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vintage 70s Empire Waist Creme FLORAL IVY Romantic Babydoll Dress Hippie Boho S    US $48.95

Vintage 70s Cream CROCHET Hippie BOHO Cape WOOL Sweater Knit PONCHO Jacket    US $125.00

Vintage 70s sheer lace Festival mini dress Boho Hippie    US $12.25

Vintage Leather Envelope Clutch Purse Handbag Hippie Chic White    US $40.00

VTG Maxi Dress Size M L Flower Power Hippie Mod Sears    US $25.00

MEXICO OAXACAN HANDMADE EMBROIDERED MULTI COLOUR VTG HIPPIE PURPLE DRESS    US $29.00

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On eBay you can usually buy from the original owner.  The owners of those little shops often have to find the stuff, buy it and then mark it up enough to cover their expenses  and make some profit.  They are an extra step between you and the vintage 70s clothing you want.

The items listed above are all from the "vintage" category of eBay, so they should be all original and authentic. Of course if you would ever have any doubt, be sure to ask the seller as many questions as you like. I've mentioned this before, but when buying vintage, always be sure to check on the actual measurements and compare them to a piece of similar clothing that you already own. Hippie clothing, and pretty much all of the authentic vintage clothing you will ever come across was cut to different size specifications back in the day. It seems that we have grown a bit, so today's extra large is sometimes bigger than a piece of vintage clothing marked with the same size. You also have to take into consideration that clothing often changes size after it has been washed and dried a few times. Like I said, ask the seller questions if you aren't certain about anything.

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A Little Bit About 70's Clothes

Clothes from the 1970s are back. I suppose they never really went away. 70's clothes have just been hiding away in the dark corners of attics for a few decades. Whatever your reason for wanting it, 70's vintage clothing and brand new "retro style" 70's clothes can definitely be found online nowadays.

Thanks to sites like Amazon and eBay, you can shop for vintage 70's clothes or 70's style clothing at any time of the day or night from the comfort of your home. You may, as I mentioned already, have some vintage fashions tucked away already in your home or the home of a relative who enjoyed their prime years during the 70's.  If so, you've lucked out.  They might just give it to you for a song.

Honestly, you cannot really talk about clothes worn in the 70's and mean just one style. The 1970's was a decade of profound change in the world and especially in the United States. The changes were social and political but they were reflected in many areas of popular culture, and that included clothing. At the point where the decades transitioned, 60's and 70's clothing were not all that different. Of course there were variations, but "sloppy" hippie clothes were pretty popular. As the 70's progressed, the decade came to be known for female fashions like peasant dresses and hotpants. Two very different looks for sure, but both might be found on the same girl during the same day. Just as the country was rebelling, people were ready to express themselves through their clothing and people (especially women) were quite likely to wear whatever they wanted, when they wanted.

70's retro clothing cannot be defined without including what occurred in the latter part of the decade. Fashion began what some would consider its decline into 70's disco clothes. As tastes changed and society morphed yet again, people began wearing some very bold outfits designed to look good on the dance floor, under the spinning mirrored disco ball. 70s clothes pictures tell the story quite well. This was the time of Farrah Fawcett hair and the Village People. 70's fashion clothes can now be found in a few different placed besides your own attic. Of course, if you want to buy 70's clothes, the easiest place to check is probably online. There are also 70's clothing stores that specialize in genuine vintage as well as 70's inspired clothing, but they can sometimes be a bit pricey. Thrift stores used to be a good source for 70's and 80's clothes, but they are now quickly picked over by people who re-sell them either on eBay or in one of the 70's shops I just mentioned.

Pictures of 70's fashion often feature disco outfits or 70's hippie clothes. It isn't as though people were walking around in 70's costumes that they thought about putting together every morning. Just as people today dress without giving much thought to what their grandchildren will think of them, so the people in the 1970's wore what they saw on television and in the movies and bought what was offered up at retail outlets. If you would like to get an idea of what things looked like back then, find yourself some good re-runs on television. Take note of the year the show was made and check out some episodes of Welcome Back Kotter, Room 222, The Dukes of Hazzard, and even The Brady Bunch and The Partridge Family. They are an interesting little peek into what was "in" at the time.

70's Clothes and Costumes

If you are looking to buy vintage clothes from the 70's, it is there, just waiting for you. Do you need some women's metallic jumpsuits or plus size disco clothing? No problem. Someone bought it back in the day and is ready to sell it to you.  If you can't find a vintage original, you can probably find a pretty good reproduction of it.   70's fashion and 70's clothes might not stay popular forever, but for now, they are enjoying a second life. If you enjoy retro fashion, you should be in your glory. Grab some groovy threads and stay a while.  Clicking on the images below will take you to some great deals on 70's style clothing on Amazon.

