Why Ringwald dresses like a grandma in this and has grandma hairdoo - Pretty in Pink (1986) Discussion

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[–] Redart27 9 years ago

Her peers were right, though they had their own fashion challenges. She just looked so old to be the teenage protagonist. She was cute, in a quirky way, in 16 Candles and Breakfast Club. In this film, she looks like a tele-evangelist's wife: bouffant hair, shapeless dresses.

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[–] Movie_Riggs 9 years ago

I agree. I enjoy Candles and Club several times more than this, and one of the key reasons why is Ringwald just didnt look the part anymore. I know Hughes was mad she left the teenager movie scene after 86 but she really made the right move

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[–] Jes' Sayin' (6349) 4 years ago

She was only six months older than her character.

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[–] [email protected] (2017) 14 days ago

Lol a tele-evangelist's wife haha!

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[–] TeenGangDeb 9 years ago

She looks rad.

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[–] kaydie-fee 9 years ago

Yeah she wore some fugly clothes, that outfit she had on when she went on her first date with Blaine was the absolute worst (excluding the prom dress catastrophe of course), normally I would think Blaine asking if she wants to go home and get changed is a completely dickish thing to do but I truly can't blame him, I think he was confused - it looked like she was wearing my grandmas old sofa covers.
I did like a couple of her outfits though, the one with the embellished turquoise cardigan/pink flowery jeans and the Korea jacket one she wore to Iona's house were kinda cool.

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[–] runnertimes 9 years ago

I think it's all the floral patterns she wore that made it kind of "grandma" like. Not sure if that was so in the 80s, but she is supposed to look different than all the richies.

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[–] Punctuality 9 years ago

A lot of the fashions in the 80s WERE frumpy and flower prints were really in, although with that preppy crowd, they would've looked weirdly at her - they would've been into Ralph Lauren/pastel clothes (sweater over the shoulders kind of thing). I loved the flower prints. Usually if you wore a brightly flowered skirt, you could wear a top in the shade of one of the flowers to match (pink or red or whatever).

Although Andie wore quirky fashions, she wasn't "dressing like grandma" on purpose - that's just the way it was. And I loved her hair style (except for the bangs). :)

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[–] kaskait 9 years ago

*Shrug*

At the time, she looked very cool. She looked like the girls in downtown NYC...a kind of mix between punk/hippy style.

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[–] blondiebear_17 9 years ago

I agree her outfits are kind of ugly but I can see why she likes them, honestly even though I don't think it all comes together I really liked that she was creative and had a unique sense of style. Her dad didn't make very much money so she was doing the best she could with what she had to work with and since she couldn't just buy new and trendy designer clothes she developed her own looks.

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[–] PussyCrusher_Principal 8 years ago

What is unoriginal 80s vernacular for "free thinker"?

Sorry, either you're asking a Jeopardy question or English is not your first language.

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[–] morrell2000 8 years ago

Her hairstyle was very hip in the mid 1980s. Her clothes were not necessarily popular for high school students but a lot of women wore very conservative clothing like some parts of her outfits (ie: pearls, flower print tops and skirts). She was quite eclectic and marched to her own drum rather than what was popular though.

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