I worked in Carnaby Street and Kings Road at this time, and it is wonderful to see this footage as there are lots of faces that I knew and one or two that I still do. It was a wonderful period in my life, and I so enjoyed going to work everyday, as you never knew who you would be serving, as everyday someone famous from the movie and music scene would come in to buy the latest fashions. And if a time machine was available, I would go back like a shot, I also would love to be that young again.
Hi! nickmoss50. How are you? It most was amaze around in 1960s on Carnaby Street and Kings Road, I was born that time, I got to see in person Carnaby Street , Kings Road in September,8,18,2017, I love 60s fashion, I am collector of 60s clothing's.
nickmoss50 man that is so cool. I’m in Detroit, I remember Dad saying “We’re moving outta here, you kids ain’t gonna be a statistic of no shoe shiners” A year later the ‘67 riots hit. Fookin savages destroyed a great place.
The decade of true fashion. Please, someone let me travel through time and go back there... Everything was so much better ! Clothing, music, lifestyle, relationships. No cellphones, no internet, just human beings interacting with each other. Also, can we take a moment to appreciate how thin everyone looked ? They were all good looking and healthy, not one single overweight person in sight. I'm a 22 years old student but it's been a few months since my obsession with the 1960's began. The things I would do to be able to go back in time...
Hi Caroline! I know you left this comment almost a year ago but if you're still feeling the same way, I think you and I ought to launch a giant public service campaign to bring back The Hairdo. No 'choppy layers', no requests for 'balayage', nay nay. I'd like to bring back huge, sculptural hairdos with loads of bows and accessories. These majestic creations will require scaffolding and I'm up for it, haha! Also, outfits that are conceptual and integrated as both aesthetic and philosophical statements. This movement needs a name...hmmm. ;D
Indeed it was a much better time...also from a male point of view also cars/football. I feel very privileged to have experienced the 60s first time around [born in '53]. I too would love to go back.... at least we have You Tube to remind us of a very special era.😊
I wish we still wore clothes like that! I like the mod look a lot better than the stupid teenage fashions that we're stuck with today. Thanks for posting this!
And 14 years after you posted this comment, it's just gotten atrociously worse!!! I'm a university student, and I swear, what people my age call "stylish", makes them look like complete and total slobs. Sad, really.
As much as I am grateful for my life and how advanced as a society we became nowadays, I can't help but admire gems from the past like these. Makes me wish that we could combine the advancements of modern society with the chivalry, pep, and overall positiveness of the 60's. Everything seems colorful, fun, childish, and lighthearted, and it's very beautiful
I am SO jealous of my mum and dad's generation.... They got The Beatles, the Stones, the miniskirt, Woodstock, flower power, mods, mini coopers, Carnaby Street, Psychedelia, Go-Go dancing, the Apple Boutique, the peace movement, mods and rockers, white gogo boots and gorgeous hair teased bouffants. What do I get? Computers and cell phones, lame fashions and Amy winehouse. GRRR!!!
I was there!! I visited Carneby street and the Kings road back in the 60s it was a fanatastic time!!so many lovely girls,so little time so many women lol!!
The commentary is dripping with envy at the young being able to wear what they like. The fast changing fashions from 1963-1968 must have bewildered the 40+ generation. Mind you there are quite a few of them in the clubs at the end of this clip.
Ooh I remember "Granny takes a Trip" and "I Was Lord Kitchener's Valet". Same time as Freddie Mercury was running a trendy stall in Kensington (indoor) Market! those were the days!
Waah I wanna live in the 60s. This fashion, the music, the flower power era. the hair, Jim Morrison. I would give up the computer and the internet, just to be living in the 60s, where the good old Rock and Roll was still alive.
All slim pretty girls in colourful clothes, none of the current hideous sportswear, shapeless hoodies and tight leggings. We have forgotten how to dress well
i wish more guys and gals dressed like this still. check out these fellas with belts on and proper-fitting clothes and jackets, how nice is that? damn.
