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.

PenelopeShitStop Are you sure that's not a masterpiece? Worth a fortune?

Re those furry hats with the furballs. I am sure there were muffs to go with those .

TornFromTheInside I want them! The green leg things!

The green legs things? tights

Have we had the balancing metal dudes?

oh yes! I recall them now. Quite liked them.

Also, anyone love a top to toe Pierrot bedroom?

Torn put the binoculars away, you pervert.

I’m loving this thread. I’m a child of the 70s and remember so much of this stuff and still have some!

I’ve still got a couple of the TOTP albums but I’ll post those on the other thread.

We had Zena hanging on our lounge wall growing up. She now lives in my attic because I didn’t want her thrown out when my mum downsized and my husband won’t let me hang her in our house. One day .....

Great thread. A vintage shop in my town has a Spanish Lady pic for sale - £35. My DM tells me they cost 19/- 6d back in the day. I can't find a pic but am I the only person who remembers internal doors covered in padded vinyl/leatherette stuff with a stud pattern all over it? I recall watching my uncle work all day transforming all the doors in their house. Some were brown but there was definitely a green one.

PSB, they aren't binoculars, it's my ViewMaster - I'm looking at 3D images of flowers

West Ham or nothing Torn.

The Spanish Lady - Tina was posted earlier in the thread (If it's the one I'm thinking of)

Tie front cheesecloth shirt anyone?

Nice and scratchy and worn with flared jeans and wedges.

I remember wearing something similar to the Queen’s Silver Jubilee street party in Hounslow High Street. Classy, me.

Do you still have your Silver Jubilee coin?

Also loved Scraps, would send hours doing that - we would have angels, flowers or whatever in sets, from tiny up to large. Water babies, they were popular. And we'd swap them (I am also Scottish). And balls, we had little rhymes and the bouncing went, 1. plain against the wall, then 2. under the right leg, 3. under the left leg, 4. through the legs, can't recall what came next. Elastic ropes, that we called Chinese ropes for some reason. We seemed to play for weeks at one thing then all of a sudden everyone changed to the next thing.

I had the top to toe Pierrot bedroom. The dolls scared the fuck out of me!

Torn Yes I do in its little blue plastic wallet I think and stored in my lovely jewellery box which I artfully decorated with transfers of flowers (as I did with my Olivetti Dora typewriter case, thus reducing its value to 21st century eBay purchasers!!)

Tina was a different model - they were by an artist called JH Lynch. I think the crying boy might have been him as well.

Was the crying boy the cursed picture or was it the green Korean (?) lady?

The Crying Boy was 'cursed' (wrote about it earlier) - all nonsense of course

Hey PSB?

You said I had to wear a City scarf. I'd rather eat my own eyeballs.

lololol

One sweet, one sour?

I still have 4 books of scraps . Sad , I know .
Tried to send some pics but my internet is very slow.

Chinese lady