#retro culture

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Quite a lot of people don't know the difference between 80s style and 90s style. After all, there are famous designs such as Jazz that were created in the 90s, but are distinctly 80s style.

Combining them has huge artistic consequences!

History, style, patterns, fashion

"So what" you might be thinking. "Since it was the adjacent decade, it's close!" But no. Every decade's style is essentially a rejection of the prior one. The least "cool" thing in any decade is what people were doing in the prior. It's not yet retro, so it looks very much like older folks who don't know trends pretending WAY too hard that they do. And, uh, one of the worst things you could do in the 90s was pretend too hard. The "jazz" pattern was on paper cups and plates. Something bought mostly by adults who either don't know what has stopped being cool, or prefer the trends of the earlier decade they come from. It had a stylistically aged design, but all the people who bought these products came from earlier decades.

90s teens did not think this pattern looked good. In the 90s, you COULD NOT embrace 80s style, unless you wanted to look like a massive dork, like something out of a flashback. In fact, patterns of almost any kind were considered "tacky" at best, and "horrendous" more often than not, and this kind of stuff was actually used on tv to signal "flashback to the past" or "especially uncool person with no sense of style or taste".

So, if you're combining them in art-- that is not historically accurate. That's either a retro fantasy style, or a signal that the 80s thing is "old and poor" and hasn't been replaced in the 90s, as it otherwise would have been replaced out of embarrassment.

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