Occasionally, I have students interested in fashion, therefore, I had hopes that this publication would give them good examples from the 1980s.  My first disappointment was when I discovered that  the book was heavy on text and skimpy on photographs.  My second disappointment was realizing that the title was misleading.  It felt like more of a “1980’s pop culture” book. If the author had left out the extraneous, non-fashion discourse, and added a bizillion more photographs for the elementary audience, this could have been a fashion winner.  I did find the Timeline in the back matter to be interesting.  Each decade is represented with “The look…The hair…The fad…starting in the 1920s up until 2000.