Other vintage lifestyles

[reetpleat]

My best friend is very into the 70's 'bohemian'/hippie style of dress, and I guess embodies the lifestyle in some ways. The girl looks like she should be living on a commune! All those long flowy dresses make her look very cute and pixie-like though. She wants to learn to play the banjo and is now a die-hard vegetarian. All she wants to do is hang out in the woods with squirrels and stuff, which is pretty hard for her now since she moved from Northern California to New York City this year.

Basically she's a lil hippie in 70's clothes. It's so funny because in high school she was one of those girls that would spend $400 on a pair of leather boots and always looked like she came off a runway. It's like a 180 degree change!

good point. We forgot about the hippies. THey don't usually look back at old photos, or sit around talking about how great it would be to be on haight ashbury in 67. And many have adopted piercings, tatoos, and dreadlocks. They are more members of of a subculture that has just continued, but in a somewhat self conscious way perhaps. They have big festivals, used to follow the dead shows etc. Not exactly a vintage revival scene, but very much like one.

 

[reetpleat]

I was taken aback years ago to read that during WWII, only about half the draft-age male population actually served in the military. (Of course if you didn't, you wouldn't be likely to reminisce a lot about it.)

I read a few days ago about the fbi history. In ww1, they spent a lot of their energy going after deserters, awol, and draft evaders. About 3 million.

I suppose durring ww11 many men still had to do the day to day things that keep the country running and the supplies coming.

 

[reetpleat]

warbird!!!!,

Muscle cars were not dead by 1974. There were plenty of them still cruising the streets of my neighborhood in the 80's. Just because muscle cars ceased production in the mid 70's doesn't mean they were no longer around. In fact all the cool teens that I looked up to in my neighborhood had muscle cars... and were driving them in the 80's!!
- AMC Javelin and AMX
- Buick GS models
- Chevy SS models, Camaro
- Dodge R/T models
- Ford GT and XR models, Mustang
- Olds Cutlass 442's
- Plymouth Cudas, Dusters, RR/GTXs, and more
- Pontiac GTO and Firebird models

You're like a broken record....enough said already.
You are not the know it all expert on this matter.
Perhaps you wanted a muscle car back then and couldn't get one!!!

Funny. I graduated in 84 and was getting into new wave. I rebelled against the working class macho attitudes of the guys in my school and neighborhood. I hated muscle cars because into the mid 80s, that is what all the guys I saw as macho assholes were driving.

Now that they are back in, I have learned to appreciate them. Partly because of their style. Partly because of their evocation of an era. Not so much for their power.

I want a new mustang.

 

[reetpleat]

That was the type of Goth I was in High School....I still see these gorgeous Victorian goth dresses and go "I want! I want! I want!" but it's getting rarer and rarer. The whole goth scene seems to be merging with the Punk scene. Even the very Etherial sounding music is dying out in favor of stompy Industrial and Punk.

Now if I could jsut figure out how to merge Goth and Vintage into one, without coming across as a complete poseur for both.

In SF, a lot of the swing dancers and art deco society people I knew, wer also ren fair folks, kind of goth sometimes, but also into DIckens Fair, dressing up in victorian stuff and doing the waltz all night. They also belonged to some kind of costumers guild and would go out dressed in various themes to events. I miss SF. Not because I was into that, but I like living in a ity that produces people and scenes like that.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

To quote Wikipedia's description of a hippie's belief, "peace, love, and personal freedom". Something to learn from that time.

And in respose to warbird, there are parts of the 80s I could see becoming a person's lifestyle. Like who I had spoken about earlier in the thread. I saw a man who was dressed completely MC Hammer style. I could imagine him driving the car, playing the music, his apartment filled with posters of He-Man, Back To The Future, New Kids On The Block, records, 8-tracks, etc. The 90s isn't much different than today, that I can see. I know what you mean, though.

 

[panamag8or]

To quote Wikipedia's description of a hippie's belief, "peace, love, and personal freedom". Something to learn from that time.

And in respose to warbird, there are parts of the 80s I could see becoming a person's lifestyle. Like who I had spoken about earlier in the thread. I saw a man who was dressed completely MC Hammer style. I could imagine him driving the car, playing the music, his apartment filled with posters of He-Man, Back To The Future, New Kids On The Block, records, a-tracks, etc. The 90s isn't much different than today, that I can see. I know what you mean, though.

You so just gave away your youthful age.lol

Us old folks knew them as 8-tracks.

 

[Rosie]

I have a friend who is very much into the 80's. The clothing, music some things in his barely furnished apartment. He does this with a bit of a ethnic twist but still very 80s.

We've often entertained the notion of the two of us getting married and clashing our lifestyles. 40s-50s/80s ethinc boho mod artsy accountants.

At the very least, our children would be VERY interesting

 

[lindylady]

I loove the 80s! I am a child of the decade, after all. I also think that a lot of the 80s culture was a throwback to the 50s, at least where rockabilly revival, the flashy cars, Stray Cats, and other things were concerned. So it meshes perfectly with my love of vintage, at least in my mind lol But yes, I listen to Hall and Oates, Billy Idol, and hair metal artists such as Whitesnake and Van Halen on a very regular basis. And don't get me started on my absolute love of Transformers! You know where I'll be when that movie comes out this Fourth of July!

 

[Jovan]

There's no way a Michael Bay movie will do it justice. Sorry.

