Flared jeans. Massive wooden platforms. Cheesecloth shirt. Sometimes a denim waistcoat. Hair trying to be like Farrah Fawcett Majors out of Charlie's Angels. And White Musk, or Patchouli or Sandalwood in an oily perfumy substance.
I had desert boots too - blue ones, for school.
Either long dresses or loons, flared, with a t shirt and my long black velvet cloak. Very Pink Floyd! Oh yeah, and that de-rigour dazed expression! Met my husband in a nightclub in Leicester Square, The Sundown. Happy Daze
Well, I went to a disco in the early 1960. In the dock area of Antwerp with some US Coast guard cadets.
I certainly went to some in London in the mid 60s. 1990s must have been when they made a come-back!!
I was at the young mother stage in the mid 1970s and I can remember wearing a shiny bright red pvc maxi coat, still some mini skirts, personally never really liked maxi skirts, but I wore jeans and boots. For evening outings I had a full length dress, up to the neck with full billowy sleeves. Another woman was wearing the same dress but was shorter and plumper than me and it is the only time in my life I can remember being in this situation and actually thinking the dress looked better on me. Usually it was the other way round.
a kaftan, red and gold and smelt of patchouli.
Always a long dress for a disco - often homemade from Laura Ashley material. Flares, skinny rib tops (I had a skinny rib shaped body in those days!) and cork soles platforms for any other type of going out. Like LullyDully I got married in 1976 and wore a cream floaty polyester long dress with a high neck and sort of cape shaped sleeves, plus the obligatory floppy hat and platform shoes.
I also had a patchwork fake suede coat with a fake fur collar in various shades of brown. I loved that coat. There was a lot of brown around in those days. Strangely I can't stand it now.
In 1971 I wore a PVC pink (!) maxi coat with black PVC boots, with white platform soles. Doesn't bear thinking about now, does it? I thought I was the bees knees though.
Going for a night out at the local Palais-de-Danse I recall trying (and probably failing) to look glamorous. We often wore V-neck dresses with fell just below the knee - mini-skirts being a bit old-hat by then.
Our shoes were fancy platforms which we carried with us in a paper bag and changed into in the ladies so as not to spoil them. Unlike todays girls we always wore coats and gave them in at a special desk, getting a ticket in exchange. We made a bottle of coca-cola last all night.
Platform shoes with a stacked heels. Corduroy jacket, floppy straw hat, very lacy cotton blouse with a manderin collar. Lots of long skirts, still a bit milkmaidy. Was too old for a disco by then. I got married in 1976.
During the day I lived in jeans, think they were flared, and cheesecloth shirts. I know I had suede desert boots then.
It was the time of maxi dresses and I had a few for evenings out. I think my high heeled shoes had platforms.
I am writing a book and I posted a few months ago asking for advice about pregnancy in the mid-1970s. Please may I take this opportunity to thank everyone who took the time to reply. I very much appreciate it.
Now, I was 19 in 1975 and can remember some of the outfits of what I wore, but the thing is, I was quite a bit overweight then. I remember wearing long dresses in 1975, with a choker. Or a long skirt with a skinny ribbed top, which looking back, didn't do me any favours at all! I also remember wearing the "new" midi skirt? Or maybe that was earlier, I honestly can't remember. I don't have any photos of me from that era.
What I would like to know is what did YOU wear in 1975/76 for an evening out? I don't think disco became popular until maybe 1997, with Saturday Night Fever, did it? However, I may be totally wrong. I didn't go to many discos when I was younger, I met my ex-husband at our local Palais! I remember the white suit John Travolta wore, and I remember my ex-husband wearing a cream version in the early 1980s. (We lived in a small town in the North West of England, so maybe he was just behind the times!)
Would any of you be prepared to share your experience of going to a disco in the mid-1970s? What did you wear? What did your boyfriend wear? The two female characters in my book are totally different. One is tall, slim, stunningly beautiful and the other (based on myself) is short, a bit mousy and slightly overweight. What do you think the more popular girl would have worn? Would hot pants still be in fashion then? I vaguely remember when I first started work in 1974, aged 18, that an older girl wore them to work and was told off. I'm sure she wore them in the evening though. Could I be right?
As I say, I can only go off my own experience, and that is wearing long dresses and skirts, I suppose to hide my shape at the time.
I remember my boyfriend at the time having long David Cassidy like hair and wearing flared jeans, so I can imagine what my characters' boyfriends would wear. However, I'm at a loss as to how the girls would dress at the time.
Any advice would be much appreciated, particularly by all the grans who were the "cool" girls in the mid-1970s! I wasn't, by the way!
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