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Clothes & shoes of yesteryear

Vivienne14 said:
My friend and I in the 1960s wearing our ski pants (the stretchy ones with hoops under the foot). I had royal blue ski pants. Think you could only get blue or black ones. Me on the left, friend on the right in our front garden, Atlantic Road. We definitely thought we were fashion icons aged 12/13. Viv.

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There didn’t seem to be a weight problem either. That is probably why most of the fashionable clothes of the day looked good and still do.
 
Vivienne, living as you did in Atlantic Road, did you by any chance know Steve Winwood, who also lived in that road? Like your ski-pants, b.t.w.

If anyone's really interested, I've still got a couple of pairs of bell-bottoms from around 1967, including ones with a very tasteful and trendy Paisley pattern... They went well with cord shirts with 10" long collars! How about a white leather belt, 4" wide? Still got one of those, too. I looked a treat!

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Big Gee said:
Vivienne, living as you did in Atlantic Road, did you by any chance know Steve Winwood, who also lived in that road? Like your ski-pants, b.t.w.

If anyone's really interested, I've still got a couple of pairs of bell-bottoms from around 1967, including ones with a very tasteful and trendy Paisley pattern... They went well with cord shirts with 10" long collars! How about a white leather belt, 4" wide? Still got one of those, too. I looked a treat!

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You have the wrong Vivienne. I am batmadviv not Vivienne14.
 
I didn’t know him Big Gee as I’m about 5 years younger but my mum and his mum were friends. He went to Kingsthorn (Cranbourn Road) Junior as did I. My brother was in his year. Viv.
 
Vivienne14 said:
I didn’t know him Big Gee as I’m about 5 years younger but my mum and his mum were friends. He went to Kingsthorn (Cranbourn Road) Junior as did I. My brother was in his year. Viv.
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Thanks, Viv. I can remember him when he was about 14 with the Spencer Davis Group, and my wife and I are still big fans.

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mw0njm. said:
i have dug my old vintage wool duffle coat out now its cold .they are no good when it rains.its like having the sheep on your back
they are heavy. when wet.
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Got mine from Army and Navy store in Brum Love it right about when wet
 
Big Gee said:
Vivienne, living as you did in Atlantic Road, did you by any chance know Steve Winwood, who also lived in that road? Like your ski-pants, b.t.w.

If anyone's really interested, I've still got a couple of pairs of bell-bottoms from around 1967, including ones with a very tasteful and trendy Paisley pattern... They went well with cord shirts with 10" long collars! How about a white leather belt, 4" wide? Still got one of those, too. I looked a treat!

G
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I wondered that as soon as I read Viv's post!
I knew he lived in that road.
Two of my cousins were at Great Barr Comp with him, they were a bit older but remembered him from his playing the piano.
 
just been looking at ripped jeans. i threw mine away when they got a hole in the knee.now they would sell for a furtune.
wonder what next. i have a few old coats. with holes in them lol
 
I believe that they were all corduroy caps back then. I posted this picture in the Peaky Blinders thread some time ago...
Dave A
 
Courtesy of Mirror Group Newspapers he's here and still running in their newspapers as far as I am aware

Maurice
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Not exactly a fashion item but small boys still got to wear knitted balaclava helmets which were awfully itchy under the chin so weren't worn by choice but to keep parents/grandparents happy, (all that hard work knitting them).
A Mr Kedge, who attended St. Giles, Sheldon, had been a Marine Commando and he showed us how to tuck them up to make a cap, so solving the itch problem and feeding the imgination!
 
I remember going to infants school wearing a leather helmet with a strap under your chin.

It was dark green if i remember rightly.

Anyone else remember them?
 
Elmdon Boy said:
Was Andy Cap originally a peaky blinder.
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Far too lazy!
We would tuck the peak of our school caps inside the cap to make a 'ball' for touch rugby, a version that could be played on hard-surfaced playgrounds. Once we found the senior girls' netball team playing on a court marked out on 'our' usual 'pitch'. Plucking up courage I asked the senior games mistress if we could use a fenced in tennis/netball court (exclusively used by girls) instead. Amazingly she said we could.
 
Spargone said:
Not exactly a fashion item but small boys still got to wear knitted balaclava helmets which were awfully itchy under the chin so weren't worn by choice but to keep parents/grandparents happy, (all that hard work knitting them).
A Mr Kedge, who attended St. Giles, Sheldon, had been a Marine Commando and he showed us how to tuck them up to make a cap, so solving the itch problem and feeding the imgination!
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