FRENCH WORD-A-DAY

Loved this post Kristi. I saw Andy Gibb in concert opening for my heart throbs, the Bay City Rollers. Such a shame about Andy.
Other heart throbs were Davy Jones when I was 7! Then David Essex, Shaun Cassidy and Leif Garrett. Lots of satin! Thank you for the trip down memory lane.

I loved the Bee Gees! All of their music and imagine that music loud and booming in a disco. My favorite pin up poster when I was 16 was the one of the Romeo & Juliet movie where they are 'almost' kissing. Dreamy. I was a true 70's teen back then, long hair & bell bottoms.

My heart throbs were The Partridge Family with David Cassidy then it was Tom Jones. I bought their 45's and LP's with my allowance.
My favorite ensemble was when I was oh 11 or 12 was a cotton like broadcloth fabric short sleeve, crew neck blouse that was cropped above the waist with big white buttons in the back. It was lime green with BIG white polka dots and I wore it with white wide leg cotton bell bottom hip hugger slacks. I had a matching shoulder bag, and wore white sandals with it. The slacks had a thin belt in the same lime green as the top. I LOVED that ensemble!

I could never wear a cropped top like again! 😂

Just saw the ABBA Journey show in London. Wow. What a trip back in time—to 1978. Lots of glitter.

I have always been grateful to my parents for having the good taste to conceive me in time for me to be a teenager in swinging London in the sixties -- the Beatles, the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, Carnaby Street, Mary Quant, mini skirts, peace marches (a lot of good they did).

A few years back I went to an exhibit of Mary Quant clothing and a lot of it would still be wearable today if it were at least 18 inches longer! But some of the fashions, like white lipstick, that we thought so cool then, really were just as terrible as my mother said at the time!

My crush was Cliff Richard, a very popular English singer in the 60s. In those days, schools had desks with flip-up lids in your home classroom, and I had his photo taped to the inside of mine.

You both should watch the Woody Allen movie "Midnight in Paris." It's about this sort of nostalgia. The main character visits Paris longing for the way it was in the 1920s. Then he gets swept into that life only to meet a woman who longs for what SHE sees as the real time of elegance and greatness, la Belle Epoch. So it's really about longing for the past you didn't get to live in, and by extension, longing for the life you're not living, whatever that may be. I'm not a Woody Allen fan in general, but this movie is great.

Being much older, I was on to more serious things when Andy Gibb and the like were performing. My coqueluche was the Mouseketeer Annette Funicello.

I loved Tom Selleck as Magnum! Had his poster on my door. He was FAR to old for me, too. Weird crush. I also wanted the Ferrari and the "lads" (dogs).

Hi, Kristi, I am a decade ahead of you so The Beatles were my heartthrob. I loved all of them and their heads of hair! I completely understand your and Jackie's love of vintage fashion. I still have a couple of my mother's beautifully styled and finely made coats with the designer labels or labels of high mark stores like I. Magnin or Neiman Marcus, etc. She and my grandmother did not dress up a lot, but each had a couple of really stunning and timeless coats. I still wear them to classical music concerts. My paternal grandmother doted on her three granddaughters and knitted each of us Mohair sweaters which were fashionable then. She also sewed Christmas and Easter outfits for us that were finely detailed. In particular I remember a green wool A-line dress whose lace collar and cuffs she died in tea to create an ecru color. She also made me an empire style wine-colored velvet dress with wine-colored tiny ruffled lace at the collar and cuffs for one winter holiday season. My paternal grandmother was a farm girl who made everything without a set of instructions, a YouTube video, and a support group. She was amazing! Merci pour l'espace dansquel je peux faire l'honneur à mes mémoires d'elle.

Bien Sur! Love this! I was raised in the 50s and have been through all music generations since the 40s. I, too, loved the BG's. One of my favorites, however, was the duet with Barbra Streisand, "GUILTY." I am so glad you were able to share this with your daughter. Music is a universal antidote so often. Continue to enjoy and LOVE your family as you do. Our world needs this and you. Jimm

"Midnight in Paris" is on my list of all-time favorite movies! I've watched it dozens of times over the years. Just might watch it tonight:)

He was fine, wasn't he?

Love your posts..................they are always thought-provoking.......

"When next I glimpsed Barry Gibb glowing like Jesus, my conscience spent 30 seconds trying to disassociate the doppelgängers."
Omg that's so funny. And true!

Andy Gibb, forgot about him. And these other comments. David Cassidy; that was the first time I owned headphones (I'm an audio producer now) and I remember sitting in a recliner with his album (yes, vinyl) playing, looking at his face on the cover, headphones piping "I think I love you." And don't even get me started about Tom Selleck. I was in Hawaii for the summer, 19 years old and he was already Magnum. My girlfriend and I swam around the jetty to access the private Waikiki Yacht club I think, where he was a member. We're sitting on our towels hoping for a sighting and he comes out of the water like Poseidan. He walked right by us and smiled, his deep tan and white teeth, and said, "Hi girls." All these decades later I remember it vividly.

Yes, Midnight in Paris is brilliant. Teresa does a great job of explaining its messsage.

I saw a tv program about the Bee Gees and their mother said she had 2 sets of twins: Robin and Maurice (who were real twins) and Barry and Andy, her eldest and youngest, but they were so alike, in looks and personalities, apparently, that they were more like twins.
I often wondered if he had joined his brothers as a Bee Gee later, how he would have developed. I loved "I just want to be your everything" and "Our Love (Don't Throw it all Away). HE had a daughter but I don't think she became a singer. RIP Andy.

Yes, Barry Gibb glowing like Jesus!

Wow--I feel really old. Growing up in the 50s, my heartthrob was Ricky Nelson.

My heartthrob was Paul McCartney. When the film Help! was released I was a Navy brat living in Japan. My best friend and I watched it repeatedly. For a school ski trip we had jackets made exactly like the ones Paul and George, her heartthrob, wore in the film. Still one of my all time favorites.

My coqueluche: Evil Kneevil. Well, not so much Evil, but his motorcycle!! I had his poster slapped on top of my mother's sparkly butterfly wallpaper in my tiny bedroom. I could hear the engine in my mind and actually asked my best friend's brother, Bruce, for a lesson. As Bruce watched helplessly, I drove his Yamaha right through the neighbor's fence! Evil Kneevil just represented wild freedom to me!!