Wasn’t it great?

You’re right Maw
Too much choice perhaps nowadays! And social media pressure with ‘selfies’ too from your mates (or frenemies). I’d hate that pressure. It must suck out any blossoming confidence nowadays.

You were sophisticated paddyann partying till dawn!
Must have been wonderful.
I had to be on the late night bus home at the latest lady
It was just after 11:30pm.

It was so easy in those days to know what was cool and what wasn’t- there was so little choice!
I just aimed to copy whatever they were wearing in Honey or Petticoat and that was that. Add in a Biba mail order catalogue and I was sorted.

One perfume from those very early days was Patchouli - (awful but thought I was cool because it was hippyish). *blurgh

Rimmel - I could afford that makeup brand

Eyelure false eyelashes

Tights in ‘ecru’ colour - strange I even remember the name - from Etam. My friend bought them first and I was so impressed.

Peter Sarstedt on the record player.
Maggie May by Rod Stewart
Bob Dylan ‘Lay Lady Lay’. ... very sexy music
And ‘J’taime’ - gosh remember it was banned at the time - Birkin - and we all had to listen to it didn’t we?

I remember wearing a stiff/starched petticoat under my school summer dress. As skirts got shorter we'd have to roll them over at the top and they'd sometimes slip down. What was it that people called out, 'Charlie's peeping' or something?'

Prior to the mini skirt we wore tweed straight skirts that were very 'Bletchley circle/Miss Marple'

Didn't have to starch them. They were a component of paper nylon petticoats. Think the paper nylon might have been plastic coated. I wore them to make my circular skirt stand out.

Can't remember playing music whilst getting ready. Record player had to be loaded one record at a time. I wore Bourjois rouge. Can't remember what else.

Did you ever get chance to play catch up grannyactivist? Say in your late 20’s or so? Or was that just you and you were happy with it?

Oh merlotgran I can feel for you there!
I was allowed my first pair of stockings aged 13y and my mum had to help me fasten the suspenders at the back.... I went to a disco at the church youth club, bent over to straighten the stap on my shoe and a long necklace I was wearing snagged on my stockings. I was horrified & mortified to see the huge run of ‘ladders’!

White oxford bags and blazer and huge platform shoes ,no Saturday nights on the town though Saturdays were always our busiest days we all headed to someones house and partied until dawn ,then piled into the car and went to work to start another 14 hour shift .Brilliant times ,and we're all still in touch ans still meet up now and again .45 years wasn't SO long ago .

My aunt mentioned those Gonegirl
Did you starch them?
Did you like wearing them or was it just the fashion and everyone wore them?
When you were getting ready what was that like - did you play music/apply makeup?

I spent a fortune on my first pair of tights (they'd only just come in) and laddered them leaping into an MGB sports car - remember that girl at the beginning of the Simon Dee show?

I somehow managed not to cry!

My sisters would be very familiar with this scenario, but I never did it. I escaped from home by marrying at sixteen, had my first baby three years later and missed out on a 'teenage' altogether. From the age of five people used to say I had an 'old head on young shoulders'.

Fragrance- Paco Rabane “Calandre”
Cheese cloth tops and gypsy skirts.
Mascara by the bucket full.
Music Gladys Night & The Pips- Midnight Train to Georgia Album

As opposed to workplace suits (trousers or skirt) sophisticated make-up (allegedly)

Many fond memories, many nights I cannot remember and many I wish I could forget!!

Stiff net petticoats that made your skirt stick up at the front when you sat down, and laddered your stockings through scratchieness.

Sounds wonderful merlotgran
Twiggy mark II - yes the eyes & the pale lipstick ?

No Carmen rollers - just sleeping all night in painful, spiky ones until I changed to a Twiggy pixie cut....Bliss.

Very short empire line dresses with long collars.

Beatles records in the background or Manfred Mann (the originals) because I was a Blues fan.

Pale lipstick.

Plenty of eye make up but definitely not the Dusty Springfield look.

Can't remember which perfume I was wearing at the time.