70s, in my estimation, were an attempt to introduce native indigenous wardrobe and re-introduce the 1700's high fallutin' ostentatious flowy rufflly garb of the European Courts but wuth a twist for the modern era. The library at the California State Los Angeles campus has a large collection of fashion magazines of the 70's, and I find that the upper class wore some of the best TAILORED CLOTHES EVER SEEN. Compare them to what Real Housewives Shows wear at the "Reunion" shows. These Real Houewives ladies dress like street harlots sometimes at the reunions. Take a look at 1970's photos of Steve McQueen at parties, and Patricia Altschul 1970's personal photos at parties: IMPECCABLE.
At 84, I feel like I have just spent an hour watching a rerun of my life, that inculuded wearing detachable collars, when I was a Junior Bank Officer working with the ANZ Bank Relieving Staff, where the detachable collar kept me looking smart while I was doing a lot of travelling. And in the 1970s I thought I look very smart with the broad lapels and wide cuffs. Phil
Broad, or at least “moderate” lapels need to make a comeback, it’s hard to find a jacket off the rack, or even made-to-measure with more than a 3”, or even 2.75” lapel. Something half-way decent almost NEEDS to be bespoke or vintage thesedays, I’m in my 30s and I’m afraid by the time I’m around your age, or even younger than that…I worry I won’t be able to buy a suit off the rack anywhere, regardless of its level of quality.
I like the bright 60s clothing, body shirts, and short shorts. I get that it's too much for some people, but one thing they're not is bland. So so much of men's clothing is in dark, muted, or neutral colors and simple or boxy cuts. Men's clothing is often so unimaginative and dull it puts me to sleep. I'm not knocking suits/"classic" things at all, they look great and you should wear them if you like them! But color, loud prints, decorative elements, interesting cuts and materials, and breaking the rules of fashion are for 100% you too if you want. Whatever you wear, you deserve to feel good in it!
How could you not mention the Zoot Suit of the late 1930's and early 1940's. With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg-leg pants. Think of the fashions of Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, my Uncle Lloyd and the movie Malcolm X with Denzel Washington and Spike Lee dancing the jitterbug at the dance hall. High fashion for POC!!
Preston, you are the perfect guide for this amusing skip along the long and winding Yellow Brick Road of men's fashion oddities and curiosities of the past century. Grazie mille!
My grandmother went out with a teddy boy in the 1950s. She used to talk about his hair, his drainpipe trousers and the fact he was what we'd call a "hard man" (like a tough guy to Americans). I think they broke up after he got in trouble with the police. She herself got a haircut they called a DA (Duck's Arse) much to her own Victorian grandmother's horror
Reviewbrah agrees. It does look really good, as long as it fits you well. The alternative is to look like you are a used car retailer that bough the suit for 15$
Agree,..Miami Vice is WHY a lot of men even cared about Fashion and style to begin with,..both then AND now LoL! before Don Johnson you'd never find any American man who considered himself masculine wearing pink LoL!
I have a cheap suit jacket, which the pants were missing, and it fits me pretty much perfectly. Double breasted navy blue, 6x1 sack. Reminds me of the 80s and 90s, though I can wear it like it's from the 50s easily, even with a vest. Versatile wardrobe is the key to mastering any look or style you're going for.
Somewhat unconsciously, I have acquired a lot of familiarity with upper class men's fashion of the early decades of the last century. This is because I am a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, and his Bertie and Jeeves stories. Bertie would always describe in great detail the clothing he wore, and in fact in most of the stories, an item of clothing was an important plot point. Frequently, Jeeves, the valet, would be offended by some new item that Bertie insisted on wearing, against Jeeves's objection. After Jeeves's would invariably extract his master from some pickle, he would be rewarded by being allowed to trash the offending object. On a different subject, I was very much around in the seventies, and never saw any of those dog ear collars. I do remember some bad styles from the 60s and 70s that weren't mentioned.
The early 60s had the best silhouette for men's suits really. The fit was close like the early 20s but the proportions were shorter. I own some jackets from the 60s and they're well made.
This channel only highlights the irony trends of the time, and not the classy stuff that was regularly caught. Hitchcock's final film had great costumes.
The 1970s was the decade that should just not have been. There was so much wrong, not even limited to clothing. But my personal favorite fail was the plaid polyester leisure suit, with the afore mentioned super wide lapels and platform shoes. Oh and you can throw in the insanely wide ties too.
13:30 the blue suit on the left and the pale green suits on the right actually look pretty good! I’d change the color for the green ones but I’d say that otherwise, those suits were pretty cool.
The flat top hair style and the saggy pants, can't even call that a style. I never saw anyone wearing velvet jackets, wild pants, or dog-ear shirts. They did wear the tight fitting shirts. Also wide lapels suit jackets. No one wore "stubbies", never saw them or ever heard of them.
