I remember when...Fashion!

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<p>OMG!!One of my jobs in college was at Cohen’s Fashion Optical. Those frames were horrendous!! I got a bigger commissions for selling those gradient tinted lenses. How cool!!
I remember working on July 4, 1976. The rest of the country was celebrating and I was stuck selling horrible glasses to horrible people that day.<br>
(I was probably wearing one of my scrunchy top empire waist dresses and a Farrah-do, however.)</p>

<p>RE: Fair Isle sweaters. A friend of mine attended Smith in the 70s. Her BF was at Holy Cross. She says fashion at Smith in the 70s was rather free-wheeling - everything from gauzy hippie skirts to camel hair coats and everything in between. She visited BF at HC and found that EVERY female was wearing bell bottoms, Frye boots, Fair Isle sweaters and Dorothy Hamill haircuts. Every woman.<br>
She said she felt like she landed in The Stepford Wives. Smith with its all-women student body was so much more diverse.</p>

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<p>Endless paisley dresses, mini-skirt short, with puffed sleeves.</p>

<p>Sasoon haircuts that only worked with straight hair.</p>

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<p>^^ mohair…i actually had a friend in high school ask a sales lady…“What’s a Mo?” like it was an exotic animal</p>

<p>jordache jeans that went all the way up past your belly button</p>

<p>wearing a bandanna as a belt…god, what I wouldn’t give to be able to do that these days!</p>

<p>fake pearl necklace with EVERYTHING!</p>

<p>pinstripe jeans</p>

<p>and yes TutuTaxi (great screen name, btw) big shoulderpads on all clothing…shirts, jackets, dresses…why?</p>

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<p>Halter tops made with a scarf looped over a metal necklace and held together in front with a safety pin </p>

<p>Macrame belts</p>

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<p>OMG, Yes …. while wearing his letter jacket.</p>

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<p>^^
We would wrap really thin yarn around and around the ring, and then shellack it with clear nail polish.</p>

<p>70’s fashion for men:
Wide ties & wide lapels
Sideburns</p>

<p>All I wore during that era was jeans, jeans, jeans. I remember some wafflestompers. :rolleyes:</p>

<p>There were only 2 hairstyles for young females: The Farrah Fawcett or the Dorothy Hammill.</p>

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<p>pageturner,we must have gone to school together</p>

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<p>I had Dorothy Hammel.</p>

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<p>Me too. The Farrah was soooooo high-maintenance.</p>

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<p>OK, I was really flat, but why did my parents think a double thickness of silk scarf was an acceptable shirt/bra combo? I’d be interested in someone looking at the history of bras and the “nipple reveal”. My H and I were laughing at the costumes in the movie “Bottle Shock” - they got the bras right… kind of a sheer baggie around your breasts…thank heavens I was thin and young.</p>

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<p>All those shoes – the Dr. Scholl’s, earth shoes, and those platform sandals are back now. Funny to see those earth shoes advertised again. I find that after a gap of perhaps 20 years, I’m wearing a lot of the same clothes again – Mexican peasant blouses, wrap dresses, halter sundresses…</p>

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<p>While the rest of you were doing Dorothy Hamill and Farrah “dos”…I was “setting” my hair with orange juice cans.</p>

<p>This thread is hilarious.</p>

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<p>I tried that thumper, but gave up. Went the ironing it route.</p>

<p>Boy, with flat irons and product my D does not struggle with her hair as I did. And now my hair has gotten much straighter. Don’t know why.</p>

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<p>Clarks Wallabees. Wanted one desperately, family couldn’t afford it.</p>

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<p>Loves Baby Soft perfume
Hawaiian Tropic Dark Tanning Oil
Watermelon and strawberry flavored liquid lip gloss in the glass tube w/the rollerball applicator.
Weird colors of fingernail polish (blue,green,black) …which has weirdly come back in style
Headbands
flannel shirts
girls wearing mens levi’s often bought a little long so we could roll them up
generally only wore tennis shoes in spring/summer</p>

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<p>Grape lipstick!</p>

<p>Bonne Bell “stuff”</p>

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<p>“…generally only wore tennis shoes in spring/summer.”</p>

<p>And all athletic shoes were called tennis shoes. Is this a Midwest thing?</p>

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<p>Yes, I still call them all tennis shoes. I guess it’s kind of like my mom still calling the fridge the “icebox.”</p>

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<p>“Hawaiian Tropic Dark Tanning Oil” - The thought of that stuff brings to mind afternoons at the beach/pool with good friends. Sunscreen may be more sensible but it just doesn’t seem to smell as good. </p>

<p>POW bracelet
Silver jewelry and cherry scented oil from the headshops (I’m sure there is a more politically correct name for those places…import stores?)</p>

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<p>Junior high, mostly the guys: trucker tee shirts with “convoy” sayings…[Convoy</a> (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_(song)]Convoy”>Convoy (song) - Wikipedia)</p>