By “Men’s Fashion,” we refer to the various clothing choices and style aesthetics marketed to males adhering to the heteronormative gender binary presented during the 1980s.
We began by looking men’s fashion trends at the national level by observing trends worn by popular singers and bands in music videos from the 1980s. Then, to see if any of the trends observed in the music videos were worn at the local level, we looked through the Mary Washington College yearbooks called “The Battlefield” from 1980 to 1989.