![]() This season, white shapeless trousers are on trend. Placing gaffer tape on your jeans at the knee is a classy touch to round off this superb fashion statement. Also, cropped tops are a great way to show off your pecs. Need to be taken seriously as a white bluesman? Why not try attaching a red silk cape to each elbow? Practical too. Ensure the full effect is maintained by pretending it is entirely normal not to wear a shirt underneath the waistcoat. This season, waistcoats tied in the middle, with low scoop neck effect achieved through tying the bottom ends together are de rigeur. What were they thinking? Let’s take a look – from a fashion perspective – at the rock stars of the seventies… It’s time to get this out in the open, and hold an enquiry. Charles Shaar Murray’s excellent point illustrated by Genesis. ![]() Charles Shaar Murray, that excellent and distinguished writer, asked the question in The NME’s 1974 annual, “So What Are Rock Stars Doing Dressed Up Like This?” The lead picture was Peter Gabriel dressed like a flower. Yet there were murmurings even in the seventies about this problem. It has reached the point that even the most eccentric golfer-in-the-seventies pair of trousers elicits barely the slightest mention. In the same way we have become acclimatised to violence on TV by watching Rambo, Predator or old episodes of The A-Team (“it’s okay, no-one actually died despite the several hundred-weight of bullets fired by Mr T”), having seen Lady Gaga dress up like a local butcher’s shop appears to have inured us to the sheer unpleasantness of some rock stars’ general fashion sense. In some ways it is remarkable that it was noticeable. Did people wear these clothes because they were out of their heads, or did they get out of their heads because the clothes were so ridiculous, it was the only way to mask the pain and embarrassment?Īll of this was brought to my attention when watching an old episode of The Old Grey Whistle Test on TV the other day. Whilst some of this might be explained away by *ahem* some over-enthusiastic experimenting with what can only be described as “recreational” substances, there is something of a chicken and egg situation at play. Bear with me).īut not only were our bins not being collected, some of our rock stars – some would say deliberately – chose that difficult decade to compound the unpleasant smell of rotting uncollected bins by stinking up the place with bad clothes. Still talking about Britain in the seventies. (For the avoidance of doubt I haven’t just switched to talking about the IMF’s report on Greece. Strikes, a discontented population, high unemployment and huge financial problems. I am of course talking about the fashion sense of the world’s rock stars. “Don’t judge people by today’s standards” they say. They try to excuse some appalling behaviour. ![]() As we have seen recently, a lot of bad things happened in the seventies, and all too often people say “it’s just how it was then”.
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