Sunset Ideas for Clothing Decoration
Gonsalves, ed.
1977
For all you fashion forward people, here is your book to jazz up any look with embellishments, paints, and other doodads. Who wouldn’t want their man in a groovy looking caftan with all the bells and whistles. Now you can look groovy at your next swingers meeting with these fashionable looks.
Do yourself a solid and decorate your clothes!
Mary
I can never unsee any of this now, you realize.
I have this book, and a few others as well. They’re some of my favorites because they’re really…um…experimental. 🙂
I know, every decade’s fashions look dated in hindsight – I’m sometimes surprised by just how odd stuff from the ’90s looks today, because it felt fairly neutral to me at the time – but the ’70s… I can’t even…
ideas for surface decoration: “as you can see by these photos, we don’t %&$# around. these surfaces have been *owned*”
“An air of simple dignity surrounds ‘Cloak for Endymion’”. “Dignity” is the last word I’d choose to describe a man dressed like a wedding cake.
Bottom right, left page, bottom image: Wow, even cult leaders could be stylish in the 1970s!
The man (woman?) to the right of that looks like something out of a Doctor Who episode!
There’s some things from the 1970s I think we should bring back – men wearing the waist of their pants AT their waist instead of around their knees, disco music, horror movies –
But this book, no. Unless someone can turn these outfits into Halloween costumes.
Idea: design your shirt around the name of a notorious bum wine.
That groovy rainbow cloak can be used in a production of that musical about Joseph and his dreamcoat.
It was the 70’s. Maybe it was.
that’s an interesting spot for the carrot on the man’s apron
Not to mention, the celery stick with the small lettuce at the bottom…
Inset in the third photo – that looks like a BeeGee! Lol!
I hope the model never saw the final product — he would be embarrassed to death. At least, I hope he would…
I would wear that purple top with the birds on it. I wear things like that to my job…at the library!