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The Groovy Office
Posted in 1970s with tags Dictation, Groovy, Humour, Innuendo, Mini Skirt, Mutton-Chops, Office, retro, Secretary, The Kitsch Cache on November 25, 2009 by Token Effort
The 1970s office was swinging. You were the man if you had a chocolate brown suit and mutton chops. That girl on the right is called a ‘secretary’. An executive needed a secretary back in the seventies because someone had to be there to light his cigarettes, make the tea and laugh politely at his innuendo. In the 1970s secretaries would use a typewriter – if they weren’t taking shorthand or dictation (how they laughed!).