OMG… I take back everything I’ve ever said about the total lack of fashion sense of today’s young people. 

Just the other day, I was ranting about my inability to understand how anyone could find tattooed butt-cracks sexy, or nose/eyebrow/tongue piercings, or elephantine jeans. "I could never fall in love with anyone who looked so weird!" I told my nieces.  Well, I was wrong.  Some of these guys looked way too familiar.  And some variation of many of those hairdos once festooned my own head.  Ughh… somebody shoot me.

I thought the models were equally disturbing, but there are no words for the hair.

In fairness there are a couple of the men’s styles you’ll see still in Southern Baptist churches. 

I’ll change my profile picture to how I wore my hair in the 70s, long, straight, and parted in the middle…  just like everyone else!  LOL!

      Susan

I swear some of the non-poofy mens’ dos (in the slide show) look like today’s emos…

 That said…I remember straightening my hair in HS by using huge rollers; and a round brush.  I remember ‘thinking’ how better it would be to have something heated (duh!!!  a flatiron!!!) to help straighten long hair.  Heavy sigh.  If I could have only patented a design…  :(MQ-C

#13 looks like an emo kid in need of a better conditioner.

An homage to the decade when Mommy made that unforgettable film "TRON." 

AHAHAHAHAHA, my dears.  Not much good to say of the 70’s in retrospect, is there, dahlings?

I have had stick-straight, long, medium-brown hair my entire life. When I was young I tried curlers (impossible to sleep on), steam rollers, curling irons, blow dryers with special attachments, hairspray (remember Dippity Doo?)—the curls would fall out in minutes and my hair was straight again. In the 80s, when everyone was experimenting with perms (ugh) I gave it one last try. After the torture of that sulfur smell, I went home, and after two days without washing, the curls fell out. I went back to the salon and the stylist took one look at me and said "You want your money back, don’t you?"  I made sure she kept her generous tip, of course, she had an impossible job.

My point is, there are better things to spend your effort, time and money on. Women with curly hair want it straight, while I always wanted wavy tresses. If it isn’t meant to be, don’t fry your hair trying to achieve it. I swear I recognize many of those hairstyles from my high school yearbook. If I knew then what I know now, I would not have been so jealous of the girls who spent so much time to look like a picture from a magazine, and not their true selves.

LOL.  Several of those womens hairstyles were serious high fashion.  Mom was a beautician and I remember several of her clients (& her)having some of those hairstyles.  That’s the thing about fashion, tho:  The ones who had the "it" look back in the day, the ones who everyone wanted to look like, they are the ones who look the most ridiculous now—almost like they are wearing a costume.

 I’ll try my hand @ captioning:

1.  Be creative w/ your hair accessories.   A celery stalk from your crisper can turn an innocent girlish look into a festive disco dolly.

 2.  Raoul Davis, fresh from his starring performance of his college production of "Jesus Christ Superstar"

3.   To camoflage an extrodinarily long neck, twist long hair into the ever business-like yet fashionable feminine bow-tie.  Pull hair tight and close to the head to accentuate your eyes and lovely little ringlets near the ears bring out the cheek bones.

4.  David Caruso, circa 1974.

5.   Hey!  How’d you get a picture of Mom?

7.  HRH Queen Daleia, mother of Queen Amidala, grandmother of Princess Leia.

11.  Captain Kangaroo, the Disco Years.

12.  Barbara Bush visits a nudist colony. 

or:  One is never underdressed when wearing your pearls.

 16.  Dirk Diggler’s idol, Max Thrust.

23.  Steve Zahn joins the cast of "That 70s Show, the Movie"