The 80's

In the 1980’s many things occurred the Cold War ended, Basketball rose to fame, a cinematic Renaissance, and a plethora of other things. This lead to neon clothing, Basketball, many movies such as star wars becoming a cool trend. The first trend that occurred during the 1980’s was the emergence of hockey and winter sports, which was due to the Olympics in 1980 where the United States of America defeated the Soviet Union this lead to a lot of people purchasing hockey gear in the northern areas of America as well more people learning how to ski and snowboard. Also since the Cold War ended many people were now upbeat and happy, which resulted in many clothing changes due to the happiness. Many people started wearing neon in addition to many other bright colors. During this decade a plethora fantasy movies were created and were quite popular such as the last two Star Wars Movies, Friday the 13^th, Back to the Future, and the Terminator. Lastly the emergence of Basketball occurred, due to the famous Basketball player Michael Jordan which also contributed of the fashion trend of Jordan shoes. As you can world events and technology advancements have a drastic effect without the technological advancement in filming Star Wars and many other high production films would have not been created thus not being cool. As well, without the Olympics hockey would not have been as mainstream and popular, since before the Olympics it was not that popular. As one can see world events and technological advancements are crucial to what people perceive as cool. Without these factors, none of these things would be considered cool.

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