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Post by Admin on Oct 31, 2008 19:19:00 GMT
To the golden oldies area of chat. No doubt to you youngsters anything pre 80's or 70's may just as well be a foreign language. So then, who remembers the ra ra skirt?!
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Post by maxinep on Oct 31, 2008 19:47:31 GMT
I had a beauty - complete with leg warmers and curly perm!
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Post by Admin on Nov 1, 2008 8:30:47 GMT
I had a beauty - complete with leg warmers and curly perm! mmm, yes, curly perm, remember them well, used to spend half my time trying to straighten my hair!
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 1, 2008 11:04:02 GMT
Black leather was me! - True "rocker" used to drive a Norton 500 and was one of the first women to do a ton [100 mph] down the Dorking by-pass when it was first built. Black hair, thick eye-liner and black leather. Mary Quant was the clubbing gear, hot pants and mini shirts and huge platform boots.
Then I dumped him and went out with someone else and became a "mod" and got a lambretta 250 with squirrel tails and badges all over the place.
Reece is following in my footsteps as she has a motor-bike too and her and Gary go off for long rides on their two bikes.
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Post by cobbledegook on Nov 1, 2008 11:07:56 GMT
Medwin, please tell me you have some photos.............
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Post by kitty on Nov 1, 2008 14:52:37 GMT
I'm so sorry I must have logged onto this section by mistake!!! I am too young aren't I?? And I know I would never have had any bad hair or fashion days Maybe just a few in the eighties/nineties ;D ;D ;D Although I must admit I made a lot more mistakes with boyfriends than anything else How about everyone else?
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 1, 2008 15:06:34 GMT
Medwin, please tell me you have some photos............. I used to have one, but took it in to show my students and it sort of dissappeared. Will have a look
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Post by cobbledegook on Nov 1, 2008 20:18:19 GMT
Ooh Kitty yeah me too, when i look back at my list of exes i now cringe........... I think the one with all the tatoos was the worse-think paisley arms, neck face and ears-was always worried to death how i was gonna introduce him to the parents-thank god i saw sense and dunped him fairly quickly! I think my biggest fashion faux pax was a hideous pink striped mini jumper dress-how bad is that I remember i used to mousse and gel and spray my hair on a friday night until it was rock hard-took about 4 washes to get the stuff out! On another bad point in my mis-spent youth, i used to go around with a tug of war team and could drink 20 plus vodka and oranges and still be dead sober-all at the tender age of 16 (insert mega embarrased smilie here)!
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Post by kitty on Nov 1, 2008 21:03:06 GMT
I was on my back after a couple of wines and a brandy and coke (not literally!!!) ;D ;D I remember one of my boyfriends who was a footballer for Wimbledon and gave me signed pictures of himself to give to all my friends I told him to take them back and stick them somewhere ;D Obviously I dumped him! And another one who kept getting arrested and every time he was caught he gave the police my address instead of his own He was quite fit though but I got into trouble with my landlord every time the police parked outside Another one I went out with was really nice to me but was constantly throwing up his beer outside clubs and in the back of taxis etc. One night he threw up in the taxi, in my shoe and in my new handbag; it took me ages to get rid of the smell but I dumped him straight away. I used to have these really tight jeans and if I went to the toilet, I had to take my friend with me to help me zip them up again. I was in agony for most of the night And I wouldn't go anywhere without my babypink lippy How sad was that then
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Post by maxinep on Nov 1, 2008 23:18:58 GMT
I remember those jeans - I had some that just weren't tight enough so I took the legs in until they were the shape of my legs and I used to wear them with black loafers, that had white piping and white tassles on. I was the bomb, with my short cropped hair gelled up on one side and long on the other over one eye(like Phil Oakey from Human League!). I also remember buying jeans that were 'shrink to fit' - you bought them small, washed them and then put them on wet so they clung to you! As for boyfriends, I am afraid I'm a disappointment as I was a good girl
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 2, 2008 10:00:21 GMT
Yes Maxine I remember sitting in the bath with jeans on to shrink them, and yes Kitty, fightining to get into them with a friend doing up the zip! I used to work at the power station right next door to Wimbledon Football club Lucy and had a boyfriend that ONLY ever took me to home matches - he got dumped! Oh, no, I forgot - he took me greyhound racing too, at Wimbledon stadium just down the road from the football club. Lisa - I had a bright green crocheted mini dress. Full of see through holes as I remember. We did not have mousse in my teenage years just hair lacquer [no aerosols yet] that you sprayed on so thickly that if you scratched the back of your head the front moved! . It was horrible to wash out and as I had a bee-hive hairdo the knots had to come out as well! Those were the days
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Post by maxinep on Nov 2, 2008 10:10:14 GMT
Going back a bit further, there is a shocking video of me (taken from cine film) trying to skip, but failing miserably as I kept tripping over my Bay City Roller purple flares with pink tartan turn ups! Finest crimpolene. I am also wearing a skinny rib jumper with Charlie Chaplin's face on. Oh, how I loved the Bay City Rollers (I actually bought their 'best of' cd last year!) and used to go everywhere with a tartan scarf tied around my wrist, chanting (say letters not words) B A Y, B A Y, B A Y C I T Y, With an R O double L E R S, Bay City Rollers are the Best! I have tried to get the girls to listen to Shang a Lang, but they say its naff
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Post by kitty on Nov 2, 2008 12:06:35 GMT
I used to be scared stiff of 'Bay City Roller 'fans as most of them used to hang around 'Mersey Square' in Stockport and they were really 'hard' girls. My mum wouldn't let me go down there at the weekend in case I was beaten up!! We played 'Bye Bye Baby' on our portable radios really loud when it came on. It was a bit of a luxury to have one and when my friend took hers up the stables, we all used to crowd around it. In fact I remember listening to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' in the school playground when it was number one. We all shared the one radio and sat in the bus shelter in the freezing cold but we knew every single word and we'd sing it on the school bus on the way home in between the odd 'drag' on a shared cigarette ;D ;D
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Post by medwinatswpa on Nov 5, 2008 8:48:59 GMT
Had no portable radios in my teenage years Lucy! I remember a huge turntable that had to be plugged in and huge needles that had to be re-placed regularly before they scratched the record. Somewhere in my house I have a whole stack of old LP's that I collected. Elvis, Yardbirds, Stones, Eddie thingy-rane. [won't let me write his name as the first part is a male hen!]Hey they could be worth some money maybe! My dad [bless him] would not allow pop music in the house after 12 noon on a Sunday or TOTP on a Thursday, so we all went to my friends and had the TV on full blast! I did grow up with an appreciation of all types of music though, even military, as hubby No 1 was a bandsman in the Queens Own Highlanders - bagpipes the lot. He played the trombone and as a hobby played traditional jazz which we both loved. How many of you can "skip jive"?
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Post by masters on Nov 9, 2008 22:10:40 GMT
I remember nearly getting arrested for skinny dipping!!!!!
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