1:59pm Thursday 9th July 2009
By Gill Johnson
FROCKS with big, swirly skirts, slim-heeled courts and pearls were the must-have fashion pieces in the latter years of the fifties.
Following our look at fashion in ’63, Teresa Watson, of Darwen, sent us these photographs of what all the best-dressed girls were wearing half a century ago.
One shows Teresa and six friends dressed in their finery, ready, as she says “to paint the town red” on a ride-out with Darwen Paper Mill to Blackpool.
Taken in 1958, it shows, from left to right: Thelma Hird, Teresa– she was Sullivan before marrying– Margaret Howarth, Rachel Brown, Lilly Allen, Nellie Marsden and Sheila Graham.
All of them, except Thelma, still live in Darwen.
Teresa recalls: “I was the eldest of the group, but remember that I couldn’t get served at the bar in the Winter Gardens!”
The other photograph from her album shows a group of the paper mill workers who enjoyed a ride-out in 1956.
Teresa, Nellie and Lilly are on that one, too.
Can you spot them, or do you know anyone else?
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