Everything Old is New Again
In comparing the sixties and the nineties, my first thought was how much popular culture has changed since then and how different society is today. The strange thing is, the more I tried to differentiate between them, the more similarities I found. Both the sixties and the nineties were about youth, creativity, free-thinking, and expression. With the nineties coming to a close and the popularity of anything "retro," I decided to compare the fashions, people, music, and issues that defined pop culture in the 1960's and its influence on pop culture in the 1990's. In the 1960's, society was changing by the minute and fashion was "anything goes". In the early sixties, Jackie Kennedy influenced fashion with her elegant, stylish outfits and her trademark pillbox hat. In the late sixties, the "mod look" was popularized by go-go boots and mini-skirts, while bellbottom jeans, tie-dye shirts, long skirts and peasant dresses were worn by the hippie culture. Glance through any fashion catalog or magazine in the nineties and you will see models wearing the same fashions popularized in the late sixties. This illustrates how the 60's contributed to today's fashions. In the sixties, people in television, film and movies became the new s
ocially elite and their influence had a profound impact on fashion, attitudes, and social values. In the nineties, supermodels and sports figures have joined this group. The fascination the public has with celebrities is perhaps more prominent now than it was in the sixties and their influence is found in all aspects of pop culture in the nineties. Of course, it is impossible to characterize the 60's and the 90's so simplistically and in just a few paragraphs. Each was unique in its way. As a "baby boomer" born in 1961, the sixties to me are a decade of memories. I was too young to understand, much less appreciate the significance of the events that influenced my generation. Some people called the 60's the "decade of discontent" because of demonstrations against the Vietnam war. Some called it the decade of "peace, love, and harmony" because of the peace movement and the emergence of "flower children". Who knows what society will call the nineties years from now and what they will remember from this decade? While I will not know the answer for another thirty years, I do know that the sixties has definitely influenced all aspects of pop culture in the nineties. Many of people, attitudes and issues that were imp
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