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Birmingham in 1960s

Astoness said:
what i like about todays clothes is there is no definitive fashion so no pressure to wear one style of clothing...at least for the ladies..i see mini..midi and maxi dresses/skirts all being worn and no one bats an eye lid...its the same with the footwear and i have noticed that the sling back shoes seem to be coming back again..

lyn
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Well said Lyn, I had also noticed slingbacks were coming back, I saw someone the other day with a white pair and low heels - nice! Fashion was very strict in the 60s and you had to conform or be called square! Lol.
 
I Am Nico said:
I see men in dresses sometimes in the supermarket. Some young some old. I always fancied a sarong like David Beckham but I never had the nerve or a kilt, for comfort,. GP told me to wear a kilt but I war loose clothes. In the 60s fashions went bold with design and colour and simplicity and they were easy to make there seemed to be a lot more of dressmakers about then, Now I can't find one that does alterations for men. The last one ruined a good jacket I looked like Quasimodo!
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You see people these days wearing dressing gowns and pyjamas to shop. I could not even if you paid me.
 
Astoness said:
that is also taking anything goes a bit too far for me as well :D :D :D

lyn
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I've even seen them going to pick up their children from school in the afternoon wearing PJs and slippers Lyn. Wouldn't have happened even in the early 90s, when we waited in the school yard to collect our lad from primary school. That was more like a fashion parade, as I remember gold shoes were the order of the day (for the ladies, I hasten to add:innocent:).
 
John L said:
I've even seen them going to pick up their children from school in the afternoon wearing PJs and slippers Lyn. Wouldn't have happened even in the early 90s, when we waited in the school yard to collect our lad from primary school. That was more like a fashion parade, as I remember gold shoes were the order of the day (for the ladies, I hasten to add:innocent:).
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Some clothes are made to look like dressing gowns and Jim jams and chefs trousers, and slippers, but some are the real thing. Our granddaughter insisted on going to the restaurant in her donkey costume she wore at the nativity. That would not have been allowed in our day but we never went out to eat. I think we did on odd occasions on holiday. Like the 5 o'clock shadow, I think some news readers and MP's look really scruffy. And they wear a tee shirt to relate to people. If that it true I worry for the people.
In the 60s and 70s we used to dress up to go into town but I like wearing shorts when it's hot, but they wear them when it's cold now.
 
I Am Nico said:
Some clothes are made to look like dressing gowns and Jim jams and chefs trousers, and slippers, but some are the real thing. Our granddaughter insisted on going to the restaurant in her donkey costume she wore at the nativity. That would not have been allowed in our day but we never went out to eat. I think we did on odd occasions on holiday. Like the 5 o'clock shadow, I think some news readers and MP's look really scruffy. And they wear a tee shirt to relate to people. If that it true I worry for the people.
In the 60s and 70s we used to dress up to go into town but I like wearing shorts when it's hot, but they wear them when it's cold now.
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Peoples standards have slipped, we were different in the 60s and 70s. It was good to dress nicely and make an effort, not be scruffy (unless you were gardening!). The sights you see these days especially when its hot, women wear beach wear and the men - ugh shorts and nothing on top even if they are big (I will be polite and not say fat).
 
Lemonella said:
Peoples standards have slipped, we were different in the 60s and 70s. It was good to dress nicely and make an effort, not be scruffy (unless you were gardening!). The sights you see these days especially when its hot, women wear beach wear and the men - ugh shorts and nothing on top even if they are big (I will be polite and not say fat).
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We have to be all inclusive now. I think its nice you can wear what you want know but some things just don't suit sone people. I was in Monaco once in the 70s you could not walk on the prom shirtless and covering up to go in to holy places is understandable. My partner coming from the continent liked the freedom here. She came in the 70s. She still wears jeans to funerals and weddings and christening. She says it's the people who matter not the clothes. She doesn't look scruffy though, and thinks the skin tight tiny shorts and leggings girls wear is not nice. Little girls too.
 
Lemonella said:
Peoples standards have slipped, we were different in the 60s and 70s. It was good to dress nicely and make an effort, not be scruffy (unless you were gardening!). The sights you see these days especially when its hot, women wear beach wear and the men - ugh shorts and nothing on top even if they are big (I will be polite and not say fat).
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Used to press my trousers and polish my shoes if going into Brum sometimes a suit liked to feel smart and also you couldn't wear jeans into clubs in the 70s.
 
Do you remember queuing up in your kipper tie and bell bottoms, bum fluff moustache trying to look 18? I do. One of the reps on hard times I worked with in the 70s was bullied by the boss as he was a bit unkempt. He had been sleeping in his car due to a break up. The boss threw some loo roll at him in front of us all and said, clean your shoes!, I got ticked off for not wearing a tie though I didn't meet the public. I had smart trousers and a sort of polo shirt with stitching down the front. Made me look as if I had a chest! I was given a diamond pattern black white and grey pullover which I wore back to front to look cool like the Milk Tray man, so it was all black and I roasted in the hot bars.
 
We got chucked out of Tiffanys and the Bali Hai suite in the 70s. with its plastic leaves because a mate had button eyes sown on to a black glove and he used to do the spider on girls' shoulders. And they would scream, And he pulled the leaves off for a halo. One girl we knew by site, a townie, I (was a townie sometimes, ) had an old fox fur (yuk!) but she wore it in the discos, and we got chucked out of the After Eight, as he got a hold of that, , doing Basil Brush. It was funny at the time. We stood in a group in tight pullovers some with attached collars, short waisted to show our high waist band trousers, not that I was a poser! Feather cut hair a bit long, and we got chucked out of the Abbey Hotel Kenilworth for doing a communal laugh, zip me sides up! And a silent laugh. I was one of 2 young hangers on the others were 4 years older. They used to go to Leamington Hinckley, and Brum but I was afraid of not getting back home. The beer glasses were always jugs then. Now you cant get a handle glass.
 
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