What in your view is common ?

My great aunt had one of those globe ones that opened around the equator to reveal bottles covered in crochet poodles. I thought it was amazing, and vowed to get one just like it when I grew up.

My mum disapproved not only of that, but of her loo-roll covers, the doilies on every surface, the felt cats holding bottles of scent (Sophisticats?) and the ashtray on a pedestal that revolved when you pressed a button on the top. I didn't understand what 'common' meant at that age, but I knew it was much more fun at my aunt's house than at home.

We bought a house which had a bar in a corner of the sitting room. It was the first thing that was ripped out!

I agree with him. I saw a house advertised yesterday with its own bar, almost flagged up in neon lights by the estate agent. My first thought - yes, How Common. I always think the same of hot tubs too. A near neighbour where we used to live had one and the other neighbours all thought it was gross so we weren’t alone. It did provide a talking point though!

My DH thought my neighbour’s purpose built bar to entertain in the family house was tacky (common?)
He just liked a drinks table.

Storynanny
Yes I think you could be right

I think they were called plastic sandals when I was little.
One of my sons had a pair of Thomas the tank engine jelly shoes when he was little. Lost one in the sea on our local beach the first time he wore them. I can still remember how upset he was and how inwardly cross I was as we had so little money at the time!

I had my ears pierced when I was 16 and a woman I worked with said it was common. I reminded her that the queen (and many of the senior royals) had pierced ears otherwise she would not have been able to wear some of the heavy antique earrings she inherited. They would have been far too heavy and uncomfortable to convert to clips. That certainly shut her up.

My mother regarded wearing a headscarf tied under the chin as common. Again the queen wore them outdoors for riding and walking and still wears.

I remember quite specifically, I had brand new ones and trod in a cow pat, and my granny spent ages scrubbing into every little gap so that my mum wouldn’t know.

I don’t think they were called jelly shoes, but we certainly had them, this would have been around 1960, and they came from Woolworths.

At a tangent... A while ago we lived near a 'rough'estate. Used to go to the local shop for the occasional newspaper. Mum (who was VERY down to earth, used to be addressed at 'madam' (very nicely) - I realised it was because they knew she bought a broadsheet newspaper. Tee Hee.

Welcome home Jane!?

crikey at the price of them. You could buy them in the indoor market!

Omg! Look at the price of these!
www.gucci.com/uk/en_gb/pr/women/shoes-for-women/sandals-thongs-for-women/flat-sandals-for-women/womens-sandal-with-double-g-p-676970JFM005305?gclsrc=aw.ds&gclid=Cj0KCQjwr4eYBhDrARIsANPywCi7uhohia10b_3ogfKATAlLg682fHoHp73g9j-VUf170ujNU8Pd6CIaAgwnEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Jelly shoes definitely had a moment around 1983. It was when everything was very monochrome, with berets and girls wearing ties.
Jelly shoes added that ‘pop’ of colour!
I had a bright pink pair. Worn with white socks and ankle grazer trousers.
I was clearly having my ‘Million Dollar Moment’ when I was 11 on holiday in Cornwall! ?

Witzend

Goodness, I don’t recall any such things as jelly shoes when I was a child - some of you must be an awful lot younger than I am! If we had any sort of beach-type shoes, they’d be old plimsolls, or gym shoes, as we called them then.

My children had jelly shoes, I certainly didn't.

Goodness, I don’t recall any such things as jelly shoes when I was a child - some of you must be an awful lot younger than I am! If we had any sort of beach-type shoes, they’d be old plimsolls, or gym shoes, as we called them then.

Re the pierced ears. I had mine done aged 18 years and 1 day, and never told my mother that aged 45 I had a second piercing!

Sara, predictably, jelly shoes were the height of summer commonness as ….. they were worn WITHOUT sock! Horrors of horrors!

Germanshepherdsmum

I wish I’d been able to refuse my horrid brown lace ups. I can still see them all these years later. I hated them with a passion but not even crying in the shop saved me from them. I suppose, looking back, they were expensive for my Mum.

I can still see mine, too - plain brown lace-ups, like men’s shoes, but without any of the brogue-y bits.

Our school shoes were black, and if we could only buy brown ones they had to be dyed. I think I had brown sandals in the summer holidays.

I wish I’d been able to refuse my horrid brown lace ups. I can still see them all these years later. I hated them with a passion but not even crying in the shop saved me from them. I suppose, looking back, they were expensive for my Mum.

storynanny

Haha! I also was never allowed red or white shoes
I had brown Clarkes sandals and my dad cut the toes out for the next summers wear
I don’t know why that was considered ok rather than common

I had Clark's sandals with the daisy cut-out as well and my Dad used to cut the toes out with a Stanley knife towards the end of summer ?

Red or blue were best and I was disappointed when I had to have brown.

Great excitement in the summer holidays, when we were allowed a pair of jelly shoes from Woolworths.

I quite liked the ‘Daisy cut out’ brown sandals. During summer holidays (no socks) I’d get a daisy-pattern tan on my feet.

It was the brown school lace-ups I hated. I do remember once refusing a particularly ugly pair - I don’t suppose the ones I ended up with were much better though. At my grammar school we had to have Mary Jane type indoor shoes - mine were always hand me downs from my elder sister - I’d have loved a new pair for once.

I don’t recall any non-brown shoes at all, until I was in my teens and started buying my own with birthday money etc.

Haha! I also was never allowed red or white shoes
I had brown Clarkes sandals and my dad cut the toes out for the next summers wear
I don’t know why that was considered ok rather than common