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Harvest Gold Carpet too.

So much more vivid and alive than today everything being drab grey.

I was born in '73 so watching this is mind blowing 🤯 , I remember the latter part of 70s. It's a distant memory now the older you get though. Its Sad.

I'm prob the same age as you. I hope the older man had a happy life. I make sure to treat my customers well, b/c I may be the only positive interaction they have that day.

And the 30 year old parents would be around 80 years old now

I was born that year, turning 50 next month. Time surely passes by fast the older you geT.

I was born 2 years after this video was made. Turning 48 later this month.

I was born 5 years later

I was born 21 years later lol

Thank you! What a nice comment 😊

And bad economy. The loss of disposable income had much to do with Americans spending less and less money.

So tired of going to store and they say no dont have it but you can find it online, i want to see something in person ... sick of online shopping.

Factoring in inflation, that coat would be like paying $1,009 today. 😬

@Pumpkin Spice 25 years? Would probably still be good now. Also union made in USA of superior materials. Now it's all foreign crap.

@Pumpkin Spice how do you know? Lol

The quality of that coat was top notch. Inflation was also sky high in the 70's. I was a kid then. Even as a kid I remember thinking how much I disliked the styles, furniture, buildings, cars and colors of the 70's. It definitely didn't "jive" with me. More than once I would complain to my mom about how ugly things were. And the smell of the inside of cars back then...ugh....and my moms cars were always spotless. They just had a bad smell. The feel of the fabrics makes me uncomfortable just remembering the clothes, furniture etc.

That 1973 coat tag said “Made in USA” and 2023 coat tags says “Made in Bangladesh”

One thing for sure ...thec1973 coat is alot better quality than a 2023 coat for sure!!!

A good coat is worth that now. In 73 though…INfuckinSANE !

back when everything was made in the USA!

That was a handmade wool coat with a real fur collar you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. That same coat would cost you $2,000. It just goes to show how young you are because you will not find a coat of that value in any retail setting today. I worked at JCPenney's in the 80s and yes things are much higher quality than. My parents paid $500 for a set of solid brass lamps that they still have. They didn't use cheap alloys and those lamps still look pristine. You won't find anything of that quality nowadays it'll tarnish and turn to garbage in a few years, and you'll still pay $3-400. I went into office design and sold furniture and I can tell you the materials used in the 80s and the 90s compared to what they use now there's no comparison.

@@moemanley2579i think you left your reading comprehension skills back in the 70s too because no one said it WASN’T high quality LOL, it was just stated that it was surprising how JCPenny was considered super high-end luxury boutique to be selling coats at that price in the 70s.

It sounds like she was smart and had better class. Kudos to your mother.

The 8os was the terrible decade.

I agree with your mother. The 1970s was such a low point in fashion. A lot of the style and hairstyles today are just as bad.

​@@11dswNo way.

@@Her.Serene.Feline.Cuteness.oh yes, I have photos to prove... it was either snooze fest preppy boring or over the top ugly/weird. I'd rather wear browns flares, avocado green fly collar shirt than.... pastels and shoulder pads with multi pleated pants and a mullet. In other words, I'd rather look like 7os Superfly than some 8os Synthpop band....all IMHO...😀🪩

Better yet you can still find them at thrift stores and goodwill.

​@@darrellpasion8925 😂

You'd have to find some 1970s cash they don't take 2020 dollars they would think it's counterfeit

Not really, but I have found some great stuff on Ebay.

