You wore long hair,turtle-necks,flaired trousers

[Flight From Ashiya]

Come on!! admit it....you looked like this many years back!!. There are old photographs hidden in the attic!.You looked like something straight out of the'Scooby-Doo' cartoon series!!!.:D

[daisymae]

I wore houndstooth bellbottoms....:D I wish I had a picture...*sigh*

[Flight From Ashiya]

I wore houndstooth bellbottoms....:D I wish I had a picture...*sigh*

Lol!!!.That's brilliant.Please post up a photo,If you can!!.:)

[hippiehillbilly]

i have pictures ill never show..

i slowly started growin my hair when i was in 2nd grade.. the beatles bowl cut,.. (ack the beatles kill me now)

we were somewhat poor when bell bottoms were popular,,.. but i had 2 older sisters..

they used to cut the pleats and add fabric,, often they would add fabric to the bottom of the britches leg as well..

was quite creative ..

id say i can answer yes to all yer above questions,,..

seppin for the platform shoes..

all in all i remember playin spin the bottle to rod stewarts music ,, blah blah..

to think what a skewed life i was livin at 13..

hell i was already shootin dope,..
heheehe,..

i was in 7th grade when the farrah poster was popular..

[themnax]

i'd wear brown doublknit bells now if i could find any in my size and price range. and lime green shortsleeve shirts with nerd pockets.

i do have brown, NOT CANVAS pants. the heavy cotton work pants they make now wear out even quicker then decent dress pants to go with a suit.

always hated blue denum though. to me it was like wearing a uniform to be DIFFERENT? how can you be your unique self by immitating everyone else. besides moms used to dress us in bluejeans. damd uncomfortable things that never lasted long enough to get comfortable. and yes i mean that includes the big name ones just as much as the also's.

i was working in a place once where i got complained to about my hair one too many times for my liking so i shaved it all off. this was before the neo-swastika nuts started do that as THEIR badge/symbol.

i WANTED to look like, i don't remember what he was called, but before there was scooby there was archi, and there was i guy in that, well the whole thing was like a precursor to scooby, except it didn't have the dog. anyway there was this guy in it who was the precursor to shaggy in scooby. then there were r. crumb's freek brothers. and mr natural. my hair never did cooperate and my skin rebeled against my hair.

but i did have a string of wooden poney beads with a big peace symbol.

only time i ever went dancing was some lady friend would drag me into it. never got into platforms/moonboots. thought they were dumb. why the hell should i have to want to pretend to be tall? i LIKE being short!

=^^=
.../\...

[Autumn_Mama]

I had a pair of green bell bottoms and a jean jacket with multi colored patches all over it that I liked to wear. I always thought I looked cool in that. LoL One of my sisters had a pair of denim bell bottoms with Shaun Cassidy on the bell part of the pantleg--he was surfing on a wave. She thought he was IT! LoL
Shaun Cassidy wasn't my cup of tea! ;-)

[rg paddler]

yep.though i admit to sewing up a pair of flares last week - in inchlength threads - went to the bar - straight away,got the comment 'waiting for a flood?'
cheese - love it

[gardener]

You fans of Shaun Cassidy are younger than me. My group went to the original Army Navy stores and bought the 13 button navy wool pants and the green army fatique jackets were our symbols in the spring. You had to love all the pockets those things came with.

[Flight From Ashiya]

:)
Shaun Cassidy was the pin-up vogue for about six months in 1976 or something.I don't think he went anywhere near the water let alone surfing.
Farrah-Fawcett Majors: was replaced by 'Daisy Duke' from the 'Dukes of Hazzard'.
'The Fonz' in leather motorcycle jacket with the thumbs -up..........(I know you're asking:"Thumb's up what?":rolleyes:) that poster was everywhere!.

[short-man420]

i was mistaken for a girl one time at the mall, a lady sellin hair straighteners was like "excuse me miss, would you like to try it out" and i turned around and she's like "omg, i'm so so sorry" and i laughed

[Jahagafut]

I still doO_o

[Vana]

Um, I still think I'm Velma from Scooby Doo on a good day. Am I ill?

[SunLion]

My hair is STILL so long that I'm sometimes mistakenly thought to be female. It's weird, though, that it's still not gray...