So glad I was part of the scene. Shopping for cheap material in Soho markets. We made our own mini dresses and skirts. Saving a week’s wages to design and pay for a pair of shoes hand made by Stan in Battersea. I worked in London early 60s and spent lunch time shopping in Oxford Street and Soho. Today, the shoes are rubbish (IMO). Wish I’d held on to all my beautiful shoes. Great memories and I am so lucky to have been part of those times.
We had no idea the wonderful golden age we were living in ! It’s all gone; people are total slobs now. No obesity; we prided ourselves on having a good figure to wear fashionable clothes ! I’m glad I’m now old; I couldn’t stand to be young in Britain now.
What a pleasant shock to see young people actually dressing nicely! Young women were so much more attractive back then (5:25, especially). They knew how to wear clothes and to groom themselves, instead of the slobs we're surrounded with nowadays; girls who always look like they've just left the gym. And young men certainly looked better too; it's tough to beat the Mod style for men. It was all downhill from 1967; stupid dirty hippies, "casual Friday" and hip-hop fashions have ruined everything.
Cars and fashion was really classy in 60's 😎 I'm french woman who want 60's style clothes. I love tweed skirts and white boots 👍 I'm searching for dresses
Everything about the 60 and 70 was fantastic. Their fashion and styling was a million times better than what we have today. Back then one could get away with wearing a bowler hat on the street where as now people are immediately branded homosexuals for even the slightest departure from mainstream fashion, which is based on silly diets and crap designer clothing. Todays fashion and styling sucks.
What a special period of time in london . There are lots of different and colorful clothes , hats , neckties , and so on . The fasion generation is full of varietys colors and impressed me . And I have to admit the dressing style is too over for me nowadays . But it is really a cool fashion generation .
ahah thats cool. i still dress like a hippie sometimes LOL. :) head band, flowers in hair, bell bottoms, peace necklaces, beads, etc...etc.. eheh. would love to see girls also in hippie or mod gear... oh dear.
OMG does this take me back! This decade of pop style always was, and still is, my favorite! Thanks for posting this. : D Carnaby Street is not 'groovy' anymore.
Thank you so much for this upload. My wardrobe is a kitsch macabre mixture of the Brady Bunch and Vampira at Midnight, art directed by David Lynch and with a soundtrack by the 13th Floor Elevators, all nodding in appreciation at the covers of those self-released religious folk records from early 1970s, y'know the ones which colourful American Evangelist families in matching lurid ensembles and towering sculptural hairdos would bring out? (the titles always had unintended sexual innuendo and double entendre). Always looking for inspiration online. Thank you again! :D
Wonderful video, but where are these places, or at least their location on Google Streetview? - I look at 47 Kings Road, and it seems to be replaced by a square. Granny takes a trip was at 488 Kings Road. All the shops seems to be replaced by offices and mobile phone shops :(
I quite like the narration, it's so typically British especially for the time period. Starts off with cold wit but once you get to the end it's championing the thing.
I want to take cues from this video to dress my characters (London, 1963) in my new book, but I'm afraid the book is set in 1963... a few years short of this fashion "revolution."
"They say London swings. It doesn't. Not even the King's Road Chelsea. But here and there among the conformist fat cat crowds, is a lean cat or two, looking like it might swing, given some encouragement." Brilliant.
Don't you remember Blossom Dearie singing her song,"I'm hip"?? That's from the 60s. Some of her lines ... I'm Hip. When it was 'hip' to be 'hep', I was hep!;-)
I grew up in the 60's, take me back please!! I have a 60's car in garage, all I need is a flux capacitor??? like back to future, and I'm off back to 1960 watch the 60's develop, room for 4 others in car. God wishful thinking eh!
@DitherSwitch No, they're the ones with the interesting stories to tell, from a dynamic time that everyone else born afterwards seem to be jonesing for. I don't think you'll have the same mystique come old age time.
It is incredible how London has changed over the last 40 years. (Even over the last 20 years). Not all for the better either. Fascinating look at the 1960's. Must have been a great place to be in London in those days, unlike the shithole so much of London is now.
