Lol...just seen it. Lots of favourite bits, including one of the coolest film dances of all time, Travolta and Therman. Do you know, I look at those gorgeous girls wearing short shorts, and wonder why I never wore hot pants (my era) I actually hated them back then.
(😂 sorry, I keep derailing this thread, but I gotta respond to that!)
I’ve seen your statuesque shape, so you’d have looked great in them
I was fearless about wearing hot pants. And I will never forget the look on my Mama’s face when I showed up to pick her up from work, wearing a dusty pink outfit - hot pants & matching blazer, with above-the-knee dusty pink suede boots. She almost passed out… 🤣🤣🤣
Syl said
Aug 4 12:43 PM, 2025
Which fashions do you wish you had worn when you were younger?
Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
Fluffy said
Aug 4 12:54 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
This desreves a thread of it's own.
Vam wrote:
Syl wrote:
Lol...just seen it. Lots of favourite bits, including one of the coolest film dances of all time, Travolta and Therman. Do you know, I look at those gorgeous girls wearing short shorts, and wonder why I never wore hot pants (my era) I actually hated them back then.
(😂 sorry, I keep derailing this thread, but I gotta respond to that!)
I’ve seen your statuesque shape, so you’d have looked great in them
I was fearless about wearing hot pants. And I will never forget the look on my Mama’s face when I showed up to pick her up from work, wearing a dusty pink outfit - hot pants & matching blazer, with above-the-knee dusty pink suede boots. She almost passed out… 🤣🤣🤣
They sound absolutely gorgeous.!!
I don't know if they are in fashion now and don't care. With hot pants they would have looked terrific and the higher the boots the better. You must have turned some heads!
Fluffy said
Aug 4 1:10 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Which fashions do you wish you had worn when you were younger? Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
I usually wore mini skirts on a night out ,with an assortment of whalebone basques and my beloved Morgan silver heels.
There wasn't really such a thing as "fashion" though. For example I remember Kate Moss was "in" when I was in school so the waif look was considered cool which the media got in a lather about. All the girls (including myself) bought Calvin Klein Ck One perfume and Gwyneth Paltrow ironed straight hair was "in".
But unlike decades before there wasn't really fashion trends that had an impact like the Mary Quant mini skirt (I think she created the mini skirt, not sure)
l adored the sixties look, of long ironed hair, eyeliner and a mini skirt. That's how I went to school to do my A Levels looking back!
Syl said
Aug 4 1:12 PM, 2025
Fluffy wrote:
Syl wrote:
This desreves a thread of it's own.
Vam wrote:
Syl wrote:
Lol...just seen it. Lots of favourite bits, including one of the coolest film dances of all time, Travolta and Therman. Do you know, I look at those gorgeous girls wearing short shorts, and wonder why I never wore hot pants (my era) I actually hated them back then.
(😂 sorry, I keep derailing this thread, but I gotta respond to that!)
I’ve seen your statuesque shape, so you’d have looked great in them
I was fearless about wearing hot pants. And I will never forget the look on my Mama’s face when I showed up to pick her up from work, wearing a dusty pink outfit - hot pants & matching blazer, with above-the-knee dusty pink suede boots. She almost passed out… 🤣🤣🤣
They sound absolutely gorgeous.!!
I don't know if they are in fashion now and don't care. With hot pants they would have looked terrific and the higher the boots the better. You must have turned some heads!
She still does, I am sure.
The only hot pants I ever wore were a panic purchase to go on holiday in Newquay. They were black and white satin(gross) I wore them once, hated them, washed them and hung them to dry on the balcony of the little B&B I was staying in. They must have blown off in the night, and someone in the street below obviously liked them more than I did, cos I never saw them again.
Magica said
Aug 4 1:15 PM, 2025
Syl wrote:
Which fashions do you wish you had worn when you were younger? Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
I wore hot pants, over knee boots, and mini skirts, into the 70s when I'm also wore platform soles!
Vam said
Aug 4 1:41 PM, 2025
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
Which fashions do you wish you had worn when you were younger? Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
I wore hot pants, over knee boots, and mini skirts, into the 70s when I'm also wore platform soles!
😎 Good girl! 👏🏻👏🏻 I got over the knee boots in every colour I could find - especially suede ones.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t too into mini skirts - 3 inches above the knee max, for me. I preferred really tailored pencil skirts, with a long vent at the back.
