Retrospective can be painful...

[atpolittlebit]

...what with the laughing.

Link from kyuuketsukirui: The 1977 J.C. Penney Calalog with commentaryMy favorite comment there

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[cactuswatcher]

I agree with the person who commented that the 1970's produced some of the ugliest clothing in the history of the world.

My personal comment? - Die, bell-bottoms, die!!

I thankfully I can't remember anyone actually wearing any of the worst of that stuff. My mother gave me a 3-piece dark blue, leisure suit which I never wore all once in public. I wore the pants with the shirt to class once and one my students complimented me by saying I looked like a steel worker! I still have the jacket with the wide lapels. It's great to wear in bed when I've got the flu.

We didn't actually beat guys up. We sighed and then said things like your wife/girlfriend bought that for you, didn't she?

I wore ugly shoes (the ones with the super thick plastic soles) in those days because unless I spent a fortune, that's all I could get!

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[atpolittlebit]

For me the best thing about '70s style were platform shoes. Not because I particularly like platform shoes but because they then made the pants legs longer so I could wear them with regular shoes and not look quite so prepared in the event of a flood.

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[cactuswatcher]

I remember people all around holding their breath whenever a girl on platform shoes stumbled even slightly, for fear she'd fall and break an ankle.

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[atpolittlebit]

The ones wearing the really high platforms never actually walked. I think the operative word for it was "teetered."

Except for two girls I remember from college who were probably no taller than 4'10". They were just fine even on 6" platforms. I think it was because their center of gravity was so low.

[mamculuna]

Somehow I missed that whole thing in the seventies, but have to love the matching bathing suits.

[ladystarlightsj]

I missed a lot of the seventies. Or don't remember them. I'm thinking this is a good thing. *g*

[midnightsjane]

Bwaaahaaahaaaa! I'm really glad I spent the seventies being a hippy. We hippy chicks looked extra glamorous in the long Indian print skirts, flannel shirts and work boots.
Heee.