General Chat

What do you remember from the sixties?
Mini skirts (off course)
White tights (mum said they looked like laying out stockings!)
Mary Quant pop art
Beatles (of course)
Likely lads on the telly
Mods and rockers


Feel free to add

GULP Can't be the only one to remember the sixties can I OR is it right what they say, if you remember the sixties you weren't there

I remember but i wasn't there lol

I can tick all of the above! lol

I also recall the advent and availability of hair-pieces (I had one and had it incorporated in my hair when I got married)
Midi and maxi length coats - handy went it was Winter (especially with a mini underneath)

Vidal Sasoon haircuts - all the rage - angle cuts, and costing a fortune.

Shoes with Louis (or kitten) heels, and straps over the ankle (like grannie shoes)

Meeting my OH - but that's another tale!

Jac

Hello Jenny

bless you, I was born in 1957 so was at school in the 60's so dont really remember much apart from study study study. lol.

I suppose I did have a mini skirt not that I had the figure for one really lol

I also drove the neighbours mad with my one record of the 60's and that was Sugar Sugar by the Archers. In fact they took pity on me as it was the only record I had and passed over a load of their singles which I still have today - original Cliff Richards and Diana Ross and the Supremes to name two of them.

What do you remember?

Tina xx

Of course, the maxi how could I forget. Had an orange (yes you read it right) maxi coat and someone said I looked like a blancmange - not sure how I should have taken that
Just remembered HOT PANTS - I had red satin ones. YES my taste was really that bad

Tina I was a teenager in the sixties so loved them - remember fashions seem to change on a weekly basis
White knee length boots have just come to mind

LOL its good remembering the past especially the clothes we used to wear.

Tina xx

tights came in!!! we could dispense with stockings and suspender belts!!!

Funny Tina, a friend and I were talking today about the fact that when we were younger we could pick any outfit up and look fairly reasonable in it and now at our age, everything we pick up seems to make us look like a dogs dinner!! Hate clothes shopping now - nothing ever seems to be made to fit me!

Ann, my mum worked in a factory making stockings so she bought me one of the first pairs of tights. They had coloured tops and when the tights became laddered you could wear the tops as a pair of pants Voila!

Petrol was about 2/6 a GALLON

The boys in our sixth form used to ride to school on their scooters with lots of wing mirrors and lamps on them (the scooters that is!) and there would be a line of them parked outside.
Does anyone remember painted on eyelashes aka Julie Driscoll

Skinny Ribs -

white boots with the toe cut out (fat load of good in the wet) I had a pair - Courrege (sp) was the designer - swoon!!

The Stones, The Who, The Beatles, Aretha Frankin etc. saw them all = brilliant.

OH (then boyfriend) had Lambretta and we were Mods (but not violent ones)

Stupid woollen helmet type hats, that buttoned under the chin!

Vidal Sasoon hair cuts that cost a bomb - all angles

Vodka and Lime!! how sophisticated?

Berni Inns - with Prawn cocktails, steak and then black forest gateaux - how posh!

eeeeh.............I feel old!

Jac

ecru tights, mini skirt, maxi coat,three sisters. I remember my sister wanted to borrow my hot pants. I said yes if I could borrow her black maxi coat.done deal.done over more like. I wore a white top and white mini skirt. Hair was down to my knees. thought I was the bees knees. then it poured down with rain , and the black coat ran , my legs where coverd in black dye, did'nt come off for days. the only time I grounded myself. fun memories.Thanks folks , thats cheered me up no end.going into hospital tomorrow for small precedure was feeling a bit nervous .
Sally Sunshine x

Glad that cheered you up Sally - Good luck for tomorrow

Oh and Jac The Berni inns brought back plenty of memories. Few dates in them. Seems funny now but they seemed to be the height of sophistication then

I remember wearing a brown woollen helmet whilst on the back of said Lambretta (crash helmets were not mandatory then) and when it rained every time I wiped my face the wool would come off the helmet and cover my face - lol Must have looked like something out of the circus when I got off the scooter!!

Also - do you remember gloves that had holes punched in over the knuckles and a key-hole cut on the top - fastened with velcro or press stud? I had a pair in cream, white (to match the boots) black and brown.

On reflection I could never had had any money cos I must have spent it all on clothes and accessories - lol

On the down side I remember the Vietnam War, JFK, Purple Hearts and the onset of drugs.

Free love (well I never paid for any - lol), flower power, painted faces (all a bit naff to us Mods).

Ah.........those were the days!

Gondola baskets.
Mary Quant Paint Box.Black eye-liner makes my eyes disappear.I have small eye-lids so would paint my WHOLE eyelid black.Talk about pee-holes in the snow.
AND we all wore a budgie bell for God's sake!
Hold-ups (Mary Quant again)
Two sets or even three of false eyelashes.

I was born in the sixties and remember landing on the moon and the beatles

Sparrow, you mean YOU landed on the moon? does NASA know about this? lol