Clothes of the Seventies, Tube Tops
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Description: The elastic/cloth stretched around any size bust with no shoulder straps. Very easy to make. Tube style dresses were popular too, the elastic material on top connected to a loose flowey skirt. Flowered, striped, solids were all popular.
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I had a tube top that was the stretchy smocked around the torso with a poufy bust top then elastic band around the top of the pouf and tie string shoulder straps. It was a white thin terrycloth-like fabric. Boy I loved that top! Made this 12-yr-old feel SO grownup! Thanks for the memory!
I wasn't allowed to wear tube-tops because I was too busty but in the later 1970s didn't we all have a gold lame' one for the disco's that we used our fake ID to get into so we could dance? I had to sneak mine out and change in the car but it was worth it as long as I remembered to change back before going home!
I had a tube top for every day of the week and then some. if I got really daring I would wear it with my elephant jeans......talk about showing off skin! Hey what about Handkerchief tops remember those?
tube tops were great for me-i was well endowed enogh to look great but young and perky enough to not sag-today at 43 and after 2 kids it would be frightening!!
I was a bit shy to wear a tube top at first....but once I wore one, I was in heaven. So comfortable!! I would wear a polyester blouse buttoned half way and tied at the waist with a tube top underneath!
I loved wearing mine under an unbuttoned gauze blouse that tied at the waist.
My favorite way to wear a tube top was underneath a pair of cutoff overalls. Looked great until I wore it on a carnival ride that flipped you upside down.
I wore these all the time, as did my friends. Very cool in the summertime. I developed early, and once the boys pulled it down. So embarrassing! Then I started wearing the ones with the straps.
Girls at our Dallas junior high school in the mid- to late 70s were forbidden to wear these, but they would still try. One time, a girl got sent home because she had tried to conceal her smocked, eyelet-trimmed, white tube top by tying a matching shawl around the shoulders (shawls very popular at the time) and the shawl slid off. And I also remember the sequined "disco look" tube tops in bronze, gold, and rainbow hues. Those sometimes had matching sequined stocking caps.
I LOVE tube tops, and the 80s had them, too!
I had a bunch of them too, fun to wear, especially in the summer. I still have a seqiun tube top stored away that I used to wear with spandex pants or satin jeans when we would go out dancing. Those were some really fun times, very showy but really not much different than today.
I wore these ALL the time & loved to drive around in my MG with the top down. Everybody used to wave & honk their horns when I would drive by. It was only a few years later in the 80s that I suddenly realized I must have looked like I was naked in that convertible. Lol!
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