The advertisement clearly said "Colossal Dog Ear Collar" which means it was always a joke - hence nobody bought them and nobody was caught in them. Not sure why GG believes every last thing they read is the wholly absolute truth about the past, regarding terrible taste and trends. With stubbies, in my neck of the woods they're not completely extinct but about 10-15 years ago they were quite common for many outdoor tasks and also the gym, not so much industry workwear as it was something to wear when you weren't wearing sweats or trackpants. That's how I remember them, didn't know it was insanely 1980s in origin but I knew when I first saw them that they're a vintage thing.
Oxford bags which became bell bottoms in the 1960s and 1970s which came jnco jeans in the 1990s and early 2000s. How did this trend keep happening? And yes, i wore jnco jeans in the 1990s lol.
@inregionecaecorum. It appears that I am the only person on thi Channel who actually lived through the 1970's. As has been said several times in the mainstream Media .... If you can remember the 60's/70's ..... Then you weren't there !!! Lol. Phil.
I actually love the 80s power suit, and the 40s boring outfit could be a cool look in the right contexts. However as much as I love some of the 70's looks, especially some of the styles sported by african americans, I could never wear them myself lol
Honestly I don’t see any problem with the teddy boys. I didn’t realize it was like.. a style style. I’ve dressed like that a lot. Certainly not the crazy hair, but the actual clothing stuff together. Well fitted longer coats and just… I dunno. Feels very rock and roll. It almost seems MORE casual than a well fitted well put together 3 piece suit combo. Cause it might catch eyes but it doesn’t really look like “oh look at that rich guy” because you can thrift the teddy type stuff.
I remember my grandfather wearing the 1940-60s style 'work uniform'. As a kid I thought he looked like a police officer though he was actually a milk man. LoL That said he and his coworkers as well as other workers looked far more professional than workmen have in the last four or five decades.
I must disagree about the 40's work wear. I'd much rather see that than the current trend of going to work looking like they dressed out of a rag bag. 😕 I wish my current employer had a uniform service. It looks very professional, even if not really an exciting look.
Ah the 70’s. Me in 1974 wearing my Michael Jackson inspired attire while my father wore crushed velvet sport coats flair legged plaid pants with 3 inch cuff. Grandfather was in solid color jumpsuits. Uncle favored leisure suits. We all were confident and in style.
I remember hippies too well to have any nostalgia for them. Lennon took Gerorge Harrison to Haight Asbury to show him the hope for a new world, and Harrison said it looked like a collection of winos that smoked their drugs instead of drinking them.
My father was a Teddy Boy and for a time wore a genuine Edwardian suit which he was given by an elderly neighbour who had kept it since his youth. It was black, apparently it fitted like a glove and was the envy of my dad's friends.
You forgot the disco era, tight polyester shirts with big collars, open to the waist, chains around the neck and way too tight high waisted pants and platform shoes, you forgot those.
1970s dress loafers were definitely inspired by the Victorian/pre-Victorian footwear, what with the long curved tongues and all. The pirates in Hook wear that stuff. As such, the 1970s loafer is no more, extinct.
I disagree on the work uniform bit. It's no different than what people do now with field jacket/safari jackets. Even high end brands such as Balmain uses military uniforms as inspiration for their flagship products and there is nothing unfashionable about about it.
General Douglas MacArthur comes to my mind as a prime model for the matching work sets. His getup may seem strange to us modern men, but he successfully pulled off that bossy and intimidating, "down to business" look. I think it's quite manly.
Same. The work uniform was made for bricklayers, mechanics and other blue collars. Most didn't wear t-shirts and jeans to work as it was considered slopppy. Heck at that time most farmers were wearing collared shirts. The work uniform was something you could be seen in public with and was practical if boring. ( I imagine some men mixed colors as well) Great video BTW.
I actually like the matching work uniforms as well; however, I like it as simply that. The appearance also does make me think of the romanticized images of simpler times as shown by the image of the milk man.
I think that where fashion really went wrong- certainly in the U.S.- was when we started wearing clothing with advertisements- words, pictures, brand names- splashed across every type of clothing, every kind of accessory imaginable. It's distracting and doesn't age well (not that I'm innocent of this). I know that European visitors to the United States have wondered why everybody here is walking around in gym clothes, overly casual and festooned with logos. Personally, I thought the Teddy Boys didn't look too awful: they reminded me of the New Wave.
One of my colleague asked me once, (who noticed that I usually wear suit pants), is there something between jeans and suit pants? He wanted to wear something a bit more professional looking, but not too fancy. I answered, sure, look for chinos and khaki pants. He was genuinely amazed, that plain cloth pants are exists and also look nice. He instantly bought a few pairs. Jeans have such a monopoly, people are basically know nothing else.
No, no, no, no, no - the 1960s and 1970s were wonderful because of the bright colours and patterns! There is much to be said for 19th and 20th century "smartness" in mens' dress, but in the end, the really stylish eras of mens' dress is anything before the 19th century, when men wore bright colours and dazzling jewellery!
Can confirm that there's still a few old boys who never gave up the Teddy Boy look and you can still see them I some pubs. They certainly aren't common, but you certainly won't miss them. Even if they're wearing modern clothes, the hair cut persists.
