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Nancy
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08-01-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Work is having a 70's karaoke party (for employee enthusiasm) and i want a COOL retro 70's outfit to wear any thoughts?



Resortgirl
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09-23-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Nancy, We went to a 70's themed New Years party several years ago and got all our clothes at a second hand store. Found some wild polyester pants, a really cool longer leather jacket for $3, and some polyester disco type shirts. Then we went to "Clairs" and found some big gaudy pendants for a few bucks. I would say we spent about $25 total per outfit. Hope this helps!

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:16 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cool thanks ~RG~ i'll check it out--thinking platform shoes as well :-)

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 6:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Think Marcia Brady! Lots of polyester and bell bottoms!

Resortgirl
Member

09-23-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The weird thing is that I could have raided my daughters closet at the time(if we were the same size) because she had clothes that looked exactly like the ones I wore in the 70's Lots of colorful polyester shirts, bellbottoms and even choker necklaces....~ Platform shoes are "in" again.... Oh, and ponchos are "in" again too...LOL!

Texannie
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07-16-2001

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 8:00 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
No jokes, RG..I keep teasing my kids that they are supposed to rebell against their parents' fashions, but my smart alec son informed me that most of his friends are doing just that cause their parents are much younger and were in school in the 80's! LOL

Gidget
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07-28-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 8:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Peasant blouse... little square hair kerchief... micromini.... folded kerchief tops pointed end on choker at the neck... larger end ties around the body... with a belly baring hip hugger... wide belt with big buckle... purse made from cutoff jeans... leather fringe survived the sixties and was still strong early 70's....moccasins.... if you go with bell bottoms make sure they are long enough to walk on... if you want to go formal... halter gowns with split skirts and a little jacket were big... and dont forget hotpants...or you could go late 70's with a sheer disco skirt and candies

Tabbyking
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03-11-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 8:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
watch 'saturday night fever' and see if you can copy anything, LOL.
being in high school in the seventies, i remember leather headbands, sewing in our own 'bellbottom' panels by cutting straight leg jeans up the outside seam several inches and sewing in a wide piece of fabric--the wilder pattern the better. granny dresses and ponchos.....smock tops...
i also had a big leather floppy hat with a wide band around it.....oh yeah, and dr. scholl's wooden sandals....i recently saw a vintage lime green pair on eBay. i had a pair of blue and a pair of red ones...


Mak1
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08-12-2002

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 2:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
remember paisley, nehru jackets, neon striped shirts, madras plaids? lol, what a funny fashion era! tabby, i remember thinking i was so cool cutting those pants to insert a wild red flower print.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 2:54 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pant suits which were like very short dress with matching pants. Hot pants were worn with high boots...or platform shoes.

I'd give a first prize to the woman who shows up with a Dorothy Hamil haircut, second place to the one with a Farrah Fawcett do, and honorable mention to the gal with the Princess Lea rolls on each side of her head.


Bandit
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07-29-2001

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 3:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Man, this sounds like fun. What a neat place you must work, Nancy!

Nancy
Member

08-01-2000

Monday, August 02, 2004 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
yes i love it here bandit--we have a carnival for families a few weeks ago which was great even tho i am kidless i had a ball helping out :-)

Twinkie
Member

09-24-2002

Thursday, August 05, 2004 - 8:25 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
For me the early 70's were just an extention for my late 60's. Definitely hippy-wear. Long peasant dresses and sandals. A flower in the hair, and beads around the neck and walking to the park where all the other hippies hung out. Then I moved to Italy as a mother and had a husband and had to grow up. Bummer. LOL

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 7:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Looking for help here - my partner's 40th birthday is tomorrow, Colossus and I are having a surprise party for her Friday night. We're having a casino party (with the cards and chips we got from the Vegas trip), and the idea is that the games will be played for party favors, and whoever wins says "oh, look at that" and gives the favor he/she won to my partner. Sortakinda like you do at bridal showers and whatnot.

My question is, do you have any suggestions for inexpensive gifts that can be wrapped up and given in this manner? Everyone is bringing real gifts for her, so the quality of the favor/gifts is not at issue. Just the different types. My partner is very girly, and very craftsy, and loves collecting hostess-ware. She has two daughters she loves doing things with, and is always looking for something new for them. Also, she's very ORGANIZED. Any cool organizational thing would go over well.

Anyway, any suggestions? As I said, we have sort of a casino theme, so stuff going along with that would be fun too. Thanks in advance for your help - Colossus and I were sitting here trying to brainstorm, and we are just blocking LOL. He suggested I throw out a line here and see if we reel anything in from our creative minds here.

Party on . . . and wish us luck.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 7:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
What is hostess-ware? How old are her daughters? What price range are you looking for?

