Fashion Historian Fact Checks Stranger Things' Wardrobe | Glamour 

Stranger things did everything so great - the outfits, environment, pop culture, etc.

The drawings just feel...disproportionate? Like they all just have really low waists/long torsos especially when the jeans are supposed to be high waisted

You guys should have done Billy, Nancy's Mom and Will's Mom. They were key characters too

Fashion still moves slower in the rural areas because of poverty and viewpoints.

Ok you guys did a good job on research this time and the outfits are pretty good but Steve’s model looks like he’s about to face a shounen anime villain

i hate the model things they look weirdly anime and unproportional - also kind of unnecessary when things are actually historically accurate

I loved that Nancy's mom had at first a very 1970's hair look, I mean it makes sense, she's a mom

i loved Eleven's outfits this season. They were so iconic

Whats up with these drawings? They're not following whats she's saying a 100% and there are a lot off smal technical things that are bothering, like the way shoes, hands and general proportions are drawn. But other then that, great video.

Nancy's hair and make-up often remind me of Sloane's in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, which strikes me as absolutely correct. The everyday look for teen girls in the early to mid 1980s was often more pretty and doll-like than the wild make-up tutorials and sky-high big hair people would have you believe we were all wearing back then. It just wasn't the case.

0:16 Hi, I’m Renata Bliss and I’m your freestyle dance teacher.

The narrator's voice sounds so loud compared to the fashion historian. They should have balanced the sound better.

can we just talk about the way they drew steves hair

You should do that 70s show!!!

I hate to say it, but again, the art is... very weird. This is by far not the worst you've had, but the proportions are all off- why do the characters all have extremely long torsos relative to their legs? I don't know whether you're choosing poor artists, or whether you're underpaying the artists and therefore they can't give you high enough quality since they're not being appropriately compensated for their labour, or what it is... But it really shouldn't be that difficult to commission adequate art. Virtually every single one of your "fashion historian fact checks" videos has comments complaining about the quality of the illustrations. By now I'd think you'd have taken note of that...

When I asked my mom (who was 15 in 85) about how she felt she said they were all extremely accurate. Especially the moms. She was saying that she dressed like Max while some others at her school dressed like El.

8:22 "By the 1980's, pop culture and branding had really begun to *EXPLODE"*

You really did Steve dirty with his model's hair lmao

As a person who was 10 years old in 1985, I can say that no one wore camisoles under their clothes. The exception would have been the occasional set of Wonder Woman Underoos

As someone who was same age as Steve/Nancy at that time (and lived in small town), I never wore camisoles (before I needed a bra or after) and I never saw anyone wear suspenders except maybe one or two at school dances. The shirt color on El wasn't that out of range. I had shirts in those colors back then. I also had the fluorescent abstract/geometric designs as well. Oh yes, I used Faberge Organics and had a mullet in 1984 (I'm a woman though I dressed more like Steve than Nancy because I loathed dresses and mostly wore jeans and tee shirts back then, but I would have worn her jeans and red jacket). And, yeah I had fingerless gloves but the jewelry I wore would have been bigger, depending on the event, particularly if I was dressing up. There was a great podcast with the stylists for Stranger Things discussed how they did it. Interesting vid. Thanks for sharing.

Is it just me or does the fashion historian look like the female brad mondo.?

I wish they also talks about Max season 3 outfit. I really like her look there especially the stripe shirt, denim short, and red sunglass.

Love these videos but the annoyingly loud sound of the 'pencil' nearly ruins them for me.

They did do a good job, The only thing that bothers me is the colors definitely are put together very modern, (like the dark wash pants everywhere, when its suppose to be mainly light wash pants, or the print with color and black to tone it down shouldn't be there) secondly most the hair is so toned down, or barely done at all. I hate when they try to make the 80's fashion seem fashionable to apse the modern goer. small things, I don't like, but Its still does a great job and the objects they use are very very well done.

As someone who was born in 1977, thank you for doing this. Honestly I was hoping you would do Barb because her glasses were SO 1980s- I wore some a lot like hers.

*Me:* I’m really bored wish I had somethi *Glamour:* Uploads another video *Me:* Thank the lord

Season 3's clothes really took me back to my teen years, I love the show anyway but I really loved this season. I had a blouse almost exactly like the "accurate" blouse for Elle but mine had bright neon print. I have a photo of myself wearing basically that outfit except no suspenders lol

They should do Netflix’s The Get Down to get into 70s fashion!

Steve's hair drawing :D also, that shot of Prince thrown in for the glove reference was hot.

Lol. Love the drawing of Steve's hair. Just about right dwl

Two statements I love that were said 1. 1970s hold overs. Yes! Basically a new decade doesn't really kickstart until closer to 4-5 years into it because we're still transitioning out of the previous decade. And 2. Fashion moved much slower outside of the big city which explains why it always felt like my hometown was always 5 years behind.

Does anyone else hate the marker-scribble sound?