The shirt collar worn over the jacket's collar became a 'thing' in the late-30s with what were known then as "Hepsters", who became "Hipsters" by the 1950s. It's really not a bad look if done properly... The later 40s early 50s 2-tone Leisure suits/wrap jackets lend themselves to the practice... There's nothing as Kool as a "popped" Capri collar over a Dupioni silk jacket. But I have to agree... The shirt collar DID become grossly exaggerated by the late 1960s and into the 70s... Ruining a once-good idea.
Starched collars were not as dangerous as you make it out to be (I wear them, and they're very comfortable). If fitted correctly they are perfectly fine. It's the equivalent to calling corsets deadly, when infact it's been proven to be wrong hundred times before and are still used in medicine today. I should note that starched collars can also help with bad neck posture, as it did with me.
Gentlemen in the 30's, 40's and even 50's were far more elegant than today. It's great to watch old London town in mid 20 century movies. Such a fashionable place and with a clearly identifiable culture and people.
My grandfather, who would be well into his 100s if he were still living, wore his green work sets for decades. That alone vouches for how well made and durable the pieces were. Those pants and shirts withstood many years of hard use on construction sites, doing yardwork, fixing cars, and gardening. The young kids in the neighborhood used to call him Mr. Green Jeans.
As a guy who likes a lot of Industrial music - where the bands literally dress like this - I didn't mind them, I actually thought they looked pretty cool! I would totally wear one.
The brown suit looks OK on you Preston. Great video. Being as I AM 76 I can remember the 60's onwards fashion wise. I MUST SAY i did really like the MIAMI VICE - jOHNSON'S expensive casual silk jacket and expensive t-shits had a great look complemented by Thomas' dressy double breasted suits. Nothing at all wrong with that. Working retail on Oxford street in London 1970 -72 I MUST SAY i liked the three piece narrow suits we used to wear Really used to attract the birds!?!
In the 80’s I remember that the trends changed every week, I worked in a department store in a mall so I could see the trends all the time. I had to wear a suit at work and I couldn’t afford an expensive one so I bought two black 80’s suits but they were not long with padded collars. They were both high waisted tailored one was double breasted and one was like a tuxedo and I wore them with really skinny ties. I had a very slim build so these suits looked great on me. But I do remember parachute pants and aviator clip belts and neon colored shirts and padded quilted shiny fabric shoes.
Great video. Like others, I would like to see you cover the 70s in more detail, with such items as leisure suits, the so-called non-suit or un-suit, and chains. Actually, many of the 60s and 70s fashions look good compared to the grunge and t-shirt yoga pants uniforms of today. Indeed, in many ways, the 60s and 70s had a more free-wheeling feel than today. Another idea might be to take a look at the Rat Pack members and how their fashions changed over the years. A good example is Sammy Davis Jr. Thanks for all your videos. Keep up the good work.
I have to admit that some of the guys in the shown pictures really rocked that style though. I guess even terrible fashion styles can be done in a cool way if you know what you are doing
I prefer the bright colors of the late 60's and 70's as long as they were used tastefully. I never did like the preponderance of dark colors in the early 60's or the lack of flair. The real horrors in fashion started in the mid-1990's and continues to deteriorate to this day. People are dressing down entirely too much and too far down into appearing indistinguishable from the homeless.
Several years ago we got a new boss. His first order of business was that the maintenance crew wear uniforms. What a difference it made. Made for a professional, well put together team. The tenants also felt safer knowing that any bum off the street couldn't stroll around in street clothes posing as maintenance. Great job Gents!!
10:50 - 11:10 Actually, I like those bold, colorful suits from the sixties. I think that, when properly designed and worn, they had a sophisticated flair to them, reminiscent of upper class fashions from the 18th century. If you are going to depart from tried and true elegance, it is better to to go with verve and panache rather than with with the kind of sloppy, excessively casual styles often preferred today. It's interesting that you failed to compare the ridiculously baggy jeans of the 90s with the Oxford Bags of the 1920s. Was the later style actually inspired by the earlier, or did it develop independently with the designers and wearers being completely ignorant of what came before?
I remember having a bunch of big kikwear n etc pants in the mid to late 90s. I've only now discovered the Oxford sacks and I gotta say I'm amazed that people wanted to look as foolish as I looked @ 13 years old.
Yes! I agree with the commenter that certain jobs (in the US) should require them. On visits home (to the US) I would mistake guys who came to fix pipelines or whatever as burglars or something; dressed in their dirty jeans and workshirts...
Least we forget about the Leisure Suit! My Grandfather still owns his with matching polyester shirt with a massive collar. He puts it on as a joke sometimes... or a Halloween costume
Unfortunately yes, I did see a few people with them on. The only thing I never seen anyone wear in the 70s, that they mentioned was the dog ear collars
@@josephwalsh7546 I love the long flowing hair whether real or with some help from the wigmaker. I don't know about the lice though. The shaved heads under the wigs prevented lice. The lice in the wigs could be killed relatively easily when the wigs were regularly cleaned by boiling them.