[drumminmama]

I had colored denim bells with this braided fabric belt on each (matching) since I was a slow-growing kid, I wore them for YEARS (my mom did the rick rack and trim bit over the deep hems she let out every so often.- first you had a hem. the next year, one row of rick rack. the next, trim over the faded line, and she'd add a second row of rick rack for balance)
She'd find a pair of jeans that fit me and buy three. I really went clothes shopping once a year, and often for a couple of shirts. I ripped shirts, but the denim held up.
All the kids in my class thought I had two sets of clothes.
My brother had the Farrah poster. I had the haircut. in red. so beleiveable.
we were in the CW McCall fan club, 10-4 good buddy.

[mamaboogie]

I danced to vinyl records. As a teenager and young adult, I had a collection of over 900 record albums, but that was nothing compared to my Dad's record collection. I got my first cd player when I was 20. I did have an 8-track player as a kid.

Shaun Cassidy was on my bedroom wall when I was in the second or third grade. I had Farrah hair when I was 13. Everyone else did, too, but mine was the biggest. Then big hair became the thing and I shaved it off for a mohawk instead.

I did have one pair of bellbottoms in the third or fourth grade. My mom kept sewing strips of wide ribbon to the bottoms of the legs when they got too short for me and I wouldn't stop wearing them. In high school everyone wore Levis straight legs with the white patch on the back pocket.

I never had platform shoes, but did have some metallic gold "high heel" sneakers, I think that was in the sixth grade, because Olivia Newton John (I think it was her) wore some just like them in some wretched movie about rollerskating. Yes, I went to the Roller Disco every friday night and spent all of my allowance. That would have been from 5th to 7th grades.

[Wasteland]

I never had platform shoes, but did have some metallic gold "high heel" sneakers, I think that was in the sixth grade, because Olivia Newton John (I think it was her) wore some just like them in some wretched movie about rollerskating. Yes, I went to the Roller Disco every friday night and spent all of my allowance. That would have been from 5th to 7th grades.
http://www.onlyolivia.com/music/albums/data/xanadu.jpg

[Flight From Ashiya]

:rolleyes:
Halp meh!!! all the sensational seventies childhood memories are comin' back to haunt us.....
Roller Disco,Olivia Newton John,Velma,The Incredible Hulk.......
"We got a brand new convoy,trucking thru' the night.....come on & join our convoy;ain't she a beautiful sight!!!".:D

[SpaceTrippin]

Back in 75 or so I had the longest hair in my high school and ya wearing the old platform shoes and bellbottoms or flares, whatever they were called.
Almost every morning these same 2 teachers would be standing at the door as I come in late blowing pot smoke in their faces.
They never did anything about except mumble something to me that I have no idea what.......

[Flight From Ashiya]

Back in 75 or so I had the longest hair in my high school and ya wearing the old platform shoes and bellbottoms or flares, whatever they were called.
Almost every morning these same 2 teachers would be standing at the door as I come in late blowing pot smoke in their faces.
They never did anything about except mumble something to me that I have no idea what.......

................"Getcha 'aircut sonny!!!".:D

[wandrnshaman]

all of the above, heh
I remember dancing to those little 45 records at a girl's house. We were probably 8 or so.
I was mistaken for a girl today. Cashier's don't look at customers any more. They see hair and think female. Even though I have a freaking moustache they think female. It happens every few weeks but I do have nice hair.
The Farrah poster...I stared at that nipple poking thru her red swimsuit till it was permanently etched in my mind. In '78, I was 11 and that poster was like a window on my wall looking straight into Heaven.
The platform shoes, what can I say? They were hand me downs from my cousin so I just played in them and sometimes the harder we play, the harder we fall, right?

[SpaceTrippin]

................"Getcha 'aircut sonny!!!".:DYour probably right Flight :)

[Flight From Ashiya]

all of the above, heh
I remember dancing to those little 45 records at a girl's house. We were probably 8 or so.
I was mistaken for a girl today. Cashier's don't look at customers any more. They see hair and think female. Even though I have a freaking moustache they think female. It happens every few weeks but I do have nice hair.
The Farrah poster...I stared at that nipple poking thru her red swimsuit till it was permanently etched in my mind. In '78, I was 11 and that poster was like a window on my wall looking straight into Heaven.
The platform shoes, what can I say? They were hand me downs from my cousin so I just played in them and sometimes the harder we play, the harder we fall, right?
We got a 'Farrah Fawcett Majors' free colour poster in 'The Sun ' newspaper in Britain in 1976. The 'Evening Standard' gave a free colour poster of 'David Cassidy' in 1973 when he toured Britain.
Were we lucky or what???.........

