March 1988 Fashion Etc: Bandanas, The Boardwalk & Bugle Boy

Feb 16, 2021, 10:00 AM

Once Tara and Pam have described the fashions they were sporting or coveting in March of 1988, we critique the cover, and then get into the fashion stories of Sassy's premiere issue, set on a boardwalk, at an old railyard, and in a palette of creams and beiges. What Next also forecasts coming fashion trends with pinpoint accuracy -- thanks, Michael Kors and Betsey Johnson! The beauty features teach you how to use bandanas and makeup; then About Face tells you about bang trims and hot oil treatments, and Body Talk warns you about gonorrhea, weed, and NutraSweet. After Elise gets a makeover (and WILDLY negged in the process), we take a quick trip through some of the issue's most memorable ads, including Benetton, Levi's, Cherry Lane trying to make bloomers happen, and which Sassy Club products we'd be bugging our mom to buy us. Then: the Magazineyness! Jane's first Diary (her editor's letter) has a culturally insensitive lede but otherwise makes us want to keep reading. The letters to the editor in Say What are probably just as real as the ones in Help! And should Sara Walker, the subject of Inside Out (the magazine's inside back cover column for magazine production ephemera) who actually named the magazine itself, maybe have been its first cover model? Start thinking about how you can source these outfits on the cheap as you listen along!

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TOPICS

๐ŸŽง Hello, It's March 1988

๐ŸŽง What We Wore

๐ŸŽง Fashion: Cover

๐ŸŽง Fashion: On The Boardwalk

๐ŸŽง Fashion: Tough Enough

๐ŸŽง Fashion: Milk And Honey

๐ŸŽง Fashion: What Next?

๐ŸŽง Beauty: Bandanarama

๐ŸŽง Beauty: Beginner's Guide To Makeup

๐ŸŽง Beauty: About Face

๐ŸŽง Beauty: Body Talk

๐ŸŽง Beauty: Then & Now

๐ŸŽง Sassy Ads

๐ŸŽง Sassy Club

๐ŸŽง Magazineyness: Diary

๐ŸŽง Magazineyness: Say What

๐ŸŽง Magazineyness: Inside Out

๐ŸŽง Goodbye For Now

NOTES

โš ๏ธ Inline notes below may be truncated due to podcast feed character limits. Full notes are always on the episode page.

๐Ÿ’ˆย DO YEH HEH CYNTHIEH

๐Ÿ›ถย Beaver Canoe

๐Ÿ“ธย Andrew Southam's website

๐Ÿ“ธย Andrew Southam on Instagram

๐Ÿ“ธย Naomi Kaltman's website

๐Ÿ›ย Pam's jean jacket on Poshmark

๐Ÿ’…ย Tully Jensen on Wikipedia

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡งย Jensen's British "Vogue" cover, shot by Herb Ritts

๐Ÿฅˆย Photographer Nick Vaccaro's website, The Silver Canvas

๐Ÿ’…ย Marni Malinosky on Instagram

๐ŸŽ€ย Chrissy Teigen's scarf scrunchies

๐Ÿ‘ย Magazine ad for Coty's disposable mascara

๐Ÿ‘›ย Guerlain Meteorite Powder Pebbles

๐Ÿ’„ย Shiseido matte lipsticks

๐Ÿ˜ตย Current adolescent gonorrhea rates

๐Ÿ’‹ย Carmex urban legends

๐Ÿคฉย TV commercial for the United Superstars of Benetton

๐Ÿคฏย Benetton's history of "shockvertising"

๐Ÿ˜ˆย Creative director Oliviero Toscani's most controversial Benetton campaigns

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นย Why Benetton fired Toscani (for the second time) in 2020

๐Ÿฆ‹ย Tara's review of Clarice at VanityFair.com

๐Ÿ ย "Whole House" by Lolawolf