A little while back, Kim Darnell pointed me to several sites with collections of astounding men’s clothing (some underwear, some not) from the 1970s. Culled from a great trove of material, here are six of these gems, with captions added by me.
Let me say that while I indulged in various regrettable items of clothing (including bell bottoms, muscle shirts, and remarkable underwear) during this period, I didn’t reach the heights illustrated here. So I snicker and guffaw, but nervously.
(In earlier postings, mostly on AZBlogX, I took relatively unremarkable vintage men’s fashion ads and perverted them with snarky captions. I’ll inventory these postings at the end of this one. But the ads below are a step beyond; the viewer is moved to gasp, “What could they have been thinking of?”)
The first is from Ah Men, an haut-pédé West Hollywood store that I occasionally actually shopped at and in any case was the source of a catalog, simultaneously fabu and tacky, that enabled men to mail-order its wares up in discreetly labeled packages:
(#1)
The cream dream of
West Hollywood,
The Shiny Dick Boys and
Stephanie, the Goddess of
Balls
On to a tableau of three suited men. You really have to admire them (especially the guy on the right, dressed as a Raging Queer) for going out in public in these costumes:
(#2)
Wait-listed for the
Sergeant Pepper cover, they
Rashly went into business as
“Secret Agent Who, A
Time Tale in Three Parts”
Another group photo, with a strained play on words:
(#3)
The entire decade
Slid past in Roller Derby
Madness and
Tasteless underwear
Another trio, this time of teenagers (the prices are for patterns, not garments):
(#4)
ButtonFly HardHat Harry and
Mighty FashionMouse Mickey both
Ached for
Black B-Boy Bo,
Suffered the
Pangs of
Teenage triangular love
A quartet of mannequins:
(#5)
Manufactured in
Hong Kong from
Sturdy lifelike plastics,
Engineered to
Double as
Durable sex toys
Saved for last, my favorites of the 70s fashion dudes:
(#6)
The Glisten Trio, always
Oiled, always
Silky, always
Flaunting their
Muscles and their
Dicks, always
Steely serious, never
Apart
Postscript: the earlier postings of vintage men’s fashion ads, with snarky captions:
1/30/13: “Snarky fashion”
2/8/13: “More snarky fashion”
3/29/13: “Crimplene”
9/19/13: “Snarky fashion 4”
9/30/13: “Snarky fashion 5”
10/8/13: “Snarky fashion 6”
November 6, 2016 at 11:43 pm |
Many years ago, in one of the London Borders, they sold a postcard pack of 1970s fashion adverts – “For Whom The Bells Tolls” was one of them. Magnificent.
November 7, 2016 at 2:46 pm |
From Michael Palmer on Facebook:
From the website “Karen Carpenter Died for your Sins” on 1/7/13 “The Clones of Parr of Arizona”:
https://karencarpenterdiedforyoursins.com/2013/01/07/the-clones-of-parr-of-arizona/
Under new ownership, it became Nu-Parr Swimwear, primarily offering women’s swimsuits, then closed down.