The 1960s were famous for some spectacular and dramatic epic drama films one of which was the film version of Cleopatra made in 1963 and starring, amongst others, Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra.
It really was a film of epic proportions well worth seeing a second (or a first) time but this article is about the eye make-up used by Elizabeth Taylor which bought in the ‘Cleopatra look for eyes’.
Posted in Fashion
Tagged Cleopatra, Egyptian, Elizabeth Taylor, eye makeup, eyes, Fashion, makeup, style
The Leader and Arrow were motorcycles produced by Ariel Motorcycles of Birmingham in the 1950s and 60s and were both examples of the way that the company tried to adapt to the 1960s idea of what a motorcycle should be.
Posted in 1960s
Tagged 1060s, 60s, ariel, arrow, golden arrow, leader, motorbike, Motorcycle
The estuary of the river Camel in Cornwall passes Wadebridge and goes downstream as far as Padstow. It is an area of considerable beauty made more popular by the Camel Trail which is designed for both walkers and cyclists although not, and this was intentional, for cars.
After the war, as the 1950s began, girls as well as boys began to find that jobs were easy to get.
In reconstructing the country there were abundant opportunities and jobs were plentiful enough to ensure that every girl had a choice of where and when to work. Of course pay was less than a man’s wage (no equal opportunities yet) but it was still not bad and, as rationing began to end (sweets were the last off ration in 1954), life began to get better.
Where wartime was ‘make do and mend’, the 1950s gave women in general a chance to become much more fashion conscious. Girls, in common with young men, wanted to establish their own identity and create their own fashion rules and this ultimately lead to the mushroom in fashion consciousness that was the 1960s.
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Tagged 1950s, 1960s, 50s, 60s, bikes, Fashion, female fashion, girls, leather, motorbikes, retro, rockers, teddy boys, vintage, women, womens fashion
One of the most unusual and for a lot of people, one of the most popular programmes on the television in the 1960s was University Challenge presented by Bamber Gascoigne.
Sugar, Sugar was a pop song by The Archies that I heard the other day and realised that I had not heard it since the 1960s.
The song was one of those strange songs that you never thought would be a hit since it was not recorded by the proper pop group. Like the Monkees, the Archies were a manufactured pop group and the track was produced, in fact, by unknown musicians in the studio. The song was written in 1969 and recorded in the same year and, as is often the case with unusual records, it caught the public imagination and was released all over the world
One of the most noticeable trends of the 1960s was the idea that you could make more use of the rooms in your house if you improved access to them by getting rid of the interfering doors, walls and windows.
The idea was to open the house out thus making access to the various living spaces easier. Where most houses had been built with separate rooms, each divided one from another by a door and a wall, it was thought desirable to remove as many of these as possible thus opening out the space and making access from one living area to another quick and easy and, in many cases, merging the spaces together.
Posted in Lifestyle
Tagged 1960s, 60s, architecture, diy, house, house design, living, rooms, through-lounge
No one likes to look the same every day and we have had this website since we started in April 2010 (was it really that long ago) so it’s about time we had a makeover.
The website is powered by WordPress and the new look is from a theme called Coraline. This is the theme that was used by WordPress to replace the Cutlines theme when that theme was dropped. It’s a nice, clean theme that is easy to customise and which has few options but which fits easily into the idea we have for the overall look of the website.
