freddie Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 No Crimpelene here!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Crimplene does not fit with my mid life crisis....as I hope anyone who has seen me recently will confirm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddie Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Hell, Sha, what have you done? Not purple punk hair??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Not purple....it's not quite so bright red tho lol x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 You get the names of new technology wrong... 9. Can we all just agree to ignore whatever comes after Blue Ray? I don’t want to have to restart my collection…again. It's blu-ray, not blue ray Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Spot the babe coming to make us look silly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is . Some sort of polyester, used to make clothes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Chick Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is . Some sort of polyester, used to make clothes. Googled that did you Fred Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoid Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is . Some sort of polyester, used to make clothes. Googled that did you Fred Of course not! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soapdragon Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Ahhh, but its the IMPLICATIONS of crimplene - almost the same as candle wick! (I used to have a candlewick bedspread and loved picking the tufts out of it until Mother shouted at me! - by which time it was virtually bare but I found it very therapeutic! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 Ahhh, but its the IMPLICATIONS of crimplene - almost the same as candle wick! (I used to have a candlewick bedspread and loved picking the tufts out of it until Mother shouted at me! - by which time it was virtually bare but I found it very therapeutic! ) I had a candlewick bedspread too I do things that remind me of my late Mum too, like checking the doors are locked more than once Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Candlewick bedspreads and wood chip wallpaper....*cringe*.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 Carpet in the middle and polished wood around the edges..... Dressing in front of a 2-bar fire in the winter Frost on the inside of windows! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 No crimplene here yet - still denim however I have the grumpy old lady mentality today as I am cross with a work colleague. Candlewick - yes remember it well and nylon sheets - YUCK I was static for hours after getting up due to those sheets my mum loved so much. You could have run a lamp from me. Poor fred missed out on a treat with crimplene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I had Crimplene outfits as a child - some of the dresses were a-line and would stand up on their own if you balanced them just right. I well remember turquoise Crimplene trouser suit my grandma made me - flared trousers with triangle inserts in the seams, and a jacket with long collars and an embroidered strawberry patch on the top pocket.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Our grans must have been sisters YP - also bias binding - wiggly stuff to decorate clothes etc. Poor Fred must be totally flummoxed by now. Coco Chanel eat yer heat out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 You can tell my age by the fact that when I see how people dance nowadays I feel glad that I never had to use that much energy in the days when I went to night clubs. Golly but was our dancing staid Elbows neatly tucked into sides. Anyone remember? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 I was too young to be out dancing- but a friend tells me that tucked in elbows were essential if you didn't want to fall off your platform shoes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddie Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Oh yes, I remember it well!! Those were the days, eh, with the bri nylon sheets, and Jackie magazine! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merlina Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Brentford Nylons! My mother loved nylon so much she bought shares in the company. Nylon, she believed, liberated us all from the tyranny of cotton - drying it, ironing it etc etc. I had slidey nylon nighties on slidey nylon sheets; and then an 'oh so modern' brushed nylon duvet cover. My dad wore the latest new-fangled 'drip dry' nylon shirts. My mother wore a range of nylon dresses. Crimplene was for 'old ladies' - my nan had a range of crimplene suits and and 'frocks'. I am left with an abiding loathing for all things nylon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chook n Boo Mum Posted April 8, 2013 Share Posted April 8, 2013 Oh my days.....Jackie magazine .....and corkscrew perms....and massive Relax tshirts with leggings or drainpipe jeans and pixie boots....or was that just me Yup, nylon sheets.....and nighties....and the most awful red flared trouser suit.....and the associated static shocks The wiggly stuff stitched onto everything was ricrac http://www.craftyribbons.com/shop_ric_rac-76.aspx...sorry don't know how to do whizzy links...mum made lots of our clothes...ricrac and bias binding were everywhere....and outfits to perfectly match my little sister! I was later told this was so she never had to wear my handmedowns...right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chortle Chook Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 Jackie magazine - ah we were so sweet As for nylon I so lurved my pink nylon nightie that had a sort of under shift part and then a transparent over part with little pink embroidered flowers around the neckline. I even had a dressing gown to match and used to play about 'wafting' up and down stairs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alis girls Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 I still attempt wafting up the stairs - usually trip or the a cat chases my dressing gown cord and nearly floors me/ My mum too loved Brentford nylons. I have an aversion to anything crackly static and synthetic. Hard times Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
