Best decade:20thCentury

Hi Hipsters, please tell me what was the best decade of the 20th century?:

 

i say the 20s. flappers, jazz, speakeasys, silent movies, and all that other stuff rocks. AND its the first era of youth rebelion.

 

I nearly voted the 1920s myself.
I agree with you that the 'Jazz Age' conjures up images of the flappers,the 'charleston' & 'black bottom' dance crazes & 'hot jazz' on the gramophones with men in ivy league stripes & boaters in Dusenbergs with picnic hampers on the back.Art Deco staircases & facades.Douglas Fairbanks,Rudolph Valentino,Rudy Vallee,Greta Garbo, Clara Bow,Norma Talmadge,Helen Kane.
The 'Prohibition' brought in an era of 'gangsters' who ran the 'speakeasys'.
For the first time ladies wore loose gowns & danced suggestively to the sensual new 'jazz' styles.They dreamed of being 'movie-stars'.The young courted without being chaperoned.It's hard to imagine now but those days must have felt truly 'wild'!.

 

i voted for the 1920's also. i have the body for a flapper dress

 

I voted for the 60's. I wasn't there, but I wish I would have been. lol. I think the worst decade ever, especially for fashion, was the 80's.

 

I voted for the 90's because I'm here now and I wouldn't go back in time for anything...no birth control pill, racism, sexism, homophobia, world wars...the present isn't perfect, but we have to keep trying, imho.

 

Torn between Roaring Twenties 1920-29 (cuz I like the swing music), Fabulous Fifties 1950-59 (cuz beatniks are just so cool) and Moral Right Wing 1980-89 (because '80s pop was so corny it was great!)

 

It's interesting that someone says I wouldn't wanna go far back because we are so advanced now;& another view expressed the 1980s because of the naff fashion sense!.
Also looking good in a flapper dress is reason enough to vote 1920s!!.

The poll is currently a tie between 1920s - 1950s - 1960s.

Hey what about the long-haired - bell-bottom trousers 1970s? or the boogie-woogie battledress 1940s?; or the 'talkies hollywood',art deco 1930s?.

I'm hoping to see an outright winner.The best decade & the worst decade i.e. the one that got no votes & was slagged off the most!!.

 

1980s. Bar none.

 

Well, I wouldn't want to go back to any of the few decades I've lived through.

I know people that swear that the 50's was the greatest decade, because of the post-war affluence and the fact that America was growing and prosperous, and the pop culture and all that.

The 60's had a lot of idealism, people wanting to change the world and to right a lot of injustices, the hippy culture and anti-materialism, drugs and rock and roll.

The 70's still had some of what the 60's had, but the idealism and so-forth was winding down somewhat.

In the 80's the idealistic people mostly sold out to Reagan and Thatcher's capitalistic revolution, and the 90's was an extension of that.

If I had to vote for any decade, I think it would be for the 60's.

 

I had a hard time I actually would have said the late 60 and earlier 70s because that's when I would have wanted to be the age I am now. definatly..

 

the 60's

 

Wayyyyyyyy ahead in the poll:

The Swingin' Sixties!!!.

 

the '60's...of course

 

65 -75 not 60 -69 , or 70 -79 .......but im realy thinking that 1905 -1915 , when you couldbuy all the substances in a pharmacy without a prescription .....no income tax and no drug laws .......and before ww#1

 

For me it is a tie between the 1960's and 1970's.

1970's for personnel reasons, that is when I came of age.

1960's obviously for all of the political and social changes which occurred.

 

That would have been the life! Yea, I'll take a bottle of morphine, and hmmmm.......a bottle of cocaine while I'm at it. Why dont you throw in some hash chocolates too?

 

Definitely the Great Depression. It was a wonderful time! Everyone got to watch movies and wear potato sack shirts!

But then again, I also have many fond memories of dancing the jitterbug while the amazing wonders of WWII raged on in the background!

I didn't much care for the fifties or the sixties... too many crazy kids with funny hairstyles! Oh, and the looming threat of nuclear extinction just wasn't my cup of tea...

I think that things got better after that, but unfortunately I died of a drug overdose in 1971!

 

Requiescat in Pace!

 

20's.. it would of been cool to be a flapper