What was the best item of fashion you sported or liked

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What was the best item of fashion you sported or liked

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Did you like the mini skirts?
The maxi skirts
The flares
the Winkle pickers

wot were your faves

I loved the fringe jackets and platform shoes
cos they made my height of being vertically challenged shoot up!
great!


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Re: What was the best item of fashion you sported or liked

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I loved the 60's when we would dress up in our suits on a saturday night and go out on the town.
I loved suits,double breasted,italian,pin striped,matching ties and handkerchieves.With the silk handkerchief sticking out of your coat breast pocket.
I've still got them all in my wardrobe.They don't fit any more, cos of the muscle i've added to my torso,but i couldn't throw them away!!
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Rob wrote:I loved the 60's when we would dress up in our suits on a saturday night and go out on the town.
I loved suits,double breasted,italian,pin striped,matching ties and handkerchieves.With the silk handkerchief sticking out of your coat breast pocket.
I've still got them all in my wardrobe.They don't fit any more, cos of the muscle i've added to my torso,but i couldn't throw them away!!


Yeah man at C and A was dead good with those sewn in hankies
bit of a beggar if you needed to blow your nose though
mind that limbo dancing came in handy bending double trying to reach said hanky in breast packet

muscle on your torso?
yeah rite

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The hankies weren't sown in !! :roll:
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Rob wrote:The hankies weren't sown in !! :roll:
Any more ex Mods on here?


Well Pete is around
but Mally aint
so she could be an ex Mod

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I remember Mally from The Tower Ballroom Edgbaston!! She was a Mod!! :wink:
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I liked those frilly blouses you know sort of new romantic ones
I had one from Laura Ashley in Manchester and it was fantastic
with my jeans and high heeled boots
into all the clubs in manc land
great

can't wear high heels now fall off em
:(
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Northern Lass wrote:can't wear high heels now fall off em
:(


Always did fall off 'em!

I loved my shaggy suede long boots with the fringe from knee to ankle with wooden beads threaded on the fringes.

Worn with hot pants and a matching suede jerkin with big fluffy sheepskin edges all around ... (thinks :roll: ) What a dag I must have looked, but I loved it all.
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I had a blue Trevira skirt suit, which had a lovely two tone sheen.
also a multicoloured flowered dress with matching coat - reversable (plain on the other side) I can see it now :grin:
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I remember that!!
You were wearing those clothes when we danced to "All or nothing" The Small Faces at The Tower 23rd April 1966.
How could i forget!! :wink:
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What! all of 'em???
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mallosa wrote:What! all of 'em???


yeh bob wasn't trusted in them day he's getting a bit slow now in his old age :lol: :lol:
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Well it was a cold night if i remember!!
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I used to love my Bay City Rollers out fit :oops: How stupid did I look! Calf length trousers with tartan down the sides, scarf around my wrist! :roll:
I loved my Harrington jacket my cousin gave me, it was blue but wished it was black! :lol:
Really wanted a three buttoned high waisted trousers (cant think what they were called now?) but wasnt allowed them, see high waists are coming back!
Loved my wedges (shoes) even though they made my ankles black! :lol:
Jo :)
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