Flares, true style is timeless!
Yup, the early 1970s style of girls wearing flimsy cheesecloth hippy blouses and flared hipster jeans had a lot going for it! Ooooh yes!
When I arrived at the Covert Oxonian Aerodrome, one of my VC10 course colleagues received an invite to a private social do at a Wg Cdr's home (which might or might not have have been 'Pnomh Penh Len'...), who'd written 'lounge suits' on the invite! "Great", said the invitee, "I've got just the thing. A hideous, 1970s purple crushed velvet suit with huge lapels, flared jacket and massively flared trousers!". He went in this get-up; the Wg Cdr's frostiness was only exceeded by his wife's!
When your DVD arrives, Courtney, look for the 'Ghost of Nigger'. In the scene where 'Barnes Wallis' is talking to 'Guy Gibson' at the end of the film, you can clearly see a black dog running about in the background even though there were reputedly no black labradors at Scampton at the time.....
