this was an email that i got from jaz. (i begged her for it)
it's fabulous.
you MUST read the advertisements….MUST.
jcpenney??
seriously.
the hat…..oh the hat.
for me it is a natural transition straight into the Barry Gibb Talk Show on SNL….
talkin' bout chest hair, talkin' bout crazy cool medallions.
funny stuff.
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ported barrels - And of course, please pay attention to the overall work being performed.
לפרטים - Great photos of old 1970s. I like the fashion of that era. There are vary huge change between 20th century and first generation.
Emery Sprau - Well, I find the belted sweater cool. Sweaters did leave the limelight in men’s fashion and bringing this back now would add sophistication to modern styles.
herringbone - This is crazy! You made my day happy! You know, your photos are so funny! I guess those outfits are out of fashion today.
Edward Facinelli - Hahaha… Nice to see these old school ads! The sweaters’ styles look like costumes on some fairytales! LOL! At first glance, the sweaters look something like Robin Hood’s clothing. Hmm… One can clearly see how flamboyant fashion styles were before – that retro feeling.
Supra Shoes - I describe, I’ve witnessed with my own eyes. In no particular order of severity, without any intention to shock nor pass judgement, these fish have been subject to survival challenges that could yet be turned into a reality TV show. Let’s cut to poo, firstly. I’ve seen humans poo by the lake’s edge. My neighbour washes the bird poo from the base of her birdcage into the lake. Her husband, I saw one day pick up a dog turd with a yellow trumpet flower and piff it into the lake. He said hello to me and smiled as he did it.
Air Jordans - Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; can transfer knowledge from teacher to students words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions .Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all man’s actions , Do not ridicule the use of words in psychotherapy.
Coach handbags - Other inventions – the vacuum tube to amplify sound, and coaxial cables to link long distances on land and under the seas — greatly expanded phone service. Transistors replaced the old vacuum tubes, and by the 1960s communications satellites eliminated the necessity of landlines. Today, bundles of glass fibers carry calls on laser beams of light.
amy jupin - i almost peed my pants looking at this.
at work.
then we photoshopped my friend’s face onto one of the guys bodies and laughed until we cried.
thanks for sharing!
Blog - HAHA! Thank you so much for this. Made my day. Love your blog!
Prudence - Thanks for these hilarious pictures!! TOO TOO FUNNY!!!
Lisa - Mercy! This is by far the best way to start a Friday. Thank you! I can’t stop laughing.. will share for sure.
Pippa - These are a Hoot! Also, need to comment on your LaCreme post – and your comment about going to bed thinking you can’t wait until morning to have coffee – I thought that exact thing just last night – CRAZY! Doesn’t help that there is a Maxwell House coffee plant here in Jacksonville, FL and you can smell the coffee when you are in the downtown area – SMELLS SOOOOOOOOO GOOD! Happy Friday!
Jennifer - “you’re a walking turn-on”…I’m dying. My 6 year old came to see what I was laughing about and he asked “Is that his long underwear??” LOL. Thanks for the hilarity this morning. 🙂
Maskman - Kill it!
Kill it with fire!
Kill it before it eats the kids!
Shamed - I’d send this to my dad but I think he might still have the shirts in the first picture in his closet. I almost swear he wore one for Easter last year.
emily - this is priceless!! i added you to my pinterest so that i can laugh every day!! great post!!
Mary Lemon - I remember lime green “leisure suits” and unfortunately we tho’t they were pretty cool at the time. The terry cloth “jumpsuit” is really somethin! And I think the belted sweaters must not have made it to Nebraska! You know we’re always several years behind the big fashion hits!
I loved Karen’s comment about her dad and getting out of his way . . . that made me laugh as hard as the ads. Thanks Karen for sharing that! I needed to laugh today and this ad and the comments really made my day!
Cherished Hearts Vintage - OH MY! Tooooo funny. Thank you.
Sharyl@Thelittlebrownhouse - Oh my!! Cracking up!! The Barry Gibb Talk Show is an all time favorite of mine!
amber - Holy cow. Bob, Paul, & Steve. Jump suits. Wow. Wow. I can’t wait to show my husband. He’s gonna be totally grossed out…so fun.
Wow.
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang - Biggest hit at the office EVER
Libby - “You’re a walking turn-on.”
Or… or maybe something else all together.
Jennifer Williams - Ha! I needed a good laugh today. Thank you for sharing.
