#youth culture

[prokopetz]

Joke's on you, suckers – I didn't experience a growing sense of alienation from youth culture as I got older because I never understood youth culture in the first place.

#life #youth culture

[thecaffeinebookwarrior]

Thoughts on Thirty, From A Twenty-Four-Year-Old

This isn’t exactly advice, but a bit of observation: I think many teenagers and early twentysomethings need to start reforming their relationship with aging.

There is a direct correlation between all the eighteen-year-olds saying, “Thirty is so old,” and the amount of twenty-nine-year-olds having existential despair that thirty is coming at them so quickly.

If you spend your teens and twenties thinking the rest of your adulthood will be a progressive decline into decay, you won’t be able to magically switch off that attitude once you reach thirty.  

PLEASE start internalizing that thirty isn’t the year when you will magically start to whither and degrade.  There are countless companies who benefit from you believing this, and cosmetic procedures and age-masking makeup is a multi-billion dollar industry based on the fear of aging that they willingly help to exacerbate.

I’m twenty-four, and I have friends my age who are already thinking about preventative botox.  I see TikToks advising young women to stop smiling and raising their eyebrows.  And I think we really need to internalize that wrinkles and creases are a normal thing that EVERYONE develops, which in many cases can add to one’s beauty and charm.  

I love seeing people with smile lines and eye-crinkles.  I love graying temples.  I love people who project vitality through their attitude and who live life to its fullest rather than trying to make themselves expressionless to try to stave off age.

Free yourself.  Older people can be beautiful.  Wrinkles can be beautiful.  The way you live, what you do, your attitude and the way you carry yourself -- these are the greatest contributors to beauty. 

You have beautiful decades ahead of you.

#Thoughts #My writing #Youth Culture #Aging #Beauty

[diana-andraste]

Masculin Féminin, Jean-Luc Godard, 1966

#art #film #masculin feminin #1960s #movies #jean-luc godard #paris #youth culture #french new wave #posters #movie art #poster art #black and white #jean-pierre léaud #marlène jobert #chantal goya

[scavengedluxury]

On the steps of the lower quay, Budapest, 1982. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#budapest #hungary #street photography #youth culture #1980s #fashion

[tanuki-kimono]

First of all- thank you for your work with this blog. I really enjoy the information you share, and the kimono designs are wonderful. I have a question- I know you've talked about how 'men don't/didn't wear Bright Colorful Designs' is more complicated then people assume! (Which makes sense- saying 'in X period men Never Wore Colors' isn't true about, say, the Victorian era either!).

But to get to my point- I happened to be reading a very old collection of mysteries called "The curious casebook of Inspector Hanshichi". In them, a young Hanshichi is described as wearing a very bright red and yellow striped kimono that made him 'look like a merchant'. At the time I assumed this implied he was dressing a little flashily- I'm curious if I was right about that!

You most welcome :D

And the parallel you draw with Western men fashion is pretty accurate: we tend to think menswear was always pretty dull (arf modern business suits) when in fact this tendency is quite recent!

As to your question about fashionable Inspector Hanshichi (for those who don't know: hero of early 20thc detective novels with "supernatural" elements written by Kido Okamoto), I think you are right. The "look like a merchant" is probably a mix of:

He's dressing below/above is condition. I don't remember Hanshichi exact social status (is he a yoriki? a doushin?), but samurai class were supposed to dress differently from merchants for ex.

He dressing flashy - "nouveau rich" style. Merchant class was at the bottom of social order BUT hold in fact all financial power in Edo period. Some merchants tried to emulate samurai dress (=conservative), while others didn't hesitate to show their wealth and dictate new fashions.

He is dressy flashy - dandy style. Hanshichi is a wakamono (young) and probably fashionable man, following whatever trend he likes - a late Edo heritage of early Edo kabukimono (flashy young samurai)

#ask #The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi #Hanshichi #Kido Okamoto #edo #men kimono #historical fashion #merchant class #dandy #wakamono #kabukimono #wakamonobunka #youth culture #edo period #edo era

[abjectabsurdity]

Santa Muerte: More Thoughts

The Catholic Church rejects Santa Muerte. The Mexican government rejects Santa Muerte too. These two institutional bodies also reject the very people that worship Santa Muerte. Santa Muerte, a female depiction of death similar to the grim reaper, has become immensely popular within communities that face oppression and disenfranchisement in Mexico from the government and the Catholic Church.

Perhaps it is that Santa Muerte represents something that is abject, the dead female form, grotesque, stripped of its familiarity, and missing the feminine beauty we have pushed onto women’s bodies.  Santa Muerte, free from the constraints of Marianismo, can explore her true desires, she can be angry at the systems that have failed her; one which placed a burden on her to care for those who care not for her. Santa Muerte is scary because she is stripped of flesh, muscle, fat, and the aesthetic physical signs of beauty, and is replaced by bones. These bones could be anyone, they could be you, they could be me, or they could be the thousands of missing and murdered women that the Mexican government hardly cares enough about to investigate. Perhaps they could also be the bones of a loved one, killed on the streets, said by investigators to be a cartel member when you know that they weren’t, written off, case closed, no justice ever found. The point is that Santa Muerte, a saint of death who doesn’t bring death, can be anyone; that is her appeal. She allows worshippers to talk with her, and tell her their deepest desires and she will listen. They ask for protection, help getting justice, help with wealth, love, anything.  Santa Muerte allows communities systemically oppressed and rejected by the government and Catholic Church to take the power back into their own hands. They are the controllers of their lives, they have the ability to enact justice, and they get to talk directly with the divine unmediated by the Catholic Church. Santa Muerte is powerful because she is a woman who asserts herself, asserts her existence, and resists oppression. Santa Muerte is both beautiful and terrifying to look at. I first saw her as a child, a skeleton cloaked in white with piercing black and hollow eyes, my own mortality reflecting onto me. That is the thing about death though, we all die.  A sentiment I have seen reflected by many worshippers has been just that, “God helps the good and the devil helps the bad, but death treats everyone the same.”

