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!
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?
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
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
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
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.😂
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, ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.) 😮
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.
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 🤷🏽♀️😂
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 😂
@@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.
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.
@@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!
Yeah, I was born in the mid 80s so my experience is mostly the 90s. That being the case I can't deny the term existed. However if I was asked to define "mall maggot" I'd probably just go "Is it like a mallrat?".
@@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.
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.
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!
@@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.
"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. 😉
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 😊
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!
That jetpack at the Olympics is why Gen-X is still pissed off. We saw a working jet pack and we still don't have them for private use. We were promised jetpacks and flying cars and nada...
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?!
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...
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.
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.
@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.
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
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.
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.
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,
she only got the molly ringwald outfit correct... wearing the back to the future vest was all about the size... it could not be oversized like that... maybe the guy in the leather jacket but only weirdos dressed liked that then... this is sooo awful
@@VenturaIT Reminds me of my mom’s reaction to depictions of the 50s where every girl wore a poodle skirt and every guy wore a plain white T with Lucky Strikes rolled up in the sleeve.
"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!
If you were a follower you were. Some people like they said were dressing like Madonna, Prince, Michael Jackson, etc. The only things I liked were my fluo laces and my walkman. I couldn't leave the house without them
Ok, so the why are we using Leah Thompsons (aka Marty’s mom) outfit. Really, you do realize that is her outfit from 1955 right. The year Marty and doc Brown goes back to!
80's = tight jeans, leather & jean jackets, concert shirts, spandex, off one shoulder shirts with a tank underneath, parachute pants, hair bands, freestyle music, the first rap/rock songs, and roller skating. Those were my teen years
LOL. We all wore jeans and t shirts back then. Most of us thought the "fashion" back then was stupid. "Fashion" was for weird people from Hollywood..If you were from middle America, you wouldn't be caught dead in this stuff. Just love it when people who haven't lived in an era think they are experts on this stuff.
@@markantony3875 I would disagree, never judge anyone by what they wear. Clothes do not make the person. Without people cloths are worthless. Clothes are just an expression of owns personal taste. I prefer to wear all black, most of the time, this doesn't make me evil or strange. Some people wear a lot of pink, or green or other things. Some are into a lot of jewelry, which I find freakish personally, however there is nothing freakish about it. Some like hats, some like boots ect ect ect. Only make judgement of a person on their actions and who they are as a person. I have met many people in my life that I would never dress like however they turned out to be very amazing people. Such as Patch Adams, how I had the pleasure of meeting. The biggest issue with people is Judging others on appearance without even talking to them. Now if you hear them talking about things that are in total opposition to you or your beliefs, then yes they are unexceptionable to be around. Just a word of positivity in social standing. How you judge other sis much like the 5% of the top richest people in the world judge everyone as being of no value and so freakish.
I grew up the the 1980s and was a teen in 1984! The 1980s was one of the best decades to grow up -- it was a very happy decade. The louder 80s clothes in this video were only for the fashion victims, almost nobody actually dressed that way. However, in 1984, nearly everyone dressed like the way these teens are dressed in 2024, and the more subdued 80's styles were also common. (If they went back to 1984 dressed in street clothes for 2024, they'd fit right in, they'd look completely normal.) Also, this video only caught a few of the media influences of the time. There was so much more in 1984.
