tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14591686.post4909494878802352968..comments2024-03-15T00:12:05.602+00:00Comments on The REAL 1970s: Comment From Sky ClearbrookUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14591686.post-43945699749192996902008-01-28T12:50:00.000+00:002008-01-28T12:50:00.000+00:00It's like a fetish really, assigning things to dec...It's like a fetish really, assigning things to decades and foaming at the mouth about your chosen decade. We need blogs like this for reality.<BR/><BR/>When I was a kid my grandmother used to talk about her youth and you had to guess when it was because she'd say "I was fourteen" or "There was a Charleston dancing contest". She hardly ever mentioned the words "nineteen twenties".<BR/><BR/>Recently, I was reading a draper's magazine, which was looking at coming fashion trends and it slobbered all over the '70s - it was "70s flares", "70s psychedelia", etc - both in reality 1960s. Punk, which WAS 70s, didn't get a look in.<BR/><BR/>And for the 80s, these mags say: "We're doing 1950s from a 1980s perspective."<BR/><BR/>And yet 70s fashions, just as influenced by the past (platforms were from the 30s originally) are simply called "70s". Weird double standards indeed.<BR/><BR/>It's like a sickness. So, I think you do right with this blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14591686.post-58396873232603119092008-01-27T21:28:00.000+00:002008-01-27T21:28:00.000+00:00The trouble is that a lot of the 70s fans were und...The trouble is that a lot of the 70s fans were under ten years old at the end of the decade. A lot of their "70s" recollections are pure fantasy, gleaned from internet or BBC inaccuracies. <BR/><BR/>Or, in reality, their recollections date from the 80s.<BR/><BR/>After all, a lot of people were still wearing flares and playing on spacehoppers in the first couple of years of the 80s - and neither were originally 70s inventions/trends anyway - they were 60s.<BR/><BR/>I barely remember the time up to when I was eight years old. It's amazing that so many 70s born kids profess to have such memories!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com