The sexual revolution, disco music, feminism, free-flowing hallucinogenic drugs, and pacifism is the mish-mash of things that once created the absolutely unique 70s style that we so lovingly hate to remember. While there was some pretty awesome stuff going on in the fashion trends department, 70s men's fashion seems to have skipped all the cool stuff and went straight for the disastrous. Men's clothing made from shiny spandex? Groovy! Hip-hugging bell bottom pants, also glossy? You betcha! Chest hair, porn-stache, bright leisure suits, and skimpy short shorts defining the men's fashion? Far out! There's no way these 70s fashion relicts will ever come back in all their seriousness, so we can happily reminisce them in the safety of our jeggings and Yeezys, without fearing to witness a man-bulge wandering in the streets.
If you are still not convinced of the crimes that fashions of the 70s have committed, check out these men's fashion disasters from the decade to see what we mean. Compiled by Bored Panda, the list contains an appalling array of atrocities that the designers themselves cannot defend. So scroll down below to check the gloriously disturbing fashions below, but be warned, as it might get quite NSFW.
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Heehee! 💣💥 You beat us to this sweet line!
Load More Replies...Dude in the silver swimsuit is obviously asking his friends, "I'm cool, right? Thumbs up, guys! Guys? Umm...guys?"
The guy on the right is very pretty...regardless of the clothes...so pretty in fact that I can overlook them.
At least they look like normal people, not Photoshoped - just normal.
Load More Replies...I'll take 3 of the "giraffe man" outfit... oh, uhm, is that supposed to be Tarzan??
ya know, we complain because all of the female models reflect an unrealistic ideal. well, it goes both ways kids. here's your realistic male models on the left.
I can appreciate the honesty of pic #2, but Lordy they look a little to realistic. Pic #3. Guy in blue is singling to himself, "I'm pretty, oh so pretty"
Even the dude in the giraffe undies is looking askance at the desirable trio to his right......
He could be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hatchling.
Load More Replies...I don't think I can go any further. My retinas will never be the same.
Adjusted for inflation that coat would cost approximately 300$ today!!! 😵
OMG It's Suga Bear from Starsky and Hutch ! ? That was his name right ?
And he is what inviting her to sin I also wondered it's familiar
Load More Replies...In my mind, his chest hair makes a figure of a uterus and Fallopian tubes.
There, there. We will get your junk out of that trap as soon as possible.
He's like s'up babe and she's like why can't you stay on your feet and keep your clothes on
Load More Replies...I see what you're saying Hans.... somebody has "down voted" ALL of your comments on this page (so far of what I'm seeing here). I voted it back up - a LOT of haters out there. (sigh)
Load More Replies...Or you could leave out the accent mark and that would also be true!
Load More Replies...Ohhhhhhhh, honey girl.... They're not interested in you. You're their friend
I cannot stop laughing. The style this man wears on the picture seems rediculously feminine already but this comment... tears from laughing. Writing blindly. Lol lol lol
Load More Replies...GOOD GRIEF! I had this EXACT green sweater too... except mine was 5 inches longer, and I believe it was a dress. haa ha ha
Are we voting on the ceiling tiles, the lighting, the hvac, or the clothing? Or do they come as a set?
I don't know about you, but I have always wanted to wear crocheted wool clothes on what appears to be a hot summer day. lol
"Blue Cardigan" thinks he's the cats meow, doesn't he... OMG.
Load More Replies...I think the bartenders face says it all..... haha ha ha hahaaa - He cant figure it out either!
I'm kind of digging those pants, but the sweaters are not doing it for me.
Uhmm! Dunno what y'all think but this should definitely come back!! 😂
Shirley went to town on her Husquvana knitting machine every time Woolly Weavers had a yarn sale.
There's a store called Spencers that still carries this sort of thing. XD
Load More Replies...Nothing sexier than a man standing pigeon-toed in panties and roller skates.....
...looking like he wants to beat someone up...
Load More Replies...Did people just walk around in thier underweare all the time ? "Lets go to the rollerdisco, hmmm what to weare... fk it ill just go in my underweare" ???
I remember ALL of this.... it's photos like this that embeds the memory even deeper!
I remember it too, but at the time it went over my head COMPLETELY!!!
Load More Replies...ok, this had to be a porn party at adult skate night. there is no other explanation.
The green leggings look radioactive. Thank god I'm too young for these.
