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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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Poll: Did you ever own/wear a leisure suit (be honest)?
03-05-2012, 02:18 PM
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Poll: Did you ever own/wear a leisure suit (be honest)?
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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03-05-2012, 02:21 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Poll: Leisure suits!
Come on, we're all the right age here, just admit it...
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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, 02:29 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
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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'.
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Duck bjorn.
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03-05-2012, 02:50 PM
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Even as a prior engineer (not known for having good tste in clothing) I never sunk that low. They were hideos.
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03-05-2012, 02:54 PM
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Oh, hell no......lol
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03-05-2012, 02:55 PM
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While not leisure suit, more like a Pimp G suit. I can't believe I left the house like this.
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03-05-2012, 02:56 PM
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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.
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I thought growing old would take longer.
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03-05-2012, 02:56 PM
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Dude...that's fly!
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03-05-2012, 02:59 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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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.
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“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.”
-John F. Kennedy
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?” - Edgar Bergen
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03-05-2012, 03:04 PM
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gone traveling
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No LS, but still have those pastel shirts along with the broad ties in the back of some closet  ...
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03-05-2012, 03:12 PM
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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...
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03-05-2012, 03:14 PM
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For the none-Americans here could you please explain what a leisure suit is 
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03-05-2012, 03:16 PM
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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!
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03-05-2012, 03:19 PM
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The polyester suit worn by John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever...
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03-05-2012, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MichaelB
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!
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Phew, close thing.
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03-05-2012, 03:29 PM
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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. 
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03-05-2012, 03:30 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midpack
Come on, we're all the right age here, just admit it...
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Is it a slow day in Chicagoland Midpack?
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03-05-2012, 04:11 PM
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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.
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03-05-2012, 04:17 PM
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Are you expecting only men to answer your poll? 
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03-05-2012, 04:21 PM
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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. 
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