Corduroy was a great fabric for cold weather, it was warm and durable, and not expensive. Denim was also durable and a lot cheaper than wool, which also had to be drycleaned. Bellbottoms were cool, and you almost had to have them with platform shoes. They were good looks for the time!
Same here. The video said it was uncomfortable but that’s not true. It was usually 100% cotton so the more it was laundered the softer it became. It was cozy.
I wore long straight hair parted in the middle. I wore shoes high enough to fall off them, we called them clogs. And if you weren't careful you could trip on yours bells because we wore them so long the hems were shorn from walking on them! Fun fashion for sure!
I loved the high clogs ….until one day my foot slipped, the shoes tore in half and I had to walk a mile to work with my pale blue bell bottoms dragging on the muddy pavement. Later I found I had torn the cartalidge in my knee which had to be removed. Fast forward to age 65 had to have a knee replacement. Yes, they were the days
As an Irish born, Canadian raised 67 yr old, I loved corduroys! And even though I was more of a “Laurel Canyon” styled hippy, I still had a couple of pairs of platform shoes! (I also wore scarves like my rockstar heroes, Jeff Beck and Cozy Powell). What crazy, fun days! Gen Z will never understand! Peace
Corduroy and bell bottoms, yes, but don’t forget the 70’s was a continuation of the hippie era, and we wore jeans till they fell off us, ethnic cotton shirts and dresses, and thrift store findings from tee shirts to coats. Sequined jump suits and the crazy platform shoes were a disco thing, and a lot of us ignored that whole trend .
The term hippie (short for hypocrite) was a derogatory term coined by politicians to discredit the Vietnam war protestors, it is inconsiderate & rude to be used as a term in fashion.
@@invisableobserver I call BS. "Hippie" (and "hipster" as well, long before it was derogatory) derives from "hip", meaning "aware." Both "hip" and "hep" have been around since the early 20th century jazz clubs. Of course all of this got co-opted by advertisers using it for sales hype. There's no shortage of ads from the 60's-70's using it to flog their shoddy polyester and other lame products. But you're talking like it's a slur word. Protip: There's a big difference between "hippie" and slur words.
@annemurphy9339. Flares are different from bell bottoms, they are two different styles! There are straight leg, flares, bell bottoms, and elephant pants/ wide leg!!! Trust me I wore them all!!!
I wore all of them too, & never used the word flares ever: there were straight legs, boys’ cut (jeans), bell bottoms and elephant legs and I had them all. Have also handed down some expensive designer ones I kept all these years to my very delighted granddaughters.
I was a young adult in the 70s, and I didn't know/see anyone wearing sequined clothing for everyday - and I lived in LA. I did wear platforms, bell bottoms, denim, etc. along with everyone else. I didn't wear short shorts (that trend for women goes back to the early 60s btw) but I had no complaints about the guys that did - it only added to my enjoyment of watching Lakers games!
@@sandrak.robbins6305 I still love fringe!! And yes I wore hip huggers then. Fringe on purses, jackets and at the bottom of skirts is still cool. Loved your comment.
This took me down memory lane. I was born in 57 and I was young and got to see it all well Woodstock was on the news and I heard about it. But I had bell bottoms and platform shoes and macramé belts Dang it makes me wish those styles would come back.
Most of the guys in my high school in the mid 70s wore high heel platform shoes. It was considered stylish and normal. I like that this video checks many of the boxes for that era.
I was 15 in 1970 so I really enjoyed my teen years during the 70's. I wore flares, turtlenecks, corduroy blazers, and platforms. Another trend not mentioned was western wear. Who remembers H-Bar-C western shirts? I had those and a white ten gallon, plus a pair of western boots. I also had long hippie hair which my girlfriend at the time styled like Farah Fawcett.
@@laurabarker2233 You were clearly deprived by your parents! I hope you were able to go on into adulthood without being too fashion-challenged! Go-go boots were the ultimate in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Oh Nancy Sinatra!
Elephant Bells, and cloggs became popular the elevator shoes where great if you had weight, it gave you a little slimmer look. The silk shirts followed Saturday Night Fever.
