Tag Archive 'Retro Costumes'

Jun 16 2012

Retro Costumes: Hard rockin’ in the 80s

There was this hairspray sold in the 1980s. It was called French Formula. And I went through a can of it a week. This would have been, oh, 1985 or 1986. I was in high school in a small town in Nova Scotia and I had a dream that I was going to grow up [...]

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Jun 10 2012

Time for a costume party – how about a sock hop?

I grew up in a house filled with music. My mom had — probably still has — this great collection of 45s, a stack of bubblegum pop from the 1950s and ’60s. We listened to Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley & the Comets, the Supremes, the Temptations, the Crystals, the Angels and so many [...]

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Jun 04 2012

Like, totally rad for ’80s costume parties

Published by under Costume Parties

Don’t hold this against me. I lived through the 1980s. And I love the ’80s. Well … at least I love ’80s music. My music rotation is packed with Debbie Gibson and Richard Marx, Hall & Oates, Air Supply and Honeymoon Suite (YEAH, Canadian rock ‘n’ roll!). I don’t love ’80s fashion. And while bits and [...]

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