I've got a question for all you lovely people on here. I'd like to know what your favourite decade is and why. It doesn't even have to be one that you lived through. For instance with me, I love the forties and fifties because even though they were hard times, there were still something really magical about back then. I liked the styles back then and if you pop into my home, you can definitely see what the influences are. I think people pulled together more, made the best of what they had and there were a real sense of community.
So yeah I'm definitely a forties and fifties girl. And what about the rest of you?
If I have to pick just one decade then I would have to say the 1990s. I was still quite young when the 1980s ended although I do remember quite a bit. But the 90s is when I started elementary school, when my family returned to America, when I met some of my closest friends who I'm still really good friends with even now. I can't complain I had a pretty good childhood filled with things like family get togethers, barn dances, hanging out at the mall, going sledding, going crazy over the Backstreet Boys and 5ive. Haha! Those were really good times.
My favourite decade... well even though I didn't live through it, I would have to say the swinging sixties. From what I know of that time, there's so much I can identify with. I love that people were so much more spirited. I love a lot of music from that time and I would definitely have been a festival girl back then - as I am now! I can also see me going on the hippy trail and bringing some fabulous fashion items and home décor back with me. I think those must have been fabulous times and I'm so sorry to have missed out.
My childhood years were in the eighties so I guess that's my best decade. The nineties were good too but that's where I had to learn to adult, and that wasn't always a lot of fun.
I was born in the mid eighties and I do have memories of that decade but for me it's all about the nineties. I was all about the grunge! It brings back great childhood memories and of my early teen years too. The 2000s are also memorable as it was the decade where I was in my later teen years and early adulthood.
I'd say that my favourite decade that I actually experienced would be the nineties which is the decade I grew up in. But I'm also a huge fan of the 1940s and of the 1960s because of the style and aesthetics.
I'm definitely a nineties girl! I started secondary school, went to college and university and had a great time raving. Also I think the nineties had the best music. I loved swingbeat, New Jack Swing, RnB and that decade had the best beats! The nineties was also the last full decade I spent in England before moving to Australia.
I'm a nineties baby through and through, honey! And I think it shows. I consider myself very lucky to have grown up in the nineties and seeing the advancement of technology as we know it today. Some people talk about a time when they didn't have mobile phones or wi-fi. but for me it's pretty much all I've ever known. And being a teenager in the first decade of the new millennium was pretty cool too.
So it has to be the nineties and 2000s for me!
Ooh, great question, Egg Yolk! Well I appreciate different things about each decade but if I could only choose one, it would have to be the eighties without a doubt. I have very fond memories about that time. And it's not just about the music or the clothes - although that does have something to do with it - but it's more about how people lived during that time.
I feel people were more family-minded, and even though they worked hard, family and friends still came before work. We also socialized with our neighbours more and all the local kids used to play together. Today most of us don't even know our neighbours no matter how long we've lived on that street for.
Oh and even though as little kids we thought that Sunday was the most boring day of the week with nothing good on the TV, Sunday was a day for family and friends, and for my family - church!
No period in time is perfect and the eighties certainly weren't without its problems (I was just too young to understand half of what was going on!) But it's still my favourite decade.