Didn't know Cadburys Selection boxes were first exclusive to Brum. Although you wouldn't have found a Curly Wirly in your selection box until the 1970s.
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Birmingham in 1960s
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I Am Nico
master brummie
Me too, no Microwave, no work on a Sunday, Roast dinner . No decking. No patio heater. Partner still darns and mends. Makes attractive nutritious meals from left overs, not bubble and squeak thankfully though. No video. The outside toilet is still here but is now inside but still like it was. Still got a spinner you put your knee on to hold it.
I Am Nico
master brummie
My mum liked them she said I love the modern fashions you can wear what you like.
I Am Nico
master brummie
I like a cover if it has a different take on it, if you know what I mean. But not rip offs.
I Am Nico
master brummie
I went to a disco where mum worked around 1967. They played games like pass the balloon woman to man and pass the key dropping down your clothes, I wasn't trendy I wore my school trousers and a sleeveless pully, I watched the girls dancing in tent dresses, wearing hippie bells and some men had flower power shirts. Remember Flower Power? I got some flares when I was 14 and a flowery shirt from peer pressure, but I never had a Barathea. I had a 2nd hand imitation suede code with hideous imitation fur yellow check lining. My mates made fun of it but I was warm as toast as they froze at the bus stop. Saying that I used to go out with wet hair in the winter in a cardigan, and my hair froze then melted on the bus.
what i like about todays clothes is there is no definitive fashion so no pressure to wear one style of clothing...at least for the ladies..i see mini..midi and maxi dresses/skirts all being worn and no one bats an eye lid...its the same with the footwear and i have noticed that the sling back shoes seem to be coming back again..
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I Am Nico
master brummie
I see men in dresses sometimes in the supermarket. Some young some old. I always fancied a sarong like David Beckham but I never had the nerve or a kilt, for comfort,. GP told me to wear a kilt but I war loose clothes. In the 60s fashions went bold with design and colour and simplicity and they were easy to make there seemed to be a lot more of dressmakers about then, Now I can't find one that does alterations for men. The last one ruined a good jacket I looked like Quasimodo!
lmr3103
master brummie
Nico you make me laugh! What supermarkets do you go to?!
You’re right about dressmakers though.
My Dad had his suit made when he got married. For my wedding 30 years later he managed to track the tailor down that had made it. Although this gentleman was retired he made my Dad a suit to wear to my wedding.
You’re right about dressmakers though.
My Dad had his suit made when he got married. For my wedding 30 years later he managed to track the tailor down that had made it. Although this gentleman was retired he made my Dad a suit to wear to my wedding.
I Am Nico
master brummie
Well it would be advertising wouldn't it, but Sainsburys and the Co Op.
I had a suit made around 1974, 3 piece from navy pinstripe la dee dah, from Burtons. for my mate's wedding. I wore it till it fell apart. Mind my first fitting they forgot to put the buttons on, red faces all round, 2nd fitting they forgot to take the temperate stitching stitching out, 3rd fitting I bent down and the trousers split this happened 3 times. Our neighbour gave mum some industrial, cotton in the end and she sewed it up.It had bell bottoms which had to cover my platform shoes and a high waist band which I had altered when the fashion changed. That style was good for me as it hid my tum.
The jacket that I had altered 2 years ago for a wedding, one side was tight the other too loose, and the collar wouldn't turn over and stuck up at the back. I paid her through her kitchen window she wouldn't open the door and she sort of threw it at me. Nowhere else would do men's alterations. We used to have alteration tailors there was one here call Eric's. I used to get my trousers let in and out at the Sewing Centre. They employed mature ladies who were a dab hand and they didn't charge a lot.
Brummie a long time ago
master brummie
In and out ! Mine seem to only go in one direction. (Not in).
Andrew.
I Am Nico
master brummie
I tried removing turnups myself. a disaster I tried turning trousers up using iron on tape and I melted the carpet. I tried dieing apple green flares black apple green was fashionable but they only looked good on other people, ended up bottle green which was OK but I spilled dye on the carpert. I am a tryer or is it trying? I cut the collar off a work shirt and made it a grandad shirt wore it on the beach. When you haven't got that much to spend you try. I was asked to play tennis with a nice woman at work, had no shorts so I cut off my jeans off and ending up putting staples in them.
So many people were entrepreneurs back in the day! People were not afraid of hard work. We wouldn't have had any wedding photos if there hadn't been a photographer touting for business outside the register office!