Football fan attire over the decades

[Michlady]

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/lsa/archives/ci.footballhautecouture_ci.detail
click on photos

 

[michiganmicros313]

Pretty interesting. Always crazy seeing a crowd of 80,000+ rocking full suits.

There always used to be a lot more white in the crowd. Evidence by the picture from 95. We seemed to have transform from white to maize.

 

[Michchamp]

people today are worthless slobs with no sense of style.

 

[byco42]

The Sinatra reference to the Fedora tilt in the caption is likely apocryphal since he was an unknown 21-year-old singing waiter at the time in this 1936 scene.

 

[Michchamp]

even as late as the 70's they still had some style. i'd wear a pair of plaid pants, jacket and turtleneck. I think that looks pretty sweet.

then comes the 80's... what a disgrace. the hell happened?

 

[Michchamp]

check out the dude in the pic from '95 with the white-boy dreads & beads. fresh from the pit at the KORN concert.

 

[thewolverines24]

even as late as the 70's they still had some style. i'd wear a pair of plaid pants, jacket and turtleneck. I think that looks pretty sweet.

then comes the 80's... what a disgrace. the hell happened?

This is why no style from the 80's should be mimiced. That decade, and the early 90s, were a total train wreck. Thankfully today's moronic youth are recreating it.

Kids with their damn hula hoops and Dan Fogelberg.

 

[Michchamp]

where do you draw the line on the early 90's? because grunge was pretty sweet. Nevermind was released in Sept. '91, and was #1 as of Jan. '92.

killing hair-metal, perms, ugly jeans, and bad mustaches, was key. I'll always remember the era fondly because of that. and beavis and butt-head, and House of Style with Cindy Crawford.

 

[TheVictors]

In another sense, the folks dressed up in the newly created Rayon suits - due to a shortage of cotton and natural fibers because of WWII -

Rayon suits?

 

[tinselwolverine]

The Sinatra reference to the Fedora tilt in the caption is likely apocryphal since he was an unknown 21-year-old singing waiter at the time in this 1936 scene.

When he was 21, it was a very good year...

 

[thewolverines24]

where do you draw the line on the early 90's? because grunge was pretty sweet. Nevermind was released in Sept. '91, and was #1 as of Jan. '92.

killing hair-metal, perms, ugly jeans, and bad mustaches, was key. I'll always remember the era fondly because of that. and beavis and butt-head, and House of Style with Cindy Crawford.

I think the 80's carry over started dying around the beginning of '92. Took a couple of years for the coke to wear off.

 

[TheVictors]

Well there's a big difference between the fashion trends of college-aged kids and the broader population. I can say that flannels and torn jeans were well established in Ann Arbor by '92 and bands like the Chili Peppers, Primus, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Jane's Addiction and other grunge bands were very popular. Then you had the Grateful Dead revival, along with the emergence of Phish and the slew of "jam bands" that followed. Either way, the permed hair and oversized tortoise-shell glass frames were long gone by then.

 

[redandguilty]

people today are worthless slobs with no sense of style.

I think people waste far too much time, energy, and money worrying about style. Sometimes, I'm not a fan of that style, but it doesn't mean they didn't put effort into it.

 

[redandguilty]

where do you draw the line on the early 90's? because grunge was pretty sweet. Nevermind was released in Sept. '91, and was #1 as of Jan. '92.

killing hair-metal, perms, ugly jeans, and bad mustaches, was key. I'll always remember the era fondly because of that. and beavis and butt-head, and House of Style with Cindy Crawford.

The Beavis and Butthead intro music is my wife's ringtone...


...for calls from me.

 

[redandguilty]

In another sense, the folks dressed up in the newly created Rayon suits - due to a shortage of cotton and natural fibers because of WWII -

Rayon suits?

I think the Glee Club tuxes (and most rental tuxes) are polyester.

 

[TheVictors]

That's what I mean .... polyester is awful.

 

[Michchamp]

Speaking of which, I just picked up a rental tux from mens wearhouse (where I imagine red shops) for a wedding this weekend. Its pretty awful.

 

[redandguilty]

Speaking of which, I just picked up a rental tux from mens wearhouse (where I imagine red shops) for a wedding this weekend. Its pretty awful.

Not a bad guess. I think I bought a suit there once (or S&K, same place to me), right when I graduated. I wore it one time; to an interview. Didn't get the job. Next interview told me not to wear a suit and I got that job. 2 moves later, I hadn't worn the suit again, but I found a hole in it.

It was an ugly suit though.

I've actually heard a few academics say they see a high degree of attention to fashion (or very polished PowerPoint slides) as a warning sign. They worry too much polish is an effort to mask shoddy work.

 

[TheVictors]

That sounds like something academics would say about something as trivial as fashion!

I think it makes a difference and it's true what they say about Shoes. You can tell a lot about someone's position/income/title by the shoes they're wearing. Sure not all the time, but it's a pretty telling clue, especially on Wall Street among the ubiquity of suits and ties.

Men's Warehouse and Jos A Bank are no different other than Jos A Bank has been caught with years and years worth of inventory and have been holding Sales on a weekly basis since early-2009.

 

[Michchamp]

That sounds like something academics would say about something as trivial as fashion!

I think it makes a difference and it's true what they say about Shoes. You can tell a lot about someone's position/income/title by the shoes they're wearing. Sure not all the time, but it's a pretty telling clue, especially on Wall Street among the ubiquity of suits and ties.

Men's Warehouse and Jos A Bank are no different other than Jos A Bank has been caught with years and years worth of inventory and have been holding Sales on a weekly basis since early-2009.

at one time, I thought of Jos A Bank as a decent place to get clothes, but for me, as of 2008, I think it amidst their umpteenth sale, it was clear that was more like a wholesaler than anything quality.

as far as good grooming masking a lack of good work... maybe. but I think poor grooming, sloppy dressing, bad taste is mostly just laziness, or a lack of common sense.

are you the kind of engineer or programmer that builds bridges that collapse or applications that crash? if not, then you probably have enough sense to dress yourself...