You are NOT going out dressed like that.......

[Gemini]

I would love to see of photo of you and your sister in those skirts Oma!

[MillieB]

I wore short skirts with thick cream cable tights when teaching juniors in the 60s. I was called into the head's office after teaching pe in the hall one day. She said I was to wear longer skirts for taking pe and games. When I asked if I could wear a track suit, she shouted 'definitely not!'!!

[Enfys]

We used to wash our petticoats in sugar water, Daisy and the. Had to shake all the wasps out!! The only time my mother said "you're not going out like that" was when the 'mod' fashion was in and I was wearing a long, ankle length skirt with a high necked Victorian style blouse! She said the neighbours would look at me .

[Nanto2girls]

I remember the block mascara Glamma, sounds awful doesn't it, saying we used to spit on it. We used to backcomb our hair, then spray it with Belair hair laquer.it came in a plastic squeezy bottle, not in aerosol cans.

[Plantaholic]

I can remember having stockings repaired. Oh that block mascara!

[Qwerty]

Such memories I can remember wearing a French pleat with a gallon of cheap lacquer woe betide the boy that tried to run his fingers through my hair! I loved crocheted dresses from Chelsea girl and shoes from Ravel very expensive and lasted weeks and fell apart. and you bought your clothes in guineas rather than pounds gawd where have the years gone

[ZIZI]

My mother made me a knitted cable knit polo neck mini dress when I was 15. It was white with torquoise fleck and I loved it. I still have it. Twenty years ago I became very ill and what with cancer and an accident when I smashed my face which caused a break down subsequently I lost a ton of weight, almost eight stones, I was a big girl. My parents were coming to visit and I put the dress on with a pair of length boots. When they came to our shop my dad took one look and burst into tears. I actually didn't have very much hair at that point because of the chemo etc. unlike when I first wore the dress when I had luxurious teenage long hair.

[Nanto2girls]

Lovely story about the dress ZIZI.

[Oma]

Belair thats the lacquer i was talking about Nanto set like concrete . Gem i wish i had a photo of us too

[Daisy]

Belair lacquer on backcombed hair was definitely not a good idea in a thick industrial smog. I can testify to that when my friends and I arrived at a dance with black sticky smuts all over our faces, hair and clothes which just smeared when we tried to wipe them off with those roller towels you used to get in the Ladies! Not a good look at all! I don't think it did the towels much good either!!