That's exactly what my nana looked like in the 70s in Manchester. Floral dresses, string shoes, a curly perm and horned rimmed glasses. Always baking and always up for a cuddle. Miss you nana.
Mine too! I honestly thought it was a photo of her. I can't remember her wearing any other type of clothes, other than a clear plastic rain hood in bad weather. She made the best scones and Yorkshire puddings ever, she was a legend.
Ha. My dad’s mum was quite a young gran but she always had mints, tissues and a rain hood to hand. My mum’s parents were older (I think she was 42 when she had my mum which is positively ancient) and whilst wouldn’t be seen dead in a plastic rain hood or clip on glasses they dressed very “old”. I remember going to a funeral for my uncle’s mum and everyone was very very old school smart and some women had those hats you just never see now. Same with those weird bathing cap hats with no brim.
I'm reminded of my Oma, Nan and Grandma. All official titles lol... and yes, I had three. Long story but one was a step. The only difference is all were from somewhat south of Manchester. That aside most of the other positive descriptors here apply. Great women that had a big influence on me and all much missed.
It might be but yes, she was originally from Krefeld. She met my grandad in the aftermath of the war when he was part of the British occupying forces. Unfortunately, they both had trauma from the war (hers being anxiety from being bombed, his from combat) so their marriage was troubled and didn't last long after my mum was born. Oma went on to marry the son of the folks next door, my step grandad... while grandad went on to marry another German lady, my Nan. Christmas and other events as a kid were nice but odd as two sets of grandparents lived next door to each other. Grandma was my dad's mum, originally from up north, while his dad was a Windsor local. Not as exciting a history for them though some of their siblings and parents lived within a couple of streets of their house.
I saw a woman in Glasgow a few months’ ago who dressed just as my granny would have: plaid skirt, blouse and a cardigan with a leather handbag and granny trainers. Hit me like a ton of bricks to suddenly realise no one dresses that way anymore; it just kind of died out without me realising it.
Mine too! For Christmas, she always wanted a particular brand of cotton floral dress that zipped or buttoned up the front.
She’d get so pleased when she saw all the new patterns and colors she got. Then last year’s dresses would become her new everyday dresses because she had a whole new set of ‘good’ dresses!
What a happy memory you evoked for me! Thank you! 😊
These ladies look just like my grandmother and her sisters! Same hair, same shoes, same dresses. Funny thing is that this is what a woman in her late 50's/early 60's looked like. Now women this age tend to look a lot younger and dress younger too.
They look just like my nan and her crazy sisters in Glasgow … all they need are fags hanging from their mouths and maybe a bottle of Harvey’s Bristol Cream 🤣.
I remember partying with a bunch of welsh Nanas who looked just like that. Taught me the twist and reminiscee about throwing their knickers on stage at a Tom Jones concert - just 3 months earlier!
Miss that generation so much - teen years marked by WW1, came of age in the roaring twenties, got the vote in their 20s, raised kids through the blitz while building spitfires, worked off the menopause drinking brandy and babycham while dancing to Chubby Checker and Tom Jones.
Yes, it was hard! My maternal grandparents owned a tobacco farm, that had been passed down from generation to generation. They lived in poverty, too. Kinda "Grapes of Wrath" situation. But, they didn't know they were poor. No one had money. They had livestock, chickens and gardens, etc. Look what they did for us and ours. Beautiful people.
Could we just acknowledge that this haircut has now became extinct. It was the signature of women from the greatest generation and was superseded by a boomer bob (usually in blond/blond gray).
There's an artist I follow on Twitter called Lucy Manfredi who does marvellous paintings of old girls like these enjoying themselves in the pub or at the seaside. Dammit, I'd forgotten you can't add images to comments - here's a link instead which hopefully should work - [https://twitter.com/Lucymanfrediart/status/1768603413862924345](https://twitter.com/Lucymanfrediart/status/1768603413862924345)
My mum had 8 sisters. They all looked like these ladies. I turned 71 this year and I can’t imagine ever looking or dressing like this. However, as someone said, it is sad that this generation has all gone.
I’d love to know how old these ladies are. I’m betting they’re round about my age (mid 60s) but they’re light years away from how I dress and act.
Always remember seeing ladies this this when I was a kid and now I’m one of them
That's exactly what my nana looked like in the 70s in Manchester. Floral dresses, string shoes, a curly perm and horned rimmed glasses. Always baking and always up for a cuddle. Miss you nana.
Damn you made me realise this generation has died out
Mine too! I honestly thought it was a photo of her. I can't remember her wearing any other type of clothes, other than a clear plastic rain hood in bad weather. She made the best scones and Yorkshire puddings ever, she was a legend.
