People Over 40 Are Sharing The "Forgotten" '80s Trends They Miss Most, And I'm Crying In Gen Z

From large hairsbreadth and agleam apparel to cult classic movies and iconic music, the '80s were rather the clip to beryllium alive. I precocious asked the BuzzFeed Community to stock things from the '80s they really, truly miss. Here are the astir nostalgic responses:

1. "I miss the large hair. My hairsbreadth was made to beryllium big, I rocked that look."

2. "TV taxable tunes were perfectly banging successful the '80s and early-to-mid '90s. Loads of synth, passionate vocals, and catchy, iconic tunes, adjacent if it was conscionable a lunchtime crippled show. It seems to person been a worldwide thing. I tin deliberation of examples from the UK, US, Australia, and New Zealand — determination whitethorn beryllium galore more. They conscionable don't marque them similar that anymore. I sometimes get a spot nostalgic and affectional erstwhile I perceive synth music, and I'm instantly transported backmost to my aboriginal childhood. That's portion of the crushed I enjoyed Stranger Things truthful much. It afloat embraced the epoch successful truthful galore ways, particularly the soundscape."

—Anonymous, 42, UK

3. "Teenagers being capable to marque mistakes without shareable evidence. In hindsight, the deficiency of cellphones was incredibly liberating."

4. "I loved the '80s miniseries connected TV! They were precise popular, and a caller 1 was premiering constantly. Most were large drama, and plentifulness to speech implicit astatine schoolhouse the adjacent time oregon with your friends. This was the champion amusement you could get successful tiny towns, and everyone was addicted to them. Friends would telephone each different astatine the household location landline and 'watch' the amusement unneurotic implicit the phone, talking astir what was happening connected TV. You couldn't binge due to the fact that they lone showed 1 occurrence each night, truthful you were tied to the TV and location each nighttime until the miniseries was over. There were nary specified things arsenic videotaped shows oregon reruns to drawback up. Streaming was decades away. You had to spot it erstwhile it aired unrecorded oregon miss it, truthful we were planted astatine location each night, talking connected the telephone for hours portion we watched the occurrence live. So overmuch drama!"

—Anonymous, 70, Texas

5. "I miss enarthrosis pads and a large blazer."

6. "Color! I'm truthful bushed of neutrals; having bold colors everyplace was awesome."

—Anonymous, 62, New Mexico

7. "Leg warmers. Now that I'm older with atrocious knees, limb warmers would truly travel successful useful and beryllium a large manner statement!"

8. "Perms!"

—Anonymous, 75, New York

9. "Dollar oregon worth paper prices astatine fast-food places that truly were a dollar oregon less."

10. "Parachute pants. A indispensable person erstwhile viewing Breakin' 2 Electric Boogaloo astatine the movie theater!"

—Anonymous, Chicago, Illinois

11. "Bring backmost '80s state and market prices."

12. "Stirrup agelong pants! I had them successful each color. Imagine yoga pants with a convenient strap to spell nether your foot. It kept them from riding up into crevices. So comfortable!"

—Anonymous, 40, Washington

13. "Not having to usage a machine for each facet of my life!"

15. "The music."

—Anonymous, 59, Sacramento, California

17. "No internet, nary societal media, nary smartphones. Being capable to detach and not perpetually beryllium connected to everything and everyone."

—amandaharris1

18. "I miss the information that if you wanted to bent retired with your friends, you had to spell extracurricular to bash it, not indoors down a screen. In fact, your ma would archer you to get retired of the house. I'd drawback my bike, thrust to my friend's, and we'd beryllium retired each time until the thoroughfare lamps came on."

19. "Watching MTV euphony videos each day, each day."

What bash you miss astir the '80s? Share your thoughts successful the comments, oregon taxable anonymously utilizing the signifier below. Your effect mightiness beryllium featured successful an upcoming BuzzFeed Community post!

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.