Post photos of '70s fashion here, including your own or your family's examples.

My grandfather--sideburns, bellbottoms and a pink wide collared shirt, 1972
http://s11.postimg.org/kkonlg1yb/July_1972_1.jpg

Step-grandpa (wearing the sunglasses), polka dotted shirt, 1972:
http://s24.postimg.org/69tcueyth/7_9_1972.jpg

Grandpa's brother (in the middle), pink Disco collared shirt, hot pink pants, August 1973
http://s4.postimg.org/55rgtrgu5/70s_pics_1_2.jpg

Step-grandpa, massive sideburns, pink loud wide tie, mid '70s:
http://s1.postimg.org/6mq76f2tr/Partyk.jpg

My mother, front redhead, hippie dress, June 1974
http://s24.postimg.org/6a3059uit/june_9_1974.jpg

My father looking hippie, circa 1971-1972
http://s7.postimg.org/jmyko810r/de_6.jpg

http://blog.shoplet.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/70s-mens-fashions-500.jpg

Thanks for posting those pictures, 90sGuy! I always like seeing how ordinary people dress in a certain time period rather than seeing how people in fashion catalogs or TV shows dress.

Thanks for posting those pictures, 90sGuy! I always like seeing how ordinary people dress in a certain time period rather than seeing how people in fashion catalogs or TV shows dress.


More for you then:

My mother (in the short skirt) and her family, 1970
http://s7.postimg.org/u3zv51zm3/nunnery1.jpg

Grandfather, July 1972
http://s23.postimg.org/47x0ag1jf/July_1972_1_orig.jpg

June 1973:
http://s30.postimg.org/78ofamau9/6_13_1973_1.jpg

My sister's baptism, December 1973:
http://s12.postimg.org/n68tzjhxp/Untitled_Scanned_41.jpg

My father, April 21st 1974
http://s9.postimg.org/6qbmsotjz/4_21_74.jpg

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/e4/8c/85e48c43f8de22dc3254dd1fd12390d8.jpg

http://jonmwessel.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/a-mens_fashion-e.jpg?w=604

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/9c/68/07/9c6807be786d0ba9bdd6082d96020c4a.jpg

Thanks for posting those pictures, 90sGuy! I always like seeing how ordinary people dress in a certain time period rather than seeing how people in fashion catalogs or TV shows dress.

Some more for you then .
I've no idea who these people are, my parents took theses pictures when visiting relatives in the US in Michigan 1974:
Some diner:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/1280_6339666538663630.jpg

And some random cool guys:
http://foto.arcor-online.net/palb/alben/54/1012554/1280_3834656333646138.jpg

Sorry for the bad quality but I had to scan that from slides and our slide scanner isn't exactly a high quality model... :-[

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i9pNKbmG8Zo/UP76_16WPXI/AAAAAAAAHvY/P0iK228RQw4/s400/soultrain1.jpg

Now how cool was it to dress on Soul Train?

In 1973 (age 13) I had a most favorite outfit, a bolero vest and knickers combo in a white/charcoal herringbone knit fabric.  The style looked like this pattern:

http://users.dls.net/~faulkners/1971Pattern.jpg

I loved wearing this with tall zip boots and a black turtleneck.  I looked stylish  ;D

Incidentally during the 70's I sewed a lot of my own clothes (although I didn't make the aforementioned outfit, a gift).  Like any teenager girl, I liked to look fashionable - sewing let me 'get there'  ::)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/70/de/55/70de55787da281a41310614396207738.jpg

http://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/e4/8c/85e48c43f8de22dc3254dd1fd12390d8.jpg


Howard - would you believe I recall seeing a real guy wearing an outfit nearly identical to the yellow suit, attending a concert I was at, in 1975.  I recall he also had huge yellow platform shoes that matched everything (I think his shirt may have been black).  His yellow hat had a huge multi-colored feather, too.  It was definitely 'over the top' - even for then!  ;D

My grandfather, May '75, from driver license. Not a complete fashion photo but you can get an idea of his wide collared, wild patterned shirt.
http://s27.postimg.org/fj2mb33c3/image.jpg

Wide collars, think Elvis!


http://www.azzli.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Elvis_Presley_1970s-Fashion.jpg

Howard - would you believe I recall seeing a real guy wearing an outfit nearly identical to the yellow suit, attending a concert I was at, in 1975.  I recall he also had huge yellow platform shoes that matched everything (I think his shirt may have been black).  His yellow hat had a huge multi-colored feather, too.  It was definitely 'over the top' - even for then!  ;D


What were guys thinking at that time when they dressed that way?

