Omlet cube and run

[freddie]

No Crimpelene here!!

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Crimplene does not fit with my mid life crisis....as I hope anyone who has seen me recently will confirm

[freddie]

Hell, Sha, what have you done? Not purple punk hair???

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Not purple....it's not quite so bright red tho lol x

[Geoid]

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

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Spot the babe coming to make us look silly

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is .

[Geoid]

Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is .

Some sort of polyester, used to make clothes.

[Space Chick]

Ah, but he probably doesn't know what crimplene is .

Some sort of polyester, used to make clothes.

 

Googled that did you Fred

[Geoid]

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!

[soapdragon]

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! )

[Purplemaniacs]

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

[Chook n Boo Mum]

Candlewick bedspreads and wood chip wallpaper....*cringe*..

[The Dogmother]

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!

[Alis girls]

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

[Yorkshire Pudding]

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....

[Alis girls]

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.

[Chortle Chook]

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?

[Yorkshire Pudding]

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....

[freddie]

Oh yes, I remember it well!!

Those were the days, eh, with the bri nylon sheets, and Jackie magazine!

[merlina]

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

[Chook n Boo Mum]

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

[Chortle Chook]

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

[Alis girls]

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