LibGuides: G6 80's Culture: Fashion/Technology

Fashion

Simply Eighties
The big hair! The shoulder pads! Covers all things 80s fashion.
Iconic 80s Fashion
big shoulders, white jeans, underwear as outerwear and oversize jewelry. It was the decade of the power dresser but also of punks. It gave us Madonna, Tina Turner, and Cher
80s fashion by "genre"
oh man, those workout togs take me back! Dig the legwarmers!
80s hair: The Bigger the Better

General

12 new technologies in the 80s
Ever heard of a VCR?
Bhopal Disaster
Gas leak at Union Carbide pesticides plant in Bhopal. Thousands are killed immediately,
First Artifical Heart, 1982
The patient survived 112 days
Titanic Wreckage Discovered, 1985
Robert Ballard led an expedition from aboard the U.S. Navy research ship Knorr,spartly to test he Argo, a 16-foot (5-metre) submersible sled
Space Shuttle Challenger
The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crewmembers and changing NASA's space program forever. (Ms Hurd remembers watching this on TV as it happened.)
The First Cellphone
A steal at only $3900 (and weighed almost a kilo!)

History of MTV

MTV launched in 1981 and single-handedly changed the music industry. The first half of this mini-documentary covers its rise in the 80s.

Fashion in the 80s

Korea in the 80s

Mall Culture

The NYU Film School crew travels to Long Island's Roosevelt Field Mall and captures an amazing study of mall culture circa 1983. A time capsule of fashion, attitude and youth.