To ask what you were really wearing in the Uk in 1975?

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Planning a 50th birthday lunch for my sister with a 70s theme. All costume ideas online are ABBA, disco or hippy. I was hoping for some ideas to make it more reflective of the UK when my sis was born. We’re doing quizzes on children’s telly and 70s music. Going to attempt to make a Black Forest gateau. Any other ideas for 70s food would also be great. Thank you!

Pretty much what I’m wearing now! Flared cords, « hacking jacket » , Victorian blouses….. loads of beige and cream. I did have some awful yellow flares.

Centre parted long hair with Farrah Fawcett Majors flicks, frosted blue eyeshadow 😳

I was born in 1975, so cloth nappies for me!

I think flared jeans and plenty of velour. In lovely orange and brown patterns.
And shirts with huge collars.

Or think of jerry and margo and tom and barbara in "the good life"

From photos of my mum it was long gypsy style dresses in shades of brown, olive & burnt orange. Highly patterned.

My mother wore flared denim dungarees, floral blouses, and a headscarf.

Flared jeans or flared loons (I had a bright pink pair!) and embroidered smock tops. Platform soled shoes.

I was wearing lovely flared jeans, tight down to about the knee but then flaring out enormously. Remember these must be long enough to touch the ground, whatever shoes you’re wearing — cringe if the hems flap around your ankles! Never mind if the hems fray, you can’t bend so you won’t see them. A good fit is important, so take a friend to kneel on your stomach and hold the zip as near closed as possible while you lie on the changing-room floor to pull the zipper tag up. You can do it!

Skintight T-shirts of all varieties, including tie-dye, political slogans, bits of new-agey philosophy etc etc. Maybe a shiny waistcoat. Gorgeous embroidered Afghan jacket that I foolishly lent to a relative, who lost it.

Earrings long and heavy enough to pull your earlobes off, nearly; don’t turn your head suddenly.

When not in jeans, Laura Ashley smocks and dresses, again long enough to touch the ground.

And holding up this wondrous structure, I remember my shoes with 3-inch platforms and 8-inch heels.

Bay City Rollers jeans, with tartan down the seams and around the bottom of the legs 😂😂

I was 5 - I remember wearing faux corduroy trousers and my mum making me a patchwork skirt with matching headscarf!

usually I was in my sisters hand me downs. We certainly didn’t dress like ABBA - my mum wore A line skirts, chunky heels, Pippa D clogs and jackets with big lapels

Food - cheese and pineapple on sticks poked into a jacket potato covered in tin foil!
A prawn party ring?

Flared Wrangler hipster jeans
Cheese cloth peasant blouse
Farah flick front fringe
Aqua Manda perfume
Happy days!

Bay city rollers socks ,the stripey multi coloured ones

There was a lot of brown about, truly. I was a kid with a brown and cream long dress for parties, and a pair of cream flares known as patch pockets. My little sister's were, you guessed it, brown.

My Osmonds T Shirt and Donny Osmond cap.

Oh yes cheese cloth was big! I still have mine with embroidery on it - my kids wore it!

Vol au vents were one of the thing to have as party food.

I remember wearing a lot of brown.

Oh and a short-sleeved jumper over a long-sleeved blouse of shirt, in the early 70s. I can’t remember how long that fashion lasted, but I haven’t seen it for decades.

And you can't have a party without a trifle.

School uniform during the week, hand-me-downs at the weekend from a relation who was a bit shorter than me.

The Bay City Rollers were huge in the 1970s. Girls wore cropped trousers with tartan turn ups and tartan scarves.

Hot pants, mini skirts, flares, Laura Ashley dresses and then of course there was punk. Man About the House, The Liver Birds, The Good Life and The Wombles were massively popular TV shows. Abigail's Party was the play that summed it all up.

As for food, well the 1970s was party food heaven. Cheese footballs, fondue, Quiche became quiche not ham and egg pie, prawn cocktail, knickerbocker glories, peach melba, a birthday cake with candles and a ballerina on. Blue Nun wine and a Party Seven tin of beer.

Sometimes with individual toes like gloves.

flared jeans - tight on the thigh and then flared from the knee
fitted / skinny blouse/T shirt, long, long collars
or hand knitted jumper, aslo quite slim fit (nothing baggy)

long hair, centre part, 2 plaits forward over shoulders or even better 2 long pony tails one over each ear.

if a dress then it was either a long midi dress, with a long tiered skirt to the floor, floral pattern, and top was close fit but with puffy sleeves. Button front top, with huge collars. (really, really long collar tips)
or button front fitted dress, knee length with knee high boots, with heels. All womens shoes had heels.
If not boots then round toed shoes

Me and my mum in 1975 and my mum in 76!

It woudn't be a 1970s party without a potato hedgehog covered in foil with spikes made from cocktail sticks with ham and pineapple or 'cocktail' sausages on.