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Posted May 23, 2000 by The_Poet
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  | | Since I gave myself the nick of The_Poet I have absolutely no idea how I came to be posted up as jamin. Never mind....
...as for the hair, I have a clear memory of long dark flowing hair, itchy with grease. Later in the early 80's I swept it back and called it New Romantic........ but I am much better now thank you.
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Posted Jan 25, 2004 by Nonametraveller
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| | Having recently returned from spending quite a bit of time in Africa, much of it in the bush i am thoroughly enjoying London life again.
I cannot help but chuckle though when i not only see teenagers wearing a kind of seventies look(amongst others....60s etc)....but also talking so hip and cool and offering little but looks of disdain to anything over 30.....how very uncool!!
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| | | Subject: Hair and Flares
Posted Apr 2, 2004 by aardwolf
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| | I remember where I lived in the 70's (Portsmouth) there were 2 main gangs, hairies (like hippies) and smoothies (like skinheads). The fashions were awful, but the hairies I hung around with managed to make matters even worse by 'cross-dressing' hairy and smoothie stuff, like wearing doc Marten boots and crombies with tank tops and flares, or two-tone trousers with afghans. I still thank the stars there are no photographs of me from that dreadful era! We even used to extend our flares with extra wedges. Later we wore three-waist-band trousers and Oxford bags (shudder!). This was also the time when the hideous 'mullet' hair-style took off  I sometimes like to think we were pioneers of a kind, pre-disastering fashion so later generations could wear jeans halfway-down their bums with stylistic impunity, knowing that nothing could possibly look as terrible as we did! 
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Posted Oct 15, 2004 by JerseyJim
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| | I haven't seen mention of that distinctive trademark of the 1970's:
Long Sideburns
Most guys had them up to about 1977 when they fell out of fashion. Today if you are watching a movie, news clip or TV program and see a man with bushy sideburns extended to his jaw line, you know it was made in the early '70s.
In high school there is always a struggle between the students and the "powers that be" over dress code issues. For me in the 1970's it was often the sideburn code. Our school required that sideburns be "above the earlobe". Now that may seem pretty long already but some of us wanted them even longer. Also the code said nothing about the width of the sideburn so if you were fortunate enough to have well developed facial follicles, you could grow a sideburn that was up to 2 inches wide at the bottom!
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