And heels. Always heels 😉
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 4th of August 2025 02:21:21 PM
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 4th of August 2025 02:41:32 PM
Vam said
Aug 4 1:53 PM, 2025
Syl …. “The only hot pants I ever wore were a panic purchase to go on holiday in Newquay. They were black and white satin(gross) I wore them once, hated them, washed them and hung them to dry on the balcony of the little B&B I was staying in. They must have blown off in the night, and someone in the street below obviously liked them more than I did, cos I never saw them again.”
———————————————
😂😂😂
Re mini skirts…yeah no one’s ever quite managed to replicate the ‘Carnaby Street Cool’ of the Quant and Twiggy era. But the mini skirt still lives on decades later!
Those fashion catwalk sequences in the music clip I posted had me practically drooling (cut & colours are my thing). Loads of sashaying minis going on there. I realise most of those sequences are probably AI-generated, but I don’t care 💁🏻♀️ In a world full of ugliness, I find joy in looking at beautiful things.
Random question: Anyone remember when no perfume shelf was complete, without a must-have bottle of Yves St. Laurent ‘Poison’? 😂
Vam said
Aug 4 1:58 PM, 2025
@ Fluffster….YES! CK perfume was another ‘must have’. Gawd, that stuff reeked!
Sadly, on me, it smelt like a bunch of alley cats had each stopped by to pee all over me 😖😂
Magica said
Aug 4 1:59 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Magica wrote:
Syl wrote:
Which fashions do you wish you had worn when you were younger? Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
I wore hot pants, over knee boots, and mini skirts, into the 70s when I'm also wore platform soles!
😎 Good girl! 👏🏻👏🏻 I got over the knee boots in every colour I could find - especially suede ones.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t too into mini skirts - 3 inches above the knee max, for me. I preferred really tailored pencil skirts, with a long vent at the back.
I had purple suede boots. When it rained the dye came off onto my legs!
Red Okktober said
Aug 4 2:02 PM, 2025
I also wore platform shoes in my youth, including on a geology field trip when we were told to wear sensible shoes. I ended up slipping off a rock and breaking a bone in my foot!
They were hideous and resembled clown's shoes. IIRC they were mustard and purple with green toecaps, and had some kind of seam running down the middle, and a very thick sole. I wore them with brown flared corduroy trousers and thought I looked the business.
I also remember wearing Ben Sherman shirts with the buttoned down collar, grandad vests, tonic trousers (kind of shiny two tone) round collared shirts, and loafers with tassles on (always with blakeys hammered into the soul. Y-fronts were pretty standard as well.
I can also vividly remember the first Xmas when I stopped getting toys and was given clothes instead - most of them quite hideous.
Vam said
Aug 4 2:10 PM, 2025
Magica wrote:
Vam wrote:
😎 Good girl! 👏🏻👏🏻 I got over the knee boots in every colour I could find - especially suede ones.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t too into mini skirts - 3 inches above the knee max, for me. I preferred really tailored pencil skirts, with a long vent at the back.
I had purple suede boots. When it rained the dye came off onto my legs!
True fact - I just spat my coffee out!
(great to see a bloke venturing in here. Hiiiiiya, Red )
Magica said
Aug 4 3:10 PM, 2025
Red Okktober wrote:
I also wore platform shoes in my youth, including on a geology field trip when we were told to wear sensible shoes. I ended up slipping off a rock and breaking a bone in my foot!
They were hideous and resembled clown's shoes. IIRC they were mustard and purple with green toecaps, and had some kind of seam running down the middle, and a very thick sole. I wore them with brown flared corduroy trousers and thought I looked the business.
I also remember wearing Ben Sherman shirts with the buttoned down collar, grandad vests, tonic trousers (kind of shiny two tone) round collared shirts, and loafers with tassles on (always with blakeys hammered into the soul. Y-fronts were pretty standard as well.
I can also vividly remember the first Xmas when I stopped getting toys and was given clothes instead - most of them quite hideous.
My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts
Magica said
Aug 4 3:12 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
Magica wrote:
Vam wrote:
😎 Good girl! 👏🏻👏🏻 I got over the knee boots in every colour I could find - especially suede ones.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t too into mini skirts - 3 inches above the knee max, for me. I preferred reallyI had purple suede boots. When it rained the dye came off onto my legs!
True fact - I just spat my coffee out!
(great to see a bloke venturing in here. Hiiiiiya, Red )
😅
Red Okktober said
Aug 4 4:01 PM, 2025
Magica wrote:
My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts
I could never iron the pleat on the back and used to get my mum to do it!
