i’m such an aussie yobbo but…
-mullets for everyone!!
-ugh boots
-80’s anything… especially music
Yep: 80s hair–on women and men!
Wasn’t the normal Black persons haircut of the 70s the giant afro like Dr. J used to have?
sKipping Girl-- for some ungodly reason, Ugg boots are really popular here right now. Drives me up the wall.
Poodle skirts ---------- now there was a cute trend, along with saddle shoes and Bobby socks.
No mullets, but just the other cool hair cuts for men and not all of the Black hair styles of the 50s, 60s and 70s were giant afros.
Sixty-second commercial breaks.
Some of the 70s disco attitudes because people seemed happy back then and even the music was cheerful and the women dressed hot!
Royal Castle and it’s 10 cent mini-burgers! You could buy them by the sheet.
Fried, diced onions on hamburgers from a hamburger joint! Those were tasty and now they just throw on a slab of raw onion.
The popularity of A & W hamburger and root beer joints with the roller skating waitresses in those tiny skirts!! 
Service with a smile.
Rear wheel drive cars.
Hats for men.
Suspenders for men.
Hats for women.
Hats OTHER THAN baseball caps.
Thought of some more.
Lustron homes.
Art Deco architecture and architectural detailing.
Cameras that use real flashbulbs; large-format photography; cameras with manual focus instead of permanent infinite-depth-of-field.
Galoshes that buckle, for adults.
'40s hairstyles.
Aprons.
Road trips as a vacation in and of themselves, not as a way to get to a vacation destination.
3-piece suits. And not just on Nicole Kidman.
Yeah !!! Omnivore !!
Walkable communities
Communities where people care about each other (or at least know each other).
Basic affordable cars that you can work on yourself and do not come with extra nonsense and power you will never need or use.
Drive in movies
Traffic-jam free Saturday/Sunday afternoon
Bicycle on the street without fear and without being harrassed or jeered at.
Afternoon playing touch football in the street without encountering a single car
Having a place worth walking to, rather than having to jump in the car for every trip.
Since my hair is now thin enough for my head to get sunburned, hats for men other than damn baseball caps.
Sense of community rather than everyone for themselves.
Less emphasis on material things.
Dressing to impress
Personal responsibility
Calling supervisors Sir or Ma’am, being called Mr., Mrs/s.
Good rail system
Pocket watches
Even though I am agnostic/atheist, small community churches where people know each other rather than gigantic mega churches where no one knows your name and if you stopped going no one would notice.
Non gated communities
Entertaining movies, not disappointing blockbuster after blockbuster.
Less hype/commercialism
No ozone alert days
Less concrete and pavement
Quiet libraries
Parents disciplining misbehaving children
Non-chain stores/restaurants
I would like to see more round head/tail lights on cars - very elegant looking.
Residential houses with better window design. Why do people build monster homes and then absolutely destroy them with a few ill-placed, teeny-tiny windows?
A time when Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts were the pride of the community and not placed on the back shelf like today.
Put the WW2 cannon back in the Central Town Park. (They took it away some years ago, deciding that it was too violent. That was in the 70s, before schools started getting shot up.) I miss it and it had the barrel plugged.
I wanna wear red high heels, stonewashed skintight jeans and a sweatshirt with the collar and sleeves torn out (as in Flashdance) and look cool!
My sex life.
Flashes armpit at Rug Burn…you got it! 
I’d like to see…
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non-baseball hats on men
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dignified facial hair- none of this “soul patch” crap- bring back handlebar moustaches!
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Saturday morning cartoons
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frock coats, knee-britches, and tri-cornered hats
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back-seam pantyhose
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togas and sandals as formal wear for politicians
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professional philosophers
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phone booths instead of the long banks of phones
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frosted-glass office doors with name and title painted on them
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manual typewriters
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big, black rotary phones that weigh 300 lbs.
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floor-length skirts made of wool
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those little ruffly hotpants-type things you wear under twirly skirts
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leg warmers
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the word ‘contraption’
Phone booths!!
I second phone booths!
I miss those glass cubicles that were shelter from the rain on stormy days and gave you privacy when you made a call plus a handy shelf to write or set things on, and a ventilator and a light. There used to be one on every corner – almost – in town when I was young.
TV shows that do not consider vulgarity and violence to be socially progressive.
Definitely “sir” and 'ma’am" and “Mr.” and “Mrs.” to adults–and not just from kids. (Who the heck ever decided that it was friendly to address strangers by their first names? Telemarketers and other types of salespeople are notorious for this and I just HATE it!)
COKE IN GLASS BOTTLES–YES!! Nothing was ever so good to me on a hot day than that first swig of Coke from an icy cold glass bottle! And I remember getting a 12 oz. bottle from the vending machine for a quarter–no such luck THESE days!
People being held responsible for their own actions–a place for the buck to stop.
People who won’t (not CAN’T–WON’T) work not being given constant handouts.
Regular sleep–I’ve got a 3 month old baby!
Blimey. Is this ‘trends you would like to see return’ or ‘reasons why the 1930s/1940s/1950s were better than today’?