I was talking to an ancient acquaintance of mine and we got onto the subject of what we wore in our youth, mind you with her being so much older than me we didn't wear all the same gear.

Poppets, anyone remember them? Plastic beads we wore in long strands often mixing and matching the colours.

Wide elasticated belts and other wide belts. Paper nylon petticoats with lots of net and hoops.

Come on, there must be loads of ghastly stuff we wore in the name of fashion and this goes for the younger members too.

White lipstick, and oodles of kohl around the eyes. circular skirts, and I had a particularly sensuous number.A white broderie top with an elasticated neck that you could pull down over your shoulders. Very Spanish...

My gran used to have poppets, I loved playing with and wearing them.
I think I've had more unfortunate hair do's (hair dont's!) then anything else, the worse being, when I went all goth and dyed my hair jet black with a permanent dye, my older brothers teased me endlessly and the re-growth was horrendous. I've had some dodgy perms too in my vain attempt to have curly hair. These days I use hair straighteners, a complete opposite to the big hair 80s trend.
I remember wearing satin trousers and ra-ra skirts and thinking I looked the bees knees!

HA!!!

Ahhh the eighties. Two words. Fluro socks.

Never been interested in clothes...not even now! I thought I used to look pretty cool though, when I used to have my hair permed! Then I decided I preferred my hair straight and easy - wash and go

Oh now I feel bad

I remember desperately wanting a pair of white Go Go boots. I would have been about 6 I think, and my mom flat out refused to buy me any.
As a teen, our uniform was jeans and t-shirts (often tie-dyed), long straight hair and beads that we would make ourselves with a needle and thread, stringing the tiny little things into necklaces of little beaded flowers and other such clever stuff.
Never heard of fluro socks!

That's a familiar story, Skunkee. It was 1968 and my mother thought those white go go boots were ridiculous and a waste of money. Fortunately my big sister worked at JC Penneys and bought me some with her own money. I have never forgotten that.

In a few years, though, my friends and I were wearing faded ragged bell jeans and work shirts, along with a kind of odd medievel clothing we made,too.
I couldn't believe I had ever wanted go go boots and pink fishnet hose only two or three years before.

Ah, go-go boots. I loved my pair so much that I think I wore them with everything. Then in my teens, for one ungodly season, we wore these pants with legs so big and wide that when we walked they would swish around and between our legs so that every few steps you had to stop and unwind them or end up falling on your face. I have a nice scar on my leg from exactly that happening. They were called elephant legs, I think. I was running to catch the school bus and the darned pants tripped me up and down I went. I think the rest of my youth was just spent in jeans and T-shirts. Starting with low, low hip huggers in my early teens that graduated with high-waisted pants by early college years.

I was particulary happy when striped jeans were in fashion - the up and down sort of stripes that made my short legs look so much longer! Thinner too, come to that

I had a brilliant scarlet PVC mac in the 60's. My father in law(the wag) said "ooh, don't open your mouth, someone might post a letter in it."

Wow, in my day (the 40's) it was a zoot suit, long gold key chain, fedora hat with the brim turned down and black and white wing tip saddle shoes with metal taps attached.

My goodness Sue, we must be the same age I remember well all the things you've listed.

My sister must be about the one age with both of you... the floor of her room looked like mounds of meringue one night as she went through her different petticoats and hoops [ which she wore with those black ballerina flats.] My father peeked in her room briefly and shut the door, shaking his head in bewilderment, not sure of what he'd just seen. You must admit - all that netting looks awfully uncomfortable, no matter how pretty it looked like mountains spread out on the floor.
Funny the stuff you remember from babyhood [ I was about three then but remember it so clearly.]

Levis big bells, Mickey Mouse tee shirt and hair. Lots and lots of hair.

As a teenager, I fell getting onto a bus one time in a very tight straight skirt, ClaraSue, that first tall step -oooooph! I wasn't hurt, but was all by myself, so nobody to laugh and giggle with.

I remember hot pants from the 70s - I had one outfit with a loooong jacket - to the ankles - open from the waist, with hot pants and of course go-go boots! Yikes! (you know, I still have that outfit in the closet, waiting for a costume party!)

And yes, I had all those petticoats as a kid too. We used to stiffen them with Knox gelatin.

I might post that great picture of you, Sue , in the multicoloured pants.... (or I might not, for a fee..)

Go on then, I hasten to add that I bought them to wear to a 'bad taste' party! Don't put the photo here, just the link.

Oh I remember hot pants. I had a pair I wore with a thin blouse that had those big puffy sleeves and a waistecoat.

Also had a pair of hipster jeans with the big 'bell' bottoms and a huge zip up the front.

Man what were we thinking! :0

Well, I don't know, but there must be something pretty appealing about those styles, since they are back with a vengeance. I am amazed at how much my 14 year old daughter looks like me at that age, with her grungy bell bottoms, hightops and rock band tees.

The hot pants and midi length stuff didn't show up till I was a junior in high school. Fortunately hot pants violated our local school dress code and we only wore them on dates...otherwise it would have created a much more erotic atmosphere at school than anybody really needs in eleventh grade!