<p>Sorry, gals, I love that skinny black pants are back! At least we all have different physiques, so if a style is bad on us, it only lasts for a couple of years at best.</p>
<p>“sideways” pony tails.</p>
<p>I loved sideways pony tails, hahaha. If you saw the movie Napolean Dynomite there was a girl in there sporting that look. :)</p>
<p>Who thought DVF dresses were a bad idea? Those things are a godsend if you’re curvy!</p>
<p>Peter Maxx stuff. Remember the colors? I wore a lot of body suits (a tight skin hugging top that had snaps in the crotch) they always look good, braless no less. 
Now I wouldn’t wear one if forced at gun point. ;)</p>
<p>Platform shoes circa mid to late 70’s. Gunny Sax dresses.</p>
<p>I remember wearing miniskirts with fishnet stockings - I was FREEZING at the bus stop!</p>
<p>I could have lived without Nehru jackets and cow bell necklaces, cat’s eye glasses, clogs, granny skirts, big watches (with interchangeable watch bands), and (I know this wasn’t a fashion statement)…those horrible thong-like things to keep your feminine napkin in place - talk about a permanent wedgie!</p>
<p>Stirrup pants</p>
<p>Granny gowns</p>
<p>Short skirts before pantyhose were invented (yes, grasshopper, there was such a time…) and we wore hose with garter belts</p>
<p>Say how about “curler caps” or “bonnets”…And those attractive swim caps that left a set of ridges across your forehead. I especially detested the ones that were made more “attractive” by having rubber petals or flowers of some kind attached like a dead anemone over one eye or ear. </p>
<p>Then there were the “hairnets” we had to don when working in any kind of food service…</p>
<p>i could live without a lot of the clothing i see on people today. the stupid t-shirts where 1-2 inches of your tummy sticks out (i dont care whose tummy it is), shorts that are two centimeters from being considered underwear, etc.</p>
<p>and turtle necks. i can’t stand turtle necks.</p>
<p>…to go with the white go-go boots and the fish-net or window pane tights, you just HAD to have a flower-print hip-hugger skirt, with a patent leather belt (preferably pink) and a poor-boy shirt. Now that was a look!</p>
<p>Dickeys… (need 5 characters min.)</p>
<p>^Oh, my gosh! I remember those! </p>
<p>Also, I used to have “granny glasses”. These were inexpensive frames, that came with many different colored lenses that could be interchanged. You just popped out one color and put in another color. The lenses were purely for “style”. Lets not forget mood rings, and love beads. LOL! Same era.</p>
<p>Oh, ID bracelets and friendship rings-H still has his ID bracelet.</p>
<p>thong underwear. </p>
<p>Really, what is the point??? If I was going to be that skimpy, I’d just go comando.</p>
<p>dadofsam, my DH was telling me just a couple weeks ago about his mom getting him a dickey and how he hated it!</p>
<p>I hadn’t thought of dickeys in years and years and years. They were strange in one’s drawers…very disembodied looking. </p>
<p>In 68, I bought a baby doll dress with puffed sleeves with a chained little pocketbook buttoned on the right shoulder. The purse was about as big as a sunglass case and had matching fabric to the dress. Everyone wore one that year on the day school opened. I suppose the little pocketbooks proved to be super annoying so this fashion statement died fast. </p>
<p>Coulottes in psychodelic prints.</p>
<p>Men in pirate style lacey white shirts…just like Paul Revere and the Raiders.</p>
<p>Yes, what was the point of dickey’s–for climates where turtlenecks would be too much bu your neck still got cold???</p>
<p>For no good reason the topic reminded me of how envious I was of girls whose mothers would sew matching mother daughter outfits (or buy them from Sears). One lady in our town actually made dresses for the girls and shirts for the boys from the same (not too girly of course) fabric. As a child I thought that was so extremely cool–like a family team uniform.</p>
<p>I managed to avoid having any dickeys; I believe they existed so that you didn’t have to buy a whole garment, just the neck. I did have madras clothing, however, during and after college.</p>
<p>I have never been particularly stylish, so managed to avoid Nehru jackets, elephant bells, and the hairstyles that went with them. When I was bar mitzvahed, the rage then was pink-and-blue ties, so I had one of those.</p>
<p>I used to work for a company that sold stuff to motorcycle shops and we sold fleece dickies and stuff like that and they actually sold really well. apparently bikers like them because they can just stuff them in their bag on their bike and bring it out when they’re about to ride and it’s cold… however unfashionable it is.</p>