1970: Should we SAVE the MINISKIRT? | Nationwide | BBC Archive

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  • @bugandbay
    @bugandbay Місяць тому +41

    I asked the wife which she preferred, a mini, midi or maxi,
    Her response was “get any size skip you want just get that garage & garden cleared of all your rubbish”.
    How times have changed 😮

    • @jasonayres
      @jasonayres Місяць тому +10

      @@bugandbay No skirting around that subject, then!

    • @tommymurphy459
      @tommymurphy459 Місяць тому

      Good man Les Dawson... 😂

  • @jasonayres
    @jasonayres Місяць тому +11

    Time now for "Carry On Nationwide"

  • @robbflynn4325
    @robbflynn4325 Місяць тому +19

    Wow. Seems like a completely different age. I guess it was.

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Місяць тому

      The colour version wouldn't look so old.

  • @maxwellfan55
    @maxwellfan55 Місяць тому +8

    He was right about miniskirted dollies with "fat, ugly legs" though. This conversation is so chic!

  • @Kolbia__
    @Kolbia__ Місяць тому +15

    Love the sense of humour from everybody here aha

  • @hilaryepstein6013
    @hilaryepstein6013 Місяць тому +10

    The battle of the sexes 1970 style, funnily enough the same year as the first Women's Liberation conference. Lee Bender was the owner of Bus Stop, one of those shops I so wanted to be old enough to shop in as young teenager in the 70s. She died in 2023 aged 90.

  • @TinLeadHammer
    @TinLeadHammer Місяць тому +13

    Now this is quality content.

  • @MichaelBennett1
    @MichaelBennett1 Місяць тому +17

    Welcome to lech HQ.

    • @lewis7515
      @lewis7515 Місяць тому

      "....How many I grope you?"

    • @tommymurphy459
      @tommymurphy459 Місяць тому

      In 1970's BBC? Never! 😄

  • @leeavalondick9531
    @leeavalondick9531 Місяць тому +3

    Ronnie Pickering's father?

  • @Czechbound
    @Czechbound Місяць тому +4

    "It's funny 'cause it's sexist", Ricky Gervais

  • @nellyfett2681
    @nellyfett2681 Місяць тому

    This is brilliant on so many levels!

  • @eddie12454
    @eddie12454 Місяць тому +2

    Mini, midi? Give me them anytime compared to ripped jeans. ❤

  • @ChorizoCentauri
    @ChorizoCentauri Місяць тому +2

    What the hell just happened?
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
    This was broadcast TV
    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @scroggins100
    @scroggins100 Місяць тому +4

    All I can remember is the horror of the white plastic boots!

  • @BaronQ
    @BaronQ Місяць тому +2

    Even the regional accents are dripping with RP.... 🤣

    • @TomNook.
      @TomNook. Місяць тому +2

      As it should be

  • @galaga9309
    @galaga9309 Місяць тому +17

    You know life was good when these were the important headlines of the day.

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 Місяць тому +1

      I like how simple the weather chart was at the start lol.

  • @brandywell44
    @brandywell44 Місяць тому +2

    Around this time the Maxi came into fashion

  • @ade1963
    @ade1963 Місяць тому +4

    How the world has changed

    • @primalconvoy
      @primalconvoy Місяць тому +3

      For the better.

    • @dogbreaththe3rd851
      @dogbreaththe3rd851 Місяць тому +4

      @@primalconvoy Not in the slightest - everything is worse ...

    • @sharpvidtube
      @sharpvidtube Місяць тому +3

      @@dogbreaththe3rd851 Some things are worse, some are better. I don't think men can be honest now, but at least the ones that are too hands on can be dealt with.

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 Місяць тому

      @@sharpvidtube Yeah, and women can cry (r) ape and get a male jailed even when it never happened because... 'believe all women'.

  • @raycarter4030
    @raycarter4030 Місяць тому +14

    the past is another country.

  • @sleepyheadsleeps
    @sleepyheadsleeps Місяць тому +30

    the men should wear mini skirts if they like them so much.

    • @stressballer
      @stressballer Місяць тому +10

      These days, some of them do.

    • @forgottensage-o5o
      @forgottensage-o5o Місяць тому +2

      Their parts would hang out and I don't think you'd like that.

    • @andywatts8654
      @andywatts8654 Місяць тому +5

      That would show a lot of balls

    • @gabeh7923
      @gabeh7923 Місяць тому

      They do in Scotland..sort of.

    • @maxwellfan55
      @maxwellfan55 Місяць тому

      Good for elephant impersonasions.

  • @Felixturner8633
    @Felixturner8633 Місяць тому +7

    Back when people spoke more eloquently. More class in their overall demeanor as well. This sort of thing wouldn’t even be crass in the modern day.

