rewind to the 80s

I was born in 1974 so I suppose you could say the 80s were 'my decade' when it came to fashion and music ,I suppose I was just like anyone else when it can to music but fashion was a different story

We didn't have a huge amount of money to spend on new , disposable fashions from places like Top Shop and Dorothy Perkins , there was a shop in our village called 'Classy Birds' , great name , that was where we got most of our clothes .

I also had some hand me downs from a girl up the road who was quite fashionable. I remember in particular a white and grey bomber jacket from Topshop and a t-shirt with ribbons on the shoulder but please never speak of the navy blue , ribbed , zip up school cardigan that still gives me nightmares !!

I had the best pair of pale pink canvas pixie boots that I pestered myMum for and I wore them until they were literally more holes than boot , I LOVED them !!

The 80s weren't quite so kind to hairstyles , I'm sure everyone can remember the perms they had but one trend that goes down in history as the most horrible has to be 'The Mullet'

Who can forget the long at the back , short on top (sometimes curly)style that was so popular for men and women , they try to forget but sadly can't , photographs haunt anyone who ever had this cut .

But at the time people thought they looked amazing , hairdressers prided themselves on this horror cut and you were the coolest person around if you went for this cut

So now to the present day , is there a fashion that we are all going to look back at in 30 years time with the same horror we reserve for the mullet .......yes 

THE BEARD!!! 

When I was young 2 types of people had beards , hard rockers and geography teachers , not normal , hunky ,gorgeous men that you'd want to go out with AT ALL . But now it seems that every guy between 17 and 70 is sprouting a 'hipster beard' , yes even the hunky , fit ones , David Beckham has dabbled , Brad Pitt & George Clooney just to mention a few but also your average perfectly normal guy on every high street .

I can't help thinking that the beard is the mullet for this generation . In years to come children will look through their parents old Instagram accounts and exclaim in horror how Dad had face fuzz and Mum was orange , just as the offspring from my generation look at photo albums of us and laugh.

I suppose dodgy fashion is just something we all have to go through , we all think we look amazing at the time , despite our parents laughing at us and I guess it gives the next generation ammunition when they hear 'you're not going out looking like that' X X