@@christophergraves6725 I've never heard of the wigs being boiled ( I would have thought it would ruin the wig ). I have heard of them being dusted with a compound containing arsenic which is alleged to have made some wearers very ill fom arsenic poisoning.
Oxford bags were specifically designed to be worn over plus 4s, which were banned from being worn in class by the faculty at Oxford. Ergo: Oxford bags. They could easily be slipped off when not in class. I'm disappointed that the information wasn't included in your presentation.
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The matching work sets look actually good and compared to today the 1940's work sets look amazing.
Yeah, with the interest in tailored fits and men's hair styling/grooming over recent years, they would work quite well for plenty of guys.
Seriously, you guys could've just done a 45-minute episode on the fails of the 70s alone. Thanks for another great video, Preston et al!
70s, in my estimation, were an attempt to introduce native indigenous wardrobe and re-introduce the 1700's high fallutin' ostentatious flowy rufflly garb of the European Courts but wuth a twist for the modern era.
The library at the California State Los Angeles campus has a large collection of fashion magazines of the 70's, and I find that the upper class wore some of the best TAILORED CLOTHES EVER SEEN.
Compare them to what Real Housewives Shows wear at the "Reunion" shows.
These Real Houewives ladies dress like street harlots sometimes at the reunions.
Take a look at 1970's photos of Steve McQueen at parties, and Patricia Altschul 1970's personal photos at parties: IMPECCABLE.
The 80s were far worse than the 70s
@@darleschickens7106 , only if you'd had too many psychedelics in the 60s.
@@demspunkdamerica3rdbananar207 The 70's corrected the Stiff necked sillyness of the 60's. And if anything punked America it was DJT.
What are you talking about, looking around they are bringing the "Seventies" back!
At 84, I feel like I have just spent an hour watching a rerun of my life, that inculuded wearing detachable collars, when I was a Junior Bank Officer working with the ANZ Bank Relieving Staff, where the detachable collar kept me looking smart while I was doing a lot of travelling. And in the 1970s I thought I look very smart with the broad lapels and wide cuffs. Phil
Wow how intresting.
Haha lol what parts of your old “fashionable” pieces do you still have Mr.Moodie?
Broad, or at least “moderate” lapels need to make a comeback, it’s hard to find a jacket off the rack, or even made-to-measure with more than a 3”, or even 2.75” lapel. Something half-way decent almost NEEDS to be bespoke or vintage thesedays, I’m in my 30s and I’m afraid by the time I’m around your age, or even younger than that…I worry I won’t be able to buy a suit off the rack anywhere, regardless of its level of quality.
@@ChipsChallenge95 Lapels get wider and skinnier, buttoning points/waistlines get higher and lower. It all depends on the body type.
God Bless you buddy !
I like the bright 60s clothing, body shirts, and short shorts. I get that it's too much for some people, but one thing they're not is bland. So so much of men's clothing is in dark, muted, or neutral colors and simple or boxy cuts. Men's clothing is often so unimaginative and dull it puts me to sleep. I'm not knocking suits/"classic" things at all, they look great and you should wear them if you like them! But color, loud prints, decorative elements, interesting cuts and materials, and breaking the rules of fashion are for 100% you too if you want. Whatever you wear, you deserve to feel good in it!
Agreed!
Definitely agree
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"-Oscar Wilde.
Covering the 70’s would take a year alone.
More like a decade
A painful painful decade… of horror.
After all, the 70s aren’t exactly known for aging well, although the cars weren’t that bad looking
Forgot leisure suits
@@martinelmore6018 We wish to forget them.
When you have Preston in these kind of videos, get ready for some elegant and beautifully delivered roasts.
Boy, the burns...
being called a peasant for tennis socks is what got me into these videos XD
1940s workwear is very cool imo.
How could you not mention the Zoot Suit of the late 1930's and early 1940's. With its super-sized shoulder pads, sprawling lapels and peg-leg pants. Think of the fashions of Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong, my Uncle Lloyd and the movie Malcolm X with Denzel Washington and Spike Lee dancing the jitterbug at the dance hall. High fashion for POC!!
Preston, you are the perfect guide for this amusing skip along the long and winding Yellow Brick Road of men's fashion oddities and curiosities of the past century. Grazie mille!
My grandmother went out with a teddy boy in the 1950s. She used to talk about his hair, his drainpipe trousers and the fact he was what we'd call a "hard man" (like a tough guy to Americans). I think they broke up after he got in trouble with the police. She herself got a haircut they called a DA (Duck's Arse) much to her own Victorian grandmother's horror
Power suits are superb, as long as they fit properly. And so was Miami Vice type of fashion. There, i said it.
Completely agree, I’ve bought a couple of vintage 80s power suits from EBay that fit well on me and I love wearing them
Reviewbrah agrees.
