Who’s Cool?

Thank you MrsKen33 . I was as trendy in the 1960's as I could afford to be, even though I was a mother by then. I wore short skirts etc.

You are never too old to be cool henetha.

Having been born in the 1930's, I think I am too old to be cool,
unfortunately.

I had hair like an afghan hound if that counts as cool.

Whitewavemark2

Oh our generation has been the coolest. Absolutely no contest.

You got your ironic hat on there I hope😂

Art student also. The Juliet Greco look. Long fringe, black clothes. Jazz clubs, folk clubs, hitch hiking everywhere. No pill so you had to be careful. Loved it

I was definitely cool in the 60s. Art student, jeans so thick with paint they stood up by themselves, and when minis came in we were wearing them with stockings and suspenders because no one was selling tights. Cathy McGowan hair - it was the only time my hair was fashionable! Black eyeliner and white lipstick. My friend and I drank gin and tonic because you could keep topping the glass up with tonic from the bottle and it would last all evening but you'd only had to buy one drink. Happy days!

In with the in crowd, regular attender at the Cavern in black polo neck, long black hair and black boots, plus obligatory black eyes (still have them..) Seeing the Beatles knocking around and taking no notice of them.
Our gang, Willy Russell playing his guitar in my regular haunt alongside Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri. Lots of poetry and art.
Dead cool me and my son is dead jealous!

Buying things from Melody Maker on mail order. Loons and love beads too. Definitely from South Sea Bubble.

My ex’s dad worked at a prison where the inmates made loon pants (remember them?) so I had a pair in every colour. Were they (from memory) South Sea Bubble?

kittylester

We had an actual Afghan hound- we was gorgeous but took some grooming. He smelt ok, generally.

I looked after one for an evening (a dog not a coat). I wasn’t used to sight hounds back then. He saw a toy Smurf that was high up on a shelf, looked at me as if to say don’t even try to stop me, reached up and took it. I was terrified of him. His owner, a friend of my husbands, had just acquired him as a babe magnet. Never found out if it worked! I did have an untreated Afghan coat ( I wondered why it was so cheap) that smelt so bad I gave it to my Spaniel to sleep on. She loved it.

We had an actual Afghan hound- we was gorgeous but took some grooming. He smelt ok, generally.

Sara1954

My Afghan was a fake, bought in SNOB I think, but my husband’s, just a friend at the time, was the real thing, and smelled horrible.

I had a white one in 1970 and you’re right it did not smell good!!…

My Afghan was a fake, bought in SNOB I think, but my husband’s, just a friend at the time, was the real thing, and smelled horrible.

Such memories. I drank vodka or gin and orange. I hate spirits now. I drank Cherry B's and tried to be cool with Campari and soda. I never achieved coolness but was tall and slim and loved clothes.
I remember going to work one day and a colleague said 'I see you've got your belt on but you forgot your skirt' my clothes were so short. Flared jeans, cheesecloth shirts, mini kilts with a large pin in the side. I had a pair of shoes that were black one side and white the other, Dusty Springfield eyes (late 60s).Heaven.

I had an Afghan Sara154 ex bought it for me one Christmas, it was red and stank of goats!

I saved for ages for the white boots, and one year for Christmas, managed to get a fake Afghan coat, I think that must have been different years, I wore my white boots with my red PVC midi mac.
My grandchildren in their trainers and hoodies don’t know the meaning of the word cool.

Yup I remember a birthday party we had as nurses I wore a pair of flared exotic pattern trousers I'd made myself and we played my record player for so long we burnt the motor out.
Cool,man cool.

Very short skirts with a high white boots, see through blouses
Riding on the back of mods scooters with the long tails flying behind the back seat wearing parkas drinking babysham and cherryB and if a boy was buying then Drambuie and Benedictine or bloody Mary seeing all the famous groups at our little towns biggest hotel Bell bottoms wide belts flowery stuff
Climbing out the window to meet a guy ‘with a car’ shock horror no one had a car in our group mad sophistication

Yes- it was a good time to be young, wasn’t it?

We knew we were very cool. It was a lovely feeling, a turning point in the evolution of young people with a distinct identity. I feel lucky to have been young and cool in the sixties.

Oxfordgran I was in hall in Didsbury but visited halls in Fallowfield, they had better parties there! I met my DH in Manchester at uni.
We were very cool.

She came home at 4 am and left for work in the morning.

I used to free wheel my car down the hill behind our house so as not to wake my parents and sneak in the back door just as the milkman was rattling the bottles at the front. 😂

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I used to go to a place called El Partido in Lewisham when I was in my mid teens and I see that Elton John used to play there before he was well known. Most of us were very young, can’t remember booze so much as a lot of dancing and subdued lighting. Certainly no drugs, they came out later in the late 1960s. I used to wear crop tops and flares, flat stomach and 24 inch waist in those days. Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end ……