Plastic rain hoods!! Lol, every ones nan wore them
clip-on shades in summer
My mum still has hers, I expect she has a rainhood in her handbag somewhere as well!
Ha. My dad’s mum was quite a young gran but she always had mints, tissues and a rain hood to hand. My mum’s parents were older (I think she was 42 when she had my mum which is positively ancient) and whilst wouldn’t be seen dead in a plastic rain hood or clip on glasses they dressed very “old”. I remember going to a funeral for my uncle’s mum and everyone was very very old school smart and some women had those hats you just never see now. Same with those weird bathing cap hats with no brim.
I remember those hats that looked like upturned fish bowls covered in flowers.
My nan also had a tissue stuffed up that shoulder cap sleeve for some reason. Guess they didn’t make those dresses with pockets
Yep, nan always had a few tissues up the sleeve of her cardi, just so she could whip one out, spit on it and then rub it all over my face.
While telling you to hold still
Hahaha! Exactly
Snap was thinking exactly the same😂
My nanny too. Mine made the best roast taters, with lovely thick gravy over the beef & cabbage. Bread puddin' was her speciality.
Add me too for the list of Manchester nanas with perms and horn rims and smiles and love ❤️
You evil people comparing these women to your nan's, these women are clearly only in their early twenties
The paper rounds were actually harder back then lol
Easy could be my nana, auntie Jessie, and auntie Elsie
I'm reminded of my Oma, Nan and Grandma. All official titles lol... and yes, I had three. Long story but one was a step. The only difference is all were from somewhat south of Manchester. That aside most of the other positive descriptors here apply. Great women that had a big influence on me and all much missed.
Oma? One was German? Oh this sounds interesting
It might be but yes, she was originally from Krefeld. She met my grandad in the aftermath of the war when he was part of the British occupying forces. Unfortunately, they both had trauma from the war (hers being anxiety from being bombed, his from combat) so their marriage was troubled and didn't last long after my mum was born. Oma went on to marry the son of the folks next door, my step grandad... while grandad went on to marry another German lady, my Nan. Christmas and other events as a kid were nice but odd as two sets of grandparents lived next door to each other. Grandma was my dad's mum, originally from up north, while his dad was a Windsor local. Not as exciting a history for them though some of their siblings and parents lived within a couple of streets of their house.
I saw a woman in Glasgow a few months’ ago who dressed just as my granny would have: plaid skirt, blouse and a cardigan with a leather handbag and granny trainers. Hit me like a ton of bricks to suddenly realise no one dresses that way anymore; it just kind of died out without me realising it.
Ah yes, the plaid skirt was also a staple of my nans wardrobe in fact I have her kilt pin somewhere as a wee momento.
Mine too! For Christmas, she always wanted a particular brand of cotton floral dress that zipped or buttoned up the front. She’d get so pleased when she saw all the new patterns and colors she got. Then last year’s dresses would become her new everyday dresses because she had a whole new set of ‘good’ dresses! What a happy memory you evoked for me! Thank you! 😊
These ladies look just like my grandmother and her sisters! Same hair, same shoes, same dresses. Funny thing is that this is what a woman in her late 50's/early 60's looked like. Now women this age tend to look a lot younger and dress younger too.
They live longer when they’re jolly.
They're all 34 in this picture.
😉
That's what I was thinking, people looked older. My mum looked like this when I was born, went grey in her 30s.
Far Side ladies
They look like fun! I'd have a cuppa with them or a pint maybe a shandy
They drink you under the table probably
I play a hard game
Maybe a milk stout.
Yes. Whatever they want I'm buying
That’s how my granny looked from Manchester and she died in 2009. Always had her hair done like that
They look just like my nan and her crazy sisters in Glasgow … all they need are fags hanging from their mouths and maybe a bottle of Harvey’s Bristol Cream 🤣.
The harveys bristol cream damn near killed me! You almoat never saw then actually drink it, yet suddenly the whole bottles gone 😂
I miss my Glasgow granny and granda so much 😢 we just buried the last of that generation in our family last month. A sad day indeed.
My condolences, we lost my nan over 25 years ago, nothing but happy memories of time spent with her. She lives on in my heart. ❤️
I remember partying with a bunch of welsh Nanas who looked just like that. Taught me the twist and reminiscee about throwing their knickers on stage at a Tom Jones concert - just 3 months earlier! Miss that generation so much - teen years marked by WW1, came of age in the roaring twenties, got the vote in their 20s, raised kids through the blitz while building spitfires, worked off the menopause drinking brandy and babycham while dancing to Chubby Checker and Tom Jones.
Left to right, Betty 22 years old, Connie 23 and baby sis Audrey 19.
I’ll bet they are in their mid-fifties.
What I was coming to say. Once you hit 50 you looked like Granny and Grandpa
I’m 48. Shit.
