Inthe 70'sm my mother wore what she 'grew up' in in th 60's. Colourful clothes and big hair.

The 70's clothes I remember: Big flares, then Oxford Bags, high waist torusers, turn-ups, Oxford Bags with high waists and turn-ups, and then a sudden move to drain-pipes. And while we had to wear a tie as part of the school uniform, people would wear them really short and fat and some wore luminescent socks, as there was nothing about socks in the rules.

The 80's - hard to remember - all seemed kinda normal, or maybe I was too busy to notice.

I had a pair of Oxfords and I think they came after the drainpipes.

The drainpipes were re-introduced by Showwaddywaddy in 1974 and the Oxfords were around about 1976.

Like the 60s the 70s highlighted a era of fashion unlike the 80s and 90s.

All the baggy stuff is back thanks to the rappers of today and maybe the millenium will reflect this is the history books of tomorrow and also track suits seem to be emerging to.

If I remember right, Oxford Bags were in, in the early 70s, Birmingham bags (with side pockets) in the mid 70s followed by the baggy pleated 'Soul trouser' and the drainpipes returned late 70s with the Mods....correct me if I'm wrong !

I also remember 'star' jumpers and people wearing trousers with tartan stripes down the side like some Scottish band I can't remember the name of ... Showaddywaddy?

Originally posted by rupert
I also remember 'star' jumpers and people wearing trousers with tartan stripes down the side like some Scottish band I can't remember the name of ... Showaddywaddy?
Bay city rollers thats the band your on about not shawaddywaddy.My mates mother used to sow tartan down the side of his trousers so he could become a roller.

Originally posted by rupert
I also remember 'star' jumpers

I had one of those star jumpers, actually they were cardigans.
I had a yellow one with a blck star on each side.
I had it till the mid eightys then had a clear out and the cardy was no more.
I also had many tank tops.

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Originally posted by rupert
I also remember 'star' jumpers and people wearing trousers with tartan stripes down the side like some Scottish band I can't remember the name of ... Showaddywaddy?

Can't remember the name? nice try, and some people even fell for it. bet you had all their records.

I can remeber funky belts, these were in different colours thread through a loop, and a bit dangling in front of you! I think this was the early 80s. Along with Harrington Jackets, you had your name put on the back in red or white letters (quite sad) and even polivelt shoes, these must have been the most ugly shoes ever made! Can any-one else remember these?

the original skinhead stuff was out in early seventies,
we wore harringtons ,staypress trousers, little diamond patterned
flared mini skirts, trevira jackets with tie tac ,black crombie's,
ben sherman shirts, monkey boots, or doc martins for the blokes.
levis with turn ups, beat hats.
after that era came oxford bags and roller gear-tartan.
there must have been a rebirth of skinhead gear in the 80s cos
70s was the original.
oh also loafers with leather soles. - and the dreadfull straggle cut.

Originally posted by Cycleracer
I had one of those star jumpers, actually they were cardigans.
I had a yellow one with a blck star on each side.
I had it till the mid eightys then had a clear out and the cardy was no more.
I also had many tank tops.

there were both cardies and jumpers. I never had one, personally, but i really coveted my friend's star jumper, hers was black with a white star.

PT

For me it was the Best of Times ... it was also the time when my life went on self disstruct.

I had a star jumper too mine was yellow with three black stars sewn on .I also had the cheaper one where the stars were actually knitted in the jumper, that one was brown with cream /beige stars .eer. I wud luv to own one again ,but I need one with belly room ,can any one help ?

Back in the 60's the fashion was bell bottomed jeans usually with cat bells from the knees down attached to the outer leg which tinkled when you walked. PVC fitted raincoats were also a big hit usually very bright colour like red or even white & of course not forgetting the long leather coats & the long scarf to go with it. Platform shoes as well. Beatle jumpers blck of course. Then for we girls came the hot pants (bet that raises a few eyebrows but they were actually called hotpants.)
Great fashions back then.

cheese cloth shirts,,, usually in a check design, tie dye t shirts, loon pants, or we used to insert a patterned piece of material in our jeans, by slitting the side of then to the knee and sewing in the material of our choice.
Afghan coats, that whiffed terrible when they got wet!

