07-06-2012, 11:40 AM
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The Teddy boys were on the way out when I was a teenager and the Hippies hadn't arrived yet so I was stuck in the middle fashion wise, don't really know what we were called (Stupid, was used often by my parents
). I remember buying one of those Beatle jackets, the ones with no collar, I thought I was the bees knees, and the trousers were very narrow, 16" was the usual.
07-06-2012, 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by jemflux
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The Teddy boys were on the way out when I was a teenager and the Hippies hadn't arrived yet so I was stuck in the middle fashion wise, don't really know what we were called (Stupid, was used often by my parents). I remember buying one of those Beatle jackets, the ones with no collar, I thought I was the bees knees, and the trousers were very narrow, 16" was the usual.
I think Jim matey they were referred to as 'drain pipes'.
07-06-2012, 01:39 PM
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I mainly wear jeans, crop pants, jumpers, t shirts, blouses, knee length shorts. Used to like wearing the mini skirts. Bit to old theses days.
Never really liked dresses. Which is why I am finding it hard, to buy a dress for my daughters wedding.
Roaring 20s fashion looked rather good.
07-06-2012, 03:46 PM
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The 60's for me too, though I dithered between mods and rockers
Loved my white leather jacket with fringes but it didn't go with the mini skirt.
But when I started work in the city I became a 'proper' young lady
.. we were not allowed to wear trousers 
my boss would have had an apoplectic fit if I'd worn mine and probably would have sacked me!I do remember owning a foam backed coat!
Shame you didn't persevere with the jeans Alan, they stretch, and would have fitted you by the end of the day
07-06-2012, 04:11 PM
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How my son has reached his mid Fifties is a miracle, he would buy a pair of new Jeans put them on and sit in the bath in them till they shrank to fit him,then he would put them on the radiator and have his tea, get washed and ready to go out in partly wet jeans. This when he was 17.
08-06-2012, 01:10 AM
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I never wore white plastic knee boots, but leather ones, with my hot-pants and mini skirts and I thought I was IT when I got my first black leather jacket.
I used to try to wear the "Emma Peel" look, adopting and adapting where I could afford it.
Working for a firm of solicitors, us girls weren't allowed to wear trousers to work, and it was something that never occurred to me anyway in the 60s, and I only ever owned one pair of jeans, which I hated. I remember buying a pair of grey flannel bell-bottoms once though with a wide belt!
Who remembers wearing white at a dance hall that had ultra-violet lighting and it lit your clothes up purple?
Pixie, paying £20 for a second hand dress in the 70s was very expensive indeed. Hope you can find the photo.
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