In the 1980s, we have seen fashions from the early twentieth century make a comeback, and in a way, combining into one for the particular decade, the 1980s. As we know, there comes a time when people start fashion trends in a decade. But the difference is between a trend and a comeback. A trend is when something in fashion to be exact is so popular in a period of time. A comeback is when something is rather old in this category, and brought back from an older decade, and gains popularity, it’s considered a comeback. The question that remains here in this matter is, are fashion comebacks from older generations uncommon?
Well, there’s one way to describe a fashion comeback in the most realistic way to think of. To give one or several descriptions, popular 80s fashion articles included long hair, leather jackets, neon clothing, graphic shirts, plaid pants, denim jackets, legwarmers, silly leotards, uses of bandanas in hair, pushing the hair up into mohawks, and the Punk Movement styles. I head some people say that people brought back fashions from older decades in the 1980s. Well, it turned out that it was indeed true. For instance, fashions from the 50s started making a comeback around that time, including slicking back hair with switchblades, the use of leather jackets, and combining that decade’s fashions with others from the ’60s and 70s, including fanciful leather jackets and different combinations in business casual wear, expansion of the wearing of more sporty clothing and band shirts. In fact, established properties began to show themselves more often on clothing, even objects such as food or fanciful designs out of the ordinary as well.
Anyhow, going back to the Punk Subculture, given the Punk subculture coming away since the mid-1970s in the United States and the United Kingdom, began to take on its own art form in music, dancing, art in general, literature, and even film. It is said that the Punk Subculture was beginning a series of diversity between race and religion. Although in the 80s, the Reagan Years, which as we know, are not perfect, as there were racial problems under his administration towards African Americans and other minorities, it was at least nice to find out that the Punk subculture had a sense of diversity within the members towards minorities including African Americans.
There were also some cases where fashion throwbacks have been brought up in response to other trends such as the Punk Movement in the mid-to-late 70s. Such a case was the throwback to the 50s trend called the Ivy League style. The style was also known as the Preppy style. It consisted of oversized collars of Oxford shirts, Khakis, argyle pattern socks and sweaters, suspenders, turtleneck shirts, sweaters of different varieties including v-necks, material, and designs such as corduroy, seersucker, and other such casual clothing worn in the 50s and other decades before that. Several instances include the use of Power Suits, in this case, the return of double-breasted peaked lapel suits inspired by the 1940s, typically made in the colors of navy blue, charcoal gray, and Air Force blue. Those were the kinds of suits of said inspiration that came to them being known as Power Suits.
In addition to these types of trends, tropical clothing also came to be popular during that decade of throwback trends. In Hawaii, tropical shirts with fanciful Polynesian designs and Bermuda shorts were worn on Aloha Fridays and soon came to more well-known as casual wear by people. At the end of the 80s and transcending into the 90s, Aloha Fridays started to fade out and pave the way for what came to be known as Casual Fridays, but tropical shirts became acceptable for daily Hawaiian business wear since then.
So, now that we have gone to all that detail, are fashion comebacks from older generations uncommon? To answer the question, no. Fashion comebacks from older generations are not uncommon. Fashion comebacks from older generations are not uncommon. Comebacks of older fashions from the 1920s and older, in fact, far older to the 1800s or 1700s are all possible.
Some Sources that show what I’m talking about here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_fashion
https://www.centralcasting.com/quick-guide-2000s-fashion/
https://www.retrowaste.com/1980s/fashion-in-the-1980s/