<p>Mini and micro-mini skirts; see through blouses; no bras; bikinis. </p>
<p>Men’s views on women’s clothes, especially in the 60s and 70s, was very basic: “Less is more.”</p>
<p>It was a good time. I still remember my wife’s minis.</p>
<p>bonne bell musk oil
anything Yardley- especially liked their auburn and blonde tinted mascaras that were called things like " fawn".
John Kloss Glossy front closure bras
day of the week underpants
I remember in junior high, we weren’t allowed to wear pants, then we could wear pants one day a week but no jeans.
I wore dark denim shorts but had my baby doll top hang over the waistband so I could deny they were jeans.
I liked one piece jumpsuits- I am pretty short waisted and they fit me-( which is why I also like low waisted jeans- it makes me look longer)
dry shampoo ?
a friend had a Neil Young jacket that I coveted. ( however for some reason she also had gaucho pants- which looked horrible on her- they would have looked horrible on Jean Shrimpton)
Bare trap wooden platform shoes that went very well with my baby blue baby wale cords and my Betsey Johnson top</p>
<p>I remember wearing a garter belt and fishnet stockings in grade school- we weren’t allowed to wear pants then either, only underneath our dresses if it was actually snowing.
Pretty hilarious considering what we were wearing by the time we were in high school.
( the dresses that werent any longer than they had to be)
Making love beads ( from seed beads) and giving them to friends.
Nehru Jackets
braiding your hair when wet in tens of tiny braids then taking them out
Overalls
swabby pants
strawberry lip gloss- roll on
trying to apply cake eyeliner!
Applying my makeup at school and then forgetting to wash it off before I got home.
I was grounded for two weeks for wearing eye shadow in jr high when I was in 9th grade</p>
<p>EK, the dry shampoo was called “Minipoo”</p>
<p>Keeping the sleeves and belt of your jumpsuit from falling in the toilet.
The elastic on the gym suit thighs to keep prying eyes from looking up into the forbidden zone when exercising.
Dippity Do- to set your long ringlets(in front of each ear) or to control your stray hairs- can you still smell it in your mind?<br>
Wearing pink sponge rollers to bed</p>
<p>Not to get gross, but speaking of “garter belts”…remember those belts we had to wear during our time of the month?</p>
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<p>emerald - I thought I was the only one who had this experience. I laugh about it now.</p>
<p>Psssssst, another dry shampoo. It was a powder. My daughter uses one now that’s a spray.</p>
<p>I had to negotiate to do a month of free babysitting my little brothers to be allowed to buy a pair of bell-bottoms, because my parents thought those pants were something only ‘those’ types of girls wore. I guess that was their price for virtue.</p>
<p>I also remember a similar deal to cut some long bangs that hung into my eyes.</p>
<p>I owned a fabulous hood hair dryer. I got up EVERY morning before high school, washed my hair, and set it in rollers and went under the hood. I also owned a hair dryer with a hose attachment that connected to a plastic, elasticized hood. I spent a lot of time on my hair. </p>
<p>I also wore the dreaded green gym jumpsuit. A was very thin and those wide leg openings were the most unflattering thing I could have possible worn. Thank heavens we didn’t have co-ed gym!</p>
<p>My most scandalous outfit in college was a pair of hot pants with a top that I had made from a scarf. It was obscene. I wore it to a YES concert in Philadelphia. Thank heavens we at least didn’t have facebook or take pictures of ourselves at that time. I never would have been able to be an elder in my church or get a job in public education!</p>
<p>Leather hair accessories-the tooled leather with stick bun holder, strips of leather for your pigtails
Suede Leather neck chokers.
Going down to breakfast with your elasticized plastic hair dryer hood still on-just because you wanted that last amount of heat to affix your curls</p>
<p>It’s amazing that they didn’t “invent” or, at least, figure out until 19XX that a hand-held hair dryer works just as well as the hood, only about 180 times faster.</p>
<p>Re: Post #65: Oh, how well I remember . . . The belt wasn’t the worst part. It was what the belt held up that was horrible.</p>
<p>Pink sponge rollers weren’t that bad. Now, those hard ones with 1,000 tiny wires sticking into every square millimeter of one’s skull…it was like sleeping on barbed wire. My mom was also fond of tying up wet hair into curls tied tight with little rags of cloth. Not so bad to sleep in, but time consuming to take out. I forgot about those hood hair dryers!</p>
<p>We didn’t have to worry about anyone looking up the legs of our gym suits. They were bound tight with wide rubber band-like elastic, which expanded to all of about a 6" diameter. My mom spent hours embroidering my name in script onto the back. Changed schools and went to uniforms that were at least softer, still the uni-piece, one color on the bottom, stripes on the top. We looked like a bunch of prisoners! Oh yeah, the boys got to wear whatever they wanted. Of course!</p>
<p>^^^You mean the rollers with plastic bristles poking through the hair roller tube. You used plastic picks to keep them from unrolling.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah. I had all sorts of instruments of styling. The plastic rollers with the caps that snapped on, the mesh tubes with the brushes that poked thru & the pink spears to hold them in, the plastic ones with little spikes. Occasionally, if I wanted to really look like a wild woman, I used rag-curls. I tore strips of fabric and rolled my hair halfway down the strip, and then wrapped the remaining fabric back up and knotted it. Whew, I had myself a fine lookin’ mop of hair then!!! As I said, I spent a lot of time on my hair. </p>
<p>Speaking of taking forever to come up with a simple invention - why did it take so long to put wheels on luggage?</p>
<p>Setting your hair is a lost art.
Wheels weren’t necessary because all luggage were checked in and taken care of at the curbside by porters. We didn’t schlep them on board back in olden times.</p>
<p>Batllo - oh, dear, I hate to admit it, but I still use hot rollers for special occasions.</p>
<p>You go, girl!</p>
<p>worknprogress, I agree about the wheels on luggage. I may be strange, but I think about that everytime I go to the airport. </p>
<p>I remember, my freshman year in college, trying to make my way from the bus stop, where the bus from the airport had dropped me off, to the dorm – with two huge, heavy suitcases. The handle on one of them broke off (they were cheap) and there was nothing I could do to move them! Luckily, some strong young man came along, put the one with the broken handle on this head, and carried the other one for me to my dorm. </p>
<p>Wheels – now, was that so hard??</p>
<p>Dippity-do.
Ironing hair.
When blow dryers first came out.
High school yearbook with 1000+ girls all of whom wore their hair straight down and parted in the middle. (a look which was flattering to a handful of them).</p>