Suits And ties, what happened?

[TORONTONY]

Yes they might have looked good in their suit and ties back then, but most had a bath once a week wiped their are on newspaper slicked their hair back with brylcreem and had a mouth full of rotten teeth...: good old days not really

 

Back when? I and everyone else on here were talking 60's not 40's and 50's, although many would have gone through what you mentioned as kids, including myself, i.e the one bath a week and newspaper in the toilet, but things had changed by the early sixties. By the way, I still have all my original teeth and they are in great shape and all my hair too and I am over 70, so Brylcreem didn't do me any harm . LOL:D

 

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That bloke you met with the bowler etc, wasn't Charlie Chaplin was it ?

 

John Steed

[soft ayperth]

Back when? I and everyone else on here were talking 60's not 40's and 50's, although many would have gone through what you mentioned as kids, including myself, i.e the one bath a week and newspaper in the toilet, but things had changed by the early sixties. By the way, I still have all my original teeth and they are in great shape and all my hair too and I am over 70, so Brylcreem didn't do me any harm . LOL:D

 

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John Steed

 

I always preferred newspaper to that Izal brand toilet paper!

[rapido]

Fashions just change. Plenty of people spend a long time getting ready to go .My mum says when she was young, women always wore hats as part of the outfit...how often do you see that now?

[TORONTONY]

Fashions just change. Plenty of people spend a long time getting ready to go .My mum says when she was young, women always wore hats as part of the outfit...how often do you see that now?

 

Quite a lot in North America i.e. baseball caps ..lol

 

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I always preferred newspaper to that Izal brand toilet paper!

 

Me too that Izal was brutal, infact if you was out in the woods or whatever a dock leaf was more preferable;)

[old tup]

Quite a lot in North America i.e. baseball caps ..lol

 

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Me too that Izal was brutal, infact if you was out in the woods or whatever a dock leaf was more preferable;)

Or a nice fluffy rabbit even better still!,I recollect that in medieval times it was customary for royalty to wipe their arses on a swans neck,has anyone ever heard this?.

[crookedspire]

That bloke you met with the bowler etc, wasn't Charlie Chaplin was it ?

Still looked impressive nevertheless.

[stpetre]

Still looked impressive nevertheless.

 

Yes! and thank you!

[trastrick]

Nothing beats the black net T-shirt and hairy underarm look on a hot day!

[stpetre]

Nothing beats the black net T-shirt and hairy underarm look on a hot day!

 

Yes, I agree, but what about what bloke's wear ?

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[willybite]

Not in my day owd luv.

I think the closest they ever got to a Cravat round our way was the old white silk scarf and flat cap.

Mind you I did own a string tie in the 50s and me flat cap was in blue and black stripes !!

I'm that old I can remember when jeans had four inch turn ups..

 

hiya grinder j, long time no see still on computer i see,me anall i moved when the wife passed on in february i live with my g/daughter near barton tha noors weer they brew beer,but we're moving soon near uttoxeter, a million miles to what i was used to, remember the old string tie with the steers head neck piece

but just before that came out there was the slim jim tie,i had one only because it was it cost 15 bob, and the silky waistcoat, and black jumper with white vee neck, and white silk scarf many the time one of our mates would borrow his dad's white scarf that he used in the rolling mill. and the bulldog nosed shoes. and the yellow socks seems averybody wore them, then white socks came in, my mum used to get mine from lisa brinns up duke st they were hospital bed socks, kids today don't know they're born.