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Used to wear a long dress to go out on a saturday night?

I am not admitting to this one

but i still have my maxi coat

winks

Me :)) and I loved it !

xx

I do not wear jeans/trousers, so wear ankle length skirts every day

I was only little then so I called them party dresses, my parents rarely went out but if mum was going to a doo, she would wear a long dress and always have her hair done high...lol

First date with boyfriend 1974 ? long dress, black patterned with 'flames' shooting up from the hemline, and a pink crocheted shawl lol ... we went for a meal , funny what you remember :)

my saturday night dress came just below my knees it was black velvet and i loved it...that was in the 60's tho'

by the time the 70's came i never went out on a Saturday night i had 3 children...lol

Yes, in the 70s it was the done think to wear a long dress (sometimes called a hostess gown would you believe) or a long skirt, if I wore a long skirt I would often wear a blouse that had a high maybe ruffled collar. It was lovely, you felt dressed up. Also the men would often wear a suit and tie.

Blokes always wore shirts and ties on a saturday night when they were taking the mrs out and some still do.... when my sister still had the pub she asked OH amd I to work 1 sunday night as she her and BIL wanted to go out, she said Sunday nights are slow....so we did and off they went, what she failed to tell me was there had been a big Irish wedding in the area the day before, their pub was right behind the big RC church after sunday evening mass guest where they all gathered....I notices that all the women sat at one table and all the blokes at another, everyone in their sunday best, the older women never moved only to visit the ladies and drinks were brought in rounds and even then came to about £40/50, (good tippers) only men or older daughters went to the bar. All the men talked about work and all women talked about whoever wasnt there, they all drank grouse whiskey..

But as always, there was an Aunt or a lady I would say late 50's who drank G & T and knew how to party, all the women had stopped eyeing one and another up from the corners of their eyes, and begin to relax they always talk about the olden days, but by now the attention is firmly on the aunt who decides to either wants to dance or have sing song... I watched the older women sinking lower in their seats, when I would be collecting glasses asI was doing constantly listening to their conversation, every now and again one women would tug at my arm asking me then begging me to tell the aunt to tone it down,NO WAY she was very entertaining, the more she drank the risker her performance got, normally ending up showing her underwear and an older bloke dragging her to sit besides him... the evening ended with a couple verses of Oh danny boy and the older man would do his solo of Kathleen...the women now in tears dabbing their eyes with hankies and being comforted by various off spring and the older man being carried out shoulder high to a waiting mini bus and off they would go.

I wore hotpants,,,,,:}}}

remember though older women,,
out came the ermine and mink,sparkly earings,cocktail watch for high days,visit to the hairdressers,and an evening bag,plus a stole......very glam.....

now some dont even look like they had a wash or change of all day clothes......

my Mum had a stole, I remeber my lovely aunt waering hotpants and my mum was outraged my aunt was in her 30's but had a fantastic figure, my mum also had a bear fur coat someone had given her I remember her wearing one new years eve, after that it spent of the tome thrown over the foot of her bed in winter.... and Kay if they were 'ard up the wore rollers for todays instead of going to the hairdressers... every saturday morning the smell of setting lotion waffing round our local shops and women appearing out of the same doorway with the chiffon hair scarfs loosely fastened round their heads... ( the said hair dressers was right across the way from the bookies much to the blokes disgust lol)

I am in my 30's I remember all this sat in my pram watching the world go by...lol I could right abook I remeber that much BUT please dont ask me what I did yesterday...lol

OH gosh yes i used to wear long dresses
if we were going to a Ladies Night
or going somewhere nice . which back in the 60s/70s
we were always going somewhere lol
Hazelx

I never thought I would see the day when an "Empress" would admit to sitting in a "Common Pram",Perhaps a Coachbuilt Silver Cross Perambulator,but never a Pram. Well you live and learn.**M**.PMSL.:o)))>

I bet it was sliver cross Merlin lease it dint have a sack of coal in there as well...lol

HB...you cant beat a desent pram even what we had for our babies....not these contraptions they push them about in now......what if there was a riot you'd never get a freezer in one of them..tsk

When I were a lass,we all wore long frocks.

We called them Crinolines.

yes they were frocks not dresses....

You could hide all sorts of things in them when you took out the bottom centre flap.( had to take the baby out first though) Very good for fetching Coke from the local gasworks though.**M**.