A Walk Through the '80's

Y'know, I think one of my most telling memories of the 80's was sitting in home ec class during my first year of high school, watching a videotaped After School Special (remember those?) that was filmed in the 70's about the dangers of teen fornication. I mostly remember each of us sitting around in our stupidly expensive and strategically ripped Guess! acid-washed jeans and straining to see around each other's outrageously teased bangs while laughing at the flat 70's hair and bellbottom pants of the people in the movie. Little did we know that by the time we got to college we'd all be invading thrift stores and growing out our perms in order to achieve that look ourselves.

Say what you will about the 80's, at least we had a cultural identity that was uniquely ours.