Styles of your youth ????

What Was Your Favourite Styles ,Dresses, Suits, Hair Styles, Shoes etc etc ????
The things you remember that made you feel . in your youth.
for a starter .i thought i was cool in my Finger tip jacket and suede shoes. with my
Tony Curtis hair style with a D.A at the back of my head. went to the dancing ,thought i was the King. John Travolta cry your heart out . music .

 

When I was seventeen in 1957 and just out of school, the "in" music was traditional jazz. It was baggy sweaters, ex-War Department KD trousers, though Lee Cooper quickly saw the trend and started making copies, suede shoes with exposed white stitching, (mine were olive green) and duffle coats. The posh lads had bone toggles, mine were wooden it being ex-WD.
I had a 1936 Austin Seven convertible, I bought when I left grammar school, which I'd saved up for, with the money I earned from working on Saturdays and much of the school holidays, in a local grocers' shop.
I took my test and passed first time a couple of months after I bought it. No praise due, as by then I'd driven several hundred miles in it without "L" plates and I intended to carry on doing it if I failed. Can't beat having "confidence" when taking your driving test.
Though my parents and I lived in a "leafy south London/Surrey suburb," there was only one other person in our road who had a car and he I think was a doctor. Neither of my parents drove at that time.
I and some friends used to go to the jazz clubs at either Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, or the Thames Hotel near Hampton Court, every Saturday night.

Then everything changed... including girlfriends.

In my late teens, I discovered Miles Davis and modern jazz, so I became a "Modernist." Not to be confused with "Mods," those 'erberts who wore parkas and rode around on top of a collection of a couple of dozen wing mirrors with a Lambretta or Vespa Scooter somewhere underneath. They came much later.
For me it was a crew-cut, button down or tab-collared white shirt, worn with a slim knitted tie. Slim-line trousers and Italian pointed-toe, black leather shoes. Also a box-shaped Italian style jacket, in thin shadow stripes of dark grey and black.
For the girls, like my future wife, it was white blouses with black pencil skirts, black stockings and stilettos and "whitish" make up.

The "in-place" to go was Ronnie Scott's first club, which I joined when it opened when I was nineteen, my membership number was either 7 or 9. I've forgotten now, but I remember sending off the postal order for the annual membership which was 7/6d.
You could get in free during the week. Which was handy for us as we were by then shacked up in a flat in Soho a couple of hundred yards away and we were permanently broke.

 

I loved my mini dresses. I thought I had fabulous legs - and probably did.
But I was never a brazen kind of girl and didn't wear them too short. Where my finger tips came to was the perfect length :o:o

 

Well, this says it all for me ... the year before I married, but it continued for years thereafter ....

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Peace and :luv:

 

Blimey Music,I just cringe at some of the things I wore.......I just thought I was so bl**dy cool.........purple silk shirt comes to mind :skp:.
I think my favourite outfit was a leather Beatle jacket with Mick Jagger check trousers...............:D

 

An amusing incident in our family came when several rolls of 8mm cine film I had taken in the sixties, I had converted to video about fifteen years ago.
On one reel were scenes of Christmas at our house when my sister and her husband were staying with us.
There were quite a bit of footage of her and my wife with our two sons, opening their presents.
Our daughter, who when I ran the video would have been in her twenties and very fashion conscious, was shocked at the brevity of the hems of her mother's and aunt's dresses.
Kids eh?

 

When i was a young teenager the style was Drain Pipe Trousers. when i was sixteen i joined the navy. i went to the training camp for 10 weeks prior to going to sea. on arrival at the camp i was
given a kit, blue t shirts/ baggy blue shirts/ baggy trousers(one size fits all!! :( ) . i was not a happy bunny. i purchased blue thread from a local shop and stitched my baggy trousers into
Drain Pipe Trousers:thumb:. next day at morning call, we had to line up ,call our names and hut number. this i did ,after i called my name and hut number the officer on deck shouted" what the hell" came over to me ,grabbed my trouser legs and pulled from the ankle to the crutch all
the stitching i had done:(. that was bad enough but ,he would not allow me to change .
i had to walk around all day with (FLAPPING TROUSER LEGS, AS I HAD CUT THE LEGS).
music .

 

Kaftans. ORD. I cringe at the old piccies but we meant well:luv:

 

I don't 'regret' or 'cringe' at anything I wore ... mini skirts and crochet tops braless ... it was OUR era in the 60s ... and I worked in criminal law at the time and my suits barely covered the necessary ... my hair was to my waist then and still is now ... I'm not embarrassed or ashamed .. to be totally honest, I'm PROUD ... it was US then and it's US now whatever we are doing ...

On my profile I say ... 'I am me and always will be ...' I don't change for anyone ... but ME if I so choose ...

I've gone through cancer and survived ..... be who you are and enjoy .... :luv:

 

Good for you Victoria.

 

Good for you Victoria.............As modest and humble as ever ......:wink:

 

It was amazing how styles changed. at 16 i wore drain pipe trousers and finger tip jacket wth crepe sole suede shoes and hair style was long sideburns. the tie was a bootlace tie with a silver bulls head .
At 18 it was the Italian Style (short bum tickle jacket) looked like Norman Wisdom:hehe:
the shoes were black as shiney as one could get them. the shirts were cut away collars and narrow ties. at 20 it was the three piece pin stripe suit ,black patent shoes and always a white shirt with a matching tie for the suit. haircut short (WHAT A BORE):skp:. with the weather being good at the moment the style i see is t/shirts and baggy shorts :D they look like (GUNNER SUGDEN
LOFTY ,Don Estelle in ,IT AINT HALF HOT MUM :D. music .

 

Today, "casual" seems to equate to "scruffy" a lot of the time.

 

:gnthb:Love these stories. I think we all thought we looked great at the time didn't we,:hehe:
Although it was the '70's I went through a 'teddy-girl' stage, or London girl as we used to call it. Sort of mix between teddies & skinhead look. Got a couple of London suits from an older friend, longer length jackets and short skirts, some in two-tone. Crombies!! Boot-lace tie with skull & crossbones made by one of my mums' friends where she worked!! Ben Sherman shirts, could only be bought at one place in town then!

Later on in my early 20's it was searching through the charity shops and mums wardrobe for any 30-40's clothes, loved that!

OMG what were we like. Still, agree that we looked better than they do now,:flag:

cheers