#1 2015-06-15 22:47:17
...and I didn't see a single person wearing this crap. Did you?
And the dude on the left... is that the dude who sang with the 'sex-o-lettes'?
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#2 2015-06-15 22:54:37
Second illustration, Berkeley/Oakland. The other 2 illustrations are from "Ah Men", a clothing store/catalogue out of West Hollywood if I recall. The second illustration was kinda seen on the dance floor at clubs for a couple of years. Hideous, no?
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#3 2015-06-16 03:36:37
I passed the same link, sailor, and thought the same thing.
I remember the early 70s advertising and remember wondering, what plastic hippie is moron enough for that? One spark and roman candle land, goodnight Vienna. I did gave thanks more than once for black and white tv. But I never saw the direct evidence, even after passing through Berkeley annually year between 1972 and 1985. I bought a single pair of desert boots on a whim. One day on hot asphalt or in a snow storm, they were done.
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#4 2015-06-16 03:49:19
I saw a guy dressed like the guy in the hat once, but I think it was an actor playing a pimp on Baretta.
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#5 2015-06-16 05:11:07
I was a teenager and young adult during the 70s, and saw very few of these outfits in real life. Several were seen on dance floors, as noted by Dmtdust, and the one piece jumpsuit outfits in the linked article were sometimes worn by very old queens cruising the viewing booths at adult bookstores.
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#6 2015-06-16 07:45:22
fnord wrote:
..... and the one piece jumpsuit outfits in the linked article were sometimes worn by very old queens cruising the viewing booths at adult bookstores.
I really don't want to know how you know this.
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#7 2015-06-16 07:52:16
The only (hideous) things I didn't see on these pages, which actually did exist, were ridiculously wide ties, double-knit bell-bottomed suits and platform shoes. Wop clowns from South Phila wore that crap all the time.
As for me it was penny loafers and the ocasional cordoroy trousers with Oxford bottom-down shirts.
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#8 2015-06-16 08:04:07
whosasailorthen wrote:
....Oxford bottom-down shirts.
And I don't want to know how you know about that.
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#9 2015-06-16 08:31:47
whosasailorthen wrote:
The only (hideous) things I didn't see on these pages, which actually did exist, were ridiculously wide ties, double-knit bell-bottomed suits and platform shoes. Wop clowns from South Phila wore that crap all the time.
I'd mercifully forgot double knit leisure suits. Don't forget Puerto Rican fence climbers and two ton belts.
whosasailorthen wrote:
As for me it was penny loafers and the ocasional cordoroy trousers with Oxford bottom-down shirts.
What, no dock shoes? Poseur. That crime was punishable by old school wedgies, noogies, swirlies, purple nurples, and a charlie horse thrown in for good measure.
My memory of the time is most of my contemporaries shopped St Vincent DePaul and Starvation Army for serviceable flannel, jeans, steel toe work boots and a Carhartt jackets.
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#10 2015-06-17 20:53:24
That second photo is giving me unpleasant flashbacks of Prom Night.
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#11 2015-06-17 21:22:24
George Orr wrote:
That second photo is giving me unpleasant flashbacks of Prom Night.
Sounds like you have photo evidence of that cringe crime.
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