{"id":1271,"date":"2015-08-01T12:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T18:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2015-08-01T12:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T18:21:37","slug":"its-all-rather-amusing-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"It’s all rather amusing, really"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m watching a documentary I recorded on Turner Classic Movies<\/a>, titled God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s a short documentary of the first Los Angeles love-in, which took place on Easter Sunday, 1967. No narration or dialogue, just film footage with a musical track. Lots of people with flowers, although overall the crowd was smaller than I would have anticipated. Given that it was only two years after the Watts riots<\/a>, it’s interesting that there’s no apparent racial tension.<\/p>\n

What struck me most, though, was how people were dressed. I wasn’t surprised by the men in casual clothes, tunics, and even loincloths, the women in everything from strategically-tied scarves and diaphanous nothings to maxi-skirts and minidresses, and children in what looked like serapes made from throw rugs. What I didn’t expect were the men wearing ties – I’d forgotten that there was still a fair amount of formality in dress back then, even in the counterculture. I kind of miss that look.<\/p>\n

Something I didn’t see in the film were people who were fat. Overall, people didn’t weigh as much back then<\/a>, and it shows when you see something like this.<\/p>\n

It also shows when I look the mirror, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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