The 80’s: Super-everything
In the 80’s, everyone wanted to be like the supermodels in the magazines. It was a decade of excess: the bigger, the flashier, the prettier, the better. Young people in this era had more disposable income than their peers of previous generations. This meant they could spend more money on fashion. Individualism became very important. Exercise gurus like Jane Fonda made working out all the rage. Women backcombed their hair to make it bigger, wore large earrings and showed a lot more skin than in previous decades.
Continue on to the next page to see what the ideal woman in the 1990’s looked like!