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from what I recall.............hmmm!, now where was I?

back in a mo when I remember .....

AH! yes.....short skirts, n young mums......
nice legs,no luv handles, no bellies hanging over waist bands.. from what I recall
figures seemed to be MUCH trimmer in those days....

Bob

at 18:05 that seems to have killed it!!

Proper cookery lessons! I learned to make peppermint creams,melting moments and welsh cheesecakes.One class made bubble and squeak. There's food you eat daily!
The bit we all liked best was when we had to tidy the cookery cupboard.Yeh? I wonder if she ever knew why there were never any cherries or currants in there. Things got a bit tighter when one of the girls thought she might just have a fag while she was at it.
This was a grammar school too!

Oh Ann - just come back on the thread. I remember gondola baskets. I had one that I took my cookery ingredients to school in. One day I put in on the ground whilst I waited for the bus and when I unpacked it in the cookery lesson the biggest spider jumped out. The whole of the class ran out of the classroom with the cookery teacher chasing after us shouting "What about your ovens girls"!! Those were the days

Yardley's Pink Magic lipstick which made you look as if you had serious heart problems or circulation problems

My sister had a gondola basket - Mum used to go mental cos she always left in the hall for people to trip over - she also wore black tights with white shoes!!!

I have loved reading this thread. I well remember the 60`s and yes I was there. The music and the clothes were FAB................... although I could be biased of course. LOL.............

Love and Peace
Marianne.x

Got married in 1960, daughter born late 61, son born 67. Did have a maxi skirt, couldn't afford a maxi coat. did have hot pants otherwise fashion more or less passed me by. A happy time for us though with the young family. plus we were fostering then too. End of the sixties I had a trouser suit, when they first came in it was trousers and a tunic top.

Ann
glos

"Falling In Love" every day with Doris Day..

Black or white furry 'bonnets', I had a white one.

Blue quilted anoraks.

Reefer jackets.

Palest Pink lipstick.

Jackie, Fabulous, Bunty, does anyone else remember Intro mag, it was only published for a few months and then it folded. It was huge, about the size of a broadsheet newspaper.

Yep james, your about right, i remember going to the garage with me dad & getting four gallons & four shots & get change from a pound, i was mixing 25p & 2 shillings & sixpence

The girls had a small Yellow and white doll to show they, I believe, were not longer virgins

James

McB what country were you in to get petrol for 2/6p?
in 1953 it was 4/6p for the ordinary and 4/9p for best and 2/6p tax

James

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

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

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 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!

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

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

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

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

Petrol was about 2/6 a GALLON