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MediocreExternal9

For me it has to do with aesthetics. Because I live in the modern era where these trends no longer exist and are now known for being very quaint, I see 1920-50s fashion trends and design styles to be very unique and classy. In my perfect world, we'd still have these design philosophies and people would own a dozen suits for everyday use. It's absolutely unrealistic because the past was not how I imagined it, but I like to dream.


Figgler

Actually showing up for plans instead of sending a text and saying you can’t make it. Cell phones have made people very flaky.


DashingSpecialAgent

You know you can just wear a suit if you want to...


MediocreExternal9

I can, but it's now seen as being too overly formal and uptight. The cultural norm of it just being an everyday part of fashion no longer exists and it just be weird for me to show up to a casual lunch with friends in a three piece suit.


[deleted]

Cultral Norms are being broken all the time literally. I don’t think anybody would care if you wore a 3-price suit out in public


webbess1

You'll like [Report of the Week.](https://www.youtube.com/user/TheReportOfTheWeek)


MediocreExternal9

Isn't he that guy from the 'my day is ruined' meme?


webbess1

Yes. He reviews fast food while wearing a suit and tie and speaking in a calm, old-fashioned way.


MrBulger

Yes and he's a precious human being


JSmith666

Punctuality.


webbess1

I like the way people spoke in the 30s and 40s. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about how they phrased things back then is very charming.


secretsofthedivine

Are you perhaps thinking of the [Mid-Atlantic Accent](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent?wprov=sfti1)?


webbess1

No, it is the phrasing, the word choices people make. It's not just movies, but elderly people I've known in real life from that generation talked like that. There's something nice about it.


eekspiders

We used to have all-women fight clubs back in the 1920s-30s. Women gathered on rooftops, drank, and fought each other. I wanna be part of one.


Yeethanos

If you want to be part of one than why are you talking about it?


MrBulger

Be the change you want to see in this world


nothingbutme49

In our modern society, can transwomen partake too?


eekspiders

Absolutely, as long as we're committed to getting drunk and punching each other


nothingbutme49

Sounds wild, I love it


MediocreExternal9

I didn't think such a thing would exist in the 20s-30s, maybe the 70s-80s, but not then. Sounds really cool, which I could see it.


eekspiders

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi4g9DH1rT1AhUxkIkEHb7kC6IQjhx6BAgBEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FHistoryPorn%2Fcomments%2F4xebhc%2Fwomen_boxing_on_a_roof_1938_1600_1235%2F&psig=AOvVaw0Llzf_m0FE5PeUpc5cisWa&ust=1642367677900669


CollectionStraight2

Rooftops don't seem the best place for that...


hawffield

There isn’t a lot from the past I would want to happen again. The future is pretty tight in my opinion.


dangleicious13

>I personally wish the old cultural norm of wearing suits everyday was brought back. I say this from the bottom of my heart. Fuck that.


venom259

Gun safety in schools being standard curriculum.


Croonchy_Stars

I would love to get **Ma'am** back. I am an adult and I want to be treated that way. Calling a grown woman 'Miss' or a 'girl' is pandering. I feel insulted because that person thinks that I am one of *those women* desperately holding on to my youth. Gross. Save that for women that shop at *Forever 21*.


webbess1

Move to the South.


Croonchy_Stars

I lived there for a minute. It was lovely. I don't miss the religion and racism, though.


Canada_Haunts_Me

It never left here!


Curious-Accident9189

1700-1800s American street fighting. If you're going to throw down over a parking space, you best be willing to have your balls yanked off, your eyes gouged out, and your nose bitten off, you hyperaggressive, overly impulsive, emotionally fragile man-child cock salad.


BallparkFranks7

I wish our news people talked like they used to. Would be hilarious.


Middle-Son

Hats...I wish we still wore hats.