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Everything old is new again
Nise's Notes
By Denise Schoppe
The Marlin Democrat
January 05, 2005
It's an old adage that I'm sure everyone has heard: Everything old is new. History repeats itself. Etc. It's the idea that everything comes back around again.
For awhile, 70s styles were the "in" thing. Hip huggers, bell bottoms, and peasant tops were the hip style. Volkswagon came back with the Bug. Long, straight hair was sylish on both men and women. Woodstock even made a return.
Everyone searched for their inner hippie.
Now, though, it seems the 80s are trying to make a come-back.
While Christmas shopping with a friend, we had fun going through the toy aisles saying, "I had one of those!" or "I remember this!"
Atari games can now be bought for your TV. (In case you get a hankering for a rousing game of PacMan, Centipede or Asteroids.) There is Rainbow Bright, Care Bears and My Little Pony for the girls -- Transformers for the boys.
That is all fine and dandy. As I said, we had fun going, "Oh remember this!?" to various toys.
However, I draw the line at 80s fashion. Don't ask me to get get a perm, scrunch my socks, or wear stonewashed jeans. You'll not get me in them...
...and leave the teasing comb at home.
Been there. Grudgingly admit to "done that." Don't really want to go back and do it again.
I worry about our creativity today when we must so blatantly steal from the past. Sample from it, yes. Repeat it... why?
Had someone not found creative license and taken the initiative to make changes over a hundred years ago, a trip to town would still require women to be in corsets and pettycoats and men in suits. Instead, over time change was brought about, and now we are (mostly) free to dress as we please.
Every day, people do push the envelop in fashion. I'll acknowledge that. Similarly, on the other side there is something eternally classic about long full dresses and tuxedos. But it seems to me that we today hit the 60s, 70s and 80s and then just quit trying to be creative. It's easier to just go back and relive the fashions of our parents and our own childhood.
I'm all for sampling past ideas in fashion. After all, its how we got where we are today in play and in work. We'd not have PlayStation 2 or cell phones had someone not taken an idea from the past and built upon it. I don't understand this reliving past decades of fashion. I don't want to see some things we wore twenty years ago come back. They went out of style for a reason... let's let them stay out.
Nise's Notes
By Denise Schoppe
The Marlin Democrat
January 05, 2005
It's an old adage that I'm sure everyone has heard: Everything old is new. History repeats itself. Etc. It's the idea that everything comes back around again.
For awhile, 70s styles were the "in" thing. Hip huggers, bell bottoms, and peasant tops were the hip style. Volkswagon came back with the Bug. Long, straight hair was sylish on both men and women. Woodstock even made a return.
Everyone searched for their inner hippie.
Now, though, it seems the 80s are trying to make a come-back.
While Christmas shopping with a friend, we had fun going through the toy aisles saying, "I had one of those!" or "I remember this!"
Atari games can now be bought for your TV. (In case you get a hankering for a rousing game of PacMan, Centipede or Asteroids.) There is Rainbow Bright, Care Bears and My Little Pony for the girls -- Transformers for the boys.
That is all fine and dandy. As I said, we had fun going, "Oh remember this!?" to various toys.
However, I draw the line at 80s fashion. Don't ask me to get get a perm, scrunch my socks, or wear stonewashed jeans. You'll not get me in them...
...and leave the teasing comb at home.
Been there. Grudgingly admit to "done that." Don't really want to go back and do it again.
I worry about our creativity today when we must so blatantly steal from the past. Sample from it, yes. Repeat it... why?
Had someone not found creative license and taken the initiative to make changes over a hundred years ago, a trip to town would still require women to be in corsets and pettycoats and men in suits. Instead, over time change was brought about, and now we are (mostly) free to dress as we please.
Every day, people do push the envelop in fashion. I'll acknowledge that. Similarly, on the other side there is something eternally classic about long full dresses and tuxedos. But it seems to me that we today hit the 60s, 70s and 80s and then just quit trying to be creative. It's easier to just go back and relive the fashions of our parents and our own childhood.
I'm all for sampling past ideas in fashion. After all, its how we got where we are today in play and in work. We'd not have PlayStation 2 or cell phones had someone not taken an idea from the past and built upon it. I don't understand this reliving past decades of fashion. I don't want to see some things we wore twenty years ago come back. They went out of style for a reason... let's let them stay out.
