Time Shift
I was driving by a Johnny Rockets yesterday and it struck me that there have been nostalgic 50s diners twice as long as the time between the 50s and the time they started putting them up.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:16 AM
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Not only that, but 50's music was "oldies" when we were kids in the early 70's. Yet 60's music isn't "oldies" today, forty years later. It's "classic rock" and 50's music is still "oldies." At least now my kids' schools have "80's days" when they're all supposed to dress like it's the 80's when we had "50's days" when we were supposed to dress like it's the 50's. And just like then, my kids have a completely skewed idea of what consititutes the 80's and they refuse to wear the actual examples of 80's clothes that I saved because it's not what people expect. Don't know -- I'm pretty sure that all boys in the fifties wore black leather jackets and white t-shirts with oily hair and cigarettes behind their ears.
I've seen home videos from the 80s (the first decade where we have lots of home video) and it's amazing, and frightening. The most amazing stuff is the female hairstyles, but it's all pretty amazing.
Of course, any movement looking at the past idealizes, or at least simplifies, what people wear. I heard when they were designing the dresses for the movie Dreamgirls they toned down the outfits because they'd seem to outrageous (or dated) otherwise.
As we know, very few people wore leather jackets, etc., in the 50s. It was mostly limited to the hoods, and even the hoods rarely wore that sort of stuff. (In fact, I love watching old videos from the 40s and 50s of all those wild jazz artists wearing suits and ties).
By the way, your kids better enjoy that 80s thing while they can like we enjoyed sock hops, because isn't the 90s revival already taking over?
Since I'm all over the place here, let me make one more point. I remember when50s diners-as-nostalgia first started appearing. I guess it's a good look, because it's still around, whereas there is simply nothing comparable for any other decade--not in quick dining, anyway. In Back To The Future 2, Marty McFly goes into 30 years into the future (to 2015!) and the gag there is everyone goes to 80s-retro diners, but of course, as we see, that's not gonna happen.
What does the 90's revival look like. I'm pretty sure I was alive during the 90s, but I can't remember specifics. Would it be sort of the Nirvana grunge look?
Will this ridiculous policy of wearing your pants just above your knees (showing your briefs) be attributed to the 90s or the 00s?
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