Seriously though, why did people look like such dumbasses in the 80's?

That's 2000's fashion, not modern fashion. Get on with the times, gramps

Those clothes are from the 90s though.

IF THIS IS IT

/this
it wasn't a fashion trend. It was solicitation for male homosexual sex.

modern fashion is snapbacks and yoga pants

I DON'T CARE ANYMORE

SHOUT
SHOUT
LET IT ALL OUT

So is this the 80's thread?

Thanks for the facebook bullshit but that's not actually true at all. Sagging started in prison because the clothes they give you don't fit very well.

>80's car styling will never make a comeback like the 60's retro revival of the early to mid 2000's
;_;

>people not afraid of the future
This, I really can't feel or transmit an optimist feel about anything from this decade

I CAN FEEL IT

COMING IN THE AIR TONIGHT

>like the 60'sretro revival of the early to mid 2000's

Please do post some examples

The Mustang facelift from 2005.
The T-bird
The Prowler
The PT Cruiser

Although now that I think of it, those are more 50's-ish, aside from the Mustang.

I saw some niggers today wearing the pants falling off, however; these were older niggers. Most young black future jail inmates now wear their close much more normally, thanks to shows like Empire etc

rampant capitalism

Is there somewhere i can read about the evolution of fashion in the modern world?

How did it come to be that jeans are the go to bottom wear of both sexes these days?

What happened to poofy shirts?

I WANT TO KNOW

as dumb as it sounds, wikipedia has some ok articles for starters

just look for "1980s in fashion" etc

Thank you good sir

the 80's have made a minor come back in music and videogames(stuff like Hotline Miami and Drift stage and anything synthwave/retrowave) but it's mostly seen as a visual gimmick to abuse neon colors and synthetizer music rather than a widespread appreciation of it.

It hurts.

Yeah, its a real shame.

I still like retrowave though

Tell me about it.

good retrowave is legit the most fun music i've ever heard.

something i really love about the 80's is this blocky aesthetic to technology, the "Future is here" current of design, absolutely nothing organic, creamy-colored, or subtle about it. Everything looks industrial-grade and only taking form due to it's design's inherent 'rightness' coming together, not a single deliberate stroke of style, only genius.

Everything has it, from the sci-fi weapons in all the classic blockbusters to the real life examples, from the fantasy vehicles to the fancy sporters, in every home appliance and at the heart of a massive sprawling complex holding a world-ending machine or something. I love it to death.

Not to mention that early digital love affair.

The best cartoons too.

>Posting a silent DYRL webm

You should be ashamed.

>no homo, I swear!

Found the guy with his pants around his ankles

No sound on Veeky Forums my man.

Yeah, so link to it. There's a thread on /wsg/ specifically for that.

Too lazy.
youtube.com/watch?v=bEkdUZPVUns

last thing about the 80's i love: the end of the cold war having a most decidedly American flavor.

The late 70's was the tiping point in which the tactical and strategical parity between the two superpowers finally gave way thanks to the mass introduction of electronics and exponentially more complex conventional weapons to the arsenal of the western block. It was the most advanced the arms race got and NATO finally had the strength to provoke the Soviets in exercises like Able Archer and Reforger.

There were wonder weapons everywhere, painted in good old Woodland camo, riding along the German border, waiting to scramble and stop that tank rush dead in it's tracks.

I love cold war aircraft.

youtube.com/watch?v=aleGdcn295w&list=PL-12AQ0XB5HIPBcIA9ofn0-yX3EZcQdix

cold war machines in general are the sexiest thing

Its in that period before the VLO meme became supreme.

Planes still looked different from each other.

Recommend some Retrowave.

>Prototype Benelli caseless SMG

Miami nights 1984
Kavinsky
Lazerhawk
Power Glove
Perturbator
Carpenter Brut

youtube.com/watch?v=3KZlggHqU7M

fuck, just put on the Hotline Miami soundtrack and go from there

Here's a couple songs I really like.
youtube.com/watch?v=DaHUCrVU9eI
youtube.com/watch?v=7n4sngNndQE
youtube.com/watch?v=ojlFZIo5YjE
youtube.com/watch?v=-V1OOwddXQs

Thanks.

>tfw the G-11 was actually on the verge of being the West German infantry rifle, but reunification squashed it
Fucking ossies reeeeee

G-11 was pretty shit for a military rifle desu. The internals were ridiculously delicate and complicated. H&K wanted any broken guns to be sent back to the factory for repairs.
The caseless ammo was pretty fragile too. It could easily break in shipping. It also caused overheating issues because brass casings actually absorb a lot of heat that would otherwise get transferred into the chamber.

hold on now, that's just not true.

