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Leg warmers of the 80's: a pictorial tribute
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This gallery takes you through some styles of leg warmers of the 80's. Leg warmers started with dancers - and are still worn by many today. By around 1982 they began to make an appearance in wider society: you could now pretend you were a dancer by wearing leg warmers over the top of your jeans. This is something a dancer at the time would refuse to do. Leg warmers were no longer black or some other functional colour. Now they were speckled, fluoro and some were worn so low that they would have been better known as ankle warmers. The hard core would wear them to a sweaty nightclub - even in summer. Strangely, leg warmers managed to hang around a little longer than many other 80's fashions and they didn't meet their fate until late 1984. By 85, they were extinct. Few samples of 80's fashion leg warmers exist today, although you can still buy the 90s bland versions at some dance supply shops.
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Tracking down pictures of leg warmers is very tough, if you have any good pictures then send us an email. Thankfully, leg warmers were immortalised in the film clip 'Footloose' (Kenny Loggins) the only record in pop culture that reflects the diversity of a fashion item that most people wouldn't wear now.
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Screen captures from Footloose, copyright Sony Music.
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