Week 6

My teenager years started in 1970 right at the very end of the swinging 60’s and Woodstock. Sadly by then fashion had deteriorated into tank tops and bell bottom trousers peppered by midi dresses and skirts. I remember wearing a Victorian style shirt with a purple midi skirt along with my prize procession of white boots. Plastic was new then and hadn’t been identified as an environmental threat. The Mary Quant exhibition at the V and A showcases the new plastic material, used in fashion design and accessories designed by Mary in the 1960’s.It was so exciting and revolutionary then, little did everyone know its harmful potential.

By the time I was sixteen I had established a style I was more comfortable with, the hippy look. One of my memories from those days was having a coveted ticket to David Bowie’s Starman at Birmingham town hall and arriving bare foot in a long cheesecloth skirt and top from Oasis store in Birmingham.

On a completely different note I was at the V and A in London this weekend at the Tim Walker exhibition https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/tim-walker and was rather taken by this photograph!