The camisole explanation finally made me understand why my mother, who grew up in the 80s, insisted on me wearing little vests under my clothing until about 10 (I fought her on them bc I ran hot, hated layers, I still do, and generally didn't see the point of them) then 2 yrs after ditching the vests puberty happened and bras 😓😅

you guys should do the Netflix series 'Hollywood' !! It takes place in the late 40s :)

Being an 80s kid stuff on tv at the time was more exaggerated version of we wore as kids. So looking to other 80s tv shows is never the best way to determine what was actual street fashion since for the most part was more flamboyant.

The fashion in Stranger Things is one of my favorite things about the show. It’s always so good.

Can we get these videos more often? They're Soo good but there aren't enough of them 😩

I grew up in a similar suburb to Hawkins back in that time, and I love this show because the styling is SO accurate to how it was back then.... really is like stepping back in time. I even had a pair of wayfarers and a 'Members Only' jacket back then! (Most shows that focus on that decade tend to go for the extreme looks seen in magazines and MTV, which is fun to look at, but really wasn't what 'real' people wore in small town suburbs at that time.)

The way she said “things began to really explode” while a Mt. Saint Helens t-shirt was on the screen 😳

You should do a part two of this!

Ells hairstyle is basically like my every day

dj tanner is such a fashion icon

Just a question regarding the scrunchie, in Heathers (1988) the characters wear scrunchies and refer to them as such, is it possible that the term was coined sooner than stated?

As someone who graduated HS in 82 and college in 86, the fashions and the music are like stepping back into my teen years.

They need to do a second video. Please! I want to know about Will's ridiculous bowlcut 😂

Why do they look like anime characters

9:22 just had to say it, BRIAN MAY

The thing that bugged me in the show was the haircuts on Mike and Will. Those Prince Valiant 'pudding bowl" haircuts were common on younger children in the late 70s and very early 80s, (and on women, going back to the 70's, often called the Dorothy Hamill haircut) The haircut was often seen in TV sitcoms of that era on young boys, and you would still see them on some less mature middle school boys, but by season 2 and 3, the kids are in high school and it's the mid 80's. They would not have still had those haircuts. They were outdated and way too childish. I graduated high school in 1982 so I have a good memory for what was the style of that time.

What about Max, Billy, Mike and the rest? Hoping for part two

In other words they got it pretty much perfect

What a great fashion historian, she was so informative.

I can’t stop laughing at the steve illustration HAHAHAHHA

I liked the video but the sharpie sound killed me so much! It gives me the chills

Makes me want to dress like it's summer of 1985 and I want to tell my crush that I like them so I reinvent my style according to the newest fashion

As someone who was around in the eighties, I can say, good job on this analysis! (One additional thing I'll note is that next year they have to bring Bugle Boy cargo style pants into the mix!) I do have to ask you, though, why are you talking about underwear we can't even see? (Like a camisole on El? Where do you actually see a camisole in any of those pictures?) Other than Nancy's bra, discussing underwear that's not seen is pointless, if you're critiquing accuracy - you can't critique something that you actually don't even know is there. El is old enough that she could have been wearing a teen bra - we just don't know, so why even discuss it as though you're critiquing it?

For a fashion historian, she definitely missed the mark on the Reebok freestyles, the ones worn by Sigourney Weaver were not freestyles at all, but a new shoe Reebok made for the movie dubbed “bug stompers” based off the Reebok basketball shoe the BB 5600.

Despite being born after the '80s, this video still reminds me me of my old age. 😂😂 I was born in February of '91 and mid-late '80s styles are pretty much what myself and my peers wore during the 90s as elementary school students. 😂😂😂

Eleven definitely would have had a bra -- I stopped wearing undershirts the summer after 5th grade lol. I graduated in 1985, so I had some issue with a few of the costume choices -- others were on point.

I was ready to discount this video since I was a teen in the 80s, but when this historian accurately fact checked the scrunchie she sold me. Well done, respect. I remember buying my first Scunci, they were hella expensive for a single one back then and they were packaged in a rigid plastic ball. But I gotta say I'm nostalgic for that thing because modern scrunchies wear out so darn fast compared to the ones in the 80s.

This is probably my fave RU-vid video of the month. I find fashion and its history/influences etc really intoxicating

We inherited our house& found 5 “members only” jackets. My boyfriend and I argued over whether his grandpa was in some kind of country club or something bc “it says members only! He’s got 5! He had to of!” We just dropped it with me thinking I was right and he just didn’t know. Apparently not. I owe my boyfriend and apology for an argument that is 5 years old lol

I love this segment but the stylistic choices of the inserts makes it so annoying to watch. It's very static. Pleas restructure.

