What the fuck was up with fashion in the 70s?

[TheMightyFavog]

From a 1975 JC Penny Catalog:



These guys look like pimps from 70s Blaxploitation films!

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Disco

Evil, evil shit. x(

[skyblue]

13. Yes but reruns of Soul Train always make me happy.

[Arkansas Granny]

25. Yep, it was disco, but they looked so good on the dance floor.

;-)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Except Travolta Looked Cool

eom

[regnaD kciN]

2. The same thing that was up in the '50s, '60s...

...and '80s, '90s, and nowadays, too.

Every "trendy" style will look ridiculous two or three decades down the road.

[Awsi Dooger]

6. Agreed

IMO the current men's hairstyles already look ridiculous. Let's see, an eighth of an inch across the board, yep that's creative. People will laugh like hell at that in 20 years.

[Bunny]

3. What's the problem?

:shrug:












:P

[WCGreen]

4. OMG, it;s the lost three Village People....

[krispos42]

5. Ahhhh! My eyes!

"There we were in the middle of a sexual revolution wearing clothes that guaranteed we wouldn't get laid!"





No wonder people back then didn't care if the Pinto went up in flames... their clothes were just as dangerous!

[Omphaloskepsis]

7. The dude on the right looks like my dad..

when he was alive.. I'm sure he looks different now.

[zabet]

30. .....

"when he was alive.. I'm sure he looks different now."
:wow:
:spank:

[deucemagnet]

8. How many polyesters had to die to make those clothes?

:cry:

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. Wow! The Huggy Bear look!

:rofl: :yoiks: Yeah, I definitely remember that shit. I'm glad as HELL that it's gone! :P

BTW, I grew up in Atlanta, and in the 70s, I actually saw men walking in downtown Atlanta wearing shit like that. :rofl: :puke: They were some baaaaddd muthafuckas....

[deucemagnet]

10. Shut cho mouth!

Shaft!

Who's the black private dick
That's a sex machine to all the chicks?
(Shaft!)
You're damn right

Who is the man
That would risk his neck for his brother man?
(Shaft!)
Can ya dig it?

Who's the cat that won't cop out
When there's danger all about
(Shaft!)
Right on

You see this cat Shaft is a bad mother--
(Shut your mouth)
But I'm talkin' about Shaft
(Then we can dig it)

He's a complicated man
But no one understands him but his woman
(John Shaft)

[DarkTirade]

11. No worse than the 80s.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. That's quite bad, but the '80s, IMHO, were worse.

The big hair of the '80s makes me weep with disgust. Not to mention the fact that everyone seems to look like a cheap hooker.

:hide:

:P

[Deja Q]

14. Hmmm - I'd ask one question to each guy:

Dude #1 - how many prostitutes do you lease?

Dude #2 - why didn't you tuck in your shirt?

Dude #3 - The mustache and pajamas don't suit you. Why not go to K-Mart instead?

[triguy46]

15. They look like the ushers in my wedding. Fashion dies, the marriage still lives.

[HughBeaumont]

16. Freddie Mercury, Clifton Davis and Joey Silvera.

Here's another thing. Did aging accelerate in the 70s or what? I mean, I looked at a photo of my dad's 1975 10 year class reunion. All the guys in the photo looked like they were in their early 40s, even though they were all 28 years old.

It's the same here. With the exception of Silvera on the right, these guys look older than they are. People just don't look as old now for some reason.

And yes, 80s fashion was way . . . WAY worse.

[Deja Q]

17. .

:spray:

Freddie Mercury, Clifton Davis and Joey Silvera.

[THUNDER HANDS]

18. am i the only one

who finds it disturbing that clothing and fashion hasn't changed much in the past 10 to 15 years?

It seems that throughout recent history clothing styles and hair styles have changed about ever 8 years or so, from the 50s to the 60s to the 70s to the 80s and to the 90s.

Then after the mid-90s things just grinded to a halt and we all seem to be wearing Old Navy or GAP clothing that hasn't updated or modified at all since about 1997.

And our hair is still the same - short and conservative.

Maybe the fact that we've had a conservative republican in office for the last 7 years has something to do with that.

I feel bad styles haven't changed. I hope I'm not wearing the same clothes 20 years from now that I am now. Doesn't culture have to evolve too?

[SarahB]

19. pornstaches

:scared:

[Tian Zhuangzhuang]

23. Yeah you don't see those anymore.

well at least among straight guys without a sense of humor.

[riona]

20. Leisure suits

Need I say more?:eyes:

[trof]

21. And who could forget the Nehru jacket:

[asthmaticeog]

22. Um, there is no decade in which JC Penny counts as "fashion."

I'm just saying.

[johnnie]

29. Good point my man n/t

[MadHound]

24. The same forces that continue to guide fashion today

Stupidity and gullibility. Yeah, the seventies had ridiculous fashions, but today's pants down to the knees look, or the chest sweater look just as bad.

But people keep falling for them all the time:shrug:

[johnnie]

27. Not quite as hip as today's style

[Deep13]

28. Nothing says "manly" like yellow, polyester pants. nt

[unpossibles]

31. easier access to drugs? n/t

[Shell Beau]

32. OMG! I am so glad I came into the world in the very late 70's!! But

then again the 80's may have been worse!

[MissMillie]

33. I imagine

that 30 years from now we'll be asking ourselves the same question about today's fashions.