Most special item you bought as a teenager

Mine was a turquoise Perdio Picadilly transistor radio. I saved my newspaper round money for it. My life was transformed, as it had a single in-ear earphone and I could use it anywhere without my parents complaining about the music!

Navy blue coat, my mum said it would fade!

I had a summer job in a café and saved all my wages for a trip to Oxford St and bought a black n white dogtooth check maxi coat and a navy jersey maxi dress with gold buttons down the front.Mum had refused to buy me a maxi.
I thought I was the bees knees being the first in my small town to have the latest trend.

My first platform shoes, strappy and turquoise.
My first eye shadow, Yardley and purple. That was my only Yardley purchase as I then went onto Outdoor Girl and Miners. From Woolies of course.

I loved Yardley lipsticks! they had a wonderful scent, and I remember buying one in pale pink, and another in a lilac pink.

My first ever perfume( cologne) was 4711.

My first strappy platform shoes too - they were blue, yellow and red suede and I loved them! My DM was convinced I'd break both ankles.

I also hankered for my first hot pants, in purple panne velvet, but I had to sew them myself (which of course enabled me to make them obscenely short).

Portable record player (battery operated). I used to take it to the park with my 7 singles and be the envy of everyone else in my gang

My first record player was a red and cream Dansette, and I had to wait two years to receive this costly present ( it wasn't a new one either!)

I had the dansette too. Wasn't it lovely. Listened to Lonnie Donegan, Elvis, Bill, and so on. Oh yes, Miners and Outdoor Girl. When did they go? Yardley was rather expensive I recall. Went dancing wearing that perfume in navy blue bottle. Night in Paris or something. Then " progressed" to Coty L'Aimant. Lovely days ! I really miss dancing as OH has never been interested, being an archetypical two left footer.

Thinking back to dances in the 60's, the boys (men) always wore a smart suit and tie, even to bop around to pop music, seems bizarre now.

I had a second hand red and cream Dansette for Christmas. I was 14 or 15.

Hiking boots and a rucksack, paid for with money from my first school holiday job when I was fifteen, so that I could go youth hostelling in the Lake District with some friends.

I had to buy my own Dansette on HP with my meagre pocket money! Of course while I was paying if off I couldn't afford to buy any records to play on it...

You put us as teenagers to shame, thatbags - or at least me. I was not at all outdoorsy, although my stepmother would have loved me to be.

All my energies went into dancing.

Once I had the rucksack and hiking boots for youth hosteling I bought a pair of purple Levi cords. Walked for miles in those!

A navy blue and lime green short dress.

Blue stilettos with a blue mesh top from Mansfields, I think.

Lots of Max Factor mascara - I spate on the brush and them rubbed it on black block.

I think I spent all my earnings, other than what I gave mum, on make-up and clothes.

'Those were the says my friend, I thought they would never end etc'

Black wet look boots, the ones you pulled on, I loved them, and high platform sandals, covered in a flowery fabric (including the platform) ??

Mine was a pair of black platform shoes with turquoise trimming. I saw them in Dolcis in Oxford Street on my way to an interview for my first job and I promised myself that I'd buy the shoes with my first pay packet. I did and I loved them to buts even though I was broke for the rest of the month! Couldn't wear them now, too high, but they were very flash for me. Now I'm into practical comfort!

Oops not learnt what 'flip' is and also emoticons here!!!

In the 1960s a Mary Quant block black mascara it came in a black plastic container with her trademark daisy logo in silver on the front. I felt such a free love hippy with it in my make up bag.

My first adult bike. One with straight handlebars! Bought it from the local bike shop on the 'never-never'.

Ana I bought a Dansette too, also on the HP, after the bike.

A red mini dress from a boutique called Flair. I was seventeen and in my first job as an office junior. I earned £4.10 a week and the dress cost £7. I used to lend it to my friend and she would lend me one of hers.