What did your granny or your dad use to wear?

 

Fashion went mad in Britain in the s. Clothes were made from exciting new materials like shiny plastic and even paper. Women used to wear very short skirts and long shiny black plastic boots. Sometimes the boots went over their knees. Young men used to wear bright colours. They wore wonderful patterned shirts with wide collars and big ties. Their hair was quite long.

Very full skirts were in fashion for young women in the s. They often used to wear gloves, sometimes even indoors. Teenage girls sometimes used to wear short white cotton socks and flat shoes. Some young men, who were known as ‘teddy boys’, used to wear very narrow ties and narrow trousers. Their shoes or boots sometimes had high heels and pointed toes.

Women used to wear long straight dresses in the s. They ended just below the knee and didn’t have a waist. The dresses often used to have a belt around the hips. Women liked wearing scarves and beads round their necks. Their hair was very short and they always used to wear hats when they went out. Men used to wear trousers with very wide legs. They often wore hats and flat caps.

Very short T-shirts were the latest fashion in the s. Girls used to wear them with jeans. Everyone wore trainers. Teenagers used to wear a lot of jewellery – in their ears, noses and even tongues – and they painted their nails in crazy colours. Young men used to have very short hair and they used to wear baseball caps and loose trousers. Sweatshirts and jogging trousers were very popular.