What was ruined when it became popular? And everyone was wearing it, saying it, doing it, watching

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it or reading it or going to it? I say mini-skirts. All women were wearing them.
Edit--these can included fads that were around and disappeared. Pet rock anyone?

[LakeArenal]

1. Awesome! Who let the dogs out? LOL....

Purple hair….Fake eyelashes…..

[debm55]

4. Yes, odd colored hair.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Hard Rock Cafe.

[debm55]

3. And Red Robin.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

5. Yep! The last time I ate a a Red Robin is was disgusting. 🤢

[debm55]

28. Do you remember the kid party places like Chuckie Cheese and there was another one with bears. My

kid had birthday parties at both.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

54. Chuck is still around. Don't remember the bears!

[Ocelot II]

6. There's a difference between fashion and fad.

Miniskirts were a fashion, so everyone wore them; for a number of years you could hardly buy anything else. A fad is something that is extremely popular for only a short time and then disappears. Jeggings were a fad, so were (ick) Zubaz pants.

[debm55]

9. Yes, like Jhorts.

[Ocelot II]

12. But you couldn't ruin Zubaz because they were terrible in the first place.

Most fads are terrible, which is why they can't be ruined - they just go away when people realize they are terrible.

[debm55]

13. Ocelot II, what are Zubaz?

[Ocelot II]

14. Zubaz are startlingly hideous striped men's lounge pants

that became popular in the '80s and mostly faded away, but you can still buy them.

[debm55]

16. Thanks. Didn't know they had a name. Yuk.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Developed By...

...and marketed by the 2 guys that we famous as pro wrestling Road Warriors.
Road Warriors Hawk (Michael Hegstrand) and Animal (Joseph Laurinaitis) were early investors & helped design them.
They were really popular among the bodybuilding & powerlifting crowds for a few years before they went mainstream.
I went to HS with a guy who worked for them at that time.
There was a roid shack in the city north of us & he had EVERYBODY there wearing them a couple years before they went mainstream.

[Wicked Blue]

22. Hot Pants were a fad

However I adore jeggings and still buy them when I can find them

[UpInArms]

7. Whole Foods

Austin, Texas

Pickup Trucks

RV camping (now they drive huge houses down the road)

... am thinking my list could go on and on

[Skittles]

49. I lived in Austin 17 years "back in the day"

last time I visited, it was like a mini-Dallas, ugh

[TexasBushwhacker]

56. I lived there 2005 to 2010

Otherwise I've lived in Houston. As bad as Houston's traffic can get, it's freeways are laid out like spokes on a wheel, with 3 concentric "loops" - one around the inner city, one around the suburbs and one around the exurbs. You can pretty much get wherever you want through utilizing the loops or not. Austin's freeways never made any sense to me and they get terribly congested for a city its size.

[tazkcmo]

8. Long haul hiking

Especially the Appalachian Trail.

[RobinA]

10. Men

wearing earrings. Twin Peaks.

[debm55]

11. Tattoos , it started as one, now it is completely all over the body.

[dameatball]

23. BTW, "Trail Days" in Damascus, VA is next weekend. They still draw a ton of hikers, although also a

lot of posers just wanting to have some fun. I was not aware that overall Appy hiking was down...? I know longer live there so not really plugged in.

[tazkcmo]

35. Its waaaay up

On the one hand I'm glad people are getting out of the house and getting some exercise but on the other hand I wish they wouldn't hike the trails in large noisy and inconsiderate groups like they do now. When these large hiking tours show up at a shelter they crowd everybody else out tend to be loud and noisy deep into the night

[GPV]

36. Sounds like a pain!

[Coventina]

15. Nerd / Geek culture

I know this is really nerdy to say, but becoming popular ruined a lot of stuff I used to enjoy.

[debm55]

17. And those skinny pants and dressing in all black--Goth.

[Coventina]

21. There's a wonderful South Park episode about Goth kids totally pissed

about the "Twilight" fandom, and the popularization of their look.

https://southpark.cc.com/video-clips/51ai0t/south-park-douchey-little-vampire-kids

[vanlassie]

18. Apparently, My Space.

[debm55]

24. the word "whatever"

[vanlassie]

25. Good one.

[Bayard]

19. Low rise jeans

Very uncomfortable, and about all you can find anymore. Regular jeans or anything else, are now called, "high-rise."

[lark2]

20. I loved mini-skirts until they became too short, not a problem with other people.

When bending over became impossible and even just sitting and not exposing yourself was a chore - they were too short. I didn't care that everyone was wearing them, I thought they looked good and showed off my legs to a nice degree. That was a good thing back then, lol, though not now. I was sad when mini skirts went away, but then I discovered the love and freedom of longer skirts and was glad for the change. In the days when you couldn't wear pants to work, the longer skirts were amazing. Thankfully those days are gone for almost all women.

[debm55]

26. I remember girls wearing pant suit jackets, minus the pants to go to dances.

[lark2]

27. I ended up with some long sweaters of various weights and wore those always.

I loved my little skirts but did not want to expose myself. I remember girls wearing their boyfriends jackets a lot back then.

[debm55]

29. Do you remember tent dresses??

[lark2]

30. Yep.

Never wore those though, ugly. I have high standards for clothing, it must be comfortable with a good fit, can move easily, pretty and look good on me. These have always been my clothes rules and tent dresses never qualified. They looked horrible on everyone.

