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2. 15 Iconic 1980s Fashion Trends - AOL

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   Shoulder Pads First worn in the 1930s, shoulder pads disappeared for a few decades before making a comeback in the 80s. They were often used in power suits, but they were also added to jumpsuits ...

3. Shoulder pad (fashion) - Wikipedia

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   Jazz singer Ann Hathaway (1925-1997), wearing a coat with shoulder pads, walking on Washington Square, New York, 1947. Shoulder pads are a type of fabric-covered padding used in men's and women's clothing to give the wearer the illusion of having broader and less sloping shoulders. In the beginning, shoulder pads were shaped as a semicircle or ...

4. 1980s in fashion - Wikipedia

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   During the 1980s, shoulder pads, which also inspired "power dressing," became common among the growing number of career-driven women. [5] [6] Hair in the 1980s was typically big, curly, bouffant and heavily styled. Television shows such as Dynasty helped popularize the high volume bouffant and glamorous image associated with it.

5. Power dressing - Wikipedia

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   According to the costume historian Harold Koda [6] the Chanel suit allowed women of the time to de-sex their feminine look and to have a more masculine appearance in order to be accepted as equals in the professional sphere. The shoulder pad designs of Claude Montana were also credited for defining the 1980s power-dressing era. [7]

6. This Was the Most Popular Barbie Doll the Year You Were Born

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   Barbie debuts her new band, "Barbie and the Rockers," and arguably her most '80s look yet. From the big hair and the shoulder pads to the wide belt and the slouchy boots, she is wearing all the ...

7. Norma Kamali - Wikipedia

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   She is one of several designers credited with popularizing the shoulder pad in women's wear in the 1980s [10] [11] and played a prominent role in adapting exaggerated shoulder pads to casual clothes at the beginning of the eighties shoulder-pad era in 1978. [12]