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I don't remember people being smelly either.......could it be because we wore natural fabrics, clothes made out of cotton and wool ?
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I don't remember people being smelly either.......could it be because we wore natural fabrics, clothes made out of cotton and wool ?
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I don't remember people being smelly either.......could it be because we wore natural fabrics, clothes made out of cotton and wool ?
I bet your Beetle Crushers were fresh
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One of the most comments I hear from people is that shoes/trainers now make their feet stink no matter what they wear, even more expensive stuff.
I bet your Beetle Crushers were fresh ![]() I remember shorts, shirts, jumpers, jammies, snake belts, woolly socks, windcheaters, balaclavas etc........but I can't remember what kind of shoes we wore...... ![]() I remember wearing wellies in the snow though......
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I've got a bit of a blind spot with shoes.
I remember shorts, shirts, jumpers, jammies, snake belts, woolly socks, windcheaters, balaclavas etc........but I can't remember what kind of shoes we wore...... ![]() I remember wearing wellies in the snow though...... ![]() |
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I've got a bit of a blind spot with shoes.
I remember shorts, shirts, jumpers, jammies, snake belts, woolly socks, windcheaters, balaclavas etc........but I can't remember what kind of shoes we wore...... ![]() I remember wearing wellies in the snow though...... ![]() ![]() Swing, it is never wellies, it is Wellybobs I remember duffle coats, gaberdine macs the heavy make blazer when going to secondary and having to have a winter hat and a summer boater Shine I sound like I went to a private school, which I did of course That's why I talk so posh innit
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Clarkes lace ups for school. Black. Clarkes sandals. A pair of plimsoles and a pair of wellies. That was my feet covered annually for years.
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I think Timpsons was the main shoe shop in our town......
I remember Gaberdines......and plastic macs ! |
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It was the pumps that did it, I was barefoot
![]() putting on wet shoes in the morning and finding the newspaper stuffed in the toes that mum had put there to dry them . Sand shoes were for sports day.
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I think Timpsons was the main shoe shop in our town......
I remember Gaberdines......and plastic macs ! |
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Do you mean the infamous "packamac"
that was the main brand of them clear thin see-through plastic that you could roll up and stick in your pocket........
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I think Timpsons was the main shoe shop in our town......
I remember Gaberdines......and plastic macs ! How about those plastic buckled shoes for the beach? |
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I lived in the wilds of a remote Scottish island. Red rings round my legs from wet wellies slapping my legs as I walked 3 miles to school .
putting on wet shoes in the morning and finding the newspaper stuffed in the toes that mum had put there to dry them . Sand shoes were for sports day. ![]() ![]() That said whilst growing up the countryside was on our doorstep, it's still not to far away but not a walk as it was. Quote:
I think Timpsons was the main shoe shop in our town......
I remember Gaberdines......and plastic macs ! ![]() Duffle coats were the best, they never dried out, you'd go to school the next day still damp
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I don't remember people being smelly either.......could it be because we wore natural fabrics, clothes made out of cotton and wool ?
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I am now really very jealous Benji as that would be my dream.
![]() That said whilst growing up the countryside was on our doorstep, it's still not to far away but not a walk as it was. ![]() Duffle coats were the best, they never dried out, you'd go to school the next day still damp ![]()
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Duffle coats were the best, they never dried out, you'd go to school the next day still damp
![]() I wore it a couple of weeks ago on a freezing cold day........it's my warmest coat/jacket.....
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and a bit whiffy
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I've still got my duffle coat that I bought in 1970 (from Millets) when I left home for college
I wore it a couple of weeks ago on a freezing cold day........it's my warmest coat/jacket..... ![]()
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It was not the whiffy that was really bad, just the bloody weight of your duffle coat that brought you to your knees
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Swing, you have to try to do the Canterbury Meet in August and bring it with you
![]() ![]() ![]() but I've given up on all that meeting malarkey.......
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My most vivid sensual memory of childhood is how much I hated the cold. Getting out of bed in the cold winters of the 70s was hell. Our bedrooms weren't heated unless we were ill and there was linoleum or oil cloth or something on the floor - glossy laminate material - no rugs - and it felt like stepping out of bed into an ice rink. To immediate teeth chattering and great shivers.
I don't remember people having body odour though, except for the smell of groups of children at school after it had been raining. We didn't have baths daily always as children but it was certainly expected for adults and teens to have a daily strip wash and we had clean clothes, fresh underwear and (us children) socks daily - I remember thinking it was terrible to wear socks for two days in a row, on a very rare occasion when I had to. I would say with less heat around at home in the winter, people sweated less and their skin pores were more closed, so they probably didn't produce the amount of odour people do in centrally heated winter homes today. In summer my family did wash a lot more, you certainly kept an eye on how much you were sweating. |
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