So many of these things are in style now. Flares, platforms, animal print, bold eyeshadow, etc. Strange to make it seem like some weird, shocking past.
I wore my "rip roaring" Bell Bottom Cords and "Ditto" pants with my white cotton embroider front shirt. My brothers wore their "Angel Flight" pants and shiny Polyester shirts. All the neighborhood kids would get together and roller skate or skate board in the street to the music blaring from the radio of my brothers' cool tricked out low rider car, (KFRC AM radio with Dr. Donald D Rose or Wolf Man Jack as I recall). We'd also go roller skating to the latest tunes at the Antioch Roller Rink in Antioch, California. This was just a fraction of the fun we had. Life was so lighthearted back then.
Thank you! I was young in the 70s. I wore denim suits, platform shoes, bell bottoms, ruffles on shirts. Even in the early 80s these styles were in. By that point, I wore makeup. The flashier the better. What I really miss is how Blacks and Whites were on the same page, fashion wise.
Okay, I have no idea where the person lives that made this video, but flared pants, corduroy, animal print, plateau shoes, bright eyeshadow, sequined clothing, jeans outfits are around in 2024. Sequined clothing was a thing for the Disco and not an everyday wear to go to work with. Maybe for David Bowie and Elton John.
So, no mention of how many of these fashion trends are back in style now?? Flares, wide-leg jeans that are actually wide flares, animal print, sequins or other blingy looks especially on fast-fashion, corduroy, denim head to toe, and an argument could be made for high heavy-soled ankle boots and sneakers. Nothing new under the sun.
Pretty sure Animal Prints have been considered simultaneously cool and tacky and have been part of the fashion landscape every decade I have been alive, 1960's to the present. Timeless and trashy all at once.
Hooded, plaid coats! They were _everywhere._ Also those huge, chunky, Cowichan sweaters (like the one Paul Michael Glaser wore in "Starsky & Hutch") And, oh, how about the trend of wearing a tucked-in "turtleneck" sweater with those flared pants _and_ a matching mid-calf sleeveless dress/tunic over the whole thing. And _Candie's_ shoes! Yeah, I was a teen during the 70's...and came of age during the early 80's. We had a funky sense of style...and the best music. 😎
So, so YES to Candie's. The really mod women wore the dress/pants combo. Androgyny was a strong fashion undercurrent in the 1970s due to the influence of glam rock and the burgeoning Feminist Movement.
I was under the age Of 11 in the 1970s, But I remember almost every single thing mentioned in this video. I even had a pair of clogs to go with my bell bottom jeans. The top part of the clogs was leather, but the bottom part was wood, and it made such a ruckus every time you walked down the hallway at school. Lol.
What wasn't thought about usually until it was too late was making the jeans cutoffs so short that the bottoms of the white hip pockets stuck out from underneath! Haha! In the 90s when the whole 70s look fad came back I asked if the platforms they were making today utilized modern ergonomics or did they just use the old patterns? When I was told it was the latter I said that they'll likely fail all over again the way they did then!
I could pimp a set platforms back then but there is no way in hell I will ever be platforming again at my age and current knee status. Platforms are for the young and Las Vegas Showgirls, exclusively.
Everyone was free to wear what he/she wants to wear! Happy times! And in the following times everyone came out and was free, where are those times gone?
In the 70's I worked for a small retail chain called Jeff's Jeans. We sold a lot of jeans and denim. One of my favorites was a brand called Chemin de fer. They fit so well, hugging the hips and flaring out at the bottom. We couldn't keep them in the stores. Another popular brand was Landlubber. Same type of fit. Another best seller. We also sold a lot of Indian cotton shirts for men and women with metallic threads running through the fabric. And don't forget polyester shirts in bold bright designs. I'm sure I had a few polyester pants and shirts, but I never really did like them that much. I much preferred cotton clothing. I still do. Oh, and maybe this will take you back. Jeff's Jeans sold concert tickets at their register. Whenever a big concert was coming to town, we got really busy because we have lines out the door trying to get their hands on concert tickets. It was a fun time!
