Here you go:
"The Evolution of the Guido" It's actually kind of true.....
these days most "guidos" are not Italian. I'd say maybe one out of every 10 stereotypical "guidos" is of Italian-American descent. The rest are Albanian, Russian, Persian, and whatever else.
After Fonzie I'd say the torch was passed to the Vinnie Barbarino character from Welcome Back, Kotter who John Travolta would somewhat reprise and perfect in Saturday Night Fever as the legendary Tony Manero. And I'd say Tony Manero was the last of the true guidos.
Saturday Night Fever put a period on the 70's disco era, it also laid out the blueprint for the true late 70's into 1980's guido. This was when guidos were still actually Italian, unlike today. Then it was the wife beater, gold chains, chest hair, pompadours, Camaros, etc. Some had leather jackets, unbuttoned dress shirts with white tank underneath, and dress suits. Oh, and they all still lived with their parents. That's key. This is when being guido still meant something, like being punk, it stood for something, it had depth and meaning and rules.
Sweat and tracksuits would come later when the guidos started emulating their mafia heroes. I've never met an actual gangster I'd consider a guido. Gangsters are not guidos and guidos are not gangsters, though they very much wish they were.
I guess the evolution of the guido is rather short for we're just about ready for the modern day guido. The tracksuits, the white sneakers, the headbands, the awful lobster tanning salon tan, the wolverine hair, etc.
The following line is funny....
I never realised this phenomenon until a good friend of mine from Atlanta moved to Brooklyn. He had never seen a guido before! We tried to tell him about them but he just didn't understand.
The old time guidos might have been a bit annoying, but they were tolerable. That's when they were Italian.
The site didn't mention that many of today's guidos also incorporate "wigga" characteristics into their guidoness. That is something an old school Italian guido would never do.