25 1970's Fads You Almost Forgot, i need this now.... 

At age almost-72 now, I gotta say I miss those days. Life's never been simple,but it's almost unbearably complicated now. Beam me up!

I miss the 70’s. The music was great and we went to awesome parties nearly every weekend. I wish I’d saved my elephant leg jeans. The best thing was no internet or cell phones; we actually talked to each other face to face and I remember we laughed a lot! Of course I was in my teens and had endless energy and the best friends to hang out with.

The 70’s was a great era to grow up in. I had my Earth shoes, wore bell bottoms . I had click clacks, holla hoops, footsie . Man , I miss those days 😌

I WISH I could find some 70s Earth Shoes!! I wore mine out until they split across the ball of my foot. I wish I'd bought another couple of pairs! They were SO comfortable!!!

“Toughskins” were a brand of jeans/pants from Sears for boys. They were marketed as being strong enough to withstand rough play by young boys. It had nothing to do with corduroy (which is a type of fabric) or Levi’s.

Yeah, we had some silly products and fads in the '70s, but at least we didn't have our heads buried in a cell phone 24 hours a day. We actually talked to the people we were WITH. We made new friends. We had fun TOGETHER.

My uncle passed in the mid 70’s, at his funeral in the middle of prayer.we heard “Breaker Breaker, anybody out there!?” I could hear my uncle laughing!!

70s was disco. i still love disco music.

**Warning** long comment. I wrote a lot about my favorite decade. It was great to be a teenager and young adult in the 1970s. I graduated from High School in the middle of the decade. A lot of my favorite memories are from the 70s, it was a fun and exciting era. Oh the things I remember. My highschool boyfriend wore ugly Earth shoes, I thought they looked really stupid oh him and they caused him to lean back a bit. I had a mood ring (loved it). I owned pink click clacks with silver glitter in them. I owned several different colors of corduroys like beige, light blue and my favorite pair were mauve with tiny dark blue stars. I had a beloved very well behaved pet rock. I thought Steve Martin was so funny I especially loved his The Great Flydini performance. I had several pairs of awesome platform shoes and my husband had platform men's dress shoes. My father had a few horrible wide labeled foamy polyester leisure suits in tan and some terrible pastel colors like a pale blue, the least horrible of them was army green. My father wore his leisure suits with super wide ties. I had spandex, skinny straped body suits with matching wrap skirts. My father had a CB radio and so did my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law used her CB radio to hook up with guys. My hillbilly Uncle and cousins bought Beatle wigs and boots in the 1960s not the 1970s and came to my grandmother's wearing them and it was hysterical. I remember the Grizzly Adam's TV show but don't think we watched the show because my father ruled our one TV and he hated that show. I knew how to do macrame and made and sold macrame plant hangers, bracelets, cigarettes pack covers, small purses, pouches and belts. My family had an avocado green colored fondue pot with wooden handled fondue skewers, we had exactly one fondue party. I had male friends with beautiful hair down past their waist, I still love how a handsome guy with long beautiful hair looks. I belonged to an Earth Club that celebrated the very first Earth Day by cleaning up part of our small California town and my sister and I were in a parade wearing our home-made Planet Earth T-Shirts to bring attention to ecological issues. I remember the Bionic Man and Woman TV shows because of how ridiculous they were and how I hated the characters running in slow motion. My father was totally in charge of the only TV we had in our home so we watched what he decided to watch. i remember being embarrased by my mom wearing super short sizzle suits which were a mini dress so short that they had matching panties. My mom would wear her sizzle suits with high heels and look like a street walker. My mom had 2 work suits with Naru collars in the 1970s but it wasn't a popular style, it had been a 60s thing. When I was first married my husband worked and I did not but it wasn't long before I had to go to work too to help cover the bills. I wore low rise bell bottoms and flared leg pants in the 70s. There was also a fad of high waisted pants, button fly Levi's and Peanuts brand superlow rise pants and shorts.The first refrigerator my husband and I had in 1976, was copper colored and matched our electric stove, we gave that fridge to my mother-in-law to store drinks and fruit in in 1996 and it was still running in 2005 as was the window AC my mother-in-law had purchased for her home in the early 1970s. Some things were so well built back then that they lasted for decades. That fridge still worked when it was tossed out in the 2010s after my mother-in-law passed away and my sister-in-law inherited the home and turned the basement into an apartment. You missed some 1970s fads like Puka shell necklaces, Dr. Scholl sandals, Clogs, Fringed jackets, Army jackets, Rubics Cubes, desert boots, Peasant tops, Striped toe socks, Buffalo sandals, Jack Purcell tennis shoes, High topped sneakers, Tube socks, daisy Duke shorty shorts, Hang Ten T shirts 👣, Head shops, Feathered roach clips worn in people's hair. Patchouli scented perfume and incense., bowl cuts on kids, the mullet, feathered hair styles, Jordache jeans, Dianne Van Furstenberg wrap dresses. Boones Farm alcoholic drinks, Sangria..I'll stop now..

