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The decade that tried disco, lost, and gave us therapy instead.
means The decade spanning years ending in a particular numeral-ten set — most commonly used for the 1970s, the ten years following 1969.
from Simply 'seventy' plus the plural suffix '-ies', the same pattern that gives us 'eighties' and 'nineties' — 'seventy' itself traces back through Old English 'hundseofontig' to Germanic roots meaning 'seven tens.' No myth here, just arithmetic wearing bell-bottoms.
- color palette
- avocado and burnt orange, inexplicably simultaneous
- economic mood
- stagflation made everyone poorer and more philosophical
- fashion legacy
- bell bottoms, worn unironically, once
- cultural output
- birthed punk as revenge against its own excess