Remember high waist pants?
You know the stuff Jane Curtain wore in SNL? the ones that went up over the hips, and were tight in the fanny, and the legs were almost bells? The cuffs covered the shoes? I LIKED that. I miss that. I like to see women dressed like that in old movies. Why did that look go away? Just about any woman could pull it off and look OK. Some nice women’s suits still look like that.
Most women today, I don’t know if they’re stressed at the dichotomy between trying to look professional and still be attractive, or if they learned to dress from their cousin the hooker, but it’s just not doing it for me.
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Turn on a “That 70’s Show” re-run if you liked that look. Jackie is wearing them all the time.
We skipped the 70’s this time around and went straight to 1983. Tunics and sweater dresses with leggings or tights and calf-high boots. Oh, with belts over the top.
Everyone is going to look like elves from the Lord of the Rings, except few will be able to successfully carry it off since few are as svelte as the elves from Lord of the Rings (those sweater dresses do not hide bulk, I don’t care what anyone says).
The only thing that will make it worth it would be if we can also carry swords.
Midwest Chick, if you get to carry swords what male (or female) idiot is even going to hint that the ensemble in question is less than flattering. Unless they have a death wish.
Sweater dresses in beige, I remember that – the 80’s were not kind to women, fortunately fashion marches quickly on, so something else already more chic is set to displace them.
I always remember the line from one of the Matt Helm books, something like “I prefer women in skirts, but if you’re going to wear pants at least wear well-fitting ones.”
My least favorite: low-rise jeans- usually WAY too tight- on women they look terrible on. Jeez, what the hell is wrong with those women?
LOL! yep, Firehand, you gotta love the muffintop over the extreme lowrise. Maybe 1% of women can wear them.
GuyS: hence the total need for a sword as the perfect accessory.
DirtCrashr: We can only hope. It wasn’t the outfits so much as the really, REALLY big hair that went with them. Maybe we’re dodging that bullet this time around (although I’m far from a fashionista).
Firehand and Og, the indomitable one: We called them biscuits, as in the Pop N’ Fresh type ’cause they looked like the bit of dough that pops out when you hit the can on the counter. I’m thinking not even 1% of women and all of those are under 17. I never even bothered to try.
I agree w/ Midwest Chick about who can get away with the low rise pants.
My daughters are gymnasts. They and the other team girls wind up with almost no body fat. The team girls who wear those look bad.
I think the low rise pants generate fat even where there was none before.
Who fooled women into those things?
The trick to low-rise jeans is a) to have an hourglass figure, and b) to know the difference between “low” and “too low”. Many try it; few achieve it.
Also the difference between ‘fitted’ and ‘too damn tight’.
Hey, I *liked* sweater dresses and big hair!