Was your husband a skinhead? They used to wear Ben Shermans as part of their outfit. I wasn't, but my older brother was - Ben Shermans and shrink fit Levi 501s - he used to sit in the bath for hours whenever he bought a new pair.
Red Okktober said
Aug 4 4:03 PM, 2025
Vam wrote:
True fact - I just spat my coffee out!
(great to see a bloke venturing in here. Hiiiiiya, Red )
Some of us blokes can be quite fashionable you know!
Magica said
Aug 4 4:44 PM, 2025
Red Okktober wrote:
Magica wrote:
My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts
I could never iron the pleat on the back and used to get my mum to do it!
Was your husband a skinhead? They used to wear Ben Shermans as part of their outfit. I wasn't, but my older brother was - Ben Shermans and shrink fit Levi 501s - he used to sit in the bath for hours whenever he bought a new pair.
My mum ironed his shirts. Did all.our ironing. Yes they were skinheads.
I nicked one of his Ben Sherman's to wear with my miniskirt that had straps like braces, when me and mates went to a disco. Guess who was there. 😲
My brother went mad seeing me in his shirt! Oops
Syl said
Aug 4 5:35 PM, 2025
My OH was a Ben Sherman shirt wearer too.
When we met, he also wore platform shoes, and initially, because bell bottom denims were in, worn so long they completely covered the shoes up, I thought he was as tall as me in my 3'' heels.
It was only when he came to pick me up in a club I worked in, and I heard a clattering noise coming from the stairs, followed by OH (then new boyfriend) hobbling in, one shoe on one shoe off, I realised, he was in fact, the same height as me without shoes, 5'8''.
Cheated.
Syl said
Aug 4 5:42 PM, 2025
Fluffy wrote:
Syl wrote:
Which fashions do you wish you had worn when you were younger? Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
I usually wore mini skirts on a night out ,with an assortment of whalebone basques and my beloved Morgan silver heels.
There wasn't really such a thing as "fashion" though. For example I remember Kate Moss was "in" when I was in school so the waif look was considered cool which the media got in a lather about. All the girls (including myself) bought Calvin Klein Ck One perfume and Gwyneth Paltrow ironed straight hair was "in".
But unlike decades before there wasn't really fashion trends that had an impact like the Mary Quant mini skirt (I think she created the mini skirt, not sure)
l adored the sixties look, of long ironed hair, eyeliner and a mini skirt. That's how I went to school to do my A Levels looking back!
I think women either pick a perfume when they are young, and stick with it for years....or as they mature, their perfume taste does too.
I started off with Nina Ricci's 'L'air du temps, I wore it till I was mid 20's, then experimented a bit, found a lot of scents brought on headaches, so ended up with Channel No5, which doesn't give me a headache, I still wear it today, but am so used to it I cant even smell it on myself.
Vam said
Aug 4 5:44 PM, 2025
LMAO @ these stories (Mags! )
Platforms are still very much around though - just not the ‘tower block’ high ones.
@ Syl, wanna see the shoes I wore to that wedding from the pic of me I posted a while back? 😉…. 👇🏻
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 4th of August 2025 05:46:50 PM
This desreves a thread of it's own.
Vam wrote:
(😂 sorry, I keep derailing this thread, but I gotta respond to that!)
I’ve seen your statuesque shape, so you’d have looked great in them
I was fearless about wearing hot pants. And I will never forget the look on my Mama’s face when I showed up to pick her up from work, wearing a dusty pink outfit - hot pants & matching blazer, with above-the-knee dusty pink suede boots. She almost passed out… 🤣🤣🤣
Like we said...Vam loved her hot pants, I avoided them.
The knee high boots I can relate to...mine were cream suede with a block wooden 3'' heel, which, with my hair up, made me into a six footer.
Some fashions have come around again...though the mini never quite has the class it had back then.
They sound absolutely gorgeous.!!
I don't know if they are in fashion now and don't care. With hot pants they would have looked terrific and the higher the boots the better. You must have turned some heads!
I usually wore mini skirts on a night out ,with an assortment of whalebone basques and my beloved Morgan silver heels.
There wasn't really such a thing as "fashion" though. For example I remember Kate Moss was "in" when I was in school so the waif look was considered cool which the media got in a lather about. All the girls (including myself) bought Calvin Klein Ck One perfume and Gwyneth Paltrow ironed straight hair was "in".
But unlike decades before there wasn't really fashion trends that had an impact like the Mary Quant mini skirt (I think she created the mini skirt, not sure)
l adored
the sixties look, of long ironed hair, eyeliner and a mini skirt. That's how I went to school to do my A Levels looking back!
