I really wore that?

[Ethel]

Going through some old photos - always cringe making - I have found a photo of me at the seaside when I was 10 or 11. I am wearing a hand-knitted swimsuit and the horror has come back to me.

Of course, as soon as I came out of the sea the blessed thing was a soggy stretched mess that stretched down to my knees. Laugh? I nearly died :|

Any embarrassing items of clothing in your dim and distant past? Or recent past for that matter.

[4getmenot]

I;m sure cycling shorts came after shell suits

[scotgal]

I have an old photo of me at the beach when I was about 4 or 5 (and mum hadn't brought my swimsuit ) paddling in the sea with my dress tucked into my knickers which my father laughingly used to threaten to show prospective boyfriends..........only I wasn't laughing!!!

[whiskeysheri]

They probably did, 4get. I was always a bit backwards with my "fashions." :)

[4getmenot]

does anyone remember them swim hats with sir bobbles all over them?

[Ethel]

You can still buy those swimhats. Fabby things

[4getmenot]

I used to chew and pop the bubbles

[mrs.chappie]

Well I'm sitting here in my purple knitted poncho, and wearing my bell-bottom 12 inch flares with embroidery up the sides.

My shoes are multi-coloured, striped and have a three inch platform on them.

Okay, I know I look a bit daft at 50 years old - but there's still a few years' wear in 'em yet. Waste not want not, that's what me mum used to say.

{:o)

[Ethel]

And your mum was right, mrs.chappie

Keep anything long enough and it will be high fashion again.

[mrs_overall]

I have a photo of me at primary school wearing an jumper badly knitted by my mum. She ran out of wool and the back & one sleeve were a different shade. I'm also sporting a hairstyle courtesy of a Twink home perm done by my mum, followed by a shampoo & set done by my nan. On this photo I have the face and body of a 10 year old, sporting a hairstyle not normally seen on someone under the age of 85.

[mrs.chappie]

{:o)

[Ethel]

That is hilarious.

Didn't that twink stink?

[mrs_overall]

Phew, not half Ethel.

I showed the photo to my kids recently and they all think I look like an extra from Deliverance!

[Ethel]

I loved my pixie hat when I was little. I wear something similar now

[mrs_overall]

I used to have one of those....I'd forgotten all about it!
Mind you, before the horrid perm I had long straight hair which was always in a high ponytail (to reduce the likelihood of nits). When my mum made me wear the hat over the ponytail I looked like I had a deformed head.

[Ethel]

My brother had a balaclava and when he saw anything or anyone he didn't like the look of, he'd swivel it round.

[jack daniels]

OMG I remember in the 70's being made to wear bright yellow knitted trousers & an equally horrid top

Arrrggghhh!

[Ethel]

And you're a boy, jack? Well, a man now, I suppose.

Did you feel like Rupert Bear?

What happened when it rained?

[jack daniels]

I'm a female Ethel - don't think it would've made any difference though, to my parents!!! lol
Now I know where the fashion sense (lack of) came from........
"Rupert, Rupert the bear - everyone knows your name"