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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 08:15 AM
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Poll question: What style of clothing will go down in history as being the worst?


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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 08:21 AM
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1. Other: Disco Pants.
:puke: The only thing worse than disco pants are Spanish Galleon Disco Pants, of which I cannot find a picture. Those are the ones with yards of fabric in the flare so that they fan out when you dance. :puke:
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Crabby Appleton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 09:37 AM
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6. Finally, a pic of the $54 million pants nt
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NewWaveChick1981 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:19 AM
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10. ...
:rofl: :hi:
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 08:21 AM
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2. Bell bottomed parachute pants
The combined the worst of both :eyes:
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 08:23 AM
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3. what chu talkin' bout,Willis? bellbottoms are da bomb!!!
parachutes pants on the oyher hand, were for dweebs.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 08:23 AM
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4. I nominate...


The leisure suit
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:04 AM
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8. Leisure suits -- second nomination.
Edited on Sun Jun-17-07 10:05 AM by Radio_Lady
I wish I could find my husband's picture -- dressed in a "burnt orange" leisure suit top and bottom, with a great big necklace with a CRAB on it (he was born on June 23rd, hence CANCER).

Wow! What a looker he was!
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Bjornsdotter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:21 AM
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11. Ditto


...it's hard to top the leisure suit. The colors used were not found in nature and the only way to kill them was to melt them. Clothes should not melt.


Cheers
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AngryOldDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:28 AM
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14. Another vote for leisure suits
In all their pastel glory.
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 12:10 PM
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21. May I please supply another piece of visual evidence for the assignment
Edited on Sun Jun-17-07 12:15 PM by adsosletter
of leisure suits to the deepest ring od Dante's "Inferno".

July, 1976, Top of the Mark, San Francisco, California:




:rofl:



If this shot were in color you would be able to appreciate the suit in all it's glory; pastel blue, white knitted tie, white belt and shoes to match, that rediculous hair and glasses.

The lovely lady next to me still agreed to marry me; we will have been together 29 years this December...

:D
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 12:39 PM
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22. Beat me to it.
:puke:
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Maineiac Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 08:27 AM
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5. There are so many
Edited on Sun Jun-17-07 08:27 AM by Maineiac
Nehru (sp?) jackets.

The four piece polyester suit with the reversible vest and 2 different pants. You could do business travel for a week with what was on one hanger.

The sweater vest (sorry, Mr. Rogers)

The urban cowboy look on anyone living East of the Mississippi and North of the Mason Dixon line
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 09:54 AM
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7. I'll add to that: Zubaz.
Hideous zebra-striped pants usually worn by people who really, really shouldn't...
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:26 AM
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13. Gaaaaaaah! Those were a big fad amongst gen-x high school kids (late 1980s - early 1990s)
:scared:

I hated those wretched, cheaply made felt pants.

I still feel embarrassed over wearing parachute pants... but it was the style of 1986 and I'd been told to not be an individual but to blend in with regular people and by doing so I wouldn't get picked on and beaten up all the time... :rofl: (didn't make much of a difference, now did it...)
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 11:01 AM
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19. THAT'S what they were called
Couldn't remember it.

Don't bodybuilder and wrestler types still wear those?

:scared:
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:07 AM
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9. To jar your memory, you might want to visit this site:

http://www.badfads.com/
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:26 AM
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12. Of the two, parachute pants....nt
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:41 AM
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15. Doubleknit polyester leisure suits with contrasting topstitching. Especially....
the "faux denim" look.

Also, ultra high-waisted pants with pleated fronts and bottoms so narrow it necessitated removing one's feet to get into the pants.
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:41 AM
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16. bellbottoms? no way! try this on for size....
70's men's polyester leizure suits. most definitely. Especially in lime green.
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mzteris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 10:58 AM
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17. SAGGING!
Absolutely the most idiotic and senseless "fashion statement" in the history of mankind.

:puke:
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 11:01 AM
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18. Nehru jacket.
Leisure suits
Turtlenecks with sport coats
Baggy anything
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 11:18 AM
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20. I liked my nehru jackets....
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 01:01 PM
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24. Hey! You're slamming Carl Sagan with that crack about turtlenecks buddy!
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cloudbase Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 04:44 PM
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26. Well,
billions and billions of years from now, that will still be a fashion nightmare.
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EstimatedProphet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 01:00 PM
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23. Artificially ripped jeans
Nothing says fake like artificially ripped jeans to someone who works physical labor. And then, it can be even worse: I saw a pair of artificially ripped, patched, then reripped on the patch jeans in a store once.
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 01:28 PM
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25. 1920s women's fashions
Dreadful dresses topped by those ugly upside-down bucket hats.

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femmocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 05:16 PM
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27. Neither of those are as bad as saggy-ass pants with underpants in full view.
JMHO!
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KG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 05:33 PM
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28. zoot suits?
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-17-07 06:14 PM
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29. One of the mind's most wonderful abilities...
...is the power to forget. I can only assume that most of you have forgotten the sheer horror of bell bottoms. Parachute pants, though much more recent, cannot really rival them.
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