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What did you wear?

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My Mum made me a Davy Crockett hat out of an old fur coat, complete with tail at the back. Wore it nearly everywhere until it fell apart.
I have a photo of me wearing a knitted swimsuit, great after being in the water ! Luckily I was only 30 3 at the time.
Later I rather fancied myself in a Norfolk jacket. Girlfriend -> wife put me straight on that little fashion error.
Bell bottoms ? What goes round ...

Andrew.
 
I was dressed up like this when I was little ... :)
oldMohawk said:
I was two years old when I wore this hat.
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Later when I was at school my mum knitted me a baraclava and I hated it. I used to wear it as she watched me set off to school then I took it off when I was out of sight. Lot of young school girls had 'Pixey Hats' in those days.
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In WW2 many Birmingham parents decided to have 'proper' photos taken of their children at Jeromes Photo Studios. The first photo shows my sister and me looking rather smart. The second photo dated 1943 and taken in the same studio shows her future husband. They met and married in the 1950's. My brother-in-law is wearing 'Birmingham Mail Charity Boots' which I think were given out from the Steelhouse Lane offices.
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On old memories, for some reason I remember being outside McGauleys (spelling ?) the toy shop on the Coventry Road, when Mum was told the king had died. I would have been 2. Possibly it was so important to Mum that the gravity passed over to me at the time.
What did I have for breakfast yesterday ? Have to pass on that.

Andrew
 
We wore leggings when we were little ... I have a vague recollection that I never liked them ...
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and twins in a forum photo link below didn't seem too keen on them

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I look at this pic and for some reason I get the impression that the only man in the pic is walking by hoping no one has seen him ....he looks furtive ! The wheels on that pram look like the wheels on the mystery cart in post #182
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Dave Bath said:
Here's me as a lad in Bracebridge Street (not wearing my underskirt that day either Alf) with Georgina Best from next door. I think I've still got those shorts but I've definitely lost the hair!!
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Hi Dave I am still in touch with Georgia she has a sister Barbara.
 
oldbrit said:
Me and my sister I was about 5 then I guess in 1938 See the TROLLEY BUS in the background?
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A bit later I think. Enlarged & tidied up a bit, the trolleybus seems to have a dark roof & rear roof dome, part of the blackout precautions. Could it be 1940?

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oldgoose said:
I'm sure that the kids these days would not be happy to wear the clothes I wore as a child. I don't remember having much say in the clothes I wore - and all of my friends were the same.
My wardrobe consisted of pleated skirts, hand-knitted jumpers for school and home wear, and frilly frocks for parties.

Does anyone remember having to wear those round-necked underskirts with rosebuds on them? liberty bodices? 'peter pan' collars?
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Yep! Finally someone else who remembers Liberty bodices!!
My Mum was obsessed with me wearing one underneath pleated skirt and hand knitted woolly jumper! Was it a Bham thing as it was such cold winters?! Mum got her cum uppance on a visit to the large old Edwardian surgery of Dr Donovan at the Maypole in around 1962. I was supposed to start pre- school but had a rotten cold. The Matron there (yes!) shouted “mother whatever have you got this child wearing?!” She took my temperature, pronounced I had a fever and instructed mother to strip off the strange vest!!! I was very smug.
 
Arkrite said:
I wore hand me downs from two older sisters. Talk about liberty bodice, vest and navy blue knickers, I would rather forget them. No wonder I ended up with a stammer and bad nerves.No counseling then. Still , I did not have to wear the gymslips.
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My primary school in south Brum introduced uniform for Juniors in 1966. I had bottle green knickers with dodgy elastic, and hand me down gym slips from my well off cousin who went to a Prep school in Handsworth! Yes Hworth was very posh, then.
I have my school photo in one of the bottle green gymslips to prove it.
Had a bag full of hand me downs once a month on a Friday. Lots of nice things. Only prob was, we were not same shoe size. The black wet look Mary Quant boots did not fit! I was sooo upset. I’m sure my love of fashion goes back to not being able to have new things then…
 
Does anyone remember baseball boots?
They were ankle high in black and white made of very firm cotton.
I badgered mum for weeks for a pair,finally got them in time to attend a school friends party.
I thought I was the bees knees until my friend,whom I adored, said she didn't like them.
Thank you Miss Horne;romance over.
Still loved the boots though.

NoddKD,broken hearted at 9.
 
NoddKD said:
Does anyone remember baseball boots?
They were ankle high in black and white made of very firm cotton.
I badgered mum for weeks for a pair,finally got them in time to attend a school friends party.
I thought I was the bees knees until my friend,whom I adored, said she didn't like them.
Thank you Miss Horne;romance over.
Still loved the boots though.

NoddKD,broken hearted at 9.
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never mind nodd..better to have loved and lost and all that lol

lyn
 
Mom was a great knitter so you name it, I had a knitted version - cardis, jumpers, skirts, pinafores, dresses and often a miniature copy for one of my dolls.
At Easter I had what Mom called a 'rig out' - usually a crimplene dress from C & A. The one that stays in my memory was bright yellow with a pocket like a flower. I loved this dress until wearing it on holiday at Porthcawl I was stung by a bee....couldn't blame him really!
Another of my favourite items was a poncho - turquoise with white fringes. This came in a bag of second hand clothes from 'America'. This was a mystery to me as we knew no one who lived there but every now and again a bag turned up much to my delight!
 
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