Today’s Automobile:
Just some background:
A fad or trend is any form of
collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social
group in which a group of people enthusiastically follow an impulse for a short
period of time.
Now remember I have
been around a long time so I remember a FEW fads. I was NOT in the roaring 20s
but I was a teen in what some call the fabulous 50s. The first Fad I remember
was ‘pegged pants’. If you could afford them they were available by design, but we Boys would improvise and sorta fold their jeans over and roll
them up a roll.
The next was the
thin belts with the pants lower than normal and it was called ‘Snake Hips’. Now
don’t confuse that with the one a few years back that was called jailin’ or pants on the ground.
Then the Flat Top hair
cut caught on for a few years.
I don’t remember too many girl’s fads except ‘Bobby Socks’ and the Pony Tail.
Give us some you
remember!
Nite
Shipslog
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3 comments:
I remember the bobby socks and crinolines. I used to put on 3 or 4 at a time. I loved the rock and roll music we danced to. I had a DA hair cut too. It wasn't just for the boys. We used records and a record player and I got my first transistor radio. Those were fun days growing up in the 50's and watched Dick Clark and the Mouseketeers on TV after school.
How fun!
Pretty sure I was born 10 years too late, b/c I loved the 50's fashions. Unfortunately, because I had no sisters or wiser girlfriends to 'show me the ropes' I was usually the last to catch on. For instance? So proud of my new saddle shoes and bobby socks on the first day of 6th grade. No-one told me THEY were o-u-t, so I was the butt of jokes. One boy even deliberately walked over my shoes.
The only fad I wholeheartedly embraced were bell bottoms.
Thankfully, I don't much care about following fads anymore.
I wonder ... was it ever fashionable to be nice? Mediaeval times perhaps with knights?
"A knyght ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie." (Chaucer - Lines 43-46)
God bless.
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