This is your mother's Rush! What we wore 1960-1990

[carnation]

Haha, I can remember all the sorority girls at Auburn wearing bell bottoms whose bells were so big that they slapped against each other as we walked. And when they got wet in the rain--yechh! What an awful sound and feeling.

[AnchorAlumna]

Elephant bells!
I made a pair (yes! I sew!) out of a kelly green cotton with tiny white dots. Loved 'em. Made my waist look tiny.
I kept a couple of big safety pins to pin the bells up to ride my 10-speed to class! Good times.

[33girl]

Oh my gosh, I remember this one Winston ad from my childhood - the girl was wearing an orange tube top and lace up jeans and I just thought that was the HEIGHT of glamour and grown up-ness. You couldn't see the bottom of her jeans but you just KNEW they were the most gigantic bells you had ever seen in your life.

It took me a LONG time as an adult to buy anything flared in the least, and I really only did so because I couldn't find anything else. I still prefer just plain, straight leg Levi's to anything else. The ones I have seem to have shrunk while sitting in my closet though.

Oh, and while we did have the super duper skinny, zip at the leg jeans in the 80s - at least the zipper was more than an inch long!! I'm long waisted and low riders are hell for me. I can't wait till they're completely gone.

[honeychile]

I had a pair of elephant bells that were red and white checked. *blush* When they went out of style, I was able to make EIGHT dinner napkins out of them, for casual napkins! Worse, I can remember wearing them during the Bicentennial Year!

Everytime I see flared pants now, I think of how stupid we must have looked.

[ellebud]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I had a pair of elephant bells that were red and white checked. *blush* When they went out of style, I was able to make EIGHT dinner napkins out of them, for casual napkins! Worse, I can remember wearing them during the Bicentennial Year!

Everytime I see flared pants now, I think of how stupid we must have looked.

And this is why I try, though not always successfully, to keep my mouth shut when my kids show up in the latest fashion that I think looks perhaps not so great.

My other fashion rule: If I wore it before...like in the 70s...I won't wear it again. Nothing says old woman like a woman in her ....whatever wearing a miniskirt with varicose veins.

[dukemama]

Originally Posted by ellebud

Nothing says old woman like a woman in her ....whatever wearing a miniskirt with varicose veins.

Is it any wonder they show a "No miniskirts over 35" sign on What Not To Wear? I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those things!

[33girl]

Originally Posted by dukemama

Is it any wonder they show a "No miniskirts over 35" sign on What Not To Wear? I wouldn't be caught dead in one of those things!

I hate "rules" like that. If you're 50 and you have great legs and a firm butt, by all means ROCK THE MINISKIRT. No, not the same miniskirt you wore when you were 15, mainly because it's probably WAY out of style, but a short skirt that shows off your assets. And cover up on top.

And for the love of all that's holy, if you're ANY age and you're veiny, PUT ON A DAMN PAIR OF HOSE. I saw a woman the other day when I went for my interview, not more than 30, and she had on a full business suit and no hose. Her foot veins were sticking up like Tibet does on my globe. It was disgusting.

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by carnation

Haha, I can remember all the sorority girls at Auburn wearing bell bottoms whose bells were so big that they slapped against each other as we walked. And when they got wet in the rain--yechh! What an awful sound and feeling.

I am only 5' tall. I remember having some bell bottoms that were so wide that they appeared to be bigger than me. My kids are 24 and 21 and they love to laugh at the clothes I wore until I pull out some of the pictures of them when they wanted to wear "in styles" and realize how silly they look once they go out of style.

DaffyKD