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1960's - Like in Mad Men
1970's - Hippy
1980's - I don't know what the **** that was, but it was distinct.
1990's - Grunge
2000's - ???
2010's - Hipsters
You can quibble whether these exactly match the decade, but the progression is more or less correct.
It was easy for me to come up with all of these, and then I'm utterly stumped with the aughts. What was the style? Is hipster just a direct descendant of grunge?
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My ex nominates "Trashy".
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1980s - shoulderpads, big hair, COLOR (lots of color), a sort of pseudo-European style. In a sense - like everyone was trying to wear art.
The 80s were a direct contrast of the bland 70s. And thank God because if the 70s continued the world would still be wearing brown corduroys and every kitchen would still have brown/yellow-striped wallpaper.
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The 2000s was a mishmash of retro phases but all the trousers had lower waists for the girls.
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@starman
I remember the style, it just doesn't have a name AFAIK.
What's I'm stuck on is the aughts. Apart from the lack of a name, I can't even assign it a style like I can for all the other decades.
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Originally Posted by Waragainstsleep
The 2000s was a mishmash of retro phases but all the trousers had lower waists for the girls.
I vaguely remember feeling that in the earlier part of the decade.
I'm also starting to recall the latter half is when we got yoga pants and "Love Pink" on the butt.
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I think the half-decade split is important.
What we consider to represent a decade takes awhile to build up.
If you watch a movie from 1992, it's still very 80's looking.
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Early 1990s was all about purples and reds and way too much fabric in baloony, er, "flowing" shapes. A toned-down, Roseanne-ified 80s.
Grunge was a sideline.
2000s here was baseball caps and boxer shorts showing over stupidly low-hanging pants.
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Okay... let's work out a better rubric for the 90's
I agree about the flowy shit, but I think that fits into my hypothesis about the half-decade split. Early 80's clothes still had a lot of the 70's aesthete going on. I posit what you're describing fits in the (still nameless) 80's category.
I'd say Seinfeld is more representative of what we think of 90's fashion. I think calling the 90's "Chinos" isn't far off. Better than Grunge.
It's not gender neutral, though.
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Certain elements ran through one decade to another. The mullet certainly transcended the 80s into the 90s, lots of glam rock stuff translated from the 70s into 80s new romanticism.
There are iconic bits and pieces but few of them lasted a decade let alone a calendar decade. Flares, stonewashed denim, leg warmers, red braces, Global Hypercolour t-shirts. I remember the 90s had a lot of awful neon and day-glow colours and bermuda shorts. Those drifted over from the late 80s to the early 90s IIRC. I remember people wearing poker visors too.
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The interesting thing is that once a movement or genre happens, it sticks around to some extent. It seems like new ones are getting rarer though. Hipsters and Emo kids are probably the most recent ones that spring to mind but Emo obviously borrows heavily from Goth and Hipster borrows from everything as long as its been forgotten.
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Slick shoes?! Are you crazy?!
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You should have kept out the last one. If you look past what he's holding, that's so a 90's outfit.
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I still have my parachute pants, and can still fit in them too.
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You and four other people.
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I'd like to point out to the OP that calling early-70s flower power "hippie" is a bit like calling early-80s leather-and-spandex-and-hair "punk".
No. Not really. Well, kinda causally connected but...no.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
You and four other people.
It's true, at my school reunion it was fatties as far as the eye could see.
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"I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a
nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character." - M.L.King Jr
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
I'd like to point out to the OP that calling early-70s flower power "hippie" is a bit like calling early-80s leather-and-spandex-and-hair "punk".
No. Not really. Well, kinda causally connected but...no.
FWIW, I considered using flower power instead.
That said, the notion flowers have power is pretty hippy.
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