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.

Vertical blinds too - I was surprised how many houses had those because they’d never been updated for 25 years.

What a bizarre thing to say. Vertical blinds are extremely commonplace. A quick glance out the window and I can't see any houses on our street that don't have them!

My waste 😞

Bloody autocorrect. Waist!!!

People with goitres, and people with built up shoes.

My parents have still got antimacassars. I bloody love that word

Did you know that it came from Macassar hair oil which was used by men, rather like bryl cream, and the antimacassar was there to stop the oil marking the upholstery?

Off topic but finding it interesting how many more older MNers there are now. I joined when my DS was born and I was 34.

I'm now 52 and realise there are mums on here who could be my grandchildren

Pretty lightweight cotton handkerchiefs

I bought some recently. Tired of using and throwing away tissues. Just had an epiphany one day and thought hang on, there's a very obvious better way. After all, I used cloth nappies and now a very happy user of cloth sanitary pads.

Love my hankies, they're a million times nicer than tissues.

(And my tablet didn't even recognise the word "hankies", so out of favour are they. It thought I might mean "van kids" )

Streets with no one homeless on them

What a bizarre thing to say. Vertical blinds are extremely commonplace. A quick glance out the window and I can't see any houses on our street that don't have them!

Really? Horizontal binds yes, many houses have those here but hardly anyone has vertical blinds.

But then we have net curtains which if MN is to be believed are a crime against humanity and some people wouldn’t buy a house in a street where there were net curtains.

@champagnecommunist

I think the coppers were for any children who'd come to watch the bride leaving the house. As far as I know it's tradition for the bride's father to throw them. Hopefully a Scot/NE person can shed some light as it was all new to me!

Really? Horizontal binds yes, many houses have those here but hardly anyone has vertical blinds.

That's interesting - our main reason for avoiding horizontal blinds was that they're more difficult to keep clean, especially on long/tall windows.

Plenty of Hari Krishnas and Socialist Workers here! I wonder if there is a correlation?

I haven't seen a hedgehog in years, where have they all gone?

I had a strange moment of feeling old earlier. My 12 year old found my first ipod and couldn't believe how big and heavy it was. Yet I remember looking at it when I first bought it feeling amazed at how small and light it was. It feels really dated now, and it can't be more than about 15 years old.

Text messages. I haven't had one for ages. It's all WhatsApp now.

These. When I was a child it seemed that almost every adult was a smoker, or lived in a household where somebody smoked. These were considered quite 'upmarket', even more so if it was the one on a stand.
It seems incredible to think that back then, ashtrays, whatever sort, were everywhere yet nowadays I hardly ever see them. We've never had one in our house and we've never allowed people to smoke in the house - when we were first married we were considered inhospitable because of that, but these days it seems we are on the same page as most people we know.

Makes me feel old reading this! I remember many of these things, especially the rag and bone man with his horse and cart, offering donkey stones and balloons in exchange for old clothes etc. Also remember saving pocket money to buy a nodding dog. I have sheets and blankets, duvet usually too hot for me, we also use hankies as nicer and more environmentally friendly. Still buy Daim bars though, and lots of salt (or grit) boxes around here.

All of mine I have sown the gloves on a measured piece of ribbon and through the sleeves - normally longer than they need and then tie a know in it. The kids love them and never lose their gloves.

My niece -aged 25 recently asked me to do hers. It's a whole big thing here when they get new gloves to go and choose some nice ribbon etc from the ribbon box -union jack, hearts or whatever and sew them on to the gloves

I need a plastic rain hood though............

Most people I know have vertical blinds . It’s curtains that seem to have fallen out of fashion here, although some people have curtains and vertical blinds in their bay windows!

I’m 35 and my Mum used to make me wear a rain hood when I was little. The rainhood of shame. With that and my mac I looked 80 not 8.

I think it’s funny that I see a lot of young women on a Saturday daytime going about their business in rollers and sometimes a scarf tied over them. Things just come round in cycles!

My Dad constantly complains that it’s impossible to get decent quality y fronts these days and it’s all “boxers and boxer briefs”. It’s his favourite topic of conversation!

I still use sheets, blankets and a duvet. I like a cosy bed! However, I don’t see any of those itchy blankets with grid type holes and a thick satin edging? Does anyone know what I mean?

I miss Fuse bars and Cadbury’s Tasters.

The young girls with hideous tight short perms thing. I remember one of my teachers who would have been a teenager in the 50s saying he remembered that growing up his sister had the most beautiful long hair all down her back. On her 14th birthday she was taken to have it all cut off very short and permed. No choice in the matter, it was all a rite of passage to becoming a woman. He says he remembered seeing her and being horrified and unable to understand why anyone thought that looked better than her natural hair and apparently she was pretty devastated too. Over the year all her friends started appearing with the same short curly perm.

I remember the little red and white tents - I always thought there was going to be a puppet show when I was little.

Punch and Judy shows always used to appear on days out as a little kid. Even though they were creepy AF!

Little kids with silver horseshoes on ribbons to give to the bride and groom at weddings.

And DC went on holiday recently with my parents for a few weeks with no internet or TV -middle of French countryside and they took my old DS Ninento and Proffesor Layton games -I couldn't believe it -it was so lovely and relaxing for them. That was only 12 years old but ancient from their point of view!

Men with moustaches,s I realise it's a fashion thing ,and beards are massively popular now, but in the 80,my dad and all my male school teachers all had a moustache, .Doilies,my Grandma always had paper doilies,which she used when she baked ,can you still get them?

Nests of tables - I remember all of my relatives in the 80s had a set of three tables, all stacked under each other.

(drinking) Glass cabinets - the in laws still have one, but it's filled with bog standard glasses. I never understood why two people needed so many drinking glasses.

Paper dollies were very posh.

I have a nest of tables. But I recognise they are an old fashioned thing to have.

My mum and dad have a nest of tables, I want one they are very useful!

Both are still very popular at IKEA @EmpressJewel. I have glass and chrome nesting tables.

We (bunch of us in our 30s) ended up having a conversation about how we could get hold of the old fashioned posh mirrored tea trolleys or even a hostess trolley for entertaining. We’ve managed to get the local charity shops on our sides if any come in .

I love my nest of tables and my hostess trolley (not old fashioned in the slightest)

Fiat Multiplas were all the rage at one time and I never see any these days.
A multiples was suggested to an OP on a thread the other day. I think it was for boot space.

We buy Lion bars at work for the kids we work with although a couple of staff nab them!(including me!)

Text messages really? I use what's app and messenger but still get loads of texts from people via text who are also on the other platforms.

Faxes

Home landlines (parents generation have them but I don't know anyone my age, 36, or younger that has one)