#whatsohoworeuk

I failed to get the trend right. I took hemlines up by hand as I was always a bit short! Always hurriedly taken up because I wanted to go out that evening. Later on I was a Beatnick, and then to acceptable dress but still keeping my own style.

I failed at being a mod, pleated skirt and winkle pickers with heels - and very neat hair, but my hair never looked quite as neat as I would have liked.

Hippy changing to more acceptable but still a bit offbeat. I never looked like anyone else, I had cheap clothes, as I never had any money!

The Beatnik look was  dyed t-shirts, shrunken/bleached/slashed jeans (looked like you had been painting the house) and mid length skirt Amy Winehouse hairstyle - half a beehive with the rest down. I wore black tights with holes - which was fashionable if you were a beatnik, wore moccasins with jeans or skirt with a little black heeled shoe.

In the late 60s/early 70s I wore - knee length brown maxi wool skirt, very Bonnie and Clyde. I used to wear it with boots or a Biba shirt, at the time Biba was very cheap too.

We were incredibly innocent but my parents read an article about people having sex in the garden/drugs and my dad forbade me to go but we never knew about that. We often went to Wimbledon Palais, a dancehall, with big lights, no particular style - live music - some Mods and some non-Mods. We got accused of being Beatniks by some lads, we spent so long trying to look like Mods! 

In Soho, we went to Ad Lib a couple of times but it was very elite and hard to get in. We managed to get in with a regular - very exciting!

Also went to The Pheasantry, famous posh place that people like Twiggy went to but we only went a few times but we were very impressed.

We used to stroll along the Kings Road and hope people would come and talk to you but no one ever did!

In the late 70s’s I changed my hair to platinum after being a warm reddish blonde, that was a big change because I started to have more sex appeal after that! I remember getting a blue linen dress with a keyhole back, to me was very daring at the time.

I found a pair of 6 inch round toe beige stiletto and was delighted, you couldn't get them anywhere (only in film star shops) and I wore them with shiny lycra jeans or my turquoise Fred Perry dress. The shoes used to get caught in the escalator if I wasn't quick off the mark.