Ah, those were the sartorial days! I was looking through old photos for Throwback Thursday on FB, and found this gem from the spring of 1971, too good not to share with you here. My friend college Barbara S. had come home with me for a weekend, or maybe it was Easter -- but check out those outfits! I had made that dress (yes, it really is purple paisley) and still remember how soft the fabric felt; I think it was viyella. The unflattering shoes are definitely vintage, not to mention the long hair, wire-rimmed glasses, and Barb's purple velveteen bell bottoms and embroidered shirt.
I have some other gems from those decades that I'll post eventually.
Gosh.
"...and then we went inside and listened to "Tea for the Tillerman."
Posted by: andrea m. | April 24, 2014 at 02:01 PM
I'm sure I had a similar dress of the same purple paisley fabric--ah, the good old days!
Posted by: Mary | April 24, 2014 at 03:34 PM
I love these 'blasts from the past'.
Posted by: Tom | April 25, 2014 at 07:33 AM
Oh yes "vivent les minidresses/skirts"!
Posted by: Ellena | April 25, 2014 at 10:39 AM
You two foxes! Très a la mode considering where you were wearing those!
Posted by: Duchesse | April 25, 2014 at 04:57 PM
If the clothes were unfashionable (or possibly rather too fashionable) I'll take your word for it. But most fellas look at faces first and here they would have seen two young women, calm, composed, confident and, no doubt, competent. You can both afford to laugh at yourselves now which means,to quote my Grannie, you get the ha'penny and the toffee.
Posted by: Roderick Robinson | April 26, 2014 at 10:15 AM
A couple of years later, aged about 11, I had a pair of flared woollen trousers (I rather hoped they were 'Oxford bags' but they weren't really) in a complex check and a gingham shirt inexactly the same shades of purples and mauves. I was so happy.
Posted by: Lucy | April 28, 2014 at 03:13 PM