    • @17thcentury_girl
      @17thcentury_girl Місяць тому +2

      You can not be talking about the 70s 😂

    • @Felixturner8633
      @Felixturner8633 Місяць тому

      @@17thcentury_girl Yeah the modern day is totally more eloquent with pride parades of men flinging their willies around in front of children

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood Місяць тому

      @@Felixturner8633 Homophobic bs

  • @JohnSmith-zq9mo
    @JohnSmith-zq9mo Місяць тому

    Fun story. I think it was all in good humour.

  • @Cameraman61
    @Cameraman61 Місяць тому +4

    Demure, intelligent, attractive ladies; guys all well-dressed and laconic. How I miss those days.

  • @elcapitanobeige7357
    @elcapitanobeige7357 Місяць тому +4

    Hmm, very demure, very mindful

  • @4seeableTV
    @4seeableTV Місяць тому +6

    Those blokes were downright frothing for the Mini.

    • @gabeh7923
      @gabeh7923 Місяць тому

      Sorry, but mini skirts look absolutely hot on women. They showcase a woman's legs and calves very nicely. If this makes me sound sexist, so be it I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm attracted to women with nice looking legs and calves.

    • @AngelDelight69
      @AngelDelight69 Місяць тому

      @@gabeh7923 They look great on men too

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 Місяць тому

      @@AngelDelight69 No man would wear a mini skirt, though I can't say the same for the ones in the 'rainbow' community.

    • @AngelDelight69
      @AngelDelight69 Місяць тому

      @@secondchance6603 A lot of men do. Straight or not.

  • @djdrwatson
    @djdrwatson Місяць тому +19

    Wow! This was slightly awkward viewing, all the blokes now come across as being dirty old men. Everything was more 'nudge nudge, wink wink' back then. Can you imagine such a debate like this on TV now? 😱

    • @williambinions4205
      @williambinions4205 Місяць тому +8

      We have naked attraction on TV now 😂😂

    • @primalconvoy
      @primalconvoy Місяць тому

      No, because most of those men would lose their jobs and/or their companies would go bust.

    • @dogbreaththe3rd851
      @dogbreaththe3rd851 Місяць тому +7

      Only awkward, I suspect, if you are a gay man or a feminist - real men don't think in the way that you believe.

    • @GhastlyCretin
      @GhastlyCretin Місяць тому +1

      It's just that men were allowed to admit that they were physically attracted to women then. Oddly, now we shouldn't admit it and yet girls walk around in leggings so tight that it literally might as well be body paint.

    • @djdrwatson
      @djdrwatson Місяць тому +10

      @@dogbreaththe3rd851 I am neither. This video is 54 years ago and times and attitudes change.
      For a bit of fun, why don't you go up to some women or girls wearing long skirts and ask them to show us their legs (3:02). Tell them that you'd much prefer them to wear a mini skirt instead. Also explain to them that 'real men don't think in the way that you believe'. Report back how you get on. It would be a useful update to this video.

  • @BaronQ
    @BaronQ Місяць тому +1

    This is hilarious, wrong and right all at the same time! "And who could blane them" 🤣

  • @lewis7515
    @lewis7515 Місяць тому +4

    Oh, Lord: 6:25 - Anne Tennyson went on an attack mission to absolutely roast Lee Bender's design sensibility - as if she'd been waiting to ambush that hoighty-toighty bish, for weeks!
    She just would not let it go - after being told that her colour choices appeared so unimaginatively predictable and stifling, Bender's face turned into a picture of suppressed resentment and seething fury! You could see her chest continue to rise and fall just a little too quickly, for the rest of her time on screen..."Terribly dull!"😂
    I was so amused, I looked Bender, up.
    She was really quite significant in the fashion world, apparently - no wonder she took exception. She died in 2023 at age 90, so that part isn't so funny. Bless her.

  • @andydixon2980
    @andydixon2980 Місяць тому +12

    Mini or not, at least young women looked more classy and stylish than alot do these days. The fashion now seems to be very tight leggings that reveal much more than the mini skirt did, and sometimes this is very unpleasant to see.

  • @76ToneCrome
    @76ToneCrome Місяць тому +17

    Should be made compulsory.

    • @JJONNYREPP
      @JJONNYREPP Місяць тому

      1970: Should we SAVE the MINISKIRT? | Nationwide | BBC Archive 0813am 26.9.24 like abortion, y' mean...?even for men!!! such was the placard i saw. save clothes i feel is the point, though..... its so easy to be read as being a sexist pig dog but sometimes i feel too lazy to even bother trynna fght the assumption that i am.... ah, well. ladies discussing men and their faults is no new thing. i dont think this is in anyway demeaning to the female per se... it's body talk. clobber chat. and makes the fashion houses of london excited. i am sure lots of car crashes have been avoided due to the maxi. not so elevator disasters, though...mid 20's? they look 40!!!

