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The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!

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Papertrail392 · 24/12/2021 19:24

Can anyone help please? I've got this memory of maybe a girl group or a musical or something where they've all got different coloured dresses in these different bright colours, all different colour combinations. I sound like I've lost the plot don't I! I thought maybe it was a girls allowed video but it's not. Any ideas please? It might be from the 80's.

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
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Morethanthis71 · 24/12/2021 20:52

Long shot but Bananarama, I found love?

kwiksavenofrillsusername · 24/12/2021 20:52

I’m thinking the Destiny’s Child Bootylicious video?

Long shot but maybe Lil Kim Crush on You? She wore a variety of bright outfits like head to toe red then blue.

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
Morethanthis71 · 24/12/2021 20:53

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FTMbg · 24/12/2021 20:53

Been beaten to it but I thought Bucks Fizz too. www.tv80s.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/bucks-fizz-making-your-mind-up-official-music-video.jpg

Tabasco007 · 24/12/2021 20:54

Scooby-Doo

Pinksmyfavoritecolour · 24/12/2021 20:54

Whitney Houston dance with somebody video she wears a dress that colour as well as other outfits

RestingMurderousFace · 24/12/2021 20:54

@SurreyFlurry92

This?
Yeah, that monstrous outfit came to my mind too. My god she must've pissed her stylist off massively!
JemIsMyNameNooneElseIsTheSame · 24/12/2021 20:55

Jem and the Holograms...?

ChocolateDeficitDisorder · 24/12/2021 20:57

I'm older than you and the 80s was my teenage music era, but your description sounds like Strawberry Switchblade...

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
EurghCobwebs · 24/12/2021 20:58

@Papertrail392

Thankyou for all the great suggestion, I've googled them all but none of them fit. I'm sure it was a group and they had big petticoats and all the colours kind of mixed and matched. As a little girl I had a particular favourite and I rememberjust loving all the colours. This is going to drive me mad!

I'm wondering it it might have been a theatre show, maybe a pantomime but I don't think it was. I'm sure it was something on TV that I watched a few times.

Saturdays/Beyonce would have been too late. I think it's more late 80's/ early 90's.

Is it not Girls Aloud but their Biology video? They wear big prom style dresses at one point.
amter · 24/12/2021 21:00

Kids Incorporated? I used to LOVE that show, they had similar type costumes.

RestingMurderousFace · 24/12/2021 21:01

Come Dancing BBC1 1980s.

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
stairgates · 24/12/2021 21:02

Austin powers popped into my head

BarefootHippieChick · 24/12/2021 21:02

@ChocolateDeficitDisorder

I'm older than you and the 80s was my teenage music era, but your description sounds like Strawberry Switchblade...
God, that's a blast from the past! It's most likely some 80s group like them, or Bucks Fizz or Bananarama
GuybrushT · 24/12/2021 21:02

Maybe very random but it makes me think of the scene in Mary Poppins when they go into the chalk picture and the girls have flouncy dresses on and they ride the horses from the merry go round which are those types of colours. Also makes me think a bit of the dresses they wear in the musical Meet me in St Louis which we used to watch on VHS at Christmas time in the late eighties!

bunfightinaisle3 · 24/12/2021 21:03

Haven't read the FT but makes me think of "because we can" scene in moulin rouge.

WrongWayApricot · 24/12/2021 21:04

I thought crazy in love and then I thought of these. And now I want one.

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
DumplingsAndStew · 24/12/2021 21:05

TLC?

They liked to wear different variations on the same outfit in different colours.

Nomoreusernames1244 · 24/12/2021 21:06

Reach? S club 7..

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
mintich · 24/12/2021 21:06

I had a Lipsy dress in these colours!

Fuckedoffisanunderstatement · 24/12/2021 21:07

Clueless

ChocolateDeficitDisorder · 24/12/2021 21:09

Cyndi Lauper?

The colour of this dress has triggered a memory that I just can't place and its driving me mad! Anyone in their late 30's/early 40's please help!
Littlewhiteballs · 24/12/2021 21:10

@pictish

Groove is in the Heart.
Toooooooon 💃
Nomoreusernames1244 · 24/12/2021 21:10

Steps always did the coordinated outfit thing too. Would that be the right era?

I thought sound of the underground by girls aloud as well…

Longdistance · 24/12/2021 21:10

I can envisage a purple petticoat like dress with orange lace. Is that it?