430]

Nobody used Narbo, or mall-maggot. It was dweeb or dork, and a mall-rat.

[@bourbongeek]

I was 14 in 1984 and this is the first time I heard the term “Narbo”. Maybe it was a regional slang.

[@xaemosxone]

And they did not even address the Valley and "FOR SURE" or "TOTALLY" such a very limited and watered down version of the 80s. The movie the BREAKFAST club covered a more realistic depiction of the 80s. One thing I find odd, is why would they just pick 1984 only. They should have just done the full decade of the 80s.

[@romanpaladino]

Yep, I was there. Never heard narbo or mall-maggot.

[@AlexSadof]

@@bourbongeek same

[@jennm3321]

@@aaronbryan4430 Yep, that's what I remember as well

[@kristikalis7304]

I feel like you needed someone who actually was a teenager in the 1980s to help you get this video right. We all know that big hair was the largest trend of the time. No one dressed up like people in the movies. You didn't even have a punk feature. Better luck next time!

[@timothyepotts]

"1984 Fashion" as described by someone who clearly wasn't around in 1984... This was NOT the fashion in 1984! LOL! Well, maybe it was in music videos, but not in reality!

[@mena94x3]

The 80s were fabulous, just wish they would've consulted some people who actually had lived during that time, at least for the "fashion" choices shown.

[@StephenDanielJade]

Thank you, this video reminded me about the 80's. I don't remember ripped pants. We would ask our parents to patch ripped pants or buy new ones. I don't remember anyone using a fanny pack. I do remember fanny packs in the 90's. Hair was partially or mostly spiked up with lots of hair spray. I also remember small flyers were handed out after school about parties on the weekends. Makeup was bright pink lipstick or very dark lipstick and very dark eyeliner. Also the biggest radio cassette player the better, called boom box to play at school so kids would compete break dancing. Games at school were jax, tether ball, kick ball, jump rope, hop scotch and more. Cabbage patch dolls were bigger.

[@userafw]

Also, the earliest goths started showing up around 1984, listening to Sioux and the Banshees and the like. They wore red, purple, and black, plus black lipstick, and lots of dark eyeliner. They painted their nails black or red too. Part of this was the nuclear threat hanging over our heads since the Cold War was still ongoing. The Doomsday clock came out around this time.

[@mattburgess9439]

My sister ripped brand new jeans.

[@TacShooter]

Maybe two of those outfits at the beginning looked like what I saw in 1984. The most important thing you need to know about 1984 is MTV, when "Music Television" actually played music, not reality shows.

[@jennm3321]

My parents banned me from watching MTV (and HBO) through most of the 80s.

[@timeforchange3786]

The prairie dress/Gunne Sax was popular, headbands and leggings (let's get physical) was popular, jelly shoes, jean jackets with small buttons with words on them, Member's Only jackets, Rayban sunglasses. This video needs a redo

[@mf-qi8gn]

I remember jeans with polo shirts... topsiders... for the preppy look, then the askewed ponytails, big curly hair with huge bangs, tattered leggings and skirts with to look like Madonna when going out to the clubs.. Also padded shoulders in all the tops for work and lots of makeup!

[@mattburgess9439]

Chucks with jeans folded and rolled, t-shirts rolled.

[@cpeterson6974]

The cabbage patch kids weren't like that. Pogo ball didn't go that close to the ground and bounced A LOT higher. We called them Mall Rats, bot maggots. It was duh, not doy.

[@matildauebel7599]

I was born in 1986 and I'm not even american and I still knew. Embarrassing

[@lauragreaser3461]

Yes. They are showing new Cabbage Patch dolls.

[@CLJlovesmal]

Even the Cabbage Patch Kids I remember weren't like that, although I was born in 86. Also...I was so small...that's what I apparently wore as a baby... Cabbage Patch clothes and they were too big.

[@lauragreaser3461]

@@CLJlovesmal aww that’s so sweet.

[@mianhaeioi]

the only thing missing was layers. layers upon layers upon layers. mismatched pair of super high-top foldover converse, two pairs of slouchy socks, the more colors the better. two, three, four Swatch watches. a hundred goomy braclets - bonus cool points if you had the ones with words attached. scrunchy or banana clip and mile-high crispy bangs to complete the look. totally tubular!

[@Sunnyskies1955]

I wonder if their tune would change if they had to live the true 1980s experience, including not being able to "google" anything or do any online searches, having to go to the library and look for books in a card catalogue, not being able to text or facetime, not being able to use a cell phone, having to walk somewhere and use a pay phone, having to live at a time with far fewer anti-smoking laws (imagine people next to you on airplanes, buses, lecture halls, etc. smoking as much as they want), etc. There is no ideal time. There are pros and cons to every time period.

