Who remembers these things back in the day ?...come and add your own memories..

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Mizmo said:
Buying a pair of nylon stockings when I was about age 17...that would be 1950 or so
They were too expensive to buy normally so we wore rayon or silk if we were lucky.
What a treat!!

During the war years women tanned their legs with god only knows what and
drew the seam line down the back of their legs.
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I remember back in 1956, my darling uncle Norman bought my sister and me a pair of nylon stockings each. They were Norman Hartnell, and it had a little sample bottle of perfume in each called "In Love". We felt very special.
 
Mizmo said:
Buying a pair of nylon stockings when I was about age 17...that would be 1950 or so
They were too expensive to buy normally so we wore rayon or silk if we were lucky.
What a treat!!

During the war years women tanned their legs with god only knows what and
drew the seam line down the back of their legs.
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I remember my mum who was only 11 when the war ended... telling me that women dyed their legs with gravy browning.. and drew a seam up their legs with eyebrow pencil.... ....

In the war diaries ( Mass observation Diaries) written by the people who worked in home occupations one of the women got around the nylons scarcity by just wearing trousers most of the war.. which of course had not been a fashion for women prior to the war..

This also was one of the reasons that women fell for Canadian and American soldiers based here during the war.. because they had access to everything that was scarce in this country and that included Nylons...and cigarettes
 
At the old home place , loved my grandma, after my uncle and best friend was killed , she wanted me to stay with her, remember helping her churn milk, hoe her garden, grand pa wanted me to be a preacher, but I was just not cut out for that, he would put me in front of the congregation , and I read from the bible. I miss the old home place everyday, I can still seeing my dog shorty running to get to me, My dad got trandsfered to Utah in 1964, I went with them, and enlisted in the Marine Core, the old home place was sold after, grandma , and grandpa passed away, it was tore down. I'm 76 now have lived a full life, will join my family soon.
 

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squatting dog said:
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What a great prophecy! Maybe he knew something...:cool:

Re telephones: I used to stay with my grand parents in a small town near Athens, Ohio for part of the summers. They still had the old phone attached to the wall with the speaker piece pointed downward, and the listening receiver that had to be lifted of the U hook to the side of the phone.

Of course in those days you still had to call the operator for any long distance calls, then she'd phone you back when connected to the other line. And my grand parents were on a party line! So anyone could pick their receiver piece and listen to your conversation. Once in awhile you had to interrupt some conversation that had been going on too long, to tell them that you had to make a call, and could they wrap it up...😄
 
oscash said:
I can only remember, Camay, Imperial Leather, Lux and Lifebuoy.
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th others might not have been available in Australia at the time... Wrights Coal Tar soap smelled strongly of disinfectant, and it was like an opaque colour... it was often used if people had skin infections..

looked like this...


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Mizmo said:
Buying a pair of nylon stockings when I was about age 17...that would be 1950 or so
They were too expensive to buy normally so we wore rayon or silk if we were lucky.
What a treat!!

During the war years women tanned their legs with god only knows what and
drew the seam line down the back of their legs.
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Lucky you! Nobody bought me nylon stockings:ROFLMAO:. But joking aside, I remember that my mother had a few pairs in the 1960s but not many. I presume they were the rest of her 1950s stockings which survived somehow.
 
mrstime said:
Not just seen the lawn mower, used one weekly for some years when I was a teenager.
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We had such a mower. It worked, but only if the grass wasn't too long. Some people with short grass today use such a robotic mower like this one (Source: German Wikipedia).
 

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