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

[Midpack]

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

See, leisure suits are looking pretty tame?

 

[Free To Canoe]

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.

Lord, pluck my eyeballs out now!

 

[Midpack]

Lord, pluck my eyeballs out now!

That one really made me laugh, thanks...

 

[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.

 

[Moemg]

I hate to admit it, but yes - I had a leisure suit and I believe I wore it out in public at least once.

Extra points if it was pastel !

 

[LOL!]

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.

 

[sheehs1]

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

Don't forget the "low" jeans and mid-rift tops.

 

[pb4uski]

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.

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".

 

[NW-Bound]

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.

 

[Onward]

Guilty.

 

[Bestwifeever]

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.

 

[obgyn65]

Never.

 

[FIREd]

I don't remember the 70s. Good thing too by the look of it.

 

[Rambler]

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.....

R

 

[MichaelB]

No leisure suits and no disco dancing. But I did own a video game called Leisure Suit Larry

 

[Ronstar]

Extra points if it was pastel !

No extra points - It was Khaki colored - but I remember having a colorful shirt.

 

[Gumby]

No extra points - It was Khaki colored - but I remember having a colorful shirt.

Mine was pastel sage green, complete with the groovy Quiana shirt. And the stack shoes. I was killin' it!

 

[Walt34]

No leisure suit. But I did own a couple of flowered polyester shirts at the encouragement of a girlfriend at the time. I actually wore them in public too. Twice.

Fortunately there are no photos.

 

[MichaelB]

As a result of this thread I have this mental image of a bunch of middle aged guys looking through their boxes of old photos, finding the ones with leisure suits and loud polyester shirts - and destroying the evidence.

Hmmm...did Midpack ever fess up to his own wardrobe choices? Or is that him in the green suit in the first post?

 

[donheff]

Not a chance. No leisure suits, no gold chains, no open shirts.

I do have a photo of me in a suit I bought for my father's retirement dinner - polyester with a fat tie. But that was as far as I would go.

 

[Midpack]

As a result of this thread I have this mental image of a bunch of middle aged guys looking through their boxes of old photos, finding the ones with leisure suits and loud polyester shirts - and destroying the evidence.

Hmmm...did Midpack ever fess up to his own wardrobe choices? Or is that him in the green suit in the first post?

Not me in the OP pic.

I had a turquoise plaid leisure suit in college, often worn with a satin shirt (Nik Nik, extra points if you remember them) and black & white patent platform Florsheim shoes. I never bought into gold chains though. I also had a white 3-piece suit like Travolta's. I was a dancing fool for a few years, while it was the thing to do, not that I liked dancing.

It's funny now, but the clothes served their purpose back in the day , no regrets. YMMV

 

[Risingsunbob]

Wore for a Halloween Party in 2002 and won 1st place!

 

[freebird5825]

I grew up just north of NYC, so the disco era clothing was worn proudly by all the guys who could afford it.
For myself, I could not afford to buy the current trendy clothes, so I sewed a cap sleeve fitted jacket and high waisted pants (for women) outfit for myself. It turned out pretty well.
I have no pics, but I will try to find the 1970s sewing pattern online.

UPDATED: This is very similar, minus the vest. The pattern I used was a McCall's but I could not find an image of that particular pattern. I would recognize it in an instant.

Want to see some cool 1970s fashions?

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...ewing+patterns+women&sc=0-21&sp=-1&sk=#x0y614

I also made the shorter version of this dress (on the left) in a gorgeous purple flowered fabric

 

[RockyMtn]

Never a liesure suit but I did wear a hideous powder blue tuxedo to my senior prom. I Was stylin!!!

 

[eytonxav]

I always equated these polyester leisure suits to a hillbilly's idea of dressing up, not so much a disco look. Plus add in the white shoes to go with it. Yuk!