General Chat

About the clothes we wore and music we listened to in the 60s and 70s while watching BBCFOUR. Good old days?
Hot pants, platform shoes.

Using a tanner as a Botton to hold your stocking up because the rubber button had broken off.

Tights were brilliant invention, I can't wear them now though, they aren't as comfortable now as they were then.

Haha re tights, I don't wear tights as an everyday item any more, only when I have to go out.
When I go for my 12 weekly B12 jab I have it done in the top of my leg, & tend to forget to pull up my tights afterwards & I end up walking very strange manner ! LOL.

I liked stockings, much easier to put on & sexy with it!

Joan.

I used to wear them when I was working as a security officer, much better then because they were proper sizes not small, medium or large.

The New look in the 50s, with long skirts .................. a friend of mine got well told off by the Senior Mistress at school because her mother had made her school skirt to last, and it was below her knee :-D

The stockings and garter belt later, plus uncomfortable bras.

Miniskirts ................ in 1968 we were in the US, and OH's cousin and sister joined us for a holiday across parts of the southern US, and up the west coast. Both girls (21/22 years old) were wearing mini skirts much shorter than I was.

OH and I were walking behind them along a promenade in Long Beach when a young man drove past in his convertible.

I'm not kidding, we saw his head turn to see these 2, with the cousin having absolutely the perfect figure and legs for such a short skirt, and he nearly drove up a lamp standard, he was so shook up!

Liking Gerry and the Pacemakers instead of Mick Jagger

Those blasted tights! Later than the 60s though, about 20 years ago, I was still wearing tights, and walking through part of the underground city in Montreal, I had this strange feeling of something creeping down my torso, and it got harder and harder to walk.

Yep, tights were tightening, rolling and dropping. I had to find a corner where I could try to pull them up until I could find a bathroom. But that pair never did stay up, so out they went.

I am a little older, but once have a pair of hot pants in the 70s, but with an attached long skirt and a lacy top. Nice evening wear, I got a number of compliments when I wore that outfit. ;-)

Now, I don't even wear stockings ................. I wear long skirts and knee-high socks/stockings.

From the fifties - remember net petticoats that made your full-skirted dresses stand out. I had two, one pink and the other multi-coloured. I thought they were great.

Stilettos - which I always wore from my mid-teens. I still wear them on special occasions - every inch helps when you’re as short as me.

I can recall dancing in the cinema aisle when we girls went to see Rock Around The Clock in the fifties. It was around the time I stopped playing tennis almost every day after school as I ‘was growing up’. Haha, OH thinks I still haven’t managed that ….. but I am working on it. :-D

Mini skirts and dresses, Op-Art jewellery, white tights and MaryJane shoes. White boots when it was chilly.

Pale foundation and lips, but black eyes a-la Dusty. And of course the Twiggy cropped hair.

Long false lashes at the top, and painted ones at the bottom like Julie Driscoll.

And boy was I thin! :-D :-D :-D

I had lucky legs, lucky they did not break.

Dancing the night away to Motown.

Jeans , Leather jackets and music was Queen and other rock bands. The music is still with me but not the clothes .Mod clothes were always a No No as were motor scooters. I owned and rode a 650cc Motorbike :-D :-D :-D :-D

My first stockings had seams, which had to constantly be checked to see if they were still straight.
Tights were a great invention, when them hemlines rose.
In about 1970, I had summer dresses with rows of shirring elastic at the waist and cuffs. I've still got one of them... gosh, it's not much more than a blouse :-0 :-0.
Daughters took it to school once for a History lesson. :-|

Petticoats of net or 'Paper Nylon' were stiffened with a sugar water solution, but does anyone remember when there were hoops in the hems and I vaguely remember for a short time, there were petticoats of a very thin foam :-S

I didn't follow a fashion, I just wore what I liked, I do remember a petticoat that was to long so it had a horizontal pleat sewn in to shorten it.
I do have a leather jacket now and wear jeans.
LG were you a rebel?

Tights had just come in when I was 'of age' - (about 14).

My fashion memories are of flares, platforms, hot pants and Oxford bags.
I had a hot pant 'suit', which was orange denim hot pants, and an orange denim jacket, worn with white plastic boots with elasticated tops :-D

My sister cut my hair in a 'mullet' when I was 14, and I haven't forgiven her!

The only jeans that fitted me (I weighed 6 stone when I was 18), were 'Lee' jeans.

