Who here is guilty?

[AdamSmith]

the clothes is just too tight

 

And the problem is?!

 

When I started 8th grade in fall '72, it was a revelation to see how, over the summer, the hot guys all seemed to have (a) had their growth spurt down there and (b) adopted a wardrobe of skin-tight jeans to show off the merchandise!

[+ Gar1eth]

And the problem is?!

 

When I started 8th grade in fall '72, it was a revelation to see how, over the summer, the hot guys all seemed to have (a) had their growth spurt down there and (b) adopted a wardrobe of skin-tight jeans to show off the merchandise!

 

I don't think they did this in Texas, or if they did, I was more interested in faces and pecs. I don't really remember checking out guys' packaged back then.

 

Gman

[AdamSmith]

I don't really remember checking out guys' packaged back then.

 

I don't really remember anything about 8th grade but that!

[+ Gar1eth]

And the problem is?!

 

When I started 8th grade in fall '72, it was a revelation to see how, over the summer, the hot guys all seemed to have (a) had their growth spurt down there and (b) adopted a wardrobe of skin-tight jeans to show off the merchandise!

 

I don't think they did this in Texas, or if they did, I was more interested in faces and pecs. I don't really remember checking out guys' packaged back then.

 

Gman

 

I don't really remember anything about 8th grade but that!

 

I was probably concentrating on how not to take a shower in PE. It always embarrassed me.

 

Gman

[AdamSmith]

I was probably concentrating on how not to take a shower in PE. It always embarrassed me.

 

I would have been too -- or how not to get a woody! But for whatever reason, we didn't have to shower after gym class.

 

Maybe because of what lurked in those moldy disgusting showers.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-APha8D9bVN8/TYYuis9ybYI/AAAAAAAAAGw/IX1wCcebXIU/s1600/creatureblacklagoon2.jpg

[+ friendofsheila]

(Raises hand)

 

#4 (print shirt) with powder blue pants, worn to a wedding.

[+ friendofsheila]

#10-R looks pretty impervious to time, with that masculine demeanor.

[+ friendofsheila]

#40, I had a denim jumpsuit.

 

I probably looked like Farrah Fawcett.

[+ friendofsheila]

Y'all may laugh, but I'd sure like to see more guys in Daisy Dukes, compared to the length of today's "shorts."

 

Amen!

[+ Gar1eth]

#40, I had a denim jumpsuit.

 

I probably looked like Farrah Fawcett.

 

I had a slightly off-white linen-y textured leisure suit. The pockets on the coat were outlined with (probably fake) leather. I think I wore it with a brown silk acetate shirt with a flowery design. And let's not forget my rose-tinted prescription glasses with the overly large aviator shaped lenses. Or my parted in the middle hair (my bald head really misses that hair) with the front bangs combed toward each side.

 

Gman

[+ Oliver]

...There's Orlon and Korlan, and there's Accutron,

And Teflon, and Ban-Lon, and so on and on. ...

 

Mine says nylon - "DuraPress" - "never needs ironing"

[Rudynate]

and there's Accutron,

 

In about 1966 - 67, my oldest brother, who worked at a grocery store at a nearby strip shopping center (this was pre-mall) came home having bought a Bulova Accutron wristwatch for which he had paid the then outrageous sum of $110.00. He even financed it. My parents went through the roof, yelled and screamed, tried to get him to return it. He refused - kept the watch and made all the installment payments. He still wears his Bulova Accutron watch now, nearly fifty years later.

[AdamSmith]

Why not!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHTr5hKz530

[+ sf westcoaster]

Guilty!

[Bargara Leatherboy]

it was the height of fashion then - so in 40 years time people will be saying the same about what the well dressed man is wearing today

[Rudynate]

it was the height of fashion then - so in 40 years time people will be saying the same about what the well dressed man is wearing today

 

 

I don't think so. It was a singular time, one feature of which was the spectacularly bad taste in clothing. There were a bunch of things going on, the confluence of which was the ghastly fashion sense of the '70s. There was the Viet Nam war and the hippy counter-culture that arose as part of the opposition to the war. An important value in this counter-culture was breaking free of traditional restraints - political, aesthetic, cultural. Another facet of the counter-culture was the drug culture - pot, LSD et. al.

70s fashion trends were also continuations of 60's fashion trends - Carnaby Street, Twiggy, mini-skirts, men wearing floral prints and paisley, hip-hugger pants, etc., etc. Clothing manufacturers/designers developed a fascination with synthetic fibers and their possibilities. I don't think that particular set of cultural influences will ever happen again. I certainly hope not. It's embarrassing to think that a large part of the western world was wearing those awful clothes.

