Short Stuff: Leisure Suits

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh, and there's Chuck, and Jerry's here too, sitting in for Dave. So that automatically just converted this to a short stuff, whether you like it or not, sucker. 00:00:15 Speaker 2: Converted. 00:00:17 Speaker 1: Very good. And we converted right back into the 70s accidentally, Chuck, because we're talking about leisure suits. And there's really no other decade that the leisure suit truly existed in. It's It's an icon of the 70s. I'm just going to come out and say it. Face it. Yeah, I agree. 00:00:34 Speaker 2: And why do we feel the need to be so silly in shortstuffs? When did we give ourselves that permission? From the get? 00:00:40 Speaker 1: Pretty much from the get-go, yeah. All right. 00:00:42 Speaker 2: They have a different tone, which I enjoy. 00:00:45 Speaker 1: Well, yeah. I mean, you don't want just the same thing. That's crazy. 00:00:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, you never hear me going, meep, meep, meep, meep, converted on a regular episode. Those are far too serious. 00:00:55 Speaker 1: For sure. They're dead serious. Very dry. All right. 00:00:58 Speaker 2: It also gives us a chance to cover things like leisure suits, which, you know, we'll talk about sort of the precursors that weren't really leisure suits but may have led to them. But the leisure suit that we're really talking about, obviously, is the one from the mid-70s, which was, you know, the jacket and pants thing with the wide lapels. And apparently they came about really in the 70s but had a lot of precursors, including the 1960s when hippies were like, Yeah, I got to wear a suit sometimes, too, but I don't want to be a stuffy. So I want something a little more chill. 00:01:34 Speaker 1: Yeah. And so like the guys in the 70s looked up from their lines of Coke and said, hey, we want to be more chill, too. But we still have jobs, unlike those dirty hippies. So we need to have something to wear to the office, but also chill. So weirdly, a leisure suit is or came out of the concept of hippies. Wearing suits at the office. That was where the leisure suit was born. Yeah. 00:02:04 Speaker 2: Some early maybe inspirations. Maybe some of these are reaches, but there had been in fashion history, some other kind of a little more relaxed suits, including in 1800s Britain, there was something called a lounge suit that was, you know, that was a very stuffy time when everything matched and everything was maybe even had like Coattails and things. And this was just a little less structured, a little softer. And maybe the jacket and the pants didn't match, which was, you know, like a very casual look at the time. 00:02:33 Speaker 1: Right. It was the original navy blazer with khakis. 00:02:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, …