The 1970s Research Paper

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The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979. The previous decade, the 1960s, had been prosperous and commercial, the years of the mini-skirt, which was invented in 1959, for example. We remember also the 1980s as the decade of gigantic hair, shoulder-pads, the Filofax and the home computer. In the popular imagination the 1970s was not just the decade of the Space Hopper, the Ford Cortina, Raleigh Chopper bikes, the record player and cassette record but it was mostly a traumatic economic and political decade of Oil crisis, the three day week, the Winter of Discontent and mass unemployment. The political and economic climate of 1970s in Britain was characterized by these events. The 1970s is often seen as the decade that taste forgot …show more content…

This band was one of the most important and created a massive wave of rebellion especially in UK and U.S.A. The manager of The Sex Pistols was Malcolm McLaren that in 1971 McLaren left the school and opened a boutique shop in Chelsea, London. Initially called “Let It Rock” and then “Too Fast to Live Too Young to Die” and later recalled it “SEX” the store specialized in 1950s "Teddy boy" fashions, Edwardian revival clothes and filled with sadomasochistic and pornographic references as well as clothes made with leather and rubber. McLaren realised that a new protest-style was needed for the '70s, and encouraged the punk movement, for which he supplied garments with his girlfriend Vivienne Westwood that would soon shake up British fashion first and secondly all the word. This style expressed the delirium and anarchy of their time. The English Punk style began to gain attention when the Sex Pistols wore clothes from Ms. Westwood and McLarens shop. McLaren was the rebel, the agitator, the provocateur while Ms. Westwood was his muse and model. Westwood realized clothes with McLaren, drawing inspiration from bikers, fetishists and prostitutes. The punk style included bondage wear, pins, blades, lavatory chains on clothing and spiked dog collars for jewelry with strong make-up, haircut and colors. These designs reflected the rebellion and anti

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