1977 Boys Wear - Kays Catalogue

[IcyPeas]

pretty spiffy if you ask me.

[poli-junkie]

1. Those are some serious bells

[Harker]

4. I don't how they can hear themselves think. n/t

[msongs]

2. when polyester was king. awful to wear in a tropical place like honolulu nt

[TreasonousBastard]

3. C'mon-- men's fashions are so dull-- we need an update to...

the Zoot Suit

[dawg day]

5. Now that is STYLIN'!

Look at those saddle shoes.

[northoftheborder]

6. Still got some seventy's bells in my vintage box. Polyester, of course. Plaid.

[Efilroft Sul]

7. My mom tried to dress my 10-year-old self in this shit. She thought I'd look "sharp."

To this day, I favor the white tee and blue jeans look (non flare, natch) of my 70s sartorial rebellion.

[Archae]

11. I wear almost exclusively, pullover short-sleeved shirts and jeans.

To hell with fashion, (I never was "fashionable" anyway,) I like what's comfortable.

[Efilroft Sul]

12. I loved growing up in the 70s.

Adventure was everywhere for us kids. On some days, the adventure began by avoiding what clothing my mom picked out for me to wear to school. Holy crap, how her choices were awful!

I had this one pair of white pants that had vertical, multiple red and blue stripes that ran from the flair to the waistline and made me look like some demented American clown-child. All the button-down shirts were bright colors, and every one had a supersized collar. And, of course, an itchy, sleeveless vest had to be worn over the damn thing. Looking back, I'm surprised I didn't have a few kiddie-sized leisure suits.

[IcyPeas]

14. those pants sound very memorable LOL

[Efilroft Sul]

15. If you replace the words "very memorable" with "traumatizing," then, yes.

[tonekat]

8. Number 7 Looks like a young

Ashton Kutscher.

[Xavier Breath]

9. Reminds me of the powder blue leisure suit

I wore for church service on Easter Sunday, 1976. Wore a navy dress shirt underneath and my brand new brown Hush Puppies. Damn, I must have cut a handsome figure

[cinematicdiversions]

10. It is the haircuts that haunt me to this day. NT

[hunter]

13. I was in college then.

I wore Levi's 501s, teeshirts, a hoodie, and shoes I could run in.

Hmmm. I still do.

A good rule of life is:

Wear shoes you can run in and clothes that don't melt or catch fire.

[Quemado]

16. What? No white shoes or white belts?

What happened here?