Poll: Did you ever own/wear a leisure suit (be honest)?

[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.

 

[Midpack]

Poll: Leisure suits!

Come on, we're all the right age here, just admit it...

 

[Brat]

My husband once brought one, he wanted to be in fashion. It was awful but I didn't want to hurt his feelings. My solution was when he asked me what to wear it was NEVER that 'costume'.

 

[packrat44]

Even as a prior engineer (not known for having good tste in clothing) I never sunk that low. They were hideos.

 

[martyb]

Oh, hell no......lol

 

[grasshopper]

While not leisure suit, more like a Pimp G suit. I can't believe I left the house like this.

 

[braumeister]

I have to admit buying one in 1971, but I think I only wore it once. After that, it was just a joke hanging in the closet. Finally got rid of it sometime in the 80s.

 

[martyb]

Dude...that's fly!

 

[martyb]

In 1985 my unit was in Korea for some fun (yeah, right). One of my friends who has always been a little odd had a James West suit hand-made by a Korean tailor. Yep, just like James wore in the Wild Wild West TV show. He really liked it, I thought it was strange, but hey...it was his money. No way I'd have worn it, but to each his/her own I suppose.

 

[rescueme]

No LS, but still have those pastel shirts along with the broad ties in the back of some closet ...

 

[REWahoo]

No leisure suit. And no white belt or white shoes, either. Guess I wasn't hip.

EDIT: I did date a girl named Polly who had a sister named Ester...

 

[Alan]

For the none-Americans here could you please explain what a leisure suit is

 

[MichaelB]

For the none-Americans here could you please explain what a leisure suit is

Alan, it was a costume used for disco dancing. Neither you nor I were in the states at the time, looks like we missed something big. Thank God!

 

[REWahoo]

For the none-Americans here could you please explain what a leisure suit is

The polyester suit worn by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever...

 

[Alan]

Alan, it was a costume used for disco dancing. Neither you nor I were in the states at the time, looks like we missed something big. Thank God!

Phew, close thing.

 

[bbbamI]

DH never wore a leisure suit...at least while we've been together.

However, I must admit my hair, like the guy in the first photo, looked exactly the way his does when I went to my prom in 1974.

 

[pb4uski]

Come on, we're all the right age here, just admit it...

Is it a slow day in Chicagoland Midpack?

 

[ls99]

Nope. Never! But I did have a great big medallion hanging by a humongous chain. Inscribed Chateau de Vie. It was a singles club. Frequented by many married ones.

 

[audreyh1]

Are you expecting only men to answer your poll?

 

[unclemick]

Oh yeah. 1974 -2005 New Orleans. Only in the 70's though. Plus those open necked shirts and Mardis Grais medillions on a chain.

Stylin! Fat City was going strong back then.

heh heh heh - straight laced conservative at work though.

 

[Badger]

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!

 

[Midpack]

Is it a slow day in Chicagoland 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.

 

[Midpack]

Are you expecting only men to answer your poll?

All are welcome, but not as amusing with women. Seems like Hillary has worn them her whole life, and still does...

 

[Moemg]

Don't forget while the guys were wearing leisure suits we women were wearing platform shoes ,bell bottoms and hot pants !

 

[Major Tom]

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