DU'ers...how many here were teen-agers during the 1970's?

Like me?
(I was 18 in 1978)

Walking ball of male hormones, in horrible clothes. :-)
(Complete with fake "Earth Shoes")

I had real "Earth Shoes". :hi:

Earth shoes were groovy.

Haven't heard that in a while. :rofl:

I don't remember if my Earth Shoes were real or not. Probably not.

I did have a rust colored corduroy suit, though.

You are from my hometown, and my HS class. Of course, I did not goto scholl in my hometown. Also, I have no idea what earth shoes are or were. I did have some 2 inch platform shoes that I thought were pretty cool, although I never went into a disco.

Wikipedia has it pretty nearly right, or at least in line with my fading memory: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_shoe

and the silk shirt... what the hell were we thinking other then...

We're bad! We got earth shoes, a rust colored corduroy leisure suit and a silk shirt. So sad...

The way you could tell someone was wearing them, even before you saw them?
(The way they went "zhoop zhoop" as the wearer walked.) :rofl:

Yes I owned a leisure suit.

Can't remember if I was wearing plaid trousers then, or had already given them up. Whatever, it's probably best not to think about it.

although technically I became a teenager in the 60's.

Somewhere, in Mom of kmla's photo archives, there exists a picture or two of me in a burnt orange leisure suit. And platform shoes.

Chick magnet, I was.

In '77 I was 13. I work Birkenstocks to my 8th grade graduation (Gawd, remember THOSE?) and let me tell ya, I thought I was hot shit! I had surfer bangs and a funky print dress that looked like it was made out of a towel. Seriously.

I cringe, now, to remember it all.....

:eyes:

And I remember my Candie's shoes and super tight jeans - either Calvin Klein or Sergio Valente. And I dug on guys who dressed in Saturday Nite Fever gear....geez, scary times!

So I guess I was. I had earth shoes, huge bell bottoms (that froze in the winter), wild print shirts and all that stuff. I started my first band that same year.

Those were the days. We weren't monitored the way today's kids are. Plenty of :smoke: and great music. I miss those days.....

So I was BARELY a teenager in the 70s.

most wonderful time in the world for music.....young enough to remember Beatles vividly, and old enough to be able to enjoy today's music...:)

I was a stick with lots and lots of hair!

Even with the insert, my mother still made me wear my shoes with bread bags over them. :hi:

late 60s-early 70s. But I had the horrible clothes as well.

Horrible clothes back then??? Nothing compares in ugliness to those baggy pants that hang half-way down guy's butt which are worn today; and, that is just one of the things I must endure on a daily basis as a high school teacher.

I didn't think it was possible for clothes to be uglier than they were in the 1970s, but the stuff today defies that conclusion.

i was 17 in 1979 and i had a really gooood time.
...let's leave it at that!

those were the most terrible days of my life. In 1977 I married a nice guy, but ten years later he was still a nice guy, and I... I had grown up. I left him.

We wore painter pants, so we could keep our combs and lip gloss in the leg pocket. The guys wore those polyester shirts with sunsets or palm trees painted on them. Levis were the big thing. If you showed up wearing anything but Levis or Lees, you were lambasted.

I liked to listen to Styx, Pink Floyd, the Eagles, Genesis, The Doobie Brothers, Led Zep and the Cars.

My favorite tv shows were WKRP in Cincinnati, Saturday Night Live, General Hospital and Laverne and Shirley. My parents hated Happy Days. My dad thought Fonzie was a jerk, and my mom said "the 50s weren't so happy for black people".

My dad wore leisure suits, which were quite hideous. We went to a fancy restaurant in Toronto once (Ed's Warehouse-is it still there?) and they made him wear a "house tie", because they had a dress code.

My mom discovered Liz Claiborne in the late 70s, and started wearing her clothes all the time. She had lots of big earrings back then, too.

My dad used to say every fall that this was the Lions' year. He's not saying that anymore.

right here!!!

I loved the saddleshoe with the higher heel look! and yes, an italian horn!

It's easy to figure out dates when you're born in a "0" year (1960)

Hideous clothes (I had most of the outfits that the Jackie character wears on "That 70's Show").

Looked like a boy in the early days (being 5'11, short haired, flat-chested and wearing boys clothes like CPO jackets did't help)

Looked much better in the later 70's (although the disco clothes aren't very flattering)

I remember the protests after the Kent State shootings and during the war in Vietnam. Bell bottoms and hip huggers. Janis and Jimi and Morrison. I had the fake "Earth" shoes, too. Stuff was groovy and really hip, man! Dark Shadows. The Mod Squad. Star Trek. Tricky Dicky. Pet Rocks. 5 and 10 cent candy bars. Returnable pop bottles. The Big Red Machine. Woody Hayes. Those horrible sanitary belts women had to wear each month. Fish net hose. Hot pants and koulots(sp?). Women's rights. Flower power. And who can ever forget, "Say goodnight, Dick."

My, um, plumbing started to function a little earier than many girls, and my mom wasn't quite prepared for me. I remember when she showed me the belt and the box of elephant-sized Modess pads, which I seem to remember having a nurse on the box (I didn't know it was an illness).

I'm so glad times changed.

with elastic bands holding it up! I swear, I thought the sticky-back sanitary napkin was the world's greatest invention, even the early ones that were still the size of a tablecloth.

Wow, was that ever the summer to remember.

and yes it was. I think Star Wars occupied a large percentage of my time that summer, that and going away to college.

Silk shirts, platform shoes....
Killed a lot of brain cells.

How the hell did we wear that stuff then. Leisure suits, bell bottoms, plaid shirts . . .

Sincerely,
A man who was a teenager in the 1990s. :evilgrin:

Boones farm apple, cherry vodca, mexican weed, orange barrel, blue barrel, blue angel, yellow microdot, purple microdot, blue microdot, white microdot, blotter four way, colombian reefer, paraquat, thc, mda, qualudes, preludes, get crazy while nude, nitrous oxide.
It's a wonder I have any brain cells left, yeah I was a teenager during the seventies and had a hell of a lot of fun too.

and didn't the music and fashions just totally suck ass?

But those were also the days before herpes and AIDS, so there were some benefits...

:D

Farrah Fawcett was da bomb. So was Bailey on WKRP. Lotta guys had a thing for Kristy McNichol (not me though).

Frisbee's were the best.Cords were what you wore,with your silk shirt,and platform shoes.Plus,you got alot of dope in a nickel bag,3 fingers I believe.

The year I bought my 1966 Ford Mustang!
I wished I still had it,tan & black convertible too!

Hi Archae :hi:

I'm getting a kick out of that 70s' Show...now reruns, I just now started to watch it on FX 70, at 7pm-8pm, great laughs. :-)