I wore electric blue Hot pants , a smocked midi blouse with long buffed sleeves with a pink leather maxi coat and platform shoes. I had a after school job. Blue mascara too.
I still love leopard tops, purses and you name it. I did wear platform shoes, blue eye shadow, ruffled shirts and denim skirts with a ruffle on the bottom. The last two I still love.
Platforms came W-A-A-A-Y before disco and dominated the 1970's. Disco was prominent the latter half of the 1970's after the release of Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby", which spearheaded the entire Disco phenomenon.
Fashion just keeps repeating itself….corduroy ladies skirts and trousers are back as is double denim as we call it now sequin tops dresses skirts all back for party wear….even velvet jackets and trousers are a thing again I had a velvet jacket in the 70s dare I even say it😂😂 I grew up in the 70s and loved it so yeh the fashion just keeps turning around and around on repeat 😊
What comes around, goes around. When you young people think you’ve invented a new look, us old cackers laugh because we’ve seen it before, more than once!
I really, really, really wanted to wear those platform shoes with the clompy wooden soles. You know, the shoes that made you sound like a Clydesdale horse clopping down the road. But I was tall (5 foot 8) and aware of my height and didn't want to add to it. So, I couldn't wear the platforms as I thought it would make me freakishly tall for a young woman in her late teens.Had the flares and top to toe denims, though.
My late husband was 6'3" , he told me he wore the platform shoes back then, but he quickly twisted his ankle, so they went in the bin. I remember it was like walking on stilts, I didnt like it, but at 5', I could've used the added inches.
I still wear clogs sometimes, just not freakishly tall. Troentorp makes something called the Ideal sole, the bottom half of the heel is polyurethane so you don't sound like the Clydesdales bringing the Budweiser to town. Great shoes, I love mine.
I am unsure where you grew up or where you live, but 1) Um, I never wore sequins as “everyday” wear; 2) Flair pants are still being worn; 3) duh, half the staff where I work have mustaches and beards; 4) people still wear animal print clothing; 5) people nowadays rollerblade or have scooters.
All the trends mentionned, with the exception of multi colored platform shoes, is trending again, "adapted" to the current Zeitgeist: curdoroy, bell trousers, sequins but without the fun, exuberence and freedom of the 70's. I have kept those years in my fondest nemories, I was a teen in southern Europe. Boys had long hair, we stepped over our trousers systematically, we wore clogs with knee long multicolored shocks, didn't wear bras and it all was so fresh and, in a certain way, innocent. We had hope, we believed in all the tomorrows to come.
The 60's and 70's were fantastic. I was a student in London then. All of these things are a vivid memory but one or two things are missing. Permed hairdoes and chifon scarves ( worn with a pink Ben Sherman shirt in my case ). Wearing platform shoes was a nightmare - I nearly got run over when I went down a bank and the shoes "ran away " with me and I nearly ended up on the road. As students we believed that all education would be free to all (I didnt pay a penny - grants for everything ) and workers would do no more than 3 days a week! How wrong we were!!!
6ft 2in and I wore platform sole shoes back in the early seventies. Combined with my budgie jacket, flared trousers and round collar shirt I thought I was the bees knees back in Derby UK.
You missed one very important trend and that’s the one of spending time in A&E (emergency room) getting X-rayed after falling off the daft platform shoes that were the thing then! Plenty of fractured and sprained ankles galore! 😂🤣😂
I love corduroy and big collars, sign me up for a suit! Also animal print is extremely on trend at the moment....showing up somewhere in leopard print isnt going to shock anybody!
We wore hip hugger pants so low at the hips that when you sat down, you butt crack would show. We wore body shirts that buttoned under the crotch so we hid our backsides. In addition, we wore what was referred to as "bubble blouses" . They were stretchy body shirts that looked like bubble wrap.
I think you need to look around more, many things are coming back into fashion, corduroy, sequins, moustaches are all back in. Animal print is always around. The coloured eyeshadow is different but also around. Wide collars are increasingly on dresses and ruffles. Although the platforms not yet. And thankfully those short shorts for men are not around.
