Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/12/70-years-of-douchebag-style.html
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#FyreLivesMatter
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wrong…soul patches and mullets were not a 70s thing.
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Needz moar Trilby.
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No kidding, eh? The 70’s were all about bad haircuts and this mustache:
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Don’t make me drop Sean Connery as Zed from Zardoz!
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Oh no, allow me!
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A bad thing you did. A very bad thing.
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Here are John Boorman’s comments on ‘Zardoz’. Interesting reading. (I liked the article writer’s name for Connery’s ‘codpiece’: “mankini/diaper”
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Definitely 50’s; it’s called a ‘duck-ass’.
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Yeah, you’d have to be living in Squaresville to pull off a ducktail by the mid 60s.
Though I am beginning to notice a Superman influence on Elvis in 1965.
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None of these decade-by-decade “fashion” videos have been accurate. I suspect that’s why Mark keeps posting them…we keep coming back to tear 'em apart.
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Is it because the Youngs really don’t know any better, or do they just enjoy trolling us Olds?
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Sweeping cultural transitions going on in the mid 60s. Yes. Duck-ass was pretty much dead by then. Apart from the Beatle-style haircuts still then hanging around, there is – to my mind – little difference between what I see now (we are living in the anything goes, post-modern age, of course) and the range of men’s hair styles seen during the mid 60s (whether one was square or not). Example: I never thought that crew cuts would ever come back.
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Mark:
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These videos were due for a parody. Well done! ha ha
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Possibly both, but the consistency of fail leans me more toward Youngs being too damned lazy to do proper research. Or even simple Google image searches.
{edt} You know how long it took me to find that Playgirl cover? About 3 seconds. Finding Mr. Connery took even less time. Maybe I’m being too hard on the Youngs, maybe they simply lack the cultural references us Oldz do and suck at googlefu.
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