Fashion

I had a white baby doll dress that had pink and blue smocking and floppy cap sleeves. As with all baby doll dresses, mine was incredibly short. I used to wear my hair in bunches with white ribbons and my ...

OH yeah these were HUGE!! Basically, a banana shaped 2-piece comb, hinged at the bottom and clipped together at the top which made a BIG pony tail!!! (it was the 80's the bigger the better!) ...

Bata shoe shops were all the rage when l was a kid! Most of the styles were jesus shoes for the boys, but the girls had cork or leather heeled platform wedges, with a pattern etched into the platform heel ...

A "triangular" shaped jumper where the sleeves were an extension of the body of the jumper. The more material used in the sleeves - the cooler the jumper. ...

I recall with undiminished horror the sight of class mates walking into school wearing cropped jeans with tartan round the hems, tartan scarf tied to each wrist and even one wearing a tartan adorned denim waistcoat. Thank God it didn't ...

Beanbag Chairs were all the rage back in the 1970's. They were created in Italy in 1969 and almost overnight were a worldwide success. From Hippies in Volkswagen Vans to kids jumping on them in their rooms it seemed like ...

These were trousers where the bottoms flared out from the knee downwards. They were similar in fashion to loon pants or flares, and you usually wore them with a matching tank-top. They were worn by men and women in the ...

You were in, if you wore Benetton! I think I had at least four Benetton jumpers - a colour for any occasion. Even more fashionable was a Benetton jumper with a black polo neck top underneath. Oh I was so ...

Biba fashion epitomised an era 60s/70s and the clothes were the look most teenagers aspired to. I remember being too young to buy anything but sitting in a window seat surrounded by feathers and mirrors and wonderful and exotic clothes ...

In the 1980s, my friends and I tried to make our hair as big & tall as possible. We used hair gel, "Aussie Sprunch Spray" and tons of Aqua Net while blow-drying upside down to get the most volume. ...

We girls all had these in the seventies, they were our first GROWN UP coat for when we went to senior school! What can l say, they literally looked like a blanket, with sort of aztek patterns over them, hideous ...

EVERYONE had a bum bag in the 80s - and some people still do (Sarah Jessica Parker in character as Carrie in Sex And The City has been known to rock one, and all round the world American holidaymakers will ...