Some reflections on 1976

Like mentioned by HowardandMarina, it was our bicentennial year, I was 10 years old. We had to memorise a poem,or short story for our play that was put on at the school. We dressed in period clothing of 1786. Most of the girls wearing long dresses with a matching hat on our head.

I know for special occasions I notice British women wear their hats. What a competition it seems to be. In the show the most regular ladies were always wearing a hat. sign of the generation? Some guest didn't. Marina didn't ,hmm. Anyway, in the 70's woman wore skirts or dresses more than today of jeans, capri pants and yoga pants. Do women in GB just wear hats on occasion,and did the style of clothes also change from skirt to pants of today.

In the barbershop scene, you can see pictures of pinup girls in background. (PBS) blacks them out. Was the show shown at an adult time of the evening or is it normal there to show topless women? Only on pay per view here in the states. Lot of questions. Sorry
 
Thanks Barmpot, I never knew that, it sounds quite a palarva.some pictures would
Be very interesting. I shall look at Cleggs collars more closely and see if I can tell the difference xxx
 
In the barbershop scene, you can see pictures of pinup girls in background. (PBS) blacks them out. Was the show shown at an adult time of the evening or is it normal there to show topless women? Only on pay per view here in the states. Lot of questions. Sorry
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When losw first aired it was on BBC2 later in the evening as it was considered to raunchy to air on BBC1 at any time
 
brendalovescompo said:
In the barbershop scene, you can see pictures of pinup girls in background. (PBS) blacks them out. Was the show shown at an adult time of the evening or is it normal there to show topless women? Only on pay per view here in the states. Lot of questions. Sorry
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I think this was more in keeping with the gritty early years of LOTSW and it was shown in the UK at a later time. However, it did reflect the more openly sexist nature of British society back then. Lots of places of work, especially those male dominated, would have pin up pictures of women in them. This was also reflected in a great deal of British comedy back then, the 60's to 80's, when women were often only there for the glamour. A very popular comedy like On The Buses usually referred to women as "birds" as middle aged men chased after women half their age, The Benny Hill Show being another example. I'm sure some would argue today that as we no longer have this type of comedy it is political correctness gone mad, but in the light of Operation Yewtree here in the UK you can see the cultural backdrop of how women as sexual objects was quite the norm in British comedy back then and some took advantage of it to an extreme.
 
I remember as a child being the only female I had to have hair cut at barbers along with my brothers and we had to stand at the door way while my mam went in and shuffled the magazines about before we were allowed to go in and sit down. For years I wondered what on earth the crazy woman was doing and it wasn't until I took my son in the late 70s for his first hair cut at the same shop that I realize that she was in fact moving the porn mags out of site!!

If some reason you went into garage or factor the calenders were always of the racy type.

I remember Benny Hill and On The Buses very well all done with tongue in cheek and double means. It was like a 2 in 1 kind of comedy it could be taken one way by the children but another way by the adults.

I like to think we've moved on from the smut but I know there will be some thinking " Those were the days" ;)
 
I once did a MOCK!! ;) ;) protest at a factory that I worked in when one of the women used a poster from Cosmo (I stuck a label on it, this poster demeans men! just for mad ;D ;D) She was not best pleased!! :me: :me:
 
dick said:
I once did a MOCK!! ;) ;) protest at a factory that I worked in when one of the women used a poster from Cosmo (I stuck a label on it, this poster demeans men! just for mad ;D ;D) She was not best pleased!! :me: :me:
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No doubt she was but I hope you men all learned a valuable lesson. Most woman would have been upset too, except me I would have just put Ex-Lax in the tea pot and told the woman to avoid it ;D ;D ;D

Woman are not just for recreational purposes and we don't have a sense on humour. ;) ;)
 
Pearl-Susan. said:
dick said:
I once did a MOCK!! ;) ;) protest at a factory that I worked in when one of the women used a poster from Cosmo (I stuck a label on it, this poster demeans men! just for mad ;D ;D) She was not best pleased!! :me: :me:
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No doubt she was but I hope you men all learned a valuable lesson. Most woman would have been upset too, except me I would have just put Ex-Lax in the tea pot and told the woman to avoid it ;D ;D ;D

Woman are not just for recreational purposes and we don't have a sense on humour. ;) ;)
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Did I ever think otherwise!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :'(
 
I think a lot of the comedy back then was in the saucy postcard tradition and was essentially harmless, but it still reflected a very different time in a cultural sense for Britain as a country. Showing a few pin ups in an episode of LOTSW would have simply reflected reality, just as in Porridge the prisoners had them on the wall and so to the students in Rising Damp. I also remember in the early series of Only Fools and Horses, Rodney had his glam mags.

One of the funny things about On The Buses was that the two lead actors were in their 40's/50's supposedly playing younger men. How in heavens name they got the young women interested (or girls/birds as they were often referred to in the series) was beyond me. That was the way TV was back then. Interestingly, I think that LOTSW's own Smiler, Stephen Lewis, was the youngest but made to look older as the bus conductor Blakey.

Talking of Cosmo, Les Dawson did have his Cosmo Smallpiece (youtube it - but be prepared).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCc4oZZPR-A
 
In 1976 I was 13 and the heatwave was in full swing. I had been sent off for the summer holidays to my Aunties in Sunderland ( I was being punished for some indiscretion or other and sent there to think about what I'd done)
I had a blast my Auntie was way more relaxed about child care than my mother and I was in heaven ;D. Its there I got drunk for the first time but I remember it been the best summer of my life.
Life was easier then mothers weren't has paranoid about letting their kids run free and the only thing to do inside was help clean so if the door was open you were out like a shot and only came back when you were hungry, unless you found a chippy that had chips left over at closing. ;D

I remember swimming in the cut and pinching large chunks of polystyrene from a factory and using them has floats, I wonder sometimes how we lived so long and didn't drowned or go down with some deadly disease from the canal. :D

And that my friends was my miss sent youth and what fun it was ;D ;D
 
Pearl-Susan. said:
And that my friends was my miss sent youth and what fun it was ;D ;D
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When did you get all stuffy then?? (Women are not just for recreational purposes and we don't have a sense of humour!) The woman I pulled the "protest" on had been going around pulling down calendars and mens pinups! :-\ ::)
 
I got " Stuffy" when I grow up!
You know that boring thing woman do and men don't! :respect:

;D ;D

I wouldn't have taken them down by the way I'd have just drawn clothes on them ;) ;)
 
I agree with you both, growing up is very over-rated. I tried it once, but I didn't like it. >:(
I look like Wesley most of the time unless there is a wedding or a funeral then I have to dress appropriately. :-\
Don't like it. >:(
 
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