(first posted 2/13/2012) Looking through some old ads, one can’t help but be struck by how some fashion accessories go so quickly out of date, and others just become classics. Of course, sixties clothing fashion came back a few years ago too, but not all of it, thankfully.
Of course, some things can’t be rightfully called “fashion”.
The Anadol hails from turkey. Today, she’d likely be wearing a headscarf, never mind the rest of her outfit.
But some things are not so likely to be revived, no matter how hard anyone tries. Looks like they’re pointing out how roomy the new Saab 99 is.
This one is the opposite of the very top photo. That dress would probably be considered cool; the Ami 6, well, after a fashion.
Nice fashion parade. Love the color matching between the 911 and the outfits.
Who made the Anadol, Merck or Myers-Squibb? 😀
(Isn’t Turkey still relatively relaxed and secular compared to the rest of the Islamic world?)
Indeed the Anadol sounds like the name of a drug, not a car! Or maybe the people who came up with the name were taking prescription medicine at the time?
Anyway, the poor Alfa Romeo lady broke her jaw?
Your thinking of Panadol pain relief though judging by the styling they were on something underneath the fibreglass lurks a Cortina 1300.
Anadol is the Turkish word for Anatolia which is the Asian part of Turkey. When we lived there , we saw quite a few of those Anadols running around. Over the years they expanded their line up to include sports cars , station wagons , and mini pickups. They were fiberglass and had the English Kent Ford engine. same engine that was in the Ford Cortina and the first Ford Pintos. They stopped producing the Anadol after a few years, and now it’s another European Ford model.Turkey also produces the mini Ford delivery Transit vans you see running around in our cities in the U.S.
Turkey has always had a spectrum of religious types, from serious to secular. Just as with American Christians, the more seriously religious are at the poor end of the economic scale, and the richer folks are looser.
“compared to the rest of the Islamic world” does not mean a lot in Western terms. And with the current prime-minister, they are slowly becoming more and more Islamic, unfortunately.
I once told people I couldn’t decide between an Acura Levitra or an Olds Cutlass Cialis.
I love the Bass Boat Silver Alfa! The “Booth Professional” behind it dosen’t seem too enthusiastic though.
Back around 1990 I had a friend that worked at Karroll’s Menswear in a local mall. When they eventually turned it into a clearance center during their going out of business phase you wouldn’t believe the crazy clothes they dug out of the warehouses. They had stuff that looked exactly like the stuff in the Porsche pic and worse..
I think I missed that. Must have been overseas.
Style is so arbritary and temporary with a few exceptions. Got passed by a late model 911 a few days ago. Timeless beauty.
That Porsche, the basic shape of the 912/911 is so timeless. I love the older iterations better than the more current ones, but thankfully, Porsche kept with the basic shape all these years.
It’s iconic I think.
Having grown up the ’80s, an ’80s 911 is still one of my dream cars. And the price of entry isn’t ridiculously high, so it’s attainable. (Although the price of continued ownership is what gives me pause.)
You might as well lease a new one, You will have at least one Major Mechanical Malady plus no less that two Minor Mechanical Maladies with that ’85-’90 911 that will equal in frustration, loss of time at work, increase of time on the side of the road, towing bills, actual $$ for Dx and repair and the realization that your dream car is a fickle whore for what it will cost to lease a new one for a year. Repeat annually. How do you think the independent Porsche mechanics stay in business?
Thus speaks the angel on my right shoulder who contradicts the devil on my left. 😉 “Remember, German cars are for leasing.”
This is why I’ll probably eventually just get a Miata.
My aunt used to dress like the 3 ladies in the Saab in the 1960’s, her skirts were much longer however. Even just before she passed away, people would comment how nice and tasteful her attire was. She never left the house without pearls and earrings.
Years ago, in the 80’s, I was window shopping in downtown Pittsburgh. A going out of business sign in a Richman Brothers store stated all suits priced at $ 29.95. Being a cheapskate, I walked in. Lo and behold, every suit in the store was a hideous version of a plaid horseblanket. Hundreds of suits in all sizes and loud colors lined the racks. Each and every one had Richman original price tags with regular prices exceeding $ 100. There wasn’t a remotely conservative suit there, with huge elephant lapels and weird cuts the norm. Before leaving the store, I walked up to a salesman and told him there wasn’t a Richman suit in the store. He didn’t answer me.
Only thing I can figure, is that the company must have assembled every oddball suit they ever made and sent them to Pittsburgh. I used to buy Richman suits (never shopped in the downtown Pittsburgh store) in that era, and they were known to sell quality conservative merchandise.
Wouldn’t mind owning the Porsche in the first photo.
Nehru jackets for the win.
Elephant-style bell-bottom denim jeans worn in the 1990s in a conservative midwest city to make onlookers gae in wonderment and kids to point and laugh.
New Levi brand elephant bells.
New old stock found in the back room of a Martinez, California men’s wear store going out of business.
$8.99
Shoulda’ stored and had them ready when ebay entered the scene.
Woulda’ made a buncha’ profit on those.
‘ But some things are not so likely to be revived, no matter how hard anyone tries. Looks like they’re pointing out how roomy the new Saab 99 is.’
I wonder if you can still get 3 western women in the backseat of a Saab 99.
I wonder if you could back then. These women are probably 4’8″.
Second last pic, the lady on far left in the green dress and flipped hair – my mother looked like that in the late 60s.
And then we had the 80s…
Who here used to listen to Hall & Oates?
I did and still do. I saw them live back in the early ’80’s. They put on a really great show.
Yep, I saw them a few years ago and it was a great show. Plus Daryl Hall also has an online series called ‘Live at Daryl’s House’ where he gets guest musos to sit in with his supertight house band and really grooves.
Here’s one example, youtube is full of others.
From far away it looks like Starsky and Hutch still on the job in the mid-eighties! But they switched from FOMOCO to GM! I do still enjoy Hall & Oates though!
Ah, a subject after my own heart.
There’s the Buck Roger’s look…
Oh look, more SVX windows…
hehehe
The skin-tight-plus-bikini Buck Rogers look…
Some more Giugiaro…
And a naked guy who hasn’t bathed in a while…
It’s hard to top a lot of the 1970’s Italian concept car promotional photos in this regard.