Dressing like Bananarama down to the hair and wearing ra-ra skirts with lace up plimsolls and bright pink socks the colour of a highlighter pen. Loads of beads and plastic ear-rings, lace fingerless gloves, off the shoulder tops with stripes, even a Choose Life T shirt.

Not all at once though :love:

I think the styles have changed a lot too since this thread was started in 2004 :D

Agrees with you poppins, but we still have fashion links back to the different eras, with flares,, and the use of different prints.Look at Denim, 40 years old isnt it?????

The 60's saw us through Drainpipes and long Jackets (Teddy Boy's) to bell bottom hipsters with big belts (Got mine on Carnaby street) and then the wannabe flower people styles.

Miniskirts and Hot Pants were wonderfull

Oh and not to forget Nylons and suspenders ;-0

Loons & tank tops from sexy rexy - cool!!!

Look at Denim, 40 years old isnt it?????

'Denim' is older that forty years old.
My Dad used to think of jeans as 'work wear' and thought it awful that people wore them for 'going out' :hihi:

Levi Strouss was making Denim Jeans in San Fransisco for the Gold Miners in the mid 1800's :-)

Strauss that is

Loons & tank tops from sexy rexy - cool!!!

Had some bright YELLOW loon pants,and just about every other mad colour they stocked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Early 70's - matching shirt & cravat in orange and purple paisley, loon pants & platform shoes. Rounded collars and huge lapels with braid edging - all made out of velvet! I always used to buy my bags from Harringtons in Castle Market, nothing less than 40 inch bottoms & 6 button high waisters! Remember in the 90's when platform shoes became fashionable again? You never saw anyone over the age of 30 wearing them, because they remembered what a daft ****** they looked first time around!

Miniskirts and Hot Pants were wonderfull

Oh and not to forget Nylons and suspenders ;-0


Lest we forget :-)

Just remembered the detachable paper collars from Wollies. Style 77 was my fav .:-)

Can anyone remember the craze in the late 70s/early 80s when people used to wear Harrington jackets with thier name across the back?

We use to wear our cardigans on backwards for a change :)

1960s- GUYS- between 6am and 6pm-- suit or boiler suit cos everyone had a job.
then tea .
7pm-and up to midnight-- winklepickers n hipster trews,shirt with doc collar and a pencil tie, ded smart!!! it made the girls go-:love::love::love:

Who remembers their school uniforms in the 50s and 60s?

Can anyone remember the craze in the late 70s/early 80s when people used to wear Harrington jackets with thier name across the back?

Yes but there seemed to be a lot of people called WIMPEY

cheese cloth shirts,,, usually in a check design, tie dye t shirts, loon pants, or we used to insert a patterned piece of material in our jeans, by slitting the side of then to the knee and sewing in the material of our choice.
Afghan coats, that whiffed terrible when they got wet!


And even worse when they dried out, and started whiffing of red leb and patchouli oil.

Isnt it strange that something so revolting, coupled with a yes album on the turntable actually made ladies damp.

I was often to be seen prowling around Hillsborough or town in the 70s wearing a pair of 5 inch brown platform shoes, light blue bell-bottomed flares, a bright yellow shirt with a huge and very wide collar, a red kipper tie, wide enough to land Concorde on, a multi-coloured, striped tank top, a midnight blue velvet jacket with lapels that were so wide they flapped in a breeze, and to top it all off, I had a German helmet hair style.

I was a dedicated follower of fashion.
Trouble is fashion used to take one look at me and run away screaming.

Army great coats, maxi coats for the girls, anything cheesecloth, tie dyed tee shirts, grandad vests, and jeans with the hem deliberately frayed.

