Gee, I wonder what everyone's reaction to this will be.

[pvrhye]

Seems like the collar is buttoned itself. Is this some round about way of making a mandarin collar?

 

[MyOtherLife]



And your shirts also had button down collars and spread points?

Now, where's that BURN IT WITH FIRE graphic?

We also had an abundance of collarless shirts too.

The top 5 influences on mens clothes in the 1980's, were, as I recollect:
Miami Vice: Flowing cream jackets and suits, with pastel colours everywhere
Blade Runner (Burberry, etc): Post apolcalyptic - Post Nuclear look. Mis-matched, over-sized coats and combos, vests and heavy usage of black and greys
American Gigolo (Giorgio Armani's debut): Monochromatic combos, dress shirts with 2 breast pockets and very thin ties
Music Videos: at that time, in their infancy (MTV, etc) Countless bands wearing ultra skinny ties and slim fit. ball-crusher slim pants, a la anorexia everything
Wall Street (Alan Flusser) Conservative. Contrast collars, suspenders (braces), hair slicked back (gel),

[COLOR=FF00AA]Streetwear - [/COLOR]Blade Runner single-handedly set the trend for Streetwear. Damned near everyone, film, video or otherwise, copied Blade Runner
[COLOR=FF00AA]Clubbing - [/COLOR]American Gigolo and even more, Miami Vice set the trend for the (Gigolo) monochromatic look and the (Vice) heavy use of pastels.
[COLOR=FF00AA]Mens Conservative - [/COLOR]Wall Street, well this one film strongly emphasized and influenced men for conservative dress clothes.

If you have time, watch these as study pieces for the 1980's and you'll see what most influenced the North American masses.
Just in case you think the 1980's had issues for mens clothing, try the 1990's. The rise of Rap music destroyed decent clothing for everyone, everywhere.
The world has not even begun to recover from it.

 

[blahman]



Wall Street (Alan Flusser) Conservative. Contrast collars, suspenders (braces), hair slicked back (gel),

I wouldn't call Wall Street (the film that is) style conservative. The film actually displayed flamboyance and glorified Wall Street itself and putting the characters up as superstars. So I would not call the film encouraged any sort of conservative dress.

 

[MyOtherLife]

Wall Street (Alan Flusser) Conservative. Contrast collars, suspenders (braces), hair slicked back (gel),

I wouldn't call Wall Street (the film that is) style conservative. The film actually displayed flamboyance and glorified Wall Street itself and putting the characters up as superstars. So I would not call the film encouraged any sort of conservative dress.

Did I say conservative? I did. I meant to type Baller Conservative.

 

[Blackhood]

The Italian double-button thing has been around for ever. Adding it to the button down was going to happen eventually.

 

[oshinex]

Such a failure of a shirt. Sometimes, simple is better.