https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help Style Advice for Fashion Lovers en-US Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:06:33 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/search.php https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052592 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:45:44 +0000 Anonymous 2052592@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>70’s was still the reign of the mini skirt and polyester pant suits with wide legs. Hot pants and even as “suits”, bare midriffs. Bell bottomed jeans and polyester pants, crazy patterned tights. Then there were chambray and denim items embellished with embroidery and beading in American Indian designs. Western wear store sprung up everywhere. Turquoise and silver jewelry. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052591 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:45:16 +0000 Anonymous 2052591@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Agreeing that the shoes are key, platforms + heels (I think of high stacked heels as 70s). Thinking maybe tights + hot pants (a bit safer), and furry coat. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052582 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:17:48 +0000 Pavlov 2052582@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Oh, okay. Thank you to everyone again!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052534 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 20:17:24 +0000 Jules 2052534@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Actually, around here in the dead of winter one of the ways you can spot a sex worker from a mile away is exposed legs. Sheer black or shiny ‘nude’ nylons under hot pants, a short jacket (fur would be great to indicate winter), platform boots, floppy wool hat? It doesn’t have to be totally accurate as long as it fits people’s preconceived notions. The hat and boots would signal 70s, the seasonally inappropriate shorts (or mini skirt) would signal sex worker.<br /> Or, the skimpy outfit with a big sheepskin coat or shawl thrown over it for physical and emotional comfort. Think Penny Lane in Almost Famous. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052527 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:40:21 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2052527@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Pavlov, I bet a short warm jacket—short enough to show off your butt—would still be key. The only streetwalkers i recall were in a different setting—mid 90s Berlin. They wore fluffy little ski jackets and tight pants with thongs over the pants, with high-heeled-boots. When the streetcar (on my way home from the library) passed by, they would turn around &amp; bend over. Walking by them occasionally, I realized they were all on drugs and could barely focus their eyes. I’m not saying you should do that, just that “the look” might transfer to winter better than you expect—the drugs (I think it was heroin) probably kept them warm, and showing their “goods” was how they made money. </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052523 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:25:12 +0000 Pavlov 2052523@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>These are all great! But I forgot to mention that it's set around Christmas...I'm sorry!! </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052520 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:13:20 +0000 MsMaven 2052520@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Hot pants! i.e. very short shorts. I remember tut-tutting about a middle-aged woman wearing suede hot pants at Cantor's restaurant in LA.&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052518 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 19:07:09 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2052518@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Do these help? Obviously, women on the subway aren’t necessarily prostitutes, and that line of 3-4 women might be waiting on the bus, but others clearly are in the business. The short jackets seem to be a thing. Then again, my sister was certainly no hooker, and she also had a very short rabbit fur jacket. She graduated high school in 1981, so maybe the jackets are more a sign of the times than a professional thing. <a href="https://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/31665/1/the-pimps-peep-shows-and-prostitutes-of-1970s-nyc" rel="nofollow">https://www.dazeddigital.com/p.....-1970s-nyc</a> (click through to 14 pix)</p> <p>I found numerous collections of this guy’s photos online. There’s also a 20-min video of him looking at pix and talking about the people in them, but that’s pretty much only men. <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/18436679705847433/?amp_client_id=MOCwzLh0y4SD26k2ugvGoJpxKsvudn7hQJbAjt4n1vzuiHMGRrAAcfOIkMrhxF7T&#038;mweb_unauth_id=9f05b68a66fd9e3fc191f1f45b03942e" rel="nofollow">https://www.pinterest.com/pin/.....f45b03942e</a> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052515 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 18:46:39 +0000 KikiG 2052515@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>The key to making your revealing, tight costume choices look 1970s might be the shoes you choose.&nbsp; Very, very exaggerated platform shoes, particularly in a very striking color, would have been both occupationally and time period appropriate.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052472 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 17:21:06 +0000 L'Abeille 2052472@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>Or Jane Fonda from the movie Klute </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052463 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:35:27 +0000 kkards 2052463@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>assuming you are trying to look like a hooker....</p> <p>&nbsp;google images&nbsp; of Jodi Foster from the movie taxi driver (1976)...that should give you what you're looking for&nbsp; </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052461 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:26:44 +0000 Stagiaire Fash 2052461@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p><div>If you're supposed to be a hooker, no skirt is too short. <br /></div><div><br /></div><div>When I had to dress as an aging prostitute, the same friend who years later helped me dress for a job interview while 5 months pregnant (they never guessed) helped me put my costume together. As I recall, it was short and skimpy and tight, with black tights with a big run in them.<br /></div> </p> https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/topic/unexpected-retro-dressing-can-anyone-help#post-2052459 Mon, 12 Aug 2019 16:06:12 +0000 Pavlov 2052459@https://youlookfab.com/welookfab/ <p>I'm in a stage production that is set in the 70s. Now, that'd be all fine and good.....if I weren't dressing like a hooker. I can't seem to find anything that would look right. I don't know if I should throw in some animal print, how short is too short for a skirt, or even what kind of accessories to use. I'm fairly young, so I don't even know how to fit the 70s vibe. If someone could help me out that would be very much appreciated! </p>