General Chat

I had shoes from both Sasha and Ravel. Also Mary Janes from Annello and Davide.

And yes, bellbottoms from Laurence Corner! :-D :-D :-D

Bet your bottom dollar LG knows Laurence Corner too.

Imagine if we knew each other then.....................we would be like the three sailors in On The Town. :-D :-D :-D :-D

For some reason I immediately had a mental picture of a scene from South Pacific. But sailors in bell bottoms were very much a part of my teens. Which years are you talking here 60s or 70s? It was all hearsay to us in the sticks!

I think I'm a bit younger - I was at school when the mini came in.
However, it did lead to the turning over of waistbands to shorten the school skirt :-D

I am talking about the 60's here Ann. I was also at school Maggie, but it did not stop me 'looking the biz' in my eyes, after school and at the weekends.

I got through a bottle of eyeliner and mascara a week! :-D :-D ;-)

I was born in 61 so a bit young to remember the mini. I wasnt allowed to wear makeup until i was 15 in the mid 70's. But we had bell bottom trousers and i had a suede long coat with the fur too.

We used lipstick for blusher lol.

I do remember though Mary Quant white boots and the Daisy sign. My mum wore mini skirts and my aunts too.

I too was at school MG and seeing as we had a very strict uniform code I would go the complete opposite out of those gates . Trying to place Laurence Corner it is not ringing any bells at the moment :-D :-D :-D.
Yes we could have painted the town red couldn't we <3 <3 <3

The trouble with rolling up the skirts ( we had pleated skirts) was the made you very fat around the waist.

:-D :-D :-D :-D. Tell my granddaughters that ;-)

Laurence Corner, LG.

An army surplus store in Hampstead Road, and Drummond Street, just before you got to the old Capital Radio building on Warren Street.

Sold lots of bellbottoms, along with the red tunics that were all the rage too, for blokes.

We had to kneel at school to make sure the hems of our skirts touched the ground! But once around the corner, there was lots of rolling up at the waist! :-D :-D :-D

Ah I was a teenager and at school in the 50s married age 20 in 1960 and a Mum in 1961. So fashion was something mainly viewed in the press. Although I did wear minis.

:-D :-D :-D MG the spies were out from my school so we had to wait until getting well away from the gates before doing that. Our school was split between two buildings so we had to roll them back down before we passed those gates. The school prefects were snitches too and unfortunately I used to get 2 off them on my train and bus home :-| :-| :-| :-|.
The nuns used to hold a yard rule beside us and measure that way.

Was that Laurence Road in the area I wouldn't be seen dead in near my most hated footie team :-D :-D :-D :-D

Anng you have bought back some memories here :-D :-D :-D :-D

Hampstead Road LG. Near Warren Street and Tottenham Court Road.

Nearest football ground............Arsenal. :-D :-D

Next nearest must be the *** ***** then :-P :-D :-D :-D

Just remembered the Union jack style clothing of the mods in the 60s and their reefer jackets. I never wore them as I chose to wear Levis and Leather jackets :-D :-D

Oh those wonderful Madras jackets that the cool kids wore!

I would kill for one of those now. <3

A bit bright colours for my taste :-D :-D :-D, Checks don't suit me I look like I am wearing a horse blanket :-0

I always wore Levis too. They were like cardboard. not like the soft denims you get now. Spent hours scrubbing them to get that 'worn in' look. :-D :-D

I remember buying a pair and sitting in a bath of cold water to shrink them. I had lovely indigo skin for ages afterwards :-D :-D :-D. I used to like Lee Coopers as well and they had a great shop in the Edgware Road just near where I used to work. I remeber having jackets and jeans to match in all sorts of colours