[cksmithy]

42. Yes, my mother was a seamstress, made all of the girls clothes,

so I had several tent mini dresses, no problem sitting down. You would just held the back of your dress as you sat down, the fullness of the dress covered your knees. Three girls and three boys in my family. All the boys got store bought clothes, not us girls.

[debm55]

31. The Texas Steak Houses they had around here in PA. There was Ponderosa, and two others. All they

served was various cuts of beef steak. I did like the blossom onion. When you came into the one Steak House they gave you a bowl of peanuts. You were to throw the shells on the floor. That lasted until someone tripped and fell on the shells.

[alwaysinasnit]

32. Bolero jackets?

[3catwoman3]

41. This looks very classic.

I think it’s lovely.

[alwaysinasnit]

43. I couldn't agree more, but I don't see them being worn anymore. Have you?

[3catwoman3]

44. I haven't, but I wouldn't consider...

…the look ruined. We could legitimately call that white ensemble vintage. I actually did just but a bolero jacket at rock bottom clearance from Soft Surroundings.

Now, Nehru jackets for men are a whole different story

[alwaysinasnit]

45. OMG! Nehru jackets. I had forgotten about those.

I totally agree that the white ensemble is vintage and classy.

[Mr.Bill]

34. Cigars.

I'm glad that shit has mostly gone away.

Wearing clothes from an Army surplus store. Very popular in the Haight-Ashbury era for practical reasons. The clothes were cheap, warm and very durable. Perfect for the sometimes chilly SanFrancisco weather in the summer.

[Paladin]

46. Glad I timed my fancy cigar phase some years ago.

I used to love Cuban smokes, when I could get them. They now cost $50 a piece, and up. No thanks.

[Mr.Bill]

47. Exactly.

For awhile in the early 80s there were two Russian professors who were on a teaching exchange program at Stanford University who lived in my parent's apartment building. They could buy them at the Soviet Consulate in San Francisco so they supplied me for awhile. They really are the best. I quit smoking any tobacco 20 years ago, so I don't miss them now.

They got some damn good Vodka, too.

[Paladin]

51. Did you have a favorite brand?

I'm an old Romeo y Julieta man, myself. But most of the Cuban smokes were very worthwhile.

And Stoly vodka is first-rate, if memory serves. (Like cigars, I don't do much in the way of alcohol anymore.)

[Mr.Bill]

52. I can't remember the brands, too long ago. I think the cigars they got me

were all the same brand. Stoli is good Vodka but these Russians laughed when I told them that's what I drank. All the stuff they got me was 100 proof, for starters. The other thing I learned was that Vodka to them has a very broad meaning. Sort of like the word Liquor here. There are many types besides the clear liquid we are used to.

They gave me a bottle of this stuff they called Hunter's Brandy. It was as dark as coffee and they said it is traditionally drank in the autumn hunting season. It did have somewhat of a Brandy flavor, but was 100 proof like all the other Vodkas. They were also adamant that you never mix Vodka with anything, you only drink it straight.

[Paladin]

53. Different country, different rules.

I have some family in the Philadelphia area, and they once took me to a big Russian grocery store there. Talk about a whole different world. The two things I most vividly remember were: 1. The massive selection of various candies---like, 2 or 3 whole long aisles of sweets; and 2. In the meats section, a gigantic quantity of cleaned rabbit carcasses. Fun visit, but some strange elements to it....

[Mr.Bill]

55. The Russians I knew were amazed by our grocery stores.

Mainly the year-'round selection of fresh produce. Another thing I found peculiar is they had never seen popcorn. They were amazed that you could turn just a handful of kernels into such a large volume of food. They ate it like crazy the whole time they were here.

They said the one food staple that was not as good as Russia was our bread. They did like the San Francisco Sourdough though.

[First Speaker]

37. science fiction...

...until about 1977, real SF films were rare, and almost always dreadful. (*Forbidden Planet*, and of course *2001*, were exceptions.) Sf was a print medium, with books and magazines, a relatively small but very enthusiastic audience, and a very defined history with strong traditions. It was also the inventor of the concept of "fandom", and was still the main stem of fandom. Star Trek began shifting this to some extent, but it was *Star Wars* in 1977 that was the real change. Since then SF films have become almost the mainstream of movies, fandom has evolved along a thousand paths, and the original literature and fandom has to some extent withered on the vine. Written SF now has all sorts of branches, and no one person can keep up with it anymore. Dinosaurs like me are--ironically enough--out of place here in the "future", and nostalgic for the past...

[Old Crank]

38. The torn jean look

Still going strong here in Europe. For some unknown reason.

[3catwoman3]

39. And you paid extra...

…for those holes (never wore any - I was not the right demographic).

[3catwoman3]

40. Pants at half mast.

I remember seeing a kid at a basketball game who had the elastic waistband of his sweat pants a about halfway down his thighs. He had to pull them up to climb the bleacher stairs because the low down waist band prevented him from having enough range of motion to lift his legs.

[debm55]

48. Dallas-- the tv show

[Skittles]

50. I've never seen a "fad" last that long

I agree with Obama - come on, man, pull up your pants