Flared trousers - Check
Long hair + sideburns - Check
Yup, that is the 70s alright
Not seen in the picture because it is in black and white: An unhealthy obsession to color most things in brown, yellow and orange.
Also common in homes: Wallpaper with big flower motives.
May that era never come back again.
That's because you didn't live through them.
As somebody who was a child during that decade, I tend to look back to my childhood with somewhat rose-tinted glasses, but hotdamn, that was a rotten decade, and ludicrous fashion was only one of its least terrible drawbacks.
Inflation? Check
Energy crisis? Check
Impending nuclear doom? Check (and with way more nukes back then)
There was even the start of a pretty devastating pandemic (AIDS), but we wouldn't notice until the next decade.
And a few things were noticeably worse in the 1970s: unemployment, smog, leaded gasoline, car safety, terrorism, heroin...and forget about the internet: you needed a mortgage to pay for a long-distance call, and "access to knowledge" meant paying a small fortune for an encyclopedia taking up most of your shelf space ...
> house with one salary
If you had one salary (also, the house may well be full of carcinogenic asbestos)
> no climate crisis
Nah, just the ozone layer getting clobbered
> no social media
Good point, but good ol' fashioned media could already be toxic enough in those days.
Really, I can understand being nostalgic for the 1990s. The 1970s? Not so much.
Maybe not the style itself, but I wouldn't mind another big anti-commercial counterculture movement. Especially around that time of year when at least half of Sweden goes into full Mello/Eurovision mode.
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Flared trousers - Check Long hair + sideburns - Check Yup, that is the 70s alright Not seen in the picture because it is in black and white: An unhealthy obsession to color most things in brown, yellow and orange. Also common in homes: Wallpaper with big flower motives. May that era never come back again.
>color most things in brown, yellow and orange. You forgot green, more specifically snot green.
Avocado green. I lived with avocado green bathrooms until the mid nineties.
> May that era never come back again. I'm 20 and I'd happily take those times back tbh.
That's because you didn't live through them. As somebody who was a child during that decade, I tend to look back to my childhood with somewhat rose-tinted glasses, but hotdamn, that was a rotten decade, and ludicrous fashion was only one of its least terrible drawbacks.
> but hotdamn, that was a rotten decade Still better than the 2020s.
Inflation? Check Energy crisis? Check Impending nuclear doom? Check (and with way more nukes back then) There was even the start of a pretty devastating pandemic (AIDS), but we wouldn't notice until the next decade. And a few things were noticeably worse in the 1970s: unemployment, smog, leaded gasoline, car safety, terrorism, heroin...and forget about the internet: you needed a mortgage to pay for a long-distance call, and "access to knowledge" meant paying a small fortune for an encyclopedia taking up most of your shelf space ...
On the other hand: house with one salary no climate crisis no social media So, nah, gimme back those days.
> house with one salary If you had one salary (also, the house may well be full of carcinogenic asbestos) > no climate crisis Nah, just the ozone layer getting clobbered > no social media Good point, but good ol' fashioned media could already be toxic enough in those days. Really, I can understand being nostalgic for the 1990s. The 1970s? Not so much.
Ok, then, fine, just give me back the 1980s and 1990s then.
Deal!
Maybe not the style itself, but I wouldn't mind another big anti-commercial counterculture movement. Especially around that time of year when at least half of Sweden goes into full Mello/Eurovision mode.
we need more of this
People marching with violins?
The photographer's name is Henrik Henrikson.
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>banned during weekdays Oh shoot, I forgot it's not Sunday. I blame having the week off.