[@jamesoverholt878]

What you really have to do to appreciate the 80s is to constantly have the fear of nuclear Armageddon thrown in your face and say, "Meh."

[@danf.2158]

This was fun. It would be cool if the community page for this channel asked us what we remembered and liked about a particular era. Then we could all pitch in and share a few details that only those around would know. Not only would that hype an upcoming episode, but talk about having your research accurate & practically done for you! 😂 Just an idea.

[@cindyschronce1482]

Clothes were painter pants, vans, penny loafers, 501 blue jeans, Jordashe jeans, alligator and tiger shirts, leg warmers, op, Madonna style, lots more, I graduated in 1984 in California

[@blauer_Hase]

It's crazy that they looked more 80s before the change. The kid with the hoodie under his flannel, and the other kid in glasses and a t-shirt was me, and pretty much everyone I knew 😄

[@carebearkuz]

I can't believe they didn't say totally, fur sure, gag me with a spoon lol. I used all of these. 😊 They didn't have a boombox? I remember it all lol. Loved the 80s and the 90s. Big hair, spiral perm, banana clips...

[@degraafenator]

And the shoulder pads!

[@carebearkuz]

@degraafenator how could I forget shoulder pads lol. Every shirt, dress blazer had them.

[@burdburd2787]

Lol..someone who wasn't around in '84 dressing kids like the movie characters. This is not what we wore. BTW, where are the parachute pants???

[@nebajnim]

The Jams are about right though. (The shorts)

[@SheaMF]

If you’re going to dress like a movie, you kind of need to pick a movie that came out a few years before so the fashion makes it to mainstream.

[@kayasempire]

Depends on ya tax bracket lol, I wore whatever maybe corteroid and growing shoes...I was 7 so who cares

[@punkrockmom71]

I was 13 in 1984. I'd never heard most of those slang words. This was the time of valley girls. Girls wore the long shirts with the popped up collar and belts. Gag me with a spoon lol. Guys wore Izod and Docksiders. This was also the height of skateboarding, hair metal bands, and punk rock, so there were many more styles and it was very cliquey. Fun show, though.

[@imnotgonnasay3612]

Yes, yes, and YES!!!

[@Elucidus4]

The "Marty's Mom" image and matching outfit isn't from 1985, it's from 1955.

[@wildmarjoramdieselpunk6396]

There was a lot of 50s in the 80s. I remember countless dances with a 50s theme. I wore a poodle skirt a lot.

[@kennethflegel5736]

You got a point. I didn't catch it

[@the1butterfly]

Doll collector here just chiming in to be offended that you used modern Cabbage Patch Kids instead of vintage ones! They’re so easy to find, how could you botch that?!

[@csf7773]

@@the1butterfly right, those were some nephilim freak cabbage patch pound puppy hybrid, I jump scared when they pulled out those monstrosities 🤣🤣🤣

[@kathyl6677]

I thought you were going to throw them into a house for a day: no internet, wall phone, tv, VHS movies... etc. As far as clothes, I was in jeans and t-shirt. Nothing has changed there.

[@PenguinDust1969]

Some of the fashions they picked were off. No Member's Only jackets, no parachute pants, no Ray-Bans, no day glow laces, no Adidas, no bucket hats, no Izod shirts, etc...and not a single kid was wearing their collar flipped up. Things they did get right were acid washed jeans, Doc Martins, leg warmers, and too much lace accessories.

[@melb946]

No duran duran! No shoulder pads, lol

[@Playhouse76]

I can't say we ever used the terms "narbo" or "mall-maggot". Now, mallrat, yes.

[@leroylowe5921]

I never used any of the terms they were using.

[@firstinthedance]

@@leroylowe5921 The only one I ever heard was "bitchin."

[@mjt1517]

Never once heard of narbo...like wtf.

[@radioonemike]

I was 17 in 1984. This video brings back a lot of nice memories. So cool to see teens now having fun with some of the stuff from back then!

[@mena94x3]

10:24 What in God's creation are those?!?! Those are NOT Cabbage Patch Kids!!! I had 5. I went through the whole adoption process for them. I still have my Cabbage Patch Kids magazines. A couple of my aunts made boxes of clothes for them for me. I still have all of it, saving it for my grandkids someday...

[@YodasMama]

No way! You forgot the BIG HAIR!! AND AQUA NET!!; I say y'all missed it.

[@brianbessette6790]

“No doy” is wrong and must’ve got lost in translation. The phrase in 84 was “No duh”. You got the meaning correct, which is “Obviously!”. NO DUH!

