What did you wear in 1975/76

Interesting thing about sizes. I am a little bigger than I was at 18 but still a size 12. However sizes are much bigger now. I have a few clothes I kept from my youth, though sadly not the burgundy crushed velvet maxi suit.
I have some flares that are about 18" wide at the ankle and are supposedly a 12 but won't go near me. The jacket fits because it's a looser style.

Jeans and tee shirts by day, worn with a jacket if it was cool. For going out in the evening I had maxi dresses, or long skirts and frilly blouses.
During the long hot summer of '76 I worked in a grocery store. Our "uniform" was a button up "coat" made of nylon or some such material, the sort of thing Hilda Ogden wore on Coronation Street. Nobody wears those these days.?

I fell off my platform shoes and chose to wear desert boots or Greek sandals instead. Jeans and cheesecloth shirt (with or without mirrors). Then I moved to Greece and carried on the same. But with quite a few loose cotton dresses, hitched up with a. Belt - I was really skinny then!

I agree! Lucky you!

Fantastic! Lucky you still being the same size RedRidingHood!

I bought this velvet jacket in 1975 from a shop in Leeds called French Dressing. It's made of velvet and silk and has a cummerbund, it cost me a month's pay (I was 17).
I had it in the loft but dug it out last year to wear.

Gramarretto I so agree. Men's hats come in different sizes so why not ladies? I usually have to search for children's hats in big sizes that are suitable (not covered in fairies etc)

Communal changing rooms! Even when I was much younger, and much thinner, I hated them!

You've reminded me of those terrible communal changing rooms
BradfordLass
They had them at Laura Ashley full of skinny little girls. Oh how I wished I was their shape or rather no shape. But why? How foolish I was.
Shoes too. I used to long to be standard size in high st shoe shops but my feet refused and I felt like Cinderella's sisters.
Now I never go near these shops.
Incidentally, I tried on summer hats in accessorize only to discover there is only one size! Are all heads the same size? I think not.

I had a suede (affect) coat which I loved too, it was really long, had tons of faux fur all around it, and had a big hood, it did up with metal clasps

I absolutely loved it, I think it was my Christmas present one year, and I think I bought it in snob!

In 1975 my eldest son was 4 and the youngest a year old and we had very little money so no nights out and I made a lot of my clothes. I can remember making a pair of brown flares which I wore with a skinny top and also having a green patterned short skirt with a green and white striped lurex top! My favorite outfit was bought from C&A as a special treat - a long black skirt with small white flowers on it and a black suede (effect) zipped jacket with cream fur collar and cuffs - worn with black platform boots. I wore that coat till it fell to bits

You wore a skinny ribbed top? Then you were probably only notionally overweight because they just didn't make such things, or any other fashionable, pretty things, for girls who really were.

I couldn't get nice clothing to fit my Size 18 body and my mother, who still insisted on buying all my clothes, used to buy men's clothing: jerseys and t-shirts, for me.

I longed to wear jeans like my friends and once, in sheer desperation, went to a shop which specialised in work clothing.

I bought a pair of joiner's jeans spent hours unpicking the pockets at the side, the seams and waist.
Then they were re-sewn to fit my shape, all by hand.

I will never forget the sheer joy of feeling, for the first time in my life, 'normal' because with a long, white (man's) T-shirt, I looked like my skinny friends.

Of course, wearing men's clothing when you're a girl and want to look and feel like a girl is torture, so not 'normal' at all.

All my wages were turned over to my mother, but when I was given birthday money from Aunts, I bought two identical, floaty Indian skirts, unpicked them too - and made one which fit me.

So the 70's and later were not times when I could dress in clothing which reflected my personalty or character.

They were the years where I wandered round all the shops with friends and my thin sister watching as they giggled and tried on multiple choices of skirts, dresses and tops.

And aware that not one single shop had anything which fit a fat girl.

I once had a maxi dress, the only thing holding it up was a smocked top, I came out of a pub one night, tripped over my dress! Well you can imagine!
Didn’t wear that again!

Enjoying all these memories.
I still have two items of clothing I wore. A maxi pinafore broad blue stripes ( I called it my butcher apron). I wore it with 2 blouses -white and blue with long pointed collar and puffed shoulders. The other item is a top. It was called a gypsy top- elasticated short sleeves and waist. Could be worn with neckline off the shoulders. Had lovely embroidered flowers on the front. But...it was see through. Could see my bra! Cant believe I wore it. I wore it with a blue maxi or flared trousers. I was twenty four. Needless to say they don't fit me at alk!

