SHEESH! It's clothing of the time!

Her clothes were on point during that time. She lived in the Valley. She dressed as a vally girl/preppy look. That's how they dressed during the early mid 80's. Plus she is not dumpy like one poster said. She has a hot body. She is athletic and is all muscle. That's not fat. That's muscle and she clear shows her strength during her cheerleading scene.

I always thought Shue was kind of pretty (she had GREAT hair!) but she had that '80s 'non-toned' look to her. I found her kind of dumpy, in fact.
Like someone else mentioned, the '80s seldom featured belly-baring, hard-toned abs and such.
The 1990s & 2000s really started that trend.
Lastly, her character was supposed to be the 'goody-goody rich girl', so she dressed kind of preppy.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

Shue has always been attractive to me, and she's aged really well too. But she was just kind of plain in Karate Kid. Not ugly, but just regular I guess.

Ali / Elisabeth is naturally very pretty. Even if her clothes made her look a little bland her face smile hair and eyes made her look good no matter what she was wearing

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Speak for yourself. Dat one-piece in the beach scene RAWR

Most 80's girls didn't look that hot. It was around the mid-90's that girls started baring a lot more and went back to more 70's hair, but then again modesty made a comeback in the mid 2000's

I didn't find her hot.

Hey I am watching it now and thought the same thing about her clothes. The knit vest over a polo, ugh I know.