Posted on 06/24/2005 9:04:37 AM PDT by missyme
The Economy Boom The western economy boomed. Youth culture stopped hogging the scene as the teenage market lost impetus. The dominant market was getting older and was also financially secure. Demographics changed the face of society. People were living longer and seemed to act younger at the same time. Old industries died, while new technologies developed and boomed.
Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy Reagan in the USA celebrated presidential success with a style that used fashionable conspicuous clothes and social events to display the affluence of American society to a world audience.
The world was in flux; ever changing. The USSR relaxed rules and opened up to private enterprise. The Berlin wall came down and other eastern bloc countries craved western clothes and liberation.
In Britain Thatcherism promoted privatization and the idea that greed was good was given credence. Temples to modern living, shopping malls sprang up throughout Britain. Western society consumed and consumed. Yuppies Yuppie was an acronym for 'Young Upwardly Mobile Professional Person'. The word was coined by the advertising industry to capture the essence of a particular type of work hard, play hard, ambitious minded city career person of either sex. The hectic lifestyle of a yuppie meant that after long hours of work, rare free time was spent in a self indulgent way frittering away the cash earned on anything, from expensive make up and perfume, to a bottle of fine champagne. Conspicuous wastage was part of the attitude.
For day Yuppies sported wide shouldered jackets and for weekends they wore a Barbour to effect a country aesthetic or a ballgown to assume the appearance of a more advantaged lifestyle.
Yeah I like My Sharonna too and also the Culture Club! YIKES! LIPPS sang Funky Town...
Another one Bites the Dust by Queen was good too!
I was in First grade.
7th Grade
I was in the 6th grade from September 1979-June 1980, and the 7th grade for the balance of the school year.
Oh yeah the Big Hair, Spandex Pants and Stiletto Heels
reminds me of one of my best friends who dressed like that while she cooked Spaghetti Sauce Cigarette in one hand and Screwdriver in other hand!
Dang Hitman! I didn't know you were such a youngin!
Didn't we all have a trip down memory lane last week in another thread? We should make this a weekly event!! I just love talking about this stuff. Amazing the things that we can recall that we'd completely forgotten about!
Well, I was in kindergarten, so probably fingerpainting.
My parents wouldn't meet for another two years. So, not much.
LOL!
Ping
Okay Cool next one maybe 1990?
Didn't get back to reality from one such event for three days.....
...back when SF was hetro-oriented, the homeless were largely elsewhere, the gays were still in the closet (and not in-your-face).
(/sigh)
In the 80's in high school, I was being bad and .....
Did ya have the Big Hair? LOL..
Oh yeah, BIG Heavy Metal Hair!!!!
I bet that was Fun when San Fran was normal!
Merrily terrorizing the interstate highway system from coast to coast while trucking for profit. :-)
That was my "raising children" time period, though.
HAHA..Need to find a 80's Hairstyle to post!
Joan Jett?
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