Yes! It is the gimme post to give Popka a chance to win an Xmas card!!! Or, Shelomit, come to think of it. Yes, it is a competitive post! And a Solstice Cheer Post. What could be brighter than Shashi in 70s clothing?
Shashi! The Best Kapoor! Who was, unfortunately, alive in the 1970s and 80s. An era in which I believe all men’s fashion was TERRIBLE. Like some sort of druggie nightmare. But Shashi is the Best Kapoor, and also very handsome. Can he pull it off?
Belt, Scarf, Orange Large Lapels Shirt
Striped Shirt, red overshirt, fake Indian made jeans!
Paisley on Paisley, plus a handkerchief, plus buttons!
Stripey Sweater, slouch hat, big smile
Big Polka dot on top of little polka dot
Simple, straight forward, red white and blue plaid sports jacket!
Hat, vest, striped tunic shirt, and of course an paddle as a kicky accessory!
Hat! And stitching that looks like the tailor forgot to finish his jacket
Bow Tie!
This is a lot
High waist tight fitting slacks cut down to shorts without a top? DON’T LIKE IT!
Paisley under plaid. It’s a bold look
Leather jacket over large lapel red shirt with a paisley scarf on top. Seems like it would be too hot for India?
The clothes are normal but the coffee cup DELIGHTS me!!!
This poster image, it’s a whole look
Now, with my low tolerance, I think my favorite is the tiny coffee cup photo. That is as much 1970s as I can handle. CONVINCE ME I AM WRONG!
dontcallitbollywood 
Wark! My eye-bings!!! They burn!! This needs some kind of health warning, for combat-trained 70s senseis only.
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But Shashi! So pretty! Surely he is the antidote?
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 2:28 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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No, he is wrong pretty for me, I don’t like his mouth, I do not know why. I can see he is pretty tho.
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It’s all too much! 70s sensory overload! But that little demitasse is cute.
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Isn’t it cute??? In Shashi’s big dumb hand?
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 2:35 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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Excuse you, the 70s were the best era for men’s clothes.
Let me first give you the parade of hate: most of all I HATE that idiotic pancake hat (no. 8) in I forget which movie. I think it’s a double role and you can tell which is which because one of them wears that hat. I spent the whole movie wanting to burn that hat.
Also not a huge fan of the polka dot tie but again HATE that weird scarf hat from Aa Gale Lag Jaa. That whole outfit is the pits.
HOWEVER, love the Hot Stuff button, love paisley under plaid, love any time he wears a gay little scarf. Also, tiny coffee cup.
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I have to say I also think you should prefer Hot Stuff button over tiny coffee cup. He’s hot stuff!
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But with the tiny coffee cup, he is DRINKING hot stuff!
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 3:37 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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TINY COFFEE CUP!!!!! No love for the insane motorcycle and leathers poster at the end?
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 3:36 PM dontcallitbollywood wrote:
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No because it is a disguise in the movie and doesn’t count.
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If we were counting disguises, uniforms, or, for that matter, Indo-Western wear, the list would be unmanageable.
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I do like the motorcycle shot, partly cos of moustache and shades, but mainly cos he’s slung a brown leather briefcase over the back of the black leather chopper seat. Not everyone would have thought of that.
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Although I could not define why, my first instinct was that no. 8 might be from “Suhana Safar,” but upon further contemplation (esp. of the jacket) I think it is more likely a shikari outfit from “Ek Shrimaan Ek Shrimaati.” I’m probably confuzzled; those are films I’ve seen once each and not recently, so things run together. Of course, as documented in Katrin and Fraziska’s classic research (http://www.missionbas.de/krawatte2/eng_krawattenskandal.htm), bits and bobs of these costumes tend to recur.
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You know, you’re probably right. It’s possible (if insane) that he re-used it. Suhana Safar is the one I meant where I spent all of it wanting to burn it though, although I recall now he wasn’t playing a double role the character was pretending to be someone else for plot reasons.
Haha, I love that post. I came across it ages ago in the depth of my Shashi obsession, a real classic.
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Preliminary disclaimer: I am a Grinch who requires no Christmas cards–but can be tempted out from under my bridge by such choice enticements as a well-bedecked Shashi.
You and I must be looking at ’70s fashion through different eyes indeed! As a kid, I remember reading an essay out of a turn-of-the-twentieth-century textbook that my grandmother had. It was included ts a model of humor writing and was narrated from the perspective of a necktie. The necktie boasted about its vital place in the world as the only snatch of pattern and color that could with propriety be added to a man’s ensemble. (I want to say the book was from 1906–definitely from some era when men with desk jobs wore sack suits in slightly varying grayscale all day, every day.) The necktie was, of course, a ~fancy~ necktie, and its deepest sympathies for all the various articles of clothing out there were reserved for neckties that happened to be plain. Why have this glorious opportunity for joy and expression, then throw it all away for the sake of being a “tasteful” navy blue?
Anyway, if *I* were reborn as a necktie, I would definitely want to be a ’70s necktie. When reimagining recent history from the points of view of various articles of menswear, I don’t think any era gets weirder or wilder or funner (particularly if that menswear is made of cotton print!). I have serious objections only to two of the costumes above: the one ensemble from “Kaala Paathar” (those dark blues mismatch so slightly that it doesn’t come off as a deliberate Choice) and the “Satyam Shivam Sundaram” one (barely even clothing). Favorites from these selections include that amazing orange shirt from “Phaansi,” polka-dot-on-polka-dot (don’t recognize it), and the clashy patterns from “Doosara Aadmi”–with minor demerits in the last instance because he’s letting ALL THE COLD AIR out of Raakhee’s fridge! Drives me batty every time.
Assorted classic Shashi lewwwks not represented here: the infamous airport costume in “Trishul,” ft. granny glasses and a shirt unbuttoned alllll the way to the navel; winter ensemble with “COOL IT” knit hat from unscheduled winter biathalon with Bob Christo in “Namak Halaal”; white bellbottom suit/giant orange polka-dot tie combo in “Aur Nahin, Bas, Aur Nahin” from “Roti, Kapada, aur Makaan”; pretty much every non-disguise outfit in “Chori Mera Kaam,” since they consist of superfly button-ups whose collars have been tastefully popped to allow us to admire the tiny lil amulet on his choker; and the undercover outfit with the white vest from when he first meets Parveen in “Suhaag”. We know they’re destined for each other because they’re both wearing purple, even if those purples are the most diametrically opposed purples on the entire color wheel.
While on the topic of Kapoors Who Make Us Happy, a word of gratitude ought to be extended to our girl Jennifer for making so many of these eyepopping styles possible ( ; She had all of our backs.
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*appreciative applause*
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The Cool It hat is my favourite costume out of any movie of all time. Of all time!
I also love his run of see-through shirts from the mid 70s.
Some of the images didn’t load for me and I am guessing one of them was naked? Figures.
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It’s the waterfall shorts, so same diff >.>
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I mean, he looks adorable and embarrassed but those shorts are pretty blah.
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I had to look; now I too have seen the Cool It hat. OMG
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Honestly, it’s always amazing, but it’s even more amazing in context. It’s a serious scene and there he is, COOL IT hat on his hat like a beacon of laughs.
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*on his head. if ONLY he was wearing two Cool It hats.
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Ouch! They are really painful.
The best ( most painful) for me is the Remembering Shashi Kapoor shot. Denim over plaid, a cheeky cap and big loud flowery scarf don’t seem very practical for roaring around on a motorbike.
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He looks like he’s in la Cage Aux Folles in that one.
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I love, really really love – the polka dotted tie with the polka dotted shirt. Also I like red.
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