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!

Black patent T bar shoes with TWO buckles!! Ahhhhhh.....I dream of sheen-ie 😉(yeah, yeah I know....but it ran to 1970!)

Oh god yes!

A crocheted poncho is ESSENTIAL!

Yes...the hacking jackets.... What was that about? All the kids in my family had them.... And we lived in a pub, nowhere near any horses!

Simon shirt and high waisted Brutus bellbottom jeans. Platform shoes . Curly perm. Not a Rollers fan (more a David Essex girl!) but many of my pals would be in college jumpers and white bellbottoms with tartan up the sides. (I would have been 14 in 1975).

So grateful I was a teenager in the 70s - great fun (mostly)

At school we all wore white ribbed tights with a pattern of holes up the outer leg side. Or American tan tights with knee high white ribbed socks over them.

Ric rac trim on any skirt or dress. It was the time mini skirts gave way to maxi skirts, I remember begging my mum for longer skirts because I was being teased at school.

Kaftans were quite big (in all senses) with women over 30.

There were a lot of big floral patterns on women's clothes, often in orange.

Collars were huge.

There was a particular cardigan with a belt that everyone seemed to wear, it was, as others have said brown and cream.

For girls a strange sort of dress, it had a kilt skirt but a nylon 'vest' at the top so it looked like a skirt and you had to put another layer on.

For parties or special events girls would have their hair put up with ringlets at the side and wear a long dress. I was a bridesmaid a couple of times around then and so my bridesmaid dresses became my party dresses.

In 1975 I had a favourite blouse which was similar to satin and had pictures of ducks all over it!

My mother during that time wore lots of patterned dresses exactly like this -

My mother was an ex model so always looked beautiful, I’m not sure any of the overweight lot today would look as good in seventies fashions.

I’m With you on David Essex! Also liked BCR but very much into Bowie. Yes yes you’ve reminded me of Brutus jeans and Simon shirts. And curly perms but also that style with a DA was it called? I agree, great fun and lots of different mixes of looks and styles around!

Babycham!

It disappeared for a while, but can now be found much more easily.

Was the cardigan you mention like the one that Starsky used to wear?

Skinny fitting tops and flares mainly (age 10/11 in 75)

Cheese cloth shirts and jeans with flowers on the pockets. Also a massive flicked fringe. My hair was about my jaw length which was a very popular length at the time IIRC.

I think the pp might mean a longer line, less chunky cardigan with a knitted belt that lots of girls soared at my school. I had a green one!

Wore at my school. Not soared, whatever that means (bloody autocorrect).

Wish I'd been around for the big Northern soul clubs,the Torch , Twisted wheel,VA VAs ,Cata Combes, Blackpool Mecca,etc but id been between 6 and ten don't think mum and dad would have been on for that.😁

Ooh just remembered the Bay City Rollers in their tartan flares outfits and platform shoes!!

I was in nappies

I was 17, Northern soul was around in the 70s, I can remember people wearing crombie coats and Ben Sherman shirts, high waisted trousers. I wore flared trousers and a smock top and coveted an Afghan coat but couldn't afford it, a friend of mine had a maxi one. Black Forest gateau sounds ideal, my friend and I used to go to the Wimpy and have that.

That milk jelly stuff made with jelly and carnation milk was popular then, also Angel Delight, babycham, snowball and Campari and lemonade.

Oxford bags for men with wide waistbands and collared t-shirts tucked in

Those dresses up top are pretty spot on

I was 14… didn’t really get to go out and buy clothes my myself till the next year.
I had some brown flared denim jeans. An egg-yolk yellow skirt which was the one thing I’d made in needlework class at school. A yellow scoop necked, curved hem tshirt trimmed with lilac. Can’t remember anything else specific but those are engraved on my memory.

the next year I got the cheesecloth blouses and platform wedge sandals!

‘gypsy style’ dresses and skirts were the year afterwards.

Lots of denim, polyester, big pointed collars, shirts with turnback cuffs. Flared calf length skirts with wide waistband. Oxford bags with wide waistband.
My favourite outfit was a brown trouser suit with one big button on the jacket. Underneath I wore a white shirt with pointed collar and turnback cuffs, embroidery on collar and cuffs. On my feet, brown leather wedges.
I was 15 in 1975 so very much into clothes.

That's the one.