[erzebet1961]

Thank god I never dressed that way..but I did love my granny dresses with the angel sleeves!

[greenfairy]

i want to know what was worn between 70 and 75. very interesting things being said lol. i have a christmas party coming up in november, and im sick of hearing about bell bottoms etc. i think everyone will come in bell bottoms. i want to be different, wasnt the hippie child still around in the early 70's? i thought it might be because the vietnam war didnt end till 75 so there were still protests, right? i need someone to help!!! lol just try to remember what you wore to party's in the early 70's or if you were an anti war protester. mum cant help, she lived in a small country town, and they still wear flannelette shirts!!

[wyldwynd]

fringe purses and fringe vests with the beads, i remember those still being around 70-75.

[HonorSeed]

I dunno if flares replaced bell bottoms about the 70's, but I was wearing a pair around, almost caught my toe on the opposite cuff and fell flat on my face, the kind of thin fabriced hippie design pull string flairs that are real big at the bottom, big enuff for a cat to crawl up. They're dangerous.

[Therefore...]

I've been in the men's room and had guys come in and freak out because they see the back of my head and think I'm a girl.:)

And my hair is probably twice as long as it is in my sig.

[HonorSeed]

I've had women come up behind me in the market and say 'ma'am'.

[Bilby]

Don't make me cringe.

[Jim Colyer]

I thought I was John Travolta with my bell bottoms and flowered polyester shirts.

[Flight From Ashiya]

I thought I was John Travolta with my bell bottoms and flowered polyester shirts.

Yeah but.....soooooooooo many girls eh? :rolleyes:

[Piney]

As late as 1968 Bell bottoms were a cult thing and conservative parents didn't want it in the wardrobe.
Had a double breasted suit with bells tho.
We had worn pannts and shirts sewn with two diferent colored fabrics. Teacher called me a clown.
People did thier own sewing. scarfs were popular.
This is when the flag became a fashion statement.
The Confederate flag did not have the racist stigma that it has today. Americans learned what a Union Jack was.

Janice/CSN&Y/ Allman Bros/ Dead. were the fashion trenders in the early 70's the workboots-jeans & flannel shirts were huge.
T-shirts of course. Hilbilly hats.
Even the Rolling Stones had some country influenced music then with Keith hanging with Ghram Parker.
I think of it when I see how popular Timberland boots are.
The movie Easy Rider inspired motorcycle boots.
Black Converse hi-tops were de-regular. Guys had necklaces. My buddy had a NeilYoung style fringe buckskin jacket. Jeans were a uniform.
Hippie chicks, as now, wore those long dresses that are so convient to squat in if there are no bathrooms around. The jewelry was the same. of course, the hats!

Remembering when David Bowie hit it big in '73 it went from grunge to glam with the platforms and bells with cuffs. Elton John went from semi-country to glam.

Rock stars like Yes, ELP and Sabbath wore superhero outfits with capes.
A take off on the Arab cafgan.
Jesus Freaks were out on the streets in thier unique style.

The British Invasion sytle featured a collared button down shirt & funky sports jacket with wide lapels & platform shoes. pins & buttons.
Mabye a handkerchif viewable. I remember Beatle boots.
The absolutely glamest was Brian Jones of The Stones, Think Mike Myers in the Austin Powers movies, nobody had the balls to dress like that.

In '74 the draft ended, the drinking age was dropped from 21 down to 18.
There was a whole lot less homemade clothing after that. Also jocks and rednecks crashed the hippie party scene and all of a sudden marajuana wasn't an insider thing anymore. Genuine hippies were unhappy cause they wanted to keep the whole scene all to themselves. The hippies had been a small cult thing. Going mainstream brought in diferent influences and off-the-rack cloths.
But it was all very cool untill cocaine had its big breakout in the mid seventies. Then all of a sudden police lost that relaxed attitude of the early years and you actually could get busted.

in '75 CBGB's opened and things got more punky, remember David Byrne of the Talking Heads with that big suit. Debbie Harry of Blondie with a 50's retro look. The Country rock- British Invasion Axis lost its dominance.

