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Dispatches From The 70s: Women’s Lib Akin To An Irritating Rash

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IT is a common misconception that the 1970s were this wildly liberal time where every tradition was fair game. Sure, there were a lot of ‘progressive’ philosophies that entered Main Street which had heretofore been relegated to liberal back alleys.  However, with each New Idea came the predictable resistance.  Nothing epitomizes this better than the Women’s Lib movement which gained traction in the late sixties and became a buzz word for the ensuing decade.

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Posted: 17th, January 2014 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment (1)


Top 5 Fashion Offenses of The 1970s

BEFORE launching into the typical “Oh, aren’t those Seventies fashions so terrible” spiel, let’s get one thing out of the way: 70s’ fashions are an easy target because they took chances. Whenever you are bold you run the risk of becoming the butt of jokes. Today’s styles seem to abide by the “best not to make waves” approach – unlikely to cause much ridicule in future decades, but also fatally milquetoast. Not so the 1970s.

Attribute it to millions of emboldened Boomers coming of age or a staggering amount of recreational drug use. Either way the case is the same: 1970s fashions inspire equal parts awe and terror for denizens of the 21st century. Let’s take a look at the top five instances where this inspiring boldness went terribly, terribly wrong.

 

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Posted: 1st, December 2013 | In: Fashion, Flashback, Key Posts | Comment (1)


The greatest keep-fit devices of the 1970s

WERE you around in the 1970s? Did you keep fit with the latest kit? We’ve pulled together some of the devices available in the brown decade. If you have any of these items, please let us know if they worked:

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Posted: 21st, November 2012 | In: Flashback, Technology, The Consumer | Comments (4)


Unforgivable home croch clothes from the 1970s

DID you home crochet in the 1960s and 1970s? Did you buy Aunt Lydia’s Knit Crochet Heavy Rug Yarn? Did you read publications like Knitting & Crochet, In Shawls and The Easy Art of Ripple Crochet? These people did. Look out for the brooding brother dressed the same as his mum, dad, and sister; the woman knitting her own bikini by the pool; man and dog look alike; the neck brace that let’s you dress like your toilet; and more…

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Posted: 8th, November 2012 | In: Fashion, Flashback | Comment


Houseplants of the 1970s (ferns and tongues)

IN the 1970s, home decor was abut house plants, most often ferns, the mother-in-law’s tongue and Pampas grass. In this gallery of 1970s rooms, the house plant is there. Always there. The 1970s truly were the golden age for ferns…

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Posted: 5th, November 2012 | In: Flashback, The Consumer | Comments (12)


Circus magazine asks ‘Will they survice the 70s?’

IT’S February 1970, and Circus magazine has a question:

 

Posted: 19th, August 2012 | In: Flashback | Comment


Shameless nostalgia – the 1970s with a Ravioli Smile

SHAMELESS Nostalgia journeys to the 1970s to showcase: Robert Plant in his budgie smugglers; Keith Richards wondering who or what Mick Jagger is; Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific; Sleazy 70s Stag Films; Live and Let Live with Kloss; a Ravioli Smile; the Sex Pistols are childminders; Stoned Again with Robert Crumb; and Needlepoint for men…

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Posted: 16th, February 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts | Comment


The 1970s in photos: Remember these?

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THE 1970s. Remember them? If you do, you’ll enjoy trying to identify the things and people of that decade in our gallery. If you don’t remember them, you are either blocking out the nightmare or ready to know that once upon a time a Jewish actors played an Italian stallion called The Fonz, people thought Elton John was straight, check suits wer in vogue, Iggy Pop was doing graffiti, Debbie Harry was sex in chiffon, Mick Jagger did it in hotpants, Marc Boland declared Glam Rock dead (1973, for you pop historians), Robert Plant missed his mouth, Jimmy Connors dressed to kill, and the world was covered in denim…

 

Posted: 3rd, January 2012 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, Photojournalism | Comment (1)