The Legwarmers
June 16th, 2006 | by jg3 |Last week the Falls Church News-Press went in-depth on The Legearmers. Tonight the band again takes the stage at the State Theater in front of a sold-out crowd dressed in, well…
For the uninitiated, The Legwarmers are the local leaders of a recent wave through pop culture of 80’s nostalgia. A cover band who faithfully reproduces an impressively wide array of pop music from that era Their every show is a throw-back costume party. For some large part of the participants, however, the music is only vaguely familiar and the styles are about as much modern-hot ironic as they are oh-my-god-i-can-not-believe-we-ever-wore-that. To prove that point, the last time I attended one of their shows some of the outfits in my crew were assembled entirely from a trip to a mall and a TJ Maxx. Nothing from the attic, thrift shop, or grandma’s house. Just some retro-looking stuff and heavy blue eye makeup.
To be fair, this seems to always happen. About mid-decade, especially in decades without a revolution to explicitly define themselves in terms of style and music, a brief but powerful reemergence of styles from 25 years ago comes out to inform and temper the styles of the present day. Remember in the mid 90s how bell-bottom pants made a brief (and thankfully, unsuccessful) play for center-stage? The damage was done, however as for the next ten years or so, even the jeans I am wearing right now, have a slight flare in the lower leg. I imagine that in aboout ten years those hugely baggy raver pants will briefly reappear and be quickly folded into the trends of that future day.
Fortunately, in my experience, the only thought of that 80’s glam drug cocaine at a Legwarmers show has been in the band’s perfect rendition of Def Leppard’s Pour Some Sugar On Me. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go see if I can find a sock tie.
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