Which decade is the worst in terms of style?

[jamespowers]

This blog post is hilarious - and completely fits this thread:

http://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2007/10/strap-in-shut-up-and-hold-on-were-going.html

That jumpsuit looks like something I might wear when changing my oil. The rest could be used to soak up errant oil.

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

Reading through that blog on the '70s JC Penny catalogue find...

lol lol lol

 

[jamespowers]

Reading through that blog on the '70s JC Penny catalogue find...

lol lol lol

So you liked the barrel table and chairs eh?

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

lol

Yeah lol It's a pretty funny read. ...and I just started to read it! lol

 

[Mario]

Here's another chapter of the ongoing Story of the Youth (well...) Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was.

That's where I pulled the photos from: http://plaidstallions.blogspot.com/2008/06/choice-is-yours.html

 

[StetsonHomburg]

Here's another chapter of the ongoing Story of the Youth (well...) Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was.

That's where I pulled the photos from: http://plaidstallions.blogspot.com/2008/06/choice-is-yours.html

As they say in England: Bloody Hell!

 

[Widebrim]

This blog post is hilarious - and completely fits this thread:

http://15minutelunch.blogspot.com/2007/10/strap-in-shut-up-and-hold-on-were-going.html

Oh, my word! And I lived through that?!*yucky* Kind of reminds me of Rodney Dangerfield in Caddy Shack. (On a note, terrycloth was certainly popular that year, wasn't it?) Another reason to vote '70s (although late '60s hippy "fashion" is neck-in-neck). Fortunately, I spent most of that year in cords, jeans, and polo shirts...although I have to admit to owning at least one super-wide belt and a disco shirt which sported Tolkein-inspired designs.

 

[Vintage lover]

Whether you are a: adult film star

Kim Jong Il

a picnic blanket

or insane

THE 70's ARE FOR YOU!(I will let you decide if that is a good thing or not)

 

[Mario]

...although I have to admit to owning at least one super-wide belt and a disco shirt which sported Tolkein-inspired designs.

Now that's interesting news...!!!

 

[Widebrim]

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Originally Posted by Widebrim
...although I have to admit to owning at least one super-wide belt and a disco shirt which sported Tolkein-inspired designs.

Now that's interesting news...!!!

Hey, I was in my teens, and wanted to fit in with the Saturday Night Fever crowd...

 

[Yeps]

...one super-wide belt and a disco shirt which sported Tolkein-inspired designs.

My english teacher in high school called me twiggy because I wore really wide belts (3" or so). How I managed to fit those into standard loops is beyond me. I definitely would have worn Tolkien inspired shirts if I knew they existed. Actually, please make sure I never see one, or I will wear it. That sounds both amazing and horrifying. By the way, this was just 5 or 6 years ago. I have been bouncing decades for a while now. (I was big into boot cut corduroys for a while). I am rather glad I settled on my amorphous 30s/40s. I feel that it is much more flattering.

 

[The Good]

As flamboyant and poor taste as the Peacock Revolution-inspired 1970s was, unlike today, there were at least more people wearing shirts with actual collars on them (however exaggeratedly wide), and in the office workplace environment, even more suits than now.

 

[Mario]

Hey, I was in my teens, and wanted to fit in with the Saturday Night Fever crowd...

That's great. Just keep 'em coming. We're all listening very intently. Relief yourself and let us know about that story with those platform soles... :eusa_doh:

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

lol That was a good link Mario.

I noticed in one of the catalogue pages, the one with the "sexy disco lady", the black shoe...and was rather mollified to realize that those type of shoes have returned. :eusa_doh:

 

[Warden]

~Whenever sagging started.

Oversized clothing worn down around crotch level with 6 inches of underwear pant showing.

I am with you on this one. Really cannot stand this.

Harry

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

With regards to the sagging pants...

...I've always wondered how people can walk and not lose them. They seem to defy physical laws - that of gravity.
[huh]

 

[olive bleu]

As the mother of a teenager who ,on occasion, will leave the house in those 'saggy-crotch-ed-pants" i chalk it up to sheer muscle control. How someone can walk down the street wearing pants that are least 5 sizes too big, sans belt, and not have them in a puddle about their ankles is raw talent. with skills like that, i keep urging him to join the circus.

 

[The Lonely Navigator]

Olive Bleu: As the mother of a teenager who ,on occasion, will leave the house in those 'saggy-crotch-ed-pants" i chalk it up to sheer muscle control. How someone can walk down the street wearing pants that are least 5 sizes too big, sans belt, and not have them in a puddle about their ankles is raw talent. with skills like like, i keep urging him to join the circus.

lol lol lol lol

 

[olive bleu]

Seriously though..in regards to the WORST decade it had to be the 70's. With apologies to the gentlemen who may have dressed like this..and I'm sure you were lovely..if i were coming of age in a day when men dressed like this, I'm positive i would still be single.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hey, who doesn't love Freddie from Scooby Doo? But where's the ascots?

Meanwhile, speaking of low-hanging pants, how about the worst trend of the last twenty years: the popularity of low-waisted jeans on men who wear them cinched below a protruding beer belly, with said belly usually veiled by an untucked t-shirt worn like a maternity smock? I guess the theory here is that the wearer can say "I'm not fat, I've been wearing size 34 pants since I was 22," but all it does is make the wearer look like he has little stumpy legs and the overall physique of Mr. Potato Head. It's the male equivalent of women's vanity-sizing, and it's just as ridiculous.