I loved my black corduroys, and the sound they made walking down the halls :) zip zip zip. Same as my snow pants. Can you tell I grew up in Canada 😁

One thing I remember well from my 70's childhood is the popularity of playing marbles at school. Every day we competed against each other in an attempt to get the coolest marbles and have the biggest collection... I LOVED my marbles!!! 😁

Transistor radios that used a 9-volt battery. Always crackled until you found your favourite station on the dial.

My favorite decade. Miss all those innocent times.

You know what I also miss terribly? My Dr. Scholls sandals.

In the '70s, I was known as a bit of a pinball wizard in my hometown... I loved them and still do. I am now 72 and still can't resist playing a pinball machine whenever I see one.

I loved earth shoes! They were one of the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever had.

My ex wife had a mood ring, when she was in a good mood it was blue but when she was in a bad mood it made a red mark in the middle of my forehead. 😊

I grew up in the 70s. Graduated high school in 73 . I had bell bottoms , couderoy pants . Long hair. And a leisure suit ( robins egg blue and platform shoes) and a cb radio in my car. Funny thing , in 1999 my 20 year old son came home from the thrift store with a robins egg blue leisure suit that he was going to wear for Halloween !!!

I was a teen in the 70s. What a great time! Left out was the 18 year old drinking age. I'm Italian, I grew a mustache at 16. Never got carded. Concert clubs, bars ... I miss the long hair, my hair left my head. I had a few polyester leisure suits. Bell-bottoms... gotta be careful of the bike chain.

Cords were standard issue in high school.

Yo-yos were huge. Competition and soda promotions.

Earth 👞 shoes and Levi cords were my thing in high school during the mid-1970s. I wore a different color pair of cords each day of the week. Loved it!! 😊

We used to love the two colored kickers shoes with the red dot in the sole. And the wooden swedish clugs.

I'll be 60 soon. I remember all these. I had a lot of them. I've still got a beard and my hair (what remains of it) goes halfway down my back. A big one that wasn't mentioned: Water beds.

Pinball machines were also popular in the '50's and '60's.

Roller skates and rainbow everything

I LOVED click clacks as a kid. My dad made mine using chestnuts. Wow, that goes way back as I’m almost 70 yrs old.

I had a pair of elephant bells that were 72" around on the bottoms.

No mention of the tube tops? I remember in the late 70s during my painting class in college bending over to pick up some of my art supplies and when I stood back up my tube top came down, exposing my bare chest. Thankfully I was facing away from everyone else at the time and quickly pulled it back in place. If anyone had noticed, they never said anything, or I would have felt like dying. lol

I absolutely loved this video 🤗 Took me back to my youth🥰 My how things have changed!!!! OK….back to reality now 😁✌️🕊☮️

Oh no no no…Nehru jackets were strictly late 60’s. They came and went very quickly. If you were still wearing one in the 70’s you were way outdated.

We had a pinball game at our house. My brothers and I spent HOURS playing it. Oh, the good old days…

OMG I had a pair of earth shoes I wore till they fell apart. I still have my mood ring.The 70s were a great decade to be young so lucky.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Orange Julius, Chess King, 8 track tapes, Frye boots...

I miss pinball! They forgot one CB radio movie, Convoy!

Frye boots.

I owned numerous pairs of Levi's corduroys in the 70's, including the coveted powder blue!

*16* Earth Shoes were the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever owned. I would buy them again if they were still in business.

I remember the moon shoes. The plastic sandals if you left them outside on a hot day they would melt Remember the sandals that had a 3to 4 inch heel that went from the front to the back on the bottom of the of the Sandals. We would run up and down the steps in school and those sandals I remember the Orange and White Oxford with the 2 inch orange heal. Also the glass Knockers/Klackers with the two glass balls on the end of the string and we would go through the hallway Clacking them. We had maxi skirts and dresses. There's so much more but I can't wait to think about it right now. This is from a graduate of 1977

I had earth shoes. I loved them. they were comfortable. i wish I had them today.