And Ma in her kerchief and I in my super groovy man mumu had just settled down for a long winter's disco nap
#2 looks like they made a polo shirt but decided to use ALL of the extra material....
i think i would die laughing if i've seen my husband get ready to sleep like that
No no no! I have a nightgown like the first guy on the left side. What should I do now?!
Would be fun asking my dad if he ever wore those back in the 70's...😂
No one past the age of infancy should be wearing a freaking onesy. wtf!
Oh, but Amanda! You don't understand the struggle of keeping your slippery, polyester shirts and blouses tucked in while dancing.
Load More Replies...Perhaps it has a trap door at the back............
Load More Replies...like- The guy put a potato in there,pats it and shows off in the mirror like man I got big balls.
Wait, wtf....there was an entire magazine dedicated to men, in belted sweaters? A hahahaha I'm dying.
OMG the Brown and Orange... remind me many thing in my house when i was a kid
Bwah! Ha! Ha! I didn't even notice the hats, I was so "taken" with the sweaters!
Load More Replies...This is why they did lots of drugs in the 70's, as you would have to be high to wear these outfits!
you ALWAYS match your sheep to your outfit, not vice versa. ;)
Load More Replies...I hope you realize I almost choked on my iced coffee when I read this ........
Load More Replies...The short guy looks like he's so disgusted by his clothes that he doesn't want to touch himself.
Are you sure you don't just like his butt in that outfit? ;)
Load More Replies...I'm a dwarf wearing lifts and someone has just shat a rainbow on me. My life is over.
Weight lifters call what the little guy on the left is doing...imaginary lat syndrome!
My ex wore the white ones. So tight he only needed to iron below the knee. They where actually his sisters, lol.
Oh my... it looks like he's ready to bake his potatoes... And there's not enough blur on mesh-boy
Mine are too after I stabbed them so I'll never see anything like this again
Load More Replies...She's trying to get him to step down from the table "Joe, please, get down from there! I get your point, you should have been accepted at thethat dance theatre school audition. Now stop it and come down from there before myore people see us!"
Load More Replies...“hey random homeless guy. Do you wanna make a few bucks modeling hideous underwear? No don't shower your good."
why in god's green earth would you tuck your tee shirt into your underwear?
You mean on someone "stayin' alive, stayin' alive, a-a-a-a stayin' alive"? :)
Load More Replies...Nothing sexier then a guy in high waist plaid criss cross overall pants. I'm sorry I'm too young to enjoy this personally.
People that were your age in the 70's are too young now to enjoy this {shudders}
Load More Replies...Are these fashions in the US?? I just don't remember....don't want to remember!!!
I love how they specifically show the back of the overalls. As if that is the selling point!
My mom made me wear that plaid lederhosen s**t when I was four. Scarred for life.
On the left: a pimped out version of the man in the yellow hat from the Curious George books?
After all, the life struggle for finding a fitting vest and cap has been solved.
You could find them of course, but, I mean... they didn't match, did they? FINALLY problem solved!
Load More Replies...A lot of these are just vintage crochet patterns and even now you get some modern ones that are just as bad
This looks like when someone in the family has a sudden passion for crochet and knitting but no common sense whatsoever.
The old guy looks ok. Kinda like one of those safari guys. The kid looks like he's one red nose from being a clown
this looks like a really ridiculous mafia godfather and his totally-in-the-closet son.
Most of these images make me feel uncomfortable, like watching the begining of a gay porn.
Part of me wants to spend time telling you that that's dumb and photos aren't gay and these dude's look straight, fashion changed and what not. And the other part spent the last few minutes being kind of turned on and also feeling like this was the start of porn...so maybe you're onto something.
Load More Replies...it's like hard hat guy and mouse guy are telling the relatively boring dude in the middle: don't worry, we have a belted sweater for you!
When all your stuff is in the wash, so you you have to wear your wife's, or go out without your trousers.
That guy on the right has the smallest a*s I think I have ever seen on a adult man lmao
dudes on the left do not look happy. dude on the right is obviously dead inside.
Whys he gotta be gay? That's an insult to gay men everywhere. They wouldn't be caught dead in this c**p.
Load More Replies...Ahhhahahahahahahahaaaa....breathe....ahahahahahahahaha...choke, gasp...Ahhhahahahahahahahaaaa!
She felt smug at the disco......until his real girlfriend showed up to get his man back.