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 7:25 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Since she is getting "real" gifts anyways, wouldn't it be more fun for everyone to be able to win and keep the favors?

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 8:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lottery tickets!!!! scratch off, quick pic..whatever


how funny that you are doing a casino party, my dh's 5oth is 1-1-05 and I am pricing people to come in and run games

Bearware
Member

07-12-2002

Wednesday, August 11, 2004 - 8:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Cigars, hats, sunglasses, martini glasses, all seem to come to mind when I think of card playing, gambling, and casinos. Not sure why, lol!

You could also give things in multiples of 40's - forty Hershey's kisses, etc. in bags with a big 40 on them.

This is a great idea! Have a wonderful time!

Goddessatlaw
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07-19-2002

Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 5:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julieboo - hostess ware is anything designed to serve guests (candy dishes, individual salt and pepper shakers, platters, creamer sets, etc.). My partner's daughters are 8 and 11 (great girls, they really sucked up the atmosphere on their trip to Paris lately - LOL the little one insisted on wearing a beret and scarf at all times).

That multiples of 40 thing is a great idea, Bearware, and so are the lottery tickets, Tex. Maybe some martini glasses too. Thanks - still brainstorming here.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Wednesday, September 29, 2004 - 10:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Help me name my new coffee shop? I'm opening a gourmet coffee and ice cream cafe, that is if I can decide on a name and then go get my license! I've got a great location picked out and have shopped for days looking at equipment and furniture. I'm hopeful to add computers for the customers, too.

Here are a few for you to consider or you can introduce something else:
Stop N Joe
Have A Java
Frothy Coffee
Sip N Dip or Dip N Sip
Coffee Cone
Aloha Joe
Cone & Kona
Coffee Cruise
Cup N Cone
Slurp & Surf
Kaffee Kream


Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 6:53 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
*Grounds Keeper
*Something with "Beans" in it...my aunt has a brown lab named Beaner (on her papers she's Coffee Bubba Bean}...maybe Beaners or something
*There's one near here called Planet Perk- I like the Perk in the name

What kind of atmosphere are you going for? Bright and more leaning towards an ice cream place (like when you go inside a Baskin Robbins), or more of an arty kind of place. Where I grew up we had one called Centre City (new owners- now it' called Cafe Bali) that was all different tables and they just served coffees and some easy foods- had computers later. Anyway, it was a little darker, had local art for sale on the walls, etc. Others have couches and coffee tables, etc. The one I'm thinking of was called Blue Moon then got renamed New Moon. Anyway, my point i guess kind of is for the name matching the atmosphere. Your list makes me think bright, white tile floors, red chairs.

Urgrace
Member

08-19-2000

Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's exactly the kind of suggestion I'm looking for, Kaili! The name has to fit the shop, and all I can come up with are 'diner' sounding and was shying away from the word gourmet.

The products are gourmet, and I'd like to grow into a comfortable coffee lounge with computers, but I need to bring in the potential customers with the right name.

Herckleperckle
Member

11-20-2003

Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 8:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
GAL, some ideas here (this is a fun task!):

• little rhinestone coin purses
• sets of lipsticks or frosty eyeliner makeup
• rhinestone-encrusted compacts
• makeup organizers
• travel pack sized things--little bottles of this and that
• coin-encrusted desk or pearly bureau or hair goodies
• fancy sleeping mask
• decks of cards
• rose-scented body wash
• A single piece of fancily wrapped Godiva (or comparable) chocolate candy


Gracie, you have a coffee shop?!!! How exciting! I love coffee shops! Congratulations and best of luck with it! When will it open?

Of all the names you came up with, I like Cone and Kona the best. You want something memorable, logical, easily slides of the tongue, and doesn't make the customer think of the grocery store or some mundane place. Think of people saying to one another, "How about if we stop in at the ________?" I also think that coffee would be the real pull, with ice cream being the pleasurable extra. Here are some more off the top of my head:

• The Mean Bean
• Coffee Nut
• Coffee Mill
• Coffee Klatch
• Coffee Roost
• The Coffee Pot
• The Grind
• Coffee Hour
• Jumpin' Java
• Java Jag
• Java Joint
• Ranger Roast
• Coffee Country


Or if you just want to accentuate the ice cream:

• Texas Icecap
• Ice Box


Or something wacky:

• Lid Raiser
• Stir
• Perking!
• Grace and Swill (just kidding!)
• Java Jerk
• Jitters
• Coffeetivity
• Revive

Kristylovesbb
Member

09-14-2000

Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 8:24 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Perk n Slurp
Cone Joes
Cool Beans
Mocha n Cones
Ice Ice Javas
Got Beans

I love this, it's fun!

hi mom


Kaykay
Member

01-21-2004

Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 8:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OMG - I just thought of Cool Beans - we must be on the same wavelenght :-)