View Poll Results: Be honest! Did you ever own/wear a leisure suit?
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Yes, I wore one back in the day (70's), didn't everyone?
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No, I dodged that trend somehow, or I just can't admit it even anonymously
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Yes, and I still do. So do all my friends...
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03-05-2012, 04:31 PM
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#21
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I never wore a leasure suit. I think I got that sort of thing out of my system a few years earlier wearing a Nehru jacket once. Really, it was only one time and I learned my lesson.
Cheers!
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03-05-2012, 04:58 PM
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#22
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Just trying to provide some amusement among the more serious topics. I saw one on TV today, and it made me cringe, and then laugh (at myself). Good thing DW didn't know me yet.
And not sure I believe the results, but not the point anyway.
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03-05-2012, 04:59 PM
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#23
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All are welcome, but not as amusing with women. Seems like Hillary has worn them her whole life, and still does...
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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03-05-2012, 05:02 PM
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#24
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Gone but not forgotten
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Sarasota,fl.
Posts: 11,447
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Don't forget while the guys were wearing leisure suits we women were wearing platform shoes ,bell bottoms and hot pants !
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03-05-2012, 05:07 PM
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There was a resurgence of the fad for Oxford Bags when I was in school in the 1970's in England. Oxford Bags were the kind of pants the Bay City Rollers wore. I really wanted a pair of these and some platform shoes, so I could be as popular with the girls as Anthony Quinn was (not the actor - I had a classmate of the same name who in my estimation was the class "cool guy"). My Mum wouldn't buy me the platform shoes, but she did buy me a variant of Oxford Bags, which we called "Patch Pockets" and which looked like astronaut pants - almost like what we call cargo pants nowadays, but baggier. They were a rather boring brown color, so I could wear them to school. I must have looked like a right twerp, but I was the happiest kid on the planet
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03-05-2012, 05:13 PM
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#26
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See, leisure suits are looking pretty tame?
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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03-05-2012, 05:19 PM
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#27
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
Come on, we're all the right age here, just admit it...
[I did the poll option, and provided answers, but somehow it got lost] probably doesn't matter much.
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Lord, pluck my eyeballs out now!
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03-05-2012, 05:36 PM
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#28
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Free To Canoe
Lord, pluck my eyeballs out now!
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That one really made me laugh, thanks...
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No one agrees with other people's opinions; they merely agree with their own opinions -- expressed by somebody else. Sydney Tremayne
Retired Jun 2011 at age 57
Target AA: 50% equity funds / 45% bonds / 5% cash
Target WR: Approx 1.5% Approx 20% SI (secure income, SS only)
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03-05-2012, 06:04 PM
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#29
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Moderator Emeritus
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Location: Northern Illinois
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I hate to admit it, but yes - I had a leisure suit and I believe I wore it out in public at least once.
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03-05-2012, 06:51 PM
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#30
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Gone but not forgotten
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Location: Sarasota,fl.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronstar
I hate to admit it, but yes - I had a leisure suit and I believe I wore it out in public at least once.
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Extra points if it was pastel !
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03-05-2012, 06:56 PM
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#31
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I didn't even own any kind of suit until I was in my late 30's. For my wedding, I rented a tux. For work, I had the requisite Harris Tweed jacket and a Brooks Brothers Navy Blue Blazer, but never a 3-piece suit.
I did buy a suit for my dad's funeral, but it wasn't a leisure suit.
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03-05-2012, 08:45 PM
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#32
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Don't forget the "low" jeans and mid-rift tops.
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03-05-2012, 09:09 PM
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#33
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
Just trying to provide some amusement among the more serious topics. I saw one on TV today, and it made me cringe, and then laugh (at myself). Good thing DW didn't know me yet.
And not sure I believe the results, but not the point anyway.
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I think adding "I just can't admit it even anonymously" to one of the alternatives biased the poll result - I hesitated when I saw that "out".
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03-05-2012, 09:56 PM
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#34
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No leisure suit for me.
Heck, in the mid to late 70s, between school and the weekend job, I did not have much "leisure" nor money. In the early 80s, when I started to make money, that fashion was already out.
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03-05-2012, 10:07 PM
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Guilty.
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03-05-2012, 10:27 PM
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DH never had a leisure suit but he did have a regulation suit in a pale cream with a GIANT ope lime green and orange plaid overlaying it, big lapels, belled trousers, worn with oversized-collared shirts and enormous ties. Funniest pictures ever.
And I loved wearing hot pants as well as the occasional jumpsuit, because what woman doesn't enjoy the awkwardness of using a ladies' room in that get up.
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03-05-2012, 10:55 PM
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Never.
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03-05-2012, 11:01 PM
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#38
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I don't remember the 70s. Good thing too by the look of it.
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03-06-2012, 03:57 AM
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#39
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Guilty. I was 14 or 15...color was baby blue. I cringe just thinking about it...mom was quite the seamstress, and she made it for me. At that age, I would not yet have been going to discos, but I do remember wearing it to church. Whoa, another cringe.....
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03-06-2012, 04:08 AM
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No leisure suits and no disco dancing. But I did own a video game called Leisure Suit Larry
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