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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:31:52 AM EDT
 1970s Fashion Fads! |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:41:21 AM EDT
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I remember total losers wearing an effection called "Leisure Suit,"(polyester), usually lime green with white plastic shoes and belts. They were often seen in the lounges of Holiday or Ramada Inns requesting "Big Wheels" (Proud Mary) from the in house band. In my experience, the ladies preferred O.D. green.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:41:27 AM EDT
[#2]
Two words: Tube tops.
You're welcome. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:41:50 AM EDT
[#3]
It was awful.
Everything itched, or was stiff, or heavy, or plastic. Textiles and materials have come a loooong way. The old denim was much tougher and lasted longer. In my old age OI prefer the stretchy non-denim. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:45:30 AM EDT
[#4]
I do remember my attraction to hot pants and
Those were still popular in 1974 when I entered high school. The daisy duke shorts, a tube top, and a button down shirt over the top. I should find my old photos. 
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:45:34 AM EDT
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It was possible for the average man to collect and wear fine art. My favorite was the polyester shirt printed with The Rape of the Sabines. It was hot when it was hot, and it was cold when it was cold. But it looked cool.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:46:12 AM EDT
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I still wear one of my blue leisure suits for special occasions. Normally for things like jury duty.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:47:40 AM EDT
[#7]
*AMC, Converse, and corduroy have entered the chat*
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:49:03 AM EDT
[#8]
Much of the fashions you see are "high fashion" stuff representative of the club clothing worn in the discos of NYC and LA, not something your mom would wear to the PTA meeting.
Like in 20 years claiming this was common fashion. 
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:51:54 AM EDT
[#9]
Denim jeans was tougher and more stiff
You got holes in your jeans from work and playing rough |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:52:03 AM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: *AMC, Converse, and corduroy have entered the chat* Dad commuted in an flat mint green AMC Comet for a bit, and my first(only) speeding ticket was in a canary shit yellow, bubble trunk with simulated wood panel Pacer. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:55:25 AM EDT
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I wore a maroon jacket and PLAID polyester pants to my senior prom. I'll look for a pic I have stashed away somewhere. U-G-L-Y. And I needed a damn haircut.
At least there were no platform shoes. Those came later. 
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:56:03 AM EDT
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Tube tops,halter tops and hot pants were some of Mankind’s greatest inventions.Easy on-easy off.
I definitely remember wearing corduroy Levi’s in high school along with button up polyester shirts with wild prints. Class of ‘79. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 9:59:46 AM EDT
[#13]
You never forget the sound of someone walking in corduroy pants.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:03:15 AM EDT
[#14]
Powder blue tuxedos
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:07:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: You never forget the sound of someone walking in corduroy pants. You're right. Hot chicks walking by in tight corduroy pants had that come hither sound to them. Let's not forget the other things that weren't so great, like pant suits. In cold weather, (I grew up in the midwest) you would walk into a room full of women, and they are all wearing pant suits. If you didn't watch out you could end up with a polyester rash. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:07:41 AM EDT
[#16]
butterfly collars were a thing, class of 79 representing
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:10:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Two words: Tube tops. You're welcome. Which couldn't hold a candle to halter tops. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:12:30 AM EDT
[#18]
Hideous stuff to force on a child to wear. The 80s didn’t come fast enough to get decent fashion. I hate bell bottom jeans, and bell bottoms in general.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:14:17 AM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember total losers wearing an effection called "Leisure Suit,"(polyester), usually lime green with white plastic shoes and belts. They were often seen in the lounges of Holiday or Ramada Inns requesting "Big Wheels" (Proud Mary) from the in house band. In my experience, the ladies preferred O.D. green. Sounds like Hyundai techs in the late 90s... |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:16:47 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Which couldn't hold a candle to halter tops. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Two words: Tube tops. You're welcome. Which couldn't hold a candle to halter tops.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:18:10 AM EDT
[#21]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Two words: Tube tops. You're welcome. They were the best. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:19:39 AM EDT
[#22]
I owned a pair of Earth Shoes.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:22:42 AM EDT
[#23]
Toughskin jeans
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:27:24 AM EDT
[#24]
Ditto Jeans and tube tops…??
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Posted: 12/14/2023 10:43:58 AM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Two words: Tube tops. You're welcome. They young ones will never understand the glory of a thin white tube top on a buxom high school girl. 
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:03:08 AM EDT
[#26]
I was born in 73. Looking back on it, I was a Tall, Chubby, Pale Skinned, awkward Ginger till my early to mid teens.
