Travel
Amazingly, I had the most memorable travel experience in the middle of this decade. In 1976, I spent a year in South Africa as a Rotary Exchange Student. Oh the joys I had and the fond memories of lots of aerogrammes (those little blue fold up letters), taking photos with a film camera then converted to slides and only one phone call home to my family for the whole year - on my birthday!
But what an experience, a completely different country, culture, school (the uniform was a bit of a throw-back to the English public school heritage) and language, albeit during the apartheid era!
Fashion of the 70s
I remember a couple of key fashion moments for me personally.
1974 end of year school social - hot pink & bright green floral long bibbed dress with hot pink blouse and amazing mutton-bone sleeves (thank you Mum). I certainly wasn't going to be missed!
At the end of the decade, 1979, working part-time in a over 25s night club (the irony of being 19 years old!), our uniform was another floor length black dress that was a little low cut for me, so I wore the 'on-trend' black choker with white flower to fill the void (so to speak).
Not sure what part of this decade I will take my party outfit from, but I hope this gives you some inspiration for yours.
Party Costumes
I am guessing most of you don't have a 70s outfit tucked away in your wardrobe, or do you? Anyway, I have repeated Peter's useful links from his blog to source 'costumes' from - very ABBA inspired.