Whatever happened to......?

[handsomefortune]

Nah ... not the real McCoy ... flesh toned, dangling bits, gussetts etc!!

quite right shb - the current revival of asphixiation for women isn't nearly as frightening as the flesh tone, rip chords and serious gusset (plus lock)! once found in granny's cupboard .... i bet the original designers thought corsets looked 'real'.... in the way that prosthetic limbs etc allegedly looked 'real'....(not just a very odd colour and unreal)?

http://www.abilityprostheticsorthotics.co.uk/Prosthetics/Adult-Prosthetic-Clinic.aspx

fashions clearly change in all sorts of products .... currently the overtly 'scientific and very mechanical' prosthetic look seems to be favoured. as opposed to flesh tones and covert pretense.....

feeling pressured to wear an old fashioned corset in the old days, is not much like allegedly 'choosing' to wear a current day corset ....in order to have little/no air in your lungs!

[Alison]

Rob G

[Serial_Apologist]

quite right shb - the current revival of asphixiation for women isn't nearly as frightening as the flesh tone, rip chords and serious gusset (plus lock)! once found in granny's cupboard .... i bet the original designers thought corsets looked 'real'.... in the way that prosthetic limbs etc allegedly looked 'real'....(not just a very odd colour and unreal)?

http://www.abilityprostheticsorthotics.co.uk/Prosthetics/Adult-Prosthetic-Clinic.aspx

fashions clearly change in all sorts of products .... currently the overtly 'scientific and very mechanical' prosthetic look seems to be favoured. as opposed to flesh tones and covert pretense.....

feeling pressured to wear an old fashioned corset in the old days, is not much like allegedly 'choosing' to wear a current day corset ....in order to have little/no air in your lungs!

But why choose to wear one?

[EdgeleyRob]

I don't remember Aztec bars but what happened to Spangles and Black Jacks? Space Hoppers? Leg Warmers and Tank Tops?

Aztec bars were a bit like topics if I remember correctly.Looking here I was also reminded of Frys 5 centres.

http://www.cadbury.co.uk/ourproducts/yesterday/Pages/Yesterday.aspx

[Angle]

Teeth
Eyes
Taste
Everything

[jayne lee wilson]

Because the modern versions of corsetry (usually referred to now, gentlemen, as "bodyshapers") are very useful if one wishes to maintain a sleek silhouette whilst wearing the more fitted styles of sweater dress - which in winter I invariably do. Perhaps I (or someone less lazy - I mean, less domestically pressed) should start a "winter warmers" thread and list my outfits...

Oh, sorry, whatever happened to... er... I know, those sponge cake things which had ice-cream running through the middle. What did Walls call them back then? Ice Slice... Swiss Slice... Sliceberg... no, it's not there. If I can remember I may experience a madeleine moment.

But why choose to wear one?

[EdgeleyRob]

Oh, sorry, whatever happened to... er... I know, those sponge cake things which had ice-cream running through the middle. What did Walls call them back then?

Arctic roll ?

Whatever happened to Mintola ?

[jayne lee wilson]

By jove you've got it! Thanks!
Next visit to Sainsburys I'll have to see if it's been revived...

Arctic roll ?

Whatever happened to Mintola ?

[mercia]

Green Shield Stamps

[teamsaint]

By jove you've got it! Thanks!
Next visit to Sainsburys I'll have to see if it's been revived...

never gone away from certain supermarket chains....you know the ones !! (sliceberg would have been a great name for it!!)

Anyway:

Kensitas.

All the letters and numbers from the half time scoreboards at football grounds. for those who don't remember or care, each ground had a row of lettered boards. each letter corresponded to a match, listed in the programme. so match A might be Arsenal v west ham. at half time somebody came along with extra boards showing the scores in the matches. trouble was you needed
1. A programme
2 to be able to see the boards.
3 be able to make out the numbers of goals.
It was a pretty rubbish system, but it did add a certain something to half time. it also helped sell a lot of programmes, since the scores could just as easily have been read out over the tannoy.

[Alison]

Matthew Kelly

Dmitiri Alexeev

[Stillhomewardbound]

Green Shield Stamps

Gosh!!! Now you're talking. In Dublin of the 60s/70s they were, I think, Gold Shield stamps from H Williams supermarket in Sandymount. Anyhow, my mother would bring home these sheets of stamps which my Great Aunt Angela who lived with us would dedicatedly sponge and paste into a provided booklet to be redeemed Argos stylie against a range of products from a depot near Sheriff Street.

I'd assist and in time I was awarded with my own completed book which was sufficient for me to purchase a box of six matchbox cars. I was even allowed to make the trip into town on my own to exchange my book for my wonderful toy cars, although I was only 8. Different times, I suppose but it taught me independence.

The cars alas did not last the duration and at some point would become victims to a multiple pileup with real inflammatories on the patio.

How vividly I remember it all.

[Vile Consort]

• The end of boom and bust
• X-ray machines in shoe shops
• Eight-ball overs
• Bin men who rooted out your bin from wherever you had hidden it, and returned same after emptying it

[mercia]

• X-ray machines in shoe shops

no, really ???

[mercia]

Teeth
Eyes
Taste
Everything

The Bard of Mersey. I like it.