[@MsTexas73]

Exactly. “No Duh”. And where I’m from we said “Bounce” instead of “Peel Out”. “I’m finna bounce up outta here.”

[@kg4wwn]

"Which is 40 years ago this year". That was uncalled for.

[@romanpaladino]

Totally

[@toyowheelin]

I feel called out

[@arentol7]

They should have shown them a 1980's cable box with the row of switches.

[@bpkliveproductions]

Spot on in some ways, but a lot of the movie fashion wasn't worn by most kids in my school. Except for a handful of girls dressing like Madonna. Lots of color and texture for sure, but most never tried to dress like celebrities. Also didn't mention female short hair (the Pat Benatar look), though it would have required one of the girls to get that cut. Definitely needed a metal-head or true punk rocker in this. The geek with the leather jacket totally didn't match. As a teen then in 84, I never got into the crazy fashion or trends, except maybe the Chuck Taylors, parachute pants, Izods and concert T-shirts or jerseys. I was the class clown in my school, so I didn't need any more attention upon myself :D MTV was most definitely a game changer then, since its inception in 81. That was our social media of the time! And the Walkman. I made my own mix tapes back then too (from my own vinyl records) from my Dad's 70's stereo system. And to make calls, should have had them use a rotary phone with a long cord, or have a pay phone with quarters handy. Missing in this: VIDEO GAMES (Intellivision and ColecoVision big at that time) and COMPUTERS with floppy discs/drives. (You could only store 1.44MB on them, as memory was still in Kilobytes). Of course the Mac would have been a nice transition from that 1984 commercial. Would have been funny having them work on that or a Commodore 64 or PC with DOS, and playing software text-only games like Zork, Planetfall or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. All that should be in a hopeful future segment of "Today's Teens with 80s Technology".

[@douglasbrittain7018]

In my region in the southeast I remember there was really more of a conservative look. Not very many computers because of expense of preprogrammed big floppy discs. Programing in BASIC was very long and tedious and the average Joe didn't have one. Remember the arcades were big back then. Record stores were fun to go to and bought mainly vinyl records back then. Had to be creative with your time and hanging out with friends on the weekends was very fun. Working for $3.35/hr didn't seem to get much even back then. TV was basic with the normal network stations with TBS.What a time it was and I was a Junior in high school.

[@3.k]

I was so curious to see their face when you tell them that there are no smartphones, and that the only computer you’ve heard of was in your dad’s office. And how you were going to meet your friends without texting or calling them. I’d totally watch a show where the teens try to live in the 80s for two or three weeks. 😊

[@goldensonggirl70]

Yes!!!!

[@Nodster]

2 to 3 weeks? that's optimistic lol

[@suzannejohnstone1810]

Marty mcFlys moms outfit was from 1950’s……

[@poit57]

I had to pause the video to see if anyone else pointed that out in the comments.

[@BenjiSun]

dude thought people actually dressed up like Marty McFly. and all the fit are all wrong.

[@pigdaddy95]

A "Betty" was not taken from The Flintstones. Betty was the girl everyone wanted, the sweet, beautiful, kind girl next door type. The character reference was from the comic series Archie. The two main female characters were Betty and Veronica and were basically the first representations of "frienemies". Veronica was jealous and catty and Betty was always kind and forgiving.

[@dalesplitstone6276]

My last name is Splitstone, and one of my nicknames in HS was Fred. Even I knew that the term Betty referred to the Betty of Archie comics.

[@davidowen5135]

The kids of today are hilarious...."that looks dangerous"....they have no idea how amazing it is that any of us lived through the 70s and 80s😂🤣😂😅!!!

[@GenJuhru]

Today, kids and microwave hacks

[@williamle-ed2nk]

i'm a relic from the 80s and this video did not take me back in time

[@alisonhillary]

Those toys were NOT the 1984 versions! Nor was that a 1984 pogo-ball commercial. All of those versions had to be from about a decade later, at least. And not one mention of Pac-Man? Pac-Man was everywhere - even a cereal.

[@randomexploring541]

Bold is NOT the perfect word to describe 1984! Rad is! 😂🤦‍♀️🙄😳😮‍💨🤩👏

[@TinaBrown1166]

We called the theatre and listened to the recording to see what was playing

[@ckl8a]

and you had to wait soooo long if your movie was at the end of the list...better be quick with the pen and paper or you're gonna have to listen to it all again!

[@douglasbrittain7018]

@@ckl8a Me and my friends back then looked in the newspaper . Once in a while when you had a favorite movie theater you liked you would call and listen to the lineup.

[@ladwigs]

Better yet, take them to a place, where they have to live 80's, for at least a week,(no computers, cel phones, or DVD's)