Seriously tacky and grim...

[TornFromTheInside]

Inspired by a thread about hygiene - carpets in kitchens and toilets, I thought it could be interesting to recall some of the diabolical tat from the past.

Feast your eyes on this tango temptation!
I believe the technical colour is 'Shatsuma'

^^ Yikes!

Did anyone wear these at all? I used to love mine

thomas yes I had jellies as a kid! Slightly different style. Made your feet sweat and dirt stick while ‘playing out’!

Yes I wore those jelly shoes. Cut my feet to shreds. Looked super sophisticated especially with my beaded purse.

Made me smile!
My nana has so much of this stuff in her house! She's 85 and grew up in the war so never throws anything away.

tenton my nan still has that table, it has pride of place in her front room.

I also have a tiled coffee table that I bought for £5 from a charity shop 18 years ago when we moved into our house.

These belts were all the rage in school - but they were usually in a shiny nylon finish - bright colours, and we wore them in a very special manner.... the excess length of belt, that you would normally just wrap around your waist, would be tucked and folded to hang perfectly vertically along the middle of one leg. Can't find a pic of said arrangement.

@perfectlysymmetricalbuttocks You know very well a name like that never gets forgotten.

I'm not at the end of the thread yet, but holidaylady
Ok I will supply the irritating 5yo flower girl. And demand I get to choose what she wears. Definitely clashing with the bridesmaids. And insist on a 24/7 lolly supply for her.
And throw a massive strop when she's not in every seventy billion wedding photos.

That's a big fat "hell yeah" from me. Claw, another teensy little job for you... stop sniffing your rubbers and put it in your filofax, please. A small bit of keeping the 5 yr old from hell out of every wedding photo save one or two. Maybe we'll do a pincer move with the static from our nylon dresses? or (if she proves TOO annoying), we could thwack her with our heavily hairsprayed backcombed hair? (what was the name of that revolting stinky stuff? It began with an S. Silkins????? Something like that. They used to put scratch n sniff samples in Just 17)
OR we could suffocate her with the fumes from our Impulse (or bury her below the reams of flowers men will be thrusting into our hands, because men can't help acting on it).

Who knew... I've gone from 6"who the fuck are you?"^ to a would-be assassin to betrothed (with a flower girl and a maid of honour) all in one day! (and they say the internet isn't to be trusted!)

Silvikrin!

Silverkrin maybe? Keep I think you might be part of the A team or maybe Huggy Bear's GF or part of the Partridge Family of even have a walk on part in Hart to Hart. Whichever one you are you have been heroic in 24 hours. Actually I think you were the one who said 'If it wasn't for you pesky kids'

YES AnneWiddecombe. You're coming to the wedding!

Minging, wasn't it!

Torn may I take your belt and raise you a

Sorry, Elephant, it took me so long to insert my snake belt photo, I didn't see your message in time to respond. Would you like to come to the wedding too?

This stuff - that's right, 1000 ants covered in sugar that's what this was. They didn't tell you that of course, but it's precisely what it was.
Special ants that could jump.

That's very kind Keep but I will have to consult my filofax first. What date shall I pencil in?

Elephant

I fucking LOVED space dust. That interesting sensation and sound as it popped in your mouth. Almost GUARANTEED carcinogenic!

Charlie says - do not talk to drunken ladies on the internet

One of these should keep everyone out of the photos!

And here is a typical polaroid photo:

The others were all reader's wives

Fantastic, Claw. As being MoH is basically a breeze and the role involves fuck-all, and given that you're clearly an 80s girl who can do it all (job, parenting, etc), perhaps you'd be Official Photographer as well? Esp if you're not tight and you get a posh one where you can press the time-delay button, so you can set up the photo... then press the button... run like fuck... and lo as if by - actual - magic, you're in the picture.

Torn how f%^&*(g dare you. Howwe villy dear you suggesssts I ght have been drinking.

Run....in my green nylon Bridesmaid dress, I will cause a fire!

Green nylons?