 

[cookie]

The 80s

I loove the 80s! I am a child of the decade, after all. I also think that a lot of the 80s culture was a throwback to the 50s, at least where rockabilly revival, the flashy cars, Stray Cats, and other things were concerned. So it meshes perfectly with my love of vintage, at least in my mind lol But yes, I listen to Hall and Oates, Billy Idol, and hair metal artists such as Whitesnake and Van Halen on a very regular basis. And don't get me started on my absolute love of Transformers! You know where I'll be when that movie comes out this Fourth of July!

You are dead right! Even though born in the 50s grew up in late 60s-70s I had all my fun in the 80s and to listen to the radio you realize it had the best pop music since the 60s. I actually went to see the Stray Cats at a pub for like AUD10 bucks near by. Fabulous. Also saw the Who live at Wembley in London and the Eurythmics at the Greek Theartre in LA.

Those were the days my friends.... we thought they would never end...

 

[Jack Scorpion]

I differ from a lot of folks in here in that I obsess multi-decade-ially. I consider myself a general 20th Century American connoisseur. Yah, I love spectator shoes and fedoras, classic P.I. 1940s grindhouse. That's kind of what got me started. But over time I've come to delve equally into the 30s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s lately. And, of course, I'm a huge Western fan, too. I love American cultural history in all of its evolutions. I take a little something from each decade and incorporate it into my life.

In fact, the only decade I'm pretty distanced from is the one I'm currently living in.

 

[Novella]

I love American cultural history in all of its evolutions.

That's exactly how I feel.

There are things I like more, things I like less. But there's something in every decade that I really like. I'm mostly into 20th century now, although when I first got into history, it was the Victorian period that did it for me. I've never owned a corset or a bustle, never been goth, just interested in learning about it. I'm still occasionally interested in the 19th century, but mostly in how it was a precursor to the 20th.

 

[happyfilmluvguy]

You so just gave away your youthful age.lol

Us old folks knew them as 8-tracks.

Whoops. I knew I typed it wrong. Haha, sorry. Now I'm remembering when I mistyped it the first time. I had to look it up on Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_cartridge My parents collected records in the mid/late 80s' anyways.

Another one of those 20th century people here. What I find most interesting is how distinctive every decade of the 20th century was. How the early, mid, and late parts of a decade were even different. Even how the late 30s transitioned into the early 40s, the late 40s transitioning into the early 50s and so forth. It makes me wonder what this century has in store.

 

[katiemakeup]

Does this guy count?

http://www.pixyland.org/peterpan/

 

[lindylady]

There's no way a Michael Bay movie will do it justice. Sorry.

Others have said that, too. But I'm seeing the movie because it's my duty as a Transformers fan lol I've watched the trailer and yes, there are some inconsistencies that only hard core fans will pick up on. I welcome the opportunity to discuss the film with you when it comes out, Jovan. Now, I wonder what the soundtrack will be like...

 

[Jovan]

That's the thing I'm most worried about. If there's not at least a few notes of the Transformers theme... I'm walking out of the theatre.

And they probably won't do that strange sound when they transform either, just realistic pneumatic sounds. :-/

 

[Rafter]

There are parts of the 80s I could see becoming a person's lifestyle. Like who I had spoken about earlier in the thread. I saw a man who was dressed completely MC Hammer style. I could imagine him driving the car, playing the music, his apartment filled with posters of He-Man, Back To The Future, New Kids On The Block, records, 8-tracks, etc. .

happyfilmluvguy,
You actually saw this gent in "parachute" pants!
I wonder what he was on?

Let's get one thing clear.....there were no 8-track tapes in the 80's!
8-tracks were an early to mid 70's craze!!....by '79 they were nearly obsolete!
Cassettes were the wave "Back in the 80's".

What a pain cassettes were....all that winding and rewinding.....just to find the one song that you wanted to hear......
.....Oh no, I'm starting to hear the guitar riff from Huey Lewis & The News', "The Power of Love"....from "Back To The Future".
Now that 80's flic was the ultimate retro-hommage to the vintage life stlye of the simple and innocent Eisenhower years.

[In 1955, Tab and Pepsi Free aren't invented yet]
Lou: You gonna order something, kid?
Marty McFly: Ah, yeah... Give me a Tab.
Lou: Tab? I can't give you a tab unless you order something.
Marty McFly: All right, give me a Pepsi Free.
Lou: You want a Pepsi, PAL, you're gonna pay for it.

[Dr. Emmett Brown is doubting Marty McFly's story about that he is from the future]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
[chuckles in disbelief]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who's VICE-President? Jerry Lewis?
[later he rushes outside, down a hill and toward his laboratory]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa! Wait! Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny, the Secretary of the Treasury.
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, You gotta listen to me.
Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!

 

[warbird]

Rafter thank you for pointing out that 8 tracks were definitely not an 80's thing. Yes it was the cassette, I had hundreds. The good thing about them was recoding off the radio favorite songs. The bad thing was definitely the rewinding, oh and the player eating the tape.

 

[dundeedavie]

Late 50's early 60's for me .... which for me is going back in time as since about the age of ten is was always mid-60's but now i'm embracing the roots of what i do and therefore the late 50's early 60's is where i am at the mo ...


can't abide the late 60's psychedelic period onwards as it's too messy(and no man should wear chiffon ) and i like clean lines and sharp dressing

 

[Elaina]

I'll be seeing the Transformer movie on July 4th with my son who has been waiting for ever for it to come out (just ask him). We watch all the Transformers, and let me tell you, this is not intended for the old timers, it's meant for the tweener boys who grew up with the new Cartoon Network computer cgi garbage.