In the past a true hippie would have never worn a leather jacket as too burgous, but after Jerry Garcial appeared in one in 73-74 it became acceptable. Brits will think of the contempt expressed for rockers by mods.

The running suit or athletic suit had its big breakout round '76 and there was a lot of funky polyester lesiure suits. Disco was now king and people drifted over to the disco look. The necktie lost its burgos stigma.
This is when Jordasce designer jeans broke out and with movies like Shampo, the beauty parlor lost its stigma for hippie chicks. People wanted to wear flashier jewlry. The Superfly look was in. Afro hairstyled were big.

[cricketlind]

Wow! What a thread. I loved the big "elephant leg" bell bottoms. Yeah, I got my DC jeans at the Army Navy store, too. Never wore platforms though. I got mistaken for a "boy" back then a few times. Then I started wearing make-up and had my hair done. I sported a "Farrah Fawcett" hairdo. I had to carry a portable curling iron in my purse to school to redo it at noon. I wish I had a copy of my senior pic to share. One side the flip reversed itself but you could still tell it was a Farrah do. Complete with the baby blue sparkly eyeshadow. LOL! What a memory. What about the bandana halter tops and skirts?

Peace and Love, Cricket

[psychedelic goddess]

You looked like something straight out of the'Scooby-Doo' cartoon series!!!.http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif man, i still do! http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[shaggie]

Bell bottoms, bare feet, and yellow smiley face t-shirts were common. I have trouble even finding any pants with a flare at shops or thrift stores. Many get skinnier toward the ankle now.

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[MisterEm]

My hair is still long, and I still get mistaken for a woman once in a while. (Depending on whether or not someome sees me from behind.)

[sentient]

I once wore a Cravat to a fancy dress party - does that count ?
O also some Laura Ashley curtains that had been made into trousers
I went dressed as Mr Humphries from are you being served - it was a 1970's telivision show fancy dress party

[hippiestead]

Had a pair of red white & blue plaid elephant bells, hand-me-downs from an aunt...no one in Iowa was wearing anything like that back in '76.

Running outfits, scary memories there...anyone remember the ones made out of parachute material?

And Peter Frampton was on my wall in the mid 70's...thinking that maybe the poster came in that middle-class standard issue of 'Frampton Comes Alive' (and if you want a scary reminder of just how many years have passed since then, that a look at Peter Frampton now...)

Cinnamon of the Hippiestead

[shaggie]

The parachute style was popular around early 70s. That was a short-lived fashion. The leather/vinyl thing was popular back then too.

Yeah, Frampton has aged a lot. These people look like grandparents now. Frampton Comes Alive was pretty good. That was back in the days of recording albums and even double albums live. :)

Maybe his next one can be "Frampton Still Alive!" :)

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[Alaskan]

I hate to admit it, I had a Neru Jacket with the beads and everything.
Now my closet looks like the working mans store.
A little Alaskan story; A buddy of mine as taking his kids on a trip to N.Y. to visit grandma. His daughter, about 10 at the time, said " Daddy, wear your black Carharts, I want you to look nice".
Thats Alaskan kids for you.....................Alaskan

[Flight From Ashiya]

The parachute style was popular around early 70s. That was a short-lived fashion. The leather/vinyl thing was popular back then too.

Yeah, Frampton has aged a lot. These people look like grandparents now. Frampton Comes Alive was pretty good. That was back in the days of recording albums and even double albums live. :)

Maybe his next one can be "Frampton Still Alive!" :)

.
Lol!......'Frampton's Still Alive' could be his chart comeback!!!.

I really don't know why but I can so clearly remember the huge impact of the 'Frampton Comes Alive' double album in 1976.I almost bought it back then even though it was more expensive than normal L.P.s.
Was it just promo-hype?.

[shaggie]

At the time, it was the biggest selling album ever. I think the Bee Gees beat it out next with Saturday Night Fever followed by Michael Jackson with Thriller, both of which were mainly disco albums. I still prefer an album like Frampton's compared with Bee Gees or Jackson. Many of the highest selling albums seem to be ones with the most hype.

