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Post by beccabear67 on May 12, 2019 13:12:39 GMT -5
I still can't stand '80s fashion but I do like '60s-'70s within reason. There was some weird mens' fashions in the early '70s though with those super wide pointed lapels and polyester pant suits with wide belts and stuff. Yikes. I remember my Dad even had some kind of hair spray called The Dry Look. I liked all the sideburns though.  I remember my Mom using those really chunky plastic false eyelashes that were stick-on, there was an applicator mechanism, and nylons came in plastic eggs (as a little kid if you got a metallic silver one you were thinking you'd scored, but I can't remember what the heck we did with them before Mork & Mindy arrived, how do you play with over-sided eggs that come apart?) Other '70s memories are some kind of strawberry and green apple scented shampoos, probably why bees hung around me, curling irons that used butane like a lighter and could burn you, platform shoes even for kids, and zipper pulls that were a big loop. |
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Post by codystarbuck on May 12, 2019 22:28:23 GMT -5
The 80s weren't so bad; Izod polo shirts (and polo shirts, in general), button-down oxford shirts, chinos, cam pants. All were fine. I liked the Members Only jacket style. Never cared for the Don Johnson look; but, Phillip Michael Thomas and Edward James Olmos always looked stylish, on Miami Vice.
Definitely preferred the shorter 80s hair styles to the 70s.
The 70s were a nightmare, for me, since I didn't get to pick my own clothes. I just wanted to wear blue jeans and t-shirts; but, couldn't do that until I was buying my own clothes, in high school. Guess what I wear, mostly, now, when not working?
The one advantage the 70s had, for me, in terms of attire, was that I didn't have to wear glasses, yet.
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Post by berkley on May 16, 2019 22:17:02 GMT -5
Ah, the 70s: when comic book artists dressed and looked like the coolest rock band you never heard:  Well, some of them, at least. OK, just these guys, probably. |
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Post by Graphic Autist on May 24, 2019 17:12:04 GMT -5
Mary Jane Watson rocking some big bells.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2019 6:48:12 GMT -5
Now here is some quintessential 70s stylings...  why can't stuff like this come back into fashion...?  -M |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 11, 2019 20:14:29 GMT -5
Now here is some quintessential 70s stylings... why can't stuff like this come back into fashion...? -M Noise abatement laws? |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 11, 2019 20:16:32 GMT -5
^^.........Charles Nelson Riley would have been embarrassed to be seen in that!  |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 11, 2019 20:18:08 GMT -5
ps ^^......Charles looks like Popeye's uncle, that no one in the family talks about. (well, you know, in that era).
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Post by brutalis on Jun 12, 2019 7:43:56 GMT -5
ps ^^......Charles looks like Popeye's uncle, that no one in the family talks about. (well, you know, in that era). You mean the uncle everyone kept locked in the closet only letting him out for the Saturday night club hopping because he had all the dirt/dish on folks and could get you in? And at least the 70's had some flair and individuality speaking to the individual. Many of today's vehicles, clothing, homes and such all have too much generic sameness to them. |
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 12, 2019 11:11:38 GMT -5
ps ^^......Charles looks like Popeye's uncle, that no one in the family talks about. (well, you know, in that era). You mean the uncle everyone kept locked in the closet only letting him out for the Saturday night club hopping because he had all the dirt/dish on folks and could get you in? And at least the 70's had some flair and individuality speaking to the individual. Many of today's vehicles, clothing, homes and such all have too much generic sameness to them. Corporatization. All the business mergers and such just led to cookie cutter everything. Look at music. When the rules preventing media monopolies were in force, radio stations had individuality and most were still self-programmed. That often meant you could get a wider spectrum of music on a particular station. I grew up in a smaller market, so it was usually top 40 stuff; but, you used to get more crossovers between the pop charts and others, like Kenny Rogers or Dolly Parton appearing on the Country and Pop charts, or various R&B acts on both. I might hear the Carpenters and ELO on the station my parents tuned in. The Reagan Administration killed those rules, which immediately led to buying sprees and complete monopolies in many markets, with the same homogenized format at every station owned by the conglomerate. I can drive across country and will get the same play lists and same formats in any region. Record companies weren't any better. They were all gobbled up by media conglomerates and no one would take a chance on someone with a different sound. The internet, at least, provided an alternate route there. Fashion was no different. Used to be, you had unique labels at different department stores and they were truly unique. Now, they all carry the same brands or their version of said brand. In many cases, the store brand is the same thing, just manufactured with a different label on it, like many generic food products. The 70s is a bit of a unique decade, as far as that stuff goes. There was a real feeling of "live for today," for a while and personal expression and excess was a big part of it. I liken it to the Roaring 20s, which had the same thing. You had a generation that followed a horrific period and just went nuts, before they were sobered up. There is a lot of that in the 70s, after Vietnam, Watergate, and the various assassinations. 1968 was a tumultuous year across the globe; and the 70s were a big decade of change in many regions. The 80s seemed to be a reaction to that, in some ways (though the excess was channeled into other forms). |
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