> > I'm sure many of you have already seen this image: > > http://www.panix.com/~johnf/gallery/images/wedding.jpg > > (explanation at http://www.panix.com/~johnf/) > > > P.S. FWIW, curently in the DVD player is "Life On Mars". > I lived in Manchester in 1973, so I'm definitely > experiencing 1970s flashbacks. >
I was a student in Manchester from 75-77, so we must have just missed each other. I couldn't afford to dress as well as you, on a grant of £187- per term. My normal attire was jeans, blue suede desert boots, a particularly nice cheesecloth shirt, and a black waistcoat. This was all-weather gear. I remember one term being particularly difficult when a pair of underpants I was drying in front a 2-bar heater melted, and I was reduced to two pairs of underpants for the rest of term. Towards the end of one term I sold the cheesecloth shirt off my back to one of the girls on my course. She'd been admiring it for some time, and I really needed the money. In my last year I had a job behind the bar at the Mecca Ballroom on Whitworth Street. By then I had a pair high-waisted pin-striped French flares, which I wore to work over platform shoes. I had to wear an electric blue crimplene tailcoat, with a plastic top hat to keep my shoulder-length hair in place. Thank God no-one took any photos. I cut my hair short when Bowie released "Heroes" because he looked really cool, and it's a great song. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
