REMEMBER WHAT YOU WORE IN THE 70s?

[QUINNY]

I have to admit that I was never that fashionable. I started out in the seventies wearing hippie attire more than anything else. This lasted until '74 or thereabouts when I started wearing slightly more up to date garb.
It wasn't until probably '76 (when I was 24 for goodness sake) that I started to wear clothes that were more upfront. I remember in particular that the shoes in Spain were very good quality and fairly cheap and I had two pairs of platforms that I loved. One pair in particular were very dear to me. They were brown leather, probably about a 2 inch platform with a patchwork light and dark brown top to them. I splashed out on two hawaian type shirts that cost me a small fortune and were black with a very colourful rose motif. Apart from that I wore flared trousers, red, yellow and one pair that I really liked that were denim but with raised squares all over them. Looked rather like a pair of Spiderman denims. When I went to Morocco (had to every 3 months to renew the visa in the early days) I bought a really cool sheepskin coat from the souk in Tetuan ( a Swedish woman friend who was with me bought a 8oz slab of Hashish, but that's another story ).
No wonder I was stopped by the customs when I eventually came back to the UK looking like that AND with a big metal box full of records that was sealed with about 20 bolts. It's strange, but whenever I went out clubbing or drinking in this country after returning from foreign shores, I did look very different to everyone else.

[JussiK]

Does someone remember a downtown New York store called Mano A Mano? In 1979 they sold me a light tan cotton blazer which I wore with sleeves rolled up to my elbows. This I thought was IT, just perfect with my new narrow punk-style shades and some label-less old pair of jeans. When I got home I paraded up and down the main street of our town in this ensemble plus the latest issue of Interview magazine and my record bag, signaling I'm Back from New York and have the all moves and grooves you do not. I must have looked tragic, but it worked.

[zeca azevedo]

Yes, clothes.

zeca azevedo, the naked truth

[markydefad]

Ah Jussi,

The rolled up sleeves on the sports coats!!!!

Was that the WORST look or what???

So "Miami Vice"... with no socks and pastel t-shirts!!

A guy I used to worked with wore that look til--well, he's probably STILL wearing it. He thought he invented it. I always hated seeing nice sports coats all pushed up at the sleeves. Distressed clothing distresses me, I guess.

BUT, wrinkled black leather chaps...I have NO Problem with!!!! :razz:

[DISCODISK]

On 2002-10-02 05:11, QUINNY wrote:
It wasn't until probably '76 (when I was 24 for goodness sake) that I started to wear clothes that were more upfront. I remember in particular that the shoes in Spain were very good quality and fairly cheap and I had two pairs of platforms that I loved. One pair in particular were very dear to me. They were brown leather, probably about a 2 inch platform with a patchwork light and dark brown top to them. I splashed out on two hawaian type shirts that cost me a small fortune and were black with a very colourful rose motif. Apart from that I wore flared trousers, red, yellow and one pair that I really liked that were denim but with raised squares all over them. Looked rather like a pair of Spiderman denims.

It's strange, but whenever I went out clubbing or drinking in this country after returning from foreign shores, I did look very different to everyone else.

quinny flares and platforms in u.k clubland in 1975/6 ?!! you were about 3 years too late ! didnt you have a celebrity dresser in those days ? :grin:

[DanceMan]

Honey, I cannot remember what I wore yesterday, let alone in the 70's - What I can recall is that I wore the platform shoes in the early 70's and then spent the rest of the time in a leotard....if only I could fit in one today....well, I guess they stretch, don't they?

[QUINNY]

But, I had been in Spain and I did say at the very beginning "I was never that fashionable"! :lol: As for my celebrity dresser, hmmm even she'd be stretched to find gainful employment if I didn't dress so badly.
Unless you'd worked abroad, ion that holiday atmosphere, you couldn't realize just how easy it was to spot the nationality by someone's dress and be fairly accurate. It was really funny 'cos when I stepped off of the ferry at Tangiers, the hustlers started to speak to me in German, then tried Swedish, then French before trying English. And those guys were really clever at spotting the nationality of people.
Plus a lot of English women in the Disco where I DJ'd thought I was Spanish for some reason {Just 'cos I spoke in (very bad) Spanish to my many Spanish friends}. Many of them would freak out once they found out I was English, 'cos they'd say some pretty embarrassing things assuming I wouldn't understand. Big Fun!

[jazz_pilgrim]

I used to dress in typical "Soul Boy" fashion, which devolved over the years. The outfits I would wear went as follows:

1977/78/79:
"wedge" haircut
grey baggy "peg" trousers
grey baggy wool shirt with narrow collar
grey wollen tank top
shoes - grey pointed "winkle-pickers" - very proud of those I was!!

Summer of 1980:
"wedge" haircut
bright red or yellow plain sweatshirt
bright red or yellow dangling webbing belt
baggy jeans
shoes - deck pumps (as used on yachts/sail-boats) (great for dancing)
the dreaded WHITE SOCKS

1981/82 - the Jazz Pilgrim days...
"wedge" haircut still!
navy blue plain sweatshirt with "Jazz Pilgrims" logo on the back
straight narrow leg jeans
shoes - black kung-fu plimsols - even better for dancing
black socks
water pistol - in case you met another "Soul tribe"!!!


And of course you had to travel to the clubs and all-dayers in a Ford Cortina Mark 2.

[nrgbeat]

Wedge haircut? Didn't Dorothy Hamill have one of those?

Jazz, I didn't know you were a friend of Dorothy's?

[jazz_pilgrim]

HI Nrgbeat - I am afraid I have never heard of Dorothy Hamill!!

And talking about "wedge" haircuts we all had one - both guys and girls!! :grin: :grin:

[QUINNY]

Well just on cue, I NEVER had a wedge haircut.
You can leave me out of this!

[nrgbeat]

Dorothy Hamill was an Olympic ice skater around 1976.

[nrgbeat]

If you go to this site, you can read about her and the wedge haircut. There's even a picture of her, but it's not one of her better pictures.

http://www.hairboutique.com/tips/tip472.htm

[jazz_pilgrim]

Thanks for that link! Learn something new every day!

I have to say that my wedge hair-cut wasn't quite as drastic as that!! :grin: :grin: That is because I still had to go to school. My school was pretty strict, and if my haircut had been like that, they would have sent me straight home!! :grin: :grin:

[HustleBaby]

This is some of the "threads" my mother, aunts and friends wore back in the 70's:

Leather midi or maxi coats
Gaucho pants
Knitted items (ponchos, dusters, shawls etc
Hot Pants
African headwraps/turbans
Jackets with rabbit fur collars
Platform shoes and sandals
Patchwork fitted leather or suede jackets
Applejacks and big brimmed hats
Tweed suits
Polyester blouses
Halter tops
Cowlnecks
Designer Jeans
Pro-Keds sneakers
Emerald, Charlie, Rive Gauche, Jontue, Enjoli and Jean Nate perfumes.

my father, uncles and friends wore:

Leather Shaft style jackets & coats
Plaid pants
Converse sneakers
Bellbottoms
Polyester shirts
Polyester leisure suits
Jeans - Wranglers?
Dashikis
Koofies
Rib-knit turtlenecks
Members Only garments (late 70's)
Old Spice, Pierre Cardin and Brut colognes

*DELIGHTFUL*