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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 9:29 pm
So you're saying your dad never spoke the language invoked by a hand painted silk tie?
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 10:04 pm
ROFLOL no.......You are too funny!
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Wednesday, January 23, 2008 - 10:17 pm

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Vacanick
Member
07-12-2004
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 6:25 am
Chaplin .. that is so cool hearing some history of your parents! Did you pick up any languages? My mom was born and raised in England. During WWII it was her fathers job to ride his bike to a certain area of the coast and look for ships that were being sent by Hitler. She also went to school with children whose families were forced out of their homeland and on the run from Hitler. I love family history and regret that I didn't ask more questions before my mom passed.
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Biloxibelle
Member
12-21-2001
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 7:54 am
I am loving this thread. Not only the pictures, but the stories that go with them. I will have to poke around in my pictures today. Naja, when I saw the picture of your mom and dad my first thought was your mom looks a lot like Michelle Phillips.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 9:41 am
great pics! so many hot dads grace and jbean, i especially got a bang out of your 'funny' pics and captions rotf jbean - your sis posed to show off her red tennis shoe
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 11:20 am
from the 1975 JCP catalog
anyone's dad/brother/so have one of these handsome numbers?
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 11:23 am
Vacanick no I am pretty unilingual with English being my main language although I understand French and some Yiddish as well as some German. I just do not speak them well.
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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 11:45 am
Sharinia, you sure that wasn't from a Pimps R us catalog?
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 12:00 pm
Hahahahaha, the Superfly look! And yes, I remember that one too. <hums the theme from Shaft>
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Urgrace
Member
08-19-2000
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 12:54 pm
Gads, my dh wore a couple of those 'silk' shirts, mostly like the blue one, and the polyester pants! But he had them before we got married, and I tried my best to toss them out afterward.
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 2:07 pm
LOL men were dressed rather scary when i was a small child (when they weren't streaking) i remember at the time, it was all knew eta: don't think my dad went for the superfly look though (though my parents were avid penney's shoppers - mom even worked there a few yrs)
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 8:08 pm
hahahahah How did I miss that superfly page in the catalog!! haahhahah Love how the black shirt ties in front!! hahahahaha can you imagine a guy wearing those today?? LOL
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Texasdeb
Member
05-23-2003
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 9:54 pm
my x had alot of those silky type shirts & he wore them tucked into skin tight bell bottom levis & he wore those guy platfroms too. He is 6'2" bare foot so he was my Giant. Miss the good times - yep, I do. too bad it took me 13 yrs to figure out he was an A$$ hole!
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Thursday, January 24, 2008 - 11:00 pm
My Dad never wore any of those. Had teachers though who wore similar stuff to the black outfit. I remember wide ties also in the 70's along with big cuffs and wide lapels on shirts. Then disco came in near the end of high school! I hated those clothes!
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 12:11 am
more proof that i deserve to be on a 70s worst dressed list (or was an unwitting victim of child abuse)
I call this little lounge wear ensemble 'Barbie Meets Little House on the Prairie'
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-27-2000
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 6:36 am
I bet that dress was very cute without the pink sweater. Or maybe it is Christmas morning and that is pajamas and a bathrobe?
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Sharinia
Member
09-07-2002
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:14 am
LOL thx Juju. yup, it was a Little House on the Prairie inspired night gown (a size or two too big) and a fuzzy robe (probably too small) on a sleepy Christmas morning
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 2:17 pm
the angled chair, the elephant on the Huge Cabinet TV Brings back memories LOL
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 2:29 pm
I don't have a photo of it, thankfully, but I had a pair of YELLOW, FELT, ELEPHANT PANTS - anyone remember those charming items of clothing? LOL
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Holly
Member
06-19-2005
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 5:20 pm
I do, Mame, I do! Blech.
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 5:27 pm
I am DYING over the 1975 picture. I told Colossus, who was born in '56, that I was SURE he'd worn at least one of those fashions. He wasn't laughing, but he said "ya, the blue one looks like something I wore." I am married to a '70's silk shirt freak. Dang, at least he wasn't sporting the pimp-daddy hat. At least that he's admitting. ETA Colossus made me chime back in to point out he never owned a pair of white fruitboots, much less wore them in a catalogue.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 8:00 pm
ROTF!!!
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Herckleperckle
Member
11-20-2003
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 9:11 pm
I just read through the past 2 pages. Amazing pictures AND stories. Too many good ones to mention, but YOU know how wonderful these pics are! Keep sharing your stories. Loved hearing about your parents (and you and your hubbies, too, LOL)!!
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Friday, January 25, 2008 - 10:56 pm
I remember elephant pants. Refused to wear them. The kids in our school were into the designer jeans for the first time and they had to be sooo tight you had to lie on the floor or bed to do them up. Not me I wore Levi's, but hated them too tight. Northstar, Adidas or Puma runners were all the rage also. Mood rings, mood T-shirts also! Starsky and Hutch T-shirts as well as Farrah Fawcett and also Charlie's Angels also. M*A*S*H also!
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