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When a tenner bought you Biba and a shared bedroom

A glimpse inside The Biba Story exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London.
A glimpse inside The Biba Story exhibition at the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. Photograph: Dave Benett/Getty

I was that secretary who earned £10 a week (Microminis, Twiggy and flamingos: the ‘fabulous’ story of Biba, 22 March). I bought those £3 dresses and had just enough to pay my rent in a shared bedroom in, at that time, unfashionable Notting Hill Gate. The material was often thick and the armholes tight, so you could only wear the dresses a few times before buying another one. Dry cleaning was too expensive. I still have a few Biba pieces.
Lynn Wiseman
Lewes, East Sussex

• Every year you do an excellent festival guide. But almost every year you miss out the country’s most affordable, family-friendly, beautifully sited one. Purbeck Valley folk festival has dance, crafts, fancy dress, therapies, choir, storytelling, pyrotechnics and four days of the best music.
Moira Nunn
Bristol

• I sympathise with Ian Garner (Letters, 25 March) over Google’s response to a query about an orange-breasted bird. Worried about the placement of my new telly, I Googled “wall hung TV over chimney breasts”. I was at work, and the well-hung results could have got me fired.
Mary Kelly
Belfast

• The risk of splitting the anti-Tory vote is dire (Letters, 26 March). I’ve decided not to vote for Keir Starmer – but, having read your interview with Angela Rayner (24 March), I’ll vote for her.
Alison Leonard
Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire

• I’ve followed the mighty Spurs for 75 years. We’re all over the world (Letters, 25 March). COYS!
Anne Spragg
Swinford, County Mayo, Ireland

• Do you have a photograph you’d like to share with Guardian readers? If so, please click here to upload it. A selection will be published in our Readers’ best photographs galleries and in the print edition on Saturdays.

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