Favourite 1960s outfit

Right, feetle, and the colour is nothing like a mole! I once had to bury one that my cat brought in - such a lovely, smooth dark brown coat! I never took to white, or even very pale pink lipstick. Mind you, I was in my 20s by the time the 60s set in and then I went to Africa where fashions were a year or so behind the times. One year, two new 20-something teachers arrived from UK with very minuscule skirts and some of our girls, from very rigid religious backgrounds, complained to the headmistress who told them to mind their own business. It wasn't long before the majority were shortening their school skirts and behaving just like British teenagers.

A black shift dress with a red band around the neckline and down the centre of the front. Made a great witch's costume for DD a few years later with some tinfoil moon and stars stuck on.

A white mini dress with flowers embroidered on it. Huge wide long sleeved gathered up into a long cuff with a row of tiny little buttons. I wore it with bright yellow sandals.

Taupe - strange name for a colour... it means 'mole', as in the little chap who buggers up people's lawns...

Does anyone remember ion about 1960 a fashion for white lipstick? I actually worked on an office for a bit, and the typing pool used to send a real Dolly Daydream up with the letters, with a beehive hairdo, wrinkled white winklepicker shoes and white lipstick - I suggested it might be so she could find her gob in the dark...

Mary Quant taupe eyeliner - the first time I'd ever heard of that colour. Otherwise, Elizabeth Arden navy blue eyeliner and I seem to remember navy blue mascara.

WhenIm64 I can smell the Leichner makeup now. I had an eye shadow from them that was turquoise with silver sparkle which I ladled on like cement !

A mini dress with scooped neckline with a white frilly blouse underneath. Went on to wear some very weird things but had this dress when my mother was in control . still loved it though.

I used to paint lower eyelashes on, a la Twiggy. Two pairs on the upper lids, white eyeliner on the lower lids to make my eyes look enormous, Leichner pots of foundation - there was a fad of copying movie make-up tricks to dramatise our look. What a lot of make-up we would go through. One girl I knew woud turn up at discos with a wig box containing hair pieces and big make-up case, hair still in rollers, then she would emerge from the ladies an hour later looking like a magnificent drag queen!

I remember having a purple (still my favourite colour) streak in my hair MrsMopp. I also wore the half wig on an Alice band.

I think I painted lower eyelashes on my skin, do you remember that make up fashion ?

What carefree wonderful times. I just loved the 60s.

Oh the freedom when tights came in and we could dispense with nylons and suspenders belts! So my mini skirt with tights and white boots with a skinny rib top did it for me.
And Crimplene made it so easy to run up a little shift dress on the sewing machine.
Of course I was slimmer then.
Wonderful Mary Quant!
Oh and lots of black mascara and eye liner, Pan stick, and pale pale lipstick.
And a tiny handbag with a long strap which we dangled dolly bird style. Think Patti Boyd.
Those were the days my friend.

Yes Rose I agree it was a wonderful time and would love to do it all again.

Shall we constrct a Time Machine and pop back ?

My other fave dress [ everything was fave and fab] was black and white and geometric, high collar, sleeveless and very , very short. Worn with white or black tights and high black leather boots.Over this I wore a three quarter length blue/green suede jacket. Cool.I saved for the jacket by going to the boutique and putting some money 'down' each week for about 6 weeks until I had bought it.[You didn't get the garment until you had paid for it.]Oh, the anticipation.

I don't mind the getting fatter and losing [lost] looks etc but I do wish I had the joi de vivre that I had back then. The world seemed wonderful.That's what I miss.

Tricia yes I've seen lots of the Courreges/Mondrian designs lately. My sister used to wear the ones with cut away shoulders and big blocks of colour, and I've seen them again in the last few weeks. My future DIL goes hunting for 60s vintage clothes and plans to get married in a 60s wedding dress.

Early 60s - I was very prim and proper but by the late 60s.....brushed cotton jeans, definitely not denim, and a skimpy, sleeveless t-shirts (any bright colour) and no bra. Lots of "things" round my neck and wrists and a corduroy cap for some reason. I do have photos but........

I could be wrong but I think some of the 1960s styles are coming back into fashion again.
I used to like the styles of André Courrèges in the 60s, and his bright colours and geometric shapes are back in this spring.

I agree with you kittylester. I always wanted to look like someone else really but when I look back at the photos, I too was gorgeous. Tall, slim, long legs, fine hair (but helped by hairpieces). Just the right shape for the '60s. You don't know what you've got till it's gone I suppose. And believe me it's gone.

I count myself as very lucky because I started the 60's as a rocker in full skirts, starched petticoats, stockings + suspenders and 5" heels, went on into mod gear, usually trousers & tunics rather than mini, mini skirts (fat legs) and finished the decade as a hippy - long floaty dresses which doubled as nighties.

I had an 'outfit' comprising a woollen Black Watch Tartan, short skirt and cape suit, natural Aran sweater, with matching mitts and tammy, thick dark navy tights and kitten heeled, black patent and Black Watch tartan shoes. I THOUGHT I was the bees knees but must have looked like a reject from a tatty souvenir shop . Also remember a loose weave, long camel coat which had served me well until I wore it during a very wet long weekend in Edinburgh at the festival. It absorbed every drop of rain and grew longer and longer until it was trailing on the ground like Peter Pan's shadow. Eventually, I had to dump it in a bin and buy myself a £1 plastic anorak.

TriciaF I like the sound of your silk poppy dress. I had a shift that had bright blue poppies on a black background - not silk, but a silky-type synthetic. Quite slinky!

annodomini - I had an empireline pattern too and used it several times.
I think one effort was orange, and one sage green.
My favourite dress was in some silk I bought in Singapore (we lived there 1966-8).
It was black with bright red poppies. And I had a peacock blue Thai silk evening dress.
Wish I could wear those colours now.

My outfit of choice in 1966 was a purple roll neck skinny rib jumper worn with a Quant style orange check skirt with braces all cut from one piece of fabric. Natural tights /stockings and white lace-up boots! Classy!

Agree When, the old adage 'Youth is wasted on the young'.

So true!

A babygro !!!!!

Ha, ha, I wish!

A thick cord orange trouser suit my sister passed down to me. She was really cool and looked like Brigitte Bardot. Her boyfriend had a white Sunbeam Alpine sports car and she shopped at Cathy McGowan and Jeff Banks boutique in Blackheath Village. I wore it with dangly red, white and blue (Pat! from Eastenders!) earrings. And black and white patent shoes! I thought I was the bees knees! I clearly had no colour coordination!

Oh those were the days though. Thin and carefree. The Beatles and my favourite band, The Stones!

I've gone all dreamy eyed! It might be the LSD!

I loved the 60s. The clothes, the music, Ready, Steady, Go, the pop concerts, friends, parties, holidays abroad, walking from one job on Friday to another on Monday. Being 18 was so exciting - shame I didn't realise how fantastic it was at the time. I thought life was like that forever!

I think we couldn't fail to be the bees knees because it was all so new. I do wish I had known how much of the bees knees I was! When I look back - I was gorgeous!