Thanks for that link! The comments are hilarious and, dammit, I like a lot of those decor elements :o
This is what I was going to post. Most of the links in the first post would have looked strange to me even during the 70s. Nobody I knew dressed like that. Sure, styles were reminiscent of or influenced by what you see in those pictures, but not to those extremes. At least where I lived, I guess I should add.
But to answer whether any period’s fashions are “tacky”, that all depends on opinions formed decades later. Zoot suits, flapper dresses, art deco, bell-bottoms, mustaches, pastels, big hair, skinny jeans, etc.
Yellow pajama bottoms guy in link #4 is packing some heat. That certainly wouldn’t make it into a modern catalogue. Do we still have catalogues?
Yes…come to the Dark Side…we have fondue and Harvey Wallbangers. 
Maybe. But some things are just plain **EVIL! ** :mad:
It just looks like men were really alpha and peacocking back then. I guess at some point in time it was no longer considered required to show the complete outline of your genitals or wear a pimp suit to attract dates.
The whole BoredPanda thread that was lifted from is hilarious. Check out #11…
OK that onesie shirt is just wrong.
True, the people I remember dressed like that were performers and showbiz people, on TV (Soul Train, anyone?). On the street you’d get something much more attenuated.
And though I did see the leisure suits around, I never came across anyone in the bad-Sci-Fi “future suits” except, again, bands onstage.
I grew up in the seventies, embraced the fashions. Fortunately I can now deny that I ever made myself look so stupid (there are a few photographs, but I’ve got them hidden away).
A fashion look is easy to abandon. I look around me these days and see a lot of tattoos and realise I have much to be thankful for.
Dude, when you said you wanted to get into your girlfriend’s pants, I thought…
I don’t remember it being that bad back in the day and thought you were just using the worst examples you could find. I looked up images of Loggins and Messina, Arlo Guthrie and Three Dog Night and other singers from the 70’s. Nope, it’s my memories that are wrong. Major tackiness.
Bad acid.
The one thing I did like about the 70s, which I wish would come back, were the frilled dress shirts. They seem to have been a throwback to the 19th century.
I mean like Gable’s shirt here:
Not like this? :dubious:
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Not like this? :dubious:
[/QUOTE]No, too outrageous. Gable’s shirt - and many of the shirts in the 70s - were just dress shirts with ruffles down the front. No lace cuffs or any of that.
Not everybody dressed like that in the 70s. Jeans, chinos, and tee shirts were popular and looked much the same as today. Conservative 2 and 3 piece suits were actually more common than leisure suits IME. Leisure suits were kind of cheesey even at the time. Track suits and sweat suits are still around.
I remember women’s fashions having things like slit skirts that I greatly appreciated in those days.
Mostly, it is just the passage of time.
Yeah, but they were professional musicians. How many regular people dress like Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, etc.?
For a good sampling of '70s men’s fashions, watch the Bond movies with Roger Moore. Not for nothing was he known as the Cinzano Man.
Another show that comes immediately to mind is The New Avengers, with Patrick MacNee, Gareth Hunt, and Joanna Lumley. But I guess this is true of most TV series of tne period (Starsky and Hutch, Rockford Files, MTM, and so on).
Where women’s fashions are concerned, I really love the “Hot Secretary” look of the early '60s. Those knee-length close skirts and high heels really did it for me even when I was five and six (I used to call it “Tight Butts”). :o
'70s female fashions, not so much. 
I thought Cinzano was a drink. 