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

[fishcalledwonder]

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!

This and Indian print smocks and skirts. The dye always ran so if it rained or if you got hot and sweaty you'd have purple legs or armpits. I did have a pair of men's Levi 501s from a charity shop (size 29, quite small I think) and people used to ask me when I was going to put flares in them but I never did.

Brown high waist flares, platform shoes, blouse with collar that nearly touched the high waist band!! Headscarf tied like headband.

1978 - grease the movie was out - drain pipe black trousers snd a red t shirt

Poncho
platforms
gypsy skirt

I had jumpsuits, flared of course. And brown was very popular for some reason.

My primary school also had outside toilets that were rather grim & used to freeze up in the winter. The boys used to pee over the wall of the boy's toilets (the urinals were against this wall with a bit of a tin roof over, but it wasn't enclosed) so we learned to avoid the area of the playground adjacent to that wall.

And lime green.

I was 10 in 1975; we had an orange kitchen (Formica worktops), orange and brown curtains in the dining room and a lime green utility room/wash house and a lime green bathroom (white porcelain, thankfully not avocado).

I had brown corduroy flares, and an orange, brown and cream crotcheted poncho. Fab times.

If she was born in the 1970s, wouldn't it make more sense to celebrate the decade she was a teenager? Those are the years you remember, as she would have been a toddler during the 1970s.

Just wait - it will all come back into fashion & we will be replacing our white bathroom suites for brown & avocado ones before we know where we are.

Food i remember
Black forest gateaux
Angel delight (strawberry)
Watch 'Abigail's Party' by Mike Leigh, brilliant drama with 70's fashion

Bay city rollers uniform

I was 3yrs old but, looking at photos, brown, orange, yellow floral smock type efforts.

Few years on from '75, party food was good old pineapple and cheese on cocktail sticks, vol au vents and French Fancy cakes (the Kipling ones). I made myself very, very sick after eating about eight when I was 8yrs old at a party! Cocktail sausages, pickled onions, sandwiches cut into triangles with tinned pink salmon as a filling. Always white bread. Boiled eggs cut in half with a blob of mayonnaise on. Angel Delight, blancmange, jelly and ice cream.

I'll.let you know if I think of anything else!

Platform sandals, maxi skirts and cheesecloth blouses.

Lots of clothes in polyester and nylon, zig zag patterns, bell sleeves, huge collars, giant, high waisted flares, brown and cream platform wedge sandals, brown knitted tank top with matching cardigan.

The boys at my infant school used to do that but the girls toilets were on the other side of the wall.

Ugly corduroy trousers, really pretty flowery dresses, tight fitting shirts with puff sleeves and big collars, tight fitting woolly jumpers and mary jane shoes. I was only 6 though!

We had a yellow formica kitchen that I loved and a dark green bathroom suite with matching green mats for the bath and loo. I had some spectacularly loud flowery bed linen too, which I found at my parents' house not so long ago. Proper retro kitsch.

At school all the teachers smoked at breaktime and we had that awful grease proof paper loo roll.

On Sundays we were allowed to put Matey in the bath!

In most of my 1975 photos I'm wearing a mustard yellow jumper with one of those tartan skirts attached to a vest, with home knitted tights and t bar shoes. Sometimes also a wooly hat with tassels.

I had a top similar to this, but more purple and brown

I was 6 and on my birthday I have a pair of yellow trousers and a bright orange top. My hair is cut short in a 'pageboy' style. My mum (on the photo) is sat on the bin, with rollers in her hair, wearing a pair of brown nylon trousers and a cream roll neck. She has a cigarette in her hand.
ah, the innocence

Me and my sis in about 1978.

Very similar. Loved the flared sleeved and drawstring cuffs on t shirts.
embroidered Afghan coat for colder days and maxi length cotton patterned thin tapestry coat for summer.

loads of cheesecloth, Indian embroidered t shirts with shisha mirror work, natural fibres, long hair, bohemian jewellery, hippie type anything, plaited leather wrist bands and patchouli oil perfume

OMG me too. I still have the earrings!

Yes!!! We had an avocado coloured bath!!!

We only had a bath on Sundays.

I was 10
wooden and leather clogs
wooden scholl sandals
very short very tight bright coloured polyester shorts and t shirts .
It was very hot and the polyester