Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!news.mixmin.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!news.informatik.hu-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "jack" Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: 1976 vs. 2016? Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 06:00:49 +1100 Lines: 66 Message-ID: References: <977171a2-738d-4405-9241-7cd8f403ef94@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net LHQkbAwexkk+CVp7eCg+2QAPD22LWYtRwUrDKQV/leMFdMWz8= Cancel-Lock: sha1:PuZ9rKqhhuddI4oZ1yTESfjnlx4= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:156415 wrote in message news:a3a07c20-65f3-425d-9575-0143efa221a6@googlegroups.com... > On Monday, January 11, 2016 at 9:57:49 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote: > >> One must be careful (as roddy so gracelessly points out) to not >> assume that the depiction of culture on popular media in those >> days actually reflected the reality of the culture of the time. > > I felt the items listed did indeed reflect the cultural atmosphere > of the times. > > AFAIK, _adults_ (not kids) did always wear a tie to work at office jobs, Not here they didn't. And none of the hippies did either. > and often wore a tie to go out socializing. And much more often didn't IMO even in the 60s which was after all when the hippies were so common. Family photographs > of even informal visits show my parents and their guests in nice > clothing. Mine don't. The military stuff does, but that's a different thing entirely and was from the 40s anyway. This year, it was warm at Christmas, and some guests > at dinner had on flip flops and gym shorts, which I felt was quite > a contrast. Ours were always like that, because its summer here. I built my house in the very early 70s wearing nothing but a pair of very short shorts and flip flops. I did wear boots and jeans and a jumper in the winter. > I will note that in the 1975, the mens' clothes were stylish of > the time--wide bright ties, jackets with fancy stitching, colored > shirts. I never had any colored shirts. I used to wear khaki drill shirts with button down flap pockets in the winter to work and T shirts in summer. Certainly very bright colors, usually yellow or red etc. And jeans exclusively in winter, shorts in summer. And flip flops to work in summer, and in the workshop too. Their attitude was if you injured your feet that way that was your problem, not theirs. Just the one mate of mine did have a fancy jacket. > I think it was called the "mod" look or a remnant thereof. > No one was wearing a conservative "IBM suit". It matches > the photos I have of my workplace from that era. > Going further back, there's a 1954 film, Picnic, where a man is > chastised by his wife for not wearing a _jacket_ to the _summer_ > picnic. He is wearing a necktie, and there's no question about that. Sure, but is less clear how accurate that is about how the general public was behaving at that time. Your other film from 76 ignores the hippies entirely and they were in the 60s, well before that.