# I'm having a party. 70's style. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 18, 2007, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620 "2007-09-18T16:09:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/21 "2007-09-18T18:33:16Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] Cheap wine served in crappy glasses with ice cubes. People just weren’t into exotic things like foreign wine served stright up back then. Make sure the bottle lists the wine as blush, white, red, or ros’e only and not from French crap like Cabernet or Pinot Noir. Your 70’s guest would have no idea what those are and they would probably require more ice cubes to make them palatable. [/QUOTE] No no no. A 70s guest will know what Cella Lambrusco is. Not to mention “Renu-it.” A fondue pot is optional, but if you’re using a patio, there must be tiki torches. Go-go boots are really from the 60s. Platform heels go with a wrap dress, if that’s what you’re going for. Men’s shoes should be high-tongues loafers with a small heel. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/22 "2007-09-18T18:34:15Z")
What about an inflatable pineapple tree? ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/23 "2007-09-18T18:38:53Z")
[Fashion Of the Seventies](http://fashion-era.com/1970s.htm) Probably not enough time to bang up some paneling. ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/24 "2007-09-18T18:45:42Z")
Early 70s or Late 70s?? Anyway, incense…lots of incense. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/25 "2007-09-18T18:48:27Z")
Seems like crochet/knits were pretty big, loose with great big holes. Could be anything from a shawl to a hat. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa\_Ann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lisa\_Ann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa_Ann)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/26 "2007-09-18T18:55:13Z")
From **Foxy40** ’s link: "Caftan or Kaftan The Hippies of the sixties had brought with them clothes from other ethnic groupings which had often never even been seen before. Nehru jackets and loose flowing robes from hot countries made their way to world cities and permeated down to mainstream fashion, helped of course by designers like Yves St Laurent. From the mid to late 70s, caftans, kaftans, kimonos, muumuus, djellaba (a Moroccan robe with a pointed hood) or jalabiya (a loose eastern robe) and other styles from every part of the Indian sub continent and Africa were translated into at home style robes and comfort wear. They were worked in every fabric imaginable, but were especially suited as glamour dressing when worked in exotic fabrics and edged in silver or metallic trims." Which reminded me of my mom’s fabulous homesewn brown housedress with an orange and yellow god’s eye and pointed sleeves. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/27 "2007-09-18T18:59:09Z")
You must get that poster of Farrah. I recently found in my mother’s house some old iron-on transfers of “Flick My Bic” and “Keep On Trucking”. How about John Denver, Jackson 5, Osmonds and Shaun Cassidy. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/28 "2007-09-18T18:59:20Z")
[QUOTE=Foxy40] [Fashion Of the Seventies](http://fashion-era.com/1970s.htm) Probably not enough time to bang up some paneling. [/QUOTE] Great link, thanks. Guess what! It IS paneling downstairs. Hence the ‘pre-renovation party’ remark up there. We also have this very awesome fireplace. It is orange and red, and inside are some very fake looking logs. Behind the fake logs is some sort of light that rotates, creating this very peaceful fire light effect. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/29 "2007-09-18T19:16:39Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] You must get that poster of Farrah. [/QUOTE] [The Farrah Fawcett poster](http://www.leninimports.com/farrah_fawcett.html) would be required of any house with a male. She would be required to have a Shawn Cassidy poster. Black lights in the basement and flouresent posters on the walls. Mirror tiles were in, wood paneling, and orange accents. Every crafty house had a latch hook wall hanging, the plants were in macrame hangers, and string art pictures on the wall. There were a lot of these wide eyed owls all over too. ---
**Author:** ![EmAnJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@EmAnJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmAnJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/30 "2007-09-18T19:18:03Z")
I did buy a black light or two. Will find Farrah Fawcett! The basement decor is orange and brown carpet and dark wood paneling. The bedroom has that awful green carpet. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/31 "2007-09-18T19:19:22Z")
Avacodo green or Harvest gold refrigerator for the beer. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/32 "2007-09-18T19:28:00Z")
