Those who grew up in the 80's- remember Jams?

[slj0101]

Yeah, these monstrosities:




They were all the rage when I was in sixth grade. I was envious because I wanted a pair of my own, but they were expensive and my family wasn't exactly rolling in the dough. I did finally get a pair as a sixth grade graduation present, but for the life of me I can't remember what the pattern looked like. I'm sure it was something hideous.

[LynneSin]

1. I still have my Jams

one day they'll come back into style

[meegbear]

15. No, there are stop-gaps to make sure the'80s NEVER come back in style ...

Thank God.

[Bassic]

17. Well, tell that to all the girls who are wearing leggins aroung here.

:puke:

[meegbear]

18. HEY YOU GIRLS! STOP IT!

Or I'll smash all your Bangles albums.

[Bassic]

20. There are days when I look around me

and the world king of looks like it did when I was 7 years old. Except for the cars, and the gadgets of course.

[LynneSin]

29. My Jams were part of my official "Driving down to OCMD" outift

I'd have my Jams on with two tank tops - a white tank top and on top of that a turquoise tank top from a defect OCMD bar - Surf Rat Bar. When Jams went out of style I stole a skirt my mother use to wear back in the 70s and wore the tank tops with that

[B3Nut]

39. There's a guy on the net who sells parachute pants...

I still plan on buying a pair...be a great stage joke since we do quite a few 80's tunes.

Ah, the 80's aren't dead, they just smell funny... :D

Todd in Cheesecurdistan, annoying musician

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. I had a pair of Egyptian motif knock-off Jams, and some others.

I remember Calvin, of Calvin and Hobbes, when he got Jams. He was pretty hip.

[Richardo]

3. I always thought jams were full length baggy pants with the wild prints on them.

:shrug:

I guess I lived a lie all through the 80's :cry:

[slj0101]

4. Those were Skidz.

Which arrived a couple years later.


I hated those.

[Richardo]

5. My boss (!) wore those TO THE OFFICE on our company's first casual Friday

A clarification of the policy was immediately issued.

A yes, he was a clueless twerp in a lot of ways.

[slj0101]

6. That reminds me of my sixth grade teacher,

who started wearing Italian suits with t-shirts and shoes with no sock to class every day. Yeah, this was the height of Miami Vice style. x(

[PeaceNikki]

7. There were Zubaz, too!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zubaz

[Richardo]

9. Sometimes the 80s just make me sad.

:eyes:

[flamingyouth]

42. They pretty much always make me sad.

[terrya]

8. I remember them

And no way was I ever going to wear those things. :scared:

[johnnie]

10. Honestly, I don't remember them

I don't remember a lot of things from the 80s, but mainly it was because the whole decade was something that I tried to block from my mind. I remember those pajama bottoms that someone put up here, but not those whacked out shorts.

[slj0101]

19. I don't think the decade's at fault for your memory loss.

:smoke:

:D

[johnnie]

25. More like

:toast:

And

:hippie: <----pretty colors

[asthmaticeog]

11. Jams were really the LEAST of the 1980s' fashion crimes.

• People in landlocked areas nevertheless wearing Ocean Pacific shirts and Vuarnet shades.

• Parachute pants.

• Mushroom hair.

• Mushroom hair accented with dayglo colored headband.

• Skinny satin neckties, with or without piano keyboards printed on them.

• Anything purchased at Chess King or Merry Go Round.

• All things "Vice."

• Muscle shirts.

• Muscle shirts with checkerboard patterns or Union Jacks.

Really, are loud shorts so terrible in the face of all that?

[slj0101]

13. on edit

You're just saying that because you liked Anthrax. :D

[asthmaticeog]

14. I *hated* them!

x(

[DS1]

21. Aww man! I wore my "I'm Anti-Social" shirt with my Jams

for real

[asthmaticeog]

30. I think I disliked Anthrax

because they were the kind of metal band I could easily envision wearing Jams. :shrug:

[DS1]

32. I wore Jams to an Overkill concert

:shrug:

[asthmaticeog]

34. I just never cared for bright color, is all.

Lingering damage from all that gloom-n-doomy British pop, most likely.

[DS1]

35. For the record

Every time I hear "The Cure" I want to Fedex the singer a rope and a chair

I hate The Cure

[asthmaticeog]

36. That's a fucking excellent line.

I may have to nick that from you someday.

[HughBeaumont]

22. Muscleheads.

Tans.
Fake Tits.
Cocaine.
Swatches.
Members Only.
Mousse.

