Ah, the linebacker shoulder pads. I had the foam ones that I could put on my shoulders so I could add MORE shoulder padding to any outfit. HAHAHAHA!!! Teasing my hair, wearing my shoulder pads and trying to look like the women on Dynasty...
psssssst.....I still saved some of the removeable ones (the ones with velcro.....just in case lolAh, the linebacker shoulder pads. I had the foam ones that I could put on my shoulders so I could add MORE shoulder padding to any outfit. HAHAHAHA!!! Teasing my hair, wearing my shoulder pads and trying to look like the women on Dynasty...
Thank you! All my stuff is out, just need to throw it in the suitcase. I'll try and take a few pics out there. Some of the booths are really well done!
Oh, yikes... I had forgotten about those &%$##@ shoulder pads! I have wide shoulders anyway, and I'm short-waisted. At barely five feet tall, can you imagine how silly I looked with my shoulders out to THERE???Ah, the linebacker shoulder pads. I had the foam ones that I could put on my shoulders so I could add MORE shoulder padding to any outfit. HAHAHAHA!!! Teasing my hair, wearing my shoulder pads and trying to look like the women on Dynasty...
Thank you! All my stuff is out, just need to throw it in the suitcase. I'll try and take a few pics out there. Some of the booths are really well done!
That was when I got into wearing H scarves, so that at least I'd have something hanging down vertically in front, to compensate for the width across the shoulders. 
I am (well, at least was) 5 '7.5" so the shoulder pads, as long as they weren't too large, was a good look for me (at least back then..lol). Of course, you had to add a additional 5 or 6 inches with the platform shoes!Oh, yikes... I had forgotten about those &%$##@ shoulder pads! I have wide shoulders anyway, and I'm short-waisted. At barely five feet tall, can you imagine how silly I looked with my shoulders out to THERE???
Were platform shoes in still around the 1980s? I thought they were more of a 1970s look? I was in the business world in the 1980s, so I was all about Ferragamo pumps with 3" heels. And I swear, they were comfortable! I could run down the street in them!
to think about it! I must admit I saved some as well but threw them out last year.Being tall and slim with long hair in those days I liked the shoulder pads as well. However, don't think it would work now!!! Still tall and no longer slim, gives me the
You never know, oreo... the syle might come back! As they say: everything old is new again! And unlike miniskirts (which have come back several times, but are only for the very young), shoulder pads would work for (ahem) us more "experienced" gals. Or rather, they'd work for you and Izzy and skyqueen, because you're all tall. They'd still look pretty silly on me, since I haven't gotten any more height since the 1980s!
The only thing that would possibly cause me to wear shoulder pads again is the fact that it was the only time that I didn't feel the shoulder strap of my overstuffed shoulderbag dig into my shoulder!!!You never know, oreo... the syle might come back! As they say: everything old is new again! And unlike miniskirts (which have come back several times, but are only for the very young), shoulder pads would work for (ahem) us more "experienced" gals. Or rather, they'd work for you and Izzy and skyqueen, because you're all tall. They'd still look pretty silly on me, since I haven't gotten any more height since the 1980s!
Speaking of the Lower East Side and food, do you remember Yona Schimmel for knishes? It's still there, on Houston Street (pronounced "HOUSE-ton" of course!) And Katz's Deli, with their sign that dated all the way back to WWII: "Send a salami to your boy in the army"? (That one only rhymes if you say it with a New York accent, LOL!)
The only thing that would possibly cause me to wear shoulder pads again is the fact that it was the only time that I didn't feel the shoulder strap of my overstuffed shoulderbag dig into my shoulder!!!
Th express bus driver that drove me to and from work every day to midtown back in the 70's, used to make a pit-stop at Yona's at least once a week so passengers had a delicious snack on the way home! Went to Katz's recently, and it's still exactly the same (just more expensive). And ....I have not lost my Noo Yawk accent! I don't know if that's a good thing or not. Wait a minute....what accent? I don't have an accent!!! You have the accent!! Fuggedabouddit!!![/QUOTE]
Couldn't agree more!I love reading all of your reminiscings! Sometimes I feel as though I was born in the wrong era. I grew up in the 70's, came of age in the 80's. Was there ever a decade of uglier clothing than the 80's? NO, there was not.
Ah, the linebacker shoulder pads. I had the foam ones that I could put on my shoulders so I could add MORE shoulder padding to any outfit. HAHAHAHA!!! Teasing my hair, wearing my shoulder pads and trying to look like the women on Dynasty...
Thank you! All my stuff is out, just need to throw it in the suitcase. I'll try and take a few pics out there. Some of the booths are really well done!
agreed
Haha. Small shoulder pads in a blazer or a Chanel jacket style is nice though....
You mean that you didn't like the spandex/lycra sausage casing neon leggings?Couldn't agree more!