[+ Oliver]

Guilty!

 

Of course you are!

[BgMstr4u]

The muscle guy in the red pants in the right pic of #39 is porn star Gordon Grant... He was totally hot in his day!

Wow. You can see his package so clearly. Who is the guy on his right in the gray singlet? Hot!

[TruHart1]

Just a little side trip. Back in the mid 70's when I was a student teacher, I spent 4 months teaching at the high school level. I had one 6 foot + Adonis of a blonde boy who, at about 16, was feeling his rampant newly developed sexual power! He wore the tightest "painted on" jeans and clearly was proud that his larger than average, impressive endowment was literally on display to anyone looking at his crotch. Beside the obvious, he exuded a raw sexuality whenever he was near me and I felt massively attracted to him sexually!

 

Before or after class he loved to invade my personal space, almost thrusting his crotch at me whenever he talked with me. He would always address a personal matter, such as asking questions like, "Is there a Mrs. TruHart?" or "Do you have a girlfriend, Mr. TruHart?" etc. He somehow picked up on the fact that I was attracted to him and although I am certain he was straight, he really enjoyed using his sexuality to covertly tease and flirt with me! Ironically, the coordinating teacher I was working with sat me down my first day of class and warned me to be careful of the newly pubescent girls who suddenly felt powerful sexually after developing over the summer!

 

There were a few times Adonis and I were alone when I wanted, no, needed, to just feel his endowment through his jeans and unzip him and fasten my mouth on that impressive tool outlined in his pants. Of course this never happened, but it was certainly a fantasy I used for quite a few solitary sessions in the privacy of my own home during that period of my life!

 

TruHart1

[bigvalboy]

Just a little side trip. Back in the mid 70's when I was a student teacher, I spent 4 months teaching at the high school level. I had one 6 foot + Adonis of a blonde boy who, at about 16, was feeling his rampant newly developed sexual power! He wore the tightest "painted on" jeans and clearly was proud that his larger than average, impressive endowment was literally on display to anyone looking at his crotch. Beside the obvious, he exuded a raw sexuality whenever he was near me and I felt massively attracted to him sexually!

 

Before or after class he loved to invade my personal space, almost thrusting his crotch at me whenever he talked with me. He would always address a personal matter, such as asking questions like, "Is there a Mrs. TruHart?" or "Do you have a girlfriend, Mr. TruHart?" etc. He somehow picked up on the fact that I was attracted to him and although I am certain he was straight, he really enjoyed using his sexuality to covertly tease and flirt with me! Ironically, the coordinating teacher I was working with sat me down my first day of class and warned me to be careful of the newly pubescent girls who suddenly felt powerful sexually after :eek:developing over the summer!

 

There were a few times Adonis and I were alone when I wanted, no, needed, to just feel his endowment through his jeans and unzip him and fasten my mouth on that impressive tool outlined in his pants. Of course this never happened, but it was certainly a fantasy I used for quite a few solitary sessions in the privacy of my own home during that period of my life!

 

TruHart1

 

I'm guessing that's where the title "Mr. Congeniality" really came from.

[AdamSmith]

I'm guessing that's where the title "Mr. Congeniality" really came from.

 

Genial, genital ... what's a consonant among friends?

[Phil_musc]

Now I see in hind sight why the baths were so popular then. We all got to escape from wearing those horrible, largely effeminate looking clothes in a safe environment where everyone wore white towels. Really, how could anyone look masculine in some of those outfits?

 

On the other hand (and there always is another hand), I wouldn't be surprised if 40 years from now we'll be looking at pictures from today with some of those abysmal tattoos and be thinking similar thoughts to how we see those 70's fashions.

 

Anyway, thanks for posting the thread - an amusing walk down memory lane.

[Rudynate]

Now I see in hind sight why the baths were so popular then. We all got to escape from wearing those horrible, largely effeminate looking clothes in a safe environment where everyone wore white towels. Really, how could anyone look masculine in some of those outfits?

 

On the other hand (and there always is another hand), I wouldn't be surprised if 40 years from now we'll be looking at pictures from today with some of those abysmal tattoos and be thinking similar thoughts to how we see those 70's fashions.

 

Anyway, thanks for posting the thread - an amusing walk down memory lane.

 

Tattooing is a practice that has been around for millenia. It's popularity certainly waxes and wanes, but it isn't going to go away.