It does look really good, as long as it fits you well. The alternative is to look like you are a used car retailer that bough the suit for 15$
Agree,..Miami Vice is WHY a lot of men even cared about Fashion and style to begin with,..both then AND now LoL! before Don Johnson you'd never find any American man who considered himself masculine wearing pink LoL!
I have a cheap suit jacket, which the pants were missing, and it fits me pretty much perfectly. Double breasted navy blue, 6x1 sack. Reminds me of the 80s and 90s, though I can wear it like it's from the 50s easily, even with a vest. Versatile wardrobe is the key to mastering any look or style you're going for.
Somewhat unconsciously, I have acquired a lot of familiarity with upper class men's fashion of the early decades of the last century. This is because I am a fan of P.G. Wodehouse, and his Bertie and Jeeves stories. Bertie would always describe in great detail the clothing he wore, and in fact in most of the stories, an item of clothing was an important plot point. Frequently, Jeeves, the valet, would be offended by some new item that Bertie insisted on wearing, against Jeeves's objection. After Jeeves's would invariably extract his master from some pickle, he would be rewarded by being allowed to trash the offending object.
On a different subject, I was very much around in the seventies, and never saw any of those dog ear collars. I do remember some bad styles from the 60s and 70s that weren't mentioned.
Hello, fellow Wodehouse fan here, and I'm actually here because I always try to learn more about what his characters would wear!
Oxford bag wearers were around 70 years ahead of the times.
Fashion trends that were “particularly egregious.” That’s a very polite way of putting it. My choice of words would be decidedly more profane.
The early 60s had the best silhouette for men's suits really. The fit was close like the early 20s but the proportions were shorter. I own some jackets from the 60s and they're well made.
In fashion, there are no fails. Just difference of preferences.
I am surprised you didn't mention the disco trend of the 70s.
Some great clothes in the 70s , men's coats were cool and still are.
This channel only highlights the irony trends of the time, and not the classy stuff that was regularly caught. Hitchcock's final film had great costumes.
All clothes I have come from 70s or 60s and had the perfect quality and fit for me.
What, no Zoot Suits mentioned!?? Those overblown garments of 1930s-40s were more outrageus than anything shown here.
The 1970s was the decade that should just not have been. There was so much wrong, not even limited to clothing. But my personal favorite fail was the plaid polyester leisure suit, with the afore mentioned super wide lapels and platform shoes. Oh and you can throw in the insanely wide ties too.
13:30 the blue suit on the left and the pale green suits on the right actually look pretty good! I’d change the color for the green ones but I’d say that otherwise, those suits were pretty cool.
Surprised the Zoot Suite didn't make the grade!
Biggest faux pas was as a 90s-2000s boy. Bug eye sunglasses and a Neru collar jacket in black. The Matrix was "the one" for me. lol.
The flat top hair style and the saggy pants, can't even call that a style. I never saw anyone wearing velvet jackets, wild pants, or dog-ear shirts. They did wear the tight fitting shirts. Also wide lapels suit jackets. No one wore "stubbies", never saw them or ever heard of them.
The advertisement clearly said "Colossal Dog Ear Collar" which means it was always a joke - hence nobody bought them and nobody was caught in them. Not sure why GG believes every last thing they read is the wholly absolute truth about the past, regarding terrible taste and trends. With stubbies, in my neck of the woods they're not completely extinct but about 10-15 years ago they were quite common for many outdoor tasks and also the gym, not so much industry workwear as it was something to wear when you weren't wearing sweats or trackpants. That's how I remember them, didn't know it was insanely 1980s in origin but I knew when I first saw them that they're a vintage thing.
Fascinating, and I appreciate good narration!
Oxford Baggers? In the 1990's they were called Raver pants. Remember?
Oxford bags which became bell bottoms in the 1960s and 1970s which came jnco jeans in the 1990s and early 2000s. How did this trend keep happening? And yes, i wore jnco jeans in the 1990s lol.
The seventies is definately the decade that fashion forgot, I was there and even my dad was a victim.
@inregionecaecorum. It appears that I am the only person on thi Channel who actually lived through the 1970's. As has been said several times in the mainstream Media .... If you can remember the 60's/70's ..... Then you weren't there !!! Lol. Phil.
I actually love the 80s power suit, and the 40s boring outfit could be a cool look in the right contexts. However as much as I love some of the 70's looks, especially some of the styles sported by african americans, I could never wear them myself lol
@10:56 I wish it was easier to find men’s striped and plaid pants these days.
1980s power suits> anything now and still better than the 70s stuff too. Comfortable too.. Sure the 40s were nicer but the 80s stuff was okay
Disco fashions....omg...what were we thinking...
A rare disagreement with Preston- I like the work uniforms!
10:59 Frampton Comes ALIVE!!!
Oxford bags = old timey JNCOs.
You mispronounced vater. Sven probably had a word with you, about that one. 😅
Will you guys do a review and illustration for proper edwardian attire!
Great video...very interesting facts and info! :)
Nice video, very informative.
But my question is: What are camp-style colours? ca. 7:03 min
17:16 It can be worn in Canada, you can't cross the border without one.