What the hell was the deal with pants that had all them damned zippers? Did anyone store anything in those?

And hey . . . I liked Anthrax's Among the Living, damn it. Everything after that album . . . meh.

I discovered D.R.I. around 1987. The end.

[asthmaticeog]

33. The first three things came from the '70s, and endure today, though.

But yeah, they do fit in with the '80s ethos best of all.

The guy who was in charge of financial aid at the Cleveland Institute of Art in the late '80s had perilously moussed hair and a Members Only jacket. I'm sure you can imagine the oceans of shit he took from the students - behind his back of course, he *did* control work-study money, after all.

[1gobluedem]

27. My SO hung on to his turquoise OPs well into the 90s

Until I 'accidentally' knocked a bottle of bleach onto them.

[asthmaticeog]

31. .

:thumbsup:

[DS1]

12. I finally got my mother to buy me a single pair after months of nagging

then I took them to England and was mercilessly mocked for 'wearing the curtains'

They were comfy, though

[Richardo]

16. "wearing the curtains"

:rofl:

Ze English, they have a way with words sometimes.

[HughBeaumont]

23. I fell vicitm to the jams debacle at one point.

Then I decided that black sweats were far more death metal.

:)

[slj0101]

24. Well, just a couple years later, I turned metal

and traded in the jams for black jeans, so I could be just like Metallica.

[1gobluedem]

26. Oh, yes

I never had Jams but I DID have a rope for my sunglasses in a Jams pattern. And for a short, oddly deluded time, I attached a small Gumby and Pokey to the sides of my sunglasses....why on earth escapes me now.

[Giant Robot]

28. I decline to answer that question

Or any questions on the following:

Any type of Miami Vice apparel

Skinny ties

Any OP gear

Acid washed jeans

Yup I think that about covers it.

[buddhamama]

37. i had a couple

nothing that bright though. my brain associates the Circle Jerks with Jams. a friend was big into them and Jams is all he wore. :shrug:

[TheProphetess]

38. Well, I had blissfully forgotten about Jams until now

Thanks for bringing it all back to me. :spank:

Yes, I wore Jams. I'm not proud, I'm just honest.

[Drum]

40. Yikes...

I can't believe we survived all of that...now I'm getting a headache.

Here's a little reference page to some of these togs, accessories, hair and makeup....
http://www.newromanticsmalta.bravehost.com/80sfashion.html

[texas1928]

41. I used to wear my Jams with my cowboy hat and boots.

I was styling. Yep. And my RayBan sunglasses.

[Blue_Tires]

43. yeesh...

where i lived, it was all about the bugle boy jeans

[S n o w b a l l]

44. Oh hell yeah!

Fun times and great memories!

I played on our company softball team and our uniform was jams and a red t shirt....the jams spoke for themselves what kind of team we were...we had a blast and came in last! I want the 80''s back!!!!!

[kwassa]

45. Jams started in the 1960s, not the 1980s.

I remember them at the beach in the late '60s.

http://nwmangum.com/JamsWorld/JamsHistory.html

Founded in 1964 by Dave Rochlen, Jams World® is anything but basic or ordinary. The Company's credo of "Color, Freedom, Difference, Humor and Love" is indicative of its contemporary fashion philosophy which stresses individually and unique design imagery. In short, Jams World® active-inspired sportswear for men and women is about art.

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It was in Hawaii, among a sea of surfboards and swimsuits, that his idea for Jams® came to life in 1963. He modeled his first colorful baggy swimsuit line after an assortment of exotic Russian pajamas he'd seen in a Life Magazine article depicting Russian people at the Black Sea resorts wearing their bathrobes and PJ's down to the beach. Dave coined the term "Jams" as the name for his creation. He bought some brightly printed fabric and asked his wife Keanuenue to make him a short pajama. With a few suggestions to modify them (no top, sewn up fly, and legs cut off at the knee), Jams® was born. Soon all his surfing buddies wanted a pair of his Jams®. He quit his job as a systems analyst and began Surf Line Hawaii, Ltd., with his first pair of commercial Jams® hitting the Makaha Beach in Hawaii in December 1964. Their appeal as a surfing lifestyle item landed Dave and a group of his surfing buddies a two-page spread in Life magazine in June 1965, the magazine that inspired this whole phenomena.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

46. I had a couple pair of Jams.......

and they looked really styling with my OP t-shirt and my checkered Vans.

Never thought I'd say it... but I miss the 80's!