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"In case you couldn&amp;#x27;t tell from our Madonna worshipping moments or scrunchie-sighting meltdowns, we&amp;#x27;re pop culture-obsessed children of the &amp;#x27;80s here at STF. While return of &amp;#x27;80s and &amp;#x27;90s styles is nothing new, the latest crop of old school-feeling trends--everything from Balenciaga&amp;#x27;s Dynasty dresses to Urban Outfitter&amp;#x27;s racks of Breakfast Club-worthy duds--has given us a hardcore case of nostalgia. Curious to find out if we were the only ones who felt this way, we tracked down some of the era&amp;#x27;s icons and ask them about the trends they made famous--and what they think about their signature styles being back in heavy rotation again. The results are--to use the Jem-ism--Truly Outrageous.New York Fashion Week kicks off tomorrow and to help make the semi-annual event even more interesting (as if nip slips, model tumbles and Posh cameos weren&amp;#x27;t enough), we&amp;#x27;ll be unveiling one new Truly Outrageous interview everyday here on Slaves to Fashion. While we can&amp;#x27;t name names (because that&amp;#x27;d be almost as bad as spoiling the plotline of SATC2) trust us when we say you&amp;#x27;re going to, like, totally spaz. The Bangles, circa 1980. To start things off, meet Susanna Hoffs and sisters Vicki and Debbi Peterson, otherwise known as The Bangles. Their &amp;#x27;80s hits--including Manic Monday and Walk Like an Egyptian--provided the go-to soundtrack for sleepovers, mix tapes (yes, tapes) and karaoke performances everywhere. Plus, they raised the bar for fashiony girl bands, with their heavily hair sprayed &amp;#x27;dos, lace body-con dresses, boxy blazers and of course, their namesake accessories. To this day, we can barely resist belting out Six o&amp;#x27;clock already / I was just in the middle of a dream / I was kissin&amp;#x27; Valentino / By a crystal blue Italian stream... every time we slide on a stack of oversize bracelets. (Which, considering fall&amp;#x27;s accessory trends, might be happening a lot in the next few months...) Without further ado, we give you The Bangles on vintage style, their hairstyle evolution and the trouble with wearing chunky bracelets on stage: An armful of bangles at Lanvin&amp;#x27;s fall show. STF: I&amp;amp;#8217;m sure you&amp;amp;#8217;ve gotten asked this question for years, but how did you come to decide on the name &amp;amp;#8220;The Bangles?&amp;amp;#8221; VICKI: We&amp;amp;#8217;d been performing as the Bangs and on the eve of the release of our first EP, a New Jersey band contacted us, claiming the name and demanding $40,000.00 for its use. We headed over to a Mexican restaurant and started brainstorming on new names and decided to add the two letters that turned us into the Bangles. It seemed feminine and fun, stylish but substantial. STF: Did you ever incorporate said accessory into your performance outfits? DEBBI: Personally, because I drum, I tend not to wear them live. SUSANNA: I tended to only wear them for photo sessions, because it&amp;amp;#8217;s hard to play guitar when you&amp;amp;#8217;ve got bangle bracelets on your arms! VICKI: I still wear bangle bracelets onstage, but only the left arm, since they&amp;amp;#8217;d smash against the guitar if I wore them on the right. I think it was Cyndi Lauper who encouraged me to wear them by the dozens in the 80s&amp;amp;#133; STF: I love the photo archives on your website. Where did you get a lot of the clothes that you wore while performing and touring in the &amp;#x27;80s? DEBBI: Some of the clothes were bought from vintage clothing stores, others were Betsey Johnson, but I think the majority were mall bought clothes. I wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t going for the designer look then (can&amp;amp;#8217;t you tell!!??). SUSANNA: We scoured thrift stores, and also designed our own costumes. We were inspired by the mod Carnaby Street fashions of the mid &amp;#x27;60s. I got some amazing pieces from my mother and grandmothers that I wore a lot back in the &amp;#x27;80s. STF: Did you coordinate your performing outfits then? VICKI: We don&amp;amp;#8217;t intentionally coordinate, but I&amp;amp;#8217;ll show up in something and look at Debbi and say, &amp;amp;#8220;Oh great&amp;amp;#8212;you&amp;amp;#8217;re wearing fishnets tonight, too?&amp;amp;#8221; STF: What do you think about the return of all of these &amp;amp;#8216;80s styles? VICKI: I haven&amp;amp;#8217;t seen the resurrection of some of the more hideous trends so far. In the meantime, I guess there&amp;amp;#8217;s always a time and place for gold lame leggings. STF: Is there anything that you wore then that you still wear now? Is there anything from that era that you&amp;amp;#8217;d never wear again? SUSANNA: I still wear minis and cardigans, but I think I&amp;amp;#8217;ll steer away from shoulder pads. DEBBI: I suppose I still do the mini skirt thing. VICKI: I had a red-fringed &amp;amp;#8220;flapper&amp;amp;#8221; dress custom made for me in New York --it was stolen from our dressing room one night after a concert. I&amp;amp;#8217;d wear that again in a second. The white leather fringed skirt or gold satin vest? Probably not. Actually, the list of things I would never wear again is pretty extensive. STF: How would you describe your musical evolution over the past 25 years? SUSANNA: Like our fashion sensibility, we&amp;amp;#8217;ve always drawn musical inspiration from the 1960&amp;amp;#8217;s and 70&amp;amp;#8217;s, so that has given our music continuity from the 80&amp;amp;#8217;s to now. We still love jangly guitars, layers of vocal harmonies and melody. Our sound is kind of a collage of pop, folk, country, and rock. STF: How would you describe your hairstyle evolution over the past 25 years? DEBBI: It&amp;amp;#8217;s definitely flatter and straighter! I&amp;amp;#8217;m not platinum blonde anymore. I&amp;amp;#8217;m going for more of a natural look now. SUSANNA: My hair is naturally curly, and in the 80&amp;amp;#8217;s, even though I experimented with different lengths, I generally wore it curly. Since then, I&amp;amp;#8217;ve learned how to use a blow dryer and flat iron. STF: I&amp;amp;#8217;d imagine people have given you many bracelets and bangles as gifts over the years. True or untrue? VICKI: I have received a fair share of them (as a matter of fact I was given one just yesterday) and I wear &amp;amp;#8216;em with pride. A few of the Fall 2009 Lacroix styles. Look familiar? The Bangles (below) circa 1986. In love with The Bangles? You can still find them performing. This fall they&amp;#x27;ll be in Florida and California. Oh, and I almost forgot to ask you: Are you as obsessed with The Bangles as we are? How about the big bracelet trend? Have you been rocking the look (on stage or off) these days? Check back tomorrow for another Truly Outrageous interview! Meanwhile, let&amp;#x27;s talk about a few more &amp;#x27;80s trends, shall we? *A Tribute To John Hughes: The Most Memorable 80s Fashion Moments From Our Favorite Films * Totally 80s: Our Favorite Style Bloggers Take On The Destroyed Denim Trend *Lunchtime Video: Mr.T Talks Fashion More Ways to Get Glamour You could win $50,000 just for registering or logging in to Glamour.com! Add Glamour to your iGoogle homepage Follow Slaves to Fashion on Twitter! Sign up for Glamour.com&amp;amp;#8217;s Style Tips of the Week and Beauty Tip of the Day newsletters! Photo: (Black &amp;amp; white portrait) Michael Ochs Archives, (color portrait) Redferns, (backstage) Mark Leibowitz. Jem: Everett Collection"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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