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"Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« on: May 03, 2012, 10:49:04 AM »
James Lileks goes through some of hte better parts of the 1973 Sears catalog.

Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope.


http://lileks.com/institute/sears1973/7.html

http://lileks.com/institute/sears1973/index.html

I am eternally grateful that my parents were so un-stylish, they never bought us bell-bottom jeans and most of the garish 1970s horrorshow of clothing.  Dungarees bought at the Farm & Fleet?  Clean t-shirt?  canvas sneakers?  You're good-to-go to school, kiddos.

The only truly 1970s era clothing we have evidence for was a photo of my sister and I in matching yellow polyester turtlenecks.  I have hated both polyester & turtlenecks ever since.


In a just world where good taste prevailed, Captain Kirk would beam into the studio and slap those sideburns off his face.

http://lileks.com/institute/sears1973/10.html
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2012, 10:54:26 AM »
I didn't escape the Prince Valiant. That was bad enough. =(
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #2 on: May 03, 2012, 10:56:38 AM »
Hell, I was still wearing bell bottoms up till 1992.
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« Reply #3 on: May 03, 2012, 11:07:27 AM »
Mr. Blue jeans is packing a concealed weapon  :O
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #4 on: May 03, 2012, 11:33:57 AM »
It will all be fashionable again some day, just wait.  [barf]
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« Reply #5 on: May 03, 2012, 11:39:46 AM »
Quote from: RoadKingLarry on May 03, 2012, 10:56:38 AM
Hell, I was still wearing bell bottoms up till 1992.

Anchors aweigh!  =)
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #6 on: May 03, 2012, 12:02:58 PM »
My favorite pair of jeans in 1975 were bell bottoms with red and white daisy's all over them.

Of course, I was seven years old. :laugh:
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« Reply #7 on: May 03, 2012, 12:08:39 PM »
Brooklyn, early fifties.  My mother would not let me go to high school in jeans ("dungarees") and would not let me buy a leather ("motorcycle") jacket.  I felt so out of place.

But you gotta remember that up until, say, mid-to-late forties, kids still wore khoulats and knee socks to school.

Bell bottoms.... Hmmm... that would solve the ankle holster problem I have now, for warm-weather carry, as Jamisjockey touched upon...

I was thinking of slitting the inseam of a couple of pairs of pants and closing them up with Velcro or something.  The way it is now, it's almost faster to drop my pants than pull up my pant leg to get to my gun...

... some half-formed poesy drifts up to my cortex...  "This is my J-frame, this is my gun... This is for SD, this is for fun...  One is too small for serious work... the other's so tiny I feel like a jerk..."

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« Reply #8 on: May 03, 2012, 12:10:59 PM »
Quote from: MrsSmith on May 03, 2012, 12:02:58 PM
My favorite pair of jeans in 1975 were bell bottoms with red and white daisy's all over them.

Of course, I was seven years old. :laugh:

Gosh, I feel old. :(

In the 1970s I was wearing the same old stuff: plaid flannel shirts and blue jeans, or just a t-shirt in the summer.  The polyester bell bottoms wouldn't have held up very well working in a sawmill. ;)
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2012, 12:17:55 PM »
Yep, we never had stylish clothes.(#)  I had hand-me-downs.  I had four older brothers.  I got a new shirt or two and maybe a pair of pants before school started.  My Mom was the queen of iron and sew on patches....







(#)  Although there is one Olan Mills portrait of the entire family from 1976ish.  The men are dressed in polyester leisure suits and the women...well....are dressed in their Sears Catalogue finest.   We debate as to whether or not they should be destroyed every time we find one.  However, they serve to show our kids what we can make them wear out in public if they don't behave....
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Re: "Like looking at a slaughter house through a kaleidoscope."
« Reply #10 on: May 03, 2012, 02:25:16 PM »
Quote from: brimic on May 03, 2012, 11:33:57 AM
It will all be fashionable again some day, just wait.  [barf]

Ugly clothes have been very fashionable, the past few years. Do an image search for "hipster," or take a drive through the hood.
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« Reply #11 on: May 03, 2012, 02:29:10 PM »
Quote from: wishes he was a fistful on May 03, 2012, 02:25:16 PM
Ugly clothes have been very fashionable, the past few years. Do an image search for "hipster," or take a drive through the hood.

