That just scratches the surface for the 70s down under. Considering throughout the decade, London had a greater population than Australia, I reckon we punched above our weight.
SDU they were horrendous mate 
. ACDC yeh ok but we know them.
So were flairs, platform shoes and wide ties, but we all thought they were cool back then. 
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No we didn’t, drape jackets drainpipe trousers, slim jim ties and suede brothel creepers were the ‘ish’, as a mate of mine used to say. 
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Yeah mate, but you were driving B models when I was learning my six times tables. 
To be fair, I wasn’t a full blown Ted, came to the scene just as it was changing, I did have a slightly longer than usual jacket, an electric blue Slim Jim with with crepe soled suede boots and a haircut that Elvis would have been proud of, just as the world was changing to Beatle mop tops. 
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LOL My missus used to be the same height as me in the early 70s wearing those platform shoes, we were both wearing flairs & must have looked like a Spanish galleon in full sail walking down the road in them. 
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For all those old ME hands missing the desert:
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A bit of Emerson Lake and Palmer.
Love this vid.
Only Karl Palmer (drummer) left now.
A Japanese group who Kurt Cobain was a big fan of
another good band Pizzacato Five
Bowling for Soup, great band, don’t take them selfs seriously and the live shows are brilliant
To be fair you could find similar playing on certain radio stations in Yugoslavia at least.Listening to foreign radio was always one of the interesting parts of driving abroad for me.Its where I got my taste for 60’s/70’s/80’s Italian pop.But my ears just can’t tune to the Arabic Asiatic type stuff.
The flares and platforms genre wasn’t as big as many people think.I went through the 70’s having never worn either although admittedly it was difficult to find jeans and trousers with no flare.
For me it was Solatio Box Top shoes when not wearing Doc Martens and industrial boots and jeans with the lowest amount of flare possible.
The flares and platforms thing certainly WAS a big thing.
My DAD even wore them ffs.
I went for the Slade Noddy Holder early 70s type look (not the top hat 
)
Feather cut after a growing out skinhead cut, with baggy jeans with tartan strips across the bottoms, flying at half mast…a right little hooligan.
Multi coloured hooped socks, red and black platform shoes, with a Newcastle football scarf tied round my wrist.
Thought I looked like some kind of wannabe ‘child urban warrior’ and really cool man.
Where as in reality I looked an utter 2hat.
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Did you also have the wide (minimum 2") belt with a massive buckle that had to be skewed to the side, in order that the wearer could sit down?
Nah braces mate as far as I remember.
I stopped short of the red nose though.
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What I described seems closer to that than what you described.
Are you sure you didn’t confuse Slade with Bay City Rollers. ?. ( Yes agreed Slade did later play to the weird Glam Rock scene to make a few extra quid ).But most of us stayed with the more sensible fashions.I guess you sound a bit late to the 70’s party.My old WW2 generation Dad would never have even thought about Platform shoes when browsing the shelves of True Form or any flares wider than the smallest amount of flare available in MandS and CandA.
Jack Regan’s ( John Thaw’s ) attire in Sweeney was the image of my Dad even when he was working under a car.Platforms nah.
Slade became the epitome of the glam rock scene.
The early Slade, (or Ambrose Slade) were skinheads.
Dave Hill dressed the more bizarrely than the others, early Noddy Holder had the feather cut,.which most skinheads had when they went for a different look, and the hair was growing out…that was thet type of cut we went for…we were just kifs emulating ‘the big lads’.
In my city if we had went for ‘The Sweet’ Steve Priest type look (not that we ever would) we would have been beaten up.
So our look was a bit of a compromise, skinhead with a bow to Noddy Holder.
And…No I aint getting confused with the Bay City effin Rollers either.
And as for my Dad and your Dad…obviously my Dad was more cooler than yours in the 70s.
Picture the scene in the opening credits of the Sweeney showing the footwork driving the manual Granada.The driver wearing flared tartan trousers and platform shoes.Cool indeed.
Although ironically the Solatio Loafers.
Or, Box Tops, or as we called them, Weavers, would have looked cooler.But generally even those were not on the radar of that generation let alone platforms.
As a matter of interest exactly how old were you and your Dad in let’s say 70-75 ?.
Most Slade fans knew their fashion ‘change’ was just a money spinning caricature.
As for skinhead my hair style was generally closer to James Taylor than Telly Savalas in the day.With frequent calls by my Dad get yer bleedin air cut.Although shorter would have been better in those days before power showers v a bowl over the sink.
Yeah because detectives in the Met were well known leaders of fashion eh CF.?
And I see you are a spokesman now for all old Slade fans…have you seen them live or got any of their albums ?
How old was I ?..Stay interested mate but basically myo bloody business.
Look thing is mate when I was a kid we followed cults and fashions as most young early teen kids did.
If you and your mates dressed like Alan Partridge’s Dad that was your prerogative and fa.to do with me.