Do you remember these clothes?

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Everything awesome about the 70s in one JC Penney catalog (h/t @wizdom4you)

8:59 PM - 2 Jan 2015

http://theobamadiary.com/2015/01/02/pete-souza-shares-behind-the-lens-moments/

[mnhtnbb]

1. Yes. And I also remember the hot pants we girls wore!

[CrispyQ]

2. Cuffs on pants. Ugh!

They are nothing but debris collectors. Also not a big fan of plaid pants, but it was popular at the time.

[Historic NY]

3. Yes, unfortunately with the platform shoes....

it was styling.

[Galileo126]

4. Oh definitely

I had the plaid bell bottoms, too. I never had the platform shoes, though. But get this - I had a lime green leisure suit, worn with a yellow wide collar shirt. Ugh. Glad the 70s are over.

[Arkansas Granny]

5. Lol! I certainly do!

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. Yes, I do ...

I had a closet full of Staxx and baseball shirts!

[pinboy3niner]

7. Hell, yeah! Though I preferred flares to bell bottoms.

I also had two "leisure suits" that I wore at the U.S. Capitol all the time while serving as an intern to a House member.

[Skittles]

8. I miss that hair!

I enjoy seeing the few guys and especially the gals sporting that 'fro now - it's long been a favorite of mine, after dreadlocks

the clothes - LOL, yes, I remember

[MineralMan]

9. No, indeed. Nothing resembling anything like those ever

went on my body. I standardized on Levi 501s and pocket Tees in the 1960s, and am still wearing the same outfit today. I simply ignore men's styles altogether, and do just fine. Now that I live in Minnesota, I'm sometimes wearing a plaid flannel shirt, adding a parka as weather demands.

For funerals, I go with black chinos, a simple dress shirt and tie and a blazer. I keep one pair of dress shoes on hand, to be worn only with that outfit. That combination also serves for meetings with fussy clients. The rest of the time it's walking shoes or boots.

No slave to fashion am I.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Walking Tall...Walking Proud...Walking Softly but Carrying It Big...

Eldridge Cleaver, 1968 Presidential Candidate And Penis Pants Inventor

[marym625]

13. omg!

Did anyone actually wear that?

[Brother Buzz]

15. Eldridge certainly did. The fashion never caught fire in my neck-of-the-woods, thank Dog.

[marym625]

17. Just cracks me up!

I think Eldridge Cleaver I never thought fashion, if that's what you would call this. Now, this is what is going to pop in my mind. I hear, "you don't have to teach people to be human. You have to teach them not to be inhuman." I am going to think of this. (I hope I remember the quote correctly)

I would imagine these pants would be uncomfortable.

[Aerows]

18. Wait ...

I thought that was just a decorative ...um... addition. Did it actually house the "stuff" in there?

[Brother Buzz]

21. We did NOT stuff them with tissue....

So stop saying that!

[marym625]

22. I don't know

First time I saw it was here. Assumed it did.

[marym625]

27. The answer is yes

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/9/26/eldridge-cleavers-new-pants-peldridge-cleavers/

[Aerows]

28. Oh my.

That certainly gives a new spin to "keep it in your pants."

[marym625]

30. There's no end to the amusement

With these. However, I admit reading that article kind of made me sad. Looks like he created them because of writers block.

Being a woman, I wouldn't know, but I can't imagine these would be close to comfortable. And, some guys, I would think, wouldn't want to share how much is there, or not there.

[Aerows]

36. I've had writer's block before

Oh, the comments I would like to make, but I have too much writer's block to make them LOL!

[marym625]

40. Ha!

[Bigmack]

34. Do those pants ....

... come in "Old White Man" size?

[Aerows]

37. JC Penney briefs? n/t

[marym625]

39. Ha!

Yes. They're called pants.

Haha

[cwydro]

32. Oh, no.

Just no.

[Aerows]

38. I'm pretty sure you don't have a sense of humor

if that doesn't send you into a fit of laughter for one reason or another. Happy New Year, cwydro, you are becoming one of my favorite duers with your dry wit

[cwydro]

41. Oh, I laughed.

Truly I cannot believe that could be a real ad.

Please tell me it wasn't.

Happy New Year back atcha!

[pintobean]

23. There's been a recent knock-off

[marym625]

24. LMFAO!

Oh my dog that's hilarious!

[surrealAmerican]

19. Those are hilarious.

I can't help but wonder what kind of underpants a man would wear with them.

[CatWoman]

33. hah!!!!!

my boy, Fly Guy, sported his very own aquarium!!

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Oh sure.

I'm old.

[Tom Ripley]

12. Elaganza! was the catalogue for me

[NBachers]

14. Should I link to some Dolemite scenes on YouTube now?

[LWolf]

16. Yes.

[ScreamingMeemie]

20. I remember the monthly envelope of awesomeness from Blair.

(not really awesome--more like slacks your grandma wore)

[hunter]

25. It's the tiny shorts we wore for running, and the tiny swimsuits I remember.

But not shaved and butt-floss small, thank goodness. I'm old fashioned that way.

I had a girlfriend (well not a girlfriend but a friend who was a girl. No, okay, it was complicated...) who was overcome with joy at the invention of the sports bra. Wikipedia says it was invented in 1977 by Lisa Lindahl and Polly Smith, which is the right time frame.

Anyways she'd always get pretty chewed up by her old fashioned not-meant-for-sports bras when we went running together so one day she decided not to wear a bra at all, just a teeshirt. We ran ten or twelve miles that day. I confess it was distracting, but worse, afterwards was the first time I ever heard about sore breasts and chafed nipples. OMG did I hear about it. Days and days. And I was such an innocent and virginal waif too.

[olddots]

26. oh yeah

Remember the more fashionable the clothes the more embarrasing they are in a few months .

[Ilsa]

29. Oh yeah. High-waist pants with platform shoes made

Everyone look really long-legged. Check out the big cuffs on the pants, too.

[pansypoo53219]

35. oh jeez, i found a 74 or 75 sears /penny's xmas wishbook. the big catalogue

GAK! but it sold over $20 on ebay.