No doubt.  My office is dead center on the road in town nicknamed "The Hip Strip."  There are some truly amazing fashion choices every day.
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« Reply #12 on: May 03, 2012, 04:11:52 PM »
I tend to think of it as "anti-fashion."

As in lacking any sort of taste, style, coordination, attractiveness or appeal.

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« Reply #13 on: May 03, 2012, 04:23:18 PM »
Quote from: scout26 on May 03, 2012, 12:17:55 PM
. . .  I had hand-me-downs.  I had four older brothers . . .  
Be glad it wasn't four older sisters.  :O

There was a lot of silly stuff worn back then . . . but at least I didn't get taken in by the "blink and you missed it" fad of the Nehru jacket.
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« Reply #14 on: May 03, 2012, 04:29:28 PM »
Quote from: 41magsnub on May 03, 2012, 02:29:10 PM
No doubt.  My office is dead center on the road in town nicknamed "The Hip Strip."  There are some truly amazing fashion choices every day.

I live in North St. Louis County, a low-income sort of place. Last decade, a lot of younger people, especially blacks, seemed to be having an ugly-off with their clothing choices every day. I don't know if it's subsided in the past few years, or if I just don't notice anymore.
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« Reply #15 on: May 03, 2012, 04:29:51 PM »
Quote from: Jamisjockey on May 03, 2012, 11:07:27 AM
Mr. Blue jeans is packing a concealed weapon  :O
I remember the backlash in the news from this picture.
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« Reply #16 on: May 03, 2012, 04:35:12 PM »
Also from his site: http://lileks.com/institute/motel/index.html

I'd passed this hotel traveling around Wisconsin, coming and going to and from Milwaukee on I-94 perhaps a hundred times, as a child and an adult when they finally tore it down. Had I only known. I'd have done anything just to see the inside, just once...

The BOW-CHIKA-WOW-WOW awesomeness could just not be contained. It's like the demented evil genius lair of some 1974 Bond film that was never released.
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« Reply #17 on: May 03, 2012, 05:08:13 PM »
^^^ That was absolutely awesome.
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« Reply #18 on: May 03, 2012, 07:07:03 PM »
I never knew it existed and now I want to go. And I can't.
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« Reply #19 on: May 03, 2012, 07:29:07 PM »
The 1980's were just as bad, remember the white Don Johnson/Miami Vice suit?
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« Reply #20 on: May 03, 2012, 07:37:37 PM »
Quote from: brimic on May 03, 2012, 11:33:57 AM
It will all be fashionable again some day, just wait.  [barf]

BTDT. in the late 90's/early 2000's we had "flared jeans" that were basically bellbottems. I had a pair of JNCO's with 20+ pant leg openings that had a blue and white felt wave down each side.

It went from 60's retro to 70's retro to now, 80's retro, which is what the emo kids wear.
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« Reply #21 on: May 03, 2012, 08:21:15 PM »
Quote from: charby on May 03, 2012, 07:29:07 PM
The 1980's were just as bad, remember the white Don Johnson/Miami Vice suit?

Do I!  With all the crappy weather up here, I set one of my bicycles up on rollers upstairs in front of a TV.  I have been playing my old Miami Vice DVDs while pedaling away.  It takes me back.  Stubble and no socks.
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« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2012, 10:38:16 PM »
Quote from: Warren on May 03, 2012, 07:07:03 PM
I never knew it existed and now I want to go. And I can't.

Me, too.

Did see a house for sale with a similar theme, though.
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« Reply #23 on: May 03, 2012, 10:51:18 PM »
I was there in 1970, but I never wore that crap, and neither did my wife. We dressed stylishly, but not loud.

My best friend weighed about 250 at the time, and his folks bought him a suit made from that same sort of loud plaid.  [barf]
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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2012, 12:21:25 AM »
Quote from: Jamie B on May 03, 2012, 04:29:51 PM
I remember the backlash in the news from this picture.

I wonder if you are thinking about the man on page 602: http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/sex/a/catalog.htm
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