OK, I’ve either lost my mind or I’m having a flash back to the best era – the 80’s! Flare jeans, graphic tee’s, aviator sunglasses… you get it. I’ve updated it a little with some modern pieces but all in all, it’s a retro vibe today. BONUS: I’m including a picture of me in college, circa 1986. Enjoy!
You’ve seen these jeans before in this blog post. Which shows you that I wear my clothes over and over again, simply adjusting the style components for a new look. Graphic tee’s are huge this season and I absolutely love them. This particular one I found because Kelly Ripa wore in on Live with Kelly and Ryan one morning. I’ve linked the website for you here. But I did find a bevy of great graphic tees readily available and I have linked them below. I thought the Gucci slippers added a modern touch.
This whole look takes me back to the 80’s. Now, if I could just find my hot rollers and get my hair bigger. But then again, I was getting perms back in the day to achieve that volume. Enjoy the flashback photo at the bottom of this post. You’re welcome!
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graphic tee’s
photo: Audrie Dollins
flashback to 1986
Graphic tee and high-waisted denim in an acid wash. I’m pretty sure I have on white high top Reebok tennis shoes with this outfit. And you know I have on white scrunch socks. This photo was taken at my apartment at the University of North Texas. My parents were visiting me.
Big hair, don’t care. GAWD, I love the 80’s!
Tags: Veronica Beard, vintage
My favorite show was of course Dallas!!
Favorite: Murphy Brown. Smart, tough, authentic with Motown tunes thrown in. I can’t wait for the reboot this Fall.
Oh my goodness, the 80’s had some great shows. I loved The Love Boat, Growing Pains, Eight is Enough and so many more.
Love the hair in your throwback pic. The bigger the better!
Thirtysomething and Moonlighting were my favorite shows.
LA Law!!
oh my! The 80’s, I miss them! Of course I got my hair fuller with a can of Aqua Net and who can forget the fashion?! Madewells, Levis, Izod preppie shirts, concert tees, and those poufy Gunne Sax prom dresses lol. As far as shows go, I liked Dallas, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Knight Rider and McGyver! Seriously can’t pick just one.
Night Court and Dallas all the way!
My favorite show is M.A.S.H
I loved Dallas! We had friends who would come over every Friday night with pizza to watch with us!
It would have to be DALLAS! Who shot JR was the question on everyone’s lips in 1980! Of course, it was just getting started and continued through the 1980’s.
I was in Mexico in October of 1980, (honeymoon), and everyone was so impressed when I told them I was from Big D. They imagined we all lived in mansions like Southfork! LOL!
Love this! I am new to your blog. Thank heavens I found your blog a peer with wonderful fashion/life content!
General Hospital! Used to watch with roommates of my Villanova class of 1987
Love the 80’s our time! in our 20s. So many TV shows…
Dynasty, Moonlighting.
Dynasty and Dallas!!
Designing Women Lawdy, I still love big hair!!!
Dallas Hands Down!!!
I’m also an 80’s girl, perms and all! So many shows back then but my most favorite was Knots Landing! Talk about big hair! Second favorite was Magnum PI. Love me some Tom Selleck back in the day! Swoon!
Thank you so much. My favorite was BJ and the Bear
The Wonder Years. Thanks for the opportunity.
This would be so nice at fifty five I don’t know what to use anymore.
Have a great evening.
DALLAS!!! I loved the shoulder pads, big hair and dresses!!!! I’m a Texas girl, so I still love the big hair.
Knots Landing!!
I was barely watching cartoons in the 80’s but I did love Duck Tales and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Well I wasn’t born in the 80’s however my absolute favourite show from the 80’s, (and I have all the seasons on DVD) is the classic Golden Girls!! Oh my goodness those ladies are seriously the funniest, along with I Love Lucy!!
Saved by the Bell (aired starting in 89). Love that t-shirt!
Family Ties and Facts of Life! I loved Blair!!!!❤️
I love the hair — all Texan!!! I loved Dynasty and Dallas!!
Three’s Company, Dallas, Cheers
Dukes of Hazard. Fun times!
The Love Boat was fun to watch in the 80s! Always wanted to be a Cruise Director! Best I’ve done is 4 cruises as a passenger;-)
Beautiful always.
Knots Landings!!!
Without a doubt Cheers was my absolute favorite!
Must I pick just one…?! Most watched then: The Love Boat. Reruns: Golden Girls.
Loved Family Ties!
Dallas of course!
Tanya,
You haven’t changed since your college days. Wonderful picture of you and your parents. Great genes and such a beautiful picture. There were so many good TV shows of the 80’s, but my favorite was Dallas.
I’m going to say Moonlighting!
Omg who didn’t love DYNASTY!! The fashions, cat fights and more!!
Knot’s Landing!!!
Wonder years
80’s tv was awesome so many classics. I loved Dynasty and Dallas the best.
I can relate with the big hair back then. I should have owned stock in Aqua Net! Love Dynasty, Facts of Life and Growing Pains!
The ‘80s were the BEST! Fun, crazy fashion (we obviously didn’t take ourselves that serious!) and the most iconic movies with the brat pack… I lived for Dynasty and the Cosby Show on tv!
The A-Team
McGyver
Dukes of Hazzard
Cheers! General Hospital too!
Growing Pains!
