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This is a normal post Thanks all for the comments so far...
Getting the fashion, styles and products right, I knew was going to be the hardest bit. The beard!!! That just didn't occur to me at the time. So obvious now that that's very much a today thing.

Keep them coming, we're learning from this. :)
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:48, Reply)
This is a normal post This might sound super fussy
and I'd be interested to see if others disagree, but I really don't think shot glasses were a thing till well into the nineties. You see everybody doing shots in the pubs these days, but it used to be shorts in a plain tumbler, and not that often, unless it was last orders.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:55, Reply)
This is a normal post JD did start pushing in the mid eighties
I remember maybe '88 or '89 getting a JD tin with a couple of shot glasses and and a bottle in it for Christmas one year. Back to pubs though, and no, I don't remember shots being the thing they are now and it was maybe mid nineties when it took off?

In fact I think it was '94 I first went to a vodka bar in Glasgow which was of course all shot glasses, so I think you're about right.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:09, Reply)
This is a normal post thanks
I'm surprised about that JD marketing drive that early. The best marketing they had for me and my mates was that when Appetite for Destruction started gaining traction in about 88, released in 87 in the USA I think, the band never seemed to do a photo shoot without a bottle in hand.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Yeah, superb product placement!
Reckon that was when it gained momentum, and of course Jim Beam and Southern Comfort jumped on the back of it.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:21, Reply)
This is a normal post Might be worth raiding a car boot sale
if the budget is there, pick up an old stereo, some cassettes, vinyl, some digital watches stuff like that and a walkman for when they are outside.
Band posters and T-shirts would help sell it too.
:)
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 18:59, Reply)
This is a normal post Absolutely
for the next time she does a 'period piece' I'll pick her up some stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Rubik's cubes were everywhere
That could be a cheap prop to put on the coffee table.
 (I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:10, Reply)
This is a normal post Acid wash jeans, converse trainers, puffball skirts, check shirts, leggings, bolero jackets
shoulder pads of course, braces, waistcoats.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:16, Reply)
This is a normal post oh yeah, fucking deeley boppers
even in nightclubs. Jesus.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:22, Reply)
This is a normal post chino's and sued shoes/boots also ripped jeans 501s
Jason donavon in a waist coat brother beyond with there nackkets And of course the start of acid house with raves and smiley t shirts
 (I helped save b3ta! fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:30, Reply)
This is a normal post acid house and smileys were a little way off in 84

(I helped save b3ta! Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 20:00, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah yes, ripped 501's with a red selvedge, had a pair myself
and of course Frankie Says Relax t-shirts.
 (I helped save b3ta! Nuisance Value, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 20:18, Reply)
This is a normal post A denim jacket, boy or girl (but not mixed in the same group).
Girls jackets with padded of ruffled shoulders, or frilled white leather.
Guys padded type jacket in flourescent pink.
Lots of perms and big waves of spray-set hair.

Checked shirts look wrong, too. And that beard. You could have someone disastrously trying to grow the weediest moustache ever though.
 (I helped save b3ta! joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Tue 24 Feb 2015, 17:59, Reply)
This is a normal post These looks are generally more 1990s
If it's a period piece it needs to almost border on parody. So here's a quick checklist...
- one big backcombed Bananarama hairdo
- one Princess Di / George Michael held-in-place-with-a-ton-of-hairspray hairdo
- one of the blokes needs to have a mullet (think Pat Sharp c1986, if you can bear it)
- one pair of legwarmers
- one copy of Protect And Survive lying around somewhere
- one Walkman with the orange foam earphones round the neck, or failing that, a ghetto blaster

Good effort, look forward to seeing more
 (Ping Telnet and the FTPs, Sun 22 Feb 2015, 19:31, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha.
Spot on with all of these. You see, these kids just weren't around then. I was, but I have a terrible memory hehe.
 (I helped save b3ta! Black Moon Not cracked, I'm all up to be., Sun 22 Feb 2015, 22:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Also
Calculator watches
Jeans with lots of pockets
Dunlop green flash trainers
Parker coats
white socks with everything
Curtain hair styles for the boys or a flat top!
Track suit tops
Gola / head bags

And generally NOT being so cool.... That came much later!! :D
 (I helped save b3ta! benkai Doing nothing as of ..., Tue 24 Feb 2015, 19:44, Reply)