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General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Taz2 on April 02, 2013, 09:42:35 AM
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This looks an interesting read for those of us who were teenagers in the 70's. You can save a third by buying it on Amazon http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/fashion-beauty/388595/Growing-up-in-the-decade-that-style-forgot
Taz x
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Clogs, over the knee socks :o those shorts with bibs forgot what we called them, I did like the hippy stuff too, cheese cloth and long skirts and those Platte headbands that we wore around our foreheads like Twiggie.
Maybe best we forget them ;D ;D
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It's more than that though - it's about how we had a social life without any internet, phones, even landlines in a lot of cases, only one television per house. The only way to find out if someone was in or if they were coming out was to walk to their house and knock on the door. Face to face talking? Wow!!
I'm still called a hippy. Do you mean hot pants?
Taz x ;D
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That's it Hot Pants.
I often think about how on earth we managed without todays technology, we take it all for granted, yet we did and it was all normal and we were probably just as happy or unhappy as we are today.
Going to look on Amazon for the book.
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Looks really interesting Taz. Thanks.
I remember going to a Canned Heat concert and buying my first ever pair of Loon pants and a black grandad style T shirt covered in little mirrors and embroidery. I also remember wearing HUGE wooden platform clogs - I think they were about 5" high in they had studs along where the leather joined the wood.
I had long straight hair,as did all my friends. Usually left to hang straight and parted down the middle but sometimes in hippy-style plaits with some flowers stuck in for good effect.
We didn't have a phone at home but the phone box at the end of our road was my own personal phone room. ;D ;D Our school had a huge catchment area and I knew all the phone box numbers for miles around. There wasn't much for kids to do in rural areas except hang around the phone box. I'm laughing as I type this but it is absolutely true. ;D You just rang the number of the phonebox in a village, say 10 miles away and some kid would answer and go and fetch your friend for you or get them to call back to your phone box. ;D
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I also wore hotpants at some point in that decade and I wore Maxi coats over top. I had a sort of cream and brown tweed coat which came down to the ground and wore that with wet-look knee high boots (remember them?)
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I still have mine up in the attic - white ones. I used to wear them with purple satin hot pants and a purple maxi coat. My mum used to keep my dad talking so I could get out of the house without him seeing me. Happy days.
Taz x
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I'm forever telling my daughter (she's 12) about the days before mobiles, ipads etc.
In those days, taping the top 20 onto a cassette was the highlight of my week! And having my best friend round to listen to scratchy records. And walking for hours in the countryside, along the canal... even though I couldn't swim! I still can't believe my mum let me do it ???
Do you remember monkey boots, a kind of early doc martin? The tough kids at school wore them (no disrespect to anyone! I lived in doc martins myself later on). I was more a cheese cloth top, jeans & poncho kinda girl in the 70s...
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Mine were neutral colour canvas boots laced in the front up to my knees, I wore them with a Biba purple max skirt buttoned up the front and silky sheared cream blouse, I think that was one of my favourite outfits, . I also wore tiny little dresses and pants to match that I made myself.
I had my waist length hair all through the seventies and eighties
Anyone remember the musk oils? I think Rimmel sold them in small bottles.
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Who had a stinky afghan coat then? Fess up!! ;D
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Haha! I didn't - mine was a ratty old black fur coat made of moleskin I got second-hand from some market or other in London. My husband still has his that he bought in Afghanistan in 1974! Still stinks ( he hasn't worn it for years obvs) Hot pants, loon pants. Yes had them - the hot ones (with a bib) only briefly until I bought my lovely loons (bought from ads in Melody Maker!) and converted all other straight jeans to flares by means of a sewn-in panel - who else did this? This was not the throw-away age - I used to sew - like you Rowan! Endless smocks over loons. I also had a tapestry fringed jacket which I also still have up in the loft. Long floaty floral skirts - those were the days. Back then I didn't have long hair but had it short and what used to be called a feather cut - but then grew it long from late 70's onwards and kept it like that for years afterwards, until too much grey meant that colouring was a pain so now more manageable shoulder length. Oh yes loved the cheesecloth - getting carried away now.......! Clogs clogs clogs - very uncomfortable too.
Pennyfarthing - I had one of those T shirts too! - it was black - yes embroidery and mirrors and wore it all the time with my green loons!
