1970s Vintage Clothing
The 1970s can be remembered for some wonderful fashion from highly talented designers such as Ossie Clark (Celia Birtwell), Vivienne Westwood and labels from Biba and Bus Stop. The 70s were a time of bold prints and disco fever but also a time of some amazing styles that is often overlooked today.
Clark designed costumes for Glam rock bands, Eddie Murphy and Queen and probably the best known designer of that period. His sexy dresses are very desirable today and the best ones fetch hundreds of pounds. Look out for Ossie Clark original labeled sexy maxi dresses as the Radley label items are worth considerably less.
Other fine 70s vintage fashion you can find are sports wear, satin and denim flares and a growing collection of flight bags from 70s airlines such as Britsh Airways, Pan Am and Luthansa. Kaftan appeared in the late 70s and were influenced by some funky Indian gurus. Rock band tour t shirts also started to appear in abundence in the 1970s so it was a real era of change just like the 60s. Buy some real original vintage fashion!
The Punk scene with Westwood leading the fashion set charge become well known all over the UK in late 1970s where she and Malcolm McLaren opened a shop called Sex in London.
