April 1928 - Strolling Down The Atlantic City Boardwalk, NJ (real sound)

YouTube ^ | 10-20-2018 | Guy Jones

[laplata]

I meant Flapper. A passing fad.

They were in for some rough years.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

You sent me to Wiki to read about it. It actually lasted about 35 years and there was a lot of evolution throughout that period. It was mainly youth rebellion against parents mores. Interesting stuff, especially the “petting parties.”

[Jacquerie]

That was my first thought as well.

[laplata]

Interesting times.

[Dr. Sivana]

Maybe JFK killed the fashion of wearing hats.

A lot of things put together. JFK was just as likely following the fact that car rooflines were already getting lower, and people were spending more time in climate controlled settings, especially as they moved into the suburbs and drove more. Besides hats, people hate even minor inconveniences (wearing a tie, tucking in a shirt, clothes that need pressing, etc.) A hat needs to go to the hat check lady, or risk being left behind, and is a considerable inclonvenience when you only need it for the space from the car to the house/office/store and back again. Men in cities in the northeast continued to wear hats if they had walks to bus/subway stops long after JFK.

[trebb]

But just think: People in the future, 200, 300 even 1000 years from now will be able to look back at us in HD quality and sound ...

And wonder how we got along without interactive 3-D technology...

[SunkenCiv]

[Fresh Wind]

* Everybody is looking at the camera rig. Obviously, few had seen anything like that before. I wonder what it looked like.

Probably something very much like this.

[Red Badger]

Note that even though it’s cold, as evidenced by all the heavy coats, especially the fur coats, the young boys wear short pants....................