so, i live in this city where fashion isn't exactly a second thought.
mind you, i'm still a tshirt and jeans kinda fella, but the dr has me wearing nicer clothes that i used to, she made me give up most of my PSL softball tshirts that i had stockpiled up.
i was out recently at one of my neighborhood bars and i see a flannel shirt. i suppose since i had just seen this play, which is about early/mid 90's angsty teenagers at Berkeley High, it was on my mind, but i got to thinking.
The process of fashion becoming popular, then fading for some years and then resurging some years later:
the 50's styles were popular in the late 1980's
for the very early 1990's the late 60's/early 70's styles.
now, it seems like the process is going faster and faster.
1985 minus 1955 is 30 years,
early 90's to late 60's is 25 years,
we are all aware of the current early to mid 80's trends now being displayed in bars near you - which is roughly 20 years past.
We are in ought-8, and the mid nineties are about to be here in this fashion resurgence thing. that means we are about 14 years behind.
ready? here comes the point -
if this current rate continues, the fashion resurgence trend will pass itself in about 2020. does this mean we'll start wearing the fashion of the future instead of the past? or will the cycle loop again? what will happen?
i love it.
p.s. - i tried to make a graph of this, but failed miserably. i enlisted the dr. but she said she does this crap all day long, so we are sans graph. if you can make a graph that breaks it's own back, lemme know.
p.p.s. - wtf am i doin talking about fashion? Is this what is happening to me?
speedtest - careful!
3 comments:
My theory has always been that pop culture nostalgia goes in a 20 year cycle, which makes sense. If you're 16 then 20 years later you're 36 and if you're in the media industry you're the one decided what stories should be about, etc. and this includes fashion as well. So, there's always a 20 year stop gap between what was popular with kids and what is having a nostalgic resurgence.
I was reading the Professor's US Weekly last night, and there was a grunge resurgence going there, too. Mary Kate and Kirsten Dunst were rocking the flannel like it was 1993.
Which I have to say, 1993 was a good year for me.
good point sousa. 1993 was pretty darn smacking around me, too. hmmmm.
bring on the flannel?
also, reinforcing smallerdemon's comment.
this monkey's gone to heaven.
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