First post so please be gentle.
Goodness, where to start? I was a child of the 70's, teenager in the 80's. I used to wear a lot of dresses as a small girl, which I hated being a tomboy from a early age, mom eventually gave up and I mostly wore jeans and t shirts, though I did have a couple of pretty dresses for "best",my favourite being a brown Victorian style drsss, with a patterned pinafore over the top of it, it being the mid 70's and such things being very fashionable (think Laura Ashley). My hair was short, I originally had hair long enough to sit on and played up terribly when it came to having it washed, brushed for school as my hair is naturally very thick and wavy, mom eventually had enough of the battles, and took me to the hairdressers in Stony Lane Smethwick and had my hair cut short. My dad who loved my long hair was not impressed, but I loved it.
Time went by and I discovered the four main lives of my teenage life, fashion, music, boys and West Brom. I had my first high heels when I was 13, they hurt so much, but, on I loved them. Then I became a second wave mod at the very end of the 70's and for a time raided my mom's wardrobe for her original 60's mini skirts, tops and especially her stilettos. It not really surprising that my feet are wrecked today wearing
them most evenings! I also used to shop in the Rag Market, buying original stuff from there, I also loved C&A, Chelsea Girl and DottyP (Dorothy Perkins), buying school uniform and bags from there.
I then started to love New Romantic stuff, and had the frilly sbirts, black pencil skirts, fishnets and lace up boots, topped off with a long overcoat brought from the Rag Market. Tons of eye make-up and stiffly gelled hair accompanied this look.
Eventually, I started to wear mostly jeans, leggings, t shirts, always long and baggy, and for work, long blazer jackets, pencil skirts and my beloved stilettos, my hair then was in the lovely (not) 80's perm with lots of blonde highlights and less eye make-up.
These days I basically still wear the same type of stuff, though my hair is short again now, mostly leggings, jeans, flat shoes or boots, long tops, my beloved biker jacket and hardly any make up.
No photos, sadly. Mom has most of the child ones and she's in South Wales these days, and the teenage/early 20's ones got binned! The memories are enough.