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[hippiestead]

the record sales ran in conjunction with the rise of the yuppie...money rules & all that

[SpaceTrippin]

Frampton Comes Alive wasn't bad, but I only liked a couple of tunes from it.
How about Grand Funk Live Album from '70. Now that was a thumpin ass kickin album.

[psychedelicgirl]

"You wore long hair,turtle-necks,flaired trousers"
is this not cool anymore?
maybe i should stop doing it, then.
:tongue:
nah, never!

[Flight From Ashiya]

"You wore long hair,turtle-necks,flaired trousers"
is this not cool anymore?
maybe i should stop doing it, then.
:tongue:
nah, never!Lol!!!http://www.hipforums.com/forums/images/newsmilies/smilielol5.gif......If you wear flairs & turtle neck you're called 'Retro' so it's still cool to wear 'em.

[movielover]

My first albulm was The Association with Cherish and Along Comes Mary on it.
My favorite outfit was these olive green bell bottoms and desert boots. I even have a picture. I'd only post it if I felt like making alot of people laugh.

[hannahannahannah]

In California in the early 70s we wore jeans - and not always bell bottoms - we'd buy them used at a COOL second hand shop in Hermosa Beach called The Aaardvark. As a chick, it was also cool to wear guys chords (bells) anything burgandy, navy blue or dark green was cool. For shirts, I wore a LOT of vintage blouses from the 40s-50s that I'd find at second hand stores. They buttoned up the back. High necks, embroidery on the collars. I also put together an outfit for myself with a mid calf flowing skirt made of some silkish material, and it looked rather like a vintage pattern of drapes (soft grape color and white flowers - that seemed a bit hawaiian-ish), and I had what my

crowd called my "$40 blouse" (because I HAD to have it when I saw it, but had to put it on lay-a-way since it was SO expensive). It was in a specialty shop at the mall, and was of a light silk like material, and the back and front panel had different fabrics. It wreaked of vintage, though it wasn't. Long sleeves that belled out, and a tie that tied in back. Very hot, I was. :) I would wear this skirt and blouse with knee high blue suede boots that zippered up the front. Reminiscent of Carley Simon's album cover "Anticipation". I even have a pic of me one Christmas, where I out and out looked like her for that nano second, due to the long full hair and huge grin. I love that pic.


Clogs were huge, and moccasins (sp?). Peasant blouses. Either we bought them at Olivera Street in Los Angeles, or the Mexican shop at Knott's Berry Farm, or we made our own. Also made my own bell bottoms, after my girlfriends Mom showed us how to make our own patterns out of newpaper. :)

[SunLion]

Lol!......'Frampton's Still Alive' could be his chart comeback!!!.

He was awesome back then... I was about 14 or 15 when his live album came out, and if there was any one album that got me through my toughest teen years, it was that one. He was the first guitarist I recognized by "style." I watched his performance on Soundstage on PBS I think it was, recently, and he was as good as ever, better actually.

He now lives in my hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio, supports and advances the cause of local music, and has a very good reputation around these parts. If I remember right, he is now a full US citizen, and publicly supported John Kerry for president last time around.

I really don't know why but I can so clearly remember the huge impact of the 'Frampton Comes Alive' double album in 1976.I almost bought it back then even though it was more expensive than normal L.P.s.
Was it just promo-hype?.

A few days ago, I figured out every note of the guitar solo in "Show Me The Way" (no talkbox, tho'), and it amazes me that it's all in this simple scale I've played for years. The lead isn't even hard. He was clever with the construction of his leads, in my opinion, without simply playing as fast as possible. There's not a bad song on that album.

I recall that when I saw him live, tickets were $12.50, a price that was regarded as outrageously expensive at the time. Then, concert tickets for a typical show with an opening act and two major headliners ran about $5.50 to $7.50. His opening act was Rick Derringer, who I remember played a blistering Helter Skelter that night. I also remember that I forgot my ticket at home, and my friend's older sister loaned me the cash for a scalped replacement, as it was sold out. I also remember being shocked at how many preppy chicks (the local term for prep girls then was "ra-ra's," as in girls yelling "ra ra go team!") were at the show too...

Ah, besides reality, there's nothing like memories...