Fashion fails ? who are you to say its a fail.
Imagine being so pretentious that you could never ever wear jeans
Matching worksets are cool and should make a comeback for working men. Not necessarily the forte of your channel.
Honestly I don’t see any problem with the teddy boys. I didn’t realize it was like.. a style style. I’ve dressed like that a lot. Certainly not the crazy hair, but the actual clothing stuff together.
Well fitted longer coats and just… I dunno. Feels very rock and roll. It almost seems MORE casual than a well fitted well put together 3 piece suit combo. Cause it might catch eyes but it doesn’t really look like “oh look at that rich guy” because you can thrift the teddy type stuff.
I feel it must have looked good on someone, until others copied, exaggerated some aspects and features until the trend is completely ruined.
Neru coats!!!!
How appropriate to gave the video narrated by Debbie Downer’s prom date.
Well at least you had the decency to leave Goth alone....
So much of the 70's was a crime. The clothes are the tip of the iceberg. Let's not talk about the architecture....
Stubbies are still worn in new zealand and aussie
I remember my grandfather wearing the 1940-60s style 'work uniform'. As a kid I thought he looked like a police officer though he was actually a milk man. LoL That said he and his coworkers as well as other workers looked far more professional than workmen have in the last four or five decades.
I must disagree about the 40's work wear. I'd much rather see that than the current trend of going to work looking like they dressed out of a rag bag. 😕 I wish my current employer had a uniform service. It looks very professional, even if not really an exciting look.
Plus it eliminates the conundrum of finding a clean outfit that you're comfortable ruining at work, while still abiding by the company dress code...
I agree
Yeah, i think it looks good. Society would look better lol
also if its company policy, they need to replace it, allowing you to buy better garments for your own time.
It allows the clients you serve to EASILY identify you as an employee, especially if it’s a business that services the home or office.
"60s, 70s, 80s terrible fashion choices" honestly... my favourite in fashion era 🤣
I feel attacked!
Ah the 70’s. Me in 1974 wearing my Michael Jackson inspired attire while my father wore crushed velvet sport coats flair legged plaid pants with 3 inch cuff. Grandfather was in solid color jumpsuits. Uncle favored leisure suits. We all were confident and in style.
Marquis Wallace And the ladies? Any memory of them?
Can't believe that you didn't include the atrocious polyester leisure suits of the '70s!
the worst part is they still make full polyester suits, and people still buy them.
Absolutely!
@@36424567254 Topman
Those were felonious
Never stand next to an open flame wearing one of those horrid leisure suits. Especially if it's powder blue.
I remember hippies too well to have any nostalgia for them. Lennon took Gerorge Harrison to Haight Asbury to show him the hope for a new world, and Harrison said it looked like a collection of winos that smoked their drugs instead of drinking them.
Harrison said the SF kids all looked homeless.
"Greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Hey Aqualung!"
Harrison has been under appreciated.
My father was a Teddy Boy and for a time wore a genuine Edwardian suit which he was given by an elderly neighbour who had kept it since his youth. It was black, apparently it fitted like a glove and was the envy of my dad's friends.
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That's amazing! An actual Edwardian suit! The era was only 40 years away, anyway.
Am I alone in thinking the '80s "power suits" weren't that bad? ...maybe even, sometimes attractive?
David Bowie sure knew how to rock an '80s suit.
Don Johnson👍
Power suits may the worst rule breaker, but its look were the best!
But I mean... David Bowie can rock anything lol
The roominess makes them look comfortable. Far preferable to what is popular now.
You forgot the disco era, tight polyester shirts with big collars, open to the waist, chains around the neck and way too tight high waisted pants and platform shoes, you forgot those.
The worst!
@@crystalheart9 best* 😁
@@teddy5236 Ok, Best💖
1970s dress loafers were definitely inspired by the Victorian/pre-Victorian footwear, what with the long curved tongues and all. The pirates in Hook wear that stuff. As such, the 1970s loafer is no more, extinct.
wrong. those were the best
I disagree on the work uniform bit. It's no different than what people do now with field jacket/safari jackets. Even high end brands such as Balmain uses military uniforms as inspiration for their flagship products and there is nothing unfashionable about about it.
General Douglas MacArthur comes to my mind as a prime model for the matching work sets. His getup may seem strange to us modern men, but he successfully pulled off that bossy and intimidating, "down to business" look. I think it's quite manly.
Same. The work uniform was made for bricklayers, mechanics and other blue collars. Most didn't wear t-shirts and jeans to work as it was considered slopppy. Heck at that time most farmers were wearing collared shirts. The work uniform was something you could be seen in public with and was practical if boring. ( I imagine some men mixed colors as well)
Great video BTW.
I actually like the matching work uniforms as well; however, I like it as simply that. The appearance also does make me think of the romanticized images of simpler times as shown by the image of the milk man.
Im not gonna lie, I kinda actually kinda like the matching work-wear one
same
I didn't expect to see Mono in a gentleman video, lol
Nooooo!!