California Costumes Women's Disco Diva Costume,Silver,3-5	California Costumes Women's Discolicious,Multi,X-Large	Women's Saturday Night Fever Costume
Saturday Night Fever Red Dress Costume Size Small	Adult Saturday Night Fever Costume Size X-large (44-46)	Adult Super Jumbo Black Afro Costume Wig

Mens Greg Brady Red Disco Costume Brady Bunch Outfit Osfm	Adult Halloween Costumes Mens Disco Outfit Costume Adult XL	Rubies Sexy 60s 70s Red Dress Disco Outfit Halloween Costume
Disco Gold Dress Adult Costume - One Size	Purple Dress Disco Dancing Giclee Poster Print, 9x12	Funky 70s Disco Party Motorized Mirror Ball & Light Set

The fashions that came along with disco didn't totally abandon the hippie look from the early part of the decade. People were looking to have fun, so they took what they liked from the earlier part of the decade and gave it a flashy twist!


I was surrounded by disco fashion and people wearing disco outfits back in the 1970's, but I was too young to be taken in by it.  As I mentioned in a previous post, I was still wearing my Sears Tuffskins.  My older sister and her friends though...they'd go and disco the night away. Disco dance clubs were opened and people flocked to them donning the flashy styles of the day.

You didn't really see the most extreme of the 70s disco outfits come out during the light of day too much.  They were, of course, designed to show up in the strobing lights of the dance floor.  Exposed to direct sunlight, who knows what might have happened.  That might explain the Village People.

In truth, disco fashion did reach out and touch those outside the disco fantasy world.  Business attire changed and I doubt that some of the "business" clothes of that period would cut it today.  Different strokes for different folks though.  I remember my sister taking me to get my first haircut that wasn't at a "regular" barber shop some time in the late 70's or early 80's.  The guy who did the cutting was nice enough, but for all of my memory blocking attempts, I can't forget the shiny shirt unbuttoned half way down his chest and the gold jewelry swinging beneath it.  I left with bangs removed and a brand new "feathered" look.  I have never been so glad that my family didn't take a lot of pictures of me back then.  I know they had good intentions, but MAN!

By the way, I don't own the stuff in found on the page links.  I'm just here to point you toward it.  Hopefully, if you are looking, you will find what you want.  eBay has become the place to find that vintage stuff now that it is popular again.  Amazon is great for finding 70 clothes that have been manufactured more recently.

OK.  So I was looking back over my bookmarks and the first thing I did was realize that I really need to take better advantage of the folder system.  It seems that I'm a virtual slob (that isn't me in the photo though).  My wife would probably have a comment to add here, but she never reads what I put online.  I want to share some of the stuff I find amusing and I hope you'll find that your visit wasn't too much of a waste of time.

Do you remember Tuffskins?  They were the heavy duty "jeans" sold by Sears.  Every year, as summer vacation drew to a close, you would see herds of small, elementary aged boys being led to the local Sears fitting rooms.  Once there, all of the mothers would go about the ritual of shaming their sons by forcing them into dark green Tuffskins and then shouting for all to hear that they seem a little loose in the crotch.  Or, worse yet, they would announce that they were going to grab some "huskies" for them to try on.  The horror.  I was a husky.  Husky was Sears' way of avoiding the placement of a "Fat Kid" tag on the back pocket.  Oh...it still makes me cringe.  After the "husky" memory, what I remember most is the funky colors and reinforced knees.  They always felt like cardboard.  It didn't matter if you washed them 100 times, they still sprang back into their original shape.  Sadly, Tuffskins are one of the first "vintage" items I've been unable to locate on eBay.  I think they deserve to be in a museum somewhere if nothing else.

I managed to wear holes through my Tuffskins enough times that my Mom relented and bought me more traditional Levis and Lee jeans, but I seem to remember that they were the kind that turned your legs and underwear blue until they were washed several times.  They were also BELL BOTTOMS!  For those who might not know, bell bottom jeans were specially designed to find their way past the chainguard on banana seat bikes.  It happened to me on more than one occasion.  They looked something like these:

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WWII US NAVY UNIFORM WITH BELL BOTTOM PANTS AND PATCHES    US $49.99

Lee Felton Mens Flare Jeans Bellbottoms 28x31 646 C83    US $79.99

Vintage Womens Faded Glory LB 28 x 33 Bellbottoms Jean    US $22.00

Womens Brush Denim Bell Bottoms Steel Blue 28 x 30 Pant    US $28.50

^^ Barronett Bell Bottom Hunting Blind with BLOODTRAIL Camo BB87BT    US $179.99

For All Mankind Womans Bellbottom Jeans size 30 Cotton Spandex    US $79.00

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You can see more of these throughout this site, but I don't want to fill this blog with rss feeds from eBay.

I actually remember my Mother telling me to tuck my jeans into my tube socks with the colored stripes at the top to avoid the embarrassment of getting trapped in the chain.  I never thought of it at the time, but that must have looked pretty darn amusing all by itself.  No wonder I didn't have a girlfriend until high school.