Real Alive Ariel: SHOULDERPADS

Shoulderpads have a horrible, ugly stigma about them; they are seen as the things moms used to wear when she tried to be "hip" in the 80's and get away with the broud shouldered look.

Now, lets get realistic. The shoulderpads started with your grandma, in the 1930's. When women stopped wearing corsets and started getting free, the idea that women can be strong surfaced as well. It stands for the strength of women and the idea that they are powerful, determined, and muscular. The shoulder pad idea started to make women seem more important, solid, and impressive.

Ever since the 30's, shoulderpads had ebbed and flowed in and out of style, and essentially landed us here, where we think shoulderpads make us look awkward and out of place. But is the look of pronounced shoulders beginning to come back and be a little more mainstream? (I mean, I did see a girl wearing a hot, padded, studded shoulder dress at a house party the other day...)

Some people in the media have recently been wearing shoulderpads.