When I wer a lass/lad (game)

I love Beamish.

Swilling the yard.

Blakeys

I was trying to work out what Blakeys had to do with Beamish, and I've just realised what you mean.
Segs, and an iron last.

To be honest durhamjen I just thought of something that kids these days wouldn't really know about and blakeys on shoes came to mind.

Do tap shoes have them? My granddaughters have all done tap.
Grandson wouldn't know, though.

They may have some sort of "inbuilt" steel weights I guess. I meant the ones that you actually used to attach to shoes for some madly fashionable unknown reason

My dad used to use them when the heels were wearing thin, to make the shoes last longer. Nothing fashionable about them. The noise they made meant that others knew you had them on your shoes and your parents couldn't afford to replace them.

In London when I was a kid they were fashion items.

Born and brought up in Hull. Didn't know what fashion items were in the 50s and 60s.

Wasn't born until 62 myself.

Goodness, reading the posts on here makes me realise how young some gransmetters are!

I remember ration books and bomb sites (lived in Lomdon), coal fires in the classroom (Health and Safety would have a fit now!)and being given malt and cod liver oil at school because I was a thin pasty child.

We always used to have those steel things on our heels - I didn't know they were called Blakeys. The outside of the heel used to wear down and Dad used to put the metal 'quarters' on.
You could buy them in Woolworths

I don't think that Mary Quant reached the provinces like ours durhamjen.

Garters - the elastic ones to hold your socks up, not the snazzy ones!

Yes Jalima, I remember my mother buying me my first pair of stockings ( no tights then ) and forgetting the suspender belt . I had to wear garters to hold up the stockings as the shops were closed and I wanted to wear them with a new outfit to chapel on Sunday. Does anyone else remember having new clothes for Whit Sunday ?

Yes - because I was born on a Whitsunday and, of course, although it didn't always fall on my birthday, I had a new summer dress and was allowed to start wearing my summer clothes on my birthday.
I can still remember begging to go into summer dresses before then because the weather had turned hot and everyone else is wearing theirs - but no!!

Sorry, a digression.

Liberty bodices. My DGDs would have had a fit if they'd been expected to wear things like that.

We always had new clothes for Whit Sunday - usually something totally unsuitable for wearing to anything but birthday parties in my case. As a youngster I was usually to be fined dressed like George in the Famous Five, but shorts and a sweater would not cut the mustard for Whitsuntide!

We always had a new dress for Easter and another for Whitsunday. Both came with hand knitted cardis because you couldn't trust the British weather to have warmed up properly by then.

Mam made our garters by knotting two ends of a bit of knicker elastic together.

I remember segs being a fashion item in the Seventies. The boys used to have them put on the heels of their Mickey Mouse shoes.

My all time favourite male fashion (well young thinnish men) were wide oxford bags with six plus buttoned waistbands (hence had to be thinnish lol). Teamed with a shirt with a long pointy collar and a tie tied with a very big Windsor knot. If it was an oxford bags three piece suit then so much the better.

My school uniform gymslip with a cloth girdle that tied like a man's tie.

stillalive growing up in South Africa in the 1960s, those crescent metal studs on soles were high fashion amongst the teenage boys and had nothing to do with how worn or not shoes were. I didn't know they had a name.

Rockgran we wore those in our house colours I was red for Curiehowore.

Mum made me wear a roll on girdle ... even though I was as thin as a rake !! and if I lost the button on the suspender I used a sixpence to hold up my stockings .

My house girdle was yellow.
I always wanted red.

What is Curiehowore.?