Sadly, or maybe not! I’ve only got one surviving photo of that era, a friends wedding reception in her parents garden, the bride, her mum, her sisters, me, and almost everyone else were in Laura Ashley dresses

The groom was in a blue cord suit, no tie, my then boyfriend was in a pink flowery shirt and a leather jacket

I agree with a previous poster that there are a lot of similarities with todays fashion. We used to tie-dye our own t-shirts but this was a couple of years earlier, now tie-dye is fashionable again. We used to try to be "unique and individual" and that's what the younger generation are saying now. We were all wearing a uniform though really, telling the world which "tribe" you belonged to. Just remembered I had a pair of two tone leather shoes with a strap across and wooden stack heel which I wore for work, and a hand knitted, very long multi-coloured Dr. Who scarf, when Tom Baker was the Doctor, which was worn with everything but especially loved it with my bottle green velvet coat. That might have been a bit earlier though.

We moved to Scotland from the South of England in '75 and I remember being surprised that short skirts were still "in" here while mine were longer and far more flattering on me.
Laura Ashley was fashionable but also Ethnic fashions.
I bought a poncho and Indian batik printed dress and plaited my hair much to the disgust of my mum who thought I looked plain stupid.
I had platform espadrilles but came over on my side once and twisted my ankle. I wore my gorgeous baby as an accessory in a snuggli sling. He also went on the back of my bike.
DH had worn Ben Sherman fitted shirts and flares but he was never a dedicated follower of fashion. It was more the hair styles which date us. Short on top and long at the sides.

I still love those colours lemongrove, all my clothes were shades of purples and wines.

In the early70’s the colour purple and also aubergine in fashion were popular.Skinny knit jumpers, and polo necks.

I was wearing maternity dresses round about then, not flattering but covered up the huge bump at least.
Midi skirts were around 1970 ish, As I remember buying one and wearing it with a white Edwardian style blouse which was tucked in.Hotpants first came out round about 71
I think, but were popular for a while.
Suede platform shoes ( early 70’s) particularly in a shade of dusky pink.
1975, choker style necklaces were all the rage, as were smocked cheesecloths tunic tops and tie dye tshirts.

Reading this thread brings back so many memories!
My husband and I met in 1975, and we used to go to Friars in Aylesbury where we saw bands like Curved Air and Sailor. I used to wear my Welsh wool poncho, which I still own, because I would fold it up to sit on. Nowadays I don’t go to concerts where I’m not promised a seat.

I have said that the clothes kids wear today are not that different from what we wore in the 70's. Anything went then as it does now! Short skirts, platform shoes. I also remember wearing hot pants with a kind of 'curtain' round them too! So at front it was like just wearing knickers but at back it was like a long evening dress?

Also had boots with plastic uppers that clung to the leg (in white). PVC was in fashion so black PVC coat with mini skirt.

Blouses with super huge sleeves underneath tank tops! Flares and bell bottoms too. Denim everywhere - flared jeans.

For special occasions it was the maxi dress!

As say - not a huge difference to today.

Silky satin blouses with long, puffy sleeves gathered at the wrist, and big, rounded collars. Often worn under a short sleeved skinny rib jumper, so the effect was kind of the opposite of the 'leg-o-mutton' sleeves popular throughout history. I would wear these with maxi skirts or flared trousers/jeans. Oh and cheesecloth shirts and wooden soled platform shoes of course!

Straight leg levis with triangular inserts of multi-coloured velvet in the bottom to make them into flares, cheesecloth shirts, fruit of the loom t-shirts, wooden beads, silver ethnic style rings, suede skirts and skinny rib tops, grandad t-shirts, various velvet pieces sewn at the kitchen table on an old singer sewing machine, the manual type, clogs, huge wooden soled platform sandals with leather ties going around the leg, suede desert boots, cheesecloth dresses and laura ashley type of dresses, smocks. Remember when very wide leg jeans came 'in'. I have photos of my by then husband in some and they look so daft now! They were very wide and he was very skinny then tho tall 6ft 3in. They looked like flags on poles but it was the fashion then. I also think 1975/76 was when that type of fashion was changing and things became a bit more punk with tighter jeans and baseball/converse shoes more fashionable. So it was a bit of a mixture really. I remember making some bottle green corduroy culottes in 1976 and I wore them with t-shirts and leather boots. I loved them. Also a couple of midi-dresses from Miss Selfridge, one was bottle green velvet with round neck and three little buttons going down with long sleeves which flared out and were gathered at the cuff. It had a tie belt and had delicate silver swirls through the fabric. The other was black chiffon like material with lovely cape sleeves over the shoulders. That also had tiny silver like swirls through the fabric. I loved those dresses.

BBEvan: I can 't remember what I wore in the mid 70s .I was a young mum with two children. I can remember what they wore, but nothing specific to myself.

Same here. Most of my stuff came from charity shops