Mid to late teens and I shopped at charity shops usually because it was affordable. I could even buy velvet…I bought this particular dress about 6 months before I joined the army (in the UK) and it went with me. Black velvet dress, slightly A-line, nice wide boatneck, floral satin long sleeve, and of course it was a mini mini……..I wore it with long white socks that came well over the knee to mid thigh and white leather platform clogs that were all the rage then……I met my husband who was also in the army (52 years ago)….A week or two after we married, he threw out my beautiful black velvet dress along with a few other of my clothes….The reason…..Those clothes were not suitable for a married woman…..Poor man has had to endure my eclectic choice of clothes, the wigs that I like to wear, and the tattoos I’ve come home wearing…….ever since. 😆
 
OMG that reminds me I dyed my hair
black and had a green streak in it.
Another time I decided to blonde my hair to save money. Being dark brown that didn't work too well with over the counter products and it went bright Orange.
At that time I was private secretary to the Managing Director of a large Engineering Company. Thought I can't go to work like this so I put another colour over it.
I went to work the next day with this khaki coloured hair. Boss asked me if this was the latest fashion
Lol.
Good boss gave me the afternoon off to go to the hairdressers.
 
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I’m not sure if it was stylish, but I absolutely loved it…and I wore it too death!!
Black lace up hot pants with a black lacey boob tube, with knee high black boots…
The memories, the great times be it at the local hotel, the drive-in, many parties attended, will live with me forever….
 
Mid to late teens and I shopped at charity shops usually because it was affordable. I could even buy velvet…I bought this particular dress about 6 months before I joined the army (in the UK) and it went with me. Black velvet dress, slightly A-line, nice wide boatneck, floral satin long sleeve, and of course it was a mini mini……..I wore it with long white socks that came well over the knee to mid thigh and white leather platform clogs that were all the rage then……I met my husband who was also in the army (52 years ago)….A week or two after we married, he threw out my beautiful black velvet dress along with a few other of my clothes….The reason…..Those clothes were not suitable for a married woman…..Poor man has had to endure my eclectic choice of clothes, the wigs that I like to wear, and the tattoos I’ve come home wearing…….ever since. 😆
Wow, I would not have been happy if my husband had done that.
 
Wow, I would not have been happy if my husband had done that.
Only a few weeks married and already laying down the law. My ex would never have got away with that
I remember when I remarried and we were going out to tea for my mother in laws 70th birthday.
We lived in Kalgoorlie at the time and my husband made some comment to the effect that I might have been a bit overdressed. I was wearing a plain white handkerchief style dress I bought in Bali, hardly high end fashion.
With a filthy look I told him I didn't care if the whole of Kal went out dressed like bogans, I'm me and I don't. I received quite a few compliments that night and my husband , never once in 32 years, ever criticised how I dressed again.

I've typed bogans three times , and this stupid spell check keeps changing it to Hogan's , and there it goes again. Grrrr.
 
Wow, I would not have been happy if my husband had done that.
Wow, I would not have been happy if my husband had done that.
Neither was I especially when we were young married’s with not much money at all. Next we had our children so when we had a little bit of money it was spent on them……Eventually things got much better for us and I could indulge now and again in things that I liked instead of things to make do. Since we were both 18 when we married and with 2 children at 21, I don’t suppose either of us had developed much of an identity, we just grew up together with each of us, at times, having a bit of a personality clash……52 years later though, and we’re still together…….he likes to see women in fitted clothes, smart clothes, but he has a wife who prefers looser styles, weird stuff he says as do my kids and wider family, I don’t appear to conform to the norm…….Anyway I am who I am and accepted as I am by those I care about and everyone else can think what they like…..
 
Monday we had 42 deg then the rest of the week has been around 27.

I don't mind a day here and there of over 40 but it's when it becomes more than 2 to 3 days of constant heat

We have been having severe storms with thunder louder than I've ever heard
 
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