And the 90s, for that matter?
When I think of the 60s, I think of lime green. As in lime green refrigerators and kitchen countertops.
When I think of the 70s, I think of orange, brown, and yellow.
When I think of the 80s, I think of fluorescent pink, green, and yellow.
Twenty years from now, what colors will we assign to the 90s and today? We’ve got to have something!
Nah, the '80s are jewel tones – turquoise, emerald, cobalt blue – Nancy Reagan red.
It’s starting out to be another bloody century, so I would say
RED.
white, think ipod. 90s was greys and blacks
Appliances are stainless steel and black.
Hmm, I think Twicks is right, as usual. I remember the orange brown and yellow (along with icky avocado green) of the seventies as being what folks actually put all thru their homes, not just wardrobe. While I remember wearing a lot of florescent stuff, it seemed to be just a brief teen fad. Jewel tones for popular clothing, sure, and those awful country colors in the 80s, mauves and dusty pinks and blues and sage green.
Weren’t the nineties when stainless steel and black white and grey got really popular, or was that more late 80s?
I think of the 90s colours as being black, charcol, khaki, dark green and beige.
At the beginning of the 2000s I think it was white, baby pink, baby blue and silver. I think there’s a lot of pink in this decade.
It’s hard to know right now though because you have to wait to see which colours everyone gets really sick of to know which ones are 2000s.
It’s always been weird to me that the 70s were so about yellow and brown. Why did people crave yellow and brown? Out of all the colours…I don’t know what came over everyone. Maybe the atmosphere of the times was that everyone would have liked to be flushed down the toilet.
They were called ‘Earth tones’. The '70s were ‘The Ecology Decade’. So it seems to me that people chose Earth tones as a symbolic way of showing their ecological awareness.
Forget “band name” – “sig line!” is so much more Doperific, ne c’est pas? 
The late-'80s, maybe. And the early-'90s. In the early-'80s things were New Wave. I remember pastels being popular for dressy occasions. (And remember those shoulder pads?) Black-and-white were popular, as were zebra stripes, Rising Sun imagery, and bold colours.
True, the fluorescents were late 80s. Now that I think about it, black, purple, and emerald green were more widespread back then. I remember wearing a lot of purple and black combos.
Yeah, lots of jewel tones in the 80’s. I look good in jewel tones, so I was pretty happy!
For the 90’s I think of teal.
Now, I think of sagey greens (often with lavender!), khaki and other neutrals, and chocolate brown. Pink and other icy tones come in every spring, and home dec people have been going for bright colors, including, inexplicably, orange. But mostly–soft, toned-down earth tones.
That was the 90s.
This decade? Pink shirts on men. What’s that all about, anyway?
Pink shirts on men were popular in the early-'80s. I’ve noticed they seem to be making a comeback.
The most common scheme I see on men at work (Band Name!) is a blue shirt with khaki Docker-type trousers.
The 90’s were very neutral. White, gray, black, beige.
Now, it seems like bright, bold colors are making a comeback. I see lots of deep, rich reds, blues, oranges, and yellows. It’s not just in decorating. In the last few years, I’ve started to see cars painted California Yellow (a bright, Tweety Bird yellow) and Metallic Orange (a kind of “burnt orange” color with a bit of brown in it) around here. Plus, the current fashon in men’s business wear is to wear boldly-colored dress shirts, like royal blue or forrest green.
What I notice most in decorating colors nowadays are the horrendous “body fluid colors”. That puke green, baby poop yellow and the blech earth tone colors, 5265 colors of brown. They’re all called something different, khaki, cafe au lait, chocolate, Desert sand. But they’re all basically light brown to diarhea brown.
It cracks me up when designers come into someone’s home and say "oh, you need COLOR!!, and then proceed to paint someone’s wall dirt brown or tan (only called something fancy).
ANY color is better than those putrid choices, even plain white.
For the 90s, I think of neutral colored household appliances and cars on the whole. TVs, fridges, etc were black, silver, or white, and nearly every car on the road was some degree of beige. Not much has changed IMO, save mp3 players and the iMac. Suits are black or grey, and a brightly colored car is still a rarity. Even cell phones are carrying on the bland trend, despite their personal aspect.
Aww, not again! We’ve had about 37 of those centuries in a row!
I think the 80s were pastel or neon anything (yellow, green, blue). Think Miami Vice. Also, interior design was often slick cold black & white, maybe with a splash of bold color thrown in for extra contrast.
I think the 90s were more earthy, like tan, black, beige and muted colors… and teal. Nothing was more cool than Doc Martins, a flanel shirt, and a teal fanny pack.
You can’t go wrong when you stick to classics.