Dresses 80-ies in the USSR: a description of the styles. Fashion-80

Fashion - a thing cyclical, and no one is surprised at the catwalks and magazine covers styles and models of dresses, skirts and trousers just like in my mother's youth or reminiscent of grandmothers. So the fashion of the 80's. Becomes very popular today. And although experts say that this time was the most disastrous, in terms of style, we remember which dresses were worn then, and we are surprised to see the accents of the 80s in modern things.

General trends

In general, the 80's can be safely divided into two epochs - before and after perestroika. The first half of the decade is undoubtedly more like the USSR, and the dress models were more conservative and strict. And the second half, especially the years 87-90, is a flood of fashion magazines, bright things, plastic jewelry, and frank forms. In 87, Valentin Yudashkin releases his first collection, Slava Zaitsev wins an unprecedented popularity, there are such films as "The most charming and attractive", "Little Faith", "Love and Doves", "Interdevochka", where fashion and costumes are not the last a place. Suffice it to recall how the heroine of Irina Muravieva bought fashionable outfits from a fart boy, as Raisa Zakharovna used to dress in the resort, and Elena Yakovleva's heroine wore magnificent dresses and fur coats.

Silhouettes and styles

So, during this period there is a tendency to new fashionable trends, some women of the Soviet Union are dressed in bold outfits according to the western pattern, and some remain true to traditions. That is why in the fashion and naive floral calico dress, cut at the waist with a tatyanka skirt, and bold dress-cases with asymmetrical cut, and fitted out dresses in the style of military.

The main trend of the early 80's was the X-silhouette, or the hourglass, which was created by increasing the line of shoulders and pulling the waist. Another fashionable detail of the cut is a cutout-boat, which in combination with a narrow waist made the shoulder line visually wider. The skirt could be complemented by a long Basque, making the waist already, and the hips wider.

In this period, a dress-shirt with a long row of buttons, a turn-down collar and a narrow fabric girdle is also popular. Wore it both as a summer variant, and in winter with high boots with a wide boot and a narrow nose. Complement the suit with a scarf. Also incredibly popular was the trend of dress-safari. A beige or brown jersey dress with buttons or a blue striped dress with a belt was combined with light turtlenecks, platform shoes and large sunglasses in a wide brown frame.

New styles

In the middle of the decade a silhouette-rectangle entered into fashion. Women dressed in baggy coats and dresses with a wide waist without a belt or belt.

Subcultural currents of punk and grunge were expressed in leather straight dresses and lace trim. During this period, the dress styles become deliberately sexy. Very popular dress-trumpet from a thin body-tight material. This dress was very simple cut, usually ultra-mini with a round deep neckline, lowered to one shoulder.

Skirt

The unconditional trend was the length of the mini. The society felt freedom, and everyone who could afford, dressed up in mini-dresses. However, for work or study, they were still midi, so in fashion was a dress cut at the waist with a flared skirt up to the middle of the roe.

They were combined with high heels. However, they wore a maxi-wide long skirt and a waist-tied waist were the companions of the fashion dress of the 80s. He was worn under a wide coat with an indispensable long scarf.

As for the styles, they wore almost everything - and a skirt-tulip, and corrugated, and the sun, and four-balls, and a tatyanka. Also the dress could be with cuts on the sides or behind. Especially popular was the skirt-year - narrow in the hips with a strong extension to the bottom. Dresses with such a skirt were worn out or as a business suit.

Sleeves

The length and cut of the sleeve - this is a noticeable accent detail of the costume of that time. And one of the most popular options was the sleeve "bat." This is called a special cut, which combines a very wide armhole and a narrow sleeve. Fashion 80's. Made such a sleeve the limit of the dreams of all women of fashion, and he perfectly complemented the thin knitted dresses-mini with a high collar or dresses-cases with a narrow skirt. In combination with wide shoulders, the sleeve of the bat made the waist visually even thinner and gave the image freedom along with grace. I must say that in those days this dress style fit perfectly into any dress code - in business, and in everyday, and in the evening.

Another version of the fashionable sleeve dresses of the 80s in the USSR - with buffets. It is a broad, magnificent sleeve at the shoulder, tapering to the bottom. The length of the sleeve can be different, both short and long. Such buffers were made even on formal dresses made to order girls-senior pupils.

Another feature, more characteristic for dresses of the second half of the 80's - is a sleeve, launched on one shoulder. Such liberties were admitted at that time by many, and the evening outing of a young fashionista with such a bare shoulder and a mini was at the height of fashion.

Details

As we have already noted, the silhouette of the "hourglass" was incredibly popular in the 80's, with emphasis being placed on the shoulders, at the waist, and on the hips. Women in this pre-perestroika period became more emancipated, they began to receive information about fashionable trends from abroad and copy it in the most exaggerated version. So, the fashion dresses of the 80s were with wide massive shoulders. This was achieved at the expense of thick shoulder pads and decor - chains, folds of fabric and even epaulettes.

The emphasis on the waist was made with a wide leather belt, often with a contrasting color. And hips could allocate a special cut, for example, folds on a skirt. Despite such hypertrophy of details, the silhouette turned out refined and feminine.

In general, the fashion was all massive and big: if the belt, then almost corseted, if the collar, then apash, if the accessories, then massive and bright. In the fashion were flounces and frills, draperies and a bold combination of fabrics. But the romantic style dictated the presence of ruches, frills and flounces. The business woman's dress could be supplemented with a large bow on the collar or the same frill. Evening dresses of the 80s could be supplemented by an abundance of details: lacing, and flounces, and draperies. All this made the outfits diverse, different from each other and that they were worn before.

Fabrics

Synthetics was not as popular as it was in the 90's, so more often dresses from the 80's were made from natural fabrics. But the sale has already appeared stretch fabric. Of these, tight tight mini dresses were sewn. However, it is worth mentioning crimple, a synthetic lightweight and nemnuschuyusya tissue. And although the peak of his popularity fell on the 70s, in the 80's they still continued to sew dresses from him.

Available were jersey and denim, corduroy. They sewed dresses and sarafans. In evening outfits began to use lurex and sequins, metallized fabrics, for example, deep silvery color "wet asphalt". Romantic same style was supported by crepe de chine and chintz in a small flower.

Baby and Teenage Dresses

A special mention deserves the dresses of the 80s, which girls-schoolgirls wore. Despite the precursors of perestroika, it was still the Soviet era, and if female students and young women could afford a lot, schoolgirls still wore uniforms.

The pupils of the first-seventh class had a laconic cut-off brown waist just above the knee, high school students could wear a three-piece suit, this became an innovation of this decade. To see first hand the school children's dresses of the 80s, it's enough to see "Adventures of Electronics", "A guest from the future" or any series of "Yeralash".

In their spare time, high school students wore either simple dresses with a collar and a skirt-half-sun, or, if possible, ties sewn to order or bought from bandits jeans and velvet dresses and outfits, largely copying adult dresses.