Do you “have a decade”

1962-1972 the best years…

Love that coat maw ive got one like it in what I call christmas red from Laura Ashley its a bit small at the moment but I will slim into it.(hopefully).
The 70s.is the decade for me platform boots oxford bags patchulli oil. Biba make up. Went out with a sailor who had a Morris 1100. Lyceum, Cats Whiskers Dancing round the hand bags having fun with my girl friends. False eye lashes tops and bottoms. Great days.

1965-1975

1980s well 1986 specifically

I took 3 driving licences in 2 years!

I learnt to drive in my BF's TR4, then drove around to college in his TR6 ...

next BF had Woolesley 1500 lol!

silverlining48

I never had a boyfriend with a sports car Kitty, the best I managed was one with a ford anglia. Kept him though, still together over 50 years later and now we have a Fiesta! Just too much excitement.

I married the owner one of the sports cars. I had a boyfriend with an E Type jag but settled for dh and his MGB!

I was lucky enough to live near Liverpool and went to The Cavern etc. during the 60s. There were mostly just soft drinks in the clubs that I went to and if there were any drugs, I didn't see them! I had a great time.

PollyTickle

Apart from covid I quite like now. I like big open plan, light filled housing, kitchen islands, big comfortable beds, an eclectic mix of furnishings is not only acceptable but encouraged, modern cars with parking assist. I love the fashion, boots with anything, wear what suits, trousers and jeans acceptable anywhere for women. Music, anything goes, even millennials play Wilson Pickett at their parties.
Anything that interests us is at our finger tips on the www.
On a personal level, I can enjoy my grandchildren, be as silly as I like, be as messy as I want to be. Then they all go home and I can enjoy my adult home all tidy and fairly organised.
I don’t have too many responsibilities, no job, no children to discipline.
Years worth of great friends who know me well and the enjoyment of making and getting to know new friends, gathering new interests without time constraints.
Crikey, before I started I hadn’t realised just how good now is, even with covid it is the decade for me.

❤️ this PollyTickle.
Actually I agree. This is my bestest time.
We are very fortunate that we & our extended family all enjoy good health mentally and physically which money cannot buy and gives us great peace of mind.
I love going to bed and sleeping until I’ve had enough. Another plus.
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That coat is gorgeous muse.

1960’s just started work, slim so could wear latest fashion.

Used to be able to buy Mary Quant clothes at reasonable price in shop owned by little Jewish man in Whitechapel market don’t know how he sold them at the price.

Best music decade but suppose lot of posters will challenge that?
Also had boyfriend who had Lambretta shudder to think of now but we used go all over the place no crash helmets then.
Enjoyed 70’s too that’s when I had my boys.

Had a nice little mg midget in the late 60’s. Great music, loved mini skirts and long boots. We were in Australia throughout the seventies, wouldn’t get many surf boards in a sports car so we had a Ford Falcon station wagon and lived a few miles north of Surfers Paradise and the Gold Coast, lived in bikinis and skimpy shorts at weekends, uni in Brisbane, then commuted to Canberra for three days a week in black dresses and court shoes. Started our family, had lots of fun. A decade of contrasts for me and my second best decade.

Katie1949 I was very much into maxi skirts but could never get them long enough so my mum's Singer sewing machine was always out. Handle not electric. Even made myself a coat like this one. Orange with green lining. I was getting into colours from flower power period too.

Oh! I've shrunk slight. Had to measure DH's height the other day so did mine as well. I've lost 1/2 inch so have to record 6' 1/2" now. I lived in rural Derbyshire so no chance of being spotted for becoming a model.

Hetty I do like your post!

The decade we're in right now is always the favourite:

Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
That's why we call it the present

60s for me !
Left school and went to college. Met my DH when working as a waitress in the summer of 65.He was on holiday in Scotland with his parents. Bless him. He was only 18 !
Loved The Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Loved the clothes too.

