When Polyester was King

[bunchofgrapes]

I bought a new PC back in June and for the last two weeks I've been wiping the drives on a very old Gateway desktop that's not been used in a while (amazingly, the thing cranked right up and still works better than the newer old Dell laptop). Anyway, as I was looking at my old bookmarks on the desktop and found this.

It Came from the 1971 Sears Catalog

For those of us who remember 1971, this is a painful reminder of all the fashion don'ts of the 70's (it just got worse). For me personally, it's a reminder of the horrible polyester clothes my mother made me wear (I was 8 then). For those of you who weren't around then, feel free to harass your parents or grandparents about the walking suit fit for a pimp or the wear-dated pant suit in a baby spew shade of green. Btw, the comments under the pictures are almost as good as the pictures.

Comments

[mingsmommy.livejournal.com]

OMG! My PTSD from having survived the seventies is returning.

I actually remember looking at this particular catalog.

Whenever the brother gets snotty, I am unafraid to whip out my pictures of him in his leisure suit...

[bunchofgrapes]

Only those of us who lived through the fashion horrors of the 70's really understand the PTSD that goes with it.

Somewhere around my mother's house is a 2nd grade school picture of me wearing one of those wear-dated lime green carpet pant suits. The scowl on my face in the picture summed up what I thought about it.

[boubabe14.livejournal.com]

My brother also gets those threats of bringing to light certain pictures. I think I cleverly destroyed the ones of me and those flowery poly shirts.

[bunchofgrapes]

Apparently, one of the benefits to being an only child is no one but my mother has these pictures.

[boubabe14.livejournal.com]

cheater!