<p>VeryHappy, I just looked over my shoulder…are you following me?</p>
<p>Oh no, I see I’m following you!</p>
<p>Are all of you cheating with Google, or are your memories way better than mine? haha. I find this thread fun, and I remember all of this (<em>after</em> you post, of course!)</p>
<p>ooh, the crotch snap body suits. Now I was clearly older than many of you (early 70’s I was in college) so going out to a party you had to make sure you didn’t imbibe too much or those snaps became far more difficult to maneuver.</p>
<p>And if that were not enough, how about one piece hot pant outfits - we had no sense then, fashion or otherwise.</p>
<p>worknprogress, I was in college from '66 through '70. So there.</p>
<p>When I was a freshman, the girls were required to wear a skirt to dinner. It was the stupidest thing – girls would come back from class in very nice, tailored pants with nice, tailored sweaters, and change into a sweatshirt and jeans to hang around the dorm. Then, to go to dinner, we’d take off the jeans and throw on some completely unrelated skirt. We looked horrible.</p>
<p>Stupid rule.</p>
<p>Oh, VH, I knew I really liked you!</p>
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<p>I think these helped us avoid the “crack” problem - plus most of my lowest hip-hugger cords had belt loops that I filled with a 3" wide suede belt…
The muffin-top problem is different - I think today’s teen girls are about 3 years ahead of the early 70’s kids in terms of physical maturity and weight. Too much high fructose corn syrup?</p>
<p>OTOH, if my kids had tried to get out of the house in my 1972 hot pants, their dad would have had their car keys for a month!</p>
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<p>My mother had a poinsettia-print paper dress she wore one Christmas Eve. Desert boots?..my husband (and son) both own them and wear them all the time.</p>
<p>Anyone have a “maxi” coat which hung down to the ground? Not too practical in the bad weather. For the more sensible fashionistas, there was the zip-off maxi coat, which could easily convert to a “midi” coat.</p>
<p>Mansfield, oh for the days that mini, midi and maxi used to refer to skirt lengths instead of feminine hygene products…</p>
<p>Dragonmom-we bought our wide leather belts from the swap meet. They were embossed with designs and flowers that were painted. We also had leather purses that matched.</p>
<p>I had a pair of very high lace up platform shoes that my Mom said looked like orthopedic shoes. I loved them. I also wore pastel plaid bell bottoms as well as purple bell bottoms with a purple T shirt with zodiac signs printed on it. These were some of my favorite outfits in HS.</p>
<p>Suede purses with long,long fringe.</p>
<p>Buying a string of “love beads” in junior high.</p>
<p>“Hot pink”</p>
<p>This is a fun thread!</p>
<p>Macrame Planters in the paneled den</p>
<p>Earth shoes… The only shoes I owned one year in college - my feet ACHED for 2 months, then finally I got used to them. They were (after that 2 mos) the most comfortable shoes I ever had.</p>
<p>Hip-huggers were much more modest than today’s styles -they came to the top of the hip bone- just a little below the true waist (navel). Low rise barely clears the pubic region. And the muffin-top thing. Most kids were just really skinny- we didn’t eat as many snacks. </p>
<p>Anybody else spend hours embroidering their jeans? Pictures, names, designs, everything!</p>
<p>Those goofy uniforms we had to wear for gym class!</p>
<p>Oh, those rompers! We ripped off the sleeves, popped the collars and removed the dorky belts. Yes, we made them look soo much better.</p>
<p>Here is some wording from an old advertisement on “rompers”. Too funny!</p>
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<p>We called them “gym suits.” They were institutional green. Yech.</p>
<p>I can’t for the life of me figure out why my parents let me out of the house every Tuesday night to go roller skating in hot pants!<br>
I had a midi coat. It wasn’t down though it was wool. Down midi’s were all the rage for a while and long coats are very practical in northern cities when you do a lot of walking. Not so much for getting in and out of a car!</p>
<p>My mother was one of only a handful of people in this world who looked good in a jumpsuit. Long sleeve, long pants, polyester with a chain belt that hung down. She looked so sexy and would even wear it to parties in the 60’s - my dad was an AF officer.</p>
<p>muffin-top - I think this is a result of ill-fitting tight jeans made of lycra. with the lycra they stretch and the kids <em>think</em> they fit - plus they want them tight.</p>
<p>Correct me if I’m wrong, but weren’t hot pants IN when pantiehose were just coming into being? OMG that means we did the garter belt and stocking thing with those hot pants? I have a horrible faint memory of this.</p>
<p>Also my maxi coat made it through maybe 2 weeks of dragging every imaginable detritus and debris in its wake, before my mom made it into a midi!</p>