Shirts and Shorts for Contemporary Guys of 1980

Sears Roebuck, 1980

Styles come, and styles go, and this bit of male fashion can stay gone.

Balanced precariously between the disco polyester 1970's and an episode of Magnum P.I. (which debuted a few months after this catalog reached homes), it's hard to know what's dated the worst: the embroidered-front knit shirt, the tight fringed denim shorts, or the profuse chest and leg hair. (Smouldering looks are still with us.) One could almost be forgiven for misreading a word in the headline. Zoom in if you dare.