#youth culture #revolution #political activism #rebellion #santa muerte #mortality #resistencia

[jstor]

Very Mod anti-smoking poster from 1966! Love the Mary Wells record on the lower left corner! This image, prepared for London's Ministry of Health by the Central Office of Information, is available in the Science Museum Group collection on JSTOR, which features nearly 50K open access images.

#mod #fab #youth culture #subculture #cool kids #1960s fashion #1960s ad #sixties #smoking #anti-smoking #consumerism #open access #research #jstor

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Looking back now, it almost seems as though everything happened at once. In a decade dominated by youth, London had burst into bloom. It was swinging, and it was the scene. The Union Jack suddenly became as ubiquitous as the black cab or the red Routemaster bus, and all became icons of the city...Quite simply, London was where it was at. Fuelled by growing prosperity, social mobility, post-war optimism and wave after wave of youthful enterprise, the city captured the imagination of the world’s media. Here was the centre of the sexual revolution – the pill had been introduced in 1961 – the musical revolution, the sartorial revolution. London was a veritable cauldron of benign revolt.

- Dylan Jones

Photo: Faye Dunaway photographed by Jean-Pierre Biot in London, 1967.

#jones #dylan jones #quote #london #swinging london #1960s #swinging sixties #society #culture #youth culture #london bus #faye dunaway #city

[popping-your-culture]

Liz, 1977 ©️Joseph Szabo

Cynthia, 1981 ©️Joseph Szabo

#b&w photography #vintage photography #photography #joseph szabo #teenagers #teenage #youth culture #1970s #1980s #back in the day

[hussyknee]

Tfw you see a listicle titled "Celebrities Who Have Aged Like Fine Wine" and two-thirds of them are between 30 and 45.

At this rate Hollywood's gonna take people who've hit 40 behind a barn and shoot them in the head like a lame horse.

#at least they treated men and women the same #society has listened to feminism and now made ageism and youth culture everybody's problem #hollywood #celebrity culture #ageism #youth culture #consumerism #beauty culture #knee of huss

[nickysfacts]

A mini skirt is always a perfect gift for people who own Mini Coopers and Mini Coopers who have become sentient!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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#history #mini skirt #fashion #mary quant #youth culture #london history #historical figures #mini cooper #king’s road #united kingdom #fashion history #coquette #girly things #barbiecore #clothing #womens history #soft girl #historical women #bimbocore #bubblegum bitch #femininity #english history #london #1960s #coquette style #dollette #clothing history #nickys facts

[bredviews]

teenage dirtbag.

#teenage dream #retro aesthetic #vintage aesthetic #street aesthetic #dream reality #aesthetic vibes #grunge aesthetic #grunge #90 aesthetic #90s kid #childhood nostalgia #inner child #childhood memories #2000s vibes #city culture #street culture #street life #nostalgia aesthetic #nostalgia core #youth culture

[scavengedluxury]

Fekete Lyuk (Black Hole), an alternative club in the basement of the Vörösmarty Cultural Centre, Budapest, 1988. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

#budapest #hungary #youth culture #sisters of mercy #the mission #1980s

[ochipi]

Useful advise from our current youth. As heard on the street;

“You have to play it smart, and if you can’t you have to get smart first and then learn how to play.”

Got it

#youth culture

[abjectabsurdity]

Justice as Care?

I spoke with my History of Death (yes) Professor today and a phrase that stood out from that conversation was "Justice as Care". I was talking her through my thesis idea which is researching Santa Muerte. I told her I think Santa Muerte is powerful because she protects her followers. She asked me, "Do you mean protection or justice?" I was slightly floored (in a good way) because I hadn't fleshed out this idea yet but I think I have now. Santa Muerte offers us a form of justice that the state simply cannot give. This justice is through acts of care which includes protection. It also includes listening and recognition of being. The state gets to decide who is worthy of being listened to and cared for, Santa Muerte lets us do this directly. I'm going to be thinking through this justice as care framework more but I wish I could talk to more Santa Muerte followers to get a better feeling of what they think as well.

#santa muerte #youth culture #political activism #political art #rebellion #revolution #resistencia #mexicana #santamuertista #revolucion

[happywebdesign]

Sarah Bassett

#Sarah Bassett #design #studio #creative #Paris #New-York #fashion #digital #youth culture #portfolio #white #typography #type #typeface #font #Helvetica Now #Caslon 540 LT #2024 #Week 15 #website #web design #inspire #inspiration #happywebdesign