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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"My mother made me and my sisters look like the Ingle sisters of little house on the prarie and i had bright blue clogs at one point also."
blue clogs devastating hunny   |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My sister and I were dressed in the same clothes but different colours  and every outfit was finished off with knee high white socks which used to shrink in the wash! My whole childhood I was constantly hollered at to 'pull up your socks'  |
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"My younger sister and I looking like a pair of matching bookends ..... she was a year younger but the same size as me so we were dressed like twins. "
You think that's bad there is four years between me and my sister and we were dressed the same for special occasions or picture days.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I suppose duffle coats were a blessing, after all those crimplene school skirts or trousers held no heat in them ..... unless you were on a slide ..... then you burst into flames. |
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Me, David and my brother were given brown anoraks for Christmas....( ok...it was 42 years ago).....
What still haunts me is my brother(1year older)had a plain one...mine had that fuckin awful braid design around the hood and down to the bottom of the zip.....I was mortified...and it still makes me cringe to this day....
Oh ..the fucking shame..and in Tottenham.....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My younger sister and I looking like a pair of matching bookends ..... she was a year younger but the same size as me so we were dressed like twins.
You think that's bad there is four years between me and my sister and we were dressed the same for special occasions or picture days. "
Bummer if your hand-me-downs were exactly the same only bigger. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I suppose duffle coats were a blessing, after all those crimplene school skirts or trousers held no heat in them ..... unless you were on a slide ..... then you burst into flames. "
im crying with laughter here laine  brilliant |
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My grandma and great auntie used to knit our ponchos and cardigans and flaming balaclava type hats. My mum made our dresses and skirts, now for some unknown reason she used to only make them long enough to cover our knickers lol.
Theres a photo of myself and my sister in matching pinifore dresses with floral blouses underneath, my fat chubby legs hanging out the bottom and two coloured suede shoes.
My "party" frock was long and brown at the bottom and cream at the top.
My son paid i dont know how much this year for a coat from super dry and its identical to the bloody duffel coats we had to wear, grey ones for school. But we did have a best coat and our "best" winter outfit was always a tartan kilt like skirt and blouse with lacey white socks.
I always had fat chubby legs even when i wasnt fat lol |
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"I suppose duffle coats were a blessing, after all those crimplene school skirts or trousers held no heat in them ..... unless you were on a slide ..... then you burst into flames. "
I stood warming my arse in front of the fire and melted all my arse on my school skirt lololol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Me ma knitted me loopy bonnets in various colours and matching jackets for some too...oh the horror...
I hated Clarks shoes too but am eternally grateful to her for those now as I have been told I have beautiful feet... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Brown, orange and green were colours frequently seen together in all sorts of crazy patterns ..... like walking round in a mouldy pumpkin most of the time. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Brown, orange and green were colours frequently seen together in all sorts of crazy patterns ..... like walking round in a mouldy pumpkin most of the time. "
laine if you still have your duffle coat send it off to Terry from that dogging documentary ,the poor sod was freezing |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My mum knitted or sewed most of our clothes, and I am grateful I was born a girl ....... at least I didn't have to wear the short sleeved safari suits she made for my dad and little brother to wear on our holidays. hahahahaaa!!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Brown, orange and green were colours frequently seen together in all sorts of crazy patterns ..... like walking round in a mouldy pumpkin most of the time. laine if you still have your duffle coat send it off to Terry from that dogging documentary ,the poor sod was freezing "
.... was he the wee scone who got his wish of two women and didn't know what to do with them when he did?
I had an image of him on the sofa disappearing into the flesh pressing in on either side of him. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Brown, orange and green were colours frequently seen together in all sorts of crazy patterns ..... like walking round in a mouldy pumpkin most of the time. laine if you still have your duffle coat send it off to Terry from that dogging documentary ,the poor sod was freezing
.... was he the wee scone who got his wish of two women and didn't know what to do with them when he did?
I had an image of him on the sofa disappearing into the flesh pressing in on either side of him. "
that's the very chap |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"money was tight in our house (mark)so mam bought most of our clothes from the ex army and navt stores,3 terms I spent dressed as a Japanese admiral "
... ha! so! |
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"My legs were so thin my tights flapped in the wind ........ even with extra knee-high socks on underneath to make my pins look fatter. "
 , I had to do that! I got called Wednesday legs through high school!
When's dey goona snap! Hahaha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My legs were so thin my tights flapped in the wind ........ even with extra knee-high socks on underneath to make my pins look fatter.
, I had to do that! I got called Wednesday legs through high school!
When's dey goona snap! Hahaha "
Cruel cruel kids, I was told I had a great leg .... shame there was only one of them. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"I always remember my mum telling me my gran had made her a pair of trousers out of two sheepskin rugs. Fur on the inside. She must have been roasting! "
terry could wear them with laines duffle coat Sorted lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"I always remember my mum telling me my gran had made her a pair of trousers out of two sheepskin rugs. Fur on the inside. She must have been roasting! terry could wear them with laines duffle coat Sorted lol "
..... don't! am gonna have a tenna moment with laughing and coughing. |
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"I always remember my mum telling me my gran had made her a pair of trousers out of two sheepskin rugs. Fur on the inside. She must have been roasting! terry could wear them with laines duffle coat Sorted lol
..... don't! am gonna have a tenna moment with laughing and coughing. "
You wouldn't need tenna ladies with a pair of sheepskin trousers on. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Who begged their parents for clothes only to find poor mum and dad got it wrong when they did get something for you?
