A 1971 Sears Catalog from an estate sale

[SoCalDem]

This lady created a wonderfully fun website from that catalog's offerings :)

Enjoy :)


http://www.aperfectworld.org/sears.htm

[Heidi]

1. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, my gosh.

I actually _owned_ the dress on the top right here. I dunno why I thought it was a cowgirl dress; maybe because I was only eight years old? My granny was a huge fan of Sears, and every year my sister and I got Sears dresses for Christmas. :scared:

[Archae]

2. I have a 1970 JC Penney Christmas catalog.

Lots of fun looking at the wild fashions and toys.

[Bluebear]

3. Ah, new inspirations for Laura Bush's fashions.

[Oeditpus Rex]

4. I think these guys need separate dressing rooms

And this is just bizarre. At whose home? The Partridge Family's? :scared:

[murielm99]

9. Something is wrong with

her feet. The largest woman in the picture, on the right, has two different feet. I think one of her feet belongs to the woman on the top left.

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

24. Apparently she only has one leg..

:rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

14. Those were called hostess outfits, and women would wear them

when they had people over for brunch.

I'm not making this up.

[OzarkDem]

36. Oh, yeah

My mom had a couple of those. She wore them when they had the neighbors over for cocktails, too.

[SoCalDem]

38. Remember Palazzo pants :)

I had a pair of white ones.. took them on a cruise & dumped shrimp cocktail sauce in my lap:(

but that "miracle fabric" released that stain,even after being in my suitcase for a week :)

[lildreamer316]

5. I have now been perusing this for an hour...

laughing my ass off.
Oh, and remembering that my parents had some of the boxes featured in "Americana". Yetch.

On edit:I have now found WAAAAAAAAAAAAY too many things I remember in person. Including some of the multi-striped rugs.
My mother had NO taste!

[lildreamer316]

6. "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" !!!!

I LOVE this woman!!:rofl:

(look under "Bedding")

[gr8dane_daddy]

7. Can you imagine how bad you'd get your ass kicked...

for wearing this to school today?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. In 1971, you would have gotten your ass kicked for NOT dressing like this

:-)

[Generic Brad]

27. I had shirt #3 and my brother had shirt #4

We wore uniforms to school. But not to worry, I still got my ass kicked by my brother when I wore that shirt. Actually he kicked my ass regardless of what I wore. Fewer things are worse than having a husky sized kid dressed like a bumblebee beating the crap out of you.

[Deja Q]

8. I shouldn't be laughing...

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Of course, now I understand why they got burned...

[undeterred]

17. That's a sight that would frighten hungry children!

[Deja Q]

25. Or tittilate rather older children...

:evilgrin:

[madrchsod]

10. love the not so politically correct "chubby girls"

i collect old magazines and equally as bad-better homes and gardens from the 70`s. the 70`s were just about the worst fashion and decorating era ever

[NMDemDist2]

11. OMG I still own the pattern # 14 on this page-- I have the serving platter still

http://www.aperfectworld.org/page_fiftyfour.htm

:blush:

[SoCalDem]

19. Alas, we too used a "card table" for fine dining for a long time

and a "book shelf" that was made from stacked bricks & planks of wood.. (We married in March of '70, and were quite poor those days)

I never liked Sears clothing, but we had lots of those household items...

The prices in that catalog are something else too..

a side note:

I gave 2 of my sons a collection (had to buy it online) of Life magazines from the year of their births '73 & '78, and they were stunned to see that a Brand New 1979 Ford Fairmont cost $4576.00...

The funny thing is that we subscribed to those magazines and saved some for years, before finally parting with them, and now I paid almost $300.00 to "buy back" about 10 of them :eyes:

[pintobean]

12. Thanks for the laughs.

Were we messed up, or what?

[Pool Hall Ace]

13. Oh wow, Mom used to take me to the Lemon Frog shop.

I don't recall my clothes being that hideous, but they probably were! :rofl:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

16. I worked for Sears for two summers, including the summers of

1970 and 1971. I remember a knit pants suit that looked as if it was made out of chenille, and all of us high school and college students loved it and wanted to buy it, but it was rather expensive.

[undeterred]

18. I would have been begging to order these:

[OzarkDem]

37. I think I had the dress on the left

my sister had the dress next to it.

The "peasant" look w/ dark hose was so "in".

[otherlander]

20. OMG.... the Sally and Susy story...

That's so fucking horrible. :rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

21. Sally and Susie... the love story.

:rofl:

[Kerrytravelers]

22. Nothing says class and taste like inflatable furniture.

But I did have a brown beanbag chair for about 15 years!

[AwakeAtLast]

23. MY EYES! MY EYES! Please make it stop!

[Reverend_Smitty]

26. I want a pair of "instant boots"

because I'm poor and all I can afford are these vinyl socks :rofl: I am so glad I wasn't born until the mid 80's!!!

[Bunny]

28. It's a shame women don't wear these much anymore:

I could really use one! :rofl:

[SoCalDem]

29. I'd need a helper (sworn to secrecy) to help me INTO one

and i would probably suffocate , and have to cut myself out of it soon afterwards :rofl:

It always amused me to see these women smiling..

[TheMightyFavog]

30. We never see colors like this anymore...

Might it have something to do with the cessation of the manufacture of quaaludes?

[bluethruandthru]

31. I can't remember the last time I laughed this much!

The Put-On Shop story took off the last of my mascara! It's now run down my face!

[SoCalDem]

32. Whoever that woman is, I have a feeling she'd feel at home here at DU

or maybe start a career as a comedy writer :)

I laughed outloud all evening when I found the site..

[Texasgal]

33. Behold!

The green toilet! :scared:

[momophile]

34. so that's where my husband's furniture came from

the 70s!!!

and I'm slowly getting rid of it all!!! Haaaahaaaaahaaaaaaaaa!:evilgrin:

[valerief]

35. Thanks. This site was a lot of fun. nt