>>18558800
>i wish it was still easy to find patterned shirts from 70s second-hand, at least ones that aren't pure polyester/rayon
Yeah, I like wearing seventies stuff because I think it has the right sort of scruffy, sleazy implications to it. Plus it's not a decade that's ever come back into fashion for men, and today the image of seventies masculinity is seen as absurd more than anything else. If I wear a seventies blazer and shirt, it's a statement that I'm not trying to be suave or debonair or anything like that. But at the same time it's still essentially solid menswear - it's not preposterous or costume-like in the way that, say, a seventies leisure suit would be.

I sadly agree that nice big-collar shirts from the period are oddly hard to find nowadays. The lurid 100% polyester Saturday Night Fever style ones seem more common than the tasteful ones. I guess maybe people just wore out their tasteful ones, whereas they tossed their tacky ones in the back of the closet and forgot about them once the eighties arrived.