1970S - Men's Fashion

[sunny-dave]

Lest we Forget ...

http://www.artfido.com/blog/amazing-1970s-mens-fashion-ads-you-wont-be-able-to-unsee/amp/

[goodgoalie]

Hilarious - I think I wore some of them!

[Captain2]

Too close to home there SD - where are the tank tops though?

[sunny-dave]

The bloke with the tache, reading a (doubtlessly very arty) book in his pants is ... worryingly familiar :+[]

[aelmpvw]

i think the seventies were quite sedate compared to what we were wearing in the sixties :-)

[paddywak]

Some of it was OK but if I'd turned up in the Welfare on a Friday night dressed in most off it I'd have been laughed out of the bar.

[Baldric]

This, or similar, was quite popular where I was in the '70's

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSNVmppLmzf8KVlxXLFsrO3y6dYViR_SGHh_D5uVeYW1K28Jeg_

Note the matching accessories ;o)

[wolf63]

One of the guys, apart half way down, is holding a tennis racket over his backside. There seems to be a stain behind the strings !!

Some of them were gross, some just absurd and the rest would be laughed at.

[wolf63]

....about half way down .......

[RATTER15]

Well I didnt see much of that being worn in my neck of the woods, I do admit to wearing stack shoes and tank tops though!

[Bazile]

Where are the Oxford Bags trousers and platform shoes ?

[albaqwerty]

Wolfie, I noticed that too !!

I'm shuddering at the thought that either or both of my brothers and their mates may have worn similar.

[hc4361]

Those were the days, my friend

[aelmpvw]

i seem to remember in the mid to late sixties the idea was that your trouser bottoms should cover your shoes :-)

[Eleena]

Ha ha! These are the fashion mag 70s Dave. The men on the street were wearing small collar button down shirts, high waisted pants, platform shoes and tank tops. These are the arty fashion mag styles from that era. Both funny to look back on though.

[Eleena]

... & penny round collars.

[albaqwerty]

ael, but that would mean no-one would be able to admire your winkle-pickers surely? :-D

[Eleena]

Two tones, weren't crombies fashionable too?

[jno]

I was around in the 70s and never saw any of those, though the moustaches were a thing.

But I think what's really awkward about looking at the ads is the notion that males had fashion at all. The very idea is now unfashionable. It was (like much of the 70s) the commodification of individualist 60s styles.

[Eleena]

Is that a word jno ;0)

[albaqwerty]

I was 7 when a brother left home to pursue his career, he had always been short back and sides, white shirt etc.
Came back a few months later to visit, shoulder length hair, purple shirt (sort of flowery) mum and didn't recognise him
Just as well they took me with them when they went to meet him off the train!
That was 1970 :-)