She still does, I am sure.
The only hot pants I ever wore were a panic purchase to go on holiday in Newquay. They were black and white satin(gross) I wore them once, hated them, washed them and hung them to dry on the balcony of the little B&B I was staying in. They must have blown off in the night, and someone in the street below obviously liked them more than I did, cos I never saw them again.
I wore hot pants, over knee boots, and mini skirts, into the 70s when I'm also wore platform soles!
😎 Good girl! 👏🏻👏🏻 I got over the knee boots in every colour I could find - especially suede ones.
Funnily enough, I wasn’t too into mini skirts - 3 inches above the knee max, for me. I preferred really tailored pencil skirts, with a long vent at the back.
And heels. Always heels 😉
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 4th of August 2025 02:21:21 PM
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 4th of August 2025 02:41:32 PM
Syl …. “The only hot pants I ever wore were a panic purchase to go on holiday in Newquay. They were black and white satin(gross) I wore them once, hated them, washed them and hung them to dry on the balcony of the little B&B I was staying in. They must have blown off in the night, and someone in the street below obviously liked them more than I did, cos I never saw them again.
”
———————————————
😂😂😂
Re mini skirts…yeah no one’s ever quite managed to replicate the ‘Carnaby Street Cool’ of the Quant and Twiggy era. But the mini skirt still lives on decades later!
Those fashion catwalk sequences in the music clip I posted had me practically drooling (cut & colours are my thing). Loads of sashaying minis going on there. I realise most of those sequences are probably AI-generated, but I don’t care 💁🏻♀️ In a world full of ugliness, I find joy in looking at beautiful things.
Random question: Anyone remember when no perfume shelf was complete, without a must-have bottle of Yves St. Laurent ‘Poison’? 😂
@ Fluffster….YES! CK perfume was another ‘must have’. Gawd, that stuff reeked!
Sadly, on me, it smelt like a bunch of alley cats had each stopped by to pee all over me 😖😂
I had purple suede boots. When it rained the dye came off onto my legs!
They were hideous and resembled clown's shoes. IIRC they were mustard and purple with green toecaps, and had some kind of seam running down the middle, and a very thick sole. I wore them with brown flared corduroy trousers and thought I looked the business.
I also remember wearing Ben Sherman shirts with the buttoned down collar, grandad vests, tonic trousers (kind of shiny two tone) round collared shirts, and loafers with tassles on (always with blakeys hammered into the soul. Y-fronts were pretty standard as well.
I can also vividly remember the first Xmas when I stopped getting toys and was given clothes instead - most of them quite hideous.
True fact - I just spat my coffee out!
(great to see a bloke venturing in here. Hiiiiiya, Red
)
My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts
😅
I could never iron the pleat on the back and used to get my mum to do it!
Was your husband a skinhead? They used to wear Ben Shermans as part of their outfit. I wasn't, but my older brother was - Ben Shermans and shrink fit Levi 501s - he used to sit in the bath for hours whenever he bought a new pair.
Some of us blokes can be quite fashionable you know!
My mum ironed his shirts. Did all.our ironing. Yes they were skinheads.
I nicked one of his Ben Sherman's to wear with my miniskirt that had straps like braces, when me and mates went to a disco. Guess who was there. 😲
My brother went mad seeing me in his shirt! Oops
When we met, he also wore platform shoes, and initially, because bell bottom denims were in, worn so long they completely covered the shoes up, I thought he was as tall as me in my 3'' heels.
It was only when he came to pick me up in a club I worked in, and I heard a clattering noise coming from the stairs, followed by OH (then new boyfriend) hobbling in, one shoe on one shoe off, I realised, he was in fact, the same height as me without shoes, 5'8''.
Cheated.
I think women either pick a perfume when they are young, and stick with it for years....or as they mature, their perfume taste does too.
I started off with Nina Ricci's 'L'air du temps, I wore it till I was mid 20's, then experimented a bit, found a lot of scents brought on headaches, so ended up with Channel No5, which doesn't give me a headache, I still wear it today, but am so used to it I cant even smell it on myself.
LMAO @ these stories
(Mags! 
)
Platforms are still very much around though - just not the ‘tower block’ high ones.
@ Syl, wanna see the shoes I wore to that wedding from the pic of me I posted a while back? 😉…. 👇🏻
-- Edited by Vam on Monday 4th of August 2025 05:46:50 PM