Why is glamour out and sleaze in?

Question

Was a time when everything we were surrounded with was glamourized. The cars, the clothes, the women...on and on.

Today, sleaze sells.

Tell me what changed that and why.

Jane 1 gave an in depth answer that I wish I could her 100 points for.

I don't believe anyone can top it, but be my guest.

Thankyou Jane. Loved your reasoning.

Answer 1

Because in the past, everyone was OK, and everyone wanted to have more, the glamour of the fourties and fifties and everyone aspired for what was glamorous and rich.
Then the sixties revolution came, blame it on social change, rock and roll evolution or what have you, but people were looking to get different.
the seventies was getting grungy rock wise but glamour persisted through the disco era and the Halston dress.
The eighties was futuristic wannabe and bred some of the most expiramental and disasterous unflattering fasion wise that the century has known, the nineties came and everyone just settled with the fool proof jeans and a plain shirt--and bland as you can get GAP style, something that goes on till today though many have tried to change it.
They are still trying to change it and get everyone glammed up but due to the widening range of the haves and have nots, the inherent disgust of society for those who look like they are "trying too hard", it is having a hard time taking off.
Even the very rich don't want to look as rich as they really are-- that would be too easy. Paying loads for looking a bit poor is chic. --perhaps it has something to do with wealthy guilt, since most of the population of America is barely making it...... Back in the day, this would be looked at as a good thing in society, the American way. But a more Liberal mindset and a changed and perhaps more knowledgable society about the disparity of the rich and poor make society just about hate those who have loads of money and seem to do nothing all day but shop. and so Americans try to follow suit though they spend what they don't have on credit.
Not all of the rich go with this though-- case in point Scarlette Johannson who people accuse of dressing too mature for her age.
Sleaze is just cheap and easy and it can look like you might or might not have money.
Classic chic is hard because it actually requires money to pull off right. -- only those with money for the constant updating of wardrobe for trend and the classic peices that can cost a huge chunk of change can participate......

The problem is people need to know how to shop and spot value and class in the bargain bins, on clearance and sale. People seem to spend but they don't know a good value and a smart practical peice when they see one.

Answer 2

Sleazy is easy