I'm mesmerised by her immense and intricately detailed knowledge also hats off for the team to look into so much detailing for the fashion 👏👏

this is so cool please do a part 2 🙏🏼

I'm a year younger than the kids in this (I was 11 in 1983), so I wore these clothes and had the same soundtrack to my youth. I never wore a camisole underneath a shirt, we went to training bras. I don't know anybody who wore camisoles like this, and I saw lots of teenage girls in the changing room after sports! Agree with the point about Eleven's scrunchie, they were a little later, but the fashion is pretty much spot on. The early 80s had a lot of brown/green tones and high collars with frills on blouses (I have school photos to prove this!), the fluorescent stuff came later. There was a huge 50s revival with a famous ad campaign for Levi 501s with Nick Kamen - this one ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q56M5OZS1A8.html caused a massive slump in the sale of mens briefs in favour of boxer shorts, even though that's not what the ad was for. Edit: I was one of the few kids I knew who had braces (what we call suspenders in the UK!). They weren't that common. Mine were red and blue.

You should do a part 2! I love the artist ❤️

I love these fashion history videos!!

Love the breakdowns on these looks

I hope they cover Fantastic Beasts at some point. I love the costumes, and Coleen Atwood is pretty good with historical costumes (see Chicago (2002)). I love how accurate Stranger Things is, where FB really modernised a lot of things, for instance the shoes. The first movie is more accurate to the 1920s, but Crimes of Grindelwald is a lot more 1930s/1940s, which is so strange, considering it's still set in 1927.

I just love stranger thing so much. I never want it to end.

Yayyy finally the video ive been waiting for

being a fashion lover and stranger things fan, this video was soooo interesting and informative. PLS do more!!!!

Eleven is not a child is season three, she is fourteen so she would probably be wearing a bra

y’all rlly need to get a new artist

I’ve been waiting for this video for so long!!!!’ Btw WE NEED A PART 2 WITH ELEVENS YELLOW SHIRT

Next up: That 70s Show!

As teen of the 80s this is very cool

I can’t stop looking at the expert’s earrings!!

This is such a cool video, I love learning about the fashions well done!

Can this show do the Marvelous mrs maisel? I love the costumes on the show

why do they even need to talk about the “underwear” when we don’t see it? kinda weird

I would love to see actually accurate 80s hair in a 80s TV show. Like frizzy mall hair.

5:09 Sigourney Weaver wore a pair of Alien Stompers in the movie. They were made by Reebok though specially for her in the movie. The base model of the sneaker/boots were the Reebok BB5600. Great video. I've always wanted a Members Only bomber jacket.

all i’m gonna say is that will’s outfits in season 3 was such a vibe, he and el had the best wardrobe that season.

Perhaps this is a regional thing, but I was a teenager in the 80s, and we all wore our jeans skin tight. Both boys and girls. It wasn't until the Grunge thing in 1991 that people started wearing looser jeans. The only jeans I remember seeing like Eleven's "mall look" were children's jeans. I'm not sure how old she's supposed to be, but if she were a teenager in the 80s, she would be bullied for dressing like that.

Ach. My teen years now have historians grading them! ;p It's one of the things I've been most impressed with in ST--the hair and clothes could have been anyone I went to school with. (Though they've skipped the weird crew cut thin that a few of the guys had; it doesn't look as good on film.) I could pull out my yearbooks and see any of those looks, and the amount of time I spent braiding my hair tiny to crimp it... yikes. Next, they need bangs mascara, and I will be very surprised if we don't get a flashdance top.

I was 11 yrs old and consider 1985 as the year God blessed. I know each 80s year better than anyone in the planet. Everything in 11's wardrobe was spot on! I cried watching the mall scene because it was perfect. Sorry girl...you don't become a fashion expert through classes and google search....you live it!

I'm getting ready to go to an 80s concert and THIS is exactly what I needed!! Thank you

It's so strange seeing the fashions of my teen years being reviewed by an historian. I keep forgetting I'm old.

Please do more characters’ outfits!

@Glamour - Great video, thanks putting this on!

I loved Steve’s jacket so much I went out and bought one myself and they look great. It’s a little unfortunate that the modern reproductions in my expire ce aren’t the most durable jackets I’ve owned. I have had quite a few places where the stitching hasn’t held up all that well and I had to get it repaired after about a year of use but it’s my favorite jacket and I wear it a lot. As someone who daily drives this jacket during some seasons of the year, the funniest thing I’ve read noticed with this jacket is when you’re wearing a backpack and you go to slide it off your shoulder, the little epaulettes type things on each shoulder with the snap fasteners come un fasted every time I take my backpack off so if I don’t think to fix it it looks silly.

Please to other vids for Mad Men and Stranger Things! I have ideas! Megan, Barb, Karen, Sally, Pete, Harry, Roger, Bert, Don, Billy, Kali, Joyce, Dustin, Trudy, Robin, Erica, Lucas, Mike but he's dressed as a younger Steve, Hopper

Yoooooo, yall finally made the drawings soooo good. i see no complaints in the comments section... yet.

So much culture within details!! I loved this

I was 12 in 1983. The wardrobe easily checks out.

maybe u should do more to include other characters? i mean it's always good to have more of these vids. i love them

Sometimes it feels as if Stranger Things is more 1980s than the 1980s! I have to consistently remind myself that this is a show was made around 4 years ago now. I love how much there is to the era!

please do a back to the future fashion series! theres so many different times to look at

I had a pair of Reebok high top in the 80s. I loved them