This is a shop I have popped into before. Not just for the clothes, but for the total experience. It is like a 70s explosion. They do have clothes from the 50s and 60s as well but the logo and the majority of the items for sale are 100% 70s.
Recently when I popped in I felt something I have never felt before – a huge wave of nostalgia that hit me in my chest. I remembered what it was like to be a teenager in the 70s. Flower power, bell-bottoms, big plastic earrings, gorgeous sunglasses, lots of velvet and corduroy, brightly coloured platform shoes, floaty scarves. It was a time of my life when I was at school, and used to go shopping with my friends in shops like these, except everything was new and the latest fashion. We were young and free.
There were lots of people in their twenties and thirties shopping there. I wonder if they looked at me and thought ‘she lived through the olden days‘
No one will ever be as cool as we were in the 70’s!!
I will be 70 this year…I remember all these styles, and wore them
proudly.❤️
We were SO cool!
Janet, thank you so much for these pics. Took me back to a simpler time when all we had to worry about was how we looked. I left school in 1971 (aged 17) so I remember the explosion of fashion in the 60’s the way you remember the 70’s. That’s not to say I didn’t wear platforms, bell bottoms, crushed velvet loons (the pants that were tight to the knee and had bottoms double the size of the waist (each leg). Happier times and the music of the 60’s was kept alive by the likes of T. Rex, Bowie, Sweet, Mud and the best of the bunch Roxy Music.