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[Zen]

Circa 1972
Fashion is cyclical, you know ;)

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb14/zencentury/SearsStyle.jpg

Those shoes go with none of those outfits.
Scroll through these delightful fashions and relive the good old days of rayon, "quiana" and "dacron fortrel"

http://jezebel.com/5231382/the-best-sears-womens-fashions-for-spring--summer-of-1972

[AnnieBikes]

Hilarious! Thanks for making my day! :D

[Biciclista]

is the gal with the afro wearing culottes?

[Andrea]

I like the skeezy mustache-man in the background. That's a nice touch :D

[Grog]

There was a guy on the bike route this morning with pants just like the lady on the left. He was missing the matching jacket unfortunately.

Thanks for the post Zen!

[five one]

I have no photographic evidence (thankfully), but I was in college at that time and wore clothing similar to a lot of those outfits:eek:. Plaid pants were on everyone back then, incredible as it seems now.

I got a big kick recently out of watching the movie The Paper Chase from 1973. OMG! The clothing, the hairstyles, the guys with their moustaches!!! It could have been my own college campus.

Question is, what mainstream clothing are we wearing today that 30 years from now people will be laughing about?

[Biciclista]

i was wearing mostly blue jeans back then.

[Zen]

is the gal with the afro wearing culottes?

Yeah, and giving that other chick a look like "whatchoo doin' in your pajamas on the beach?"

[papaver]

when I was young ... eh sorry ... younger, new wave was out and along came: New Beat. With it's own fashion statement (ahum). So this was how we were dressed back in the eighties:

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/fattiebert/boylondon6.jpg

http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/fattiebert/boylondon8.jpg

:D:D:D And yes those are cycling shorts. :D:D:D Really. Seriously.

It was very hip back then for boys to wear cycling shorts when you went nightclubbing. :D:D:D

[five one]

i was wearing mostly blue jeans back then.

I was at Colorado State, an Aggie school, in the College of Home Economics (which sounds so silly and old fashioned now, but I took more science-based classes than you could imagine). All of us future Home Ec teachers had a dress code my freshman and sophomore years. No jeans. Slacks were allowed, but only as part of a coordinated outfit. I don't remember when things got more relaxed, but I was wearing jeans by the time I graduated.

I worked at a fabric store to get the yardage discount, and made most of the clothes I wore back then. I remember a red, white, and blue Madras plaid blazer I made very similar in style to the striped number in the first picture. The lapels...yikes!

That looks sort of like Olympic swimmer Mark Spitz on the bike. Every guy I knew had a moustache like that.

Whatever you wore in your teens and 20's will be laughed at by future generations. It's guaranteed.

Thanks for the fun trip down memory lane, Zen. I'm feeling very old though :p

[sundial]

I'm thinking the guy is going to cycle off the cliff.

[ZenSojourner]

when I was young ... eh sorry ... younger, new wave was out and along came: New Beat. With it's own fashion statement (ahum). So this was how we were dressed back in the eighties:



Watchoo mean "we", white eyes?

No photographic evidence as this was pre-cell-phone-c u m-camera days (thank god, do the kids have ANY idea what a world of hurt they're in for in the coming years, LOL)

But I must admit to having some pretty wild looking hair, if not the crazy clothes. Combs, no hair spray.

[Zen]

I'm thinking the guy is going to cycle off the cliff.
He's aghast at Pajama Girl as are the two girls behind her.
She clearly drew the short straw in that fashion shoot.

[papaver]

Watchoo mean "we", white eyes?

No photographic evidence as this was pre-cell-phone-c u m-camera days (thank god, do the kids have ANY idea what a world of hurt they're in for in the coming years, LOL)

But I must admit to having some pretty wild looking hair, if not the crazy clothes. Combs, no hair spray.

We as in my "generation"... LOL But it was only popular in and around Belgium... I wonder why? :D

My hair color was orange at the time. My father loved it sooooooooooo much. :D

And yes that guy is definately heading for that cliff. LOL

[Possegal]

hmmm, I think I may have owned those shoes. And I make no apologies for that. :)

[bmccasland]

I think I'm thankful we moved the summer of '72 and Mommy Dearest missed shopping out of that particular Sears Catalogue. There were many Sears purchases in my future as we moved to a military base in Michigan adjacent to a small town, and the closest mall was over 100 miles away.

