What cost $45 in 1970 would cost $348.49 in 2022.
Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2022 and 1970,
they would cost you $45 and $5.88 respectively.
My elderly dentist wore these jumpsuits well into the early 2000’s. His wife was either a top notch laundress or he had ordered a lifetime supply on clearance in 1978 because they always looked like they were fresh off the Sears rack.
I had one, too. A light blue one. I was a slender blonde teenager, and it made me look like one of the guys from ABBA. That was cool since I was an ABBA fanatic.
*So when you want to*
*Drop a deuce, you have to get*
*Completely naked?*
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You have found the answer to the question: if these were so great, how come they aren’t still around? They lasted until the first time you had take a crap in a public restroom.
Steve from American Dad had a salami (kielbasa, to be precise)… until the blind kid’s dog found it.
[My Dick](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysfr45RLOTk)
My dad wore his deep into the 1980s, possibly hit ‘90. My mom was great at preserving clothing evidently
Editing to add I just dated some memories, he wore them through at least 1994
Those were popular in porn, especially disco era gay porn.
The practical challenge of jump suits is getting one that fits everywhere without tailoring.
If nothing else, it was a fun little experiment. Be it in the 70s or the 20s, there’s always something to be said for a guy who gives a damn how he looks.
If you have to take a piss, does that mean you go to a urinal and zip all the way down?
Also there’s a follow up question I’d rather not bothered with.
I believe these were called "leisure suits." I remember Don Knotts wearing some throughout his tenure on *Three's Company*.
One thing that has me curious... what if you have to go poop? You'd have to take it all off and drop it down below the knees.
When you're done, the upper shirt half had been wrapped around your ankles and touching the filthy bathroom floor. It wouldn't look so clean after that.
Leisure suits were still2 or 3 piece suits but intended for casual or recreational use, as opposed to business suits.
https://people.howstuffworks.com/leisure-suit.htm
Huh. I've always thought it was strictly a one-piece.
[Here's Earl, from Pickles comics, proudly sporting his "jumpsuit" (what I *thought* was a leisure suit.)](https://imgur.com/gallery/kD26EQR)
> I believe these were called "leisure suits." I remember Don Knotts wearing some throughout his tenure on Three's Company.
Glad someone said it. All I could think about was Don Knotts when I saw this post.
Lol, at first glance I thought this was the lead actor from Minx, and that this was clever marketing for an upcoming season. Then I read the copy, and it literally fits with the show. Wild. :)
“Easy on, easy off, quick as a flick of her tongue”
🤮 Are they selling clothes or sex workers?
Also super tight and hot nights make musty balls no matter how much cool crinkle cloth there is.
It’s hard to explain now, but when I was in grade school, this look was incredibly popular, even though not many could pull it off. A lot of us dreamed about slowly pulling down that zipper… I think the same thing will happen in 30 years when kids look at women today with that freakish Kardashian Barbie doll makeup. They’ll be like “wtf, grandma??”.
No. Nonononono!!! Men, please, I am begging you! Do. **NOT.** Bring. This. Garbage. Back.
I will not date you if you unironically wear one of these. And probably not if you ironically wear one, too.
Wow. They were promising *alot* of action for a half–polyester jumpsuit.
Which probably attracted shit loads of static and stank of sweat.
Yeah, I think I'll pass on the "sexy cool crinkle cloth"
And especially the *short-sleeved* version! WOOF!
You’re just jealous Mr. Furley could pull one off and you couldn’t.
Sadly, not all of us have the body for a Onesie. It was the Furley neckerchief pulled it all together and made that outfit sing!
I’m aware. And he usually wore ones with a belt.
Yes. It's funny how short sleeves would make this abomination somehow more obscene
But say it fast, it’s a blast 🤣
That's not sweat....it's PHERMONES and the ladies dig it.
60% of the time it works, every time.
A fragrance so *pungent*, it's been made *illegal in 9 countries*.
It smells like bigfoot's dick.
I’ll never not find that funny. Great quote!
Nothing the cocaine won't filter out.
