Wasn’t it great?

Dressing as a Mod. My style icon Twiggy wondering what I would do if I couldn't get false eyelashes. Perfume Topax and youth Dew. Music Amen Corner, The love Affair. Sitting in the bath with my Levi jeans on trying to get the colour out. Most of all my dads delicate tones shouting YOUR NOT BLOODY GOING OUT LOOKING LIKE THAT.

I suppose we were trailblazers in the 60s when young people were recognised as different from their parents and became ‘teenagers’.
I think until the 'Swinging Sixties' most girls wore similar things to their mothers - good suits, white gloves and then full-skirted dresses with cardigans!

It was so much fun getting ready to go out-used to use a wash out colour shampoo then a powder by Inecto I think grey/silver on top. I was lucky my hair was long blonde and straight. We all used to make our own clothes-a dress a week-shift dresses getting shorter and shorter each week. There used to be dances each Saturday night and we danced with the same boys each week but no romances-it was the dancing that was the thing. Used Miners make up or Mary Quant -perfume was Revlon's Intimate and listened to the Beatles, Monkees, Lovin' Spoonful. Great post and love to hear everyone's memories-really makes me think we were so lucky to live when we did

Wonderful thread and recognise most of the clothes, makeup and perfume mentioned.
I used to wear suede hot pants or skirt, satin party dresses I made myself. Those soft white boots which used to gradually fall down!
The interesting thing about this thread is that we all wore similar things in the 60s/70s and recognise ourselves in the descriptions. I don’t think that would happen now as fashion is far more diverse and people are more individual in their clothing. There’s so much choice of clothes and makeup these days.
I suppose we were trailblazers in the 60s when young people were recognised as different from their parents and became ‘teenagers’.

Merlot - also 'It's snowing down south' if your petticoat had slipped below your dress

Ooooh I remember those crocheted mini dresses. When the girls at work discovered I could crochet I was in hot demand. Then there were the dresses knitted on huge needles. I made several of those. My friend bought an embroidered Afghan coat that I was very envious of, until it had been hanging in a warm room for several hours and it stunk!!

Crocheted mini dresses. Trying to get my hair like Mary Quant, my eyes like Twiggy's, wishing I was Pattie Boyd!

Oh yes! So many happy memories of the 60s and 70s. Though as a rather shy teen I never much enjoyed socialising, but I made the effort to be one of the crowd.
Queueing up on a Saturday night to get into The Royal in Tottenham and making a rum and coke last all night.
Black leather hot pants, or 12 inch mini skirts with a tight sweater and long shiny white boots. All hidden under an ankle length wool maxi coat.
Gorgeous Biba and Mary Quant dresses.
The 'panda eyes' look and ridiculously long false eyelashes. I soon ditched all that makeup when I realised I had to take it all off again in the early hours of the morning! Have never really worn makeup since then.
Coty L'Aiment and Blue Grass perfume. I still wear Blue Grass. I bought my first bottle of Channel No.5 with my first paycheck and it's still my favourite perfume.
All the boys seemed to wear Brut aftershave.
Listening to the latest hits in record booths in music shops, then handing them back because we couldn't afford to buy them.

Hi Buffybee. No didn't go to those other clubs but have so many good memories of dancing around my handbag in Manchester. Fantastic days and nights

I was quite the hippy in my teens. Wore long cheesecloth dresses and had an Afghan coat which smelt like it had only just parted company with the animal. I had long hair and was delighted when electric crimpers appeared. Wore patchouli which was very strong but when I could afford opium perfume I had an allergic reaction. Still like the smell even now. Listened to Led Zeppelin, Jo Jo Gunne and Santana

Maxi cardigans, loons (marvelous when they got wet!), platform soles, capes, yellow eyeshadow and Charlie perfume

Aquamanda perfume and shampoo out colours for your hair. Definitely Carmen rollers and skirts that came just to the end of your pants, so you daren’t bend over!

I remember the Top of the Town at Belle Vue dproff and the Blue Note and The Sound in Spring Gardens.
Did you ever go to a club called
La Petite? It was on a little Street off Portland Street and nobody seems to remember it.
Also, a little club on Shude Hill but I can't remember the name.
Bet we were there at the same time.
Brilliant times!

a few years younger than me then!!

I think I might be about the same age as NotAGran55 because loon pants, leather laces round my neck, Aqua Manda, Amen Corner and The Herd are what I remember ? Never really got ready like that for dates though - no make-up, hair was long and never cut - for boys and girls - and we all just wore loon pants or frayed Levis and cheesecloth shirts - a very 'unisex' time.

Avon blue frosted eye shadow all over my lids. I became allergic to it and couldn't wear any eye make up for a long time. Went through all brands until found Max Factor and Estee Lauder were okay and expensive (always had expensive tastes). Still have problems with sone brands now.