Corduroy is comfortable for casual clothes. Good riddance to flares aka bell bottoms, although they come in and out of style. Platform shoes, yecch! I remember animal prints being more sixtish. Skates were popular in the eighties as well, that's when the in lines started becoming popular.
The 70s are included in modernity in every possible sense, they are too recent to be differentiated from us with that term, you probably mean people nowadays, current observers etc.
Corduroy was a great fabric for cold weather, it was warm and durable, and not expensive. Denim was also durable and a lot cheaper than wool, which also had to be drycleaned. Bellbottoms were cool, and you almost had to have them with platform shoes. They were good looks for the time!
I was thinking the same thing. I loved corduroy.
Same here. The video said it was uncomfortable but that’s not true. It was usually 100% cotton so the more it was laundered the softer it became. It was cozy.
Corduroy is not was❤
Except for us gals that had big thighs 🤣 Walking down the hall hearing "zzzz, zzzzzz, zzzzzz, zzzzz"
Cordury was fantastic. Btw they are very fashionible again.
None of this is shocking, it's cool and stylish
I wore long straight hair parted in the middle. I wore shoes high enough to fall off them, we called them clogs. And if you weren't careful you could trip on yours bells because we wore them so long the hems were shorn from walking on them! Fun fashion for sure!
I had 5" heels!
I loved the high clogs ….until one day my foot slipped, the shoes tore in half and I had to walk a mile to work with my pale blue bell bottoms dragging on the muddy pavement.
Later I found I had torn the cartalidge in my knee which had to be removed. Fast forward to age 65 had to have a knee replacement.
Yes, they were the days
@@janetway4656 Yikes!!!! I am so sorry! I was 5'2" and my boyfriend was 6'2". I always wore heels and clogs!!!
Yes, and did you ever try to run in those bell-bottoms? I fell every single time.
same here
As an Irish born, Canadian raised 67 yr old, I loved corduroys! And even though I was more of a “Laurel Canyon” styled hippy, I still had a couple of pairs of platform shoes! (I also wore scarves like my rockstar heroes, Jeff Beck and Cozy Powell).
What crazy, fun days! Gen Z will never understand!
Peace
They were fun times indeed.
The corduroy pants were also worn with Earth shoes.
Corduroy and bell bottoms, yes, but don’t forget the 70’s was a continuation of the hippie era, and we wore jeans till they fell off us, ethnic cotton shirts and dresses, and thrift store findings from tee shirts to coats. Sequined jump suits and the crazy platform shoes were a disco thing, and a lot of us ignored that whole trend .
They were a glam rock thing before that.
The term hippie (short for hypocrite) was a derogatory term coined by politicians to discredit the Vietnam war protestors, it is inconsiderate & rude to be used as a term in fashion.
@@invisableobserver I call BS. "Hippie" (and "hipster" as well, long before it was derogatory) derives from "hip", meaning "aware." Both "hip" and "hep" have been around since the early 20th century jazz clubs.
Of course all of this got co-opted by advertisers using it for sales hype. There's no shortage of ads from the 60's-70's using it to flog their shoddy polyester and other lame products. But you're talking like it's a slur word. Protip: There's a big difference between "hippie" and slur words.
@@StellaWaldvogel Thank you!
The flared pants were called BELL BOTTOMS, not flares.
@annemurphy9339. Flares are different from bell bottoms, they are two different styles! There are straight leg, flares, bell bottoms, and elephant pants/ wide leg!!! Trust me I wore them all!!!
@@pamavery9352
You got that right! I had all of them. The wider, the better.
I wore all of them too, & never used the word flares ever: there were straight legs, boys’ cut (jeans), bell bottoms and elephant legs and I had them all. Have also handed down some expensive designer ones I kept all these years to my very delighted granddaughters.
Always known as flares in the UK
Wrong they were called bell bottoms not flares totally different shape
I was a young adult in the 70s, and I didn't know/see anyone wearing sequined clothing for everyday - and I lived in LA. I did wear platforms, bell bottoms, denim, etc. along with everyone else. I didn't wear short shorts (that trend for women goes back to the early 60s btw) but I had no complaints about the guys that did - it only added to my enjoyment of watching Lakers games!