What were guys thinking at that time when they dressed that way?
...it was 1975 ?

Wide collars, think Elvis!


http://www.azzli.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Elvis_Presley_1970s-Fashion.jpg


and long sideburns too.

and long sideburns too.
Oh yes!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/66/9d/d7/669dd7d379947cbbfb0dca324876feb7.jpg

I see some guys prefer not to wear a belt.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/66/9d/d7/669dd7d379947cbbfb0dca324876feb7.jpg

I see some guys prefer not to wear a belt.
Belts are worn if the trousers are a bit loose.

Belts are worn if the trousers are a bit loose.
pants

Oh yes!


and the porn staches.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PrgF0Mhc2HI/T3cnVWNWVGI/AAAAAAAAAtg/bi0KQuIrHz8/s1600/John_Schneider_48f665a10f426.jpg
John Schneider

Belts are worn if the trousers are a bit loose.


So they like it that way?

pants


How about calling them bell bottoms?

...it was 1975 ?


Where did one shop for clothes in 1975?

How about calling them bell bottoms?
also called flares.

Where did one shop for clothes in 1975?
At a tailors in the main street?

At a tailors in the main street?


too bad there wasn't a Kohl's at that time.

Where did one shop for clothes in 1975?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/C%26A_logo.png

What were guys thinking at that time when they dressed that way?
People told me that consuming Cannabis can alter the way colors are perceived... I think that explains a lot of the fashion of that time. ;D :D

People told me that consuming Cannabis can alter the way colors are perceived... I think that explains a lot of the fashion of that time. ;D :D
Cannabis made you go colour blind?

also called flares.


Why were they called it that way? ???

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/C%26A_logo.png


Did they have low prices?

http://neteral.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/BD_Betty_Davis_1973_Cover.jpg

even Betty Davis had the fashion in 1973. ↑

Why were they called it that way? ???
Because the trousers become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the pant leg, in other words to flare out.

Flare:
gradually become wider at one end
a gradual widening, especially of a skirt or pants

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/20/d8/f0/20d8f064a9099fc3eeea185ba323d619.jpg

LBJ meeting with George McGovern, August 1972, wearing long hair, sideburns and a wide collared shirt:
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h52/Tiktaalik/McGovern-visits-LBJ-at-WWH.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/e8/13/b1/e813b1f4e049d562f8fd68973db53cf9.jpg

I don't know who these people are but the website says the photo is from 1975:

http://www.usu.edu/all/img/classes/1975-1976.gif

Check out these suits on the Osmond brothers:

https://remindmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/osmonds.jpg

The Bay City Rollers:

http://www.pictorialpress.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/07/001-110239.jpg

http://www.tandemfs.org/uploaded/Photos/Class_Photos/1977.jpg

Class of 1977 ↑

I don't know who these people are but the website says the photo is from 1975:

http://www.usu.edu/all/img/classes/1975-1976.gif

Check out these suits on the Osmond brothers:

https://remindmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/osmonds.jpg

The Bay City Rollers:

http://www.pictorialpress.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2013/07/001-110239.jpg


They sure worn a lot of designs.

The following thread has some, shall we say, interesting, clothes:

http://www.vintag.es/2015/06/these-mens-fashion-ads-from-70s-that.html

:D

The following thread has some, shall we say, interesting, clothes:

http://www.vintag.es/2015/06/these-mens-fashion-ads-from-70s-that.html

:D


Wow, those clothes look outrageous.  :o

Wow, those clothes look outrageous.  :o
...and unspeakable!