Oh my goodness. DALLAS was my favorite show, hands down. It was on Friday nights and caused some conflict with my hubby as we did not have a VCR and thus, I didn’t wish to go anywhere on Friday nights. I HAD to stay home to watch DALLAS!
I love your BIG HAIR pic, Tanya.❤️
Dallas, Dynasty, and Falcon Crest were my favorite shows. Oh and daytime was watching Luke and Laura on General Hospital! 🙂
This is a tough one to answer…Dallas, of course, along with Knots Landing – fashion, makeup and permed hair!!! Honorable Mention: Magnum P.I. (*sigh* – Tom is so dreamy)
So many…. and we didn’t have a DVR to catch up if we missed them! Full House, Thirtysomething, Designing Women……. and I had hot rollers in every morning and sometimes again if I needed a volume touch up for the dorm dining hall for dinner
Forgot my name!
Designing Women!!!!!
Between the clothes and the furniture, Loved it!!!!!!
Definitely Dallas! Big hair, big shoulder pads & lots of drama!
I loved “Who’s the Boss?”!!
Fraggle Rock! (okay, I was a CHILD Tanya!- lol) Don’t judge my taste in television.
Growing Pains was the very best!
Let’s bring back 80s hair?!?!? I loved it and with my natural curls… it’s perfect for me.
I love all the retro 80’s styles are popular right now. Takes me back to my HS and college days. My Daughter wants a Rolling Stones tee and I laugh because she doesn’t even listen too them. I told her get a Clash tee, they were way cooler.
Knots Landing!
I absolutely love Golden Girls! The one liners, the attitude, everything!
Oh no question, Miami Vice!❤️ I had the white jacket and Don Johnson was drool worthy. Can I just add on here that my husband and I saw Pat Benatar in concert last year and that woman is still killing it. She played for two hours and sounded amazing. She gets no credit for leading the way for female rockers. ❤️
Dynasty! Copied Linda Evans hairstyle and tried to dress like her for work! Loved her ladylike looks for work.
Golden girls! I’m on my way to my son’s appointment for his stage one kidney disease ultrasound thanks for the laugh and my sons kidneys have been looking better and better the last ultrasounds thanks for a kickoff to a good day the good vibes shirt is so cute! I love fashion but am plus sized so I mostly focus on beauty and accsories as I can’t wear alot of the brands I like I really appreciate the giggle and please enter me in for the giveaway have a great day love!
McGyver
80’s love!! Cute Tee!! My fave shows were Dallas and Knots Landing!!
There are actually so many lol but my absolute favorite to this day was Full House I have Every single episode and the best part was getting to talk to the producer on the phone while working at Aldo in the Kodak theatre mall! Highlight of my life! Love your style it is so inspiring! Sophistication at its finest.
My favorite was probably L.A. Law… but I loved Moonlighting too!!
Yea! Moonlighting❤️
80’s were not my fav for fashion but loved watching Dallas, Dynasty, Remington Steele, Thirtysomething, and The Love Boat.
That is super hard to answer because 80s tv was the best! But I would have to go with Love Boat.
I liked Family Ties and Cheers and General Hospital after school.
Omg…too many to list! A few favs: Bosom Buddies, Moonlighting, The Facts of Life, Family Ties, etc., etc….. Best decade ever!
Dynasty all the way!
Oh, I loved Moonlighting. I tried to watch it again a couple of years ago and well couldn’t get through it, lol. I had that hair in the 80’s too just blonder, spiral perm for the win.
❤️ The big hair!!!
Moonlighting, Dallas, and Dynasty were my favs!
❤️ The big hair!!!!!
Moonlighting, Dallas, and Dynasty were my favs!
Favorite tv show was The Golden Girls!
Well, I really loved watching the A-Team and Scarecrow and Mrs. King in the 80’s. I miss all those fun shows. TV isn’t the same anymore!
Loved this post, it was so interesting! Could you do more throwback posts please or maybe I’m just nosy to see how the 80s were hahah
I loved full house! Still watch the new version also
Wonder years! Love your hair big or present style!
Cheers!
Hart to Hart, Stephanie Powers Big Hair!!!
Also, can’t forget Designing Women, if only Anthony had had Big Hair too!
The Golden Girls was my favorite!
Oh my!! How to decide? The Love Boat, Designing Women, Moonlighting, The Wonder Years. Love!
LOVE BOOM!
FYI, they also have some fun graphic tees on Amazon. My favorite is “Good Vibes”. My friend Cynthia gave me “Who’s Gonna Check Me Boo?” for Christmas last year. #RHOA
The Equalizer was a fave, with a bunch of Golden Girls thrown in!
I love the graphic tees!
And The Wonder Years was my favorite!
I had the same hair! And I loved Designing Women! Julia Sugarbaker = #goals.
DYNASTY!!
Loved me some Knight Rider, The A-Team, and The Fall Guy. Hah!
Luv your hair! I still luv big hair!
Dallas was my favorite!!!
Love the graphic tees! One of my favorite shows of the 80’s was Dallas! It was fun to see other Texans being portrayed and all the drama was that along with it!
Oh Tanya- LOVE the hair! I was a HUGE Dallas fan. How I longed to live at Southfork!
The Wonder Years and Alf for sure!!
Dynasty and Dallas! Big hair all day long. 🙂