The fashion breakthroughs that began for men in the late 1960s continued into the 1970s.
For years, men’s fashion changed very little. Hair styles changed more than clothes, and most differences you find are subtle.
Starting in the mid-60s, men’s pants became more slim fitting. This was a huge departure from previous years.
The changes kept on coming and by 1972 it was normal to see a man in low-rise bell bottoms and platform shoes. This outfit would have been heartily laughed at just ten years before.
Men’s clothing got tighter and tighter. A large portion of the clothes from this era were made of polyester or a blend of cotton and polyester. Later in the decade, velour and terry cloth became a very popular choice of fabric for men’s shirts.
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The other suit was the track suit. Although the track suit is more often associated with the 80s (as worn by the Beastie Boys, for example), they were quite popular in the late 70s. In fact, sportswear in general was worn almost everywhere.
Men weren’t wearing hats anymore, their hair was much longer and they didn’t always tuck their shirts in. Facial hair was great, but if you didn’t have chest hair then you better get a really big, gold medallion to cover up your bare chest. Collars were wide and the pants were tight.
That’s men’s fashion in the seventies, baby.
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I remember polka dots
*cough* 1950’s
they alwas were turtle necks
Cheese Weasel, baby
Tight pegged pants and rat tail combs
John Travolta’s clothes in SNF were already on their way out of style when that movie came out. Within a year stylish men were wearing band collared shirts, dark denim straight leg jeans, and cowboy boots (but often simple ones, not elaborate).
I was an Aussie teen in teh late 60’s and remember wearing long bell bottom vertical striped trousers, yellow, purple, blue and a few other colours. Also what was the fashion at that time was fish net shirts. I would love to be able to get these now for a laugh and maybe a party
I recall wearing very wide hem pants and also platform shoes which I often fell off! The first half of the Seventies was still colourful from the previous Carnaby street era. Colour seemed to drain out mid decade from women’s and men’s fashion. Pants became straight legged or wide at the hip narrowing to the ankle. The platforms went off men’s shoes. I was 21 years old in 1979.
I vividly remember wearing to my high school bacalaureat service a custom tailored pink double knit 3 pieced suit with a double breasted jacket and extra wide bell bottomed pants equipped with a matching (made with the same material as the suit) extra wide pink bow tie and pink ruffled shirt contrasted by a wide white leather belt and white 4 inch platform shoes. I’m ashamed to admit I had a pink straw hat with a white headband to top it all off. “YIKES” !!
Being over 6 feet tall at the time, I must have looked like a stick of bubble gum on stilts….LOL
surfing, flared jeans, platform shoes, body shirts with humongous collars, ridiculously long hair
The cloths of my early teens were Two tone tonic parallels . Jaytex shirt or black Brutus shirts Crombie overcoats. with a red hanky, red socks, royal shoes where large gangs of us used to wander the streets and congregate at the fish and chip shop to avoid Manchester weather