Disco style

Incendiary disco music, lights illuminated the dance floor and a sea of slender bodies, swaying and pulsing in time with a cheerful rhythms. Some way to describe the element, which spawned one of the most exciting, extravagant and exotic styles of fashion - style disco.

And it all started in the mid-70's, when in youth, a new hobby - disco. Disco was the place where ordinary people could plunge into the world of light and brilliance, positive emotions and carefree joy, forgetting for a while about their everyday problems. In the new dances did not have to have special skills, as it was in rock 'n' roll. Simplicity and rhythm made it absolutely affordable for all. Add to this festive atmosphere, or even a carnival, reigning around and you'll understand why the style Disco won such love. Disco at the time was the lifestyle of a generation with his music, their idols, their values and, of course, its unique fashion.

Saturday Night Fever
 
As often happens, initially fashion style disco was formed under the influence of the first pop artists, whose songs "twist" at discos. Donna Samer, Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, the Bee Gees and Village People was carried to the masses not only eccentric music, but also defiantly original style of clothing. So, with the filing Dianne Ross youth was wearing jeans hats decorated with sequins, short denim shorts with colored tights, "Queen of Disco" (Donna Summer) contributed to the popularization of dresses and tunics dark tones of free shirts, embroidered with sequins, and the idea of costumes from the Village People successfully found its followers in the night discos. But the standard style disco you could call that "glamorous" image, which was created by John Travolta in the cult movie "Saturday Night Fever" (Saturday Night Fever, 1977) - a white suit with a black turtleneck or shirt.

Disco-mode 70-ies

The new fashion was carrying and new developments. For the first time in the history of fashion ideas Unisex, which had previously demonstrated only in the highest fashion shows, took a massive scale. And under attack proved to be a strong masculine half of humanity. Sugary melodies, effeminate appearance performers, high voice and dance uniseksualnost completely erased the distinction between the sexes. Men, like women, wearing translucent T-shirts and tops, tight jeans, white leather pants. Often, men (especially popular singers, dancers, and a frequenter of disco), enjoyed a bright makeup. Pink lips and blue eyelids - favorite color of female and male make-up 70-ies. Choosing image bisexual in fashion, men significantly increased the range of her wardrobe. It should be noted that the followers of style Disco unlike the hippies and punks do not always shocked by their appearance society. Typically, daily costume lovers disco was quite moderate and severe, and exotic costumes with unimaginable combinations of colors are used only in evening dress. But what it was clothes! To achieve the original image were all acceptable means, and expression was limited only to the wealth of imagination.

At the same time on the dance floor could be seen bell-bottomed jeans and sexy form-fitting satin trousers, shorts and tights, of knitted fabrics with lurex, Camisole tops and shirts made of polyester, lycra and body of dress with a slit, reaching up to the panties, shoes and sandals on a platform of snake skin. Mixed incompatible paints and materials, which until then was considered a sign of bad taste, was perfect for the style of disco.

Women's Fashion 70-ies

During the disco girls wore some male things, which gave the feminine traits. Men's blazers and blouses in the style of men's shirts dressed directly to the skin, and the absence of a bra is not only not concealed, but on the contrary, explicitly emphasized unbuttoned to the waist buttons, or rivets. Also wore shorts complete with loud colors shirts, sundresses and maxi-skirt made of denim. Footwear initially preferred to a high platform, but in the late 70's became popular for elegant stiletto sandals. Rage considered sandals silver.

In the early 80's in fashion includes a broad colored trousers, tapering to the bottom. Because of its shape and color with us, they are called "bananas". In the men's fashion 70's and was popular clothing, emphasizing the figure: tight-fitting trousers of shiny material, tight jeans, flared at bottom. It was considered particularly chic to appear on a disco in the clinging suit or gym suit professional dancers with a leopard-skin pattern. A chapel was considered the elegance of a white suit, worn with a black shirt. Also in vogue were popular divers who wore a jacket with either separately. In the men's fashion, classic colors have given way to orange, silver, salad, bright yellow and metallic colors.

