Flashback Friday-- Iconic Fashion Moments from Dirty Dancing

I have always had a love affair with Dirty Dancing. This movie has been around for 27 years and I have watched it a million times but always find myself stopping to watch it while its on TV. Its my happy movie, its pretty spectacular and still captivates me to this day. I have loved this movie since I was a preteen when I would sit in my room for hours and watch the dancers foot steps until I could in fact do the dance myself. I was widely obsessed with dancing as a child and I think this movie definitely played a major role in that.

Recently, my obsession came to an all time high when I was reviewing wedding first dance choices with my fiancé. I put on this song and said, "wouldn't it be fun if we recreated the whole dance and had our bridal party also involved" He rolled his eyes and laughed at me because I don't think he thought I was serious until I proceeded to do my dance moves. HA! How fun would that be?? To my credit, he looked impressed! I may or may not have gotten the idea from this amazing couple below. Can anyone tell I have bridal on the brain? CorStyle may be turning into corBridal.

At any rate, when you think of Dirty Dancing, your mind doesn't gravitate right away to the fashion. I know this, but there are some incredibly iconic looks and moments I thought would be fun to review! Plus any excuse to look at Patrick Swayze as Johnny is good in my book.

First up, here we have Baby aka Jennifer Grey returning from a practice with Johnny. She is looking summer chic in her jean shorts and burnt coral leotard. She even accessorizes with a dark brown belt. I love that the shorts are high wasted and very much the look in the late 80's. She was so cute in this movie, why did she have to go and get a nose job that changed her entire face?? Not the point.

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Next, they really are getting deep into the dancing regime and they take a break to dance/canoodle during the day. Thank god Baby's manager "boyfriend" didn't catch them! Here PS is seen in all black, looking as chic as ever. Black is really timeless and JG is seen in a cute crop top and longer than long jean shorts. Again, its the 80's people.. Yikes. I actually have seen long jean skirts coming back in fashion. I am not sure how I feel about those, and we will revisit this topic in an upcoming post.

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I think one of my favorite parts of the movie is watching them try to practice the iconic "lift". Johnny does everything he can think of to help Baby perfect the lift. Even taking the practices to the water. Here she is seen in all white everything!! All white outfits are still popular today, especially with the blazing heat of summer. Fun fact I learned from Moviefone, even though the movie is set in upstate New York, most of the outdoor scenes were filmed in the deep South. Pretty interesting!

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Lastly, the best last dance we have seen to date in a movie (in my opinion). I love Baby's iconic light pink dress and of course her dancing shoes. Johnny wore his classic and movie standard black on black. If we didn't have this movie scene, we would never have the saying, "Nobody puts Baby in the Corner". That would be an utter travesty.