That’s so funny.....I had a “Danskin” dress that was kinda see thru on the bottom and my dad asked me one night when I wore it where was the other half of the dress!!!
Ah yes, between that remake of Grease with Olivia Newton John where she wore that catsuit and later in 1983, with Flashdance, we all started wearing "Danskin" everything as though we were all professional dancers, completely bewildering our parents.
My dad used to laugh at me, too -- especially when I showed up one night dressed in a catsuit, heels & big earrings. He said, "Where are you going honey? A costume party? You look like a Gypsy!" (My mother had no such sense of humor. With her it was, "Go to your room and change -- you look like a hooker!" And me, "But Mom, I live in LA now and I'm 30 years old!")
I do have fond memories of leg warmers, and Cappezio jazz flats ala Boz Scaggs, torn inside-out & off-the-shoulder sweatshirts which if they weren't torn, we cut the neck off so we could bare a shoulder at will -- wearable all four seasons in LA.
Actually, I think that I like the early 1980's better than the 1970's. I was a bit of a late bloomer and really came into my own early 1980's.