Made a lot of my dresses because I was so thin (measured a skirt I had kept as I wore it first night I met husband and I had altered it to a 17 inch waist!) and bought a lot from Miss Selfridge. One dress I made was a Juliet style low cut dress (Romeo and Juliet with Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey was showing) and my mom asking what jumper I was wearing underneath (I was a 32AAAAA). Particularly remember a pair of white trousers with turn ups which actually fitted me, black velvet short sleeved jacket edged in satin and white blouse with leg of mutton sleeves. Thought I was the bees knees! Had a beautiful black crepe midi dress from Wallis dry clean only bought for Valentine's Day 1971. My mom got hold of it and washed it shrinking it. I could have cried I loved it so much. A maroon mini coat and maroon suede over the knee boots had a gap between coat and boots and my legs were numb from cold. I remember boiling American Tan tights to get them white but adding a bit too much bleach and they disintegrated. ,Someone mentioned black bows for hair. I started making these at school and did a roaring trade.

Always had a bath with bath cubes - gritty - or a splash of dettol until I developed a reaction to that!

Bee Gees, Rod Stewart, Cat Stevens, David Bowie all on the stereo system which I ordered by phone and had delivered. Bought a lot of my records by post from New Musical Express so I was doing what I do now by ordering online.

Favourite perfume was Estee Lauder Youth Dew but it was still there the next day on clothing and associated the morning after feeling with the stale smell. Went back to using it again (husband loves it) and still remember that smell/feeling.

Those were the days!

Jalima1108 I couldn't remember the name of the perfume until I saw your post. Je Revien!
but how sophisticated was Chanel No 5 - lucky you Butweam!

And, of course, I have been reminded of Helena Rubenstein's Apple Blossom, Californian Poppies and Blue Grass.

Mum used Evening in Paris and it was real perfume in a tiny blue bottle rather than an Eau de Toilette.

I am obviously older than most of above - I remember after washing my hair sittj g with my head in the ove trying to dry it. Then a plafi bag wrapped over it while I got on my bike to cycle to the dance! Even if I had company on the way home Mum would make my Dad come to make sure I didn't get up to 'no good'.

The getting ready bit was usually better than the actual night out.
I had long hair so didn’t bother with rollers, but liked pale pink lipstick and block mascara.
Short dresses with peter pan collars, or mandarin collars were very Twiggy and fashionable.American tan tights or lacy tights with either boots or slingback shoes.
If getting ready with a friend, singing along to records.
We didn’t drink any alchohol at all, either in the house or when we went out ( very different now) but had enough of our own high spirits not to need any!
Black and white ‘pop art’ dresses were very trendy too.

I'm all nostalgic now, lovely post! I remember ‘my look’ was that of dusty springfield heavy black eye liner and lashes with a Mary Quant hairstyle. Mini skirts and tight jumpers and shoes so uncomfortable my mum used to say ‘you’ll regret it in later life’ - wise words indeed! Playing The Who, Beatles, and Hollies as I was getting ready I still remember the excitement and anticipation- great times. Then at 19 I got married and that turned into a disaster very quickly. Happily married to 2nd husband for 38 years now but these posts have brought back such happy memories of those carefree teenage years and living with two wonderful parents.

Oh yes. Blue Grass. I'd forgotten that one.

My mother wore Je Reviens so I had to have something else on principle.

At school we said, "It's snowing in Paris." or "SOS -slip on show" to any girl whose slip was hanging below her skirt hem.

My parents refused to let me wear mini-skirts, I was thirteen when they came in, and I felt dreadful going around in knee-length skirts and dresses. My mother was horrified too, when girls' slacks with zips at the front came in. She insisted on moving the zip to the side and called my nice new slacks "suggestive". So I couldn't even be "with it" by wearing trousers.

First thing I bought after leaving home was a pair of Levis 501 with buttons! Going out wasn't fun at all, until I had left home for college.

I didn't wear much make up (still don't) but had my hair a bit like Cathy Mcgowan. Got ready listening to the Beatles mainly. I used to wear Blue Grass perfume and bought some not long ago but it didn't smell the same.

Used to go to the Cellar Club in Kingston and stay all night then round to the local cafe for breakfast. Believe it or not I would come home, go to bed and then stay there all the rest of Sunday and get up on Monday morning for work. My poor mum gave up cooking me a Sunday dinner!

Happy days indeed.

Urmstongran I really enjoyed that time of my life.
Remember going to Cadmans in Sale for dancing lessons with my best friend.
We wanted to make a good impression on the boys at the Plaza in Manchester.
I wore flared skirts and too many undergarments. Remember the bullet bras that collapsed inwards if someone bumped into you ?
We always wore girdles with suspenders even though slat thin.
Not much make-up as I had peachy skin (Oh for that now...think veins and lines!)
Perfumes were Je Reviens (not too keen on the smell but thought the name was sophisticated) and Blue Grass.
Listened to modern jazz in the Sale jazz clubs but none of us really drank, only the boys who went for beer.
Shoes were always T-strap with a medium heel.
Was never allowed to wear nail varnish as Mum thought it was tarty!
Remember running to the Picadilly bus station to catch the last bus to Stretford and only just making it.
Wonderful, carefree times.
Thanks for this lovely thread.

This is presuming you even have the energy to go out for a meal in the evening!