My grandmother had a pet Rock purchased by one of her grandchildren. I don't think she had it long. I was her favorite grandchild. She died in 1988 from cancer. Lord do I miss that woman. It seems like yesterday she was still here.😢

Thanks for the memories

Earth shoes were the best. I wore mine every where. Best shoes while pregnant

I made lots of macrame plant hangers in home ec. and plant pots in pottery class. I gave most of them to my Mom and Grandma, and when they each passed, I have them back! All new plants, however!

All of us old timers know what to do, if the van's a rockin ... 👀

I'll be 80 in a month and corduroy pants were part of my life until high school.

I had those earth shoes,wish they were available now

Playing pinball was the BEST entertainment. I LOVED it!!

I made my own halter tops! Easy sewing.

I graduated from high school back in the 70s. At least where I grew up, I can remember each school year had their own color of "cords" (corduroy pants). Seniors wore yellow, juniors had light blue, sophomores were pink, and freshmen wore green. Only seniors were allowed to paint or decorate their cords. The cords would be a "must have" for school pride days. It was also a trend towards the end of your senior year to have friends sign their names in permanent markers on your cords (while you stood there wearing them). For my senior year I could not find any store locally that had yellow cords in stock - so my best friend and I bought sewing patterns and fabric and got the old sewing machine out and made ours. They turned out pretty decent. At an assembly at the end of the year our senior class president in a symbolic gesture of passing on the baton to the next years seniors, stripped off his cords and handed them to the junior class president (he was wearing tied dyed long john's underneath). And no, this wasn't part of the traditions. He just took it upon himself to do so. But then our senior class was known as one to push limits and brake traditions - lol.

Everyone in the library could hear you comin' when you wore corduroy pants.

It was never enough to have one income in a working class household. My mother worked full time as a waitress, working her way up to the fanciest seafood restaurant on Wall St. She cooked dinner every night for 7 people and a roast on Sundays, did all the house work, did all the laundry including ironing, took care of us 5 kids a bit and did the finances. In the 70 women went to work in mass from the middle class. Women of the working class always worked and had many children due to not having birth control.

I owned almost all styles of Earth Shoes and still have a pair of boots. I wore them exclusively for years, even into corporate business. I had sandals too!

Jumping Beans

I still love & wear mood rings ❤❤❤

I don’t remember Earth shoes, but I certainly remember desert boots. They were light tan suede and so damn comfortable. I wish they were still around.

Click clacks are definitely better than eating tide pods. Earth shoes were so comfortable.

I loved my Earth Shoes! Wore out a couple of pair! 😊

I miss the voop voop corduroy pants made when you tried to walk anywhere in them.

I remember going to a van show at the local mall. The best vans had…shag carpeting going right up on the walls and all over the ceiling too.

Polyester leisure suits were the biggest joke in history. Nerdy teachers and college professors of the mid 1970's thought they made them look cool.

I had a pet rock but it escaped when I left the lid open. No amount of "missing" signs posted on telephone poles ever brought my rock back. Some years later I did see a guy in the U-District holding a placard that read, "help I'm a rock."

I still remember buying my earth shoes ( Excersoles they were called). With a wavy sole. I loved those shoes. I was thinking about them as I do from time to time and tried to find a company that still made them.

I still have a pair of black leather platform shoes I bought from Thom Mccann in 1974. ..they're practically in brand new condition..unfortunately my foot was still growing at the time and I cant wear them, otherwise I would. I miss the 70s.

I rocked a pair of Earth Shoes circa '78.

Corduroy pants, back in the 70's, if you rubbed them vigorously...they would begin to smoke...lol

Bay City Roller socks ❤

Great memories! 😊 I remember every single trend & fad shown in this video. And owned Klick-Klacks, a mood ring, corduroy bell bottom pants, a Pet Rock, Steve Martin comedy 8 tracks & a pair of those weird looking Earth Shoes. Among other things here. Influencers like Elton John drove many of these fashion styles. And movies/books like Jaws, Night of the Grizzly & The Amityville Horror made us terrified to go into the water, woods & NY suburbs, lol...

I loved my mood ring.

Click Clacks were NOT glass. They were a hard brittle plastic that chipped and was a danger to the eyes. They really hurt when you missed.

I am still into cb radio, here in the UK it was illegal in the 1970's but lots of people had them, i have some 1970's vintage cb radios in my collection and they still work fine!!.

