As a kid in the 1970s, I had a special connection with that most important of all outerwear the T-shirt. It was its heyday, and people really did wear them as a sort of personal statement. My stoner neighbors wore Foghat and Blue Oyster Cult tees, girls at school were adorned with Shaun Cassidy and Andy Gibb iron-ons, and I wore the hallowed Pete Rose shirt till it was threadbare. I guess I was a bit of a nerd in my younger days because I also liked to wear my super sexy Close Encounters of the Third Kind t-shirt.
Naturally, as a certified retroist, I am always interested in T-shirt ads from the seventies. Here's a few pages I scanned the other day. Click on the images to view full sized. Enjoy.
Definitely going to want to click on the above image to get a good look at those tees. Awesome.
I know that look when I see it. Mr. Charlie's Angel fan is about to get some sweet sweet action.
Final note: There was a t-shirt iron-on I used to see EVERYWHERE back in the seventies. It featured a cartoon frog sitting on a toilet, and it had a humorous saying on it which contained an expletive (I believe "shit"). I cannot for the life of me remember what it said and it's driven me nuts for years. Does anyone out there remember this? Please tell me the saying on the iron-on and put me out of my misery!
