Flares.

[Chippy_Tea]

Flares are back in fashion, I remember wearing them many years ago (awful things) do you have any in the wardrobe, do they still fit, will you wear them again?

Will you buy them again if the answer to the above is no?

 

[Stevieboy]

Just about missed them first time round (thank god), was a rocker when the Madchester lot brought them back again, (thank god) and am now too old to give a flying hoot (thank god).

 

[The Baron]

Not got any and would not wear them again. I cam also remember the ones that had a different coloured triangle of material that made the flare but can not what they were called

 

[Chippy_Tea]

cam also remember the ones that had a different coloured triangle of material that made the flare but can not what they were called

Tightwad flares, you cut the triangle out of an old pair and sewed them into a straight pair of jeans to make flares.

 

[chthon]

Ugh, the most ugly pant ever devised. Even as a kid in the 70's I had my doubts about them.

 

[The Baron]

Tightwad flares, you cut the triangle out of an old pair and sewed them into a straight pair of jeans to make flares.

Well we are talking about Yorkshire

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Tightwad flares, you cut the triangle out of an old pair and sewed them into a straight pair of jeans to make flares.

 

[Jim Brewster]

When I was teenage, "boot cut" jeans were the thing at the time, they always looked a bit like flares to me

 

[Kit-brewer]

Just about missed them first time round (thank god), was a rocker when the Madchester lot brought them back again, (thank god) and am now too old to give a flying hoot (thank god).

I was in Manchester in the late 80s and spent many happy and drunken hours in Jillys and The Banshee. Also worked in The Salisbury which was a rock pub.

 

[sifty]

Too young for flares from the 70s.
But I think they're an interesting fashion. I sort of like how they spread from the narrow knees out to shoes, just from a design point of view...

 

[Clint]

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Loons?
Who remembers Birmingham bags? Which I think were flared cargo pants..

 

[DavidDetroit]

I never had them and wouldn't buy them. They were very popular in the US as were platform shoes for males. That stuff makes me roll my eyes and/or shake my head.
I find myself wanting to go off on a rant about clothing, jewelry, makeup, tattoos, fashion shows but I think I can rein it in for now.

 

[Clint]

I never had them and wouldn't buy them. They were very popular in the US as were platform shoes for males. That stuff makes me roll my eyes and/or shake my head.
I find myself wanting to go off on a rant about clothing, jewelry, makeup, tattoos, fashion shows but I think I can rein it in for now.

Get it off your chest man!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Oxford bags -

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Remember when high waistband baggy pants were the fashion

 

[DavidDetroit]

The top left ones aren't too bad. The other two I don't recall but that's probably me.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

The top left ones aren't too bad. The other two I don't recall but that's probably me.

The high waste band ones below were similar to the Lord Anthony brand which were the ones to wear back then.

Lord Anthony was a brand of clothing particularly popular in the UK during the 1970s and 1980s. They made a variety of clothing including shirts, jumpers, trousers, gilets and jackets, however by far their most popular item was their snorkel parka. It became so popular that people would often refer to it as a "a Lord Anthony" rather than a "parka" or "anorak". It became a school playground legend and even the subject of a song by Belle & Sebastian on the album Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

 

[DavidDetroit]

These snorkel parkas made sense to a kid in Michigan--frickin' cold here sometimes.

 

[HSD]

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These snorkel parkas made sense to a kid in Michigan--frickin' cold here sometimes.

They made less sense in regards to road safety! I had a few near misses in one of these no peripheral vision and you “had” to have the snorkel up, add a chopper bike amazed we survived! Remember good fun trying to get a snowball in the hole. But as to flares, no way, it was straight leg jeans to spray on black drainpipes, then surplus combats and back to straight leg jeans lol

 

[Eskimo John]

My memory of flairs was them getting caught in my bicycle chain and resulting in torn flairs, oily trousers and cuts and scrapes from coming off the bike.
I thought they looked good at the time.... but I was young and foolish.