My colour changing t-shirt I begged them for must have been the only one that turned to a shitey colour, pals had lovely lilac to pink I had shite to shite. |
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"Who begged their parents for clothes only to find poor mum and dad got it wrong when they did get something for you?
My colour changing t-shirt I begged them for must have been the only one that turned to a shitey colour, pals had lovely lilac to pink I had shite to shite. "
I got one if them from bhs.
Did your parents go on about how they will be able to see if a boy has been putting their hands on you? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Who begged their parents for clothes only to find poor mum and dad got it wrong when they did get something for you?
My colour changing t-shirt I begged them for must have been the only one that turned to a shitey colour, pals had lovely lilac to pink I had shite to shite.
I got one if them from bhs.
Did your parents go on about how they will be able to see if a boy has been putting their hands on you? "
Did every girls parents tell her that? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"money was tight in our house (mark)so mam bought most of our clothes from the ex army and navt stores,3 terms I spent dressed as a Japanese admiral "
Ha ha ha ha |
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By *elisherMan
over a year ago
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i had hand ne downs from a well to do family in the village.
Every item had the sons name either written in inmdelible ink or sewn into them.
Infact I thought I was called David Briggs until I applied for a passport when I was 21: lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"money was tight in our house (mark)so mam bought most of our clothes from the ex army and navt stores,3 terms I spent dressed as a Japanese admiral
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Did you go to school with Les Dawson? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have laughed so much reading this. Thank you.
The only thing I can remember loathing is a pair of suede shorts my mum bought me in a jumble sale in the mid 70's. They didn't look too bad, but I went swimming in them and they stuck to me like wet chamois leathers and chaffed my thighs. All my friends took the piss for ages |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"money was tight in our house (mark)so mam bought most of our clothes from the ex army and navt stores,3 terms I spent dressed as a Japanese admiral
Did you go to school with Les Dawson? "
the old ones are the best ben |
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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago
MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire) |
oh good grief - where to start...?
Tartan was a strong contender, beige and burgundy are up there too...
My mam had an unkind habit of dressing me as a wee boy - until I was about 10 - and I mean short hair, trousers, waistcoats - the works - its a wonder I'm normal
I can remember kicking off in the local shop when some pish-scented, pandrop sucking, lavendered old dear "coochie-cooed" my cheeks, saying "what bonny dimples on a wee boy" - I got the hiding of my life for yelling "Im a GIRL" at the top of my voice lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Black plastic raincoat, looked like patent leather, with a belt that had an enormous shiny buckle. I must have looked like a five year old with a latex fetish. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"oh good grief - where to start...?
Tartan was a strong contender, beige and burgundy are up there too...
My mam had an unkind habit of dressing me as a wee boy - until I was about 10 - and I mean short hair, trousers, waistcoats - the works - its a wonder I'm normal
I can remember kicking off in the local shop when some pish-scented, pandrop sucking, lavendered old dear "coochie-cooed" my cheeks, saying "what bonny dimples on a wee boy" - I got the hiding of my life for yelling "Im a GIRL" at the top of my voice lol"
are you Jimmy Krankie's inspiration? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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My dear old mom used to make all my clothes and my sisters...
she was an expert seamstress in her day.
But they were all bloody flowered
We looked like little herbacious borders running around 
Oh and dont mention the lime green coat ...........shudders !!!  |
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I remember my snorkel coat, that coat saw some action! School trip to chessington zoo, got pelted with monkey poo, went to looe in cornwall, got out the car in the harbour and the seagulls turned it from blue to white in a matter of seconds |
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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago
MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire) |
"oh good grief - where to start...?
Tartan was a strong contender, beige and burgundy are up there too...
My mam had an unkind habit of dressing me as a wee boy - until I was about 10 - and I mean short hair, trousers, waistcoats - the works - its a wonder I'm normal
I can remember kicking off in the local shop when some pish-scented, pandrop sucking, lavendered old dear "coochie-cooed" my cheeks, saying "what bonny dimples on a wee boy" - I got the hiding of my life for yelling "Im a GIRL" at the top of my voice lol
are you Jimmy Krankie's inspiration? "
hahaha, i didn't have red hair then - and only being born in 1977, I think me and the krankies were about the same time so not sure who influenced who lol |
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By *adybee77Woman
over a year ago
MAMOBA, miles and miles of bugger all (Aberdeenshire) |
and mittens with strings - theres a billy connolly sketch about them, and the hairy arsed wool used to knit jumpers! Always makes me laugh - and I have never given my weeman mittens on a string for that reason lol |
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