And isn't this the truth!

Thank you.

Taken me back to my 'Mod' days in the 60's - the best time! Now can I remember? Was I really there?

I was a mod in the mid 60's, all suede and leather coats, hush puppies, Vespas and Lambrettas. We'd meet up on the city centre on Saturday nights and try to gatecrash parties when the word went round.

On Tues and Wed nights we went to the Corn Exchange where there would be bands playing: Searchers, Manfred Mann, Animals, Long John Baldry's steam packet - with Julie Driscoll and Rod Stewart, Herman's Hermits, Hollies, Merseybeats, Freddie and the Dreamers etc. etc. and often meet them and/or get autographs at the end.

We'd see the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Chuck Berry, Dusty Springfield, Gene Pitney, Ike and Tina Turner etc. in the larger venues. I remember seeing Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull in the pub at the back of the theatre after a show.

On bank holidays we would all hitch hike down to seaside resorts [no fights with the Rockers where we were], often sleeping rough! Risky looking back but those were the days. Great times for me.

I worked for a tobacco company, good wages for the female employees at that time [we weren't aware of the dire consequences of smoking then unfortunately]... but if you didn't like a job you could just go and get another one somewhere else within a day or two.

JudyBloom - Vespa or Lambretta?

Parkas and two tone tonic suits. Ben Sherman button down shirts. Raoul shoes (became Ravel) short skirts and jumpers from Etam.

We used to go to a club on Friday evenings and the last track they played was always Billy's Bag by Billy Preston - which I still have on a 45 stashed away in the back of a cupboard - probably with a "spider" in the middle as it would have been imported. Along with Prince Buster's Al Capone.

Goodness, happy day eh?

I worked in a bank on the till and when I asked to go on the managers' course I was told that it would be a waste of time my applying because I would be leaving soon to get married. I said I didn't even have a boyfriend and the reply was "You're blonde I am sure you will find one soon". Those were the days!

I was a rocker, I hated mods.

Oh Lambretta, Ferry23. Allnighters at Peter Stringfellow's King Mojo Club, leather coat, Tamla Mowtown, Mary Quant mini skirts, boots and Twiggy hairstyle. Stevie Winwood - Whiter Shade of Pale and I Got You Babe .. Indeed, those were the days!

Every Tuesday night (even on a School night) and Saturday night me and my friends would go to Top Rank in Reading and dance around our handbags. On Tuesday I had to get the last but one bus home. My eyes were well and truly opened during those times. Watching the film ‘Last Days of Disco’ reminded me of Top Rank.

Kate1949

Grandmothers

Wow! What a glorious, sexy-looking lot of beautiful young women in their absolute prime, Kate1949. Lovely! 😎

I was born in 1957 so the my teenage years were the 70's, particularly the early 70's. I was a "weekend hippy", so kaftans, greek bags and sandals, lots of beads. At work I had to conform so I wore mini or midi dresses and platform shoes. I remember I had a PVC midi snake skin coat that I so loved. I was into Led Zep, Hendrix, Black Sabbath etc and was rather snobby about mainstream pop. The thing is, although women had probably never been so liberated, men's attitudes and outlook largely remained the same. Even hippy type guys, if you scratched the surface they still more or less thought like their dads. Still, happy days and if I could go back to 1973 I wouldn't hesitate.

I still have my divine mini dress, a two tone crepe and jersey maxi & a skinny little black crepe - got to be the fabric of the 60s! - jacket, part of a culottes suit all by Jeff Banks's Clobber label. Wish I could get into them now.

I was born in 1944 so experienced the 60s while still young enough to enjoy them. I grew up in Northern Ireland so really only got the flavour of the 60s when I was at University and came to London for the summer to work. My English boyfriend took me to a cafe called Le Macabre in Soho. It had coffin shaped tables. I loved the 60s and remember going with my best friend to Carnaby Street and Mary Quant on the King's Road. We'd try on all sorts of items we could not afford but just loved the moment. We really were the lucky generation.

Harley-Davidson Electra Glide, Norton Dominator, Triumph 750cc Tiger. Those were my chosen modes of transport in the 1960s.

Me too! 1946 - vintage year!

Same for me.

Can definitely relate to the 60s. Was narried 1966 and the house followed the psychedelic fashion trend. Orange ceiling in the bedroom, bottle green with luminous wall in the bathroom. Bright yellow and brown in the hall. I just got rid of the psychedelic curtains on last house move 15 years ago. My long black shiny boots were my pride and joy back then.

Born in 1952. Went to join the WRAF and I found out that the Sergeant who interviewed me had written “this applicant wore the shortest mini skirt I have ever seen”. Still got in though.

Foxyferret, did it get you the job?

Yes Devorgilla, joined the WRAF in 1970. Happy days.

I regularly bunked off school in 6th form as one afternoon a week I only had frees and PE which I hated. I used to stay for afternoon registration then just leave. I had a friend who worked as an assistant manager in a branch of Currys and he was home as it was half day closing, so I went to his house and we listened to music until it was time to get a bus home. Back then there wasn't registration every lesson like nowadays so I got away with it and I always got home as if I'd been in school all afternoon.
My mum was a teacher so she'd have been horrified! I did eventually tell her years later.
I drank regularly when underage - no widely available forms of ID back then and if asked I waved my driving licence which only proved I was 17!
In the 70's I wore long skirts and went barefoot around town having left my shoes at a friend's house to collect on the way home - a bit of a hippy!
I danced on tables and occasionally the stage at the nightclub we frequented. There was worse but I'm not admitting to all of it on here!
The students I taught in recent years probably wouldn't believe any of it!

Born in the 1940s, would not change my teenage years for today.

10 years younger than you, but we used to climb out ,or invent a legitimate destination approved by the housemistress/ head teachèr and then bunk off to what ever. School uniform hidden in plastic bag in a large shrub and mufti put on..

Loved it.

Does anyone remember the Schoolkids edition of Oz magazine? I knew several people who wrote for it.

Ladyleftfieldlover I also went to Top Rank in Reading!

I loved the music and fashion of the sixties. I was a huge fan of The Rolling Stones. The first time I saw them was at a local dance hall when they had just had their first hit record. It cost me a weeks pocket money. The next time I saw them was at the O2 and it cost me a weeks pension 🤣🤣