I think that where fashion really went wrong- certainly in the U.S.- was when we started wearing clothing with advertisements- words, pictures, brand names- splashed across every type of clothing, every kind of accessory imaginable. It's distracting and doesn't age well (not that I'm innocent of this). I know that European visitors to the United States have wondered why everybody here is walking around in gym clothes, overly casual and festooned with logos.
Personally, I thought the Teddy Boys didn't look too awful: they reminded me of the New Wave.
One of my colleague asked me once, (who noticed that I usually wear suit pants), is there something between jeans and suit pants? He wanted to wear something a bit more professional looking, but not too fancy. I answered, sure, look for chinos and khaki pants. He was genuinely amazed, that plain cloth pants are exists and also look nice. He instantly bought a few pairs. Jeans have such a monopoly, people are basically know nothing else.
No, no, no, no, no - the 1960s and 1970s were wonderful because of the bright colours and patterns! There is much to be said for 19th and 20th century "smartness" in mens' dress, but in the end, the really stylish eras of mens' dress is anything before the 19th century, when men wore bright colours and dazzling jewellery!
Can confirm that there's still a few old boys who never gave up the Teddy Boy look and you can still see them I some pubs.
They certainly aren't common, but you certainly won't miss them.
Even if they're wearing modern clothes, the hair cut persists.
Here in the states it lives on in The Rockabilly culture
@@eviljoker303 Like country musicians Marty Stuart and Dale Watson
Worse of 21st are leggings and ultra slim clowny pants!
BTW you forgot the tertible shirt collars over suit collars of the Disco era.
That really started in the late 50s and carried over to the late 70s disco. The ultra large ones are particularly silly
I would love to see Preston dressed as John Travolta in Saturday Night Live!
The shirt collar worn over the jacket's collar became a 'thing' in the late-30s with what were known then as "Hepsters", who became "Hipsters" by the 1950s.
It's really not a bad look if done properly... The later 40s early 50s 2-tone Leisure suits/wrap jackets lend themselves to the practice... There's nothing as Kool as a "popped" Capri collar over a Dupioni silk jacket.
But I have to agree... The shirt collar DID become grossly exaggerated by the late 1960s and into the 70s... Ruining a once-good idea.
Starched collars were not as dangerous as you make it out to be (I wear them, and they're very comfortable). If fitted correctly they are perfectly fine. It's the equivalent to calling corsets deadly, when infact it's been proven to be wrong hundred times before and are still used in medicine today.
I should note that starched collars can also help with bad neck posture, as it did with me.
Gentleman gazettes evolution
Menswear enthusiast--->Menswear expert----->Menswear historians
Gentlemen in the 30's, 40's and even 50's were far more elegant than today. It's great to watch old London town in mid 20 century movies. Such a fashionable place and with a clearly identifiable culture and people.
My grandfather, who would be well into his 100s if he were still living, wore his green work sets for decades. That alone vouches for how well made and durable the pieces were. Those pants and shirts withstood many years of hard use on construction sites, doing yardwork, fixing cars, and gardening. The young kids in the neighborhood used to call him Mr. Green Jeans.
I thought that the matching work sets from the 1940s looked fitting and clean.
"Sorry, Raphael, you don't pay me enough to make me talk about body suits"
I’m not gonna lie, I’d wear the pants at 10:53
One late 80s trend you missed, and one that I myself was a victim of… leather ties.
Castillo from Miami Vice wore leather/vinyl ties throughout the series' run.
Honestly, some of those matching work suits don‘t look that bad. I wouldn’t mind wearing that green one at 7:29.
As a guy who likes a lot of Industrial music - where the bands literally dress like this - I didn't mind them, I actually thought they looked pretty cool! I would totally wear one.
Surprised you didn't mention the ties of the 90's. I'm personally a big fan of 90's ties, but I know a lot of people aren't
I'm a big fan of them too
Especially the outrageous Rush Limbaugh ties! I still wear them.
The brown suit looks OK on you Preston. Great video. Being as I AM 76 I can remember the 60's onwards fashion wise. I MUST SAY i did really like the MIAMI VICE - jOHNSON'S expensive casual silk jacket and expensive t-shits had a great look complemented by Thomas' dressy double breasted suits. Nothing at all wrong with that. Working retail on Oxford street in London 1970 -72 I MUST SAY i liked the three piece narrow suits we used to wear Really used to attract the birds!?!
One day I would love to see you cover the kilt and all its accessories. I always found them classy and bold.
In the 80’s I remember that the trends changed every week, I worked in a department store in a mall so I could see the trends all the time. I had to wear a suit at work and I couldn’t afford an expensive one so I bought two black 80’s suits but they were not long with padded collars. They were both high waisted tailored one was double breasted and one was like a tuxedo and I wore them with really skinny ties. I had a very slim build so these suits looked great on me. But I do remember parachute pants and aviator clip belts and neon colored shirts and padded quilted shiny fabric shoes.
