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Question: Can you describe odd fashion trends from the past?

When I was in high school, it was the height of fashion to wear wool Bermuda shorts with “heather-toned” sweaters and knee socks to football games. Indiana in September can be unbearably humid but we wore these outfits any way.

Following that, the next fashion must-have made sense: cream-colored pants (jeans, slacks, etc) with either a navy blue sweatshirt or a cranberry-colored sweatshirt.

Do you remember any fashions quite as ditzy as the woolen shorts/sweater combos?
Were these fashion statements actually part of your own wardrobe?

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Q&A:

Answer by mu_linlin7
The denim micro-mini and Ugg boots at all times, even in freezing weather. And no, I am quite proud to say neither of these items of clothing ever found their way into my wardrobe.

Answer by SueyN
White lipstick. I thought it was hideous and I hated bell bottoms. I am short so back then I had to cut most of the bottom off the pants. BTW, I wore wool bermuda shorts with Garland sweaters too. We wore them very oversized in the Fall at football games too, but it wasn’t hot because I lived in NH.

Answer by ROXY. sheila from OZ
i always found culottes odd , they looked like a skirt caught in the bum crack.and NOBODY looked good in them, and yes, i did wear it !! but only once or twice.

Answer by Katie M
When I was in h.s. “bleeding madras” were all the rage. They were usually worn by surfers and surfer wannabes. We used to buy into the claim that the shirts would change colors every time they were washed. Looking back I realize that yes, the colors changed but they were simply colors that hadn’t been ‘set’. The colors were fading and running into other colors.

Answer by Old Timer
The trend when I was a kid was to invite the girls to play tennis with us, and allow them to win. They never figured it out.

Answer by Patti
Blue eyeshadow, nothing natural about it but it was very popular. My best friend wore it, she was beautiful already and had blue eyes so it matched them.

White pants in the spring time, sometimes the fabric was so sheer that you could count the flowers on a girl’s panties. I never had a desire to wear white pants or shorts.

Purple crushed velvet pants, almost every girl had a pair. They were uncomfortably hot. I had a pair.

The bra-dress in junior high. I remember a girl wearing one and the principal came up and asking if that was one of them bra-dresses. I felt so embarrassed that an older man would say that to a young teen.

Halter tops with bell-bottoms, there was a lot of mid-section showing, at least we didn’t wear thong-underwear.

And boys and girls both in high school followed a trend of wearing white waffle-textured long-sleeved tops underneath their flannel shirts, and old raggedy pair of Levi’s. Some wore it most of the school year. I wore flannel shirts but not the shirt underneath.

Knee-high toe socks in rainbow stripes. My sister had a pair and I tried them on once and wondered why on earth anyone would want something fitted around each toe, very uncomfortable. And they have come back at least a couple of times since then.

Long-straight wigs called “falls”. My sister saved her lunch money and any other money she got for nearly a year to buy one. It was a human-hair fall too, over 0, an outrageous amount of money back then.

Answer by Jeff (weseye) Wesley
Hairy legs, hairy arms, hairy upper lip and hairy armpits. I thought girls who had these were gross. Still do.

Answer by Derail
I remember in the early 70s, some of the High School girls wore very high-waisted dresses. I don’t know the trend label for those, but there was nothing flattering at all for the girl that wore one.

Here’s one for ya that’s a bit out of the realm of your topic. I heard on TV that the neck tie originated in Great Britain (don’t know how long ago) to cover up shirt buttons. It was thought that buttons resembled a naval and so should be covered. I know a bow tie was to add rigidity to the collar, and the neck tie went one step further I guess.

Answer by Autumn Leaves
At my high school girls tried to get a tanned look by using Coppertone QT on their legs and a dark shade of Cover Girl make-up on their faces. The legs and faces didn’t match and every other part of the body was fish bellied white. They thought they looked natural and were fooling eveybody. I also remember girls wearing vests and jewelry made of chewing gum wrappers.

Answer by Manhattan Skyline
Shift dresses made of paper, i think was a Mary Quant look. Also at school the girls wore Berets with school badge logo and woe betide anyone who entered the entrance hall without said beret perched on the feathered hairstyle of 1969! Amazing times in the world of fashion.

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