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I was a punk girl ! I was already bohemian and arty, interested in fashion but without money to spend. I loved the sixties fashions too and a lot of these were incorporated into punk by re using old clothes and adapting them.It was the only fashion where you could get away with wearing something of your Gran's and something of your Dad's at the same time !!
Nothing was 'Off the peg' Everything was invented or re invented, it made you really think hard about fashion and anti fashion, it borrowed from the past and it stole from the future.Like in Anna Sebba's article we recycled in a new way and made it an art form !!

I have to say the sixties. I was a young teenager in the mid sixties. I had the figure to wear mini skirts, and skinny rib jumpers. In the winter I'd have a maxi coat, left open to show my short skirt, and white knee high boots. Oh for the days when I could wear just about anything and look great.

There are some very glamorous years for fashion but I will probably say the 70's means most to me as that would be my blooming year. I still have my "David Essex scarf" (sad). I loved my sacha shoes with big flares and nearly always a long scarf. A scarf adds such a lot to an outfit.

Definitely the 70s. All those flares, florals, dungarees, platforms and 'anything goes' attitude.

'70s for me: whatever your shape or size there was something in vogue: any hemline length (mini, maxi, midi - hot pants!) and flouncy or streamlined. Also, colour & pattern, fabric type, opaque, sheer - you name it - completely acceptable. Elegant & chic it was not but no-one needed to feel left out. 'Bus Stop' anyone ...?

The 1950's is definitely my favourite fashion era although I wasn't born till the middle of the decade.The beautiful dresses with fitted bodices,sweetheart necklines and full skirts were designed to flatter and screamed glamour that was much needed.The austerity of the war years behind them,women were finding their femininity again and revelling in it!
The fashions of my own youth just don't make me feel nostalgic at all so it's good to see the 50's styles making a comeback now.

Its got to be the 60s fashion freedom and fun!

I loved the early 60s, the transition from the 50s full skirts to the mini. If it was below your fingers when you hand was down at you side, then it was too long!

Love the fashions of the 1950s, and the clothes worn then, in films like Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn.

Oh the sixties - I was just fourteen when Twiggy, Mary Quant and Biba all brightened up my life..my bedroom walls were festooned with posters of clothes, make-up and what to wear and whom to copy! I made most of my own clothes at that time - my proudest achievement was a lime green, turquoise, orange and yellow trouser suit which I was convinced made me look as though I'd just stepped out of the pages of a London magazine! Tent dresses, mini-mini skirts and crochet tops...I remember it all so well. My mother used to try to catch me before I went out to ensure that I wasn't 'showing too much'...lol!! Happy Days

For sheer glamour I think that the 1920's and all the fun that young women had with new haircuts, new fashions and that feeling of being a bit daring...must have taken some beating!
Happy Days!

Mine was the early 80s, dressing up as Adam Ant

My favourite decade has to be the very late 1940s and early 50s simply because I was 7 or 8 at the time and I remember my mother's excitement at seeing the New Look in her copy of Vogue. She took some velvet curtains and made herself a beautiful rich red skirt in the new Dior style. She was over the moon with delight and wonder at using so much material after the period of the war and when rationing for materials was still in use. She made it in an afternoon and when my father came home from the office she twirled to show him what she had done. I remember he took her and they waltzed around the room: he was horrified when he discovered she had used the curtains from the dining room!!!

The Noughties for me.

1970's. Remember the Bay City Rollers with their tartan accessories. Not exactly chic but the whole ethos of 70's fashion was FUN. From Donny caps to punk. It was the era where anything goes.

I love 50s fashion. The nipped in wait as big skirts are excellent at hiding my chunky lower half! (And, I can pretend I'm in an early series of Mad men!)

The 40's I think the clothes are fantastic, plus we have a 40's weekend every year in a village nearby and 100's of people arrive in 40's clothes, cars etc the atmosphere is amazing, but the people look so well dressed.

My favourite decade for fashion has to be the 70's, for freedom of expression. I thought anything with a hint of Parisienne about it was trendy and I bought some ballet shoes from Galleries Lafayette which were really a bit flat for walking about in but I loved them.

Has to be 60's mini skirts, Mary Quant, twiggy @ Vidal Sasoon.

My favourite fashion time in my own age was the 60s when it was such fun seeing how daringly short we could wear our skirts.

However I would love to have been around in the 20s as I just love the way fashion copied the clothes worn for dancing etc, and the shoes were so elegant.

Late 50s early 60s with flared skirts and umpteen petticoats they looked more feminine than the Mini,

It has to be the 70s for me, so much choice and the time to enjoy everything

I loved the late 60s and 70s. It was a defining decade for the teenager, or so I thought. I loved my platform shoes too marmar01 as well as my midi skirts, midi coats and oxford bags! Of course my parents were horrified. What fun it was experimenting with clothes.

I was a 'child of the 60's' - got engaged & married at 18!! All that liberation was hard to understand - I mean 'the pill'!!! But it was brilliant! So much happened in that decade with fashion (models like Twiggy) and music (The Beatles!!). What memories!!!!

Elizabethan clothes were always my favourite as a little girl but now in my 60's 1920's! Beading, bobbed hair,freedom of movement and daring to be different.

I liked the 50s look, I like the feminine neatness & class to it, wonderful look.