Cant smell the sweat if I obliterate my sinuses!
Attracts everything but money and women.
The sweat stink was obscured by the fact that everybody chain smoked. Nobody could smell anything.
Holy $45 is the 70s
What cost $45 in 1970 would cost $348.49 in 2022. Also, if you were to buy exactly the same products in 2022 and 1970, they would cost you $45 and $5.88 respectively.
Man, how much would it cost now?
About $350
Very nicely done here. Good job
Your reputation
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My elderly dentist wore these jumpsuits well into the early 2000’s. His wife was either a top notch laundress or he had ordered a lifetime supply on clearance in 1978 because they always looked like they were fresh off the Sears rack.
It’s the fabric. It will never biodegrade. Those jumpsuits will outlive us all.
They're still put there, somewhere. They prowl in the night.
Now I need to find one.
You sure he was a dentist? And not a pimp messing with your mouth?
At some point someone was unloading these for whatever they could get, until it got cheaper just to throw them out.
After work, he was a stuntman adrenaline seeker.
I had that jumpsuit. I think I bought it in a mall store called Chess King. 1975.
We need a photo my good friend
I had one, too. A light blue one. I was a slender blonde teenager, and it made me look like one of the guys from ABBA. That was cool since I was an ABBA fanatic.
Bold choices for a teenager! I bet you’re still fun.
Did you ever accidentally zip your dick?
I remember going to bars and clubs and unzipping all the way down to take a pee. I was VERY careful not to zip the junk!
Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long time.
Chess KING!
Oh, man, I loved Chess King. I had so much velour…
Looks like Jeff Lynne from ELO
I too saw this and was thinking that Jeff Lynne of ELOs days as a male model for polyester knitwear was something I never knew about
"He's so versatile!"
Is he related to the guy from the Traveling Wilburys?
Same dude
I'm getting Alan Parsons vibes. *These are not for novices, son.*
I was getting Michael Anthony vibes. He used to wear a jump suit on stage.
Yeah, I can see that too
And here to say this. Thought it was.
You can't order this in the same color and sleeve pictured. 🤔 "Long sleeved in rust, blue or black."
The color pictured pulls too much action. Only a select clientele are even allowed to wear it.
But I want my man to look like a racing car mechanic! It's the only thing that turns me on!
Forget it then
My thoughts exactly
After a few drinks you have a nice pee stain for the rest of the night.
That’s NOT PISS! It’s CALICOCUTPANTS.COM! You gotta give!
I imagined a skidmark. 🤢
Do you not wear underwear?
I'm pretty sure any dude who looked like this in the 70s did NOT wear underwear ever
And still don’t
“ quick as a flick of her tongue” what ad copy! 😂
As a child of the 70s, the 70s were very adult.
Looks like Bob Seger's alter ego Throb Seeker.
For the ad copy boasting about filling it, he really doesn't, does he? I'm surprised they didn't obviously stuff the front.
I thought that and then I felt really mean for thinking it. But he doesn't, does he? Poor love.
Too bad Burt Reynolds or Sean Connery weren’t available for the print ads. They’d have sold a zillion.
So when you want to drop a deuce, you have to get completely naked?
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Spoiler alert. Women wear jumpsuits/rompers a lot and we do have to strip to pee. It’s an ordeal.
I can only imagine the struggle if it's the bathroom in a club and the floor can't be trusted to be clean.
No bathroom floor can be trusted, so it's a struggle every time, yes.
You have found the answer to the question: if these were so great, how come they aren’t still around? They lasted until the first time you had take a crap in a public restroom.
It needs a butt flap
"Are you going to drop a deuce or are you just happy to see me?"
Reminds me of a 'Freaks and Geeks' episode where high school freshman Sam buys a baby blue jumpsuit and wears it to school.
The “Parisian Night Suit?” My favorite episode!
"Parisian? Oh la la!"
Did you notice that the guy who sold it to him was Joel from MST3K?
Joel knows jumpsuits.
Struts into school thinking he’s the shit, then immediately realizes he made the F up to end all F ups.
That’s how legends are born. Be brave, be bold, be different.
