Talk:Shoulder pad (fashion)

message: This article needs pictures  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.95.51 (talk) 20:20, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: While the structure with separate headings for different time periods is good and useful for a fashion topic, the text is unfortunately editorializing and essay-like in many places. It would be beneficial if someone with good knowledge of the topic could rewrite the article in an encyclopedic style and also add some information regarding men's fashion. I have therefore added a "multiple issues" template to the article. On the other hand, I have changed the assessment from stub- to start-class, after reviewing the criteria in Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. (The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent.) --OttoG (talk) 16:31, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style and scope 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: disambiguate. Shoulder pads moved to Shoulder pads (sport) by . –  wbm1058 (talk) 15:02, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 20 February 2022 

message: Who made removable shoulder pads 2603:6011:504:DA86:5C9A:AF2F:349E:BC9E (talk) 20:40, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The first to make removable shoulder pads was Claire McCardell in the year 1940, but that was before the age of velcro so hers were attached with simple tack-stitching for easy removal, per this footnote: Mulvagh, Jane (1988). "1940". Vogue History of 20th Century Fashion. London, England: Viking, the Penguin Group. p. 158. ISBN 0-670-80172-0: "When [Claire McCardell] insisted on removing shoulder pads, which had prevailed since the early thirties,...her backers...considered this uncommercial. McCardell arrived at a compromise: she tacked shoulder pads inside so that they could be easily removed." As far as I can tell, Norma Kamali was responsible for introducing velcro-fastened shoulder pads in 1980-81 with her "Sweats" collection, as in this footnote: Buck, Genevieve (1985-10-02). "Shoulders: The Intimate Story". The Chicago Tribune. "In the spring of `81, Kamali slipped oversized shoulder pads into vastly oversized sweatshirts...The innovative Kamali won plaudits from the practical as well; she designed the pads so that they could be easily removed or returned to their proper place via slim strips of Velcro." Colibri1 (talk) 17:21, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who invented shoulder pads 

message: As somebody who lived through the 1970s and 1980s, this article seems like a rather obsessive work of fiction. We were not craving bigger shoulder pads every year from 1978 onwards, for a start. One only has to watch the TV shows of the era and read the fashion magazines to see that. This article needs an objective overhaul. And 'so it seems reasonable to assign...' That is hardly the language of an encyclopedia either.
(86.175.148.51 (talk)) 86.175.148.51 (talk) 15:57, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of Objectivity 

message: Are 250 references really necessary? recentlyryan RecentlyRyan 04:57, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference count