[Closed] 80's fancy dress ideas.

Go as Thatcher.

Go as Thatcher.

I like it 8)

Offensive, without being offensive.

Marty McFly

Margaret Thatcher, but in spitting image guise.

Space Shuttle first flight was 1981.

Long Sleeve white T-shirt, Orange V-neck sleeveless jumper and orange jeans, some firey mittons and a Space Shuttle backpack. Fake tan and a baldcap for the win!

Margaret Thatcher

as long as no one else comes as Reagan! :o)

A Miner.
Boy George.
Gary Newman.
Eddie Van Halen.
An Acid House Junkie.

Global hyper colour t shirt 😀

Adam Ant
Top Gun
Ghostbusters
Punk?
Dayglo aerobics instruction
Gordon Ghekko
Fluorescent ski wear
Permed scouser

Global hyper colour t shirt

I had one of those but someone nicked it off the washing line 😥

I've got a thatcher costume ! skirt and top from charity shop, plastic maggie head from blackpool

and doc martens just to wind up the pro-miner crowd 🙂

Go as a Super Mario Bro

given that it was fashionable to wear cycling tops as casualwear (the more flouro the better) this would be quite easy to do especially if you have an 80s replica like the stuff from prendas

team it with a campag casquette and job done

Shave your head, then stand next to the office fat bird and say you're Yazoo

Everyone does dayglo to death at 80's do . Rebel go as a Goth.

I'd forgotten about the cycling shirt fad. My lodger of the time kept asking if he could borrow my kit. Given that I only had three shirts....thick long sleeve, thick short sleeve and thin short sleeve, I told him to get his own, then had to hide the blooming things so he didn't go off clubbing in them.

Hated him, couldn't wait to get rid.

Been searching for a pic of Captain Harris from Police Academy with his arms out wide after the mace incident.

One of these

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Some white jeans and a shuttlecock

The Yorkshire Ripper. You run the risk of being mistaken for Dave Lee Travis though.

Keep the track suit and bling.

Find a VW. And two cohorts.

Beastie Boys.

Job done.

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RM.

new romantic
goth
punk (ok 70s but there were definitely some still around from 1980 onwards)
hair metal (Motley Crue, BonJovi, Poison, GnR etc)
Wham
Bananarama for the missus
Beastie Boyz or Adam Ant as said above
Run DMC

most of these should be relatively easy if you can get hold of the right kind of wig and/or t-shirt

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(Can I recommend to anyone - if you're going to try and find an image that was posted by a certain forum member of his more youthful years do not, absolutely do not, simply google 'Footflaps' unless you a have a bucket on hand for you to be sick in. Chrrrrrrisssst)

Shave your head, then stand next to the office fat bird and say you're Yazoo

I laughed! 😆

Go as a Nintendo game boy.

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Or, how about a massive mobile phone? Same big box will do.

Might be 90s but who's counting:

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There was an 8 yr old girl dressed as Thatcher at my kids school Halloween disco. Complete with milk carton. It was brilliant.

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moi c1989

apart from the bullet belt I could probably reproduce the outfit with what's in my wardrobe now.
Apart from the hair. and the pack of Marlboro

OK I don't have any DMs at the moment but I was probably wearing some of these at the time anyway:

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What about Bosco Albert Baracus?

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Drac, I was looking at them on ebay, they look brilliant!

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Frankie Says Relax t-shirt, linen jacket rolled up to the elbows, mullet wig.

Bill or Ted. Indiana Jones.

You know you want too..
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Banana man