Favourite 1960s outfit

Oh I remember mine. My mother went with me to Griffin and Spalding's where I tried on a Mary Quant grey A line pinafore dress. She quickly sketched the design and cut and we went to the market and bought a piece of grey flannel which my mother sewed into an excellent copy. Teamed with an aubergine 'sweater', white knee socks and back patent Mary Janes, I was the smartest lass in town.

What a fabulous array of clothes we wore. I can just imagine how 'with it' we looked.

To answer your question TEGAN I can't remember the boutique you mentioned but I remember Lewis's well with the Minories walk way between the two parts of the store. They had a toy department on the top floor and for a time in the 1950s a small zoo, which would be condemned now ! Barrows store was near by and was the upper class shop until Rackhams came on the scene. Could go on for hours but won't !

Best favourite was a pink and mauve swirly 'a' line dress which I bought from a stall in Whitechapel market for a £1. Shoes were very high strappy black sandals. Hair used to be an uplift of curls held in by hairpins which I used to have done every Saturday at the hairdressers before going dancing at the Ilford Palais that night. White tights , white eyeshadow and believe it or not white lipstick completed the overall look.

Black and white PVC Mac, black and white earrings and white lace-up boots. I looked so cool...........

A purple mini dress with a sequined mandarin collar worn with bright pink stiletto shoes and I used to get my hair put up in a contorted style at the hairdressers. (No choice about clothing, shoes or hair as all were chosen by my stepmother - I used to wear some very odd things and now I suspect that my clothes had been shoplifted .) The ironic thing is that I rarely went out anywhere worth dressing up for.

A very short tweed kilt and a matching shetland jersey from the St Andrews Woollen Mill, knee boots and a fake fur coat which I had made (or my Mum) from a cut-out offer in "Honey" just before I went up to university.

C & A (I didn't have much money!)

Very long fitted but flowing maxi dress, when I said to the shop assistant that it seemed a bit longer at the back she said 'that's because you have no bum to fill it out'! Those were the days.

Any mini skirt or dress - and tights instead of stockings and suspenders.

Yes, I remember the shop and the theatre! Too much Gilbert and Sullivan with my mum and dad

The lion didn't last long, but the shop was there for a few years, near the Garrick Theatre.

Yes, the Toggery! I knew that you would know it!
I don't remember the lion, thank goodness.

At Seven Miles Out, the owner had a real Mountain Lion that walked around the shop! I kid you not!!!

The Toggery, Lona? Then, later there was Seven Miles Out?

Hey when, I was at the Twisted Wheel that night!
I had some fab clothes, but my favourite clubbing gear was a black polo neck fine knit sweater, tucked in a hipster red A line mini that buttoned down the front, with a black belt.
I topped it with a mid brown, wide cord 'Beatle' jacket (no collar and front buttons) from a trendy mens boutique in Stockport, called................???
I also had my hair in a Beatle cut.

No, but I used to go to a little boutique near to Lewis's [wish I could remember what it was called].

I was in Brum too Tegan in the 1960s. Do you remember Neatawear ?

Living in Brum I've no idea where I used to get my Biba clothes from .

a very very short bright orange crocheted skirt and matchig crop top worn with high white (plastic) leather look boots and Nana Mouscouri glasses

Green (with tiny black flowers) mini dress with matching coat in a sort of a fine cord, Size 8

I can't remember!

Dark green jumbo cord hipster mini skirt with wide leather belt, worn with a tan cardi and jumper twinset from M and S (remember the multitude of colours?). Wore it with black maxi leather coat with a deep split up the back and belt fastened at the back. Beige daisy Mary Quant tights, brown Hush Puppies, black Gladstone bag. Two pairs of eyelashes, curtain of long hair. Kept all my gear on and danced round the bag at the Twisted Wheel, Manchester. I have never been so cool!

Black pinafore mini with a skinny white jumper and platform mary-janes. Very Twiggy.

A navy pinstripe hipster miniskirt, my first. It was a couple of inches above my knee my Dad was horrified . Worn with a white belt and beige patent clumpy shoes with buckles on the front. I thought I was defo the bees knees.

A bright orange cotton coat with big yellow flowers all over it and big buttons down the front with an oversized peaked cap,white boots with cut out detail around the top and a big white handbag finished with oversized sunglasses which I couldn't see out of when they where worn.

White Op-Art Mary Quant-style mini-dress. Also very fond of a pair of Biba zig-zag print bell-bottoms. Now it's my bottom that looks more bell-shaped...!