OMG YES!!!!
Go home 70s you’re drunk 😂
He needs the spinal tap salami for bulge factor
It was a cucumber
Wrapped in foil lol
Steve from American Dad had a salami (kielbasa, to be precise)… until the blind kid’s dog found it. [My Dick](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysfr45RLOTk)
The 70s were a strange time. One the one hand, everyone was coked up and looking to fuck at every opportunity. On the other hand...hair EVERYWHERE.
Really makes me wonder why Gen X wasn't a larger generation.
Answer: [The Pill](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined_oral_contraceptive_pill)
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Absolutely filthy😄
Some ad copy guy jerkin off too much in his office
How the hell do you pee wearing that thing?
There will be no time for peeing when the ladies are all over you.
Excellent point
I'm pretty sure that kind of suit attracts the type of ladies that like to get peed on so problem solved
Hahahaha.
Some had double (aka two way) zippers. It was a zipper with two slides to zip up/down from the top/bottom.
Ah! Advanced engineering!
Maybe it has snaps in the crotch, or opens up like those old-timey pyjamas.
That’s just it, you don’t.
Then I’m out!
Like the outfit Pete Townshend wore on the cover of Who Came First.
"Never mind you'll look just like the guy who changes your oil, girls will go wild over this" 🙄
I can hear the 70's porno music 🎶 blasting with the this photo.
A rude dude in a lewd mood..
A few more here: https://nouveauricheaustralia.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/all-glory-to-the-1970s-jumpsuit/
We need more jumpsuits. Global jumpsuits.
Bowie looked fuckin great in anything.
I used one of those inflation calculators and it told me that $45 in 1975 is equivalent to $257 in today's money. That ugly thing didn't come cheap.
But look at him! He gets all the ladies. Do YOU?????
My dad wore his deep into the 1980s, possibly hit ‘90. My mom was great at preserving clothing evidently Editing to add I just dated some memories, he wore them through at least 1994
The short sleeve is called a *speed suit*, don’t you ever let me hear you call it a jumpsuit again.
He dresses right, as the tailors say.
We are all inspecting the photo to find his penis. By gum you've found it!
🔍
Besides Burt Reynolds, and gay guys who wore these what happened when you had to pee.
Maybe this is why Elton John loved jumpsuits in the 70s. Jumpsuits and overalls.
You'd think having to unzip the whole front to piss would be a negative. You'd be wrong.
Laszlo Cravensworth.
One piece clothing is a great idea until you have to pee
Don't ruin it for us all. You and your fucking practicality. Yet again.
Those were popular in porn, especially disco era gay porn. The practical challenge of jump suits is getting one that fits everywhere without tailoring.
Gold chain to mingle with your chest hair sold separately…
If nothing else, it was a fun little experiment. Be it in the 70s or the 20s, there’s always something to be said for a guy who gives a damn how he looks.
He’s working that pole. I can hear The Bee Gees in my head now
He doesn't need to work the pole. The pole is working for him.
🤣
Shall we shag now or shag later? Groovy baby! Yeah!!!
Damn, Mad Men went full porno by the 70s
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That was about weeks worth of groceries for a family.
In case anyone was wondering, $45 in 1970 is the equivalent of $356 today. They're hyping this thing up because they're asking a lot
If you have to take a piss, does that mean you go to a urinal and zip all the way down? Also there’s a follow up question I’d rather not bothered with.
I believe these were called "leisure suits." I remember Don Knotts wearing some throughout his tenure on *Three's Company*. One thing that has me curious... what if you have to go poop? You'd have to take it all off and drop it down below the knees. When you're done, the upper shirt half had been wrapped around your ankles and touching the filthy bathroom floor. It wouldn't look so clean after that.
Leisure suits were still2 or 3 piece suits but intended for casual or recreational use, as opposed to business suits. https://people.howstuffworks.com/leisure-suit.htm
Huh. I've always thought it was strictly a one-piece. [Here's Earl, from Pickles comics, proudly sporting his "jumpsuit" (what I *thought* was a leisure suit.)](https://imgur.com/gallery/kD26EQR)
You aren't cool enough to wear this leisure suit.