Brutus Gold jeans - 1980's wore em until the *rse dropped out. Loved em and never found any better jeans since. Was a bit too young at the time platforms were out, but how great they were!! Clothes seem drab today to what they were 20 or so years ago. I once went into some shop top of Fargate and tried a gorgeous red cardigan on, with black buttons down the front. Wasn't until I tried to button the bloody thing up that I realised the buttons were on the left side that this was a woman's cardi and I was in a woman's clothes shop... Couldn't get outa there fast enough!!!!!! :hihi:

Wearing your School tie with only the thin bit showing was "dead in" too. Was it for anyone else!?

Early 70's - matching shirt & cravat in orange and purple paisley, loon pants & platform shoes. Rounded collars and huge lapels with braid edging - all made out of velvet! I always used to buy my bags from Harringtons in Castle Market, nothing less than 40 inch bottoms & 6 button high waisters! Remember in the 90's when platform shoes became fashionable again? You never saw anyone over the age of 30 wearing them, because they remembered what a daft ****** they looked first time around!

Always got my bags also from Harrington's, would not shop anywhere else remember the 6 button waistbands, and no of times me bottoms got caught on the platforms lol & I'd go flying. I also used to love my Levi stay pressed trousers, had a Ben Sherman shirt (non to match them). I had a pair of loafers or brogues & a Harrington jacket (no I wasn't a skinhead), just like to look smart.

At the times the fashion was brilliant it's just cringeworthy now, also had a Chrombi overcoat if anyone remember them. Star tank tops shirts so loud they'd shout across the road, but I was young and daft, now I'm old and dafter. :):)

had a Ben Sherman shirt

Yeah then wear instead of a normal plain White one for School. Well smart :(

Wearing your School tie with only the thin bit showing was "dead in" too. Was it for anyone else!?

Yeah, we used to wear them like that circa 1979-80. Most people wore them in the normal way or with a "swot knot", that is, as big a knot as possible with as short a tie as possible. My teddy boy mates and me wore them thin end showing and sometimes tucked into the shirt about halfway down and with a small tight "peanut" knot, the school mods also wore them like that.

Yeah, we used to wear them like that circa 1979-80. Most people wore them in the normal way or with a "swot knot", that is, as big a knot as possible with as short a tie as possible. My teddy boy mates and me wore them thin end showing and sometimes tucked into the shirt about halfway down and with a small tight "peanut" knot, the school mods also wore them like that.
we dint wear ties at school, no school uniform :D

i used to wear burgundy / blue stapress or skintight jeans, burgundy fred perry tshirt, black dr martins, and black cardigan with a hole in each sleeve for mi thumb to go through :P
was always being told by the teachers to take my trousers out of mi dockers lol

the other day i was thinking about how different youth culture is now from back in the day

seems there was far more followers of all sorts of youth fashions back then than you get these days?
the vast majority these days are either moshers or chavs

Inthe 70'sm my mother wore what she 'grew up' in in th 60's. Colourful clothes and big hair.

The 70's clothes I remember: Big flares, then Oxford Bags, high waist torusers, turn-ups, Oxford Bags with high waists and turn-ups, and then a sudden move to drain-pipes. And while we had to wear a tie as part of the school uniform, people would wear them really short and fat and some wore luminescent socks, as there was nothing about socks in the rules.

The 80's - hard to remember - all seemed kinda normal, or maybe I was too busy to notice.

To rupert,let me give you a reminder of early 80s fashion.
Skin tight leather trousers.
Black pointy shoes with huge silver buckels.
White blouse with a frill down the front.
Eyeliner a must also a Phill Oaky fringe.And......
That was just for the blokes:D.

Yeah, we used to wear them like that circa 1979-80. Most people wore them in the normal way or with a "swot knot", that is, as big a knot as possible with as short a tie as possible. My teddy boy mates and me wore them thin end showing and sometimes tucked into the shirt about halfway down and with a small tight "peanut" knot, the school mods also wore them like that.

I did'nt realise/know it was so popular back then! We was forbidden and warned not to do them as so the first day in First Year (Year 7 in Today's Currency) :)

Wearing your Tie midgly thin about a CM or 2 long, if that with only the thin side out made you the "coolest of the cool guy's" I found at School. Anyone else think this?