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TBH, a lot of lists like that are just made from the pop culture of the time. I don't normally feel pop culture is important enough to have such strong feelings about. It is trivial. Regardless of whether its current or looking back at it. Yes, I realize that makes me sound like a snob. Maybe I am. Shoes that fit well are better for your feet...
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Not everyone has the opportunity to experience better things as they move through life, so they seem to cling to things that brought them comfort when they were younger, a time when they possibly think they were happier. You're probably more comfortable with yourself now than they are. Those things from the past were relatively harmless, so maybe just feel sorry for the folks who haven't grown much and let them be.
Feel sorry for people who look back on fads from previous decades with fondness and amusement? I think i might sooner feel sorry for people who recall pop culture from 50 years ago with hate. I enjoyed all of it. And I had the most amazing floral bell bottoms!
Feel sorry for people who look back on fads from previous decades with fondness and amusement? I think i might sooner feel sorry for people who recall pop culture from 50 years ago with hate. I enjoyed all of it. And I had the most amazing floral bell bottoms!
No one would ever recall me being a walking fashion plate but there was a pair of deep purple polyester (that shiny, slimy double knit stuff that would even repel water ) bell bottoms I loved for a while. The "bells" even had pleats so they'd flap around your ankles even more than regular bell bottoms would. You were supposed to pair those with Clydesdale worthy platform shoes, but I was already approaching 6' tall and loomed over my classmates. Platforms would have made me stick out like an even sorer thumb. These days, the memory of that outfit might make my toes curl a little bit .
No one would ever recall me being a walking fashion plate but there was a pair of deep purple polyester (that shiny, slimy double knit stuff that would even repel water ) bell bottoms I loved for a while. The "bells" even had pleats so they'd flap around your ankles even more than regular bell bottoms would. You were supposed to pair those with Clydesdale worthy platform shoes, but I was already approaching 6' tall and loomed over my classmates. Platforms would have made me stick out like an even sorer thumb. These days, the memory of that outfit might make my toes curl a little bit .
I don't think of them, but others talkj about them. I have never seen a "Starwars" movie. No interest.
Wait, can you say that again, slowly? You . . . NEVER . . . saw . . . a . . . Star . . . Wars . . . movie? Ever? Not even once? Not even the original one? Wow. I never knew such people actually existed in real life.
As far as nostalgia that I don't share in goes, fondness for the 1960s tops my list. It was before my time, but from what I know about it, I could never understand why some people (cough Baby Boomers cough) idolized it so much. To me, there were a lot of things about the Sixties that were quite a bit less than praiseworthy. I supposed that could be said about any era, but it seemed much more pronounced in terms of the Sixties. Maybe it was because, for a time, Sixties nostalgia was all the rage. And I truly did get sick of it.
Wait, can you say that again, slowly? You . . . NEVER . . . saw . . . a . . . Star . . . Wars . . . movie? Ever? Not even once? Not even the original one? Wow. I never knew such people actually existed in real life.
As far as nostalgia that I don't share in goes, fondness for the 1960s tops my list. It was before my time, but from what I know about it, I could never understand why some people (cough Baby Boomers cough) idolized it so much. To me, there were a lot of things about the Sixties that were quite a bit less than praiseworthy. I supposed that could be said about any era, but it seemed much more pronounced in terms of the Sixties. Maybe it was because, for a time, Sixties nostalgia was all the rage. And I truly did get sick of it.
Well, of course, you are entitled to have that opinion, but imo, the best things about the 60's were (1) the music, (2) the almost complete freedom to "do your own thing", and that included sexual freedom (thanks to The Pill), (3) increased awareness about injustice towards some groups and many major advances in equal rights for "minorities" and women, and (4) the naivete that most people still thought that ordinary people had the power to change what they didn't like and make the world a MUCH better place for everyone. There are probably other things, but those are the things that came first to my mind. On the downside, however, were LBJ, Nixon, and Vietnam.
FYI, although I was born in 1953, I think the best years overall were the JFK years -- but that is just my personal opinion, of course.
P.S. And I also loved the fashions then, too, even though many of them look somewhat ridiculous by today's fashion standards!
Yeah I don't get why they'd make you sick or why you would think about them 50 years later in any case.
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) bell bottoms I loved for a while. The "bells" even had pleats so they'd flap around your ankles even more than regular bell bottoms would. You were supposed to pair those with Clydesdale worthy platform shoes, but I was already approaching 6' tall and loomed over my classmates. Platforms would have made me stick out like an even sorer thumb. These days, the memory of that outfit might make my toes curl a little bit 
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