How we dressed back in the day.

fuzzybuddy said:
What gets me is how dated the clothes look, now. I don't know how the trends got started, but within a couple of years, we were all wearing 'em. Then three years later, we wouldn't be caught dead wearing 'em.
I just wonder, who the guy was that started the frayed knees on jeans look. It amazes me how we all want to look "cool".
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Frayed? Now jeans have big holes. I told my daughter the companies are saving money by turning the fabric from the holes into pockets.
 

Fyrefox said:
Well, we won’t talk about leisure suits in the 1970’s! I worked part-time in a clothing store then, and customers would come in and ask if leisure suits were going to be a lasting fashion. They were even supposed to replace jackets and ties for men…Hah! 😸

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My boss always wore leisure suits to work. He had a whitish one that had some kind of beige swirls all over it. I asked him what the suit was made of, and he said it was his rat's ass suit.

So my mom, who worked in a scientific research section of the medical school, got some actual rat tails from one of her scientist friends, and wrapped them up real pretty in a long box that must have once held a necklace or something. She inter-office mailed this present, clearly labeled to go with his rats ass suit, to him. Everyone loved it. Med school people have weird senses of humor.

PS The poor rats were already dead from the science stuff when their tails were cut off to play this practical joke.
 
When I went to see friends my favorite was leather shoes, socks, blue jeans, white t shirt and a crew cut to help stay cool in those hot Iowa summers. At home, we lived outside town limits, so I would wear next to nothing there just baggy colored shorts. For school we had the dress code shoes, slacks and shirt.
 

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In my teen years, I loved wearing mini skirts. I never liked jeans so when I wore pants they had to be tight. I went to a Catholic school and the nuns would make you kneel down and your uniform bottom had to touch the floor. What the nuns never knew was that when we got a block away from the school we would hike up our uniforms and then they would be short
 
Aunt Bea said:
I remember lots of ric-rac, too much ric-rac!

I was much more comfortable when we moved into the old worn jeans, t-shirts and flannel shirts.

We went from the excitement of getting new school clothes in grade school to happily wearing old worn out clothes in high school.

I have no idea what it’s like for kids these days.
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My mother used ric-rac to cover the old hem wear line when she had to let down our dresses. You could tell how many times a dress had been let out by the number of lines of ric-rac. I haven't thought about ric-rac in years and years.
 
PamfromTx said:
View attachment 181592I'm in the front row with the boots. High school 1970s. LOL!!! Lawd, what a getup... what was I thinking?!? The poncho is killing me. :ROFLMAO: 😅 😂😅
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And to think in 1963 i got detention for jeans under my.knee length skirt to walk about 1.5 to 2 miles on a very cold winter day. Headed straight for girls restroom 20 ft inside, took of the pants, and walked out to a male teacher who'd had in for me for year. I did the time. But Mom called the school and said she didn't want hear any nonsense about how much i was out sick if i wasn't allowed to dress for the weather. (I had a crappy immune system, caught any respiratory thing i got exposed to as it was.)
 
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