Top Ten Fashion Moments
10 |
Kevin Kline’s teeny-tiny running shorts, The Big Chill (see also: Tom Selleck in Three Men and a Baby) |
Coupled with some fine manly chest hair.
9 |
Tom Hanks’s white tux in Big |
How all of us wish we could dress for an office party, if we’re honest.
8 |
Rob Lowe, St. Elmo’s Fire |
Sweaty Rob Lowe wears a yellow vest top with black bats patterned all over it, while playing the sax. Your life = complete.
7 |
Michael J. Fox, Back to the Future |
A T-shirt, a shirt, double denim, and the “life preserver.” And to think, the characters in 1955 think people in the eighties dressed oddly.
6 |
Nicolas Cage, Valley Girl |
Frosted hair, a leather waistcoat, and a bare chest is a strong look, Nicolas.
5 |
From his patterned blouson shirts undone to his mid-chest in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, to his braces in Wall Street, this man was eighties fashion in human form.
4 |
The Heathers in Heathers |
For services to shoulder-padded jackets and colored tights.
3 |
Molly Ringwald and Jon Cryer, Pretty in Pink |
God bless John Hughes and his belief that wearing weird clothes proves one is a sensitive soul. Extra points for Ringwald’s hat, golden stars for Cryer’s sunglasses.
2 |
Melanie Griffith and Joan Cusack, Working Girl |
Where to start? Melanie’s mullet and white trainers? Melanie’s extraordinary lingerie? Actually, let’s just say Joan Cusack’s wardrobe and leave it at that.
1 |
Desperately Seeking Susan |
The movie that proves everyone’s life is improved by eighties fashion.