Wicked Costumes Adult Female Hot Pink 80's Shellsuit Fancy Dress (Women: One Size)

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These were a popular 1980s fashion trend that spawned itself as an offshoot of the popular tracksuit designs of the day, and it is one of the 80s fashions that really defined the fitness craze at the time.

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As the trouser cuff wraps around the shoes, it’ll give you an even more authentic shell suit 90s look! For instance, a bright pink shell suit with a jacket and matching elasticated trousers would make a great head turner – whether it’s at the mall or at the movies! Some shellsuit jackets, like PUMA ones, had cotton on the inside of the sleeves, and some, like Hi-tec and Rucanor ones, had nylon on the inside of the sleeves.My mother had a red and white atrocity in her early fifties and as I remember a lot of other mums at the school gates were similarly sartorially damned. Women with a taste for the athletic lifestyle could opt for a more colour coordinated ensemble to pull off a shell suit 90s style look. My aunt Mary was guilty too, and sported a turquoise, purple and lime affair, emblazoned in my memory, but for which I can thankfully find no hard photographic evidence (I did not imagine it though and do not suffer from psychosis).

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Yes, you can rock your pink shell suit at a fancy dress party but why not extend the fashion options and get yourself a high-end, authentic sports suit from Adidas in a light coral pink from head to toe? Shell suits really hit it off in the mid-eighties and it was around that time that fluorescent materials were at the very peak of their popularity. Another way to style your pink shell suit is to choose a bright shade of neon pink from head to toe. The simplicity in which you could fabricate something crazy, by wearing just a shell jacket and any combination of skirt, dress or trouser – made it a costume-lovers delight. To really amplify your style, add a red T-shirt under your pink shell jacket in the same hue as your red pants, then finish the look with bright pink high-heeled pumps – ooh la la!If you were a sixth former in the early '90s, and if you went to a sixth form or to a college where you could wear what you liked, a shellsuit jacket with jeans (or maybe with a dress or skirt for the girls) was almost like a kind of unofficial uniform for sixth formers. When going all out for yourfancy dress party look, add a big permed wig on top of yourpink shell suitin a colour of your choice: black, blond, red, anything goes!

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The arms were generally puffy and it was preferable to have a shell suit that was slightly too big rather than have the elasticated wrists ride halfway up your forearm.The arms would feature either brightly coloured strips down the side of them, or it was also possible to find jackets with fluorescent arrow-like computer generated designs down the front. To distinguish them from the traditional tracksuit, the newer synthetic designs were commonly referred to as shell suits.