Does anybody remember 'elephant" jeans?
Posted on 12/22/2022 2:50:39 AM PST by DallasBiff
It was a decade that spawned the Sex Pistols and the Vietnam War, platform shoes and Saturday Night Fever.
The Seventies also gave us The Godfather and Space Hoppers but those glam rock years will forever live in the shadow of the Swinging Sixties.
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True.
“There was some horrible music, and there was also GREAT music.”
I loved the ‘70s music. The ‘80s... pffft!
It makes me sick to my stomach to hear Journey played at every sporting event, and dang it, even in the grocery store when I shop. Ugh. Where are my earplugs? Why should I have to bring them with me everywhere I go? I can’t get away from it.
I remember the 70s. Watergate, Jimmuh Cahtah, stagflation, hideous fashions. Gas lines, turn down your thermostat and wear a sweater like Jimmuh. The SLA and Patty Hearst. Airline hijackings. Terrorist attacks (Palestians, IRA, Weather Underground, Black September, list goes on.).
Avocado Green, Harvest Gold and Coppertone appliances. The androgynous look for women made a comeback after 50 years (first appeared in the Roaring Twenties as our military returned home from WWI on troop ships ... hmm), and they keep on keeping on bringing it back. Young girls who had dreamed of pretty prom dresses and beautiful wedding gowns like their mothers wore got “granny gowns” instead (which looked rather like the flannel nightgowns they wore as children).
The abominable disco music. Leisure suits! Disco ushered in an Age of Narcissism, men watching themselves dance in the mirrored disco halls, women, too. The Sexual Revolution came into its own. You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby (if you ask me, a long way from sanity).
The dumbing down of our schools “graduated” to the dumbing down of our colleges.
We briefly became more optimistic and patriotic during the Bicentennial, but then the country turned dismal during the Carter years. As their parting gifts, Jimmuh and Zbig gave us the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Mullahs in Iran. We finally came to our senses and elected Reagan in 1980. But so much damage had already been done ...
Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll never went away. It metastasized into Weird Sex, More Drugs and Rap. And here we are :(
You know that “Angel” just died — a week or so ago, I think...?
Does anybody remember 'elephant" jeans?
Good synopsis!
Look just like elephant legs!
I remember them, wore them & I’ve seen people wearing them recently
“It makes me sick to my stomach to hear Journey...”
I admit that I know nothing about Journey. Have heard of the group, but I guess the music never impressed me — if I ever even heard it. Seventies or eighties?
Those are terrible!!
and there were generally two opening bands.
And they got even more ridiculous! See my #70. The 70s went over the top in nearly everything.
1970’s NFL was peak NFL.
David Berkowitz, NYC blackout
Tube tops and women who were built to wear them, not like today where too many women lurch around showing their obesity skin.
You are a true girl of the 70's.
Got my license in 79 and bought a 74 Camaro Type LT....VH blasting, big feathered roach clip hanging on the mirror and lots of speeding tickets....I’ve grown up since but it was fun fun....
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