# Which decade the most pop-culturally identifiable? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2010, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514 "2010-12-27T14:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514/41 "2010-12-28T18:08:25Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > This is a key point. If you traveled back in time to the 60s, it wouldn’t look like a “Hey we’re in the 60s!” movie, because most people didn’t dress in a stereotypically 60s way. In fact, most people dressed almost exactly like they did in the 50s. You’d see men in suits and women in dresses, because most people don’t follow trends, they just buy regular clothes and wear them until they wear out. But even just regular clothes follow trends. It’s sort of hard not to follow trends if most of the regular clothes are part of some trend. Like, even if you just want a regular pair of jeans, chances are if you buy them today they’ll be fairly low rise and probably skinny. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514/42 "2010-12-28T20:00:31Z")
I said 80’s. I started going to school in the late 80’s and can clearly remember lots of neon and strange patterned clothing until maybe 91 or 92. Everything was loud, flashy, ugly, and completely awesome. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514/43 "2010-12-28T20:18:07Z")
I said the 80s too, because I find it hard to figure from pictures or songs etc if something was from the 60s or 70s because up until the birth of disco, there was a lot of carry over in both fashion and music. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514/44 "2010-12-28T21:37:39Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > I said the 80s too, because I find it hard to figure from pictures or songs etc if something was from the 60s or 70s because up until the birth of disco, there was a lot of carry over in both fashion and music. Exactly. “Culturally identifiable” - Pull out a random set of sights and sounds from each decade. I think the 80’s are instantly identifiable because the cultural styles were everywhere, at all levels of society and across all the arts, not confined to a small segment, and were part of everything, TV, film, music, fashion…everyone was dressing horribly and listening to awful music. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514/45 "2010-12-28T22:13:31Z")
Odd. I don’t remember a single identifable thing about the 80s. Of course, I drank a lot in the early part of that decade, and was married before the end. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-decade-the-most-pop-culturally-identifiable/565514.md?page=2)