Cruisin' in Style: 30 Retro Shots of Women Posing with Their Cars from the 1970s

For women, the Hippie look of the 1960s carried over to the early ’70s. Popular styles included bell bottom pants, frayed jeans, midi skirts, maxi dresses, tie-dye, peasant blouses, and ponchos. Some accessories that will help pull together your early ’70s Hippie outfits are chokers, headbands, scarves, and jewelry made of wood, stones, feathers, and beads.

 
By the mid-1970s, the Hippie look fell out of fashion, making way for a more casual everyday style. Fitted t-shirts rose in popularity, with elaborate designs, slogans, and sports logos. Disco took over fashion for everyone in the mid-late ’70s.
 
Disco styles for women included jersey wrap dresses, tube tops, sequined shirts, spandex shorts, and high slit skirts with boots or chunky heels.
 
Generally, women’s fashion in the late ‘70s became more relaxed. Clothes became baggier and more revealing and often resulted in an inverted triangle silhouette. These amazing photos captured women posing with vintage cars in the 1970s.
 
 
A blonde posing on the car, circa 1970s

 

A brunette lady posing with a red Mercedes-Benz W 114 in a village street in summertime, circa 1970s

 

A fashionable young lady posing with a red BMW 2002 in the drive of a private home in summertime, circa 1970s

 

 
A lady posing with a 1970 Ford Mustang Hardtop Coupe in front of a laundry shop, circa 1970s

 

 
A middle-aged lady posing with a Citroën DS by the side of a country road in the vineyards, 1978

 

A middle-aged lady posing with a red Datsun 200B in front of a private home, circa 1970s

 

 
A young lady in bib overalls posing on the bonnet of a Mercury Capri, circa 1970s

 

 
 
A young lady posing with a beige-colored Citroën Dyane in a residential street, circa 1970s

 

A young lady posing with a black 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray on a city street, circa 1970s

 

 
An elderly lady in a black dress and a little girl in a red Dirndl posing with a beige Ford 17 M Turnier in an Alpine setting, circa 1970s

 

Blonde girl standing by car, circa 1970s

 

 
Girl in a Corvette, summer of 1970

 

Girl poses by a 1978 Pontiac Sunbird Sport coupe, 1979

 

 
Girl posing by car, 1973

 

Girl with a bubble car Isetta 500, 1974

 

 
Girl with a yellow Beetle 1300, near Cognac, France, 1974

 

Mom and daughter pose by 1972 Cadillac Coupe DeVille

 

 
Mother and kids pose by car, circa 1970s

 

On the hood, Los Angeles, California, circa 1970s

 

 
Two cheerful ladies posing with a BMW 1600–2 in a gravelled parking lot in summertime, circa 1970s

 

Two ladies posing with a metallic blue 1978 Buick LeSabre Sedan, 1978

 

 
Two women pose by a 1954 Rolls Royce, Christmas 1977

 

Woman and boys at loaded car, 1977

 

 
Woman with a 1972 Chevrolet Impala Custom Coupe at a motel, June 1972

 

Woman with a Ford, somewhere in Austria, April 1970

 

 
Women and Cadillac, 1973

 

Women with 1972 Chevrolet Caprice

 

 
Young lady on the hood of a 1969 Ford Galaxie, 1977

 

Young woman in a sport car in Rickmansworth, England, 1977

 

 
Young woman in bandeau and jeans standing by a Chevy Impala with a '50s vintage car with hood up in background, circa 1970s