Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Khatru on March 01, 2016, 04:47:17 PM
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I hated it!
Those of us who rocked through the seventies with Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash, Led Zeppelin, etc, saw the end of that decade with few of our favourite bands still together.
Of those bands that survived, many chose to abandon the seventies look as they embraced eighties fashions:
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Out went the waist-length long hair to be replaced by much shorter mullets. No more denim, leather and platform boots as they opted for trainers and Miami Vice style suits with the sleeves rolled up.
The changes in fashion seemed to affect the music and the hard rock strayed into AOR/MOR territory.
And that, as they say, was that.
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Eighties fashion does look particularly cringey nowadays, I must admit - those retrospective/nostalgia programmes that show puffball skirts, shoulder pads you could balance a cup and saucer on, be-suited yuppies and men holding gigantic mobile phones while wearing pastel-coloured suits with T-shirts are always good for a laugh. But that's just the vagaries of fashion for you. It was trendy at the time. I was too young be afflicted by such horrors, thankfully.
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Eighties fashion does look particularly cringey nowadays, I must admit - those retrospective/nostalgia programmes that show puffball skirts, shoulder pads you could balance a cup and saucer on, be-suited yuppies and men holding gigantic mobile phones while wearing pastel-coloured suits with T-shirts are always good for a laugh. But that's just the vagaries of fashion for you. It was trendy at the time. I was too young be afflicted by such horrors, thankfully.
Very true. We also had our moments in the seventies. I have a 1973 photo of me wearing a nifty pair of pink loons.
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Very true. We also had our moments in the seventies. I have a 1973 photo of me wearing a nifty pair of pink loons.
I had a pair of those, but pink, bought from an ad in Melody Maker as I recall. Also an ex-RAF greatcoat.
I had hair then too (on the top of my head that is).
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Done well New Romanticism was quite beautiful. Or you could have had Siouxie Sioux as your style icon. As I did.