I am currently reading a book of short stories that spans the 60s, 70s and 80s. It brings back memories of my teens and childhood years, and of what was popular and what was not back then. The book is called Wilderness Tips, by Margaret Atwood. In which decades were you young? What was hot and what was not, at the time?
1970s - My childhood
I remember skin tight jeans and denim with purposely frayed edges. Young people used to wear them so tight that they had to lie down in order to zip themselves in. The media would regularly report that these tight jeans could make men sterile. This did not seem to halt the pull of fashion influences though.
And, girls wearing pastel jeans and disco dancing. I never had any pastel jeans when I was 10 even though most of the other girls had them. I was never much of a fashion follower and am still not.
1980s - My teens
Aids awarness information being published for the first time.
Bat wing sweaters.
Kitten heal shoes.
Why is it that fashion seems to get recycled these days from every decade of the 1900s, except the 80s? Was it really that bad?
Reply to this 1970s - Pastel blue Peaches gelati jeans (I still have a pair..they still fit!) Shocking Olyvia Newton John Grease Pants. Sweathogs silk bomber jackets. Punk Rock, real punks, Syd n Nancy on tv, records banned for containing swear words..censorship to keep our minds pure after walt disney cartoons in the 60s made us all prone to drug abuse (that caterpiller in Alice in wonderland was smokin something good, one pill to make her small, one pill to make her tall)..
1980s - Live Aid, Bob Geldof, Jabiluka protesting against uranium mining, concerts..endless concerts...pink floyd, amsterdam, ireland..
Fashion - Shoulder Pads
BIG hair - Perms..corkscrew curls..
Gold Lame and glomesh handbags.
Wierd necklines.
Stevie Nicks Hippy hemline dresses and chiffon and lace.
1990s
Courtney Love looked in my wardrobe and invented GRUNGE.
2000s
Emo grandchildren of the stevie nicks clones 😉
Pull your pants up! - I dont need to see what brand of undies you wear.
Mini mini hipster jeans.
Tattooos...all the same tatooos...the Kat Von Dee generation.
Reply to this ...censorship to keep our minds pure after walt disney cartoons in the 60s made us all prone to drug abuse ...
I dont know about where you were living in the 70s Cindy, but I was living in a small village in the centre of Ireland, where there was plenty of alcohol abuse, but no drug addiction, and recreational drugs(and birth control items, for that matter too) were not available, either legally or illegally.
The media started paying a lot of attention to glue sniffing teens, and were often warning parents and teens of the dangers of sniffing glue, felt tip pens and a number of other items. I would never have considered sniffing my school suplies without all this media suggestion. I can see why people got addicted to it. There was something about that smell that made one want to do it again and again. I think, the bad ingredients arent in the glue these days, even if I wanted to continue the habit. 😊
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