Does anyone remember....?

[DatingDinosaur]

Candlewick bedspreads?

Flannelette sheets (the pink/blue striped ones)? The type that caused static electricity with your nylon nightie (no? just me?)

Just in the process of clearing my loft and found a box of these - given to me when I first moved into my house and got everyone's cast offs to 'make do' until I could afford my own stuff.

I suppose the modern equivalent is brushed cotton and fleece throws but oh, the nostalgia!

Yes to both, but I don't think it was flannelette sheets that caused sparks.
We had brushed nylon sheets which were lovely and cosy in the winter but really did cause static and were awful for catching your toenails 🤣

I remember candy stripe sheets! In my head they were just "cot sheets," because the ones in my childhood home had been passed down through the family and as they wore out had been cut down to cot size. I was amazed when I moved out and met someone with double bed sized candy stripe sheets. (Which had probably come from a box in his parents' attic.)

And yes, candlewick bedspreads.

I loved sleeping under a candle wick bedspread and a thick blanket at my nans house. With the sound of the rubbery waterbottle gurgling at my feet.

We had candlewick bedspreads until my parents discovered 'continental quilts' (duvets) in the early 80s.

My grandparents had nylon sheets; my mum wouldn't countenance them.

Candlewick bedspreads and dressing gowns were horrible! But my mum thought they were the height of glamour.
I can remember staying in a farm house on holiday as a kid and they had the striped sheets. I am a proper city person and can remember waking up and the lady who owned the farm came I with boiled egg and soldiers for me. I can still taste those eggs now. I thought it was paradise.
Nylon sheets and nylon nighties - well we had no heating upstairs so maybe the electricity jolts kept us warm?
As a kid I knew when I grew up I wanted nice bedding, luxurious towels and toilet paper and a bedside table with a light on it.
We didn’t have a plug upstairs until I was 17, which is absolutely mad to me now. I had a long cable which went down the stairs and into a sliding door next to the kitchen which had a socket. When I put my music in too loud my mum would just unplug it - scratched records galore!
I never, ever tire of buying bedding now my DP thinks I’m nuts!

Yes. Used to lay in bed picking threads out 😁

Oh god. Hand knitted bed jackets too!!

I remember the nylon bedsheets, I think.Alan Freeman (the DJ) used to advertise them - Brentford Nylons.

I've bought some candy-stripe flannelette sheets online and had forgotten how cosy they are.
Got flannelette sheets on all of the beds now that the nights are a bit colder.

Weren't those sheets called Bri-nylon??

Yes - the flannelette sheets we had were brushed cotton - definitely not sparky! I loved them because they felt so warm (no central heating, unheated bedrooms, no double glazing).

Those nylon sheets were popular for a while, thanks to the endless advertising of Brentford Nylons!

I used to love my Granny's candlewick bedspreads - which went when we all 'modernised' to duvets. I still have the beautiful cover for her eiderdown too. We never had the nylon sheets but I did have those horrible nylon nighties which were sort of fluffy on one side and smooth on the other. And had a 'keep away from fire' label. Crazy. I don't have flannelette sheets but I do have flannellette (cotton) pyjamas - just got them, and my hot water bottle out this week!

Yes we definitely had the candy stripped bed sheets I loved them , I also had nylon nightie and sheets , i lit up like a fecking Christmas tree!

My grandparents and great aunts had candlewick, I loved tracing the patterns with my fingers. And big fluffy thick eiderdowns.
We have flannelette sheets in the winter, I love the cosy feel

We had semi fitted sheets from Brentford Nylons. Like a fitted sheet but only gathered at one end to go over the foot of the mattress, but you could then turn back the top over blankets....then we moved on to "continental quilts" as duvets were known.

Oh the good old days. I loved candlewick bedspreads, I think i might still have one in the attic (or did I throw it out? I hope not.)

Lilac nylon sheets so you could slide into bed.
My Nan's wonderful flannelette nighties handed down to me - came right to the floor and so cosy.
Single sheets of loo paper which was more like thin tracing paper.
One bar radiator to warm your chilblains on.
Gorgeous blue bathroom suite and tiles with pretty ducks floating by.
Pull cord light above the bed when staying at my Auntie's - what a luxury, and so handy.
Over bath pull-cord bar radiator - how did we survive those?!
Fluffy loo seats and mats to mop up drips (
Crochet ladies with nice full skirt to cover toilet roll (when we'd finally moved on from tracing paper).

Love, love, loved our yellow candle wick bedspread! 'The candlewick' became our favourite plaything, used for dens, robes, desert sand... I used to crawl around with it over me and pretend I was a slug.

Oh no! I'm now singing the Brentford Nylons advert song in my head!

Remember having candy striped brushed cotton sheets. I think nylon, spark inducing bedding came afterwards - probably because they dried much quicker.

And I definitely had a candlewick bedspread - for which I'm sure I was grateful, growing up with no central heating. Scratchy wool blankets were also a thing.

I can remember my grandma cutting the flanellete stripy sheet in half and then sewing the two outer sides together as the middle was becoming worn…
In primary school it was a huge question..”have you got a continental quilt or do you still have sheets and blankets (or an eiderdown..do they still exist?)
Recently I used the term “continental quilt” to a friend ten years younger than me and she thought it was hilarious!
Ah..what a wave of nostalgia!

I also remember having very scratchy wool blankets, beige in colour and I think were army surplus - ie cheap! As young children, we used to be wrapped up them to be carried home from my aunties house after a Christmas party, they lived around the corner and I loved being carried back by my adult cousins. But they were very itchy and I hated having them on my bed!

My great grandparents (my granddad's parents) were still alive until I was about 10, and we used to stay at their place in Ireland regularly. The beds were so comfortable, an electric blanket that was turned on several days before our arrival, the candy striped sheets, an eiderdown, so many blankets you couldn't move, topped with a candlewick bedspread. The weather was brutal (the very north west coast) and we only went in the winter, and the bed was so welcoming. The bedroom was so cold (no central heating) that there would be ice on the inside of the window.

My mum (mid 70s) still calls duvets ‘continental quilts’.

My grandparents had flannelette sheets. They were lovely so cosy. They also had a massive pillow called a bolster that would be put down the middle of the bed to stop my sister and I fighting 😂

Loved pulling the tufts out of candlewick bed spreads.

I still use my Grandmothers old blankets even though I have a duvet now. I like the weight. As well as the weight of nostalgia....
We were just talking about the tracing paper toilet paper this morning, strangely.

Oh yeah I remember when duvets were called continental quilts!