Is style stuck in a 2 decade rut?

[vitanola]

Seven decade rut works for me.

Braggart.

 

[jamespowers]

Braggart.

Indeed.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1932:

 

[jamespowers]

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Los Angeles Times, August 28, 1932:

Then the studios executives stepped in and the hermit craze went out the window. lol lol lol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Then the studios executives stepped in and the hermit craze went out the window. lol lol lol

And remember, the "hermits" of the '20s and '30s were the spiritual grandfathers of the hippies.

 

[jamespowers]

And remember, the "hermits" of the '20s and '30s were the spiritual grandfathers of the hippies.

Yeah greeeeeaaaatttt......:laser::hippie:

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Blame the Santa Monica mountains. A "hermit" calling himself Kit Carson's son died in his shack there in 1902. (The culprit: a spider bite.)

Then, in 1912, this happened:

“Peter Cassidy lives on raw vegetables, dons his long hair in a Psyche knot, affects but little clothing and no hat or shoes at all.”


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[jamespowers]

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Blame the Santa Monica mountains. A "hermit" calling himself Kit Carson's son died in his shack there in 1902. (The culprit: a spider bite.)

Then, in 1912, this happened:

In those days he was known as touched in the head.

 

[Undertow]

lol

Okay, this Indian crying is just getting...
...way funnier, seriously!

I can't help but laugh at that. Does that count as schadenfreude?
You know what we need?

 

[PoohBang]

Hey gang, I'm back from the dead... or the land of banned for life...

Under... I think there could even be a tread of pics like the shampoo plus eye equals the indian ... kind of like this and that.

 

[Mr Vim]

I've heard for years that style and fashion are sort of elastic, going and going back in retreading old designs and what not, and it sort of rang true when I started to see the slim cut, narrow lapel suits get really popular really fast in the last few years. The real question I am wondering is what era are we in now? Or are we in one at all?

 

[Pompidou]

I've heard for years that style and fashion are sort of elastic, going and going back in retreading old designs and what not, and it sort of rang true when I started to see the slim cut, narrow lapel suits get really popular really fast in the last few years. The real question I am wondering is what era are we in now? Or are we in one at all?

I'd say, if the golden era was from say the 20s to the 60s, I'd start the current era in the 90s and define it by the Internet, cellphones and social media. Super connectivity is the hallmark of the modern era more than any fashion. I'd call the 70s and 80s a transition period.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I'd say, if the golden era was from say the 20s to the 60s, I'd start the current era in the 90s and define it by the Internet, cellphones and social media. Super connectivity is the hallmark of the modern era more than any fashion. I'd call the 70s and 80s a transition period.

This is exactly how I see it. Fashion isn't as important today as "staying connected."

I also like to parallel these times to 100 years ago when movies were just starting out. Around 1896 is when movies began to take momentum -- around 1996 the Internet started to creep into homes of friends (I got it in 1997!) I think of the changing Internet between 1997 and 2012 and it's not much different from the movie industry's pace. When movies started out, anyone could churn out a movie and they even let WOMEN play with it!! Then they began to get sophisticated, they began to earn money, and corporations wanted in. Sounds like the Internet today.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You could also compare the first generation of movie "moguls" -- Laemmle, Zukor, Lasky, Mayer, Schenck, and Fox -- with the dot-com millionaires of today. It'll remain to be seen, though, if the dotcommers hang on as long as the movie titans did. It's hard to imagine Zuckerberg still holding on at age 103 the way Zukor did.

Parallels also exist between the Internet and radio. Broadcasting in the early twenties was very much the province of the basement hobbyist, and anyone with the slightest technical bent could and did start a station. This quickly turned the airwaves into unregulated chaos, and a whole crop of charismatic crackpots like Dr. John Brinkley began taking advantage of the situation -- if Doc Brinkley were alive today, he'd be on every social media outlet there is, and email boxes would be filled with MEN! TRY GOAT GLANDS FOR GREAT SEX LIFE NOW! messages.

 

[bunnyb.gal]

^^^
But LizzieMaine, I get those messages all the time in my email box...

 

[Marc Chevalier]

You could also compare the first generation of movie "moguls" -- Laemmle, Zukor, Lasky, Mayer, Schenck, and Fox -- with the dot-com millionaires of today. It'll remain to be seen, though, if the dotcommers hang on as long as the movie titans did. It's hard to imagine Zuckerberg still holding on at age 103 the way Zukor did.

Hmmm. Zukor ... Zuckerberg. Coincidence?

 

[jamespowers]

You could also compare the first generation of movie "moguls" -- Laemmle, Zukor, Lasky, Mayer, Schenck, and Fox -- with the dot-com millionaires of today. It'll remain to be seen, though, if the dotcommers hang on as long as the movie titans did. It's hard to imagine Zuckerberg still holding on at age 103 the way Zukor did.

Parallels also exist between the Internet and radio. Broadcasting in the early twenties was very much the province of the basement hobbyist, and anyone with the slightest technical bent could and did start a station. This quickly turned the airwaves into unregulated chaos, and a whole crop of charismatic crackpots like Dr. John Brinkley began taking advantage of the situation -- if Doc Brinkley were alive today, he'd be on every social media outlet there is, and email boxes would be filled with MEN! TRY GOAT GLANDS FOR GREAT SEX LIFE NOW! messages.

Indeed. There once was a radio station headquartered in my garage. There was a huge antenna that was where my clothesline used to be. It was likely one of those 1920s stations. It only played music though.

 

[Amy Jeanne]

I also see the popularity of movies in the 1890s as a huge shift in time. For the first time we could visually capture current information and maintain it forever.

Some people laugh at this, but what we say here on the Internet may be of great historical value in 150 years from now. I'm sure the Internet will be gone as we know it, but someone, somewhere will archive this. Our blogs, forums, social media pages -- all important and interesting sociological and historical documents one day. Again, like the movies. Some were laughed at and thought to have no importance that they were destroyed as soon as they stopped making money. And we today are the ones missing out!