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

[@bugandbay]

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]

@@bugandbay No skirting around that subject, then!

[@tommymurphy459]

Good man Les Dawson... 😂

[@jasonayres]

Time now for "Carry On Nationwide"

[@robbflynn4325]

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

[@ajs41]

The colour version wouldn't look so old.

[@maxwellfan55]

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

[@Kolbia__]

Love the sense of humour from everybody here aha

[@hilaryepstein6013]

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]

Now this is quality content.

[@MichaelBennett1]

Welcome to lech HQ.

[@lewis7515]

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

[@tommymurphy459]

In 1970's BBC? Never! 😄

[@leeavalondick9531]

Ronnie Pickering's father?

[@Czechbound]

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

[@nellyfett2681]

This is brilliant on so many levels!

[@eddie12454]

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

[@ChorizoCentauri]

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

[@scroggins100]

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

[@melgrant7404]

They were great.

[@BaronQ]

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

[@TomNook.]

As it should be

[@galaga9309]

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

[@secondchance6603]

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

[@brandywell44]

Around this time the Maxi came into fashion

[@ade1963]

How the world has changed

[@primalconvoy]

For the better.

[@dogbreaththe3rd851]

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

[@sharpvidtube]

@@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]

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

[@raycarter4030]

the past is another country.

[@richardjones8699]

A better Country.

[@sleepyheadsleeps]

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

[@stressballer]

These days, some of them do.

[@forgottensage-o5o]

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

[@andywatts8654]

That would show a lot of balls

[@gabeh7923]

They do in Scotland..sort of.

[@maxwellfan55]

Good for elephant impersonasions.

[@Felixturner8633]

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]

You can not be talking about the 70s 😂

[@Felixturner8633]

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

[@hopebgood]

@@Felixturner8633 Homophobic bs

[@JohnSmith-zq9mo]

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

[@Cameraman61]

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

[@elcapitanobeige7357]

Hmm, very demure, very mindful

[@4seeableTV]

Those blokes were downright frothing for the Mini.

[@gabeh7923]

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]

@@gabeh7923 They look great on men too

[@secondchance6603]

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

[@AngelDelight69]

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

[@djdrwatson]

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]

We have naked attraction on TV now 😂😂

[@primalconvoy]

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

[@dogbreaththe3rd851]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@lewis7515]

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]

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]

Should be made compulsory.

[@JJONNYREPP]

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]

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

[@glamnesianouveaux2039]

How camp!

[@newportsunnyjen]

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]

Gee golly, I wonder what changed

[@nickbumble2240]

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]

@@nickbumble2240 are you per chance melanated and unhappy?

[@OliverACoventry]

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

[@OliverACoventry]

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

[@forgottensage-o5o]

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]

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

[@siliconknights]

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

[@primalconvoy]

Except we don't.

[@dogbreaththe3rd851]

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

[@visorcover]

@@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]

eww

[@secondchance6603]

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

[@sarahlouise7163]

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]

But legs apart, what's Amanda like?

[@TomNook.]

Exactly! Somebody please think of the men 😅

[@mbee1584]

This is creepy and weird

[@secondchance6603]

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]

Funny how they have a man presenting the item. WTF

[@dogbreaththe3rd851]

If you want a job doing properly........

[@stephfoxwell4620]

Too many links to the transatlantic slave trade.

[@andywatts8654]

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

[@Pyappers]

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

[@primalconvoy]

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

[@hopebgood]

@@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]

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

[@Dr.D00p]

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

[@Onhere6381]

So wrong in so many ways!

[@Scott_Finch]

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]

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

[@samgirls]

Creepy and condescending.