The Height of Bad Fashion
I have a small collection of yearbooks. You can always find them at thrift stores or estate sales. I guess some people want to forget their awkward high school years. This particular yearbook is from 1977. When I found it at a thrift store, it was filled with school notes, class schedules, loose photos, and even a newspaper clipping of a fellow classmate who was killed in an auto accident. It also has corny autographs written on the end pages and in the margins, like "To a really great chick who I really dig." or "May you walk in the light always, with your eyes on the stars." The senior photographs were especially amusing filled with funky fashions of the day such as disco shirts, big afros, Farrah Fawcett hairdos, leisure suits, puka shells, digital watches, halter dresses, beaded chokers, tacky cowboy shirts, and the worst backgrounds of golden setting suns and woody forest scenes. Here are a few of my favorite men's fashions.
A bad case of the blues.
The Spirit of 76.
Geddy Lee
Later went on to become a Chippendale Dancer.
Played in a "Tony Orlando and Dawn" cover band.
Pocket protector.
Went on to design uniforms for McDonald's.
Inventor of the Chia Pet.
Spike Jones fan.
Scott Hamilton
Flunked out of Clown College.
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That piece of log used in many was a nice touch...
Funniest post ever.
I actually kinda have the hots for the first guy. Being the most Aryan looking person in the world, with blonde hair, pale skin and blue eyes, I'm always attracted to the opposite. Plus, there's this Jackson 5 feel about it that really "takes me back."
Jon - I think the logs are so funny. There are even worse shots of people holding wood. I'll save some of those for the ladies entry.
Brit - I also think the first guy has a Jackson Five look!
I liked your tags, as well...
What IS up with the logs? In art history class we always joked that anything taller than it was wide is a phallic symbol, so I'm going go with...
Log! Log! Its better than good its great!
I love this so much, I blogged it. Thanks for sharing!
I was helping a friend move and out of a box slips a photo album with pictures of him from high school. With the leisure suit/platform heels/afro.
We had to take a break for about an hour to rest from laughing after he brought out the platform heels from the pictures. Thankfully no one broke an ankle trying to walk in them :) and sadly no one had the courage to try on the lime green jumpsuit!
These photos reminded me of that day! Jeff
Yay for Ren and Stimpy! Gotta love that log...
"What rolls down stairs
and over the chairs
and into your neighbor's dog?
It fits on your back,
It's good for a snack,
Everyone knows it's log.
It's log, it's log,
It's big, it's heavy, it's wood.
It's log, it's log, it's better than bad, it's good."
I finished high school in 77 and Im PROUD to say I NEVER wore anything like ANY of these guys! Thank god for fashionless heavy metal!
If you look closer, you will note that the "log" is actually a split rail fence. Very standard school photo prop in the seventies. Thank Little House and the Waltons for that.
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