GET READY FOR RETROVERSION EARTH COMING SOON TO YOUR LOCAL UNIVERSE

Bill Clinton is far more responsible for shipping millions of good paying factory jobs over to Asia because he normalized trade status with a certain Asian country. Reagan didn't do that. On the contrary, he took measures to reduce the millions of imported cars and motorcycles from another asian country, Japan.. in order to protect American jobs. And reaganomics also created many millions of jobs thruout the 1980's. You can also attribute much of the 1990s prosperity and job creation to Reagan, because he unleashed the shackles on the American economy so that the free enterprise system wasn't weighed down by unnecessary regulations and confiscatory taxes that only sapped personal initiative (the motivation to work hard and get ahead in life) and reduced the capital that could be reinvested into the private economy.. which incidentally is how wealth is created and how new jobs are produced.. jobs that are paid for with returns on investment, rather than by redistributing other people's earnings to support more government jobs that often serve no useful purpose. When government takes too large a share of the wealth that the private economy CREATES, you largely end up with more waste, fraud, and abuse of the citizen, along with a reduction in individual freedom and economic freedom. So with that in mind, reaganomics was one of the best things that ever happened to the U.S. in the post ww2 era. It would have continued to do so with far greater effect if nearly every subsequent president hadn't neglected to take on china with trade restrictions or sky high tariffs or outright bans. Unfortunately that's not about to change as the current prez is literally on the payroll of the see see pe. Unfortunately, we will have to wait for trump ( with his proven track record) to get back into office to fix that. But it's ok.. 625 days will go by fast.

Sorry, I read your comment a little too fast.. usually when someone mentions reaganomics, they are left leaning in their perspective and are shting on his legacy.. as though Reagan's policies were responsible for all that ails America.. so I'm always eager to trigger them with facts. 😂

No that was a real handmade wool coat with a fur collar. The prices on those didn't go down and by the way I worked at Penney's in the mid 80's into the early 90's. Our prices didn't go down but it's cute you think you know more than somebody who actually worked there. We had high-quality goods and they were priced as such. The furniture in the furniture department was made from real wood and a sofa could cost you 4 or 5k. After I left that job I went into furniture design and dealt with a lot of company CEOs and every one of them hated Reagan because of what he did to the economy. It's funny every time the Republicans held office the economy went right in the crapper and then Democrats get in office and there's a surplus of money money lol. Those pesky facts. When Bush was in office I had to be escorted to my car by security because desert Storm broke out and people were protesting outside our store. Yup, great times!! 😂

@@MK-fc2hn...trickle down economics....it was crap. ...still is. Jobs began leaving in the early 7os... look it up.

To think all or most of the adults are deceased 😔

I too was surprised JC Penney sold fur trimmed coats. I thought they were only sold in Macy's, Lord & Taylor and A&S. Coats for adults were expensive back then, but very well made and you'd only buy a new one every 5 years or so.

It's because those high paying factory jobs that made those high quality goods went poof a few decades ago.. we are now addicted to low prices, and we accept far lower quality in return.. because the purchasing power of tens of millions of Americans went poof along with those jobs. Sad but true.. 😢

That was a real fur and wool handmade in the USA coat for $179 that would cost you over $2000 now easy. I worked at JCPenney's in the 80s so only about 12 years after this was made and we had a furniture department with high-end $4- $5,000 sofas, it took up the entire half of the bottom part of the store. Sales associates head to wear dresses and suits and we had to know all the merchandise. Does furniture department displayed high-end home decor with figurines and statues made by actual artists of the day. We got 33% off our clothes that we were required to wear to work. We also got a discount on anything else in the store. High priced goods like furniture and jewelry we got a certain percentage above cost. Even for the 80s I had a $1000 wardrobe being middle class. Boy things went downhill

Ahhh, If only...I miss these days

Nobody swarming the stores for 100% off?? How can that be?? 😂

Almost like the country was less diverse or something and filled with less awful people subsequently.

New York media, I presume.

@@vampirerobot but still I would love to have shopped at this store I love how colorful it looks and well stocked unlike todays department stores.

@@Pringles147 So true...it would be fun!

Not bad now. In 1973 it was more than my mom made it a week.

They most certainly weren't!

​@@MK-fc2hn Most likely clothes made overseas started in the 80s.

No. Back then they were all made here and all the textiles where mostly weaved here as well.

Sears Supertough jeans in green or red

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I dunno... Those kids are in their late 50's and early 60's now...😕

I was three then. My brothers were six and seven. My parents are still alive and well. My mom is 76 and my dad is almost 81. They still plant a garden and can their food. Mind you it's not as big as when I was a child, but they still do it. As well as mow and weedeat their yard, and other things around the house. Slower, but still doing it.

@@sstephens2175 God Bless 'em.

Because black youth wasn't brainwashed back then

🤣🤣🤣 I agree with you on this one.

and people

damn