70's jeans
Steve
Does anyone here remember Sticky Fingers, Lawman painter pants,
and San Francisco Riding Gear? How 'bout those "buckle backs" <tee hee>
These were popular in my school in 78, 79 and 80- I also remember
that all my bell- bottoms had holes in the lower legs, where my pants would
tangle in my bike chain. Being a kid, why I'd just yank it out and
keep on truckin'!
Denise
heidi_hi
How about those patchwork jeans, dark skin tight blue jeans with white
stiching, and lets not forget gowchoes (spelling?) with boots.
Carenmarc
Heidi wrote:
>How about those patchwork jeans, dark skin tight blue jeans with white
>stiching, and lets not forget gowchoes (spelling?) with boots.
Those were "gauchos", named for the South American cowboys that wore wide
pants like that. And they were UGLYYYYY!
----Caren
Martin Sagara
Carenmarc (care...@aol.com) wrote:
HEY! I was rather fond of gals in gauchos at the Discos! I was also
very fond of gals in Dittos Jeans! (I don't have to be politically
correct in retrospect when it comes to the '70s, do I?)
Martin Sagara "Visualize Whirled Peas"
University Of Colorado Trivia Bowl Alumnus
1981, "We Need Your Help Barry Manilow"
msa...@rmii.com
gardenia
>These were popular in my school in 78, 79 and 80- I also remember
>that all my bell- bottoms had holes in the lower legs, where my pants would
>tangle in my bike chain. Being a kid, why I'd just yank it out and
>keep on truckin'!
>Denise
Ooo I also remember how all our pants had to be *inches* longer than
the bottoms of our feet so they dragged on the ground! Big wide
elephant bells, hip huggin' ass tight jeans.
ah...
those *were* the days!
Barb
aka gardenia <who loved bell bottoms>
Jay Phillips
In article <4n8bj4$4...@alterdial.UU.NET>, ba...@nebula.ispace.com
(gardenia) wrote:
Seems like I remember the 'Britannia' label being on a lot of jeans in my
school, including a couple of mine. I also remember there being a chain
of mall stores called 'The Brass Buckle' that sold this and other lines of
clothes before the gunny sack look became de riguer amonst the younger
set. Now I think it's known as 'The Buckle', which I find ironic because
belts and buckles have long since disappeared under sports jerseys and
other horse blankets that extend clear to the knees and below. At least
in the seventies we made up in sex appeal what we directly lacked in
fashion sense.
Another thing that I remember from the early seventies is the little chain
that connected the very top of some button down shirts. It latched onto
the button
and was looped through the buttonhole on the other side.
Jay
(who *hates* the baggy look)
djd
In <4n8bj4$4...@alterdial.UU.NET> ba...@nebula.ispace.com (gardenia)
writes:
>Ooo I also remember how all our pants had to be *inches* longer than
>the bottoms of our feet so they dragged on the ground! Big wide
>elephant bells, hip huggin' ass tight jeans.
>
>ah...
>
>those *were* the days!
>
>Barb
>aka gardenia <who loved bell bottoms>
mmmmmm....halter top, too???
Wanna' see my van? :)
Duane
djd...@ix.netcom.com
tapehead
What about the multi-stained almost tie-dyed ones that also somehow
mutated into denim suits (kinda like the ones Lee Majors aka 6 Million $
Man) wore. I had one as a kid and it made me look like a "little
man"...BAAARRRRRRFFFFFF.
Also, what about the jeans that had this sort of funky checker pattern
weave which made them look like a web.
Bonjour Jeans had the best commercials.....
PS- Go and rent the movie "So Fine"
Talk to you soon,
-Chris
Kent Parks
The only thing I specifically remember about jeans--I was never a 'clothes
horse--was Levis tags...you know, the little label that was sewn to the
back right pocket? In 7th grade (circa 1975), it was the 'thing' to go
aroudn adn try to pull off people's Levis tags, supposedly because you
could save them up and get a free pair of jeans?? I, typically 'out of it'
for the social rituals, got tired of people bothering me trying to pull
mine, so I cut mine off <?>, which a friend of mine warned me would earn
me instant lifetime nerd status if word ever got out...
Kent
djd
In <4njm60$j...@newz.oit.unc.edu> pa...@ruby.ils.unc.edu (Kent Parks)
writes:
There was also a deal with tearing off the 'fruitloop' (as we called
it) off the back of a guys shirt. A 'fruitloop' was the little loop
that was sewn onto the material that goes across the shoulders on a
dress shirt and is actually used for hanging the shirt on a hook.
Supposedly, if a girl came by and tried to tear off your 'fruitloop' it
meant she, uuh, huuhh-hhuhh, like, liked you and stuff.
Duane
djd...@ix.netcom.com
SunnyDeb
In article <4nsk6o$n...@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>,
djd...@ix.netcom.com(djd) writes:
>There was also a deal with tearing off the 'fruitloop' (as we called
>it) off the back of a guys shirt. A 'fruitloop' was the little loop
>that was sewn onto the material that goes across the shoulders on a
>dress shirt and is actually used for hanging the shirt on a hook.
>Supposedly, if a girl came by and tried to tear off your 'fruitloop' it
>meant she, uuh, huuhh-hhuhh, like, liked you and stuff.
>Duane
I've never heard of this one.
Deb
Jay Phillips
Out here in the sagebrush of the western U.S., the tag-tearing ritual
still goes on, but with Wrangler jeans instead of Levi's. When you wind
up going steady with your best girl, she gets to tear the tag off the back
pocket of your Saturday night pants, and more than once I've seen a cowboy
get pretty tanked and try and take the tag off some girl's pants....with
his teeth.
Just another charming custom that my Minnesota-born wife thought was crazy
when she moved out here....
Jay
Don
I remember Levis of course as being popular, however, many people wore
jeans with the big giant patch on the back of their jeans. Some which
were "Geranimals" from Sears & Roebuck. Who can forget those puke brown
courderoy jeans that everyone wore.
Football shirts were very popular. The aligator, preppy shirts with
the big collars. Tennis shoes were the norm. Girls even wore tennis-shoes
on a regular basis.
"Time ta go to the Pizza Parlor, Oh wait is my gremlin workin
I'm goin to the beach"
Peaceout,
Don
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Wernard
In article <4nttfv$3...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, sunn...@aol.com says...
It was popular at my school. Another term for "Fruitloop" was "Gant".
One drawback, most of the time you ripped one off, the shirt ripped too.
Carenmarc
>There was also a deal with tearing off the 'fruitloop' (as we called
>it) off the back of a guys shirt.
We did this too, in the Detroit area, but it was definitely a 60's thing,
not 70's.
David B. Thomas
do...@pinn.net (Don) writes:
>"Geranimals" from Sears & Roebuck.
I just put an ad for these on my 70s page. Which brings me to an
important question? What is the right way to spell it? I've seen
Garanimals, Giranimals and now Geranimals.
(I'm not poking fun at the original poster, just trying to get it
right on my web page.)
David
--
Long live the 70s! http://www.rt66.com/dthomas/70s/70s.html
SunnyDeb
In article <4onela$s...@mack.rt66.com>, dth...@mack.rt66.com (David B.
Thomas) writes:
>Garanimals
That's the way I remember it.
Deb
Andrea C. Hewitt
David B. Thomas (dth...@mack.rt66.com) wrote:
As the sixth grade spelling champ of Woodley Elementary 1978, I say
it was spelled "Garanimals." You could always call/write Sears (JC
Penney's??--I'm not sure which) and ask them.
Andrea