Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Those 70's Girls


This morning, I was reading a Blog-Friend's blog. First, the title, Hippie Chick, caught my attention ~ after all, having been a teen & young adult in the '70's I HAD to see what she said. When I got there, she brought back some great "fashion memories." lol Things like: "long hair, sometimes braided, wore: jeans, peasant tops, crochet vests, fringed leather jacket, wedge heel shoes, or boots . . . "

Yep. Been there, done that. :-)

My answer to her was: "Yep, I'm right there w/you. I'm a 1977 grad. All the clothes you mentioned, I wore, too. I had Earth Shoes (JUST got a new pair last week after all these years!!!!) ~ I had 2 pairs: sandals for summer & oxfords for winter;


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but if I weren't wearing those I had on my cowboys boots & was off somewhere riding a horse. I had loooong, straight hair, past my bootie. Hemp & leather jewelry,

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mood ring,

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POW/MIA bracelet.

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One of my favorite things to wear was one of my jeans skirts ~ when our favorite worn-out jeans were just about to give, we would find some funky material, split the inside-leg seams & sew the material to the front & back of the jeans & make an awesome long skirt.


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If our jeans were really bad, we'd cut the legs off at the top, sew the leg opening together & make a purse; we'd cut a nice long piece from one of the legs, sew an end to each side of the waist of the new jean purse & that would be our shoulder strap.

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Sometimes we'd even put a long strip of leather through the belt loops & tie it to look like our jean purse had a belt.

Ahhhh...thanks for the memories!"


Now, that's a blast from the past!

Blessings from Ohio . . . Kim<><

6 comments:

  1. it's fun to look back at our fashion. i was a young girl in teh 70's and watched my aunts all the time. then i was at teen in the 80's oh my goodness! funny how some of those fashions are coming back!

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  2. thanks for stopping and sharing on blessing the elements...It is fun to remember....
    ~~PEACE~~

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  3. oh so much fun! I am reliving my youth again! People look at me like, are you in this world? I'm back to long jean skirts, praire skirts and blouses and birkenstocks.. I am a bohemian conservative LOL hey, I'm from Cal.... LOL I love your blog!

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  4. Oh my goodness...you forgot about toe socks~ And I graduated in 77 also! What fun! Cool post.

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  5. Yes,thanks for the memories. It is so interesting to see what kind of clothes the era brings.
    I remember the oxford shoes and everyone had to have a pair.
    Your post brought some memories and smiles.
    Blessings to you!

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  6. I am having flashbacks as I read your blog. I do believe I had all those mentioned too. Thanks for the memories! Blessings!

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