I don't think this is correct at all. 'Retro' of one kind or another has been the primary focus of mainstream fashion as far back as the 70s. Since the early 20

I don't think this is correct at all. 'Retro' of one kind or another has been the primary focus of mainstream fashion as far back as the 70s. Since the early 2000s retro become so ubiquitous that it's essentially invisible. All mainstream, big brand high street fashion is currently remixed 80s and 90s styles and colours. It's not that you can't distinguish whats being worn now - it's more that it's a slight variation on what was being worn then. But it's objectively true that you could walk down the street wearing contemporary high street fashion in even the mid 1980 not seem wildly out of place. By contrast, if you wore high street fashions of the late 1970s in the early 1960s, and so on, your outfit by contrast would seem outré and theatrical - perhaps even shocking, depending on the decade and the prevailing norms for concealing the female body.