I actually like the sweater...on a girl...and without the belt, the man, and the shirt...
his shirt reminds me of decorative cake icing cakeicing-...61197b.jpg
Hehe crochet sweater. Not stylish now but I can appreciate the work and time making that for your man. (Or yourself I plenty of guys crochet)
Love the models faces like (Boston mobster accent) "Say one thing about my undies"
That's another of life's questions an uncaring Universe will pretend to be reading something and ignore.
Load More Replies...you can't sell me that this is comfy given the pained looks on the model's faces
I think someone gave me that poncho for Christmas in 1974!! Looks better on hm!
See, it wasn't just your grandma being mean. She was being egged on by the old knitting magazine she had in the closet.
That's what resulted when the mainstream co-opted the hippie's hair.
Load More Replies...I think the beards on the poncho are not long enough! make them longer !!!
I cant believe there was a magazine dedicated to belted sweaters for men... why did it ever stop circulating?!?!!?
Cool hat. Take off that sweater and he'd be ... Wait a minute, I get it! That's the whole point, isn't it??
It's just hard to tear your eyes away from everything below the neck. Or to get past the hair!
Load More Replies...Too young to have any idea why bellbottoms were a good thing, but the patterns and colors of the pants are pretty great.
The outfits are bad enough. I lost it when I scrolled down to the socks.
Socks and Loafers. With colorful bermuda shorts. Yep. I'm done.
That’s the only ghing you’re noticing? Ooookkkk!! 🤔🤭😂
Load More Replies...Hands up if you often sit reading a book in your underpants. No? No-one?
or bodily functions. because getting mostly naked to go pee is just wonderful
Load More Replies...support mens fashion not only women men fashion is very leass compare to women so pls support mens fashion
Load More Replies...He looks like he should be wearing those massive earphones and holding lights to guide the planes off the tarmac.
Because that's back in the day when retail knew how to treat a lady.
Load More Replies...the bigger the collar the cooler you are, man. get with the times
Load More Replies...It looks warm and I want one. Fluffy big collared long coats are the best.
I don't trust any coat with a collar that sneaks up on you like a ninja.
The outfits in this list remind me of the fashion show scene in the movie Slapshot
Sweater Vests: the best way to be overheated indoors and under-protected in Winter outdoors.
And this guy is some sort of architect? He must've gotten all the women.
The killer scarf strikes again. Such a shame too - the coolest guy on the planet (obviously) is suddenly rendered inert.
Forward Fashion Looks... I feel like this was a Gender Fluid magazine before it was a thing
Forward off a cliff, with the rest of the Fashion Lemmings
Load More Replies...I swear Fez from That 70's show had an outfit just like the guy in front has.
The guy in the middle is some sort of Dr Strange psychic magic powers kind of dude
I think they're at a convention for Super-Villains
Load More Replies...With these clever garments, the Earthlings will never suspect that we come from the planet Foomborjekur.
Yeah, looks like a scene from a futuristic TV show
Load More Replies...I'm sorry, this was never my 70's. Maybe growing up in suburban So Cal never exposed me to this kind of thing.
Ha ha ha, the purple one looks like the outfits we made for our select Choir in high school. The Soiree singers in 1971 or 1972. Guilty!
They must have been doing a fourteenth century play......court jesters to the right.
The entire fashion industry played a terribly dirty trick on African Americans back then.
Guy on the right, Steve Markham was my landlord back in the late seventies in San Francisco.
Something's wrong with that blond guy's teeth, mouth, something........
He could also be Josh Kiszka from Greta Van Fleet (band) maybe?
Load More Replies...What kind of sickos make a living by going around the country mocking other mens' underwear?
The guy with the sock suspenders really thinks he's just too cool for this.
Kicking the s**t out of people was so important back in the 70's. Just ask my dad...
For those many occasions where you may need to roundhouse kick someone in the gut for no apparent reason
"Yes? I am sorry but I cannot hear you over the awesomeness of the many holes I wear."
All of the era of Henry the VII of England would have been delighted to see that the codpiece had survived into modern times
Corded electric razor. Hard to believe I was actually alive during this time.
"Hello there? Mr... Nesbitt, you say? Enquiring about a lost vest, are you? Well, I'd be mortified too! Why yes! Oh.. sorry ducky you're breaking up... sorry! No. No no, it's not good... can't hear a peep, toodle-pip!"
