University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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 OUT IN THE QUAD on a spring day, Jeff McIUvtnny. Collette Bundt, Kevin Cable, and Cauey Rickey model the drrwy, layered, yet comfortable look tinged with the bold colon and pastel popular in the mid-80'». GUnn Mar photo. Gotha toarurj Jay Jatoht. j 5

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 MARY JANE abacs were all the cwnfoccable rage in the Ucc 70's, m %«c tolled up pants uifft. Photocturtuy (JVC'hrforn iti m Stnucj THE EARLY 70s college student dressed very cmully, jeans being a major part of one's wardrobe. Photo (cxrltiy U W Information Stn-isri DISCO. DISCO, disco Young people began to enjoy dressing up more in the Lire 70 s in oedtt lo be noticed on rhe ilance floor. Art iy Cjt Yes, they really dressed that way f the U.S.' changing mainstreams, the one that changes most often is fashion. Over the last 15 years, American fashion, the bastion of nearly every college student's life, has gone from bold to subtle and back to bold, undergoing streamlining in the process. Seventies fashion is a large part of that process and it is none too fondly looked upon today. Hairs stand on end as one recalls polyester leisure suits. Or shirt lapels and neckties wide enough to drive a truck across and garish designs loud enough to hear. Says one UW student, '70s fashion is history that ought to be obliterated. Perhaps, but the look was as entirely acceptable then as are today's fashions. For a hot date, a male might outfit himself in a turtle neck sweater and bell-bottoms slacks secured with a wide belt, top it all off with a wide-lapclled leather sports jacket and trim his sideburns to complete the look. His date might have donned a boldly patterned mini-dress, knotted a scarf around her neck, made up her face to achieve the natural look, and brushed her long, straight, past-the-shoulders hair a hundred strokes. From the mid-to-late-’70s, bell-bottoms narrowed into widc-leg” pants and the chunky platform shoes melted into wedgies and the popular Famolares (Get-Theres, Hi Thercs and I.o-Thcrcs), the shoes with four waves designed into the soles. Huge Afro hairstyles were statements of black pride as well as fashion. Many non-blacks in the late 70s liked the Afro look and promptly had their locks frizzed. Disco rounded out the 70s where getting down on the dance floor placed a greater focus on dressing up. Males who didn't go for the Afro look feathered their hair back; the ladies fell for the flipped-back styles of ice skater Dorothy Hamill and Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Once the newly mandatory blow dryers and curling irons did their jobs, the males donned their silk-look polyester disco shirts, gold chain necklaces glinting underneath. The females wore bclow-the-knee dresses and skirts, tottered about in platform heel sandals and shined their lips with the newest in beauty innovations. Kissing Potion lip gloss. The '80s began conservatively — garish prints gave way to solid colors. Lapels and collars retracted from their broad expanses and wide-Ieg pants streamlined into baggy pants and straight legs. Levis, penny loafers, short hairstyles, Izod shins and pullover sweaters defined the neat, conservative preppy” look of an Ivy Leaguer. Ladies shoes softened into flats and sleek, slender pumps. Now, in the mid-'80s, anything goes, said Cheryl Clayborn, manager of Jay FASHION HAS UNDERGONE A GRADUAL STREAMLINING IN THE PAST 15 YEARS Jacobs on University Way. Everything is appropriate. There is no defined fashion trend. Indeed, it is a combination of vastly different styles. Punk rockers and new wavers have influenced current fashion. MTV stars now glamorize styles once sorely out of the norm. Asymetrical hairstyles and hair streaked with colors other than brown, silver or blonde, arc in. Bold is back, with bright graphics splashed across oversized shirts and sweaters over ladies’ stirrup pants and men’s bermuda shorts. Soft pastels aren't just for women but look fine on men as well; men now take a greater interest in fashionable appearances than ever before. Natural fabrics such as cotton arc in; polyester is out. And if history does repeat itself, fashion is no exception. Today's mini-skirts hark from the early 70s, the snug-fitting cropped pants from the '50s and paisley prints from the '60s. What was hip in the 70s is gross today; what is chic today may be cause for social ostracism in the next decade. Yet fashions of old reappear in the new, embraced as readily by the college student now as they were then. Fashion: it’s unpredictable, contradictory and changeable ... but what college student culd ever live without it? 1 1 by Bcatriz Pascual

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HOMECOMING King 8rian Emanuels and Homecoming Queen Lisa Metcalfe ring in the start of the Homecoming rally at Denny Tower. Photo courtesy Lisa Metcalfe THERESA BOMKAMP. JOHN DINGFIELD, USA BASSETT. AND MIKE WYSZKOWSKI, Homecoming princesses and princes, are pleased with the selection of Lisa Metcalfe and Brian Emanuels as Homecoming Queen and King. Photo courtesy The Picture Man 1985 HOMECOMING ROYALTY second princess Theresa Bomkamp. second prino John Dingfield, Queen Lisa Metcalfe. King Brian Emanuels, first princess Lis-Bassett and first prince Mike Wyszkoski. Photo courtesy The Picture Man 16 homecoming