Great video. Like others, I would like to see you cover the 70s in more detail, with such items as leisure suits, the so-called non-suit or un-suit, and chains. Actually, many of the 60s and 70s fashions look good compared to the grunge and t-shirt yoga pants uniforms of today. Indeed, in many ways, the 60s and 70s had a more free-wheeling feel than today. Another idea might be to take a look at the Rat Pack members and how their fashions changed over the years. A good example is Sammy Davis Jr. Thanks for all your videos. Keep up the good work.
I have to admit that some of the guys in the shown pictures really rocked that style though.
I guess even terrible fashion styles can be done in a cool way if you know what you are doing
I prefer the bright colors of the late 60's and 70's as long as they were used tastefully. I never did like the preponderance of dark colors in the early 60's or the lack of flair. The real horrors in fashion started in the mid-1990's and continues to deteriorate to this day. People are dressing down entirely too much and too far down into appearing indistinguishable from the homeless.
Yeah, you tuck in any shirt in these days and people think you’re going to a Galla or something
Fashion of Summer 2021: Don't dress. Just wear your underwear--everywhere.
@@sagittarius1343 😂
@@sagittarius1343 true fashionistas would wear a matching mask, of course! ;o)
@@jimnielsen8030 Correct, a face diaper.
As a 90s kid I enjoyed 90s fashion. I wore my fair share of polos and button up shirts with jeans and tennis shoes
Several years ago we got a new boss. His first order of business was that the maintenance crew wear uniforms. What a difference it made. Made for a professional, well put together team. The tenants also felt safer knowing that any bum off the street couldn't stroll around in street clothes posing as maintenance. Great job Gents!!
I’ve always liked the 40s work uniforms
You forgot Axe Body spray and parachute pants.
10:50 - 11:10 Actually, I like those bold, colorful suits from the sixties. I think that, when properly designed and worn, they had a sophisticated flair to them, reminiscent of upper class fashions from the 18th century. If you are going to depart from tried and true elegance, it is better to to go with verve and panache rather than with with the kind of sloppy, excessively casual styles often preferred today.
It's interesting that you failed to compare the ridiculously baggy jeans of the 90s with the Oxford Bags of the 1920s. Was the later style actually inspired by the earlier, or did it develop independently with the designers and wearers being completely ignorant of what came before?
I remember having a bunch of big kikwear n etc pants in the mid to late 90s. I've only now discovered the Oxford sacks and I gotta say I'm amazed that people wanted to look as foolish as I looked @ 13 years old.
My favourite eras of fashion are 60s-80s 😅
The Gentlemen’s Gazette has diagnosed me with questionable fashion sense lol
I knew JNCO Jean's was copying a past style, now I can confirm it.
Oxford Bags.
Interesting...
Now do one for the 21st century the age of cargo shorts,flip flops,and crocs ughh
I'm surprised that such a clothes conscious channel didn't mention the most clothes-conscious (and stylish) subculture of all; the mods.
Cos' this video deals with the bad stuff...
6:10 Those “work sets” still exist in Japan, you know.
Yes! I agree with the commenter that certain jobs (in the US) should require them. On visits home (to the US) I would mistake guys who came to fix pipelines or whatever as burglars or something; dressed in their dirty jeans and workshirts...
Least we forget about the Leisure Suit! My Grandfather still owns his with matching polyester shirt with a massive collar. He puts it on as a joke sometimes... or a Halloween costume
Did any men actually wear the 70's body suits/rompers (the best/worst ones were crocheted)??
Unfortunately yes, I did see a few people with them on.
The only thing I never seen anyone wear in the 70s, that they mentioned was the dog ear collars
@@undecidedgenius This channel blows everything out of proportion. Those dog eared shirts were an actual joke "Colossal Dog Ear Collar"
Come on Preston, Crockett looks awesome!
Life's too short to dress boringly. Bring back ruffles and paisley!
Ruffles like Seinfeld's "pirate shirt' ? ( who are you, a musketeer ? )
@@josephwalsh7546 I like musketeers. People looked better in the 17th Century!
@@christophergraves6725 You're possibly half right - obviously excepting the ridiculous girly pumps on men and the lice- ridden wigs.
@@josephwalsh7546 I love the long flowing hair whether real or with some help from the wigmaker. I don't know about the lice though. The shaved heads under the wigs prevented lice. The lice in the wigs could be killed relatively easily when the wigs were regularly cleaned by boiling them.
@@christophergraves6725 I've never heard of the wigs being boiled ( I would have thought it would ruin the wig ). I have heard of them being dusted with a compound containing arsenic which is alleged to have made some wearers very ill fom arsenic poisoning.
Oxford bags were specifically designed to be worn over plus 4s, which were banned from being worn in class by the faculty at Oxford. Ergo: Oxford bags. They could easily be slipped off when not in class. I'm disappointed that the information wasn't included in your presentation.
I still can't seem to be ok with wearing jeans below a suit jacket
14:50 - Uhhh, most of this "horrific" 80's power suits look nicer than the suit Preston has on in this video.
12:57 *Angry Hugo Jacomet Noises*