The G-11 was ridiculously impractical, impossible to mantain in field conditions and prohibitively expensive and time-consuming to make. It worked and it worked well, it just wasn't fit for a "hand to every 18 year old conscript" kind of role.

Apparently Dynamit Nobel fixed the overheating issues.

it's a goldmine of sexy guns isn't it

...

Goldmine of sexy everything.

If you haven't seen it, then you should check out the Forgotten Weapons video on the Jackhammer.
youtube.com/watch?v=-VKGhqIl4Gw

Ian is great.

I'd also recommend NuclearVault for archival footage of various 80's weapons programs.

sure have, but glad to witness someone displaying impeccable taste anyhow

Too bad Gunsmith Cats takes place in the mid 90s

I love Sonoda character designs.
And his autism towards details.
youtube.com/watch?v=w952ocP4g38
That's Riding Bean you nerd.

80's weebshit truly was glorious.

>1989 prototype for a 90s manga

Still 80's.

This.

The 80's is the pinnacle of neoliberal """""culture"""""

a motherfucking DuckTales
I used to play this game.

>the nostalgicism for the 50's ever since Fallout.

whats wrong

and?

...

That's homophobic :^)

Perfect. You can measure a girl's personality by their teeth.

So hers is crooked?

t. irrelevant ideologues

eh 90's was desu, rapacious neoliberal 'reforms' in eastern Europe, east Asia and Latin America, Clinton as president. 89-01 was the apotheosis of pre-crash neoliberalism

Hasn't 50's nostalgia been an American staple since like the 70's?

80's were the worst in music lel.

no

Yes. Happy Days revived it.

>when the US military still rolled with civvie trucks with DIY rattlecan camo

It wasn't so much they weren't afraid of the future (a lot of people were in fact), so much as I think most just didn't give a fuck. There was a sense of "worlds gonna end anyway, better live it up" about everything. So people decided to live fast and excessive.

80's music is terrible without nostalgia goggles

what a terribly broad generalization, calling an entire decade's worth of music "shit".
I wasn't even born in the 80's, and I still like 80's music, so it certainly isnt nostalgia.

80's music implies cheesy electronic guitar and synth leads, and even more cheesy reverbed drumwork
which are all terrible without nostalgia goggles

myabe you should actually listen to more 80's music than just listening to the top 40 shit.

obviously there's more to 80's music than hair metal and top 40 new wave but for the major part 80's music is associated with that

just like how the 60's is all dadrock and the 2000's is all terrible R&B and rap.
each decade has its meme music, but that doesn't mean it all terrible.

2000's was nu-metal and rap more than anything.

Early 2000's top 40 R&B was decent.

desu I unironically like some nu-metal

CAN YOU TAKE IT ALL AWAYYY

CAN YOU TAKE IT ALL AWAYYYYY

I distinctly remember feeling like hotshit walking into jr high in my brand new Skids pants paired with my new hypercolor T-shirt. I was one of the cool kids that day, looking like a colorblind neon lumpy idiot.

but man,
>mfw I read so many posts in this thread about how awesome the 80s really were

PLEASE LET ME KNOW

Pleb located

Now you say that like it's a bad thing

ITT: Butthurt grandpas

I know, it's a huge bummer that us little dudes totally don't dress RADICAL like you did

We must seem like total space cadets

more like butthurt teens lel
nobody mentioned shit about you dweebs

100 Years of Beauty in 1 Minute - Episode 1: USA (Nina)
>youtu.be/LOyVvpXRX6w

Germany
>youtu.be/MEdEVJ_HQFU

Ireland
>youtu.be/D36r_lJBkQI

Korea
>youtu.be/5SWHjWtykns

There's a whole bunch more of these. Pretty awesome, honestly. The 80's decade is nuts compared to the rest of them in (almost) every single video though, all over the world.

What's your fave decade aesthetic anons? Why was the the 80's look was so crazy to the max?

80s thread without an MR2?

Based.

These things are crystal pepsi tier death machines. I love mine so much I'll probably die with it.

>tfw pop up headlights are kill
>tfw cars are forever destined to look like heavily constipated bars of soap

Here's the dudes
(only two, both for USA)

youtu.be/3-tJ5erxh4Y

youtu.be/z36GQyInzhk

Which decade do you belong in?