[Crankin]

I laughed my aZZ off, looking at those pictures. I was in college then, too. I wore a lot of jeans, but had my share of polyester pants and dresses. I remember one pantsuit I had from Penney's (can't believe I even shopped there). It was so stiff, the pants probably stood up on their own.
Even when I look at pictures from around the time I met my husband, 1979, I laugh. On our first date, he came to pick me up in a 3 piece white suit, with a red shirt. Oh and those huge glasses. It matched his white and red car that got 8 mpg.
I, on the other hand, wore a white sun dress that I bought at Dillards for 13.00, on sale. I think that's when Scottsdale Fashion Square was still an "outside" mall.

[oxysback]

This is the funniest picture of the whole bunch! Looks like they're wearing footie pajamas...LOL! I also remember one of those 'butt jiggler' machines at the gym my mom taught aerobics at when I was little.

[jobob]

Wow. Most excellent!

"There's an exerciser for every body at Sears Beauty Spa"

Harrumph. Did they have the highly coveted 12-oz lift machine? :cool:

[ZenSojourner]

Fake excercise machines, and I swear the woman in the foreground is wearing a poofy wig.

I get nostalgic for the 60s/70s sometimes, but in truth it's easy to forget how vastly our culture has changed since then. For instance, the following ad wouldn't have made anyone blink in 1972, but what do you think when you see it now?

http://www.oneofakindwis.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/lysol-spray.jpg

[Tuckervill]

Spraying Lysol on the sheets!!??!! EWWWWWWwwwwwww....

Lysol makes me choke.

Karen

[ZenSojourner]

Well how else are you going to kill the nasty bed-cooties? I mean that's a DOUBLE BED, not a pair of twin beds like decent folk would have! Preferably in separate rooms.

[malkin]

<font= jingle singing> Sears has it at Junior Bizarre!

[Zen]

Bizarre indeed but I think it's actually "bazaar"

[crazycanuck]

I feel so young :o I was only born in 72...

Papaver-:eek: AGGHG...The Bros look. AGGGH..
I prefer the earlyish to mid 80's rather than the 90's. Now I have the urge to watch Flashdance :o, Fame & St Elmo's Fire.

[smurfalicious]

Since this thread is wandering anyway, this is a really good book about perceptions of women back in "the day." And "the day" actually extends I want to say until the 70s in this book. It covers the books about how the bad boys you weren't supposed to date (the guy on the cover is totally my type) and Lysol as, dun dun dun, a friggin douche (http://www.mum.org/Lysol48.htm)!

Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons (http://www.amazon.com/Pink-Think-Becoming-Uneasy-Lessons/dp/0393323544/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1241052975&sr=8-1)

[shootingstar]

I prefer the earlyish to mid 80's rather than the 90's. Now I have the urge to watch Flashdance :o, Fame & St Elmo's Fire.

:p Oh Gawd. Those leg warmers and ripped up looking T-shirts with one naughty shoulder showing.

Those Sears short dresses with shorts underneath...I remember them as 'hot pants'. Yup. I had a set..Mom sewed them.

You know the 70's Show that featured the 1970's styles..I hate revival of styles from that area. But then the early-mid 1980's styles of big brushed women's hair, padded shoulders in suits, dresses ..and the whole "Dallas/JR Ewing flashy dress-up look" was just as bad.

When I see the little smock/sundress like blouses now worn over jeans..it just gives me slightly bad memories of those longer sundresses with smocking stitchery, at the top bodice with tie-up shoulder straps from the 1970's.

But really can you imagine..fashion revival of our current fashions in past 5 years....to reoccur in 20 yrs.?? Ughhh, I'm sorry. Will future fashionistas revive butt-crack, thong-showing jeans? :eek:

[Tuckervill]

But low-rise jeans ARE a revival...from the '60s. hip-huggers.

