According to The Library of Congress, “pop culture is cultural aspects of social life distinguished by their broad-based presence across ethnic, social, and regional groupings.” Mass Media, along with the different styles, languages and transportation, can be defined as pop culture. The idea of pop culture has been very familiar with every generation since the 1960s. Pop culture made a big impact on everyday life for all children and even adults. Pop culture was common in the 1970s, specifically in the areas of fashion, hairstyles, and toys.
The 1970s started out as a colorful decade. Women and men wore a variety of bright colors. When it came to clothing, women liked cowl neck sweaters and men liked V-neck velour shirts. People wore tight …show more content…
Women wore their hair long with a center part. The stars of Charlie’s Angels soon brought the wavy “gypsy” cut, the layered shag and the “flicked” style to popularity, for women. According to the Hair and Makeup Handbook, “The shag is a unisex, no frills cut that involved evenly-progressing layers with graduated sides and a full fringe.” Blonde streaks in a woman’s hair became very popular along with the frost look. The hairstyles for women started to change in the late 1970s to shorter hair and no center parts. Young men wore their hair long and styled it with soft layers, such as the surfer hairstyle. Afros were also a very popular hairstyle for both sexes throughout the 1970s. Cornrows started becoming popular due to the Black Pride movement. The hairstyles within the 1970s really took part in showing a person’s personality and how much he or she really cared about another person’s …show more content…
Toy vehicles, board games and dolls were all part of the new toy fad. Toy vehicles consisted of the popular Hot Wheels cars that also came along with race tracks. Dump trucks were made into toys that looked as if they were real. Board games were popular in the 1970s, most of which could be labeled as problem solving. The Game of Life and the Game of risk were two board games that could teach a person how to strategize. A few more board games that were in this decade were: Hungry Hungry Hippos, Connect Four and Backgammon which are all still seen in today’s society. The dolls that started out in the early 1970s were called Barbie dolls. Barbie dolls were able to move with life like poses and could talk. They also had a Chatty Cathy which was a baby doll that could talk, whisper and sing nine different thing every time someone would pull the ring on her back. Doll strollers and carriages were a great toy to have with a baby doll because a child was then able to be more active while playing with
The 1970s started out as a colorful decade. Women and men wore a variety of bright colors. When it came to clothing, women liked cowl neck sweaters and men liked V-neck velour shirts. People wore tight …show more content…
Women wore their hair long with a center part. The stars of Charlie’s Angels soon brought the wavy “gypsy” cut, the layered shag and the “flicked” style to popularity, for women. According to the Hair and Makeup Handbook, “The shag is a unisex, no frills cut that involved evenly-progressing layers with graduated sides and a full fringe.” Blonde streaks in a woman’s hair became very popular along with the frost look. The hairstyles for women started to change in the late 1970s to shorter hair and no center parts. Young men wore their hair long and styled it with soft layers, such as the surfer hairstyle. Afros were also a very popular hairstyle for both sexes throughout the 1970s. Cornrows started becoming popular due to the Black Pride movement. The hairstyles within the 1970s really took part in showing a person’s personality and how much he or she really cared about another person’s …show more content…
Toy vehicles, board games and dolls were all part of the new toy fad. Toy vehicles consisted of the popular Hot Wheels cars that also came along with race tracks. Dump trucks were made into toys that looked as if they were real. Board games were popular in the 1970s, most of which could be labeled as problem solving. The Game of Life and the Game of risk were two board games that could teach a person how to strategize. A few more board games that were in this decade were: Hungry Hungry Hippos, Connect Four and Backgammon which are all still seen in today’s society. The dolls that started out in the early 1970s were called Barbie dolls. Barbie dolls were able to move with life like poses and could talk. They also had a Chatty Cathy which was a baby doll that could talk, whisper and sing nine different thing every time someone would pull the ring on her back. Doll strollers and carriages were a great toy to have with a baby doll because a child was then able to be more active while playing with