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February 13, 2017

The Nightmare That Was “His & Her” Fashions

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Yes, in the 1960s-80s a couple could wear matching sweaters without the slightest sense of irony or self-reflection.
Catalogs and fashion magazines were littered with guys and girls in identical attire looking just as cheesy as you can imagine. Granted, the styles themselves weren’t always horrible – it’s the mere fact that dressing alike was ever a “thing” is what gives us cringe decades later. - - - Flashbak

Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 13, 2017 12:15 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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Once he put on that silly outfit the relationship was doomed. She drove that scooter right up his silly ass.

Posted by: ghostsniper at February 13, 2017 2:10 PM

Gerard, did you have to dredge this out of the memory swamp? I thought I had forgotten about His & Her fashions, but, alas, now I remember them only too well.

Posted by: waltj at February 13, 2017 5:12 PM

When I was stationed on Oahu in the late '80s, it was a "thing" for some tourist couples (usually of retirement age) to get matching muu muu and aloha shirts sets.

Posted by: OldFert at February 13, 2017 5:44 PM

My tears fall into my beer for these poor men. They have offed themselves by now knowing there is no forgiveness for such offenses.

Posted by: Schoolboy at February 13, 2017 6:49 PM

So,who doesn't want a matching crocheted vest-shorty-grass-skirt? Ok,no one. But there's some cultural appropriation going on here. Bantu? Hawaiian?

Posted by: Nori at February 13, 2017 7:58 PM

I never say any of this except in pictures, usually the kind that OldFert mentions. And, I was a mddle aged family man when most here were being potty trained,or younger. I guess I lived and worked in the wrong places and at the wrong jobs.

Posted by: BillH at February 14, 2017 7:14 AM

@nori. Appropriated smelly hippie leather fringe vests by people who took baths.

Posted by: Flyover at February 14, 2017 7:20 AM

Not long ago I saw a couple pedaling down Coast Highway on their tandem. They wore matching *brightly* colored spandex bike suits. I had to wonder- which one of them thought the matching outfits were a good idea, and which one was forced to go along with it?

JWM

Posted by: jwm at February 14, 2017 8:27 AM

jwm

Surely you jest.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at February 14, 2017 8:59 AM

The guy looks totally gay.
That said, I'd have paid money to see him operate a BBQ wearing that thing.

Posted by: Speller [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 14, 2017 11:11 AM

Ah, the Seventies. The days when everyone looked like they were dressed by their mom.

Posted by: Monty James at February 14, 2017 1:49 PM

I have also seen the His & Her matched crocheted-together beer can vests, usually at highway rest stops and tourist traps as they take a break from their Harley trike. Spent all their money on the iron and now they don't have enough left over for a good set of leathers?

Posted by: waltj at February 14, 2017 1:55 PM

Dude's a chick, got's bigger cans than the girl. A fine example of pre-Photoshop cut-n-paste ad copy.

Posted by: John A. Fleming at February 14, 2017 8:18 PM

In all my years of knitting etc, etc, I have never seen a man actually wear any of that shiite they used to design for them in the mags and design books. Thankfully.

Posted by: pbird [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 15, 2017 9:35 AM

It precedes the 60's. I have on of those cheesy photobooth pictures of my girlfriend and I in matching blue and white wide horizontal boat neck shirts, taken summer 1955.
In our defense, we were 14, and in the throes of lust.

Posted by: bud at February 20, 2017 7:46 AM

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