How we dressed back in the day.

[GAlady]

I was 10 years old in 1956 and could have been one of the girls on the back row.

 

[horseless carriage]

London's Portobello Market 1948. Wartime rationing still existed but not ice cream.
Many years later I had a copy of my father's suit made. I still wear it.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I remember lots of ric-rac, too much ric-rac!

I was much more comfortable when we moved into the old worn jeans, t-shirts and flannel shirts.

We went from the excitement of getting new school clothes in grade school to happily wearing old worn out clothes in high school.

I have no idea what it’s like for kids these days.

 

[MrPants]

 

[senior chef]

 

[fmdog44]

I watch TCM a lot and the hairstyles and hats women wore in the 40's can only be considered bizarre and comical.

 

[horseless carriage]

I watch TCM a lot and the hairstyles and hats women wore in the 40's can only be considered bizarre and comical.

Comical? I find that the fashions worn then had a timeless elegance.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

Never mind the dress, but the hairstyles. In the early 70s, I had a friend, who had hair like Mary, of Pete, Paul & Mary. She was forever ironing her hair.

 

[hollydolly]

They say it was a decade that fashion forgot, but I disagree entirely.. I was a teen in the 70's, and wore hot pants.. as well as mini skirts.. platform shoes , and then later in the 70's maxi dresses and coats...and high knee boots with 5 inch heels

 

[fuzzybuddy]

What gets me is how dated the clothes look, now. I don't know how the trends got started, but within a couple of years, we were all wearing 'em. Then three years later, we wouldn't be caught dead wearing 'em.
I just wonder, who the guy was that started the frayed knees on jeans look. It amazes me how we all want to look "cool".

 

[SmoothSeas]

That's my grandma on the left, scowl and all...

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[CinnamonSugar]

My disco dress from the late 70's that I made myself. (Pic was taken about 10 years ago for Halloween party at work)

 

[jerry old]

Nehur shirts

 

[jujube]

Mini skirts in the '70's, worn with chunky platform shoes so you looked like a long-stemmed flower planted in a pot.

Have to pick something up off the floor? Knees bent to the side, legs pressed together, back straight, absolutely no bending over. Then when you got down there, you had to get back up gracefully.

Hot pants. Oh, please say it wasn't so..... It was.

 

[PamfromTx]

1960s, elementary school ~ not sure of the grade. Yep, we wore those cottony dresses ~ starched.

 

[PamfromTx]

I'm in the front row with the boots. High school 1970s. LOL!!! Lawd, what a getup... what was I thinking?!? The poncho is killing me.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

My mom made all my school clothes in the 50s. She was a great sewer but back then the patterns were different than clothes bought in the store and I wasn't happy wearing some of them.
The worse part was standing on a chair which seemed like hours as she hemmed my dresses. Sometimes I had to put it on inside out so she could adjust the pins before sewing.
This photo was taken when I was 10 in my Easter dress she made. I did like this one.
I sure wish she was here today so I could thank her for the hours she spent on my dresses. Back then it was just a pain.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Boy, @Ruth n Jersey, do I ever empathize!! My mom also made all my clothes… some were more of a success than others. Then (bless her) she taught me to sew. That sewing machine hated me! And the three dreaded words…”Rip it out!” when darts puckered or a seam didn't lay right.

 

[Shero]

Organdie that itched. My favourite was voile, so soft and cool.

 

[Ken N Tx]

1950's

 

[Fyrefox]

Well, we won’t talk about leisure suits in the 1970’s! I worked part-time in a clothing store then, and customers would come in and ask if leisure suits were going to be a lasting fashion. They were even supposed to replace jackets and ties for men…Hah!

 

[Manatee]

Back then shorts were "little boy pants". In 1960 we vacationed in Bermuda and I was introduced to Bermuda shorts.

Now I wear them for half the year.

 

[WheatenLover]

I remember lots of ric-rac, too much ric-rac!

I was much more comfortable when we moved into the old worn jeans, t-shirts and flannel shirts.

We went from the excitement of getting new school clothes in grade school to happily wearing old worn out clothes in high school.

I have no idea what it’s like for kids these days.

I was in 10th grade before girls could wear pants to school. I liked jeans, too. A lot of the girls still wore relatively fancy dresses. The jeans-wearing girls were part of the hippie/pot smoking group, which was made up of about 10% of the kids. I was not in the hippy/pot group ... some of my friends were, though.

At first, when the rule changed, my mother bought me a wardrobe of pastel (Easter) colored pants with matching tops that pulled in those (to me) hideous Easter colors. And my daughter thinks the 70s retro look is really cool ... until I described some of the clothes we wore. Elephant bell-bottoms, lime green background with big daisies splashed all over the fabric, with matching top, anyone?

 

[dobielvr]

View attachment 181592I'm in the front row with the boots. High school 1970s. LOL!!! Lawd, what a getup... what was I thinking?!? The poncho is killing me.

LOL...I still have my poncho from high school in my closet. I wore it a lot in 10th grade. Love that thing.

Love your boots Pam!

 

[WheatenLover]

They say it was a decade that fashion forgot, but I disagree entirely.. I was a teen in the 70's, and wore hot pants.. as well as mini skirts.. platform shoes , and then later in the 70's maxi dresses and coats...and high knee boots with 5 inch heels

I wore clothes like that, too. My favorite was a burgundy and winter white herringbone midi skirt that fit like the pencil skirts of today. I couldn't believe my mother bought me hot pants and mini skirts, so I kept my big mouth shut. That was totally out of character for her. The hot pants had dresses or long tunics or something that went over them so we could wear them to school.
My homeroom teacher in junior high used to make the girls kneel on the floor so he could make sure our clothes were not too short to meet the dress code. Mine all passed muster, exactly.