ChaoticMusings

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Vam wrote:

 

Syl wrote:

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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.

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 (😂 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… 🤣🤣🤣

 

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 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 wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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This desreves a thread of it's own.

 

Vam wrote:

 

Syl wrote:

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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.

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 (😂 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… 🤣🤣🤣

 

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 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! 

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 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 wrote:

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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.

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 I wore hot pants, over knee boots, and mini skirts, into the 70s when I'm also wore platform soles!

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😎 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 😉

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@ 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 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.

Red Okktober wrote:

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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.

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 My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts 

Magica wrote:

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 My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts 

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  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 wrote:

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Magica wrote:

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 My brother and his mate, later my husband, always wore Ben Shermans, nice shirts 

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  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.

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 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 

Fluffy wrote:

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Syl wrote:

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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.

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 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! 

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 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.