This is making me very nostalgic...
Hurdity x
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Ahh, the tapestry coat. My best friend had one, I was so envious :o
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I remember having a short haircut like purdy (Joanna Lumley), around '77. I had a cheese cloth top with very small buttons and loops that I wore with pale blue brutus jeans around 1975!
During 1976, I had a boyfriend, who wore an Afghan coat all the time. I wore a floppy hat. It was around that time that they always used to play "High Ho Silver Lining" at the end of the over 18s disco! We were about 15/16. We used to go and sit in the pubs with the boys. I can even remember smoking pot at the back of the church yard, and being unable to move and as a result was very sick at the bus stop, in front of a queue of people. ;D
We also used to toast banana skins and crumble it all up and smoke it!! What a wayward time we had, and how did I get to be so 'sensible'?!!
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Oh, all of your outfits and hairstyles sound just like mine were! Loved those times.
I taped the Top 20 too - you had to stay silent ;D throughout. My Mum was on one of my tapes because she shouted up to me "Do you want a Mars bar?" Then the sound of a Mars bar hitting the bedroom door as she threw it up the stairs for me.
I made endless white smocks with floaty sleeves from white bed sheets, worn with home made long floaty skirts that used to drag in the wet and mud, as did the Loons
My white Afghan coat was "distressed" by being dragged over the garden path because it looked too new.. It was also scented with bucket loads of Norman Hartnell's "In Love" talcum powder.
Pixie - that outfit you describe was exactly one of mine with the cheesecloth top and tiny buttons and loops that took ages to do up (and undo too ;) )
Oh, happy memories
ariadne xx
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As a 10year old, I used to draw a lot of pictures of girls in hot pants with long boots and long coats with Elvis type of collars and puffed sleeves. They all had the same feather haircut. This must've been around 1971ish, because I remember being very struck with the fashions of the time, and wanting to create new designs in my head! I got a lot of these ideas from Top of the Pops and my sister and my friend. I never had hot pants, but had a red poncho with blue and white stripes at the bottom and a white fringe!
As a teenager of about 13years old, my school friends and I (went to a girls school) used to write stories about boys and what we would get up to with them! It usually involved snogging boys we fancied at the fairground. I was about 14 when I first snogged a boy at a friends party, and remember how exciting it was and how we all talked about it at school and what the technique was supposed to be. ;D
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Midi skirts with penny round collars and mid sleave jumpers over all colour cordinated
Big Sueds thikc heel shoes cant remember hand bags?
Or Cullotte pants with tiny tops and cloggs
Clours in seasons Pink and Blue and Grey and Brown 1972/73 Auntumn Winter
Long Blue silk underbust waisted frocks with roiman sandalles 1974 ABBA
Men Bobbles long hair Pants that tight you could see everything
Multi coloured vests over Penny round shirts and Jackets all had to match
1974 more or less the same but with 2 inch heel shoes made him 6ft 7 inches tall me 5/2 heheh loved the 70s
Sons hair david Bowie cut dressed like a mini David Bowie he also has his teeth sloping in Dentist braces? I said NO
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Left school at 16 in '72, the last 6 months us girls used to sit at the back of the class with a carrier bag hung on the chair back with Crochet and wool in it, when no-one was looking we'd sit there crocheting a poncho each. On leaving school and going to work in a chemist if we didn't have the long shiny boots on we had scholls wooden sandals, skirts so short you could almost see our knickers (it's a wonder the old boys who came in with their prescriptions didn't have a heart attack in the shop) and the long maxi coats to go home in. We used to sell the musk oils, they were lovely, also outdoor girl makeup, and miners, and they did a matt wedgewood blue eyeshadow in a lipstick push up case and we ladled it on regardless of our eye colour. The number of old ladies who used to come in complaining they thought they were dieing, as they handed their script over, and sat chatting on chairs waiting for their pills, moaning about the hot fluhes and us girls had not a clue what they were on about. Those were the days.
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Patchouli - definitely the scent of the 70's!
Pixie - I used to draw pictures of skinny, long legged girls in hot pants too but mine had very long hair and huge eyes. They looked a bit like today's anime type cartoon figures.