Me neither, UK
Nobody wore sequins except grandmas!
No cell phones, no RAP trash,no tic toc ,and nobody saying bruh every other word 😂😅
Awful absolutely awful🤮🤮🤮🤮
😁😁😁
No, we said guys instead.
There was rap in the 70s.
At :12 seconds, is that BEAN? OMG that is BEAN 😂😅
Thank you. You didn't mention hip hugger jeans and pants on everybody. Also, fringe. Fringe jackets were everywhere.
@@sandrak.robbins6305 I still love fringe!! And yes I wore hip huggers then. Fringe on purses, jackets and at the bottom of skirts is still cool. Loved your comment.
Hip hugger jeans with the huge belts and snug shirts with the circle on the zipper.
landlubber
Hip hugger jeans are the Low rise jeans of today. We still have flared pants
Nobody wore sequins every day. They were only for evening & wear. The jumper you referenced was most definitely 1980's.
Thank you 😊
I would do it all over again in a heart beat
Me too. 😊
Me too
And me ….miss the 70s fashion … in 71 I wasI in art collage studying fashion design
@@jannbell1016 me three
I want to go back I want to so bad
me too
Yes, but only knowing what I know now...
Bell bottoms jeans, hip huggers, mini skirts, coulatts.
l miss the 70s ☺️
I loved "angel wing" shirts!
This took me down memory lane. I was born in 57 and I was young and got to see it all well Woodstock was on the news and I heard about it. But I had bell bottoms and platform shoes and macramé belts Dang it makes me wish those styles would come back.
People did not wear sequined attire everyday in the 70s 😎😎😎
I was a little kid but I don’t remember people sparkling daily. Maybe for the disco that’s it.
and Molti-colored hair with tattoos and piercing everywhere is not shocking? I'd take flair pants any day over the stuff we have today.
That's all we left the kids to rebel with.
I think i saw Quagmire at 3:44😂. ALRIIIIGHT...
You forgot tube tops. 🙄
There back, and so is flared pants, animal prints, plateau shoes, bright eyeshadow, sequined clothing, and corduroy.
a lot better fashions than there are now now, wish they would come back in
anyone remember the store Chess King... they had the coolest clothes back then !
There used to be one in Lehigh Valley Mall. Loved it.
Most of the guys in my high school in the mid 70s wore high heel platform shoes. It was considered stylish and normal. I like that this video checks many of the boxes for that era.
Yeah like David Bowie. He started that trend
They were called Bell Bottoms, not Flare.
I wore flares in the 70’s ..
Flares did exist and they are totally different to bell bottoms.
Tube tops, halter tops, I had the platform shoes. Tshirts with Fonzies face were popular and also one piece boiler suits.
I was 15 in 1970 so I really enjoyed my teen years during the 70's. I wore flares, turtlenecks, corduroy blazers, and platforms. Another trend not mentioned was western wear. Who remembers H-Bar-C western shirts? I had those and a white ten gallon, plus a pair of western boots. I also had long hippie hair which my girlfriend at the time styled like Farah Fawcett.
Do you remember bump toe shoes?
@@lynnelhampton-bott6917 Yes. I never wore them though.
Sporty clothes were in from tube socks to satin jackets.
I wanted one of those satin zip-up sports jackets so damned bad.
@@toomuchstuff4828 I wanted go-go boots. Never got them.
@@laurabarker2233 You were clearly deprived by your parents! I hope you were able to go on into adulthood without being too fashion-challenged! Go-go boots were the ultimate in the late 1960's and early 1970's. Oh Nancy Sinatra!
As a teenager in the 70s l remember flares,platforms and side burns,l had platforms shoes for school we all did
Elephant Bells, and cloggs became popular the elevator shoes where great if you had weight, it gave you a little slimmer look. The silk shirts followed Saturday Night Fever.
And many ankles broken
Platform shoes have come back several times - in the 90’s and in this century. They’ve recently had a moment with fashionistas as have bell bottoms
So many of these things are in style now. Flares, platforms, animal print, bold eyeshadow, etc. Strange to make it seem like some weird, shocking past.
