How about some 70's fashion to go with those Weight Watcher cards

[Karenciavo]

1973 Sears catalog (http://www.lileks.com/institute/sears1973/index.html)

[Jami]

Wow, wow, wow.

:001_huh:

[*anj*]

Oh my gosh, I had a pair of those saddle shoes. I had the beige with navy blue because my mom said they'd stay cleaner. Oh. My. :001_huh:

[*anj*]

The only possible explanation for these dresses: you belong to some Children-of-the-Corn cult based on ads for Holly Hobby dolls, and you’re going to sacrifice your daughter at the next barn raising.

Oh my goodness!!!!! This is hysterical. I don't remember those foods from the WW cards ever showing up on our table, but these clothes were definitely hanging in our closets!!!

[mcconnellboys]

Gee, none of the models seem that anorexic, do they?

[chiguirre]

I have a Kindergarten picture in the green get-up:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/sears1973/8.html

Well, now at least I know my mom wasn't dropping acid, she was shopping Sears!

[Jumping In Puddles]

why, HELLO BOYS...

http://www.lileks.com/institute/sears1973/10.jpg

[Jumping In Puddles]

I have a Kindergarten picture in the green get-up:

http://www.lileks.com/institute/sears1973/8.html

Well, now at least I know my mom wasn't dropping acid, she was shopping Sears!

:lol::D:lol: "children of the corn" haha...deep breath..."dropping acid"...hehehe!

I bet your kindergarten picture looks cute despite the outfit! Real kids always look better than the models from old catalogs. :)

[Karenciavo]

Wow, wow, wow.

:001_huh:

I know it's all before your time Jami, but yes we wore plaid hip huggers with bell bottoms, body suits and saddle shoes and we liked it! :shudder:

[Maria/ME]

I just bought a WARDS catalog from the year I was born: 1968. Eerily similar to some fashions of today...but everyone seemed SO happy in the catalog. Way before it became chic to frown, glare or look bored in front of the camera.

[Dana in OR]

For those of us old enough to have lived their teen years through the 70s let me tell you it was not pretty. The sad fact was that we knew the fashions were awful - having lived through the weird 60's we knew the 70's were much worse. But the look of the 70's was so pervasive that it was hard to avoid if you shopped for clothing at all. :ack2:

[Jumping In Puddles]

For those of us old enough to have lived their teen years through the 70s let me tell you it was not pretty. The sad fact was that we knew the fashions were awful - having lived through the weird 60's we knew the 70's were much worse. But the look of the 70's was so pervasive that it was hard to avoid if you shopped for clothing at all. :ack2:

Try living your teen years through the 80's :eek::p

[Jenny in Atl]

Have you all noticed that pseudo 70's stuff has been popular again for a while now, at places like Target & Kohls. What is up with that? I have yet to see the 80's shoulder pads come back into fashion. :tongue_smilie: And yes, each year my mom got the Sear catalog out and we would pick out school clothes for the fall. I hated every moment of it. Those pants talking back to me when I walked. Buffalo sandals anyone?

[Lizzie in Ma]

I think there are still photos of me wearing some of that stuff!!!!:tongue_smilie:

[elegantlion]

I thought the girls' fashion was bad until I got to the boys. I'm trying to get my dh off of his computer to look at these. He was a pre-teen then, if he had to wear things like those boys clothes, it would explain a lot of his issues. Although I resembled a few of those outfits as well.

ETA: Dh just looked through them and made ds come in and look. He told him those lovely boy styles were going to be his new school uniform.

[elizam]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/elizam67/scan0001.jpg


Yea! It worked!

That's my mom and I circa 1923. I was 6.

[Karenciavo]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c203/elizam67/scan0001.jpg


Yea! It worked!

That's my mom and I circa 1923. I was 6.

Were you flappers? :lol: Sorry, I crack myself up.

[Maria/ME]

Have you all noticed that pseudo 70's stuff has been popular again for a while now, at places like Target & Kohls. What is up with that? I have yet to see the 80's shoulder pads come back into fashion. :tongue_smilie:

Well, I hate to go here....I grew up in the 80's. I did the whole she bang. Head bands across the forehead, Valley Girl, leggings/tunics...wide shoulders/asymmetrical hair and clothing...loud polka dots on everything from fingernails to cheap plastic earrings in primary colors and shapes...and guess what my daughter wanted at Target recently?? Leggings with tunics...converse tennis shoes (mine were red circa 85) and this utility type jacket with wider shoulders and smaller waist...not quite shoulder pads, but baby, I see that coming soon. It's gonna happen! And leg warmers? I bought myself a pair last year for good old times sake...and still have a pr from when I was in 8th grade!! AAAAAGGGGGHHHH...I now understand my mothers feelings when I would say "So, does this look like what you wore in the 60's?"

I. Am. Old.

[elizam]

Were you flappers? :lol: Sorry, I crack myself up.



Oh dear...I don't know how I typed 1923! I meant 1973!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D