Oh pleeeeeease let me have one!!!

I always wanted a pair of jelly sandals when they first arrived on the scene. My mother would not entertain the idea though. I had to have Clark's leather sandals. I wasn't allowed the lovely red ones either, I had to have the brown ones!

I remember those little bonnets. How practical and cute were they.

I have to smile at a picture in my local surgery. It's a black and white photo with 4 kids in a pram on a bombed out building site during the war . They are all wearing the blooming things mum used to make me. Two squares sewed together to make a pointy hat thing.

I LOVED those bonnets and I too was denied one - we were certainly deprived children!!

I always wanted slip on shoes for ages my Mum made me wear lace ups but when I was 13 she took me shopping and let me choose a pair of red leather shoes that had a thin strap across but you could turn the strap to the back and do it up around the heel instead of across the foot... I loved those shoes so much but I grew out of them really quickly and then it was back to the lace ups..

hildaj, yes I always wanted some 'jellies' too, but was denied . My mother said they would look as though we were too poor to buy proper shoes. We probably were .

It was Clark's leather sandals, brown of course for me and lace up shoes.

I had all of my clothes chosen for me by my mother- I never had a say in anything. I wore hand knitted cardigans and jumpers all of the time. My mother would never have wasted money on items shop bought if she could knit them herself.

Thankfully she could not make skirts and dresses so they were bought. Because we had so little money I had few clothes. The Sunday church outfits to me were a waste of money because I grew out of them quickly.

I always wanted a vest with little pink rosebuds on it my very best friend always had very pretty matching underwear whilst I always had white aertex, don't think I ever really got over it.

Red sandals, black patent shoes(preferably with ankle straps) a red blazer, oh how I wanted a red blazer, I got a bottle green one.

Needless to say I have made up for it since. The first pair of shoes I bought with my own money were black patent. 'And no grandma you couldn't see the reflection of my knickers in them'

Oh how I longed for one of those bonnets, too! My best friend's family had them and I would be allowed to borrow one when I was playing at their house, or if we walked to the local shop! My DM thought they were common I also used to tie my cardigan or jumper round my waist by its sleeves, which my DM didn't allow in her company because she thought that was common, too

Anything my friend had and that I wanted was common!

I wanted a 'bought' school cardigan as they actually fitted properly as opposed to the one that my nan knitted when I started grammar school that I still hadn't grown into by the time I left school. And, a satchel with a long strap rather than the one my Pop bought me that was meant to be worn like a knapsack. And, slip on shoes!

I was always keen on sports and remember craving spiked running shoes.
Which my parents did buy for me

I also remember longing for a duffle coat with real wooden toggles. I had to have a navy blue gaberdine, with hood which came down over my eyes, and was so long that it was mid calf length. I hated it. My mother's argument was that a duffle coat wasn't waterproof. The gaberdine wasn't either!

Oh, I would love a navy blue gaberdine mac again. Not sure I would wear it out, just put it on now and again.

I don't remember those bonnets. I remember having the ones POGS mentions that came to a point at the top back. They called them pixie hats. Not sure why.

I think they were jelly bag hats Indinana? I had a pixie hood during the 40s as described by POGS but I'm sure they were around later, too. I wanted decent shop bought clothes but had to make do with homemade skirts and hand knitted cardies. Thank goodness the school skirts were pleated (considered more modest by the dreaded nuns) so my Mother couldn't do those. All my shoes were chosen for me, of the lace-up, practical, brown variety, and sandals equally dull. I had to beg to be allowed stockings - the ones with seams - I felt so proud of my first pair.

I don't think so Bellanonna. I've never heard the term jelly bag hats before, but a quick search on google comes up with several styles, none of which are anything like the very specific design I'm talking about. These were shaped like a traditional baby's bonnet, with a flat back.
I too had to have all hand knitted jumpers and cardigans - even winter knee length socks were hand knitted . They always fell down so mum would make us garters out of bits of elastic. The shame of it. She even knitted a navy blue V-neck pullover and matching A-line skirt for my sister instead of the usual gymslip. It was passed down to me in turn. We both hated the outfit and longed for a proper gymslip, but to no avail.
Thank Heavens, then, for the strict regulation uniform of our grammar school, available only from the official outfitters. Handknits strictly forbidden. Oh we thought we'd struck gold at last!

I had one of those hats, Indinana!
Around 5 years old, I longed for black patent leather shoes but couldn't get my Mum to understand (hmmm) and ended up with black plimsolls instead.
For a long time, about 8-9 years old, I thought that red or blue tights were absolutely wonderful and used to gaze at them in a local shop window. I did eventually get a pair of blue ones, hooray

Tights??? They weren't even invented until I was a teenager!

I wanted a tu tu and a mohair jumper!

I wanted a Pink Witch bicycle. My bike bought to celebrate passing the 11 plus was plain ordinary and BORING. I also wanted slip on shoes which my mother informed me would "ruin my feet". I didn't get any until I was 15 by which time I wanted a pair of white stilettos!

I had a pink witch!! I loved it! Sorry trisher. My bike, which I was promised for passing my 11+ but got at Christmas for passing, Christmas and my birthday was what you might call 'serviceable'!

I wanted NOT to have to wear a liberty bodice to school when all the other girls had pretty underwear! To this day I never wear a vest, just to spite my late mother.

I also hated the home-made clothes, especially the knitted swimming costume, which drooped to my knees when wet, and oh how it itched!

And I still managed to develop a bunion despite the sensible shoes.

shysal - like you, I have such horrible memories of Liberty bodices. Why did the other girls get away with not wearing them ? I don't wear vests either despite the menacing thought That I might catch my death of cold, or pneumonia. Well it's avoided me so far. Yes I had knitted cozzies when I was quite young. I think my mother just enjoyed knitting though she wasn't particularly good at it. Yes, elastic garters on knee length socks too. They made itchy red marks on my legs.

My mum must have been known what it felt like to SO want something. I don't remember wanting specific things before I was about ten. Then I asked for some trews (with the under instep strap), which I got for a birthday, and a sweater dress. She bought me one of those too. Turquoise it was and I got shoe polish on it before going to a party wearing it . Had to sponge it like mad. And since then I've put an apron on before polishing shoes.

My mum made me a fabulous mini dress when I was twelve. I'd wear it now if I still had it and if it fitted, which it wouldn't.

I desperately wanted a bra! I lived with my grandma from being 12 till I got married at 20, and she was a firm believer in NOT wering a bra, testified to by her attributes hanging down over where her waist should have been! My auntie came to the rescue, and took me to buy 2 lovely new bras.
When I was much younger, I always wanted one of those Easter eggs made of icing sugar (I think), they had an opening at one end, and there was a colourful scene inside. I never had one, because my mother said they cost the earth. Haven`t seen them for donkeys years, or I`d have treated myself.