Costume Disco
 
Disco allowed absolute freedom of action in relation to clothing. This could not attract a whole galaxy of young designers and fashion designers who represent the most audacious ideas of clothing. Perhaps the greatest success in this field has made the American designer Halston (Halston), created the dance floor for an ultra-modern line of clothing. It Halston introduced into vogue slinky silhouettes and fabrics, which opened for all to see the body of a dancer. World Fashion Disco was obliged to American designer for the appearance of such things as shorts, overalls, dresses, shirts made of suede, cashmere trouser suits, sets of mini-shorts and long cardigans.

Another iconic designer of 70 years was Bill Jibb (Bill Gibb) - author of knitted tops with lurex. And the most fashionable shoe designer Terry de considered Avillan (Terry de Havilland), whose masterpieces were shoes exotic colors on a platform or sandals taketke of snake skin. A characteristic feature of the clothing style disco was the use of large quantities of fabrics made of synthetic material: polyester, spandex, viscose, jacquard, lurex, and etc. As to the style accessory drive, all adhere to one rule - the bigger and brighter, the better. Massive earrings and pendants, bracelets and numerous chain under the gold, colored rings on the wrist and glasses fantastic shape with colored glass. All these things remind ornaments on the Christmas tree.

Makeup disco

Similarly, the extravagant makeup and a disco, in which the preference for bright colors and rich textures. The mod was a combination of the following colors: bright blue, pink, purple, lilac-pink, violet-purple. Absolute preference disco era were pearly lipstick and pearly bright blue shade. Clear contours are not welcomed, so if you were at that time applied cosmetics fingers, then nobody would have paid attention to it. And naturally, that everything had to shine. On the face and hair were glued sequins, nail varnish was applied mother of pearl, the body was covered with tanning and struck gold leopard pattern. From the wildly popular hairstyle was a natural African beauty in the form of dandelion, entitled "African". Also been let and the European version of the hair with white hair. If the nature deprive someone luxuriant hair, it is easily corrected by the variety of wigs. Besides eccentric hairstyles were in fashion and more tolerant variants. For girls this long straight blonde hair, for men - hair, got almost to the shoulders.

Clothing disco
 
Disco demanded from his followers living in the crazy rhythms surrounded by bright colors. For young people of that time there were no boundaries between their inner world and the world around him, so the expression of his individuality, his "I have publicly considered the norm. Stand out from the crowd only unusually bright clothing was not enough. Clothes had to emphasize the elegant, flexible, athletic body. Dancing generation of the 70's was not enough disco in the weekend. The desire to lose the last gram of fat has brought with it a new mass fashion to visit gyms and aerobics. Disco formed a completely new ideal of man. For the standard was considered to be tall, slender tanned, handsome, without any claim to the muscles and rudeness.

The ideal woman was considered a leggy blonde with undeveloped. Around thinness formed a cult, which often degenerate into maniacal obsession with diet and fitness. In the late 70-ies of women have had to go to fasten the zipper on his jeans.

Disco dressed

Already in the early 80-ies the massive interest in music Disco began to weaken. And this was not surprising. Endless feast and jolly annoying no less than hopeless drab existence. On the dance floor disco was eventually supplanted by hip-hop and "acidic" dance styles, the image sugary heroes descended from cinema screens, and voice performers asexual ceased to pour from the speakers tape. Superseded by the style of disco and in fashion. But, fortunately, is not passed unnoticed. Disco left behind a legacy of a rainbow, that sometimes modern Couturier.

P.S. And somehow, sometimes at the end of the week, when the daily challenges is simply overwhelmed us, we got from the "chests" old plate and a disco ball, made when some of the globe, phoning friends, preparing exotic cocktail dress crazy outfits and light the real "Saturday Night Fever", to again dive into the magical world of carefree fun and positive emotions.