Earth shoes were so comfortable! We were just talking about them the other day...and clacking my brother in the head...accidentally. 😬 Good times! 😂

In the early 1970s I managed two pinball parlors, it was a great meeting place for old friends and to make new ones. I was in my 20s in the 70s so I remember most of the things in this video. Great stuff, Cheers.

Much of my time in the '70's was spent in emergency rooms. My two heroes were Gordie Howe and Evel Knievel.

These lumberjack Swede, high ankle boots, called “Wallabees” were the rage in the 70s. Even the teen girls wore them. Nobody liked oatmeal until the introduction of granola at the Woodstock. Then oatmeal bar recipes came out, and they were a fad. So was gorp, a type of trail mix. And musile, a type of cold oatmeal and nut breakfast food. We started going enjoy vegetarian foods, like ground chickpeas instead of meat. I loved chickpea “meatballs,” in sandwiches and spaghetti. We started to eat yogurt more, homemade yogurt even. And we liked homemade peanut butter and spread instead of mayonnaise. We gathered new recipes with avocado: avocado bread, avocado soup, avocado pie. We used to get avocados for free from our friends who had too much avocados! We learned to eat zucchini in new ways. Nobody used to know you can put a stick in it and batter it up and deep fry it! We learned to grate it and make zucchini bread! We had gotten zucchini for free because we had friends who had too much growing! And lots of free lemons, oranges and grapefruit! Hardly get anything free now. We learned about alfalfa spouts, radish sprouts, and etc., and it was put in sandwiches and salads! We learned how to grow our own sprouts!

They were called “Toughskins” because that was a brand name of Sears for pants with a patch in the knees to keep kids from wearing them out easily.

Yo-Yo's made comeback,pop rocks,Slinky,Table Hockey was Big,8-tracks, PSYCHEDELICS, Playboys,COSELL'S MNF,FRISBEES,tie dyes,crush soda, 3 dog night. Done

I wish they still had Earth Shoes - They were SOoo Comfortable, especially if you worked on your feet, which I did back then.

I miss the '70s! 😊

Tube tops

Deposits on glass bottles

vans you can live in have made a comeback because great ideas last!

To this day I love corduroy pants and in the 70's I wore Levi's cords.

Who ever thought. . . I would be familiar with . . . all of them? This is spot on, by the way!

Yike, those platform shoes I would not have worn, but I did wear bell bottoms, turtle necks, and butterfly collars. 😁

OMG those Earth shoes made my calves hurt SO BAD for about a week. I wore them out though.

How soon they forget indeed. (Okay, it was a half century ago.) The "invisible dog leash" was actually called Ralph the Invisible Dog. It was based on a Flip Wilson gag.

Wasn't there those feather roach clips also?

Oh my goodness.My Dad had so much to say about some of these items of the 1970's! I was allowed to have platform shoes, with much "please, ALL the girls in school wear them."😊

silent spring is coming to fruition. it should be mandatory reading for everyone.

Classic memories!

I was born in 1970 and would gladly go back!

If you’re going to do a video on 1970’s trends, then double check your source material. Most if not all of the platform shoes pictured are modern stripper platforms. There were only one or two that were from the’70’s. The “leisure suits” represented in this video were merely blazers and sports jackets. A couple of actual ones but not many. After that I couldn’t watch anymore because of the poor research. The video is comparable to 5-Minute Videos. A quickly put together video for $$. Do better please.

I had a mood ring, Earth shoes, and click clacks. My click clicks are green and in the attic.😊 Still have the mood ring too.

I loved my leisure suits. I had two. One was seafoam and the other was Kaki. They looked great with a shiny rayon or Quiana long sleeve shirt. I Remember going to Jeffersons looking for a new leisure suit and the salesman told me they don't make them anymore. That was 1980. I was so disappointed.

I remember these days and miss them ...

My brother wore high heel shoes and I went to my first day of college in earth shoes!!! Oh, and I still have my pet rock!!!

Gas was cheap in the 1970s!!! Apparently the announcer forgot about the US energy crisis in the 70s, causing fuel shortages and very long lines at the gas station (and no guarantee that the line wouldn't shut down while you were waiting). I remember someone I worked with who was able to get gas before work, and she said 'it was better than sex!' Also, gas prices quadrupled at the time.

I remember a pair of bell bottoms that I wore to school that did not go over very well with the principal. The pants had wide red and white vertical stripes with a wide exposed zipper in the front (about an inch and a half wide) with a large round pull ring at the top. The back laced up corset style. I guess he thought they looked too risqué for school wear.

I had platform shoes as a teenager We had a CB radio What really killed the CB Radio was that the novelity had worn off by 1977