70’s fashions and hairstyles and sensibility

Those 70’s fashions and hairstyles just will not go away

The people in these photos probably weren’t even born in the 1970’s, yet here they are sporting the kind of 70’s outfits that they parents might have worn. Why is this? What was so special about the 1970’s, if anything.

70's fashions and hairstyles

Oops, I forgot to apologise to Jane Austen for messing around with the title of one of her novels -my most humble and profound apologies, ma’am.

Big Worrying Question Time

Every journalist has to ask Big Worrying Questions. They don’t have to find a solution for them, they just have to ask them. It makes us seem profound.
So the Big Worrying Question here is, are the British obsessed with nostalgia? For the 70’s. Do we sleep with a pair of flared pants, tanktop and brightly coloured Afro hairpiece under the bed, in the hope that we’ll wake up next morning and find that the world has been transported back to the 70’s?
Unusually for a journalist, I may be able to answer a question, and the answer to this question is no. For most Brits, the 1970’s was not a good time, there were labour strikes, financial crises, the IRA terror campaign.
But one thing that was good about it was the fashions – the 70’s outfits.
So we are obsessed with nostalgia for the 70’s, but it’s a selective and sensible nostalgia, we only remember the things that we want to remember.
Which is pretty much the same sensible attitude that most people around the world have.