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And he was wearing this scarf and I remember that Ralph looked at it - and I had never even heard the word "paisley" in my life, but I recognized the pattern from my childhood as something associated with hippies, and therefore ugly - and Ralph said "wow, cool paisley!" and it was jarule real name almost electrifying to me. I remember thinking "something is jarule real name changing, something ugly that you could jarule real name not have worn just became beautiful through no other action than the passage of time." The Window of Ugliness had closed, and suddenly paisley was beautiful again. So I think that the Window of Ugliness for fashion starts when something is about ten years old, and then stays open for about ten years. So by the early 1980's the fashion of the early 1970's was almost too hideous to contemplate. And if you look back on contemporary accounts you'll see that people often talk in those terms about 70's fashion, about how much they reviled it and how incredibly horrible it was and nobody could believe that they would ever dress that way. |
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