Back to School 1975 Style

[mahatmakanejeeves]

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Back to School 1975 Style

If you're like me, September is filled with memories of being dragged to the mall to try on your new "Back to School" ensembles. My own mother was partial to "Marks and Spencers" or as I referred to it "Corduroy Hell".

On this wonderful occasion let's look at the best outfits 1975 would force you to try on and try on and try on. More after the jump!
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That virginity is not going anywhere.
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[JuJuYoshida]

1. poor bastards

[Quemado]

2. That 1975 look will probably come back in style someday.

I could easily imagine men's suits with wide lapels and bell-bottom pants. The leisure suit is another story.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Not any school I ever went to!

[Quemado]

4. I turned 20 in 1975

Those were the days, where you could buy a suit for $39.98.

[jberryhill]

5. What? No purple? No leather fringe?

[Soxfan58]

6. My senior year was 75-76

We had one guy who wore the suit on the right in a few different colors daily. But bow ties were not cool not even then.

[MiniMe]

7. I graduated High School in 75, I don't remember anybody dressing that way

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Me either

Certainly not with bow ties. Yes, leisure suits were a thing, but for dads, not teens.

Now, girls wearing jeans so tight they had to be zipped with a pair of pliers? That was a thing. I also had a pair of hip huggers with a 3 inch zipper.

[msongs]

8. 1975, another school year of jeans t shirts. "dressing up" was only for you went out somewhere

particular or special like clubbing or parties. Then again by 78 it was platforms and angles flight tight tight pants and thats for guys lol

[LeftInTX]

9. My boyfriend and his dad were into the leisure suit thing

[gratuitous]

10. You mock

But do you know how many polyesters died to make each of those snazzy outfits? The hair's a little closely cropped (HS class of '76), but otherwise, I remember many of those "fashions."

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Peccavi. (I have sinned.)

Last edited Fri Sep 14, 2018, 09:15 AM - Edit history (1)

I never fell for '70 clothes, but I did get into the hairstyle. To my extreme good fortune, there is no evidence online.

I did own a yellow and orange shag carpet from Sears. It was their cheapest one, at $19.95 for a 7-1/2 by 9-1/2 (that's right, I didn't even get a full 8 by 10) room carpet. The hardest part to explain of this episode in my life is that a thrift store accepted it as a donation.

The horror; the horror.

{ETA: "peccavi," not "pecavi."}

[red dog 1]

11. Bow tie?

Kick for humor!

[Solly Mack]

13. That's just wrong.

[jpak]

15. That look would get the crap beat out of you the second you stepped off the bus