# Is 2012 culture much different from 1992 culture?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 30, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-2012-culture-much-different-from-1992-culture/611207 "2012-01-30T17:29:44Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-2012-culture-much-different-from-1992-culture/611207/121 "2012-02-07T19:50:45Z")

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> [@psychonaut](#):
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> Teens are also well-known for wearing what nobody else their age, except for a tiny subculture of like-minded individuals, is wearing.

What?

Those pictures are pretty legit.

Every teenage girl in those photos look EXACTLY like my sister (who would have been 14-15 in 1990) did then.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2012, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-2012-culture-much-different-from-1992-culture/611207/122 "2012-02-07T20:16:10Z")

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> [@psychonaut](#):
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> “A large majority”? It seems to me that this is an edited collection—that is, the photographer’s goal was specifically to target people wearing highly fashionable clothing and hairstyles, or else they targetted everyone in the mall equally but the creator of the website selected a subset of photos which he felt highly contrasted with fashions of today. Sure, the majority of the primary subjects in these photos dress and look differently, but from this collection alone you can’t extrapolate to say that the majority of all people in the mall, or in the 1990s, dressed so differently. Indeed, many of the people in the _backgrounds_ of these shots wouldn’t look at all out of place walking down the street today.

You make a good point. On the other hand, did anyone else do a double take when they got to the first shot of people smoking in an indoor mall?

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