Decade Of Decadence

Charlie's (and everybody's) Angels

That 70's look for the girls

70's fashion From hot pants to bell-bottoms and the disco look, if you were a fashion- conscious young adult in the '70s your wardrobe was eclectic to say the least.  And that's before we even get to the tie-dye shirts, platform shoes and glam rock. The 70's was a time when women chose who they wanted to be and if they felt like putting a short mini skirt one day and then the next day a maxi dress, midi skirt or some hot pants the day after - that is actually what every women did in that era.

That 70's look for the boys

In the early 1970s platform shoes started with a quite slim sole which moved from ¼ inch up to about 4 inches at the peak of popularity.  When they were that high, individuals frequently got friendly cobblers, or handy men to hollow out cheese holes from the sole base.  By the mid seventies the most ordinary people were wearing two inch deep platforms without a second thought.  But accidents did happen and many a woman and man twisted on a pair of platform shoes.  At about the same time, clogs became popular as they followed the trend for chunkiness of sole.

Jane Seymour as Solitaire in Live and Let Die, 1973

Jane Seymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951) is an English actress best known for her performances in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973), Somewhere In Time (1980), East of Eden (1981), Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988), War and Remembrance (1988), the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette in the 1989 political thriller La Révolution française, Wedding Crashers (2005), and the American television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993–1998).  She has earned an Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  She was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2000. Jane Seymour plays Solitaire in Live and Let Die.  She has the psychic gift of reading Tarot cards - but her powers will vanish when she sleeps with a man.  The naive girl works for crime-lord Kananga, but of course is seduced by James Bond who uses a stacked tarot deck of cards, that show only the lovers, to trick her into thinking that seduction is in her future, and then seduces her.  Solitaire loses her ability to foretell the future when she loses her virginity to Bond and is forced into cooperating with Bond to bring down Kananga.

Bo Derek scores a perfect 10

10 is a 1979 romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards and starring Dudley Moore, Julie Andrews, Robert Webber, Dee Wallace, and Bo Derek, in her first major film appearance.  Considered a trend-setting film at the time, and one of the year's biggest box office hits, the film made superstars of Moore and Derek.  It follows a man who up in middle age finds a young woman who he thinks is the ideal woman for him, leading to both a comic chase and an encounter in Mexico.  The film would be one of several sex comedies Blake Edwards would make addressing subjects like sexual promiscuity, machismo, feminism, and aging. Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins; November 20, 1956) is an American film and television actress, movie producer, and model perhaps best known for her role as Jenny Hanley, the 10 in "10".  Bo Derek's appearance shot her to instant stardom and status as a sex symbol.  Her beaded and plaited cornrow hairstyle in the film was widely copied and became eponymous.  The scene where George sees Jenny running on the beach in Mexico has become iconic and often parodied.  However, Derek's later films were not well received by either the public or critics and her film career never recovered.  Today she makes the occasional film, television and documentary appearance.

Wanderin' Spirit
January, 2013
"Decade of Decadence"

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