Bellbottoms, when did they go out of style?

[Ravi]

Hi!
I had a discussion with afriend about bellbottoms and when they
went out of style. He said that everyone stopped wearing them in 1980.
Did this fashion stop that year? I was born in 1979 did everyone still
wear bellbottoms then? Did they go out of style from one year to
another?

Greetings from Holland :-)
Ravi Janssen

[Marie Braden]

>you wore the stuff kids wear today in school back in '78-early 80s, you
>would be laughed right out of school.
A couple years ago I was in Contempo Casuals, and after the snotty
sales clerk got on my case one time too many, I finally had to tell
her, "LOOK, I can't see spending my hard-earned money on the kind of
clothes I used to laugh at my mom for wearing!"
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[Paul]

On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 14:34:18 -0500, LA <ar...@ll.mit.edu> Addressed the multitudes, saying:
>x-no-archive: yes

>I was in HS in 1978 and by then, nobody would be caught dead wearing
>them. Straight-leg Levis were the style, and so was long hair. (you
>would get ragged-on big time if you had really short hair as well). If

>you wore the stuff kids wear today in school back in '78-early 80s, you
>would be laughed right out of school.
>

>By '75-'76, bell-bottoms were pretty much history.
>
>LA

Bellbottom jeans (Navy) came in about '65 because they were available in
surplus stores really cheap, $5-7 a pair. They also sole really warm
Navy pea coats cheap too. By '68, bells were various colors of denim, as
well as POLYESTER and CRUSHED VELVET...

I wore out my last pair in '74 and never looked back.

Paul

[Deedz]

ro...@daystar.tiac.net (Paul) wrote:

>Paul

The BEST bellbottoms were from the surplus store -- the wool ones with
all of the buttons in the front and the lace-up back, and the denim
ones with patch pockets.

I was still wearing bellbottom jeans in '79. When Calvin Kleins
became all the rage I remember defiantly stating, "I'll never give up
my bells." By the summer of '80 I no longer owned a pair.

Deedz
How quickly she forgot....

[Claes Jonasson]

Ravi wrote:
> I had a discussion with afriend about bellbottoms and when they
> went out of style. He said that everyone stopped wearing them in 1980.
> Did this fashion stop that year? I was born in 1979 did everyone still
> wear bellbottoms then? Did they go out of style from one year to
> another?
> Greetings from Holland :-)
> Ravi Janssen

I travelled around Europe a lot in teh summers of 1975 and 1977 and most
of the pictures from then show bellbottoms, flares or very wide-legged
pants. American TV shows from the same era also feature plenty of
bell-bottoms.
Fashion magazines start to show the 80's look by '78 or so, and so
gradually in the late 70's bellbottoms disappeared. For some of us it
was a matter of how long until they wore out.

Claes Jonasson

[rlmain...@gmail.com]

I'm in my 60s (2016) and if I could still find a pair of good old LEVI 501 Flair Bottom Jeans I'd wear them with Pride today!
I bet if one of the Jeans companies would bring'em back in Mens styles, they would make a Comeback!
Everything comes Full-Circle & Its Time!