Thanks to the magic of the internet, we’re really able to see things in sharp relief. We know that fashion is cyclical. so what’s cool (or hot) at one time, is corny a few years later, and then back in effect a decade or so after that. Fortunately, some things left and never came back into style. Like…well, Al’s whole outfit right here. Now dig, Al’s my man 50 grand and all, but somebody shoulda told that brother somethin.
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Fi’tty meets Huggy Bear meets Ike Hayes.
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I can tell you a few things about that outfit Al Green is wearing. First, he didn’t pick it himself, some chick dressed him, obviously. He probably told one of his ladies that he was going to be on Soul Train, and she thought she’d make a fashion statement with her man. I’m pretty sure of this because while purses for men were in fashion in the 70s, almost no men carried them. Take away the chain, and it even looks like a chick’s outfit.
She must have been giving him some really good stuff to get him to go on national TV with that purse, in that getup, though now that I think about it, I believe I remember Al with a purse in some pictures.
The bag strap looks like it’s been sowed onto his shirt, to keep it from slipping, because even girls can’t dance without their purse slipping off their shoulder unless they’re holding it. The hat is straight out of 70s pimp fashion, the shorts look like someone’s interpretation of 70s hot pants, and the boots are straight out of Marvel comics, Captain America. But the rest of the outfit actually speaks to the future a bit, tank tops in the 80s, and that gold chain looks like something you’d see on a rapper from the early 90s on.
Love the Afro puffs on the girls, I’m a sucker for a girl with Afro puffs.
Whoa. I’m very nearly floored by this one. A purse? Say it ain’t so, Al! Close my eyes and the song is divine, but open them and I just can’t believe ‘em. The good Reverand in drag?!
Avery, I hear you about fashion, but this just couldn’t have EVER been such. Could it have?
-DP
Brothers “Texas Hoppin’” like they know something.
Back then, you didn’t have to tell brothers you were going to enforce a dress code, because everyone dressed like they came to party.
I was hoping the girl with the afropuffs would turn around so I could see her face. A neighbor of mine, and her brother, used to be regulars on Soul Train, and she sometimes wore afro puffs.
Nothing like the 70s.