Does anyone else remember...

[6518John]

Everyone I worked with in the Seventies wore field jackets

I thought one had to be a farmer to get stuck this badly. Old Tanker thank you for your service and anyone who has been stuck like this has my deepest respect and symphony!

I wonder if anyone has ever done an unofficial survey of the Tank corps. I wonder if a number come from farm, ranch or heavy equipment backgrounds?

 

[Ruger Nut]

I think Leisure suits hit their peak in the mid to late 1970s. I had two. One was lime green, one was sort of khaki brown, worn with matching shiny Paisley print open neck shirts. Some wore gold neck chains, but not me. In the mid to late 1980s it seemed most of the young buck executive wannabes favored pinstripe dark blue pants, blue shirts with wide ties, and gaudy multicolor striped suspenders. By that time I was too old to carry that off.

My parents bought me a baby blue leisure suit for my confirmation in 8th grade.

 

[reedman]

I couldn't stand the bump under my toes with Earth Shoes. But I did love my Roots.

 

[Tom K]

I not only remember them, I remember where they're at, and where I got them!

I wore these back in the late '70s when I was going to school at Oklahoma State. There was a little store on the Strip that sold them. The guy who ran the store was named Dave Skinner and I met him again after graduation when we both worked in engineering at Rockwell International in Tulsa.

I had considered throwing these out a few months ago but decided to keep them for nostalgia's sake. It's been 45 years, what's a few more?

 

[DWalt]

You might get good money for them on eBay. Their style is somewhat similar to the pair of Earth Shoes I had, except mine were bought earlier in the 70s.

 

[Chubbo]

Spring suspension

Several kinds of therapeutic shoes have been mentioned in this thread, but I remember a type not mentioned; I remember a musician, that preformed in Fisherman's Village in Punta Gorda, FL, 25+ years ago. He spent lengthy days, and nights, standing, and preforming, while hawking his music tapes, and DVDs. He wore unusual shoes that were suspended on coil springs about an inch above their soles. Has anyone seen that type of spring-loaded shoes?

Chubbo

 

[Rustyt1953]

Huggy Bear set the fashion bar high.

 

[rockquarry]

Many of us participated in the bad fashion clothing event that was the 1970s, but I continue to be proud that my tastes were never so low as to wear a leisure suit. Some actually thought these clothes were interchangeable with sports coats, ties, and dress slacks.

I worked with a very good friend who had a powder blue leisure suit he wore on formal occasions. The jacket was a short-sleeve version, the only one I can recall.

Remember men's patent leather loafers? Some were even two-tone. Hideous, but I had at least one pair.

 

[pittpa]

Huggy Bear set the fashion bar high.

As did Frenchy Fuqua with the Steelers IIRC.


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[Greyman50]

I remember bell bottoms ,surfing shirts and desert boots but only footwear I have from then is my jungle boots from Vietnam.
As for getting any track stuck like that could/ would have resulted in an article 15 unless stuck for training.

 

[jeffrefrig]

Stupid shoes, leisure suits, and disco is why God kept Pink Floyd going and bongs always full. What a horrible time for "fashion."

 

[Llance]

My bell bottoms were navy blue, as were the tops to go with them, my socks were black, my shoes were black with a high shine, my skivvies were white as were some of my bell bottoms, my tops were white to match the bell bottoms, and I wore a cover which had no bill unless it was a ballcap. My dress blues had white piping and a white shield on one sleeve. Whites were impossible to keep white. Damn the 70'and 80's were great. Then in the late 80's I traded the gold on my upper arm for blue and gold stripes on the cuffs of my sleeves and a whole new service record.

 

[raljr1]

The pair I had was fairly sturdy, sort of like lace-up work boots. I wore them for several years. I was teaching at Ohio U at that time and I fit right in with the students. OU was sort of a hippie school back then and probably still is. I might even consider buying another pair as my feet don't feel so good.

Daughter went there in the 90's. Hippie school in Appalachia...two miles away from the U was like a third world.

 

[DWalt]

Daughter went there in the 90's. Hippie school in Appalachia...two miles away from the U was like a third world.

OU is also known as Harvard on the Hocking. Very liberal and a big-time party school, but located in what is probably the most sparsely populated and backward area of Ohio. I left there for much greener pastures in 1976, no idea if OU has changed since then. I doubt it.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Clark's Desert boots with crepe soles. Da bomb. Used to wear them with shorts and no socks. Come to think of it-the only shoes I wear with socks are my wingtips.Uniform of the day consists of pants, long or short with shirt and topsiders/thongs/crocks. Nobody looks down at your feet anyway-

 

[Chubbo]

Remember?

In my younger days, era 1940 – 1960, I was observant of fashion, style, and trends. I didn't always follow them closely. I tried many styles of boots and shoes, but I could never bring myself to wear earth shoes, or garish clothing.

While pumping gasoline, wearing desert boots, or fruit boots, with crape souls, I walked into a puddle of gas, and it dissolved my crape souls.

Fabric for leisure suits of the day, also included, seersucker and corduroy.

The finest footwear that I've owned, was custom-made paratrooper boots; they were of fine leather, lined with soft glove leather, and had a heavy brass zipper, with shoe laces on either side, so that when the boots were custom laced to fit your feet, only one zipper per boot was needed to don the boots. Those boots were ideal, for motorcycle touring.

Chubbo