I still have my red, white and blue Flagg Brothers platform shoes with red , white and blue rubber soles, groovy.
All these styles are back!!!🙌🏽
I wore my "rip roaring" Bell Bottom Cords and "Ditto" pants with my white cotton embroider front shirt. My brothers wore their "Angel Flight" pants and shiny Polyester shirts. All the neighborhood kids would get together and roller skate or skate board in the street to the music blaring from the radio of my brothers' cool tricked out low rider car, (KFRC AM radio with Dr. Donald D Rose or Wolf Man Jack as I recall). We'd also go roller skating to the latest tunes at the Antioch Roller Rink in Antioch, California. This was just a fraction of the fun we had. Life was so lighthearted back then.
loved guys in their Angel Flight pants !!
Thank you! I was young in the 70s. I wore denim suits, platform shoes, bell bottoms, ruffles on shirts. Even in the early 80s these styles were in. By that point, I wore makeup. The flashier the better. What I really miss is how Blacks and Whites were on the same page, fashion wise.
Yes! I had a pink corduroy suit, I loved it. I loved flares, bell bottoms and elephant bells, platforms but not too high.
You were a hip chick!!! ❤
I still love corduroy. It looks good, holds color , disagree on this.
Okay, I have no idea where the person lives that made this video, but flared pants, corduroy, animal print, plateau shoes, bright eyeshadow, sequined clothing, jeans outfits are around in 2024.
Sequined clothing was a thing for the Disco and not an everyday wear to go to work with. Maybe for David Bowie and Elton John.
Leapord print clothes are still fashionable. They are available in shirts, leggings, accessories, etc.
I bought myself a leopard print dress not long ago, so yes, animal prints are still a thing.
Flowered shirts, gauze shirts, cotton, cotton, cotton! And sometimes earth shoes@
Clark Treks
I wore corduroy pants, corduroy hats, and corduroy shoes.
Disco skating, denim, and corduroy jeans were my things.
So, no mention of how many of these fashion trends are back in style now?? Flares, wide-leg jeans that are actually wide flares, animal print, sequins or other blingy looks especially on fast-fashion, corduroy, denim head to toe, and an argument could be made for high heavy-soled ankle boots and sneakers. Nothing new under the sun.
Pretty sure Animal Prints have been considered simultaneously cool and tacky and have been part of the fashion landscape every decade I have been alive, 1960's to the present. Timeless and trashy all at once.
Hooded, plaid coats! They were _everywhere._ Also those huge, chunky, Cowichan sweaters (like the one Paul Michael Glaser wore in "Starsky & Hutch")
And, oh, how about the trend of wearing a tucked-in "turtleneck" sweater with those flared pants _and_ a matching mid-calf sleeveless dress/tunic over the whole thing.
And _Candie's_ shoes!
Yeah, I was a teen during the 70's...and came of age during the early 80's. We had a funky sense of style...and the best music. 😎
So, so YES to Candie's. The really mod women wore the dress/pants combo. Androgyny was a strong fashion undercurrent in the 1970s due to the influence of glam rock and the burgeoning Feminist Movement.
YESS!! Candies with my hip hugger bells
I still wear corduroy flares. They still make them
Everyone in my highschool wore fringed moccasins and elephant bells - the longer, the better! Baby prints and long straight hair. So cool.
Never mind animal print! We had _landscape_ print clothing; in a Dupont nylon fabric called qiana.
70's terrific clothes!!!❤❤❤❤❤
I was under the age Of 11 in the 1970s, But I remember almost every single thing mentioned in this video. I even had a pair of clogs to go with my bell bottom jeans. The top part of the clogs was leather, but the bottom part was wood, and it made such a ruckus every time you walked down the hallway at school. Lol.
Like the _Candie's_ high wooden heeled shoes. They were the "summer" version.
@@zentierra7803 Dr. Scholl's
Why cant i remember seeing guys in short shorts
We all wore them. Called them cut-offs .. I made a pair i still wear in my vineyard when it’s hot.