Trish - OH MY Goodness!! So funny, Uggh, my side hurts from laughing so hard.
I’m gonna share this on FB 😉
sara's art house - HILARIOUS!!! 🙂
Kelly - oh my! 🙂 Kelly
Tiffany - Thanks for sharing that! 🙂 All I kept thinking about was Ron Burgundy in Anchorman. All those models have those weird lusty faces like they’re wearing cologne named Sex Panther.
Melinda - Oh my! Although it was the end of the era I do have to admit that the top picture, light blue ensemble, looked very similar to one my husband once sported. Haha! I know fashion often repeats itself and some of the fashions (think Rachel Zoe) are pretty cool again there are some (like the male jumpsuit) that should be outlawed! Thanks for the trip down memory lane : )
Kristin S - “shoes sold on 442” Thanks, I was wondering.
Julie - THis was the seventies right? Like as in my poor little baby and toddler eyes could have seen men in baby blue, gold belted, terry jumpsuits, leisurely leisuring around town. With their junk for all to see????
So glad that memories of the younger years fade! So glad that my dad did not embrace this fad. Or did he? Do I need to look through my childhood albums? That is a scary, scary thought!!!!
crystalbeutler - Too stinkin funny. These is my days, girlfriend. I so remember the jumpsuits!! Hideous then, hideous now.
The guy on the right in the first photo looks just like one of the checkers at my grocery store! He’s still livin the dream.
Jacci - Megan. My dear.
There is so much wrong with this I don’t even know where to begin.
Why do I feel like your gonna pull out a couple of these ad lines on Craig when the kids aren’t around?
lol. and ha.
btw, thanks for sifting thru SNL for me and showing the funny, clean clips. that’s a bonus 🙂
Dawn - I am scarred for life. Seriously.
kasey - “quick as a flick of her tongue”….
no need to say more.
karen - this is probably sharing too much, but my dad rocked the jumpsuit, you just did not want to be in his way when he was trying to make it to the bathroom, I am not sure how easy those were to take off…..not as easy as portrayed in the ads…………………..:)
hayley - wait…people were really getting laid in these things?!
Jamie - I’ll take one jumpsuit for my husband. Skyblue, to bring out the color of his eyes.
Kimberly - hahahahah!!!! “… Bob, Paul, and Steve want patterns and colors that swing too.”
Jenny Joy - BWWAHAHAAAAAAAAA… The men in the jumpsuits? Those dudes and their “packages” are scaring the bajeebers out of me. Seriously. My eyeballs might never really be the same!
Ang - Funniest.post.ever. I am dying of laughter!!! So, so great!
Ana - Well, that was the 70s with the horrid fashions, but at least guys wore pants ABOVE the crack line. Now all you see are kids with their pants below their ass… I’m sorry, but I would take the 70s any day.
Shannon D. - YIKES! I am just trying to picture my husband or any other man I know wearing these HOT clothes….enough of that.
kat - Dying laughing here!!! So are you making some of those svelte belted sweaters for your shop?
Courtney Walsh - I am laughing out loud. My 3 yr. old thinks I’ve lost it.
hahahhahaa. THis is SOOOO funny.
steph - oh… my… word… HILARIO!!!!!
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
“fits so tight, it shows ALL you’ve got!!!! are you man enough to fill it?”
c’mon… you’d think they could find some better looking faces though?! seriously?
these guys… not so hot.
and who the he** are bob, paul and steve?! they look like the tech guys i used to work with when i was 19 at the accounting firm.
wait… maybe that WAS their names?!?! ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Jeff Nussbaum - I want to be a walking turn-on!
One thing that does amuse me: these ads have some semblance of proper grammar, which is equally as out of fashion as the clothes.
kate - lolololol!…”designed for people like you, who make things happen”…ohh lala…!
Heather - Hawt!!!
Lisa - I just sent the link to my husband. I can hear him shouting “Huh UH!” over and over. LOL. This is great!
jennifer - That is priceless! I can’t help but think that there was a certain demographic those ads were targeting… I’m just saying.
Sugar Mama - I want my husband to wear one of those outfits for Halloween! bwa ha ha ha… I’m cracking up! The daycare kids are staring at me like I’ve completed lost it.
Those guys posing are kind of creepy… their faces??? What is up with that?
Jen - This is hilARious! I posted it on my facebook wall.
