>You are walking in hippy land haight street then out from the door
>appears two 20 somethings dressed like my grandpa.
As opposed to you looking like my uncle? Worlds apart of course. They are
*so* old fashioned - imagine being fifty years out of date as opposed to
only thirty.
Someone was talking about the gradual movement of mod styles and their
progression via psych and so on to the fringes of hippiedom - folk rock,
country rock etc. I'm wondering if this isn't the inevitable cycle of
revived modernism - that the dominant trends creep gradually along further
and further into the 60's. My personal pet theory is that this inevitable
arc will eventually get bogged down in the more boring/ugly aspects of late
60's psychy stuff - both clothing and music - and collapse under it's own
weight. Leaving the whole thing to begin again with a backlash/revival of
early early 60's styles in fashions and tunes and a fresh crop of youngsters
with shorter hair.
Funny really though to think of a movement from liking 1964 to liking 1969
as "progress" or more "open-mindedness". But not *that* funny to those who
remember how sharp the distinction between "sixties kids" and "mods" used to
be.
P.S. Loud applause for that post about hair gel rulings
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