Clothes of the 60's
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Clothes of the 60's
I am fascinated with all "60s" stuff... and have put together some neat outfits for the wife and I to "dress up" with when we go on dates in the 67 Convertible.
This may be a blast from the past for some of you guys (I was born in 67).
What the late '60s really looked like
This may be a blast from the past for some of you guys (I was born in 67).
What the late '60s really looked like
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I am fascinated with all "60s" stuff... and have put together some neat outfits for the wife and I to "dress up" with when we go on dates in the 67 Convertible.
This may be a blast from the past for some of you guys (I was born in 67).
What the late '60s really looked like
This may be a blast from the past for some of you guys (I was born in 67).
What the late '60s really looked like
I think you should have been born 15-20 years earlier. You would have fit right in.
(BTW, I sent you a PM a few days back. I hope you got it.)
-- Steve
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I am fascinated with all "60s" stuff... and have put together some neat outfits for the wife and I to "dress up" with when we go on dates in the 67 Convertible.
This may be a blast from the past for some of you guys (I was born in 67).
What the late '60s really looked like
This may be a blast from the past for some of you guys (I was born in 67).
What the late '60s really looked like
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Madras shirts baby! The real kind that bleed ink all over you in a rainstorm and dye your torso crazy colors. Along with V-neck sweaters, button down collars, "fruit loop" shirts (who remembers those) and ivy league shirts/pants, Weejun penny loafers or wingtips.
I won't talk about micro skirts or see-thru blouses - those topic gives me a bad facial twitch...
I won't talk about micro skirts or see-thru blouses - those topic gives me a bad facial twitch...
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Madras shirts baby! The real kind that bleed ink all over you in a rainstorm and dye your torso crazy colors. Along with V-neck sweaters, button down colors, "fruit loop" shirts (who remembers those) and ivy league shirts/pants, Weejun penny loafers or wingtips.
I won't talk about micro skirts or see-thru blouses - those topic gives me a bad facial twitch...
I won't talk about micro skirts or see-thru blouses - those topic gives me a bad facial twitch...
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They outlawed the taps in my high school - little guys like me learned to rip off your shoe and use the tap as a pretty effective bludgeon when the big guys would screw with you...
I was small and wore glasses but people learned not to mess with me...
Hard to believe I retired from the Dept of Justice after all the mean stuff I did in my youth.
I was small and wore glasses but people learned not to mess with me...
Hard to believe I retired from the Dept of Justice after all the mean stuff I did in my youth.
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They outlawed the taps in my high school - little guys like me learned to rip off your shoe and use the tap as a pretty effective bludgeon when the big guys would screw with you...
I was small and wore glasses but people learned not to mess with me...
Hard to believe I retired from the Dept of Justice after all the mean stuff I did in my youth.
I was small and wore glasses but people learned not to mess with me...
Hard to believe I retired from the Dept of Justice after all the mean stuff I did in my youth.
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My mother refused to put my Madras shirts in with the other clothes to wash so I ended up having to wash them by hand in the sink. I had several of them because I worked at a clothing store in HS and got 20% off.
I remember the taps and all the other stuff. Oh, and anyone remember Gold Cup socks, made in every color to coordinate with everything? How about those skinny little belts? Maybe that was more in the 50's, can't remember now. I had a reversible one . . . silver on one side and gold on the other.
Yes, we were quite the fashionistas back then.
-- Steve
I remember the taps and all the other stuff. Oh, and anyone remember Gold Cup socks, made in every color to coordinate with everything? How about those skinny little belts? Maybe that was more in the 50's, can't remember now. I had a reversible one . . . silver on one side and gold on the other.
Yes, we were quite the fashionistas back then.
-- Steve
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You guys are all talk and no pictures. Here's real time 1967.
Sortly after this, things went to H... in a handbasket and guys started wearing their hair down to their butt. I never did.
Sortly after this, things went to H... in a handbasket and guys started wearing their hair down to their butt. I never did.
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Notice that no one in these pictures are fat.
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Did you guys ever wear Hawaiian print shirts? I read where they were popular at some point in the 60s, but not sure if they were popular around 67...
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Ok
I could see going out on the town in 60's clothing to the valet park the Vette in front of the Restaurant night! Have the 8 track going, and slap on the best Hi karate aftershave!
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Older gal, far right, last pic....if that ain't fat them I need new glasses.
But yes MikeM and his good looking gal are looking quite svelte.
There was a brief stint of Hawaiian shirts during the surfing craze years but seemed to die off. Then came the whole hippy thing and kids starting wearing anything -- much of it pretty grubby and the most popular guys raided Goodwill boxes for clothes - slovenly got cool and personal hygiene took a hiatus.
But yes MikeM and his good looking gal are looking quite svelte.
There was a brief stint of Hawaiian shirts during the surfing craze years but seemed to die off. Then came the whole hippy thing and kids starting wearing anything -- much of it pretty grubby and the most popular guys raided Goodwill boxes for clothes - slovenly got cool and personal hygiene took a hiatus.
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Actually the taps, skinny belts , & ducktail haircuts were '50's stuff. My time was late '50's, early to mid '60's. What a great time to grow up!
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Taps were popular into the late 60s. Polo shirts had a brief 'day in the sun'. Any high school year book (the back pages where the pictures aren't all dressy) will show the styles of the time.