Oh Mary!! Thank goodness! Yes, the carousel projector. We have our entire 3 month USA vacation on about 30 carousels...Thank you for helping me not feel too much like a dinosaur!

Taylor, I'd bet anything there is somebody in your town who will take your slides and digitize them. Just google around and find that person, then take them in and pay whatever it costs to get it done. Much better than (a) worrying about it, or (b) spending hours and hours doing it yourself.

That's totally what I'd do.

I think you are right Mary.
Last year a cousin of mine had her 52nd B-day and I found a great slide of the 2 of us sitting on a park bench with the LONG hair . pastel cord bell bottoms and peasant tops..~.barefoot of course~ laughing and the breeze blowing our hair. It was a great slide and a place was able to make a photo of it .....I had it framed for her

Im going to look for a software program...thanks for the idea!

I think I'll be taking a pared-back approach to the 70s style: bottle green and flares sound fantastic, and I'm interested in giving wide-leg pants a go for the first time. Are we doing platforms? I love those. But mustard yellow and turtlenecks look truly awful on me, and I don't think pussy bows are a good fit for my personality.

That said, I'm sure by this time next year I'll have picked up on some aspect of the trend that I never would have predicted... it'll just take a while to get my eyes used to it.

I can't find the photo I was looking for of my mother in a baby-blue leisure suit with ruffles. If any of ya'll show up here in a leisure suit, I think I won't be able to post here any more.

I also found a photo of a wedding my mom was a bridesmaid in where the groomsmen wore brown tuxedos with orange ruffled shirts. But it's not just the 70s - I think every decade has its looks that NO ONE wants to see come back!

Tricia, that's just too funny! We were married in the 70's and no ruffles but attended weddings that did have the guys in baby blue tux's with ruffled shirts. I think they were cream or tan with blue contrasting stitching.

That is funny Tricia and Joy! I was married in 1978 and it was powder blue tuxes and ruffle shirts...How awful!
Tricia, You are right about the leisure suits...Don't want to see those again. I can remember being really excited about fashion back then...funny now!

This thread gets better and better. The 70's weddings take the cake!

Taylor & Tarzy - I'm 52 and really don't care if I ever revisit 70s styles! Do you think we were subconsciously scarred by what we wore? or saw others wear?

I DO remember one oufit I wore in 1977 (I guess certain events stick in my mind) that consisted of jeans tucked into tall chestnut leather boots, a chunky tan belted cardigan, over some sort of cream LS shirt. That image is not too far from today's styles, but I had a heck of a time getting all that denim smoothly into those boots. . . !

I might give some '70s elements a try! No pussy bow blouses here though.

Some of you might remember an outfit I came up with for a disco/70s theme party (I ended up wearing something else). Not that I would ever wear a tube top as part of my regular wardrobe!
http://i617.photobucket.com/al.....ure003.jpg
Not sure if I like the wide-leg jeans on me; I'll probably try out a flare or bellbottom style.

I also have a 70s-inspired pleather jacket I'll be breaking out (thanks to Angie for finding it!):
http://i617.photobucket.com/al.....010039.jpg
(password is youlookfab, if you need one)

We had slides too. I have some from as late as 1996.

One outfit I remember my mother wearing was a wrap skirt with a white t shirt that was trimmed (collar and maybe cuffs) with the same material as the skirt.

I feel like being longwaisted is helpful for wearing 70's styles. I feel I have more affinity for the seventies look when it comes to body type. I liked wearing seventies stuff in the 90's. I wore out one t shirt that had slogans written all over it

anne - I totally feel the same way. I am a slim, long waisted leggy gal, and I always felt that 70's style would suit my body type perfectly...too bad so much of it is eye-searing! lol

what is a leisure suit????

i don't think a vneck sweater with a collared shirt is very masculine anymore because vnecks are no longer as boxy and collared shirts are more fitted. i do wear that combination occasionally.

i'm excited for wider lengths on pants, i never really got on board with the narrow leg openings, except for tucking into boots.

This is a leisure suit. I know they had them for women too, but I couldn't find a good picture of one.

I gravitate toward the 70's styles too and I wonder if it has to do with my body shape? I'm long waisted and slim too. Sometimes even things that are not 70's inspired still look 70's on me.

HA! Tricia, that is too funny. Men in leisure suits creeped me out when I was a kid.

