General Chat

Also: Drene shampoo. Pepsodent ("you wonder where the yellow went..."
Hint of a tint shampoo rinse!
And you're never alone with a "Strand" (advert not allowed these days!).

My mum used Vanishing Cream. It was a mystery to me what it was supposed to do.

I wore a liberty bodice when I was small (in the '50's). I can still 'feel' the warmth of the soft rubber buttons when the bodice was 'clean on' and straight off the fire guard. Funny that boys never wore them!

Dad used to used Gibbs toothpaste in a tin.

I once ate some Bile Beans that I found in the kitchen cabinet!

I wouldn't mind a copy of that book.

Birdi

Bee hives all that back combing, I was to young but was always wishing I was old enough to be able to wear my hair like that.

Back in 1950 when my eldest son was born I used to buy a roll of cellulose wadding which I cut to line his nappy - can I claim to have invented the disposable nappy? Missed out on the chance to make my fortune!!

I can remember all the things mentioned, sugar water was also used to keep the beehive in place - until someone came up with the hairspray which would set hard. Held your hair in place but caused it to break and was difficult to wash out.

Oxydol washing powder was supposed to get your whites even whiter as was the Dolly Blue in the rinsing water. ~"Someones mother isn't using Persil" and it's rival Rinso. I think Persil outsold Rinso because of the packaging.

Now I am going to spend the day going down memory lane !!!

Kathleen

Dolly Blue, our Timeshare at Backbarrow in the Lake District is built around the Whitewater Hotel. The hotel used to be the dolly blue factory and still has traces of the blue powder in the outer walls, well it did, it may have been washed away as, being next to the River Leven which is fed by Windermere and Rydal water etc the hotel was badly affected by floods a couple of weeks ago.

Was White Fire the perfume that was in tiny red squat bottles with a conical screw top? If it was I loved it.

Can remember most of these things on here, I was 10 in 1950, married in 1960.

I think the laquer that set your hair like concrete was Bell Air,horrible stuff.

Vosene shampoo was far to strong for my fine hair,used to buy a sashet of Sunsilk,used to cost about 7d.

Remember black stockings with diamond patterns,we thought we looked the bees knees.

Dirndle skirts,shirt blouses and white ankle socks.

Sleeping in spiky rollers,or rag curlers,I could go on forever.

nylon stockings and suspender belts ................. and trying to keep straight seams up the back of your legs

Remember the contortions as you tried to see if the seams were straight as you pulled the stocking up?

and they also had fashioned heels to them.


Never ever wearing trousers outside unless you were going hiking or camping.

Mum alway got dressed up, even on holidays. I have photos of her in Scarborough wearing a two-piece "costume" (ie, suit with straight skirt and jacket) with hat and heeled shoes.

Just got back, and laughing at all your memories.
Sharron, you reminded me of when we use to spit into the mascara to wet it before putting in ton.
Oh yes! And using a button or a tanner if your suspender broke.

I bought my first pair of nylon tights in 1969, cos I hated wearing nylons to work. But when I started work I wore white knee length socks pmsl

For medical reasons I cant wear tights, so wear stockings. Have replaced the suspender buttons with bigger buttons so my fingers can manage them. Something I remember doing in the fifties!
I'm sure I have seen Camp coffee recently in a supermarket.
Ther was haircolouring in a capsule that you made up with water, one that washed out with a few washes. Remember using an auburn one and having to endure scarlet hair for a couple of weeks!

I've even seen Camp coffee in a store over here (amazed look!)

Dont think so, but Henna gives a lovely shine on brown hair.

Wasn't there a Scotsman and a man in a turban on yhe Camp coffee label?

The dead lion being eaten by bees on the Lyle's Golden Syrup tin. "Out of strenght comes sweetness"?

Ooh! A swirl of golden syrup on your Scott's porridge in the morning was really tummy-warming!