Retro hamper for mum.... were any of you born in the 60s or 70s? Help :)

A question about : Retro hamper for mum.... were any of you born in the 60s or 70s? Help :)

Hi

I want to make my mum a hamper relating to things when she was younger. She was born in 1964. I know that she used to buy Jackie magazine, and she used to like David Cassidy as a teen but thats as far as my knowledge goes!

I dont want to ask her and ruin the suprise but can anyone else give me any idea of what she probably had as a youngster, what the trends were and what teenagers liked? Maybe chocolate bars or sweets or something?

Thanks in advance

Best answers:

• As far as chocolate bars/sweets suggestions they are still around but some have changed their names:Marathon to Snickers;Opal Fruits to Starburst.Try getting Cola Cubes, Parma Violets,Pineapple Chunks; rhubarb and custard; cherry lips,a liquorice root!!; Black jacks and fruit salad.
  A dvd of Bagpuss or the Clangers
• Black jacks and fruit salads.
  Matchmakers chocolates (only mint, coffee, orange in the early days)
• https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/retro_sweet_hampers.php
  have a look there for ideas - bit pricy but I'm sure you could find stuff & do your own
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_in_British_television tv in 1964 & I think it may have been in black & white
  I think there is a Jackie compilation CD that has music from the time on it..
  try amazon/play/ebay...
  Just google 1964/1970's & clothes/food/sweets etc & you'll get the right kind of stuff...
• BROWN AND ORANGE EVERYTHING!
  Another popular mag was 'Fab 208' it had brilliantly 'of the time' fashion and pop spreads - might be able to find some of the mags or annuals on ebay.
  Pen Pal pages in the back of magazines - with everyone's full name and address details!!!
  DRINKS
  Shandy Bass was a popular canned drink which I think you can still buy, and anyone remember 'Cydrax'
  Red Martini and lemonade, Cinzano, Cream Sherry, Advocaat, Mint cordial, Bitter lemon, Mateus Rose and Chianti if you can find one in a straw covered bottle.
  TOYS
  You might be able to find small toys like Jacks,
  yo-yo's or Fivestones if you look hard enough.
  Hula hoops were a big craze, also Spacehoppers and 'Clackers' which you could make yourself - two hard plastic balls on a string.
  Pencil Toppers shaped like fruit & veg with legs and faces
  FOOD
  Angel Delight
  SPAM FRITTERS! - I got a novelty Spam recipe book as a gift a few years ago - they might still sell it.
  Duck a l'orange, peach melba, prawn cocktail, rum baba, moussaka, cheese & pineapple on sticks stuck in a foil covered half grapefruit, stuffed olives, vol au vents, Findus Crispy Pancakes, Alphabetti-Spagetti, tinned fruit cocktail with tinned sterilised cream
  CLOTHES/ACCESSORIES
  Long multicoloured stripey socks and legwarmers.
  Large numbers of badges on everything - retro ones are quite easy to find.
  Zip up front crimplene jumpsuits with flares and big collars, tank tops,
  stripey elastic belts with snake shaped metal buckles,
  big, fat, Moustaches and dodgy toupees, very thin gold belts and strappy gold sandals, clogs and platforms.
  SWEETS
  Flakes, Curly Wurlys and Fry's Chocolate Turkish Delight, sherbert pips, space dust, sherbert fountains, swizzles
  MUSIC
  Donny Osmond, Glam Rock, Bay City Rollers, Teenyboppers, Fan Clubs,
  Northern soul dancing
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ygo4FbVluI
  Giant badges saying "I [heart] (insert popstar of choice) were very popular, as were scarves with popstars name on.
  BEAUTY
  Perfumes - 'Tweed' and 'Charlie' - Tesco still sell Charlie for a fiver and it smells quite nice.
  Anne French cleansing milk https://www.boots.com/en/Anne-French-...egory+-+Beauty
  Shaving your arms, as well as your legs!, Body/face Glitter
  long, very pointed, fingernails, blue and green eyeshadow, spikey lashes, skinny pencilled eyebrows, solid block mascara, lipgloss in roll-on containers, crimped hair, hair elastics with plastic balls on, circular tortoiseshell hair clips
  KNICK-KNACKS
  Tacky souvenirs from Spain and Greece - flamenco dolls, donkeys with straw hats on, Spanish lace fans.
  Straw covered Chianti bottles made into table lamps
  12" vinyl records heated and formed into fruit bowls
  Look in Charity Shops, online, or make your own
  TV
  You should be able to find DVDs ofsome of these:, The Partridge Family, Tomorrow People, Magpie, Charlies Angels, Some Mothers D 'Ave 'Em, Department S/Jason King, Man about the House, The Herbs, Magic Roundabout, The Hair Bear Bunch, Banana Splits, Dr Who, Blakes 7,
  Plus, incredibly disturbing 'Public Information Films'
  https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/f.../filmindex.htm
  I can particularly recommend 'Lonely Water', the 'Charleycat' series and the highly nasty 'Protect and Survive - casualties'
  Alas, the Green Cross Code one with Alvin Stardust isn't on this site but you can find it on Youtube
• Were those pencil toppers to do with the Munch Bunch? I had some years ago.
• Soap on a rope
• Holly hobbie was a big design in the seventies. There are shopping list to do pads on amazon Ј4.25.
• OK a few more ideas. Can you find a nice photo of her as a teen, maybe with her best friend or her parents. You could then get this put on a mug, coaster etc at a photo shop.
  Does she have a favourite animal? If so look for it as a Wade Whimsey ornament on ebay. Everyone collected them in the seventies.
  Flower fairies were also a popular book, motive I've spotted a 2015 calander but you may spot a better retro calander.
  A rubix cube (but I think she may have missed this phase as four years older than me.
  A filofax, bet she had one of these. Maybe a mini one just for notes and addresses if she is now a slave to her phone like most people.
  David Cassidy is touring next year is this a possibility?
  Fingerless gloves
  Impulse body spray (i think the original scent was musk maybe white musk)
• I like this site- you might get a few ideas from here
• sorry I`ll try that again!
  https://www.sweetandnostalgic.co.uk/L...ortDirection=0
• Thank You so much for all the replies.... i will spend today hunting some of these down!! There are some really good ideas!!!!
• Red and white striped drinking straws! Watch out, there's a Humphrey about!
• I have at least 1 maybe 2 Jackie comics from the late 70's you would be welcome to if you like? I collect retro/vintage items and had them in a job lot of Beano comics.
  Inbox me if they're any use to you
• DH and I were talking a few days ago and sweets from the 70's and mentioned the tools shaped from chocolate - well, looking thru' a C'mas mag last night and saw Tesco has a set in a little box for only Ј1!!!
  Also, just thought about a little crafting idea - pages from old annuals or comics collaged / pasted onto a lap tray or similar then sealed with PVA glue for a unique gift.
• Try charity shops for original annuals - Jackie and Fab 208 were the main ones.
  Donny Osmond has a new album out this week called The Soundtrack of my |Life covering his last 50 years in the music biz- that might work. Having seen David Cassidy perform live fairly recently I'd probably stick to the memory of him in his heyday rather than get tickets for his tour.
  How about a dancing flower ?