Things From The Past That You DON'T Miss

An occasional series


1. LINO

Or to give it its full name linoleum is a floor covering which was designed to adopt the same temperature as the outside world. So if it was -10 in your garden then so was your lino. This meant you had to have a pair of slippers at your bedside ready to step into in the morning otherwise you got CHILBLAINS which were the 60s equivalent of AIDS.

Lino was a nasty, sleazy substance made from coal tar and cow pats. It came in a range of terrible colours and patterns as this example shows.

2. 1970s JEANS

In the decade that taste forgot jeans for some unfathomable, but probably cheapskate reason only came in one length. Which was fine if you were 7 foot tall. But for the rest of us this presented a bit of a problem. We had to get our mum or girlfriend or wife to cut off the excess and stitch the ends to make them look presentable. Otherwise we done it ourselves usually with disastrous results. Usually didn't bother stitching the ends which resulted in bits of string trailing behind your manky flares.

pepe wrote:An occasional series


CHILBLAINS which were the 60s equivalent of AIDS.

I love a well turned out phrase.

Is that anything like a well turned phrase?

I love wunna them ;)

Immo wrote:Is that anything like a well turned phrase?

Maybe

you could still get shrink to fit levi,s back in the 70,s pepe,
and of course, pepe jeans.

Potted head, some gelatine based shite mixed with cows hoofs and served with tatties. Fuck knows how I'm alive today