The Seventies

I was thinking about the stuff I used to wear in the Seventies. (Do the math - I'm old.) 

There's this:

Thanks to http://pintuckstyle.blogspot.com/ for the image!

And this:

From http://plaidstallions.blogspot.com/ - a site you should definitely browse for a lot of fun.

... all of which looked perfectly fine to me at the time. 

And then there are the men ... but I won't subject you to anything so hideous.

What was I thinking? Was I blinded by the power of Crowds, so those fashions seemed perfectly acceptable? Or, more probably, did aliens nest in my brain and lay eggs, forcing me to think their evil thoughts?

And it went further. I picked up on some extreme fashion trends and WORE THEM.

Remember Earth Shoes? "The toe is higher than the heel, because nature intended it that way, according to Scandinavian researchers." Well, Scandinavian researchers, I wore your shoes, and wasn't I gorgeous, with my spindle-shaped legs and your sandals on my feet. And just maybe I wore them with toe socks too.

Let's not forget the "home perm," designed to change your head into a woolly puffball:

Dude.

And mood rings:

OK, maybe those things were cool, as long as "green finger" is a mood.

And polyester shirts:

I can just smell the petroleum by-product now!

Yup, aliens, I say.

OK, I'll show you the men. Deep breath now:

From xaxor.com, found here  

Jingles

I'm such a sucker for them, those little, catchy sing song tunes warbled by a crew of sweet voices for Ovaltine and Winston and Campbell's on the radio and TV. 

First there are classics, like the Meow Mix commercial,(meow meow meow etc. etc.) "I am stuck on Band Aid brands cause Band Aids are stuck on me," "Give me a break of that Kit Kat Bar, " "Wouldn't You like to be a Pepper Too?" and of course, The New Seekers and "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke."

Tell me you never sang along to this:

And my kid still sings along with them. Whenever that Kars4Kids commercial comes on, she starts warbling along, in the kid's voice for the first verse and the man's for the section that sounds like Johnny Cash. I just YouTubed it, and I see that she is not the only one:

I don't know why I'm so fascinated by jingles. Maybe they are such a product of their times, that they are like a little window into a lost era, such as the twenties:

or the fifties:

or the seventies:

It must be hard to create, a little mind worm that everyone will whistle along too while their coworkers curse them for "putting that song in my head."

Which I have just done to you.