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!

Cheesecloth shirt , flared jeans.

Our first house had an avocado bath suite. In 1991! We still thought it was a bit fancy, DH and I, having been working class kids with parents who had no truck with 70s household fads and stuck with plain white porcelain.
A few years on from the Brown Time, it was all flowery layered skirts and frilly blouses. My chest hadn't reached its full glory by that point, and I was able to carry off the frills without looking like a broderie anglaise cushion. The trousers I longed for were now dead straight cords, and when I finally got a pair, they were... brown.

Yes and scholl sandals

Dress up as bay city rollers fans with tarten of your favourite group member or the Osmands. Punk.

I was at primary school in 1975.

At children's parties I remember orange jelly set in the halves of an actual orange and then quartered. Everyone had a long party dress - mine was brown and tiered, with a big floral collar.

For everyday wear we often wore dresses that were essentially a white vest attached to a very short red tartan kilt. Worn with a roll neck jumper, white knee socks and T-bar shoes.

I was 2/3

all my dresses seemed to be made of 100% nylon, we were all wearing a lot of nylon

i can remember seeing sparks coming off clothes 😮 we used to get undressed in the dark to see them

@menopausalfart Loads of Brown! I was 9 in 1975 and had a brown bridesmaids dress with orange roses and white daisies printed all over it.

My fave 1970’s thing ever was a bat wing cheesecloth top with flowered embroidery on the waist band and a striped cheesecloth top with a tie at the bottom.

@ViciousCurrentBun I wore a brown cord dress with brown patent leather shoes to my DM's wedding.😂

Hand crocheted dresses made by mum.

I was wearing quite a lot of indian print stuff - this sort of thing. In fact I recently sold one for about £60 on Ebay that had been cluttering up my wardrobe for years. Apart from that, most of my clothes came from Laura Ashley. Platform shoes from Ravel.

Party food - cheese and pineapple or cheese and silverskin onions on sticks. Ritz crackers with Primula cheese spread. Watney's Party 7 beer. Cadbury's finger biscuits. Sandwiches were much as now except maybe luncheon meat too? Hummus or dips or olives... nope.

My parents had sheepskin coats. Both of them.

And my Mum had those jumpers with a sort of pattern of snowflakes across her chest and over her shoulders.

The kids were all in brown. I'm pretty certain it was all man made fibres for the kids because I used to spark like a loose electric wire when I touched people.

I had a brown dress with orange flowers on too. I was very little and so proud of it. All the rage then.

I wasn’t born in 1975 but in photos of my mother from that time period she was mostly wearing massive flares and maxi dresses. Lots of corduroy, check patterns and lots of brown!

I had a top like that. I loved it. Still do. I really want one now.

Bottle green polyester school pinafore with a zip front. White shirt with a very long collar.

Well I was a kid, so one of those little kilts with a vest attached and fair isle jumper

I remember that. Lie on the floor. Rub a 4B pencil along the zipper to make it easier to yank the two sides of the zip together. I remember a boy calling to ask me to come sledging with him one day when school was snowed off, and it took me so long to zip up my skin tight jeans that he'd left by the time I came downstairs!

Remember that punk had already started.

Watch The Good Life which is all on iplayer. That was around the right era. I would wear everything that Margot wears.

With hundreds and thousands on top and a glacé cherry in the middle.

Definitely cheese and pineapple or cheese and silverskin pickled onion hedgehog.

Twiglets fanning out of a tall glass - so sophisticated

Butterscotch Angel Delight. Strawberry or chocolate blancmange in a rabbit-shaped mould. Or Arctic Roll.

2tone dresses if you were a skinhead!

Laura Ashley!

And flared cords.

Me too!
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