Things that disappeared, without you realising?

[jennymanara]

What things have disappeared in society, and you did not notice until much later?
So when I was young in every shopping street you would see old women wearing coloured polyester macs and headscarves. And then one day I suddenly realised that I had not seen a woman wearing this kind of clothing for a long time.
The same with plastic rainhoods. You used to see these for sale in newsagents, and elderly women would wear them when caught unaware by the rain. Again disappeared.

My youth....

Housecoats fgs

Banks sadly they've nearly all disappeared. Used to have branches of the bank I use in every small town village near me now my closest is 15 miles away or the other closest 30!

When people moved house they would use windolene to smear the front window so no one could look in until they got their own nets and curtains up!

I seriously considered a rain hood a few years ago when I had my hair cut short. It seemed reasonable, but I hesitated because I am not old. Well, not that old. and now my hair has grown out past my shoulders again so it wouldn't work anyway.

Flat caps haven't gone out of fashion in Glasgow. old men and hipsters wear them. though they are called bunnets.

@Soola I never knew that was windolene. I thought it was some kind of special paint used when shops have a refurb or go out of business.

Well I never!

My DC has mittens on elastic, my dad wears a flat cap and I've been desperate for rain hoods to become fashionable for ages, they are so practical!

A safer alternative to the gloves-on-string thing is to sew a bit of ribbon or something to the glove and attach it to the inside of the sleeve. Means making a couple of stitches in the coat I suppose, but it's not somewhere anybody would see. I had gloves on string as a kid though and it never strangled me to death - it goes more round the back/under the armpits surely

Pixies they were called I think OP

Launderettes, green grocers and fishmongers, ketchup in glass bottles

There is still a laundrette and a greengrocer on my local high street. They're a dying breed though, I agree.

Water fountains are making a comeback!

Cake mascara - remember what a faff that was? Eyeshadow that you applied with a wand.

Schoolgirls aged around 7-8 walking with dollies in their prams. The only children I see with a pram nowadays are preschoolers.

Yes the string for gloves goes round the back of the neck. It is not a strangulation risk. Pretty unpleasant though if a kid picks on them and pulls the string hard.

There are still lots of laundrettes. Most do dry cleaning as well.

I sewed my dds gloves onto ribbon then looped them through the little fabric hook inside the coat by the hood so they couldn't fall out. Thought everyone did it because it as what u remembered as a kid, but no, no-one else did.
She didn't lose her gloves though.

Tuck Shops

Little boxes at the side of the kerb with a picture of a rabbit on them. I never worked out what they were for. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

My 18yo dd has just got her first part time job in a laudrette come cafe place in town.

National Health glasses for children in pink or blue clear frames often with one side taped up with sticky plaster!

The big black platform boot known as a ‘cripple boot’ for adults and children with one leg shorter than the other.

It’s weird to think that it was acceptable to use the word cripple back then.

Credit card sliding machines where the receipt was a top copy and then a pink and yellow copy I think?

Takeaway for double celebration tonight.... end of exams/school and dd got the holiday job she had the trial shift for.
Plus, she's happy that she never has to see some particular individuals who made her life a bit difficult because they couldn't understand why she wanted to spend do much time on her studies while at sixth form. Happy dd.

Prize yogurts.

Pot noodles with all the filth in.

How long until paper newspapers vanish forever? There used to be two teenagers on the paper round in our village and now those that still have a paper collect it from the old phone box.