80s Vibe Hair... definitely not 80s hair...
BrashFink
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Anyone else older notice this is actually 70s hair? All these young people seem to always confuse the 2. That said... this hair set is very cool 1970s vibey look.
80s was all about Mullets, Spikey rock hair, or billowing new wave hair...
1970s Hair was all about feathering, parted hair, and smashed down look...
...and of course... the sideburns.
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Sure, but that's because you didn't know Gerry. Great guy overall, but always a decade behind when it came to style and mode.
Well, I would admit, a lot of people had some carryover into the early 80s.
Um, no. Yes, the examples that you show for 80s hair are indeed from the 80s, but most of those are definitely at the extreme edge of fashion... which is probably why they're all illustrations, not actual photos.. By comparison, let's look at what the "average" person in the 80s was actually wearing, as shown by some of the top tv and film stars of that decade during that decade. Or are you really going to say that the Miami Vice guys and the Brat Pack weren't considered to be at the absolute cutting edge of fashion?
I remember having hair in the 80's
The thing is , a Decade is a long time, so the start of the 70s, was very different from the end of the 70s, if you just look at the prevailing music, from Rock's "Stairway to Heaven" to Disco's "Saturday Night Fever" all in the same decade.
And the 80's were no different. You start the decase with NewWavePunk from London at the start of the decade, and hit Madonna some time halfway through.
No single reference photo or time capsule can represent an entire decade nor can it be filtered down to one look or theme, living through all the changes over the course of ten years, gives you a different perspective.
I started out with Rick Springfield hair when the 80's started and I was in my first real band in 85 and had the full on Bon Jovi style hair for the next few years, LOL
For me, "80's Vibe Hair" was "the little girl cut."
You know the one. Chin-length, bangs, captured in a thousand fading photographs as some group of siblings or cousins sits on an indeterminant brown couch with fake wood paneling in the background.
Towards the end of the 80's and bleeding into the 90's there were the peacock bangs and wings, which I thankfully did not succumb to, although my mom did talk me into a perm and poof-bangs (didn't last long; I didn't have the patience to deal with a curling iron every morning).
I have a photo somewhere of me at 15 with long straight waiste length hair in the start of the 1970's and my soon to be hubby with long sideburns. In the late 70's I chopped off my hair, died it black and had it permed because the hairdresser claimed it was the hottest new trend and I was sick of rolling up the car window not knowing my hair was caught in it as I walked away. Obviosly mustaches were in. My brothers never saw each other for over a decade but all of them had 'staches.
It's somehow funny, that mullets are now seen as 80s hair.
Mullets have actually been an "anti-80s hair",
worn by those, who didn't like those 80s under cuts.
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Really, the phrase that best described the mullet was "Serious in the front, party in the rear" In other words, just conservative enough to pass muster with the old folks in an 80s office, but not so conservative that you'd be looked at warily at a club or bar. As a result, the mullet eventually became associated with country singers who crossed over on the to the pop charts and older guys who tried to cruise with the younger crowds... see also: exposed chest hair, gold medalions.
Oh, and a couple of things about "mullets" as it's veering away from the topic of the 80s. The fact is that a mullet simply refers to ANY hairstyle in which the back is much longer than the front, and while that's a trend that was certainly popular in the 80s, they were quite common in the 70s as well, with one of the earliest wearers being the singer Tom Jones, who began sporting one in the mid 60s, with David Bowie and Rod Stewart being other early prominent wearers. That said, it absolutely has to be made clear that the term "mullet" did not exist and was NEVER used until the early ninties, with the origin of the term being credited to the band Beastie Boys, who used it specifically as a negative epitath in their 1994 song Mullet Head.... refering to the resemblelence the dangling back style has to the backend of a certain big dumb fish. So, the term came into being as a negative slam, and while there have been claims made over the years purporting to find earlier uses, none has ever actually been verified to be true.
This is an 80's mullet. My hubby Scott(aka Stingray because he had stingray tattoos on his shoulder) playing a gig with the Stingray Band. This is him a decade later. No mullet.