Sunday, August 31, 2008

Retro surf style / 1960's TV Batman

If you can make it through the following 234 seconds of 1967 broadcast television, the rest of this post will make a lot more sense:


It's the old Batman TV show, wherein Batman and the Joker have a surf contest to see which of them is...I donno, king of the beach? To see which is king of the beach. There's big waves and sharks and all manner of wild behavior. Still, it's a far cry from the 2008 Heath Ledger/Christian Bale version in which the Joker takes lives with razors and pencils. But whatever, people change.

What's interesting about the TV clip is the people watching from the beach. What are they wearing exactly? The sort of brightly colored, wayfarer-inspired frames currently getting churned out by the likes of Sabre Vision. Tight t-shirts, just like...everyone. Tight pants. I think the Joker's even rocking Zinka.

I guess this means that 
1) style goes full circle or
2) we all look like idiots. 
I suspect #2. More on this as it develops.

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