It was all down to a change towards a more sophisticated way of life.


The Wood era doesn't look very sophisticated.

Poor Elvis Presley. He had the misfortune of dying in 1977, which was probably the peak of American tackiness.

I've visited Graceland twice and Elvis's home, aside from the modifications necessary to convert it into a museum, has been left almost exactly as it was on the day he died.

I recommend that everyone visit Graceland at least once in their lifetime. I gained a much greater appreciation for Elvis after going there.

That, and Graceland is a perfectly intact time capsule of the 1970's. The loud, bizarre colors on the walls of his TV room, the baby-poop green appliances in his kitchen, it's all there.

And, oh my God, the Jungle Room. You have got to see the Jungle Room in person to believe it.  :o :o :o

The Wood era doesn't look very sophisticated.


But why was orange yellow and brown a 70's color?

But why was orange yellow and brown a 70's color?


That's what I'm trying to figure out.

That's what I'm trying to figure out.
Those colours have been around for a very long time?

Those colours have been around for a very long time?


Obviously. But each decade has its particular palette and for whatever reason the 70s was brown and yellow, Earth tones.
Sorry if I pissed in your cornflakes somehow. But I don't need to be attacked needlessly.

Browns are found in the bark of plants, mud, and deserts, while the yellow comes from the sun, along with orange representing another shade of the sun (perhaps near sunrise and sunset). But it was obvious that the counterculture had started to infiltrate everything, and the mantra of "reclaim the earth" reflected in this anti-fashion mentality. Saying "Mr. and Mrs." in lieu of either "Ms." or just the man's name, rock music now acceptable in ways that it never used to be, and the beginnings of postmodernism contributed to this. The '80s tried to revert back to the '50s-'60s mantra of elegance, but it had that "tried too hard" look that resulted in some of the cheesiness, and then the '90s/'00s had reversed it again. Only recently has the "elegant" technique started to return, but its obvious its not the same as a consequence of the new wave of technology.

As far as when it became tacky, it seemed to gradually phase in between about 1966 with the psychedelic movement taking off to around 1973 or so. People wanted of course to be liberated by their own philosophies as opposed to being conformed by numerous rules, and thus the "Me Generation" was born. But lately, with all these new rules that seem to crop up, it seems like we're reverting back again.

The 2010's palette IMO seems to be blue, silver, and white. 

Fashion changes for the most part because someone influential tries something different, it catches on, and a new trend is born.  (Or in many cases fashion designers get together and decide they need to start a new fad to make more money  :-\\  )

It's simplistic to look at the 70's as one set of styles (same with any decade).  Fashion morphed and changed throughout the decade.  IMO clothing fashion in the 70's changed more rapidly than any decade I can recall - but that from the eyes of a fashion-conscious teenage girl  ;D

Forgive me for repeating myself, but this is an illustration of how fashion changed throughout the 70's.  The three videos are from Soul Train (filled with kids who wore regular, albeit exaggerated, clothes) in three different 70's years:

From 1971:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglBm-N-Lnw

From 1974:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5_oM8rU1jk

From 1977:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4dGlKtriE

Fashion changes for the most part because someone influential tries something different, it catches on, and a new trend is born.  (Or in many cases fashion designers get together and decide they need to start a new fad to make more money  :-\\  )

It's simplistic to look at the 70's as one set of styles (same with any decade).  Fashion morphed and changed throughout the decade.  IMO clothing fashion in the 70's changed more rapidly than any decade I can recall - but that from the eyes of a fashion-conscious teenage girl  ;D

Forgive me for repeating myself, but this is an illustration of how fashion changed throughout the 70's.  The three videos are from Soul Train (filled with kids who wore regular, albeit exaggerated, clothes) in three different 70's years:

From 1971:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qglBm-N-Lnw

From 1974:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5_oM8rU1jk

From 1977:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R4dGlKtriE



I guess they wanted to dress tacky cause it was the way they felt about themselves.

Hippies and mods made fashion more 'casual', and away from the 1950s styles. It starts getting more 'tacky' around 1966/1967 in my opinion, although I wouldn't call it tacky since I still like most of it.

I don't mind 70's fashion. I just need to lose some pounds in order to fit into those clothes.  :o

It's all the same, I have no reason to care at all.