God save the Queen !

[teamsaint]

Well, you're quite right about that.

OTOH......



Not sure about that, though. What, at that time, was the alternative? Certainly, duffel bags had their limitations, but they were practical, and could be carried fairly easily in addition to a schoolbag, (who remembers them?) even when riding a bike.

well , in a very rare moment of having the right stuff, at the right time, in 1974 i had an official world cup version of this, at a time when such things were almost unobtainable.



with Fussballweltmeisterschaft 1974 on the side. Probably both sides actually.

Never had a duffel coat or Duffle bag, or whatever.

But I did have a long dark grey greatcoat , just as Echo and the Bunneymen propelled such things to the height of trendiness.

[teamsaint]

What's naff about this stylish accessory?

Love it.

I had a couple of mates who would have loved that, back in the day !!

[ahinton]

Why is Liverpool not Liverbath?

One could well ask the same question about Ullapool, Hartlepool, Blackpool, Welshpool or - er - Poole and, for that matter, one might also ask why Bath, where I lived for almost a quarter century, wasn't called Pool (although "The Roman Pools" doesn't sound all that convincing)...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You woz sold a pup.

No - it was given to me as a Christmas present. (Ironically, I had spent years hoping, without success, for a real pup.)

The thongs have to be of rope.

Gosh - that was an appropriately Proustian moment: my very first Duffel coat (when I was about three) had rope thongs. Eminently chew/suckable, I "remember".

Odd that so many anti-militarists' favourite attire was army surplus...

Not so odd as the Atheist's favourite attire, the Surplice.

[Serial_Apologist]

What's naff about this stylish accessory?

Certainly not the location thereon!

[Mary Chambers]

my very first Duffel coat (when I was about three) had rope thongs

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My granddaughter, who is three, has a purple duffel coat with yellow fabric thongs held in place by yellow fabric ducks, of the type she might have in the bath (but probably not the pool) if they were made of plastic.

This thread is becoming surreal.

[MrGongGong]

This thread is becoming surreal.

The queen and leather thongs?

[Serial_Apologist]

The queen and leather thongs?

"God Save Our Queens!"

- poster inside gay commune in then-trendy Clifton, 1971.

[jean]

Why is Liverpool not Liverbath?

That's easy!



Although, come to think of it, the most pool-like part of the watercourse here illustrrated (now disappeared) that drained into the Mersey was called the Sea Lake.

And don't forget that Jung called Liverpool The Pool of Life.

[pastoralguy]

That's easy!



Although, come to think of it, the most pool-like part of the watercourse here illustrrated (now disappeared) that drained into the Mersey was called the Sea Lake.

And don't forget that Jung called Liverpool The Pool of Life.

No sign of the Cavern Club...?

[Serial_Apologist]

No sign of the Cavern Club...?

Zoom in and you might just see the Village People.

[ardcarp]

Joining in the pool/bath debate, I guess we referred to 'swimming baths' in the immediate post-war era because the places they were housed often used to be (some still were) public BATHS, i.e. somewhere you could go to get a hot bath if you hadn't got one at home.

[jean]

Or where, if you did, you put coal.

(See above, passim.)

[ahinton]

Or where, if you did, you put coal.

(See above, passim.)

God save our gracious jean!

[jean]

No sign of the Cavern Club...?

No, but if you look closely, you can see Vasily Petrenko swimming strongly against the current.

(People on this board of all places should know better than to mention the Beatles any time there's a reference to Liverpool!)