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[Zen]

Circa 1972
Fashion is cyclical, you know



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-...summer-of-1972

[AnnieBikes]

Hilarious! Thanks for making my day!

[Biciclista]

is the gal with the afro wearing culottes?

[Andrea]

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

[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. 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:





And yes those are cycling shorts. Really. Seriously.

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

[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

[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?

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

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.