My name is Sarah and I am obsessed with 80s fashion

My name is Sarah and I am obsessed with 80s fashion

September 13th, 2009

Okay, I have admitted it now. But I don’t want a cure - oh no, not when there are tops like this metallic sequin zip front top from Dries Van Noten in the shops.

How 80s is it though, on a scale where 1 is a touch of new Romantic frilliness and 10 is an extra from Fame? Duh, an 11, I think. Metallic - tick. Blouson style with a thick waistband - tick. Sleeveless/cap sleeved - tick. It even has a zip front (tick, tick, tick, tick, tick).

This Dries Van Noten top is £1,075 - I’ve no idea what that is in 1980s money, but I imagine you could have probably bought a house with it. Still, it is sort of a bargain - buy it now, wear it for one season, then you can wear it and wear it and wear it again to really get your money’s worth (admittedly at 15-year intervals, each time the 1980s comes back into fashion. So it would help if you come from a family of rich, fashion-conscious nonogenarians).

You can if you like do what Browns Fashion suggest and wear with some on trend cropped satin trousers and those super-sexy black platform stillies. Personally I think all it needs is a pair of black ski pants, some silver lurex leg warmers and - of course - some rollerboots (come on, shoulder pads and day-glo are back, the rollerdisco can’t be far behind).

I am slightly confused on the colour - the Browns website says it is bronze, but it looks silver to me, sadly I don’t have a spare £1,075 to order it and find out.