This is a more cartoonish example of a leisure suit, but it's sooo much more entertaining.

http://www.halloweenmart.com/m.....PURPLE.jpg

For Taylor: You can get a scanner that does slides. I've done all our old slides and many of my parents. (I have boxes I didn't do--they are just scenery with no people and no labels.) I don't think they cost much--ours is an old one and it's just a regular scanner with a different top that you use for slides. I can do up to six at once, if I remember right.

Now the question is: am I going to let anyone see those scanned slides?

I'm still nursing a cold from last year but I want to share a picture from my mom in 1975.
She has always been a very trendy dresser

I just watched "ABBA the movie", filmed in 1977 on their Australian tour. What a feast of fashion! One outfit that really caught my eye was a tie- front blouse with voluminous sleeves worn over skinny jeans tucked into bright red boots, with a waistcoat layered over the top.
Lots of gold sequins, Lycra and white satin on stage, although I don't think that was unique to ABBA. I can remember Skyhooks wearing skin-tight white jumpsuits with lots of gold at about the same time. Fun!

Is men's fashion also trending towards the 1970s too? Should I be encouraging my curly haired husband to grow a 'fro?

According to the January issue of Vogue, we have to throw away all our skinnies because wide leg pants are required for spring. I guess I have to try wide legs to avoid being thrown in fashion jail by Vogue. Maybe some guidance on how to wear wide legs would be in order. Can you wear them if you're short?

Well, I'm shamefully late to this post, because I really had to try hard to think of 70s looks that don't feel costume-y to me. Extensive Googling resulted in the below images for my inspiration board: bootcuts with tight tees, polos, henleys, and plaid for the weekends; button-fronts under short-sleeved and sleeveless sweaters, button fronts buttoned all the way up, and boots UNDER slim cut pants for more dressy occasions. I already wear sweater vests, so that's convenient!

I feel much better about this whole 70s thing now -- thank you, Pink Floyd!

Thanks so much Maven!! Yes, If i get around to it i will definitely post some:)

i may try to do a 70s inspired outfit on casual friday this week!!

I'm definitely in, I have a lot of 70s in my style anyway and am looking forward to getting a new pair of wide leg jeans. When I was a teen in the 90s I tended to go for more literal 70s stuff, my favorite 2 pants (both vintage) being deep purple velvet bell bottoms, and cinnamon colored horizontal striped corduroy bell bottoms with a navy flap button front (wish I still had these!); usually paired with a faded pastel graphic tee and a long sweater cardigan (and of course combat boots). Don't think I'll QUITE rock this same look again, but I'm sure I can come up with something

After seeing Rae's photos, it brought back even more memories and I have to hope *men's* 70's jeans don't make a return. . . :-\

I can't wait to see the results of the challenge. I don't know if I can pull it off but I will give it a try. I have bad memories of those high waist trousers being painful after a meal. BTW Tanya, right on with your red trousers, cropped tied shirt and platform shoes.

Wow ladies! Love the 70's enthusiasm. AMAZING.

Great pic of Mum, Celia!

Rae - fabulous collection - and mostly of blokes

I know I'm a little late to this 70's party, but reading over these posts has made me so nostalgic...and appreciative... of those years fashion-wise. I graduated from high school in 1979, and unfortunately by that time the disco look (think Danskin leotards worn over swirly skirts a la Saturday Night Fever) was starting to overtake the more fashionable early-to-mid-70's looks.

Like any decade, there were some real fashion hits (flare jeans, great blouses, pendant necklaces, stylish pantsuits a la Bianca Jagger) and some serious misses (like leisure suits!). Overall, though, I find myself excited by these looks. Maybe they flatter my figure....or maybe that decade has just imprinted itself on me in a way I can't escape. Either way, I'm going to try to incorporate more 70's into my look...in a modern way.

Rae, thanks for those great photos. I actually REMEMBER that advertisement in photo #8. Haha! That look of a long-sleeve blouse under a tight tee was super popular during my high school days.

As for the leisure suits, I remember my father just HATED them. He thought, rightly, they looked ridiculous.....but my sisters and my mother and I pressured him to get one, and he finally relented (poor guy..he was so outnumbered!). Of course, as soon as they went out of style we teased him mercilessly. He didn't appreciate that, of course, since we were the ones who had led him astray!