Without thinking it twice I go to eBay and search for an “80s fancy dress”. Not much to be found, other than a ‘sexy Ghostbusters’ outfit (not really suitable for a 10 year old) and a couple of Madonna-like wigs. It’s like no fancy dress supplier on Earth has realized yet that the combo of big hair + shoulder pads + leg warmers and plastic earrings deserves its very own Halloween-80s outfit!

So I put the outfit together myself. Sadly enough, I got rid of my ENTIRE drawer of shoulder pads, and do not own one single leg warmer or at least one t-shirt with neon wording on it.

I e-buy a FRANKIE SAYS RELAX bright pink t-shirt to which I will attach some shoulder pads I still need to find; a black polka dot ra-ra skirt; neon green leg warmers and matching perforated gloves (never wore any of those but they are so kitsch I had to buy them); yellow plastic belt and of course very large plastic earrings on lemon yellow color.

It seems that the only 80s thing that survived all my moving around the world was a pair of bright blue aerobics leggins and some hideous blue eyeliner & eyeshadow and white lipstick (don’t ask!!)… so it’s all been thrown into the outfit.

She wants to wear vampire teeth on the day, but I think that once she sees herself on the mirror after the make over she will realize that she looks scary enough!

Pics in due time…
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