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ive had to many to mention.when i look back at photo"s i cringe,oh i thought i was the bees knees.
what are your memories? :-)

Ra ra skirt. vest..ripped lace over shirt and lace fingerless gloves....fishnets with dm's.

oh dear lol x

We didn't have fashion when I was in my teens, we had clothes!!!! So no real disasters there. But when I was in my 40s in the 80s I had a pants suit (I think that is what it would have been called, trousers, long sleeved top with a dropped scoop neckall in one and mine was in a black and white animal print.


See what I mean.

the 80's shell suit :-| and the global hyper colour t-shirts, that changed colour when you sweat, "very classy" NOT lol,

I don't know Ann we had the A-line dresses,with layers of starched petticoats :-S....winkle picker shoes (fab!) duster coats and what about our huge earings? :-D

I had a green twinset, - a cardigan with matching short-sleeve jumper....Very sedate !
Wore this quite alot at college, where it was considered 'suitable dress', but later went much bolder with a tomato red PVC raincoat, with silver colour press stud fastening.

Gwyn

oooh Gwyn you've just reminded me of my tomato red PVC raincoat :-D....worn with black polo necked sweater and black tights I thought I looked 'swell' ;-)

I HAD A WHITE RARA DRESS,AND IT WAS BEFORE I HAD KIDS SO HAD FLAT TUMMY,I REALLY LOVED THAT DRESS.I NEVER EVER WORE A SHELL SUIT,BUT I DID WEAR A PANT SUIT,IT WAS PURPLE WITH A YELLOW JACKET,AND I THOUGHT I LOOKED LIKE A CATWALK MODEL IN IT HA HA (OH WE WEAR OUR ROSE TINTED GLASSES A LOT DURING OUR TEENS DONT WE) OH AND DONT MENTION THE TARTEN TROUSERS. OMG IM CRINGING THINKING OF IT :-D :-D :-D

I'd forgotten the tartan trousers, ... Mine were Black Watch.

Gwyn

HOT PANTS.!!!!

and midriff topwith black knee boots......

oh dear,

:-0

i had hotpants for my brothers christening when i was 8(my mum was very fashionable) yellow knee lenth boots to go with it. :-D

sack dresses - loved them - my Mum made three of them for me to take on honeymoon!! I still have one that I bought in 1957 and have a photograph of me in it!! wonder if it's worth anything

is a sack dress the same as a shift dress Ann
please forgive me for asking,but i was not born until 1963,but i so want to wear a shift dress for my daughters wedding in 5wks time.x :-D

going to work the night shift now,please post and i will reply to you all tomorrow.have a good night. :-D :-D :-D

Much the same Suzanne - shapeless

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the only thing I can remember that was considered fashionable at the time was the boat necked full skirted dresses of the 50's. You wore them with a very full net skirt underneath. Will always remember that net skirt. .

I remember marks used to have counters of twin sets you could buy separately, very soft and in lots of different colours.

60's changed all that and it was mini skirts and then 70's cheesecloth, shirts and long dresses and skirts althhough I wasn't a teenager then.

Vera

A red coat with a hood. I was about 17. I didn't buy it, my mother did.

I hated the thing, and mother got annoyed because I wouldn't wear it.

I looked like a child of Red Riding Hood and Santa.

No idea what happened to it ! I didn't take it with me when I left mum&dad's house.

Mau, I suppose duster coats could be called fashion disaster although they weren't bad, and winkle picker shoes didn't look bad but were a disaster for our feet. (Didn't they pinch???)

Net petticoats were a disaster if they had a hoop in and you sat down and forgot what would happen if you sat on the hoop.

But the shift/sack dress was very useful, I wore them through my second pregnancy and never needed maternity clothes. And they were so easy to make. :-)

Am I the only one brave enought to put a photo of mine up?

For me the biggest fashion disasters of the 80's ( my teens) has to be the big blumming perm :-D

i think my hot pants days are well over

wiggle wiggle ;-)