Bargain. But two jackets opened and closed does not make four outfits
There are two different pairs of pants, I had to look too.
Load More Replies...This vocal group sings watered-down G-rated versions of the Doors' material. Watch for them at your local Kiwanis club.
Holy c**p. It has opened sides. I repeat: the yellow pants are opened on the sides. Ô_Ô
Load More Replies...Guys who wear silky open-sided pajama bottoms and play with balloons together might be off the menu for most women.
Never seen a porn movie from the 70's. I imagine those side tie pants were a requirement.
I'm pretty sure I could picture one of my exes in the hat combo........LOL
Well, the inside of my stomach went out. They can build a great wardrobe from this.
The briefs on the middle guy are horrible...he should def take them off.
If people tell you the drop in birth rate in the 70ies was a result of introducing contraception pills....this pictures shows the real reason...a wonder mankind survived this fashion period.
So, basically, you have to get almost completely undressed to take a dump and I assume you'll want to bunch all that up and hold it around your knees so it doesn't drag the bathroom floor or take it off completely and hang it on the coat hook.
Ok, this is awesome and I almost peed my pants laughing!!
Load More Replies...LOL @ "The Corvette" (The Guy)....'cause calling it a cool car will make it less visually offensive ;)
He certainly isn't the villian in a James Bond movie
Load More Replies...Omg...by face, he is a really bad boy.but, when you see what he's wearing...there's no way you can take his face in serious
They look like a couple of naughty kids about to lob rocks through someone's window.
Load More Replies...3 of the guys posing look like they have features & Kung-Fu grip from Gi-Joe
Trust me, he's paying the 'beat your a*s" price for wearing that shirt out in public.
I find a lot of these clothes almost seem female now. I would almost wear the blue jeans.
The jeans on the far right... I would totally wear these. I'm a woman though.
The problem is, none of these outfits would fit 90% of men today. Our waistline has grow out...
Load More Replies...So, as a child of the 60's I remember and worked in men's fashion during the 70's. Very few of these were actually worn by most men. These were those fashions that they tried to convince us was the latest trend but not really! Give it another 30-40 yrs and our grandchildren with be looking at the crazy things designers do now for fashion shows and they'll think that's what we all wore.
I would have to agree.... they NEVER deserved to exist in the first place!
WRONG!! 70s fashion for men is long overdue for a true comeback. I wear the 70s style every f&*^in day of my life regardless of what you so-called "fashion experts" who are nothing more than overpaid sexually repressed idiots think! Me-58a4af59c8b30.jpg
Hey, at least they(men) were really trying new bold things! Prob the most daring they've ever been with fashion! Lol. Saw quite a few things women have worn thru the tests
Y'all made this s**t up. I was there. We had great fun and the best music ever. Never saw this trash, anywhere. Well, maybe almost never... there was always Sonny & Cher. And Elton John.... but those were costumes! Except for Cher.... sonny-and-...02fd1e.jpg
Yeah Cher had some “Groovy s**t” she wore back in the day...
Load More Replies...This is America and as long as I have my freedom, I will continue to wear bellbottoms and platform shoes!!
The problem is, none of these outfits would fit 90% of men today. Our waistline has grow out...
Load More Replies...So, as a child of the 60's I remember and worked in men's fashion during the 70's. Very few of these were actually worn by most men. These were those fashions that they tried to convince us was the latest trend but not really! Give it another 30-40 yrs and our grandchildren with be looking at the crazy things designers do now for fashion shows and they'll think that's what we all wore.
I would have to agree.... they NEVER deserved to exist in the first place!
WRONG!! 70s fashion for men is long overdue for a true comeback. I wear the 70s style every f&*^in day of my life regardless of what you so-called "fashion experts" who are nothing more than overpaid sexually repressed idiots think! Me-58a4af59c8b30.jpg
Hey, at least they(men) were really trying new bold things! Prob the most daring they've ever been with fashion! Lol. Saw quite a few things women have worn thru the tests
Y'all made this s**t up. I was there. We had great fun and the best music ever. Never saw this trash, anywhere. Well, maybe almost never... there was always Sonny & Cher. And Elton John.... but those were costumes! Except for Cher.... sonny-and-...02fd1e.jpg
Yeah Cher had some “Groovy s**t” she wore back in the day...
Load More Replies...This is America and as long as I have my freedom, I will continue to wear bellbottoms and platform shoes!!
