Which Decade Had the Best Fashion??

AmericanVintageBlues ^ | 12/04 | Staff

[BigSkyFreeper]

I had the similar hair style (though mine was dark brown) and similar clothing and shoe style as the one on the neon motorbike (4th pic from the top) in Gallery 4.

[ken21]

you're right.


i liked 1950's-60's 'till '67 or so.

until the leftists crawled out of their holes.

i didn't like bell bottoms.

[Nowhere Man]

A Trapper Keeper was your locker under your arm!! Carried everything from your pens, pencils, paper, and if you had a real fancy one, they came with a scientific calculator built right in!

I used to have one of those too, dang, it's been a while! I remember the commercials where if you turned it to where your papers would fall out in a normal notebook, the Trapper would hold them in. I might still have one, somewhere with my old Dungeons and Dragons and Gamma World notes. B-) I love role playing games, I guess I am a "teenage Orc" well, now I'm getting close to being a "middle age Orc." >B-)

[BigSkyFreeper]

LOL! First time I saw a Trapper Keeper ad on MTV, I thought "MAN! I gotta have one!". :D

[BigSkyFreeper]

You remember acid wash and stone wash jeans? LOL

[retrokitten]

Yes! Again- I begged for a pair of acid washed jeans like I would just die if I didn't get them. I even had an ice washed jean jacket with leather fringe! I loved that jacket. LMAO!!

True (and sad) story- I have a picture of my 7 year old nephew wearing an acid washed jean jacket outside of my wedding reception. What is sad about that, you may ask? I was married in the summer of 2000!!

[trisham]

[paltz]

ya'know. I've talked to thrift shop owners in NYC and they tell me that the top designers "people" are coming into the stores, buying all the old stuff from previous decades for ideas. They simply just use new material...different cut...and voila!...Consumers are paying TOP DOLLAR for reworked stuff from the past.

[pissant]

The lovely and talentless Bjork. My wife rented a movie in which she played a depressed factory worker. Unwatchable. Interesting voice though.

[pissant]

The lovely and talentless Bjork. My wife rented a movie in which she played a depressed factory worker. Unwatchable. Interesting voice though.

[trisham]

She's unique.

[Osage Orange]

I've got pictures of my mother and father...going out to dinner in the early 50's...dressed like movie stars. Hat's, gloves, ties, cuff-links, kerchiefs, etc..etc..And that was normal attire.

[retrokitten]

That doesn't really surprise me. They are bringing leg warmers back, for crying out loud! I guess they just forgot how totally stupid those were. Very feminine 50's inspired clothes are supposed to be what is in for spring/summer this year, so hopefully this 80's thing has run it's course.

[nopardons]

Okay,I haven't yet read the thread,but I really MUST correct many of the things in this article,stated as "fact",but which are completely erroneous.

The "tent" dress was NEVER called a "baby doll" dress and never when it was done in sheer fabric.That was known as a "cage" and I should know,because not only did I own and wear both,but my wedding gown was a "CAGE"!

Culottes were introduced in the '40s. They made a comeback in the mid '60s (when they were NOT "full" at all,but A LINE) and then again,in the mid '80s.

One of the "coolest" trends,in the '60s,were dresses and skirts that had a split over skirt and a same colored,but different fabric slime underskirt and for fun,split over over skirts ( usually several splits) with Bermuda shorts under it.

Short/mini type skirst had been tried in the mid '50s and failed. Minis didn't hit America until '66 (though college girls wore "short"/a couple of inches above the knee, kilts in thed early to mud '60s)and didn't reach the heights that they did in England for a very long time;just when the ankle length/MAXIS became the new trend,around '71.

The 3/4 length sleeves thing was done,over,gone,by '66.

And nowhere is mentioned " sack dresses",which were BIG in the late '50s and again in the mid '60s.

Baby doll dresses were EMPIRE (waistline,with or without a belt/sash/sewn in delineation) style,without the usual slim design,but rather,a fuller silhouette.

And they also left out the dress over pants evening wear look,which was also popular in the late '60.

[pissant]

No if hollywood could just bring back some stars with class, we'd be in great shape.

[nopardons]

Absolutely NOT!

[pissant]

Wow, we have an expert on hand now.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Nothing wrong with hand-me-downs! LOL

Although there is one exception to that rule, I will not wear anything from my dad's closet like I did during "Nerd Day" during Spirit Week one year. Mom grabbed the ugliest butterfly collar shirt from dad's closet and I wore it. LOL

[nopardons]

Beautiful clothes era and don't forget the beautiful hats and the Reddingot coats and Bedau Brummel style for men.

[nopardons]

The year my maternal grandparents were married. VERY beautiful clothes,great hats,and fantastically beautiful shoes...glorious jewelry designs as well !