Comments on: Flash Back Friday – Feeling Red, White and Blue

By: My Tiny Kingdom » Flashback Friday: Feeling Red, White & Blue

My Tiny Kingdom » Flashback Friday: Feeling Red, White & Blue — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:29:10 +0000

[...] Allison 2. Antique Mommy (1973 fashion) 3. Christina 4. Catnip (my mom) 5. Tater [...]

By: mama speak

mama speak — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:56:59 +0000

My brother had the wallpaper in his room to match your pants. But it was like super shinny wallpaper; like patent leather. My parents painted the wooden headboard & foot board on his bed patent leather red and put a royal blue bedspread on it. Shag royal blue carpet and they called it a day. Then they wouldn’t let either us change our rooms until we were out of high school. My room was pepto bismo pink, right down to the shag rug. Gawd it was awful. But my brother’s was way worse, cause his room was really small and it was like a psychedelic jail cell.

Luckily, I was only 7 in ’76 I can blame all my fashion choices on my parents.

By: Fiddledeedee

Fiddledeedee — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 03:08:09 +0000

You could totally get away with that look today.

By: Yvonne

Yvonne — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:46:10 +0000

Oh I remember 1973 – I was in 8th grade, and was as geeky as ever. I had similar pants – with really wide bells at the bottom. And long, wavy, parted in the middle hair. Can’t get any cooler than that…..

By: Adrian

Adrian — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:32:56 +0000

Oh my goodness! My best girlfriend had those exact pants. Seriously! I have a picture of her somewhere looking just like that. I used to have my room done in red, white, and blue. Wish I’d thought to take a picture of it. Brings back memories of the 70′s.

By: k&c's mom

k&c's mom — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 03:17:46 +0000

Oh, my! I was the HS “Class of ’76″. Special red, white and blue caps and gowns for many schools in town. Wish I had THAT picture.

By: everydayMOM

everydayMOM — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:48:44 +0000

I LOVE those pants! The fringe is unbelievable.

Do tell where you lived in central Illinois… I’ve lived in every major town in central Illinois so maybe we crossed paths. =]

By: Iota

Iota — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:10:56 +0000

You didn’t have a bob in those days, then?

By: tom

tom — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:39:30 +0000

We survived that era. Every time I look back at a photo taken during the early seventies of me or my family or friends, I remember how it felt – and how gut-wrenchingly jarring the color schemes in fashion and home decorating were. The mop fringe definitely does take it over the top. But still – we lived through it and still have sanity enough to write coherent sentences.

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I console myself by saying I was only 13, I didn’t know what I was doing/wearing/everyone was doing it. Whether or not I write coherent sentences or have sanity is open to interpretation. ~AM

By: Holly @ Crownlaiddown

Holly @ Crownlaiddown — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:54:36 +0000

HOW funny! We lived in southern Illinois during the bicentennial! We lived just outside of Alton, IL in the little town of Brighton. And we were SO excited about the celebrations, too!

I still love Crocodile Rock.