Ruth H. - “She’ll eat you alive.” BWAAAA HAHAHAHA! Hilarious!
meaghan - OH. MY. GOSH! that was INSANE!!!! “quick off with a flick of her tongue” ?!?!?!??!?!?!? ahahahahahahhahahaha! you just made my day!
Amanda - LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL I loved reading that ad!!! Oh hilarious! Can’t wait to show my husband when he gets home-I’m gonna tell him he’d look hawt in that jumpsuit-LOL…Wonder how fast he’ll run?
ashlee - dude… my dad totally rocked the one piece jumpsuit:)
Valerie @ Chateau A La Mode - Yipes!!! That’s what I grew up with! That had to be the most awful time for poor men to wear clothing. Don’t even get me started on the jumpsuits. A man should never, never, ever be in a jumpsuit…just WRONG!
Anne @ Baking Me - The baby blue jump suite is my favorite hah!
candace - my first thought on the hat…..where’s Curious George?
these are hilarious!
sara @ it's good to be queen - with a smooth comfortable fit that makes the most of your body…ha ha ha ha ha! i almost spit my coffee out. wow, that is more of him than i wanted to see this morning.
Flower Patch Farmgirl - I refuse to believe that any one ever took Bob, Paul and Steve seriously. Can. Not. Do it.
Amy - Haha you made my day…tears of laughter streaming down my cheeks;)
Rebekah - Guys who make thing happen, eh? Yikes.
adrienne - thanks for a great laugh this morning!!!
Christy - omg too funny!! luv the chest hair & the outfits..
Lynette - Oh. My. Goodness. So funny! Thanks for the laugh this morning!
Sarah - Wow! And, awesome!
happygirl - Thanks for bringing sexy back. That was my era Meg. I LOVE the trip down memory lane. Btw, most guys only dressed like that on VERY special occasions. Dontcha wish you could’a been a fly on the bathroom wall for the Big Zip?
Anna Marie - When I started reading the paragraph on the “One. Easy. Piece.” ad my mouth dropped open. Wow! I am now scarred for life, thanks Meg 😉
Elissa - this is just cracking my can this morning!!! thanks for the laugh!
Cory - Oh my. I have absolutely no words. Oh my.
Tricia - I’m trying to picture my husband in these outfits and, thankfully, cannot! So, so funny.
Andrea - “quick as a flick of her tongue”! I couldn’t believe it! And we say advertising today is suggestive!
Michelle - My favorite is the AH Men. That, and did everyone in the 70s have a mustache??
rebecca - Bwahahahah!!!! Thank you for a great laugh this morning, even before I’ve had my coffee! “Fits so tight it shows all you’ve got…you’re a walking turn-on.” Oh my… 🙂
Hannah - hahahhahahhahahahahahahaha! HILARIOUS!!!! i can’t believe women even found men dressed like that attractive!!! 🙂 thanks for the laugh!!!!!!! 🙂
ashley jensen - The Barry Gibb Talkshow skit is one of my favorites!! Love it!!
Tara - laughing before I have my coffee…..that never happens!
Mummy's Dress - Bahahaha!!!! So funny.
The one easy piece ad is so wrong… on so many levels! Are you man enough to fill it?
Mary Beth - Hey, that’s my Homecoming Date!!!!
Us late 70’s graduates don’t really think these are so funny, although we MAY be cringing!!!
haHJAHAHAHAHAahahahahahah
Hoosier at Heart - Quick as a flick of her tongue? Wow! That some really descriptive advertisement there.
leslie @ topofthepage - the wording in the “one easy piece” ad is so suggestive! i can’t believe it. so super gross, dude. and a little awesome. i have trouble with some v-neck tee shirts guys are sporting lately, and look at that chest-plunging atrocity in the first one! ewwww.
Jennifer - I was laughing so hard! snorting and tears too! that one easy piece ad has got to be the funniest ever! this is the best!
Jen - Hilarious!
Stretch terry? Seriously? That’s so wrong.
Marisa - Oh my goodness! It’s almost unbelievable.
I’m with Lisa. . . I look at our outfits today and think, “What will people say about us in 20 years? What could they find wrong with this outfit?”
Heather - In sane. Scary. Easy?
Sarah W. in Oregon - Oh my. Thank you!! My husband and I are howling. Howling! Reading the One Easy Piece ad put me over the edge.
Awesome.
Lisa - Those outfits are hilarious! Funny to think that years from now people will look back on what we were wearing and think the same thing!
Ali - Terrifying.