世論 What Japan Thinks

This week goo Ranking decided to report on what in vogue items or fashions from the 1980s do people get nostalgic about when they look back on them.

Demographics

Over the 21st and 22nd of February 2008 1,052 people from the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 50.7% were female, 6.4% in their teens, 15.7% in their twenties, 31.0% in their thirties, 26.6% in their forties, 11.2% in their fifties, and 9.1% aged sixty or over. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

This is a difficult one for me to answer, as I was never really into the fads myself during that time. Music brings back certain memories, so thinking about that it’s probably the silly hair from people like Kajagoogoo, Duran Duran, Adam Ant or the sharp suits of Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet and the rest of the New Romantic boom that would spark not a longing for the actual music or styles, but just to be there again and do things differently or just do the same things all over again.

All photos have been appropriated from random websites via Google Image Search…

Ranking results

Q: What 1980s fads do you feel nostalgic about when you recall them? (Sample size=)

Rank			Score
1		“Body-con” body-hugging one-piece dress	100
2		Seiko-chan haircut	81.8
3		Jackets with shoulder pads	69.5
4		Thick eyebrows	63.0
5		Mohican hair cut	48.4
6		Techno hair cut	44.6
7		Chemical wash jeans	34.6
8		Pink House and other fluffy clothes	33.4
9		Sailors brand sweatshirt	32.8
10		Loud suits	32.6
11		Navy blue blazer and jeans	29.6
12		Knotted shirt tails	29.3
13		Close-cropped hair	29.0
14		Pochette (handbag with shoulder strap)	26.4
15		Outsized glasses	22.9
16		Thrice-folded ankle socks	22.6
17		Fuschia pink lipstick	19.4
18		Bandana headband	17.6
19		High-waist trousers	15.8
20		Ray-ban shades	15.5