I had an impressive afro at one point (my hair was jet black) I was racially abused because of this, whilst walking home one night. I was wearing black tights, platforms, gloves and a leather coat ('Shaft' inspired), which led to a lad on his bike coming up behind me, whacking me on the head, and telling me to 'get back to where I came from'. When he turned to spit in my face, I wasn't quite the colour he had envisaged, and he fell off his bike. My foot was soon on his head, reading him the riot act (and a few expletives) Transpires, he was the son of a Polish airman - so HE was the immigrant!


I gave up the flares and platforms at about 20, when I got stranded in Lerwick (Shetland) due to a heavy snow storm. I had to walk 14 miles home to East Burra, in 3ft of snow (it took 5 hours) in platforms, with the snow compacting up my legs due to the flares. I've since only worn straight legged jeans, and 'practical' footwear.

Music - well mainly ska and reggae, though I liked Thin Lizzy when they played at our school leaving disco in 1973.
The first singles I bought were 'Starman', by Bowie, and 'I Can See Clearly Now', by Johnny Nash - I bought them both on the same day.

I also have LP's (and now CD's) of 'Little Feat', 'New Riders of the Purple Sage', JJ Cale, Leon Redbone, Big Bill Broonsy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee.

Not too keen on 'heavy rock', as, being the youngest of 4, my 2 elder brothers played it constantly, and just hearing the bass through the walls was annoying!

Yes Gwen, I had one with two hoops (one along the hem and the other half way down the petti. Eventually I removed them because you can imagine how much was on show when you twirled when bopping to a really fast number. :-0

We liked to dance. We often missed the last bus (11.30) home and had to walk the three miles.

I think my pals and I went through all of the phases when we were young. I remember wearing tight black trousers with studs down both sides, hot pants, Scholls (I still have a pair), flares, skin-tight dresses, wedges (still have some) mules (flat ones are now known as sliders and I still wear them). Nothing passed us by; we thought we were the bees knees. :-D

I once went out with a boy who had a big motorbike and for years I never knew that Mum would lie awake until she heard me home safely. <3

ZZzzz I have always been a rebel and always will be ;-) :-D :-D. I still love motorbikes to this day but I unable to ride one these days unless it was a chopper. :-D
Maggie I had Levis to and they were not pre shrunk. I remember putting them on and sitting in a bath of cold water to get them to fit. Also laying back on the bed to get them done up :-0 :-D

I had some red jeans that I sat in the bath of cold water to shrink them, I thought I was the DBs.

:-D :-D :-D I remember getting out of the bath with Indigo dyed legs and butt :-D :-D :-D

I had the petticoat with hoops, and also the net ones stiffened with sugar and then ironed ............. wrecked the bottom of the iron more than once :-D I even made my own net underskirt once, with more layers of netting, to really make it stick out.

I found the net underskirts that I had ripped stockings to pieces as they all seemed to have the net underneath the skirt. I resorted to wearing another plain underskirt to protect my stockings!

I was in the age group that had not yet adapted to pants ................. we wore corduroy pants for camping and going on field trips. I also had 1 pair of tailored trousers (Mum's idea for wearing when it snowed :-D ).

We went to classes at university in high heels (3"-4" yet for a lab class :-D ), stockings, pencil skirts even on dresses, but we didn't bother with a lot of make-up!

In 1967, we spent time at the university in Austin Texas, classes started at 7 am, and we were both amazed at the girls walking from dorm to class with full make-up and hair done, just as if they were going out for the evening. Mind you, many of the men were sons of oil or cattle tycoons, so good husband material :-D :-D :-D

Meanwhile, it was so hot that I had stopped using face powder, mascara, eyeshadow etc as it felt as though it was melting on my face!!

What! No pants!
Oh thank goodness, it’s Sylvia writing in Americanese.. Phew! :-D

Names :-D

I do not wear pants (knickers ) under leggings. It’s a dance-class throwback.

Now that leggings seem to have become everyday wear, I wish those who wear pants underneath would either not wear them or would just throw on a long top to hide the panty-line which I think just looks weird. :-0

I still wear them as I still take part in dance classes - but I would never wear them all day every day because that is one of the roads to cystitis, I believe.

‘Let the wind blow high, let the wind blow low, down the street in my kilt I go ….’ :-D :-D

I think I prefer to walk behind a leggings wearer with a panty line rather then those wibbly wobbly…………..