Apparel From The Past🌹🌷

Just finished Daisy & the Six on Prime. It was set in the 70s and the costumer did a great job with the clothing.
 

Bella said:
Oh, yes! 😁

In my high school we were allowed to wear jeans but not permitted to wear hot pants, hip huggers, or halter tops.
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Believe it or not the girls in my Jr. High School wore all of those plus sizzlers. It drove me crazy. Definitely a different mindset than today. These girls were 6, 7th, and 8th graders...:cool:
 
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Believe it or no the girls in my Jr. High School wore all of those plus sizzlers. It drove me crazy. Definitely a different mindset than today. These girls were 6, 7th, and 8th graders...B:cool:
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If I even attempted to wear any of the above in Junior High, my parents would've sent me to a convent! 😱
 

Okay, boys, time to suit up! 😆

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My wedding dress,1967.......Wow-it was a minidress but now that I look at it,it was pretty long compared to some dresses a wore a little later...Wes used to ask me to raise my arms over my head before chool and would sometimes ni the dress I was wearing....
 

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I was surfing the streaming channels one night and ran into a documentary on how the Victoria and Albert Museum in London put together a Mary Quant fashion exhibition. At first they had tremendous difficulties because they couldn't FIND any! Quant was the first designer who specialized in "ready to wear" affordable fashion for the everyday market.

So they decided to advertise and ask people to check their attics and old trunks/suitcases to find the original MQ fashions, and bring them into the museum to see if they were in good enough shape (and originals) to be selected for the show. The documentary had some fun clips of older women laughing about how they were so excited to buy the latest MQ dress with its daring mini-skirt, but then eventually packed it away and never thought about it again until the V&A ran their ad.

The V&A fabric experts then carefully cleaned and repaired the fashions, and opened the exhibit in 2019. It became their third most-popular exhibit ever:
V&A Museum, London: Mary Quant fashion exhibit
 
Many many years ago my hubby and I went to a wedding and I had a low-cut gown on. After we were there for a few minutes my hubby told me to put the jacket on. The gown had a jacket that went with it.
I asked him why and he said he noticed guys looking at me. So I put the jacket on. A few minutes later I noticed him looking behind me.
I looked and a woman was walking with a slit up her gown and you could see her leg all the way up. So I took off my jacket. He wasn't happy and still mentions it all these years later.LOL
 
Lethe200 said:
I was surfing the streaming channels one night and ran into a documentary on how the Victoria and Albert Museum in London put together a Mary Quant fashion exhibition. At first they had tremendous difficulties because they couldn't FIND any! Quant was the first designer who specialized in "ready to wear" affordable fashion for the everyday market.

So they decided to advertise and ask people to check their attics and old trunks/suitcases to find the original MQ fashions, and bring them into the museum to see if they were in good enough shape (and originals) to be selected for the show. The documentary had some fun clips of older women laughing about how they were so excited to buy the latest MQ dress with its daring mini-skirt, but then eventually packed it away and never thought about it again until the V&A ran their ad.

The V&A fabric experts then carefully cleaned and repaired the fashions, and opened the exhibit in 2019. It became their third most-popular exhibit ever:
V&A Museum, London: Mary Quant fashion exhibit
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Thanks for posting! It was so much fun looking at the exhibit! Do you remember the name of the documentary? I’d love to see it!
 
I remember buying a Mary Quant pattern for a tulip skirt. It turned out a bit long, so I hiked it up at the waist. It was black and I wore it with a lightweight long-sleeve ribbed turtle-neck. I thought I was so cool :)

My best friend at work, and I, had the same hot-pants outfit. We weren't allowed to wear them in the
workplace, of course. I recall getting off the bus in her hometown, both in our hot-pants, and her older
brother saying .. "what are you girls wearing?!" 🤣
 
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Looking at the pictures of high schoolers......uh, not at my school. We still had a pretty stringent dress code in 1965, when I graduated. If anyone had showed up in some of those outfits, our Principal would have lined us up against the gym wall and shot the lot of us.

No trousers for girls, no wrap-around skirts, no culottes, no skorts, no sleeveless blouses, skirts to the middle of the knee.

And, oh boy, prom attire had to be "lady-like". No bare midriffs or cut down to there or up to here.

My younger sisters were into "vintage". In fact, one of my sisters wore my grandmother's 1919 wedding dress to her prom. It was a yellow chiffon flapper-style dress with a matching jacket. It was pretty delicate so she had to be careful what she did that night.....
 
I don't know when I began to value comfort, especially elasticated waist trousers! Nor when exactly I stopped wearing heels.
Bit off the point , sorry.
 
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