Favourite 1960s outfit

Taupe - strange name for a colour... it means 'mole', as in the little chap who buggers up people's lawns...

Does anyone remember ion about 1960 a fashion for white lipstick? I actually worked on an office for a bit, and the typing pool used to send a real Dolly Daydream up with the letters, with a beehive hairdo, wrinkled white winklepicker shoes and white lipstick - I suggested it might be so she could find her gob in the dark...

A white mini dress with flowers embroidered on it. Huge wide long sleeved gathered up into a long cuff with a row of tiny little buttons. I wore it with bright yellow sandals.

A black shift dress with a red band around the neckline and down the centre of the front. Made a great witch's costume for DD a few years later with some tinfoil moon and stars stuck on.

Right, feetle, and the colour is nothing like a mole! I once had to bury one that my cat brought in - such a lovely, smooth dark brown coat! I never took to white, or even very pale pink lipstick. Mind you, I was in my 20s by the time the 60s set in and then I went to Africa where fashions were a year or so behind the times. One year, two new 20-something teachers arrived from UK with very minuscule skirts and some of our girls, from very rigid religious backgrounds, complained to the headmistress who told them to mind their own business. It wasn't long before the majority were shortening their school skirts and behaving just like British teenagers.