Angie guessed correctly in my case too - it is from 1990.

Picture was taken in 1992. Nicely done, April and Runcarla Close but no cigar, Angie and Jenni NZ

Thanks for the game/challenge, April

Ok, weighing in anew we have JenniNZ (1991); Anchie (1990); and Nikki (1992).

My correct guess for Angie's photo was not based on clothing but on knowledge of child development, so I am thus far crediting myself with only one correct guess, which is Nikki in 1992.

JenniNZ, I think you actually answered my question as to where trends appear first. Northeast US before NZ, though not always before California. And if a trend appears in a popular film, all bets are off and it will show up EVERYWHERE. Remember the white suit from Saturday Night Fever and the cut-up sweatshirts from Flashdance?

Angie guessed correctly with (July) 1981. Lady Diana had quite an influence on fashion (see her engagement photo from ‘91 below.) When I went looking for a wedding dress, a replica of the new Princess’s gown was in the window of the shop! I did not succumb to overwrought sleeves and meringue skirt for our wedding in ‘82, and ever the budget fashionista, bought my wedding dress from ‘old stock’ on sale for $250 with veil included!

Solved:

Angie 1972

April 1985

JenniNZ 1991

Runcarla 1981

Anchie 1990

Remaining to be solved:

Jenava

Bumping for Jenava, a busy person at the end of a work week...

Oh, I'm in so late but I'd love to play. So fun! Not a birthday but my college graduation. I found this forgotten polaroid when doing a major closet/drawer clean this spring and was tickled to realize my graduation dress looked almost identical to one I'd just seen for sale in Club Monaco.

Jenava I'm guessing 1982.
Not sure w Andrea.

Andrea, hmm. I didn't go to my own college graduation (should have been 1986, actually was 1989) but sleeves and neckline to me say somewhere around 1992?

Can't remember if we were still shaking Polaroid pictures by then...

Andrea, his facial hair & those glasses look like my cousins’ husbands around 1980, but that skinny tie has to be later than that.

I’m late to the game. This is my 21st birthday. I am in Auckland. I am the one with the jet black hair. I think it’s hard to tell because none of us were trend setters at the time.

Hmm, Sally. I see pleat-front trousers and a peek of acid wash. I'm going with 1987.

Remaining to be solved:
Jenava
Andrea H.
Sally

What a fun game! Mine is not a birthday, but my wedding. I saw my dress on the cover of Modern Bride magazine and I knew it was the one for me. It also came in blush pink, and now I wish I had bought that one instead. Those sleeves! That butt bow! The gigantic veil!

My guesses:
Jenava - 1993
Sally - 1986
Andrea - 1987 (the skinny lapel on the man’s suit has me thinking sometime in the 1980’s)

I'm going to guess:
Jenava-1994
Sally-1988
Karie-1990 (I remember shopping for bridesmaid's dresses for my cousin's 1990 wedding and they had almost exactly those sleeves, neckline, and back bow!)

Karie, you were close. My grad picture is from 1985.

Ah, Andrea H - 1985. Yes, that was indeed the era of shaking our Polaroids.

Karie, the giant sleeves and skirts on wedding attire lasted a loooong time but I am going to agree with AH and say 1990?

Remaining to be solved:
Jenava
Sally
Karie

Andrea and April, you were very close! 1989 was the year. Those giant sleeves and bow are a dead giveaway, along with my big hair, although on that day it wasn’t as big as usual (probably all the product I had in it was weighing it down, lol).

Karie, 1989 was also the year of my (first) wedding, but it was such a low-key informal affair that my search for a dress went like this:

Take a study break, catch the trolley to the late great John Wanamaker's, try on a fitted ivory "riding suit" style, ask a stranger what she thinks, buy it. Home studying again two hours later.

For my sister's winter wedding a few years later, I managed to talk her out of huge-skirt puffed-sleeve fuchsia satin bridesmaids' dresses and steered her to sleek off-the-shoulder black velvet. I already owned two of the huge-skirt puffed-sleeve colorful satin confections and wasn't looking to invest in a third. Proud to say the black velvet was the only bridesmaid dress I ever owned that I did, in fact, wear again.

April, for my wedding, I pulled a linen suit with mini skirt and blue/white ditsy floral top out of my closet. Had bought it a couple months earlier, along with other linen things from the Limited.

April, I remember John Wanamaker’s (I’m from South Jersey). Their store in Phila. was fabulous, with the huge pipe organ and the holiday light show.
That sleek black bridesmaid dress sounds beautiful, do you still have it?

K - I do not, because my shoulders and back outgrew its form-fitted style and eventually I passed it along. But it was sleek and elegant.

Wanamaker's is now a Macy's (or was, last time I checked) but "the Wanamaker organ" still retains pride of place.

I will try to solve Sally’s: I will say 1991 because I do think it is past the 80s, has an early 1990s look.
And I didn’t get to guess yours Karie but the big sleeves are quite similar to the sleeves on the fuchsia silk blouse I had bought in 1988 ( in my pics in this thread) so the 1989 date fits style-wise.
Funny how our wedding outfits can date so much!

Hi am I supposed to give the answer? Jenni was the closest. The year is 1992. I’m not sure if we were very on trend. Those pleated trousers I was wearing were a couple of years old I think.

Yes, it's time to reveal answers, so thanks for chiming in, Sally!

Sorry I'm very late, life has been hectic. This photo was from 1989! Although I'm flattered by the idea someone thinks I could be much younger than I am!

I think all of us think you are younger Jenava! I thought you were 11 years younger than you actually are!
This was a fun game. I also had to wear specs from age 11, and only used contact lenses for a few years about ages 25 to 30. I found them too much hassle.

Late but I finally found my photo. Haha. No need to guess since no one may see this. Answer: 2014, and I don’t think the hat was ever a fashion trend except when the servers at a Mexican restaurant sing on your birthday.