# What fads in history can you name?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-in-history-can-you-name/1033399>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 26, 2026, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-in-history-can-you-name/1033399 "2026-09-26T12:22:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 110

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-in-history-can-you-name/1033399/110 "2026-09-28T22:30:19Z")

</div>

From another thread:

> [@How did we come up with "icky"?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-we-come-up-with-icky/1033403/5):
>
> For reasons I can’t imagine, Americans had a fad for baby talk after WWI.

And another i thought of: Wearing your belt buckle off center. This was apparently a thing back in the day (I believe common to Greasers); I learned about it here on the Dope.

---

_[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fads-in-history-can-you-name/1033399)._