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MPX5075167: Fashion - 1970s. High fashion at low prices. There's good news from the fashion front. This autumn the stores seem determined to cut their prices. We've looked around and found plenty of high fashions - at pleasantly low prices. The cotton shirt, at £6.95, the black and white striped pinafore dress, £9.95, and the matching waistcoat, £5.95, are all from branches of Wrehouse. The multi-coloured knittee bag is £6.50 at Miss Selfridge, the striped chenille legwarms are by Sunarama at £1.25 and the red cowboy boots cost £17.99 at Saxone and Lilley and Skinner. October 1976 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075197: "Fashion - 1970s. Bill Gibb: A women's designer for women. His customers include Elizabeth Taylor, Twiggy and the Duchess of Bedford. Yet when designer Bill Gibb, 34, came to London 18 years ago from Fraserburgh Scotland, people asked who would ever wear his extravagant creations. The answer was, nearly everybody who is anybody, and on November 18 7,000 people from the worlds of stage, screen, fashion and beauty paid tribute to a decade of Bill Gibb at a special show at London's Royal Albert Hall. Daily Mirror fashion editor Lealey Ebbetts models Gibb's £500 1972 ""Shell"" dress made of buttermilk jersey and mother of pearl. November 1977 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075203: Fashion 1970's. The very best of British. Fashion designers are planning a sporting life for us all later this year. And, fittingly for Jubilee Year, the great British look is the one that really matters. Even French designer Ann Dupuy of Jousse and Japanese designer Michiko have gone for hunting, shooting and fishing clothes in their autumn collections. They will be showing and - hopefully - selling them at the British Fashion Week opening in London on March 30. But the British are still the best in the world at tailoring and Jeff Banks, for example, has had his tweeds made up in a factory which also produces clothes for the eminently traditional Burberry company. March 1977 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075193: Fashion - Misc. Rock fashions through the ages. You can rock around the clock with this great, new idea in reversible clothes that convert into a variety of gear - including a carrying bag. Designed by three artist musicians, the Jac-Pac leaves plenty of room for those other essential bits and pieces. The Jac-Pac, for girls of all ages, costs from £35 at Splash. Take your pick.....The Jac-Pac. July 1982 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075244: Clothing. Bright flares. The revolution is over. Long live trousers! Now that they are here to stay, trousers have gone all wide and cheeky. Sumptuous in crep, brocade, satin. Flaring really wide from the knee, or ending in cuffs. The bell bottom hip hip hoorays. On top go slinky blouses, glittery jackets, or a demure chemise top. Like the ones we show here. All in the shops now making autumn swing. October 1972 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075183: Girls who want to look sporty in bed, now can. A British manufacturer has produced a tracksuit nightie that needs the minimum of underwear. And the new bedtime fashion, made of towelling material, are also great for house-work and gardening. Sporty .... the new bedtime fashion. September 1978 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5075198: Fashion - 1970's. Well Blessa Ma Soul what's sarong with me. The beaches and evening parties of the world soon will be all shook up when the latest daring fashion item, the sarong, takes hold. An old theme with a new twist, the sarong is really just a length of cloth cunningly shaped to cover the essentials--barely. But ladies wearing them should be careful not to get too shook up themselves -- and come unravelled. The beach version: sudden movement could be dangerous. bikini top with large hat and necklace. January 1978 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071614: Tory leader Edward Heath bought himself an early Christmas present, when he did a bit of shopping, before dashing to catch his train back south, after being in Manchester on a lunch engagement. He spent five pounds to buy a blue sweater, after first trying on a brown one. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071751: Tory leader Edward Heath bought himself an early Christmas present, when he did a bit of shopping, before dashing to catch his train back south, after being in Manchester on a lunch engagement. He spent five pounds to buy a blue sweater, after first trying on a brown one. December 1969 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5071492: Shown at London's first post-war non-austerity fashion show, a black taffeta frock with a huge bustle at the back, just right for cocktails or a party. The double frill of stiff white lace round the neckline is repeated again on the slip underneath to peep out as the skirt swings while walking. It is topped by a hat made of the same lace and black ribbon. May 1946 / Bridgeman Images