I remember drawing one in Art Class when I should have been drawing "an orange screaming" (Our art teacher was very weird) He called me to the front with my drawing and said it was very good and had I thought of changing some of the features. In my embarrassment at having attention drawn to me, I raised my eyes to heaven and ..... he went barmy and yelled at me, gave me a detention too. I cried because I was a good girl and never had a detention before ::) I was a terrible wimp.
ariadne xx
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;D ;D Me - blue eyeshadow, cheesecloth tops, long hair in middle 'score', v-neck Bay City Roller jumper ;D ;D
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I also liked art at school and remember painting an 'Army of lipsticks', which was a bit surreal and it was displayed in the assembly hall. The screaming orange sounds a really great idea - I would've liked that one! How did you do the screaming orange?
Patcholli oil is very familiar and we used to burn joss sticks and go around our friends houses listening to Dark Side of the Moon and Echoes by Pink Floyd in total silence! I had a boyfriend who like an LP called Rainbow Rising . All those songs bring back a lot of memories, when I hear them on the radio. We also had a ouji board that we once tried out. I can remember about six of us pushing a glass around a table and someone in the group said:"Spirit please indicate if you are here" and straight away all the lights went off, because his electricity meter needing topping up with coins. ;D
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I had no idea how to draw an orange screaming....so I drew one of those girls instead!
Joss sticks - oh yes. Loved them too, my bedroom always smelt of them. I remember going youth hostelling with some friends and we lit some in the dorm. (No-one else staying there at the time) Next thing we knew "matron" came in and said someone had reported that we were smoking dope and we had to leave!
"Freaking out" to Virginia Plain and All Right Now.
ariadne xx
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;D Those were the days!
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Whitches Cat those were the makes I was trying to remember- Miners and Out door Girl.
I am sure the oils I remember now were sold my Miners, small dark green bottles, am going to have Google and see if I can come up with some retro sites :)
I can remember doing the ouji board too and it scaring the life out of us, I can look back and laugh now we were so gullible, though I swear no one pushed the glass.
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At lunch time in my school we used to try levitation. Six of us would position ourselves around the 7th who would be lying on the floor. We each put a finger underneath her body and chanted "We believe in the powers of levitation". She would then start rising up. I remember our ancient english teacher interrupting one of these sessions and asking "Girls, what are you doing?" ;D
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Have just pre-ordered this book from Amazon for my Kindle, release date isn't till 30th April, so gonna have to wait a couple of weeks. :)
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I haven't got a kindle but my "paper" copy is arriving tomorrow!
Taz x
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what fun...
1972 to 74 lived in midlands... discovered gypsy skirts and had ears pierced at the bull ring centre!
75-77 back in leeds...summer of 76 scorcher...played out all day on my new bike I got for xmas 75 :-)
and roller skates.....I loved them.
was a bay city rollerfan and hat my tartan scaff that I embroidered myself and white dunlop tennis pumps that I coloured in the different panels.
was 15 in summer 78...got taken to local pub on sunday tea time ...played space invaders game, drank coke and seabrook tomato crisps.
started a sat job in a shop in town and started to notice a boy in the pub who also sat with his mum n dad drinking coke...lol
left school and started work...aware of fashion..maxi skirts, pretty blouses..remember those boucle edge to edge jackets? saved up for 3 weeks to buy one,then sewed hippy style ribbon round the collar and fronts..lol
oh...cotton headsquares...and yes Musk Oil...
by 79 I was going out with boy from pub, discovered Discos, Abba, Michael jackson and kissing ...and never skated again..lol
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Forgot about the ear-piercing Jax, in 1970 I asked mother if I could have my ears pierced, she was so against it you'd have thought I'd have asked to get tattooed .... anyway, I got round my granny (lovely granny) she gave me the money and I crept into the jewellers after school one day with a friend for support. Fat lot of good she was, in those days it was hinged sleepers they put in and I had no idea of how they did it. When my friend had come round after hitting the deck, she explained that after they sprayed the freeze solution on, it was with a hollow need like a fish hook with the end of the sleeper slotted in half way down, but what made her pass out was the tea towel put over my shoulder that was still covered in blood from the last customer. And my mother went absolutely berzerk, .....completely mental. Years later I did ear-piercing myself, with the gun and stud system, and to prove it didn't hurt (all lies) I did my own another 4 times each side, I still go out looking like a scrap metal advert to this day. ;D
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Gypsy skirts - I'd forgotten them too. With a lace bit at the bottom and a petticoat "built in".