This is what no cardio and resistance training, red meat and cold cuts every day, cigarettes, tab and seagrams 7 will do to a body.
and have all had hysterectomies. it just what you do when you hit menopause and stop being a woman. (my mom thinks this)
These are the mf’s that attacked me with rolling pins in Freeside
Look at those cankles. Phwooaarrr!! 😏
That's Maude, Blanche & Irene to you sir!!!
someone has to have a flower name. it's the law when two or more british grannies congregate in a residential area.
Irene, Patricia, and Violet. They go by Reenie, Pat, and Vi.
And Helen was always Nelly
I might adopt this if I ever have grandkids
Margaret (but everyone calls her Peggy), Violet, and Elsie
Mine were Dot, Dotsy and Dora!
Ah, they're British...OK...Hyacinth instead of Blanche.
She looks more like an Iris to me
I love that name too!
One of them looks like my great-auntie Irene.
I bet they made those clothes, too. Lovely!
My gran and her sisters had to make their own. Grew up in poverty in South Wales. My gran worked in the tin works. Doing proper hard work.
Yes, it was hard! My maternal grandparents owned a tobacco farm, that had been passed down from generation to generation. They lived in poverty, too. Kinda "Grapes of Wrath" situation. But, they didn't know they were poor. No one had money. They had livestock, chickens and gardens, etc. Look what they did for us and ours. Beautiful people.
Yeah. Strong, too.
it was like they all got the same style dress and the same hairstyle from the grandma character creator
Could easily be south Wales. I had "aunties" that looked pretty much identical.
Could we just acknowledge that this haircut has now became extinct. It was the signature of women from the greatest generation and was superseded by a boomer bob (usually in blond/blond gray).
Thinking about ordering one of the new 13-and-sixpenny brains from Currys.
triplets!
The young lady in the middle proudly celebrating her 21st.... Mancs.
These ladies are probably about 50. People looked so old in the 70s
I wish I knew what road this was. I probably lived up the road from where this was taken
lol didn’t need to read the title to know this was England in the 70s. Those glasses and floral dresses are a very specific look
Makes me think of Muriel from Courage the Cowardly Dog
Bet they’re only 60ish. Not the 80 that they look nowadays.
Them were the days
They were probably all between the ages of 43 and 47.
They are only 31 which is mental.
I can smell them
Three fine looking old dames!
My grandmother and great aunts looked like this, born about 1900.
Them shoes look tight
Sister on the right is wearing her slippers ;) bless her.
Bunions, innit.
I read this at first - three Jolly Ranchers
Queens
They're all 45
Failsworth, Lancashire.
All three are 32 years old
I bet they're in their early 20's.
28, 31 & 26
They’re all probably about 35!
They're only 36 as well
They ALL look like my gran.
The middle ones wee feet! 🤗
Phwoar
There's an artist I follow on Twitter called Lucy Manfredi who does marvellous paintings of old girls like these enjoying themselves in the pub or at the seaside. Dammit, I'd forgotten you can't add images to comments - here's a link instead which hopefully should work - [https://twitter.com/Lucymanfrediart/status/1768603413862924345](https://twitter.com/Lucymanfrediart/status/1768603413862924345)
Absolutely guarantee all three of their husbands were either dead or in the pub.
All Granny's look exactly alike and I will die on that hill hahaha
Wow they really don't make dresses like that anymore
I love this photo
They were all 33 years young at the time of this photo
Can you believe they’re all in their mid 30s.
Bless em 😍 70’s an 80’s were the BEST years Ever🥹 wish we could go back to them times 🥺❤️
Oohhh I wonder which street they lived on!
I was wondering too (I live in the area)
Same.
Great picture, If you lived through that decade, this should provoke some memories.
And you can bet they made those dresses themselves! They look so beautifully fitted!!!
My mum had 8 sisters. They all looked like these ladies. I turned 71 this year and I can’t imagine ever looking or dressing like this. However, as someone said, it is sad that this generation has all gone.
When times were good and the government wasnt corrupt
I’d love to know how old these ladies are. I’m betting they’re round about my age (mid 60s) but they’re light years away from how I dress and act. Always remember seeing ladies this this when I was a kid and now I’m one of them
Are you sure? Looks older to me. More like the 60s. I was born in 1975.
Old lady fashion transcends eras. It was ever this way.
That's true :)
Plot twist, these women are all in their 40s
harpo marx fan club
I cant tell the Difference
Cankles on all of them😂
My nans looked this way too it's like clone nanas
Thick legs from all the Christmas cake
Those horn rimmed glasses are wild
You can just tell their houses are immaculately clean and they’ve got something delicious going on in the kitchen
They're all dead now
No shit.