Stories Written By: Gail Walter
Shopping in the 70s
We all use to buy our stuff from the corner shops, but before long those gleaming supermarkets would be forming all over town, and they were cheaper, if you excluded the cost of buying the car to get there and back, or the bus and taxis. But we really changed our ways of shopping in the 1970’s, not just in supermarkets but other high street shops. How many of these do you remember, as these have all gone to shop heaven now. FINE FARE these were everywhere in the 1970’s, I should know as I worked in many of them. …
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70’s Fashion
In the summer of 1973 I had a dress that I absolutely loved. It was patterned with pink and grey swirls and had two bites taken out of it, or so it seemed. The resulting holes revealed the teasing curves of a waist that 15-year-old girls take for granted. When I wore this dress I felt like a million dollars. The pale pink in the fabric brought out the healthy tan of my skin. The short skirt revealed audacious lengths of tanned leg and the back zip pulled the fabric snug across my teenage hips. This was the seventies. Clothes, …
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Old Grannies and Oxford Bags
A lot of things had not yet been discovered in the seventies. There was no Internet, no cell phones and no Ipods. There were also no small sizes. Here was a world — hip and cool in every way — that failed to recognize the needs of the smaller person. I was a hip and cool person in the seventies. I was also small, smaller than the smallest jean size. This meant that, though I WAS cool, I did not look it. When Oxford bags came into fashion my pants were almost as wide around the waist as they were …
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The 70s actual reality vs. virtual reality.
Now, consider the seventies. Yes, there were televisions, telephones, record players and airplanes, but technology wasn’t nearly as dominant as it is today. There were spaces and places that were completely without gadgetry. You could go on long drives in the country and absolutely no-one could contact you and remind you of your responsibilities. This is what many of us remember about growing up in the Seventies. It was vivid and dynamic but we weren’t being eaten alive by a pace that left no space for wonder. In the seventies there were still places that you walked to and walked …
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