Acceptable in the 80's

Managed to catch a good history lesson on the television last night.
Andrew Marr's History of Britain on BBC2 provided a rundown of the Thatcher era in the 1980's.
It provided a fascinating account of the state of the nation at the time. Andrew Marr's conclusion at the end of the program was that we are all in some way 'Thatcher's Children'
You can read more about the programme here as i don't have the time to expand on this theory in this blog.
But i think i have to agree with him.
Over the last 10 -20 years there has been a cultural reaction to that period of time.
Since then we've had the birth of House music, Madchester, Mortgages and more home owners, privatisation, lifestyle changes, Mobile phones and plenty more. There was even a change in the advertising at the time, with products projecting a lifestyle rather than a housewife with soap suds!

The music used in the show was evocative of the time as well, with the often minimal bleak sound of Joy Division to the decadence of the new romantic sound. The social commentary of the time was telling in hindsight with Harry Enfield's "Loadsamoney" highlighting the yuppies to "Shopping" by the Pet Shop Boys talking about the boom in available credit and the increase in spending.

Anyway i even think a lot of the fashion and music these days is harking back to the 80's

I'm showing my age now, so here endeth the lesson.