Croak couture
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As a guy who grew up in the 70s - this looks perfect. I'll take it
Just roll in some labatts stubbies and shitty weed oil in a beer cap and we're locked in for life
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In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.
And they liked that.
It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.
I don't know, seems like every era has it's own overwhelming monotonic style. There was the mint green of the '50s. Harvest Gold of the '70s. Shitty pastels of the '90s. Living in a white box is extremely popular now.
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I remember the wood paneling from when I was a wee lad.
Remember how it smelled?
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It’s more than that. Those colors were chosen to hide the ever-present, persistent glaze of nicotine stain over everything. There were no white walls back then, only shades of “cream”, “ecru”, and “off-white” because no shade of true white could exist in that persistent haze of cigarette smoke.
If you ever took over a house from the 70s you’d note the amber brown drips down the kitchen wall after making spaghetti or heating a tradition tea kettle on the stove. Or after a shower in the bathroom. Scrubbing, priming, and painting would help, and then you’d make another pot of spaghetti and see another amber sludge nicotine drip from somewhere on that wall.
To this day I cannot abide beige, any rendition of off-white, or pale yellow. They’re all shades on the nicotine glaze color palette.
I was sitting outside the smoking room of a Japanese airport reading your comment, and it definitely looked like the 70's in there.
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I don't know, seems like every era has it's own overwhelming monotonic style. There was the mint green of the '50s. Harvest Gold of the '70s. Shitty pastels of the '90s. Living in a white box is extremely popular now.
Fuck I can't stand living in a white box, but can't get away from it
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Remember how it smelled?
No, but my dad was a smoker and I remember how the air smelled in the new place later. He worked constantly though, so it didn't really stick the same way as the amount going into the air was small.