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!

I was a fashion-conscious 15 year old. I remember wearing maxi skirts - the tiered ones came later, these were A line. Wedge platform sandals with rope effect on the platform & wedge heel. Fitted cropped tops were in too, often floral & with small buttons that did up the middle at the front.
For more casual wear: cheesecloth shirt with a tie at the front & flared, pale coloured jeans.

Cheesecloth blouses/smocks. Flared jeans sometimes with an inset of flowery fabric at the hem.Platform sandals with orange flowers on. Laura Ashley smock dress, floppy hat.

Not in small Cheshire villages it hadn't!

Brown cord trousers and primary colours! I miss my 70's clothes...

I had a remember you're a womble T Shirt. And lots of polyester flares in brown, green and red!

Just asked my mum. Mostly dungarees apparently

I was in a baby grow, but DM wore smocks and paisley A-line dresses with lots of trimming.

The last 1970’s themed party I went to I bought a vintage 70’s long dress from EBay and channeled my inner Margot Leadbetter. I love that dress - no throw away fashion in the 70’s, it still looks like new.

I’m really enjoying reading this! Lot of brown and orange going on!

A couple of people have commented that I should do a 90s theme, but DS has only ever really liked 60s and 70s music, she dresses like an old hippy and worships Janis Joplin. She would not appreciate a Britpop/spice girls party! I, on the other hand would love it, which is why I need the help with this. Also, it’s just a family lunch with the teens and grandparents and the older generation will enjoy reliving all their 1970s highlights. My dad will be gutted he’s not getting gammon and pineapple though.

I had a lovely pair of burgundy corduroy dungarees with faux leather buttons. Stripey jumpers and tees were de rigeur as were big floppy collars and hats. I also had a rather fetching brown with pink ditsy floral a-line smock with fetching pink ric-rac trim, homemade of course. I seem to remember a lot of nylon and static.

I would echo the cheese and pineapple/silverskin onion hedgehog together with cocktail sausages on a stick. Wash it down with blue nun or chianti in a straw covered bottle. Toast the birthday girl with asti spumunte or baby cham with a maraschino cherry.

Oh God! I literally MADE that dress on the Vogue pattern- the one front right.

Wedge shoes, brown crimplene flares, green jumper with mustard star's..age 9yr old boy.

Loons, basically wide flared cotton trousers with a low waistline, they sat on the hips. Flowery blouses, brightly coloured jumpers rounded neckline, no sleeves.
Tip for BF gateau, Morrisons do a large chocolate sponge cake, with a cream filling in the bakery. Get a jar of cherries in kirsh, put half the cherries in the middle of the cakes, use the rest to decorate the top with piped cream. Not quite a BF Gateau, but a good time saver.

My dad had an afro 🪮 perm and platform shoes 🤣

Watch a Top of the Pops from 1975. You'll see what young people were wearing

Yes…loons, smocks, love beads, Jesus sandals, chokers, god they were good days!

For a party sausage rolls, vol au vent, quiche Lorraine (which was considered new and very posh!) cheesecake either frozen or made from a packet, cheese and pineapple on sticks, prawn cocktail. Avocado with vinaigrette (called avocado pear) half a grapefruit with cherries, chicken drumsticks, egg mayonnaise.
I was a teenager in 1975, I wore wide leg trousers, short tight t shirts, platform shoes, denim dresses, halter tops, cheesecloth tops, polka dots were popular as was tartan , brown , beige , orange colours, and also bright black.colours.

They certainly were!😀

Teen in 1975 I remember summertime wearing cap sleeved fitted T-shirts and tight white jeans. Platforms or high wedges. Cork soles. Zip up cardigans. Very wide trousers with high waistbands with several buttons - they had to touch the floor. Cheesecloth shirts tied at the waist (-always shrunk!). Halter neck T-shirts. Those collared T-shirts 2 tone.

Also there was a bit of a trend for pencil skirts, that wasn’t my thing (it was linked to the Roxy Music look). Charlie’s Angels look.

I associate hippy style with late 60s/early 70s, not mid 70s, or at least it wasn’t my thing, although around 1978 trend for tiered dresses with white lace underskirt showing and espadrilles and Laura Ashley was popular. Drainpipe jeans started to be popular coinciding with punk, the jam etc. I’d say around 1977. There were loads of “looks” in the 70s. Hot pants were early 70s.

Chicken in a basket with chips. Curried eggs. Pineapple and cheese or pickled onions on sticks. Vol au vents. Jubley key ice lollies. Fags(☹️). Cherry B, babycham, cider, Pernod & black.

Oh god yes I remember lying down in changing rooms and even assistants would help get the tightest possible fit. Could barely walk in them

I forgot denim A-line knee length skirts with buttons up front and denim dresses. Hooped earrings. And yes as another poster said, tight crop T-shirts with 3 buttons or completely buttoned up, especially worn when you had a deep 1970s coconut butter tan.

Ha ha! I came from a small Cheshire village and I remember people saying that the Swinging Sixties didn’t start there till the 70s.

I think things travel a bit faster now!

And weren’t you supposed to put on new Levis in the bath and let them shrink on you?

This may have been an urban myth…

A much loved stinky Afghan coat.

Clothkits, the adult styles for me and lots of delightful outfits for my two little boys,

I remember that but I don’t know if it was a myth.