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* Women often wore multiple pairs of socks, one over the other, of contrasting colors. You'd buy your shoes a size or so large for this purpose.
* Tights could be worn as casual wear instead of trousers. You pulled up your (multiple pairs of) socks right over the bottom of the tights. Legwarmers were optional but popular. They would often be paired with an oversized T-shirt or sweatshirt. [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51d2Fh-DJOL._SL500_AA300_.jpg T-shirt clips] were big in the latter half of the decade through the early 1990's, particularly in neon.
* ''Flashdance'' in 1983 popularized off-the-shoulder [
* For a brief period of time, women, mostly teenage girls, could be seen wearing cut-off denim shorts over sheer tights with sneakers. Unsurprisingly, this look didn't last long, being considered completely terrible even by [[Everyone Has Standards|'80s standards.]]
* Given that skintight jeans could be very hard to get on or off over one's feet, some styles had zippers at the back of the ankle. While not terribly widespread, this hung on into the early nineties, until such tight jeans fell out of style.
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