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.

The deer was Babycham.

Pear cider or perry.

Now available for manly men to drink as well under a variety of brands.

@GetoutofthatGarden @Isawthelight (whatever your name is 😀) and @Shampaincharly (as a fellow Dundonian - you're bound to remember the smoothy jacket!)

They were definitely cheap - Lorne St Market and the Market Hall in the Wellgate sold them. I'm not sure about calling them a cagoule - that implies they were like a raincoat?

God knows why they were called smoothie/smoothy jackets. Maybe that's what I called them?

I wish I could find a picture.....

Ah @Shampaincharly - that's a proper scrap! 😀

Thanks @TornFromTheInside ❤️

As for you, you'll do better next time 😉

Has anyone mentioned horse brasses on leather straps? My mother hung them on the wall. We're not equestrian folk, so god knows why.

Was it a Harrington jacket? @ IllHaveALargeGlassOfRed

@*IllHaveALargeGlassOf
Red , Harrington jacket .

What am I supposed to do better at?

(do not dare post a huge list!... I already know of a hundred failings!)

Definitely not a Harrington Shamp - they were for BOYS!

I'm going to keep looking.....

Oh Torn, if you have to ask sweetie...

I've had to go back and check...

NOW I know what you meant!
I'm not saying another word.

Ok . I was never fashionable.

Yes, Torn, not a speck of child to be seen. It still couldn't tackle the pine needles in the shag pile though.

The smoothie jacket: did it have a soft material tie belt ?

I think someone likes saying 'shag pile'!

Can you actually still get those carpets? I had a faux posh aunt who always had white, or light coloured ones - her house was lovely but very 1970's mirrors and chrome etc Always had her hair in a bun or beehive thing and wore fur coats. Smokes with a long filter etc etc.

Common as much really, but pulled off the look very well.

Shag pile. Shag pile. Shag. Pile.

No Shamp, it had an elasticated waist.

I'm beginning to think they only exist in my mind 🤨

But I had one! It was light grey with a contrasting blue colour.

I think I know what jacket is being talked about here - but someone's distracting me...

Definitely not a Harrington Shamp - they were for BOYS! The girls at our school had Harrington's. We had our names on the back as well. I had a rabbits foot too.

Are we talking about a blouson type jacket?

like this?

Shag. Pile.

oh god

Here's my carpet sweeper which I still use, it's handy to clear up a few nail clippings bits, saves getting the big hoover out.

Here is what I use to sweep up clippings - they are like steel!