I pierced my own ears when i was 15 when my mum and dad went out for the day. Bought hinged sleepers and used a needle that I sterilised in boiling water put ice cube on ear lobe to freeze it a bit. My mum was very against ear piercing too! Anyway, holes were lop-sided ::) so in the end I let them close up and had them re-done when I was 16 and working (hard luck Mum, got my way in the end!)
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I hadnt even thought of ear piercing till I lived with older bro for a while. My then 6yr old niece begged me to have them done like hers...OMG...
was done with a gun thing with those hypo allergenic studs that had a groove so the butterflys stayed on.
remember had to bath ears every day and twiddle the posts round in holes so they didnt stick...eeewww lol
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Love this thread!
I remember my sister shaving off my eyebrows as it was fashionable to paint them on! They never really gre back and now I really wish she hadn't done that!
I also used to paint fake eyelashes under my lower lid. My Dad used to say it looked like I had spiders under my eyes!!
And yes, I remember the gypsy skirts, they were lovely
I also has a knitted long waistcoat with tassles - made it myself with huge needles and thought it looked great with my flared jeans!!
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When those peasant/gypsy skirts were in fashion around 78ish, weren't hacking jackets worn with them too?
I had several Saturday jobs, firstly as a 14year old in a beach cafe and kiosk in a chine near Bournemouth. I earned £2.10 per Saturday. Then I had job in a dry cleaners, but couldn't stand the smell, so left after one day! I also worked in British Home Stores on Saturday in the menswear department, but used to be very shy, and couldn't handle measuring inside legs, so they moved me into the restaurant cooking, which I liked.
I can remember going into Chelsea Girl and buying high-waisted blue trousers and a blue v-neck jumper with stripes at the neck. It had high ribbing at the waist. I wore a silver ring choker with my initial on it. This was with my first wages. I also bought a pale green dress from Van Allen with flared out from the bust with a very large button at the top. Thought I was the bees knees! ;D
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I had the silver ring choker with my initial on it too, had forgotten about that! I got a long leather coat after my first few wages and felt so grown up ::) Why are we always in a hurry to grow up?
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I remember Hacking jackets and had one that I wore with a long skirt, I also had one with a Peplum.
I also use to make my own chokers with tiny Victorian brooches on the front also lacy ones, isn't it strange that talking about all this brings back the feelings even if it is just for an instant.
Wish I had it all back, I can't seem to feel the same way about fashion and all the fantasies that go with it as I did then.
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.. and, let's face it, we just wouldn't look the same now in our gypsy skirts and chokers or, heaven forbid, our hotpants and stretchy white boots.. :D
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You have a point there Taz ;D though Crocs have replaced Clogs in some older ladies.
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I remember having a knitted purple stripe dress that went down below my knees, but I wore a chain link belt with it and rolled it up and over the belt to make a mini. I remember my dear old Dad saying - I can see your knickers, you are not going out like that!! So, I rolled it down until I got up the road, then pulled it up again! PN
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Van Allan, I remember them.
I had a velvet choker with a victorian matching brooch at the front. Shiny pvc boots. Denim hot pants.
When crocs first came out I swore I would never wear them but....they're very comfy ;)
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;D Those chain belts were great. I was too young to wear them, but mum used to wear one, with some kind of top bunched over it! I seem to remember my sister wearing snakeskin shoes with a block heal and a flap on the top. She was always very fashion conscious. She had long straight hair, parted in the middle and wore mini skirts. Later when she was at university, she came home and I remember mum saying she looked like she had 'dropped out', because she was wearing a long cheesecloth skirt, which wrapped around and tied at the waist and flat Jesus type of sandals!
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I remember Deirdre on Corrie wearing one of those chain link belts, think it still makes an appearance now and again ;D Big spectacles must have been in too and psychodelic (sp?) wallpaper ;D ;D
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I wear mine only in the garden and putting the washing out, they are white and can you imagine I bought those coloured flowers to press into the holes to decorate them:o :o
Nurses started to wear them on the wards and theatre too, they are comfortable.
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I thought you were talking about a chain belt there for a minute Rowan!
Taz x :lol:
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yes lily, I had the large specs as well!! ::) (http://::)) PN