I once fell off my platform sandals and sprained my ankle, very embarrassing 😒😏
I did that too!! 🤣🤣
I can relate.
I would wear corduroy suits again. I loved them but I was actually more of a hippie back then.
I found a red corduroy jacket at a thrift store last month! Love corduroy.
What wasn't thought about usually until it was too late was making the jeans cutoffs so short that the bottoms of the white hip pockets stuck out from underneath! Haha! In the 90s when the whole 70s look fad came back I asked if the platforms they were making today utilized modern ergonomics or did they just use the old patterns? When I was told it was the latter I said that they'll likely fail all over again the way they did then!
I could pimp a set platforms back then but there is no way in hell I will ever be platforming again at my age and current knee status. Platforms are for the young and Las Vegas Showgirls, exclusively.
Everyone was free to wear what he/she wants to wear! Happy times! And in the following times everyone came out and was free, where are those times gone?
In the 70's I worked for a small retail chain called Jeff's Jeans. We sold a lot of jeans and denim. One of my favorites was a brand called Chemin de fer. They fit so well, hugging the hips and flaring out at the bottom. We couldn't keep them in the stores. Another popular brand was Landlubber. Same type of fit. Another best seller. We also sold a lot of Indian cotton shirts for men and women with metallic threads running through the fabric. And don't forget polyester shirts in bold bright designs. I'm sure I had a few polyester pants and shirts, but I never really did like them that much. I much preferred cotton clothing. I still do. Oh, and maybe this will take you back. Jeff's Jeans sold concert tickets at their register. Whenever a big concert was coming to town, we got really busy because we have lines out the door trying to get their hands on concert tickets. It was a fun time!
I wear cords in fall weather. They fit becauae they are tailored JUST RIGHT. 😗
I wore electric blue Hot pants , a smocked midi blouse with long buffed sleeves with a pink leather maxi coat and platform shoes. I had a after school job. Blue mascara too.
Thanks for taking me back in the past ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I still love leopard tops, purses and you name it. I did wear platform shoes, blue eye shadow, ruffled shirts and denim skirts with a ruffle on the bottom. The last two I still love.
I still love leopard print shirts, leggings, etc!
@mj9291b So do I. I'm wearing a leopard print robe right now.❤
My light tan Levi's corduroys and brilliant blue eyeshadow gingham shirts...ah those where the days!✌💙
Right on 👍🏻 and I wish I could do it all over again …..sigh 😢
Platforms came W-A-A-A-Y before disco and dominated the 1970's. Disco was prominent the latter half of the 1970's after the release of Donna Summer's "Love To Love You Baby", which spearheaded the entire Disco phenomenon.
I twisted my ankle wearing platform shoes. They made the shoes even with the curb height and I fell off the curb and twisted my ankle.
The 1970s were called, The Lovely Uglies, for its fashion sense.
High school boys wear short shorts again!
Bell bottoms, Denim jeans and jackets, vivid eye shadows,ruffles blouses, animal prints, 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Imagine that, people weren't clutching their pearls, left people alone to do their thing and minded their own business.
The flared pants and guys short shorts are stylish again.
Fashion just keeps repeating itself….corduroy ladies skirts and trousers are back as is double denim as we call it now sequin tops dresses skirts all back for party wear….even velvet jackets and trousers are a thing again I had a velvet jacket in the 70s dare I even say it😂😂 I grew up in the 70s and loved it so yeh the fashion just keeps turning around and around on repeat 😊
Who wants to tell him that most of these styles are still
In today, mostly for women 💃🏾
Except short male shorts. Literally every fashion trend have made a comeback at least once over the last decade,
I love the original Dolly cut. It's evolved now to the Shag cut but it doesn't beat the original
What comes around, goes around. When you young people think you’ve invented a new look, us old cackers laugh because we’ve seen it before, more than once!
I really, really, really wanted to wear those platform shoes with the clompy wooden soles. You know, the shoes that made you sound like a Clydesdale horse clopping down the road. But I was tall (5 foot 8) and aware of my height and didn't want to add to it. So, I couldn't wear the platforms as I thought it would make me freakishly tall for a young woman in her late teens.Had the flares and top to toe denims, though.
