In the early 1970s, glam rock and rockabilly bands reviving the Teddy Boy look popularised drainpipe jeans in contrast to the flared trousers worn by hippies.
The women characters tended to wear skirts and knee high boots throughout the second series, rather than the flared trousers used in series one.
The first thing I see is the flared trousers, and the second is the overgrown sideboards that help to encase a man's head in a hair helmet.
"Hi, Dad," said Steve, smiling, his shirt overlapping his flared trousers, his shoulders equal in height to the roof of the station wagon.
A number of changes have been introduced since the introduction of the first rating uniform, notably the removal of the blue jacket in 1890, and the replacement of bell-bottoms by flared trousers in 1977.
Fortunately I have never been a follower of fashion (that is, if I conveniently forget the flared trousers and tie-dye shirts of the Sixties).
Or a pair of flared trousers in white and egg-yolk-yellow lace that might reek of old babehood, as Tom Wolfe used to say, if she wasn't obviously treating the style with a smirk.
A genial gaze is being cast on them just as flared trousers, square-toed shoes, and long male hair are once again looking normal in the real-life fashion universe.
But if it were possible to travel back in time to the decade of flared trousers, Opportunity Knocks and Fawlty Towers, I'd set the controls of my Tardis to 1 March 1973.
Hockney made the mistake of dressing some of his sitters in flared trousers, just at the point at which they were about to become embarrasing.