Old School Goths ~ are you seated?

[kambriel]

When a friend brought up having a difficult time thinking of clothing and such from the 80's as being "vintage", it made me think... So, the eighties were about twenty years ago. This means going back an equal amount of time when we were living in the eighties, would bring us to the '60's. I did a lot of antique and thrift store shopping as a teen, and one of my favourite things to find were old, unusual cat eye glasses, beaded cardigans, and cool yet obnoxious fabrics. I really loved my mother of pearl cat eye glasses with the green lenses because they turned the clouds green and made the sky look like it was always on the brink of tornado weather! (Yes, to the little Wednesday Addams that I born to be, this was a *good and exciting* thing.)

At that time, it was totally natural to think of these designs from the sixties as vintage... of course they were. And it's ~really weird~ to think that teens now are as far removed from the eighties as we were from that "Summer of Love". 1987 is to them was 1967 was to me.

Crazy. Are we really on the same par as an MTV commercial for a Moody Blues album? "In a White Room with Black Curtains"...

It makes me think of the scene in Spinal Tap, where the band is gathered around Elvis' headstone at Graceland and says, "That's a little too damn much perspective".