Karen

[Zen]

Those Sears short dresses with shorts underneath...I remember them as 'hot pants'. Yup. I had a set..Mom sewed them.
Terry skorts, anyone? Yes, please.



When I see the little smock/sundress like blouses now worn over jeans..it just gives me slightly bad memories of those longer sundresses with smocking stitchery, at the top bodice with tie-up shoulder straps from the 1970's.


I would wear one of those right this minute with no qualms or apologies.

[shootingstar]

But low-rise jeans ARE a revival...from the '60s. hip-huggers.

Karen

At least back then, hip-huggers were more decent. I actually think alot of the current popular fashions and cuts, look cheap and craftsmanship in tailoring/sewing technique has degraded. I am picky because I used to do alot of sewing, tailored stuff, etc.

Zen, I actually don't really like many of the current loose tops like the sundress tops and dressy variations.

Am pretty boring...just a classic cut shirt with standup collar, with French cuffs (or sleeveless) and beautiful French seams that is slightly fitted in the body is good enough.

I used to raid my mother's wardrobe from the 1950's and worn certain pieces for 5-6 years --gorgeous wool tailored suits with incredible structural tailored features and cuts. Beautiful quality tailoring where clothing and fabric durability was long lasting. She got some brand new pieces from her sisters who worked in garmet factories.

[Zen]

I just don't like wearing clothes so a sundress is great for me:o

[cylegoddess]

The 80s for me, mid 80s was deathrock( now goth). I miss the hairstyle, in some ways.
All you did was rat out ALL of your hair regardless of length, fill it full of ( yucky) hairspray, koolaide( made it stand up and coloured it) and leave it. You never had to brush it, or cut it.Bits would break off occasionally but that only made it look better. Washing it was wierd though. I just dont know how my Dad could stand looking at me, what with all that white face makeup, spiderwebs, black lippie and old ratty tshirts, plus capes! I looked hilarious!
As I said to one young man, who once came to me, almost crying, that people had laughed at him on the street - but, your 6 feet tall, wearing black lipstick and a velvet cape, in summer! At noon! In boots, in 110o weather! FOR A JOB INTERVIEW!

[cylegoddess]

Im finding more reasons to wear , non chamois bike shorts( under mini skirts, ect). I wish all my clothes were as easy to match as cycling gear. ( I did vow never to wear bike shorts again, after the 80s but I hate clothes.)

[lph]

That exercise machine picture is fantastic :D :D :D

Can you imagine any of those lovely ladies exerting themselves hard enough to sweat? Or, dare I say it, grunt?? Nope, pretty sure they chatted and laughed their way blithely through each "exercise" session, make-up impeccable and smiles intact. :p

I have only some minor 80s fashion offenses to own up to. But then, I was basically a fashion disaster anyway for turning up at school in 70s bellbottom jeans at a time when jeans were highrise and tight. My mother couldn't see anything wrong with them, they were new (and cheap) after all, and I was too clueless to see the difference.

Apologies to anybody who loves this style, but I am so looking forward to when really saggy show-your-entire-butt shuffle-along pants go out of style, and the cool gangsta dudes realize how absurd they looked...

[ZenSojourner]

I just don't like wearing clothes so a sundress is great for me:o

I feel that way about shoes.

Zen "Not a Natural Woman" Sojourner

[OakLeaf]

Those exercise machines...

That stationary bike has toe clips. And she's riding it with no shoes. :eek:

At least we wore shoes when we dressed in shiny Lycra thong leotards. I'm going to have nightmares about that picture.

[smilingcat]

Thank you zen,

you made my day :D :D down memory lane... Then the wacky disco came to being.

Priceless moment: US Navy signs up the Village People "In the Navy" . just too funny, And the reaction from the Navy when they realized that Village People were GAY!! oops. How could they have missed it with the biker dude, the construction guy and the fact they were from Greenwich Village. HE---LLLOOOO----??? I lived in the city at the time and EVERYBODY KNEW THAT GREENWICH VILLAGE WAS GAY!!!

Any hooowwww... thanks.

[Zen]

Those exercise machines...



Everything old is new again.

Yesterday I saw an Ab Lounger (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0012E1FU2) sitting on the sidewalk in the business district :D