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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Sweet Merciful God, Nooooo!!!!!!

Are seventies fashions coming back?

An otherwise pleasant stroll up Madison Avenue one recent Sunday turned into a 1970s flashback for Ralph Auriemma, the creative director of classic-suit purveyor Paul Stuart. Gazing into the windows at Prada’s New York store, Mr. Auriemma saw male mannequins clad in bell-bottom corduroys, fur belts and fuzzy angora sweaters, all hallmarks of that stylistically divisive decade. [horrified emphasis added]

I avoided the shame of the 1970s by being a child in that decade. I will not relive it now.

Not that I'm particularly proud of the very short cut-off jeans I wore in the 1980s, mind you ...