I never had a boyfriend with a sports car Kitty, the best I managed was one with a ford anglia. Kept him though, still together over 50 years later and now we have a Fiesta! Just too much excitement.

Being young and slim was very enjoyable I admit Kitty, getting in and out of sports cars a plus too.
I suppose each decade had good bits but I still choose now as my best.

I think I look back at the '60s, well the late '60s that is, through rose coloured spectacles probably because I was wearing actual rose coloured specs some of the time. It was the whole Swinging 60s fashion, The Beatles, Biba that heady mix. Living close to London and frequently visiting the iconic landmarks I think many of us felt right at the epi centre. The fact of the matter I was probably a bit too young to appreciate the 60s, being only mid teens at they drew to an end. I was reminded of that the other day when I re watched "Don't Look Now" on IPlayer a favourite film from the early '70s, that was the actual time when I was doing all the concerts, travelling abroad and being able to afford high fashion, somehow the seventies never really cut it the way the sixties did I blame the platform shoes and hot pants! some of it was a bit naff in retrospect.

PollyTickle

Apart from covid I quite like now. I like big open plan, light filled housing, kitchen islands, big comfortable beds, an eclectic mix of furnishings is not only acceptable but encouraged, modern cars with parking assist. I love the fashion, boots with anything, wear what suits, trousers and jeans acceptable anywhere for women. Music, anything goes, even millennials play Wilson Pickett at their parties.
Anything that interests us is at our finger tips on the www.
On a personal level, I can enjoy my grandchildren, be as silly as I like, be as messy as I want to be. Then they all go home and I can enjoy my adult home all tidy and fairly organised.
I don’t have too many responsibilities, no job, no children to discipline.
Years worth of great friends who know me well and the enjoyment of making and getting to know new friends, gathering new interests without time constraints.
Crikey, before I started I hadn’t realised just how good now is, even with covid it is the decade for me.

I agree to a large extent polly but I did enjoy being slim and having boyfriends with flashy sports cars even though I had no self confidence.

I enjoyed being there for the music first time round but I enjoy lots of current music too.

I love the Internet and social media now rather standing in a freezing hall or phone box.

And I really appreciate having a home I love with lots of mid century furniture mixed with comfy modern stuff.

The late ‘60s for me too!

6' 1" muse wow. You could have been a model. I wasn't that tall but I enjoyed my clothes.

Tangerine dream.

Yep Marydoll Same here, remember all our registration numbers including some of my dad's.
Can't mind where I've left my specs, keys mobile etc,

Dad had a Ford Anglia reg YBF 687. Apparently an acronym ((according to mum) for you bloody fool!
I think held together with Isopon.

One bad winter, we were travelling back home (Clydebank) for Christmas.
Just passed the Shap, the snow was falling, I was in back of car wrapped in my mum's fur coat, no heater.
Smoke started to come out the engine, we all bailed out the car . and dad got presents out of boot just in time before car went up in flames .
Think mum was correct.

We've been here before with this one Kate1949. Born the same year.

Love of the 60's. I was tall (6'1" and still am). Slim (size 12 not now - pity). Started work which boosted my confidence level. Whole music and fashion scene. Had a pixie hair cut like Mia Farrow and flashed my long legs in mini skirts, especially getting out of my boyfriend's mini. Great music to dance to at the local discos every weekend. Best disco was above a pub. Tiny room, pitch black and soul music blasting out.

If I could mix it all up with some of your choices PollyTickle, I'd have the perfect decade. Pleasures of retirement, financial security, fantastic benefits and opportunities the www has brought me and big open plan living.

Cherrytree, we had an orange Alpine car, brand new straight from the factory, because my FIL worked there. He ordered it for us, got a huge discount, but didn't check what colour we preferred.
DH was raging when it arrived and he saw the colour, tangerine orange describes it perfectly!
It was like driving a tank. I can even remeber the reg, FHS159T, yet I can't even remember where I have put my phone!