Fashion

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THE SNAPPY SEVENTIES
1970-1979 A Decade of Change
By Alyssa, Leo, Joseph, Nicole
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Current Events and Issues...
VIETNAM!

• Ending phase of Vietnam finally in 1974
• Greatest loss of morale and public support
• Nixon bombing Cambodia and negative aftermath

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Growing govt. Distrust

• Pentagon Papers
• Stagflation high unemployment
• Nixon and Watergate Scandal

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Social movements

• Womens Movements (Roe v. Wade in 1973)
• Push for Equal Rights Amendment
• Government suppressing many movements
• Civil Rights

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Fashion
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Influences of the 60s

• The 60s trends, lasted through this decade

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Trousers and Bell Bottoms

• Serious fashions in the 1970s

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Platform Soled Shoes

• Moved from ¼ inch to 4 inches
• Wore 2 inch deep platforms by mid-seventies

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Disco!

• Gave away to dress codes and screening policy
• It was great for fitness.

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Rising Technology

• More space research
• Computer becomes more personal smaller
• TV more popular than radio

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Media and Music

• Many legendary rock bands
• Pop music becoming more popular
• Early punk music forming
• Disco music in night clubs popular for
  entertainment

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• TV used as escape for hardships
• Early 70s featured family shows
• Later 70s shows became more provocative

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• NBA adopted the three pointer 4 former ABA
  teams.
• WHA helped the NHL expand.
• Battle of the Sexes tennis match between Billie
  Jean King (female) and Bobby Riggs (male)

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• Social activism of the sixties shifted to social
  activities for ones own pleasure into the
  seventies.
• Discos and Night Clubs!
• More Drug Use
• Swinging Parties!

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Now on to the eighties...
PEACE!