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Clothes Shopping Blues

Monday, 20 July 2009, 0:02 | Category : Ramblings, Rants
Tags : clothes, fashion, sequins, shops, stick insects, wedding

We are going to a wedding in three weeks and I couldn’t put it off any longer. I had to go shopping for something to wear. We trudged from shop to shop looking for a top. I knew it wouldn’t be easy to find something that would be a bit dressy, summery and more importantly [...]

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My metamorphosis

Monday, 28 July 2008, 0:28 | Category : Swinging 60's
Tags : ankle socks, Art, clothes, employer, hairdresser, interview, school, talent, teacher

I was 15 and about to leave school and step out into the big wide world. It was usual for your mother or father to come to the school and meet with your ‘form’ teacher to discuss a job for you.
It was 1961 and very few people stayed on at school to take GCE’s, as [...]

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