Dec 132011
Here’s a great article about how the fashion and pop culture of today is almost indistinguishable from the fashion and pop culture of twenty years ago. I’m not sure I completely agree. Television shows have become more densely plotted and thematically complex than anything that was on in 1991. But in other regards, the author makes a good point. The best way to date a movie/TV show from the past 20 years is to study the technology the characters are using, not their clothing or hairstyles. We don’t seem to have a distinctive trend that peaked and then disappeared, like bell bottoms or finned cars. Have we simply hit the aesthetic pause button? Or is our culture going to stagnate until our alien overlords arrive?