I hated pretty much everything to do with the 70s (especially the clothes and shoes) except maybe the 72 Split Bumper Camaro.. For various reasons I think the 80/90s were my favorite decades so far. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:07:16 AM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They young ones will never understand the glory of a thin white tube top on a buxom high school girl. Exactly Even a little B cup looked pretty good in a tube top and oh my Lord if they had a set of D’s!!!! |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:07:27 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Two words: Tube tops. You're welcome. With hip hugger jeans. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:10:55 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Powder blue tuxedos That is what I wore to my Jr. Prom in 1972. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:15:01 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I remember total losers wearing an effection called "Leisure Suit,"(polyester), usually lime green with white plastic shoes and belts. They were often seen in the lounges of Holiday or Ramada Inns requesting "Big Wheels" (Proud Mary) from the in house band. In my experience, the ladies preferred O.D. green.  My parents set me up with one, and I wore it to my senior awards ceremony in HS. A light blue. I was sitting with my track friends who were all giving me crap for wearing it just to go pick up my track award. Heh. The principal started making some big deal about a scholarship and read the whole damned letter. "Do I look okay? This is me." "Shut the fuck up, vim." He announced my name and I stood up. Stylin' in my leisure suit. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:16:15 AM EDT
[#31]
When we were moving my mom into assisted living and selling her house, I found my old shoes in the back of the closet on a shelf. How the F did I walk in those things? If it was around in the 70's, I'm sure I wore it at one time or another.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:18:22 AM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You never forget the sound of someone walking in corduroy pants. Yep. Whisky britches. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:20:31 AM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Ditto Jeans and tube tops  |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:22:49 AM EDT
[#34]
Me: Vans, Levi's and concert T-shirts.
Her: Draw string pants (or Dittos or Chemin De Fer or Levi's), tube tops, her dad's flannel shirts tied off at the bottom, sandals. I had a high school teacher (1977) who used to wear Dittos and tube tops to work. The principal made her wear a sweater or a shirt over the tube top. She was 23 and had graduated from UCLA in 1976. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:23:25 AM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: When we were moving my mom into assisted living and selling her house, I found my old shoes in the back of the closet on a shelf. How the F did I walk in those things? If it was around in the 70's, I'm sure I wore it at one time or another. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/220676/platform_shoes_smaller_jpg-3059164.JPG With your bellbottoms and tube top ..
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:27:53 AM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Powder blue tuxedos My prom tux. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:31:34 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:37:23 AM EDT
[#38]
T shirts, blue jeans, Converse or Puma shoes. In colder months, what were called, "waffle stomper" boots, flannel shirts, and goose down jackets.
I wore a polyester shirt with big collar for my school picture one time because my mother insisted. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:44:57 AM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I do remember my attraction to hot pants and Those were still popular in 1974 when I entered high school. The daisy duke shorts, a tube top, and a button down shirt over the top. I should find my old photos. Not quite sure I want to see you in daisy dukes and tube top…. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:48:55 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Two words: Tube tops. You're welcome. Saw the thread title and came to post this. They were glorious on the right woman. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:53:44 AM EDT
[#41]
I just want the lack of fatties back.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 11:59:25 AM EDT
[#42]
I was only 6 in 1980 but we were poor so all my clothes came from goodwill and I wore 70's styles until about '85.
Wasn't too terrible, converse, toughskins and a T most of the time. I wore corduroy and plaid, church clothes were the worst. By the time I started really noticing girls they all had big hair and stretch pants. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:04:28 PM EDT
[#43]
I was just a kid in the 70's, but still had a brown polyester suit and we had pictures taken at Olan Mills.
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:05:42 PM EDT
[#44]
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:07:14 PM EDT
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I owned a pair of Earth Shoes. Same here
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:27:59 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Denim jeans was tougher and more stiff You got holes in your jeans from work and playing rough And then there was the abomination of "denim" jeans known as Sears toughskins. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:31:31 PM EDT
[#47]
Tube Tops Hot Pants and Camel Toe
You guys today are missing the show!
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:32:21 PM EDT
[#48]
I was born in 65 and got stuck with my older brothers hand me downs, so I had a few pairs of bell bottom jeans and a couple of 60's big collar shirts. One had peace signs, ecology logos, and the Woodstock logo on it. I wore it once, for our 80's "Let it be in 83" class spirit day with some bell bottoms and mirrored shades.
My oldest brother used to piss his daughter off in the 90's when she'd show off some new fashion trend and he'd say "Yeah, we used to wear that when we were young." She'd get mad and say "No you didn't, it's new!!" Bell bottoms, belts with multiple rows of holes and 2 or 3 prongs on the buckle for the holes, all rehashed again. A woman I dated in the early 90's was really in to name brand stuff, and got mad at me when she was showing me some "Marithe & Francois Girbaud" shirt she liked, and I jokingly pronounced it as "Mureethe & Frankoys Gerbod." Evidently it wasn't good to mock her beloved brands. |
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:36:00 PM EDT
[#49]
yeah some of the family pics from back then are pretty laughable
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Posted: 12/14/2023 12:36:15 PM EDT
[#50]
I've got news for ya. We're ALL aging.
Yeah, I used to be with ‘it’, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now what I’m with isn’t ‘it’ anymore and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary. It’ll happen to you! |
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