Do you dare show your 70's fashion disasters
Do you dare show your 70's fashion disasters
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Streetrod

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Ok folks I am not sure if this thread has wings but here goes. I know this will only apply to those of you of a certain age but you will remember the 70's as the decade that fashion forgot. I dare you to post pics of yourselves from that decade.

As a starter for ten here is a pic of me taken 20 years ago trying to look how I did in the 70's. I will post a couple of original pics later. I am the one in the silver jump suit by the way. And yes I did actually go out looking like this: roflroflrofl


sunnygym

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Penny-lope

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Look careful at the pinafore (just for PH hehe )

staceyb

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255 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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I wasn't born til 1983.

Streetrod

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Penny-lope said:
Look careful at the pinafore (just for PH hehe )
Do people still use the word "Pinafore" I can remember the last time I heard it

Penny-lope

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Streetrod said:
Penny-lope said:
Look careful at the pinafore (just for PH hehe )
Do people still use the word "Pinafore" I can remember the last time I heard it
Not too sure, but since it was taken ~1977, I was using the correct vocabulary for the time biggrin

Edited by Penny-lope on Wednesday 28th July 20:20

WorAl

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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staceyb said:
I wasn't born til 1983.
Same here

Streetrod

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Wednesday 28th July 2010
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WorAl said:
staceyb said:
I wasn't born til 1983.
Same here
What are you kids doing up this late, get to bed.....

theironduke

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219 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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1985 here wink

E31Shrew

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223 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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I had a rather stunning pair of jeans that my Mum, after splitting the seam from the knee downwards, sewed a large triangle in to widen stupidly. That coupled with my brown, mauve and green tank top certainly meant I could go ahead with furtive fumblings on the school trips.

I then decided that the Showaddywaddy look was better. Got an old raincoat from the shed and stitched felt overlays on the top of the pockets. Had a pair of plastic Simod trainers and painted them with gloss paint, a lurid shade of blue. Bottom half of shoe I painted silver. Cool wasn't the word!

Used to walk up and down Guildford High St all day on a Saturday. Must've looked an absolute tosser.

Those were the days.

Mexic0

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203 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Born in 74 so i have been told and my school picture just broke the pc frown

MGZRod

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207 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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1992 here hehe Time for some warm milk old men and an early night smile

North West Tom

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208 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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1993 here. Now where did i put my zimmer frame?

Biker's Nemesis

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239 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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You're all bloody kids. grumpy

Err, mid 1960's here.

I wonder how many of your mums I met during my travels in the 1980's.

Solitude

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206 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Streetrod, no worries about your look..... as the pool of sweat on you mates armpits takes the eye off the moody gear !!!!biggrin
I was at an old soul do in shepperton this past weekend, we were all oldies , but none of us were dressed up. Just the old rare grooves without the visuals. ( a load of 45+yr olds still trying to "cut some shapes") laughcooleek

spurs-442

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215 months

Thursday 29th July 2010
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Born 1988 - I wasn't even a twinkle in the milkmans eyes hehe

time222222

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228 months

Thursday 29th July 2010
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brillent

Streetrod

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Thursday 29th July 2010
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Solitude said:
Streetrod, no worries about your look..... as the pool of sweat on you mates armpits takes the eye off the moody gear !!!!biggrin
I was at an old soul do in shepperton this past weekend, we were all oldies , but none of us were dressed up. Just the old rare grooves without the visuals. ( a load of 45+yr olds still trying to "cut some shapes") laughcooleek
Hey I hear you man, every once in while I try to recapture the groove I once enjoyed back in the day. The problem is I need to go and lie down in a dark room afterwards for a couple of hours to recover laugh

A couple of years ago I went to see Earth Wind and Fire at the Albert Hall and the site of a crowd of 40 to 50 something’s trying to get down old school style was hilarious in the extreme as was the glare from the lights off the balding heads.biggrin

Justayellowbadge

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Thursday 29th July 2010
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Penny-lope said:
Reminds me, I always wanted a pet monkey.

Penny-lope

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Thursday 29th July 2010
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Justayellowbadge said:
Penny-lope said:
Reminds me, I always wanted a pet monkey.
The worse thing is, the face still hasn't improved 33 years later hehe