Does anyone remember leg warmers in the 60's & 70's

I am knitting these in chunky wool.

Shall post a photo when I am finished.

 

Dunno about the 60's and 70's but they were back last year in bright yellow, pink, orange & green !

I was horrified when I my 15 year old son was wearing them ice skating lol

 

""Then after they died out I got strippey knitted
socks with the 5 seperate knitted toes at the end - all different colours.""

WoW :roll::roll:

 

Yep me too. My 2 favourite pairs were

One pair in bright primary coloured stripes Red Green and Yellow
and the other gold and sparkly!

 

They had a huge comeback when the series Fame cam eout-I had a load of them lol.

Even worse fashion trend in the 80s were the ankle socks in illuminous colours lol.

 

Funnily enough, I am currently knitting some legwarmers in Noro Kurayon wool (it sort of goes from one colour to another as you knit). I thought I'd wear them over my leggings in winter.
I was thinking of making arm-warmers too (same but narrower), or fingerless, long gloves.
It's a good way to use up leftover wool.

 

Me to Tiarella arm warmers leg warmers evrything warmers

 

Well, here are my finished leggins


I hope the pic is not too big, it's my first attempt at posting one.

 

Tirella nice and cosy love your colours,Kathy no need to say sorry its great to see a few of us with this hobby.

And yes I am also going to make wrist and arm warmers and more leg warmes using King Cole wool its great crochet with.

I am croching a poncho in purple King Cole got one side finished and half of other .

Shall post photo when finished.

 

Tirella would you mind sharing your leg warmer pattern with me.

I came across a crochet waistcoat pattern price 8p.

 

I have sent you a PM, Scotkat (at least, I think I have).

 

Not got it yet as it said my mail box was full so I have now deleted my messages.

 

Leg warmers for me were the long trousers we got to wear in 6th year at school. Before that it was shorts, summer and winter!

 

Hi Tiarella, love your legwarmers. I love knitting in rainbow wool, I enjoy seeing how the colours turn out.
A great idea to share patterns of tried and tested garments.