Anachronism and nitpicking

[Zephyr]

All right, I hate to be "that person", but it bothers me a bit.

I've seen a bunch of characters wearing suits and fedoras, including women in particular, and as someone who was old enough to having lived the fall of the wall of Berlin as a kid, I can safely say that in 83, almost no one wore fedoras and suits anymore, and women even less, as it was very much not an admitted attire for women. We were on the tail end of the 70s, with the kind of fashion of those years still around, and transitioning toward a more polished fashion, with leather jacket/vests, and jeans becoming more mainstream. The end life of suits and fedoras was pretty much the 60s, which were the glory days of the cold war, but the 50s also had them. Even back then, it was very much more an american thing than it was widely spreaded in Europe(and even less in asia).

I can pass that as part of the rule of cool, because let's face it, that kind of outfit carries a certain mystique to it, but it's still an anachronism.

To put things in perspective, for the youngest ones among you: Michael Jackson's album "Bad" came out in 82. See the kind of clothes people wore in the clips of the related songs, and despite the fact a bunch of them were very much exaggerated, you get a rough idea of what was worn at the time, at least in some communities. Or see what the people in Rick Ashley's clips wore, if that's more your alley. Or the people in the Take on Me song. You probably at least saw that one once. Yes, those horrible turtlenecks sweaters were pretty much the norm for a lot of women.

It strikes me as strange this mistake was made as the vehicles are pretty accurate to the time period(those horrible blocky boxes which were called vans were around among the worker force, and yes the bottom of them tended to catch rust quite often giving them an even uglier appearance).