Well, five actually. As the Drapers’ distaff neighbor on AMC’s Mad Men frequently illustrates, number six on Cracked’s list certainly wasn’t a trend exclusive to the 1970s, but fortunately, it did become increasingly socially unacceptable in the years that followed.
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I’d add this to the list as well, though there’s no end to the horrid trends that ran concurrently through the Decade That Taste Forgot.
(Via Kathy Shaidle.)
Related: “Our Child-Based Decadence“, which, as David Frum has written, is much more a byproduct of the 1970s than the 1960s.
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