Popularity of Vintage
- Started
- Last post
- 44 Responses
- HijoDMaite0
Hoping Scarabin has some input..
I think the cultural phenomena known as Steampunk has some relevance in this topic...
As in:
Outsourcing, manufacturing, China, etc..Steampunk. (Crappy, toxic shit sucks!)
- or: "looks pretty cool, let's add some zippers and a steam whistle."monNom
- HijoDMaite0
Think about this:
With each quantum advance in technology or significant cultural shift a portion of the populace has rejected the purported advances these have offered.
• The Printing Press: The Catholic Inquisition (Stretch the Heretics till their legs pop out!)
• Industrialized Agriculture: the Luddites (is sucks to have your arm severed by a new-fangled thresher!)
• Mass production of shoddy consumer goods: The Arts and Crafts Movement. (Strip the cheap gewgaws out of your life and build this cool cabinet!)
• The Bomb: Beatniks & Hippies. (No Nukes, No Nukes, No Nukes!)
• Hippies: Reagan, National Guard! and the Tea Party.
• Outsourcing Manufacturing to China: Steampunk.Which brings us back to IKEA and mass production.
- inteliboy0
Swatch was interesting --- there was a rejection/rebellion to the fad of digital watches at the time with liquid crystal readouts and beeps. Swatch came along with this very simple watch with clock hands - people lapped it up.
- good one.HijoDMaite
- swatch was also made in switzerland and cheap at the same time... a nice FU to snobsvaxorcist