The 1970s would have been gross for older generations

Although it was much easier to get laid in the seventies than the eighties.

Based on what my parents told me about that time period (dad was in high school and college, mom was a college student and then starting her career), most people were not smelly hippies. While it's true more people grew their hair out, and bohemian styles started becoming more popular, most people were normal, everyday types. Suits and modest dresses were still worn, just not the same styles as the 60s.

In fact, mom told me the only real hippies were a small group of college students on the west coast that made a big stink (both literally and figuratively) during the 60s and 70s in between pot smoking sessions. Most hippies were seen as a source of either irritation or humor for the rest of society. Many gave up the lifestyle after it stopped being popular and ended up going back to normal jobs, or even becoming college professors and politicians. Others died of drug overdose or stupidity as a result of drug/alcohol abuse.

You want gross? You should have seen what happened to the African American community during that era. Afros out the yin-yang! Not to mention there was this ridiculous "back to Africa" movement started by black people who had never actually gone to Africa and knew nothing of the cultures over there. They just made up shit like Kwanzaa and their fellow homies fell for it. I can't imagine how their parents and grandparents felt about all that.

I don’t mind women dressing provocatively but they have no right to get pissed when men look at them for it.

Original hippies in the 40s. Palm Springs hermit in 1917!

http://www.cultie.com/published/2017/1/14/the-nature-boys-1940s-hippie-predecessors

Hippies weren't noticed until the San Francisco infestation of the late 60s and Woodstock in 1969.

Are you sure you can say people in the 80s 'dressed good'?

You have confused the sixties and the seventies. The stanky hippies were a 1960s thing, by the early seventies hippie culture had fallen out of fashion, and Disco culture was in! And Disco culture was all about flashy dressing and looking cool, and being well-groomed enough to get laid, and drugs.

By the late 1970s fashion had veered towards sophistication, as typified by the elegant minimalism of Halston.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/be/cd/71/becd71f6373d108f51a255b64267a361.jpg

Like you said, the 1980s corrected this, and it continued through the 1990s. Sad to say we have reverted back to the slovenly look. Just look at how people appear in public today.

Are you taking this image from reality or Hollywood?

Not everyone in the 70s was a dirty smelly dirty hippie.

There's always people who take care of their appearance in every decade.

Personally I rocked the gold eagle necklace, velour shirt and Old Spice. And yet I still stinky and hairy.