Do you remember Chelsea Girl ?

[Jillius]

I remember our local Chelsea Girl being absolutely huge with dim lighting and bargain buckets everywhere. I could always get a new top from the bargain bucket for �1. They had the flares with the 3 button waistband and huge platform shoes. Great memories. The shop is now the Edinburgh Woollen Mill and doesn't seem anywhere near as big.

[Bathsheba]

Yes i do Jillius!! That bring back memories! I remember the one i shopped at having to be closed down for a few days and fumigated cos it had developed a nasty problem with creepy-crawlies and other unmentionable things due to the lack of light and ventilation :-)

[Jillius]

lol Bathsheba ! Yeah, the ventilation was pretty bad. The changing room was made of mirrors so you could never be descreet no matter how hard you tried.

[Ethel]

Was that in the 70s?

�1 in 1972 is now worth:
�9.51 using the retail price index.
�16.08 using average earnings.

You could buy a whole outfit for that from Pirmark!

[unrulyjulie]

Oh of course jillius, i spent a good proportion of my early teens in that shop. Loved it!
I once knocked a whole shelf of handbags down in there, the whole thing collapsed and it wasnt a small shelf neither lol I do remember it being very dark in there, that could go some way to explaining why i thought the clothes i bought looked good ;-)

[Jillius]

About 1976 Ethel

[Jillius]

unrulyjulie lol. I know what you mean, but we did look good ! Didn't we ??

[Bathsheba]

Does anyone else think today's size 8/10 would have been a size 14 then? I can comfortably wear size 10 now, but in the 70s a 10 was teeny tiny xx

[Sachs]

Hi Jillius and everyone,
hi Bath :0) Chelsea girl was the place to shop in the 70s!
Bath, you're a size 10?? Did'nt know you were so slim!

[Bathsheba]

Hiya Sky! No, I'm not! That's the point i was trying to make in my clumsy way, lol. I think it's called "vanity- sizing" or similar. I've even got size 8 combat trousers from Primark that would have been a 12 or 14 in the 60s/70s :-)

[Ethel]

Defintely so, Bathsheba.

In the 60s and 70s the Miss World ideal was 34 - 24 -34, a size 12

Now a size 8 is a 25" waist.

[smudge]

I remember it well Jilius! I used to pop in there most Saturdays. They were the days!

[tigerlily11]

By eck your going back a bit there Jullius

[Bathsheba]

No she's not Tiggs!! I remember it as if it were yesterday :-)

[Bathsheba]

Sorry, meant to say tiger! Getting you mixed up with tiggerblue :-)