What style of fashion would you like to see return?

Call me nuts, but i love the look of women from the 20's and 30's. They also looked like real women and not anorexic silicone barbie dolls. They wore cute dresses and i dig the hair styles.

Thats exactly what I have been begging for!

long hair, tight, low-rider jeans, form-fitting shirts...

oh wait... that's in now. And I LIKE it!

I love those guys. Where are all the gay hippy types? I wish more gay men looked like this:

a stroll downtown will reveal hundreds of guys like that.

Yeah, I like it here.

I'm SO there. God, I wish some of them would move to Philly. Slim pickins here.

Everybody's doing it...

:7 :7 :7 :7 :7 :puke:

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a mere 20,000 years ago, full-frontal male nudity was all the style. Bring it on!

One ambassador to her court described meeting the great queen--I believe she was in her 50s or 60s--her dress opened in front, according to the ambassador--and throughout their meeting she had one breast exposed.

Who cares about the damn clothes? I'm superstitious as hell and maybe that ugly trend was the reason I shot in the mid-70s then, as opposed to pull hooks and weak cuts now.

I broke out my old persimmon last week and wouldn't want to confuse it with tame garb.

I wore those tight pants back in the 80's and Mr. Happy was very sad back then!

we used to sandpaper strategic points on our Brittania bell-bottom hip-huggers...man, I'd love to see those styles come back. Also, I'd like to have the 28" waist I had then.;)

It went from what was previously curvaceous to more of a straiter, androgynous look.
If you want curvy and 20th century, you can't beat the 50's. A decade where I could have been properly worshiped anyway and not have media tell me my type of figure is "fat" and I must be below my own healthy weight and/or slice and dice myself to attain beauty.
Not that there's anything wrong with thinness either, if that's who you are. I don't want this into a "what kind of chicks are cuter thread". Just more of a social commentary/media criticism thing. :D

Maybe it's because the 50's seemed more sexually repressed to me. The 20's was a roaring time. I use to spend my hours back then at the local speak easys doing the charleston. Oh wait....I wasn't born yet.........nevermind. ;)

Just the media told them they were supposed to be. The 50's was the build-up (Kinsey reports, Playboy) followed by the climax of the 60's. I didn't come untilt he 70's sadly, well actually the late 80's if you want to get technical about it all. :D

Everyone should know this about me by now. I have this, what would you say, fetish?

Guys -- think Dennis Quaid in the Big Easy or Tom Hanks in "Turner and Hooch". Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon...Tight jeans, shirt a little baggy. Longish hair, maybe a well-groomed "mullet". . . Get the picture? ;-)

Women -- well, I don't REALLY care what you wear.
It's the guys I'm really thinking of in this case. :P

For both sexes. Well, not the catsuits.

Remember these things?:)

and seamed stockings
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I'm not sure why. It's innate.

Men's suits were sharp but a little softer-looking than the 1930's; great men's hats and ties (WIDE). Wide shoulders for women; seams in the stockings (okay that's not fashion, actually); snoods; patterns were colorful without being gaudy. Women's clothes had sweep and architecture then. Casual clothes were great then too.

Check my favorite film "Blade Runner" for how a resurgence of the 1940's might look.

NOT. Seriously, what WERE they thinking...

I was Scarlett O'Hara in a former life, I'm sure! Her blatant abuse of men is something to strive for :)

;)

Arrrgggghhh, avast ye hardies! Keel haul the scurvy dog!

"But I don't want to be a pirate" - Seinfeld

v.o.r.

This whole skimpy, barely there thing is starting to get old and boring.

:evilgrin: And LOTS of sunscreen. Hey, I grew up at the beach.

popular a few years ago.

DAMN.

The notion that it's NOT appropriate to go to the mall in a frrumy warm-up suit, or for men to walk into the 7-11 with no shirt on their sweaty tattooed body.

Blech.

I Also hate the low-rise jeans with the tattoo above the butt. today's fashions are tacky, and only look halfway presentable on models.

body covering.

The first two, I admit, are practical. I have very fair skin, and can burn taking a walk to the post office (1 mile, round trip, 15 minutes at my pace.) I wear hats and am the sole support of the US sunscreen industry, but it would be nice if I could find a nice pair of 3 button, kid gloves like my grandmother wore every day of her life. (Hers are too small for me, dang it. I'm a glove size 7, and she's a 6.)

I admit that I love two eras in the 20th C. the Teens and the 40's. The teens were a relaxation of the Edwardian years, and meant skirts a woman could move in, but were still romantic enough to be interesting, detailed sewing, and good tailoring. The 40's are almost the antithesis of that - being war years, shortages showed up all over the place - but the suits and hats can't be beat.

For men, I have to say the 20s are the best. Zoot suits. I've yet to find a man who looks bad in a well cut suit.

I'm sick of track clothes, PJs and skimp. Clothing are adornment.

Pcat

all men will look like pimps. :wow:

my Mom sold Avon and they were required to wear white gloves when they went out to sell. Those days are long gone....

Skin cancer is on the rise, and your hands are most likely (with your face) to be uncovered. Unless you carry a crate of sunscreen with you everywhere, then every time you wash your hands, you're losing the benefit of the sunscreen. Gloves would make a perfect barrier between you and that fiery ball of hydrogen.

It's a fashion that has, unlike so many others, practical effects.

my $0.02.

Pcat

It's been a couple of years since I've been able to find nice, good-quality dressses at department stores.

The 80's were an absolute nightmare with everybody wearing XL clothes.

Everything was tight in the 80's.

I agree with the people who said 1940s, at least for chix fashions: give me a dame in a suit (what was that stuff? tweed?) with seamed stockings, those chunky heels, and a wicked-big hat with a veil on the front for some reason! Runners-up include 20s flapper style... and early 1990s plaid skirt, kool-aid hair, cartoon character belly shirt, butterfly barrettes (and tattoo!), fishnets, and docs aesthetic... 1966 Mod with real straight hair, plastic A-line dresses, white eyeshadow... Come to think of it, the only decade of women's fashion I DON'T want to come back is the 80s!! Do you think there will ever come a point where people will be nostalgic for that 80s crap like we are for the 40s, or will it suck for all time? And another thing: Why are mens clothes so fucking boring?

I think * would really dig them.

I want my portfolio to start doing well again!

and that God awful bowl cut has to go. And yes, those Roaring 20's fashions were swell. Loved the Great Gatsby look.

I'm not talking about the streaks or the "poof," but I wish the length was still as acceptable as it was then - because that's how long my hair is.

The deceased ladies are often represented by pictures from their youth. In the 40's, especially, these are wonderfully glamourous shots. Styled, swept hair, creamy complexions & Hollywood lighting.

My own "peak"--60's & 70's. Long, curly hair without much style, no makeup, wire-rim glasses. It really was OK at the time--but not glamourous. Not at all.

And the men of that generation often appear in uniform.

I also loved the way "Career Women" dressed in the 1950's. Professional but feminine.

There was a post about this a couple days ago. Turns out it was popular back in the 1600s and makes a comeback every so often. I'd kinda like that.