# Hey baby, wanna Shag?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-baby-wanna-shag/250075>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 13, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-baby-wanna-shag/250075 "2004-06-13T03:36:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-baby-wanna-shag/250075/1 "2004-06-13T03:36:19Z")

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I am intrigued and interested in this art:  
[http://www.shag.com/](http://www.shag.com/)

Is anyone familiar with it that can tell me it’s origins or what it’s all about? I love the looks and the style, but I don’t know the story (if any) behind it. Can anyone enlighten me? Am I the only one that loves it, or is this a worldwide phenomenon that I’m just discovering?

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**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-baby-wanna-shag/250075/2 "2004-06-13T04:03:48Z")

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It’s very mid-century modern in inspiration. It’s meant, I believe, to make you think of a very hip crowd in the late '50s, or thereabouts, at a cocktail party, or otherwise interacting. The style owes a great deal to advertising and other commercial art from that era. I love it.

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**Author:** ![CanvasShoes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-baby-wanna-shag/250075/3 "2004-06-13T04:14:04Z")

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Jeez, I thought this was gonna be about dancing :D, Sorry, art in one of many areas in which I have little knowledge.

\<-----Wanders off humming “la la LA…shaggin’ shaggin on the Boulevard”