“NO MORE TALK OF LEISURE SUITS”
Mini-skirts, however, remain in play.
Mini skirts? I pass through downtown San Francisco on a daily basis and I see a woman in a skirt MAYBE 2% of the time. I would say that 98 of every 100 women I see on a daily basis wear slacks or pants. Skirts and dresses died long, long ago. They may exist in the night club scene, which I never enjoyed.
But I could offer you a dollar for every woman you see in a skirt or a dress in downtown San Francisco and you by noon, you would be hurting for lunch money. Some in the tiny financial district, yes. Otherwise, the skirt is dead, let alone the mini skirt, unless you count all the guys in gay parades wearing dresses. ;-)
Don’t know when women quit wearing dresses, but that was about the only thing I liked about the 70s. I can remember young ladies (I ended the decade as a 21 year old) in very flattering sun dresses or other feminine outfits. Today, it is straight unisex. Young ladies dress like guys. Older ladies don’t dress much differently.
Who cares? The state of fashion is the least of my problems.
I do grieve for sloppy look today. I remember going to Las Vegas and seeing all the couples dressed like they were out for a night in Monte Carlo. Today, most look like slobs. Shorts, tank tops, flip flops, ripped jeans. Come as you are, I guess.