Unless you are cloth-eared and have zero interest in fashion, it’s highly likely that at some point in your life, your wardrobe will have felt the influence of your favourite girl band. How ravishing or ridiculous you looked will likely depend on when you came of age. For teenagers in the 1980s, popular pin-ups included Bananarama and the Bangles. No matter that the former were British and the latter American: both were united by their dogged allegiance to cropped tops, colourful hair ties, thic