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A leisure suit is just a suit that's only used for discos/night clubbing, they were often white with big lapels - a style that only miami vice agents could really pull off as 'work' attire.

A lounge lizard was someone that frequented the type of pick-up orientated disco/lounge/night clubs that were the rage at the time.

'lounge' as a type of bar with easy listening or jazz 'soft music' in the background often used as pick-up grounds seem to have been mostly an american thing, although I wouldn't be surprised if they were common in Germany too for some reason.

edit: I suppose 'wine bars' are the modernish (european) equivalent to american 'lounge' bars, but I have no idea if they were similar in their 80s incantation since I never had any interest in wine bars at that time.




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