Platform shoes were in. Average height rose by two inches as men and women tottered on ever bigger stilts.
Originally about an inch or so high, they quickly grew until hospital emergency rooms were routinely treating people for twisted or broken ankles caused by these skyscraping beasts.
Men started wearing belts over their elaborately patterned and striped shirts, and were slipping into ever tighter bell-bottomed jeans. The Afro haircut was boosted by the release of blaxploitation flick Shaft.
