Whatever happened to proper, old fashioned coloured fairy lights???

[NannyR]

I've just put up my tree and I normally put warm white lights on it. For a change I thought I would try coloured lights this year.
When I was a kid, we always had multicoloured fairy lights, the kind with replaceable bulbs and I remember them being a softer, more sparkly light with pink, maybe purple, yellow and turquoise bulbs as well as the red, green, blue, orange.
The LED ones I've just bought are awful in comparison, too bright and garish and just red, blue, green and orange bulbs.
Can you still buy the more traditional lights anywhere? Or am I imagining (or mis-remembering) the lights of my childhood? It was 1970s/80s so a while back!!

They are a fire risk because filament bulbs give off heat, if they're in contact with something flammable, like paper decorations or a v dry real tree, they can smoulder. Not a given but a possibility.

LEDs can be OK but you do need to be careful what you buy, I agree lots of them are overly bright. But there's no reason why they can't give off warm light as they can do light in any colour.

Couldn't someone invent a plastic with a filter which cancelled out the screen-y blueish light?🎄

Hello, this is probably all too late and you found a supplier some time ago, buy noma pickwick lights - multi coloured. Can buy on line.

Have you got a link for them?

Some of us are saddos and find this a year-round problem

I've just bought these from Amazon with my birthday voucher 🙊.