    • @BadgerBotherer1
      @BadgerBotherer1 Місяць тому +1

      Not with all the obese people around today, thank you.

  • @glamnesianouveaux2039
    @glamnesianouveaux2039 Місяць тому

    How camp!

  • @newportsunnyjen
    @newportsunnyjen Місяць тому +37

    Women were safer on the streets of Britain back then! My nan used to walk the high streets alone without a problem. Not anymore! 😢😢

    • @meistereder9135
      @meistereder9135 Місяць тому +21

      Gee golly, I wonder what changed

    • @nickbumble2240
      @nickbumble2240 Місяць тому +10

      Maybe your nan can't walk at all any more? How old was she in 1970? Why let the facts get in the way of your dog whistle comment though 🙄

    • @meistereder9135
      @meistereder9135 Місяць тому

      @@nickbumble2240 are you per chance melanated and unhappy?

    • @OliverACoventry
      @OliverACoventry Місяць тому +15

      @@meistereder9135Mass migration of people with an even more misogynistic culture

    • @OliverACoventry
      @OliverACoventry Місяць тому +4

      @@nickbumble2240”dogwhistle” comment. Love when leftists invent stupid semantics 😂

  • @forgottensage-o5o
    @forgottensage-o5o Місяць тому +2

    Short skirts only look good on young women. After 33 or so, women's knees start to sag and it really shows in those short skirts. It's the reason why I still wear shorts past my knees as a man.

  • @andrewneill4279
    @andrewneill4279 Місяць тому

    Hilarious! Lee Bender!!! At least three bald men. Really?

  • @siliconknights
    @siliconknights Місяць тому +15

    "women folk"
    we need to use language like this again

    • @primalconvoy
      @primalconvoy Місяць тому +6

      Except we don't.

    • @dogbreaththe3rd851
      @dogbreaththe3rd851 Місяць тому +4

      @@primalconvoy You may not, I certainly do ... I am also very fond of the term "the distaff side"

    • @visorcover
      @visorcover Місяць тому

      @@primalconvoy You seem to be the type who wants to compel what people say and what words are used. Sound like a bit of a dick to be honest.

  • @corablanchard2240
    @corablanchard2240 Місяць тому +2

    eww

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 Місяць тому

      Guess you've never heard of Instagram or Only fans huh?

  • @sarahlouise7163
    @sarahlouise7163 Місяць тому +4

    got to feel sorry for the men, really. years of being able to appreciate a nice leg, suddenly snatched away 😆
    they really did make beautiful boots back then. modern equivalents just not as well designed, and lack that certain fit

    • @tommymurphy459
      @tommymurphy459 Місяць тому

      But legs apart, what's Amanda like?

    • @TomNook.
      @TomNook. Місяць тому

      Exactly! Somebody please think of the men 😅

  • @mbee1584
    @mbee1584 Місяць тому +11

    This is creepy and weird

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 Місяць тому

      Really? Have you seen what they wear these days? and don't get me started on their Instagram and Only Whor... oops... Fans videos/pictures.

  • @NZExperience
    @NZExperience Місяць тому +3

    Funny how they have a man presenting the item. WTF

  • @stephfoxwell4620
    @stephfoxwell4620 Місяць тому

    Too many links to the transatlantic slave trade.

    • @andywatts8654
      @andywatts8654 Місяць тому +1

      ?!? What are you talking about?!
      Perhaps you mean the abolition of the slave trade

  • @Pyappers
    @Pyappers Місяць тому +12

    The good old days. When we could pronounce our enjoyment of the female form.

    • @primalconvoy
      @primalconvoy Місяць тому +1

      "We" being misogynistic, dirty old men? You can do that now, but only from the safety of your 4Chan account, right?

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood Місяць тому +1

      @@primalconvoy I grew up in the 70's and thought all the silly sexist tv (mainly the sad sitcoms) had to change. When I went to work in the 80's most of my managers were women. I was fine with it but there were some frustrated old sods that really resented women being the boss. I just thought they were sad dinosaurs - a bit like most of the people commenting on this video.

    • @secondchance6603
      @secondchance6603 Місяць тому

      @@hopebgood We get it, your still waiting to get laid.

  • @Dr.D00p
    @Dr.D00p Місяць тому +7

    From a time when it was still OK to be a man....

  • @Onhere6381
    @Onhere6381 Місяць тому +1

    So wrong in so many ways!

  • @Scott_Finch
    @Scott_Finch Місяць тому

    In my opinion, Nationwide proved to be superior to the One Show, as the latter appears to be a modernised iteration of NW, albeit lacking the original charm.

    • @davidkmatthews
      @davidkmatthews Місяць тому

      The Test Card is superior to The One Show! ;-)

  • @samgirls
    @samgirls Місяць тому +1

    Creepy and condescending.