LOL. I came here just to see if anyone posted about the hair. In that opening scene with Melanie and Joan I really did laugh out loud.
Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you do. (The Last Kiss)
Everyone here must be really, really young.
shareMe too. I came on here to say "hair" and that's all I got to say. Lol
shareWhat I want to know is why didn't Tess think to change her hair sooner. She'd been wanting to be taken seriously all along; why did it take her posing as an executive to make her rethink her style?
shareI don't think she realized sooner that her look was holding her back. she thought she could make it on merit alone.
shareSometimes things don't snap into focus until you're in a new situation, or meet new people.
There's a truism that, if you're an academic, you need to find work somewhere besides the place you got your final degree. If you stay on where you were a degree candidate, neither you nor your superiors will quite get over seeing you that way.
Tess is in the same situation. She got away from where she was a secretary getting nowhere, working for guys that showed her no respect. She found herself in a new place with someone who appeared to be a supportive mentor. She can experiment with her self-image, both inside and out.
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Hair was big then, but not THAT big. I think it was that they were from one of the Outer Boroughs of NYC. Manhattanites were perceived as sleeker and cooler, like Katherine Parker. I say this as a former Queens girl, who commuted to Manhattan for 20-odd years.
shareI only discovered this movie about 3 weeks ago!
I'm 31, born in 84 but was raised in the 90's.
I have always loved EVERYTHING about the 80's, even the crazy hair and makeup (Cyndi Lauper anyone?)...but when I sat down to watch this, and the opening credits started, and Cyn is singing Happy Birthday to Tess...My mum heard me scream out "HOLY SH!!!!!!!!!T"! LOL
I could not believe the hair!
Even the women around Tess at the work place had massive hair!
And when Cyn is talking to Tess and asking how the meeting went and then had to pretend to be Tess' secretary...her green and red eye shadow was matching her big red and green earrings? I was both loving it and laughing at it!
Only during the 80's could you have gotten away with "The bigger the better" and "The more the better"!
Don't forget Cyn's reaction to that lovely black cocktail dress with "It needs some bows or something"! Hahaha.
Same here. I couldn't believe Cyn's eye shadow in that scene. Way too much, but somehow it works.
shareThe only thing bigger than the hair in the 80s was the shoulder pads.
shareI hated the big hair and the shoulder pads back then. Women started to look like football players with goofy hair.
Seemed like many white girls had a version of Farrah Fawcett hair in the early 1980s, then somewhere in the middle of the 1980s, the hair started to get high and weird.
I also could never understand why so many kids in the 1980s wanted to wear jeans with holes everywhere, especially in the knee area. You never know when you might fall down, so some sturdy cloth between you and the sidewalk might be a good idea.
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They're still wearing the jeans with holes. I saw some last week. Right, clothes are good protection from the elements.
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