Favorite History Period

[JamesHunt]

roaring 20's in the US, it's amazing how the US has become so powerful in all but a few generations. If us Europeans (british, french, spanish, german, italian) could get on with each other, we'd kick your ass, but it's never gonna happen. We need a federal Europe.

[Hara_Juku Tgirl]

Victorian Era! :P





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[Willie Escalade]

Los Angeles in the 1950s.

New York in 1977...specifically at Studio 54.

[Nowhere]

I am all about music so i'd have several periods and locations:

1. 1780s, Mozart in Vienna and Marie Antoinette at Versailles.

2. Chicago, 1920s, Jazz, Organized crime letting everything run wild, etc.

3. NYC, Late 1970s to late 1980s - Studio 54 (as mentioned), Punk, Hip-Hop through all the crazy pop / dance going on there. Basquiat, Madonna, Breakdancing, Time Square not Disneyfied, Warhol, Limelight, the list goes on and on.

4. London, Late 1980s to mid 1990s - I think the Underground Dance, Britpop, Trip-hop, etc - are severely underrated. Although it's my 4th on the list, it would be my #1 choice. I was way too young to experience it, though.

Since then, it's been pretty boring, hasn't it? ha!

[southern81]

Ancient Greeice during the major time of the City States or

Rome- mainly either during Ceaser or Octavin Rule

[Jericho]

Victorian Era! :P

Rife with syphilis and kids up chimneys...Yeah...Peachy!

[Tara Emory]

For women's fashion, I'd say 1780-s 90s France, bits and pieces of everything from there until the 1830's- 1840's.

Don't care much for fashions of the 1850's-60's, but it got better by the begining of the 1870's, through the 90's (2 bustle periods, yum).

I don't remeber off hand what was going on politically in that period that made fashion so conservative and lifeless.

I wouldn't really want to live in any of those time periods, unless I had "future knowledge" and could go an invent something like electricity in 1800 and be super, super rich....

It annoys me to no end when people confuse the Victorian period with the period of Marie Antionette.. I mean, there's like a hundred years in between, and fashions did a huge 180 in the early 1800s with the (enough so, that when everything went conservative by about 1850, people were embarassed at how much skin their grandparents showed in those Empire waisted dresses)


As far as modern times, my fashion tastes are opposite my music and social leanings. Though I love the over the top costuming of films and musicals of the 40's and 50's, I absolutely can't stand the morals of them (they're usually pretty racist, sexist, and religiously predjudice too). Also, I love the fashion and look up to about '64, but wouldn't last long in those conservative times.

Inversely, I love the music of that 1965-75 period but the greasy hippies came along and pretty much wrecked everything fashion-wise.

There have been inspiring bits here and there, but mostly the 80's sucked.

The 1990's (as a decade) have so far formed an image in my mind that is best summed up by any random episode of "Friends" or "Seinfeld". The 90's have a playful innocence, wonder at new technology (with no fear of the consequence of where it's all heading), everything on the up and up. Fashion, started out as a subdued 80's feel, and settled on a mish mash of anything goes.

So far the "Aughts" dont' seem to have any sort of collective indentity, but so far it's like this.

1: George W. Bush

2: Things can't keep going up and up (that's why the economy is in the crapper). You can't keep the mid 90's to mid 2000's that cars keep getting bigger, houses keep getting more expensive. It's an unsustainable system and were discovering that now.

3: By the end of this decade, technology has killed journalism, the newspaper, and practically any ability of an artist/musician to make any sort of money like they used to.

There were good times for internet business a few years ago, but it's all going to pot, as people get stolen stuff for free (porn is in there too).


Want to actually make some money? Grow food!

I don't know what the future holds, but something has gotta give. Either it's populist rebellion or we'll actually figure out how to solve our problems. I don't think things will be all Mad Max though...

(I'm so glad MCCain isn't prez, because I know he'd have had a heart attack by now and then we'd be left with trailer trash Palin. And then we'd _really_ be screwed.)

-Tara

Geez is this my ADD or what? This post is all over the map..

[argentina2007]

1960's Cuba and 1980's North England.

[SarahG]

Don't care much for fashions of the 1850's-60's, but it got better by the begining of the 1870's, through the 90's (2 bustle periods, yum).

I don't remeber off hand what was going on politically in that period that made fashion so conservative and lifeless.

70s-90s was a chaotic social unrest nightmare, something like two dozen world leaders were assassinated by "anarchist" terrorists, widespread labor unrest, mercenaries being hired by businesses to kill off unarmed protesters...

I wouldn't really want to live in any of those time periods, unless I had "future knowledge" and could go an invent something like electricity in 1800 and be super, super rich....

Forget future knowledge, I wouldn't want to be in any of those periods unless I was a GG. No hrt back then, no trans surgeries... would have made for a very rough fringe existence. That and I'd have to be healthy, my life as it was only transplanted back then would have meant I would have been apart of one of those infant mortality statistics- I almost didn't survive childhood with modern medical science.

[LTR_Seeker]

The wild west era is my fav