Owls [http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/vintage-string-art-owl--handmade](http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/vintage-string-art-owl--handmade) [http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/owl-cookie-jar](http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/owl-cookie-jar) [http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Retro-70s-Handcrafted-Macrame-Owl-Wall-Hanging\_W0QQitemZ270166914298QQihZ017QQcategoryZ12587QQcmdZViewItem](http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Retro-70s-Handcrafted-Macrame-Owl-Wall-Hanging_W0QQitemZ270166914298QQihZ017QQcategoryZ12587QQcmdZViewItem) [http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/hsh/424105376.html](http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/hsh/424105376.html) Beer hats for the retired snowbirds, made in Florida mostly and brought home. [http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-70S-CROCHETED-SCHLITZ-BEER-CAN-HAT\_W0QQitemZ150162256075QQihZ005QQcategoryZ50733QQcmdZViewItem](http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-70S-CROCHETED-SCHLITZ-BEER-CAN-HAT_W0QQitemZ150162256075QQihZ005QQcategoryZ50733QQcmdZViewItem) ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/33 "2007-09-18T19:49:01Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Every crafty house had a latch hook wall hanging, the plants were in macrame hangers, and string art pictures on the wall. There were a lot of these wide eyed owls all over too. [/QUOTE] Amateurs. WE had a macramed owl wall-hanging! With great big wooden beads for eyeballs. His rope feet wrapped around a real stick with the bark still on it. We also had a kitchen wallpapered in orange and yellow plaid, with three bright orange 18" plastic molded butterflies hanging (in a vertical orientation) on a 24" bit of wall. My mother was always into the subtle motifs of the era. If there’s a bedroom down there as well, you really ought to throw some bean bags in there, put a beaded curtain in the doorway and play Barry White albums from that room. Underwear on the doorknob is optional, but it has to be tighty-whities. I don’t think they had invented boxers yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/34 "2007-09-18T19:50:33Z")
I was going to mention beer can hats. Coors and Bud were the beers I remember from the '70’s. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/35 "2007-09-18T20:29:07Z")
Don’t forget the big fishbowl for everyone’s keys… ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/36 "2007-09-18T21:16:46Z")
The bean bag chair was what I forgot to type in. Drip candles were popular. For fire safety don’t light them at a crowded party. > **[Drip Candles | DripCandles.com](https://www.dripcandles.com/)** > > Shop for Drip Candles at DripCandles.Com. Melting wax candles make magical designs on bottles. Start your own Drip Candle Mountain! [http://www.craftedcandles.com/tapers/drip\_taper.html](http://www.craftedcandles.com/tapers/drip_taper.html) [http://store.candlestock.com/dripbox5pack.html](http://store.candlestock.com/dripbox5pack.html) > **[Drip Candles](https://www.allfreecrafts.com/candles/candle-crafts/drip-candles/)** > > Here's how to make romantic wine bottle drip candles, using a wine bottle special to you and either drip candles or cheap candles that drip colored wax. You might find a few bent pop bottles won from the fair. Sometimes the bottles were melted on their side and used as an ash tray. You may have found drinking glasses mad by cutting off the bottle neck and sanding the rim. This link shows all that, and has how to make them for ambitious people. [http://homepages.waymark.net/mikefirth/bottle.htm#BOTCUT](http://homepages.waymark.net/mikefirth/bottle.htm#BOTCUT) ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/37 "2007-09-18T21:22:39Z")
[QUOTE=EmAnJ] What am I missing? [/QUOTE] A 6’ tab of LSD. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/38 "2007-09-18T21:23:51Z")
[http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html](http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html) Any one of these would do (and would probably be more than enough!) Do you have a turntable? Find as much music on vinyl as you can - I guess garage sale season is basically over, but you might find some at a used cd/music shop. Too bad you’re in Calgary… I’d want to invite myself over and join you guys, it sounds like a fun party! My friend’s parents have a great 70s basement that we used to hang out and party in, but we never went all-out with a theme like that. I kind of wish we had! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/39 "2007-09-18T22:16:40Z")
[QUOTE=Contrary] Lava lamps. Eight-tracks. Pooka beads (or however you spell them). [/QUOTE] Especially if you can find that portable eight track player shaped like a [dynamite plunger](http://www.8trackheaven.com/Images/plunger.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620/40 "2007-09-18T22:31:40Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] Amateurs. WE had a macramed owl wall-hanging! With great big wooden beads for eyeballs. His rope feet wrapped around a real stick with the bark still on it. [/QUOTE] We had one of those too! Creeped me out it did.. I think Mom kept it in a box when I was a kid. I don’t know why she kept it at all.. So can I come over **EmAnJ**? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-having-a-party-70s-style/419620.md?page=3)