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Male and Female Singers 80s
(Fancy Dress Ideas for Famous 80s
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Female Singers 80s

80s Madonna Fancy Dress
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  - Madonna had a few 'looks'
  • The 'like a virgin' look: white lace bodice teamed with long white lace gloves, white netting puffy dress, piled up frizzy hair, white earrings and plenty of black eyeliner and mascara (and attitude);
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  • the punk look: black sleeveless top (tank top or off the shoulder top), or mesh top, black short skirt with leggings, black bobby socks and shoes, hair tied up with a bow, lots of black leather bracelets - some with studs - dangling earrings (eg. a crucifix or star), metal low slung belts;
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  • the Marilyn-Monroe-Material-World look: long pink strapless dress, long pink gloves, blonde coiffed hair, fake mole, bright lipstick.
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  • also see how to dance like Madonna

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  • Tina Turner- massive spikey hair, short skirt, high heels, denim jacket (optional) walk with a strut, dance with your legs apart and bent...Lots of Tina Turner wigs around these days
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  • Dolly Parton - blonde curly wig, plastered on makeup, fake-eyelashes, red lipstick, and accentuated bosoms in a nice sparkly dress.
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  • Cyndi Lauper - long bright orange (or multicoloured) hair, vivid blue or rainbow eyeshadow, fake eyelashes, big dangling earrings, lots of bracelets, if possible wear a bodice with a bright red flamenco-type skirt, with fishnets and doc martens.

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  • Collette - Long straight blonde hair, bike pants with fluoro stripe down side, colourful bra or bikini top, with braces, wristband. (see Ring My Bell videoclip)
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  • Bananarama Fancy Dress  - Got three willing friends? Then go as Bananarama. You need one person with curly blonde hair, one with straight dark hair, and one with brown/blonde hair. Wear anything you want, but you could try the striped prison clothes that they wore in "Love in the First Degree", else go in typical 80s garb.
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  • Cher - Classic Cher outfit is the see-through body stocking with black gaffer tape/material in a 'V' to cover all the important bits, long curly black wig, long high heeled boots, and lots of guts and charisma to carry it all off.

More Famous Female Singers 80s:

  • Martika
  • Tiffany
  • Sabrina
  • Sheena Easton
  • Kim Wilde
  • Debbie Gibson
  • Annie Lennox
  • Taylor Dane
  • Chrissie Hynde
  • Whitney Houston
  • Pat Benatar
  • Janet Jackson
  • Enya
  • Gloria Estefan
  • Paula Abdul
  • Belinda Carlisle
  • Bonnie Tyler
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Male Singers 80s

  • Michael Jackson 1980s - Michael Jackson had a few famous looks from the 80s that you can try and recreate. The classic red Thriller outfit, the General/ Commander outfit with big sunglasses, sash and Glove, - and The Man in the Mirror look - black hat, white glove, white tshirt, white socks, black-everything-else number. Michael's hair was styled into 'Jheri curls'.

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  • Boy George - long frizzy dark hair with lots of thin plaits (optional - tie bits of coloured material in and around them - as per Kharma Chameleon video clip), a frizzy fringe, black hat, long white tshirt with white pants, accessorised with round lennon-esque sunglasses.
    (see
    Do you really want to hurt me videoclip)
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  • Adam Ant - Drum major jacket, white frilly shirt with frilly sleeves, white war-paint stripe across nose and cheekbones, eyeliner, small plaits in hair, black leather pants, leather belt, boots, attitude. Alternatively a highwayman's outfit - add three pronged hat, cloak, half mask.

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  • John Lennon fancy dress - round John Lennon glasses (pink tint optional), long hair, mystic beard. You could wear white jacket and white pants, bring an Asian female companion...

  • Freddie Mercury- moustache, white single with protuding chest hair, stone wash jeans or white pants.
     
  • Bruce Springsteen - fitting white tshirt, with jeans, optional black or red bandana worn across forehead, denim jacket or leather jacket, accessorise with a guitar.
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  • Stevie Wonder fancy dress - sunglasses, long thin plaits - beads optional, moustache, accessorize with harmonica or small keyboard.
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  • George Michael - white tshirt, black leather jacket, jeans, grow stubble, brown fluffy hair.
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  • Prince - white high necked frilly shirt, purple jacket and purple pants, longish black curly hair.
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    KISS members - wear leather and paint your face as per the members.
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