whast was the cool carrier bag to have at school

[PeterAndreFanCLub]

when you were a youngun
atm ehre is seemst o be Jane norman

Head Bags
Umbro with gold edging
Makenzie bags

the river island ones that were suppoed to look old fashioned

Poundstretcher

Back in the '60's at primary, the cool bag was from M&S but it had to be the white one from the food department. These were quite exclusive as the nearest M&S was 30 miles away.

You were cool if you had a particular marchandise placky bag from a concern in my day. It was a square white one with JAZZ, FUNK, SOUL written on it. If you had one of them - you were in!

I used to live near solihull but not the posh part!

River Island.

we were joseph, hobbs and pied a terre

all lovely stiff cardboard bag with rope handles

but then we were VERY posh

i have one of these

Kookai also.

And Oasis cardboard bags with rope handles.

ooh olive oil - I used to work in Benetton too! I still fold my jumpers like that (jumper on chest etc...) If Dh folds jumpers in half vertially I have to refold them.

Some of my acquaintance did the carrier bag in a jelly bag. The preferred carrier being Chelsea Girl or Troubadour (little shop in Sutton).

But I was in the horsey set and never turned my nose up at a nice dark green Lester Bowdens bag (expensive sadlers).

Our Price records for my mates

Benetton for the posh s

ha ha norks
you'd be in joules or harry hall if you were 14 these days

dont remember anyone having any money for carrier bags of note to be a factor at school... it was firmly understood tho that you never ever wore your rucksack on both shoulders - what kind of a geek does that??
lol

don't remember doing carrier bags but I do remember my jelly bag, my army surplus shoulder bag with the Alarm scrawled on it, a sort of basket thing that was like a bamboo blind (loved that one, especially as you could see my fags through it, and it barely had any room for books, just in case anyone doubted how hard I was ) and a yellow thing with lots of zips on that looked like something Howard Jones would wear

OMG mrs B - those jelly bags are absolutely identical - they haven't updated them one single bit. do you reckonn they found a job lot that had been forgotten about?

lol sally!

i was called the bag lady at school coz i always had my rucksack, at least 1 other bag and several carrier bags too (all supermarket usually) coz my parents were separated and i couldnt for the life of me ever figure out which house i was supposed to be going home to that or the next day...

come to think of it, i had a collection of 'nice' carrier bags for yearsafter that, stashed away in my room just in case i neeed a carrier and didnt want it to be sainsbuggers or coops)

We used to have those wicker shopping baskets (Late 60's/early 70's) - very impractical for books and files, which was presumably the point.

btw Duchess, were you at school in Epsom?