My late husband was 6'3" , he told me he wore the platform shoes back then, but he quickly twisted his ankle, so they went in the bin. I remember it was like walking on stilts, I didnt like it, but at 5', I could've used the added inches.
I still wear clogs sometimes, just not freakishly tall. Troentorp makes something called the Ideal sole, the bottom half of the heel is polyurethane so you don't sound like the Clydesdales bringing the Budweiser to town. Great shoes, I love mine.
I was going to say the same thing. Clogs with wooden heels, or the Dr. Schols exercise wooden bottom sandals.
@@msarmington Yes. Both are good shoes, they never really went away. I especially like the roomy toebox you get with clogs.
Roller skating and eating concrete was not around long, at all.
Corduroy was a lint and hair collector and yhe flare pants was called bell bottoms.
I am unsure where you grew up or where you live, but 1) Um, I never wore sequins as “everyday” wear; 2) Flair pants are still being worn; 3) duh, half the staff where I work have mustaches and beards; 4) people still wear animal print clothing; 5) people nowadays rollerblade or have scooters.
All the trends mentionned, with the exception of multi colored platform shoes, is trending again, "adapted" to the current Zeitgeist: curdoroy, bell trousers, sequins but without the fun, exuberence and freedom of the 70's. I have kept those years in my fondest nemories, I was a teen in southern Europe. Boys had long hair, we stepped over our trousers systematically, we wore clogs with knee long multicolored shocks, didn't wear bras and it all was so fresh and, in a certain way, innocent. We had hope, we believed in all the tomorrows to come.
The 60's and 70's were fantastic. I was a student in London then. All of these things are a vivid memory but one or two things are missing. Permed hairdoes and chifon scarves ( worn with a pink Ben Sherman shirt in my case ). Wearing platform shoes was a nightmare - I nearly got run over when I went down a bank and the shoes "ran away " with me and I nearly ended up on the road. As students we believed that all education would be free to all (I didnt pay a penny - grants for everything ) and workers would do no more than 3 days a week! How wrong we were!!!
Used to love Levis Cords
6ft 2in and I wore platform sole shoes back in the early seventies. Combined with my budgie jacket, flared trousers and round collar shirt I thought I was the bees knees back in Derby UK.
Some pics are from the 80s
Satin baseball jackets were popular in 1970 with matching satin jogging shorts
You missed one very important trend and that’s the one of spending time in A&E (emergency room) getting X-rayed after falling off the daft platform shoes that were the thing then! Plenty of fractured and sprained ankles galore! 😂🤣😂
I love corduroy and big collars, sign me up for a suit!
Also animal print is extremely on trend at the moment....showing up somewhere in leopard print isnt going to shock anybody!
I think the 70s in America was slightly different to 70s Britain
We wore hip hugger pants so low at the hips that when you sat down, you butt crack would show. We wore body shirts that buttoned under the crotch so we hid our backsides. In addition, we wore what was referred to as "bubble blouses" . They were stretchy body shirts that looked like bubble wrap.
I think you need to look around more, many things are coming back into fashion, corduroy, sequins, moustaches are all back in. Animal print is always around. The coloured eyeshadow is different but also around. Wide collars are increasingly on dresses and ruffles.
Although the platforms not yet. And thankfully those short shorts for men are not around.
I never even considered trying on a pair of platform shoes. They seemed an impairment to normal walking.
Corduroy is back.
Corduroy is comfortable for casual clothes. Good riddance to flares aka bell bottoms, although they come in and out of style. Platform shoes, yecch! I remember animal prints being more sixtish. Skates were popular in the eighties as well, that's when the in lines started becoming popular.
we need to bring some things back
Sequins were evening attire
They could recycle flip flops into the heel of this shoe.
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The 70s are included in modernity in every possible sense, they are too recent to be differentiated from us with that term, you probably mean people nowadays, current observers etc.
I liked those shoes in the thumbnail photo
You picked the worst possible photos. Fashion today is so much worse than the 70's fashion
Studs on jackets!
I love shoes and without a doubt platforms were the safest option I don't know why they just were