… and I wondered why I hadn’t a steady girlfriend?!
I thought I looked ‘the dogs” but perhaps the following word should have been ‘dinner.’
Yes, dear reader, this is very similar to my ‘go-to’ outfit for the second-year school disco in 1971. My tie was more of a ‘kipper’ style and bore an identical pattern to that of the shirt; the trousers were needle-cord like that shown, but with big flares. (I also had a pair in a not-so-subtle peach colour – I don’t recall recall the respective successful hit rates. But I can take an educated guess! 😀 )
The shoes look about right, but being a bit of a short-arse, the higher the platform shoe I could balance myself upon, the better.
So – what was your killer outfit for a 1970s school disco? I’ve shown you mine – now you show me yours. 😉
*** Can I just say that both the shirt and trousers are showing as ‘out of stock’ in the websites from which the were taken. You may all have laughed at the time, ‘friends,’ but it’s quite obvious I was simply ahead of my time. ***
(Post by Colin ‘Jackie’ Jackson – January 2024)
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I’m glad i don’t have any pictures but my platform shoes were dark blue😱
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That is one funky outfit superfly guy…
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I never got any cool platforms like that when I was a kid. My brother had some wooden clogs though – that was some style statement!
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He wouldn’t be sneaking up on anyone while those, I’ll bet. 😂
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Over here in the US platform shoes seemed to be more for women, and there was a bit of a stigma for them on men, with the presumption that they were ‘only for short guys’–they seemed to difficult for anyone to function in–
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As a ‘short guy’ I was all over them. No stigma for me! 😀 😀
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Good for you! I simply could never walk in platforms or high heels, although did okay shuffling around in clogs sometimes–
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Well, we thought we looked good…
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Dang! I KNOW I pure rocked that look! 😀
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While in 1971 I was 5 years and, as such, too young to go to a dance, I do recall wearing cord trousers in different colors including red and also sweaters in pretty bright colors during my young teenage years. Yep, the fashion was definitely interesting in the ’70s! 🙂
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It sure wasn’t for the faint of heart, was it? 😉
Be who you wanna be, is what I said .. and say. 😀
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I had some cord pants in fashionable red wine color. Oh, and I also recall sweaters in yellow and would I nowadays would call screaming orange!😂
Funny thing is perhaps you’d think I wanted to draw attention, but I was actually a pretty shy kid!😀
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I had some wine cord trousers too – and a matching coloured tank top with a broad, central white band and a thinner black line through that.
(There must have been a raging extrovert deep within your soul, desperately searching for a way out! ) 😀
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I was never really ‘in style’ with the times apart from the end of the sixties when I discovered that people who dressed like me were hippies! Otherwise I’d try to hide a certain amount of overweightness (is that even a word?) with black clothes. Must’ve looked like a prototype goth.
No discos at my school. Maybe because it was an all-girls school?
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The all-girls schools in west end Glasgow still had discos – generally it was attended by the boys from neighboring private, fee-paying Boys schools – but sometimes us little oiks used to manage to gatecrash. (Not very often – as I recall the security was quite tight – policed by the Senior Boys Rugby Team from a nearby school. 😀 )
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Yeah, I can imagine that !
Maybe it was just London (or England) schools that didn’t have them.
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