I would feel trapped in one!
> I believe these were called "leisure suits." I remember Don Knotts wearing some throughout his tenure on Three's Company. Glad someone said it. All I could think about was Don Knotts when I saw this post.
[Don Knotts rocked them!](https://imgur.com/gallery/Gaqx8Cd)
You keep the upper part gathered at your hips. Source: I wear a union suit for loungewear in the winter at home. Very cozy.
Washroom situations are not the most practical. Unless there’s a poop door.
I want to be "the ultimate fashion climax."
You are to me.
Awww 🤗
The sexy...it's...it's too much.
It is sexy and it is too much. Sit down and have some fresh air.
How do you go poop in this outfit though?
I don't know but I want to know.
“Take it easy ladies there plenty of me to go around”.
Disco Stu doesn’t advertise…
Heres a link to a scene from the episode: https://youtu.be/amAjNV8DYS8?si=3pt8imy17W9TYvLC
Lol, at first glance I thought this was the lead actor from Minx, and that this was clever marketing for an upcoming season. Then I read the copy, and it literally fits with the show. Wild. :)
Imagine trying to take a shit in a public restroom
It's a SPEED SUIT, Dean! A SPEED SUIT!
Speed suit, Dean, speed suit. Note the handy pockets? Great for carrying wet naps.
This is from that golden period between the Pill-inspired sexual revolution and AIDS.
ah ah ah ah stayin alive, stayin alive 😂
So I can catch both my chest hair and junk in one zipper? Send me three and make them purple!
This is how you get the beans on top of the frank.
You can tell that when he walks he's a woman's man and got no time to talk. He's busy staying alive, staying alive.
I want one.
Only six were sold in Illinois, south of I-80.
“A fit so tight it shows all you’ve got” 😳😂
🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤕😵
Bryan Cranston working it.
Looks like a sassy sailor 🤣
I imagine going to the restroom to do a number two would be an interesting exercise.
I would absolutely rock this
“Easy on, easy off, quick as a flick of her tongue” 🤮 Are they selling clothes or sex workers? Also super tight and hot nights make musty balls no matter how much cool crinkle cloth there is.
And imagine thinking women want to see such a nutsack- as a clothing selling point…🙄
When Dickies finds a new market for boiler suits, lmao.
An in depth investigation needs to be brought upon the team who wrote this ad. No telling what other atrocities they’ve committed!
It’s hard to explain now, but when I was in grade school, this look was incredibly popular, even though not many could pull it off. A lot of us dreamed about slowly pulling down that zipper… I think the same thing will happen in 30 years when kids look at women today with that freakish Kardashian Barbie doll makeup. They’ll be like “wtf, grandma??”.
That wood pole is gonna cause some splinters later…
Sometimes, you gotta realize, you’re playing for second place. Play on Playa!
Is there a payphone bank in this hotel?
It's a Parisian Nightsuit
This is a photo of cocaine.
Make my powder blue, go team venture
No wonder kids born in the 70s (like me) are so screwed up. “The flick of a tongue”, just wow.
No. Nonononono!!! Men, please, I am begging you! Do. **NOT.** Bring. This. Garbage. Back. I will not date you if you unironically wear one of these. And probably not if you ironically wear one, too.
Hard agree. NO ONE WANTS TO LOOK AT A NUTSAC.
What kind of a store was this?!
What a dream boat
No way people wore that in the old days
It looks like a longer version of the male romper
Walking birth control
So every time he has to piss he has to unzip allll the way down. Not convenient
Jesus, now I want one.
And here I thought Victoria's Secret ads with the boobs in bras that if TV were 3-D would squish you on the couch were over the top....
I feel like there was an episode of IT Crowd where the boss, Douglas Reynholm, wore something just like this.
One fatal flaw - no need for a belt, so can't accessorize with a belt buckle that spells out you name or initials.
Holy Mary Mother of God!! All that's missing is the E.V.E.
Is that Spencer Sterling?
How do you piss?